TBH pancakes are such a delicate mix to make that you should just use a premade dry mix from the store. I’m not confident with my own recipe.
Otherwise you could wing it with a shortbread recipe and fry it in butter, might turn out okay.
I’ve been using imperial measurements for like a lifetime so sorry for that, but I’ll try to limit it to cups and oz so if you have a measuring cup that should be all that you need.
White Flour (Recommended that you sift it or pass it through a fine mesh/grate. You can always sift it after you measure and as you pour it into the bowl) - 2 cup
Room Temp Butter (unsalted) - 2 Oz
Soybean Oil (Vegetable Oil or other Oil, but NOT olive) - 2 Oz
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Salt - palm of your hand full or less, this is for taste don’t skip it but use less if your butter was salted
Baking Powder - 1/8th Oz (You can fudge this amount a bit and be just fine, but if you go too far over you will taste it. It’s about 2 Tsp)
Baking Soda - 1/8th Oz (Same as above, maybe use even less. If you left your Soda as an open box in the Fridge then it’s probably accumulated a bad taste by now)
Powder Puffs and Soda Spreads, so if you want taller pancakes you can skew the ratio of powder:soda but try to keep it around 4 or 4 1/2 Tsp total for the two of them.
1 Jumbo Room Temp Egg, or 2 of any other size
Vanilla Extract - if it came in a little bottle then fill the cap of the bottle over the sink and add about 1 or 3 of those
Room temp Water as needed - Add a little bit at a time and beat the mix with gusto. With Gusto. Until it becomes fine and smooth of one consistency and moves easily from side to side as a liquid should. The longer you mix the more opportunity the baking powder and soda have to dissolve and help the cakes rise in the pan.
When cooking, keep the heat on medium or medium-high and oil the pan with pan spray or oil-based butter replacement for best results, if you use only butter it will turn dark before you finish cooking them all because butter has a lower smoke temp. You could always use a thin coating of 92deg coconut oil and then butter the cakes after they’re cooked but that’s a hassle.
Should make about 8 to 32 pancakes depending on size.
Alternative Recipe:
You can replace the water and either the oil or butter with milk or buttermilk if you prefer the authentic buttermilk pancake taste, but it won’t make much of a difference. Sometimes I like to use Powdered Milk in my recipe, if you remove about an Oz of flour and add back 2 Oz of Powdered Milk it should add a nice flavor without changing the consistency much.
Talking to my phone is just awkward, the exception is watching something on YouTube, then pausing and going “Siri, how much is 69 fahrenheit in celsius?” to an iPad behind me.
this gonna be an unpopular take, but your mobile phone is worse for privacy than an Alexa or Google Home. And most people’s PCs are worse than their phones.
I would say Alexa is actually much worse because there’s already been instances where Amazon gave the info up to law enforcement. PCs and phone manufacturers might’ve also but I think it would be less than a dedicated microphone in your house.
But phones have a dedicated microphone and location tracking service built in. If there is a software vulnerability (there is always a software vulnerability) then it can be remotely turned on and monitored.
There are even instances of this happening to targets of governments: journalists and activists, especially. That Israeli company specializes in it and sells access to anyone who is willing to pay.
Idk why you’re downvoting the guy WetBeardHairs is right. Pegasus spyware has been a serious threat and was created by a nation state hacking group in Israel called NSO group.
This is why I do the best I can and use GrapheneOS, but there could always be some security vulnerability deep in Android itself. If you’re looking for true privacy and security, a burner or something with removable components would be best.
Both Alexa and phones have to be listening to everything to be able to answer when you call them. Considering that data is sent over to Google/Amazon, it isn’t much different.
for my original point, I’d say that an Alexa is a single point of access for giving your info to law enforcement, whereas a phone has multiple (ie each app and website) and pcs have more software and less stringent access policies (ie less likely to have facial recognition or fingerprint recognition as the barrier to access) and you can just open the case and take out the hard drive much easier.
Sticking with “the average pc” and “the average phone” — I’d say there are more vectors of vulnerability in the wide arrange of sites and programs the average person interacts with on their PC than there is on a phone, as well as a PC being a better target to compromise than someone’s phone.
Happy to be proved wrong but I rarely hear about someone’s phone being randomwared, botnetted, remote accessed etc
Well it depends whether active usage is a vector in how secure a device is. If security is exposure to risk / frequency of use, you are correct, same with exposure to risk / percent of global ownership (66% smart phone, 50% personal computer), but if we’re talking about any given device with an even chance it’s a pc or smartphone, I’m willing to bet (although I don’t have proof) that any given smartphone is slightly more secure.
More vulnerable, probably yes. Phones are very locked down and secured (unless you root or install custom firmware).
But, they are still worse for privacy due to how they’re used. The phone (and thus Google and Apple and Facebook and others) has access to your location all the time - your computer doesn’t. The computer is only vulnerable when on - the phone is always on.
The threats are different and from different sources. Random hackers mining shitcoins on your computer, big companies knowing what you’re doing when you carry your phone.
(Verse 1) In the underground, where the tunnels run deep, There’s a crew of hamsters, they don’t get no sleep. With their tiny masks and their paws so sly, They’re plottin’ a heist, gonna reach for the sky.
(Chorus) Hamster heist, in the dead of the night, They’re rollin’ on wheels, gonna steal out of sight. Little furball bandits, ain’t no one suspect, In this phonk song, their caper’s perfect.
(Verse 2) They scoped out the bank, made a plan so cool, Hamster in the getaway car, he’s the wheelman, no fool. The vault’s their target, full of sunflower seeds, These rodents mean business, fulfillin’ their needs.
(Chorus) Hamster heist, in the dead of the night, They’re rollin’ on wheels, gonna steal out of sight. Little furball bandits, ain’t no one suspect, In this phonk song, their caper’s perfect.
(Bridge) They scurry and scamper, through vents they’ll explore, In the dark of the bank, they’re gonna score. With their pockets full of loot, they’ll make their escape, These hamster outlaws, there’s no time to wait.
(Verse 3) But the bank’s alarm starts to ring out so loud, And the security guards, they’re joinin’ the crowd. The hamsters keep movin’, they won’t back down, They’ve come too far now, they’ll own this town.
(Chorus) Hamster heist, in the dead of the night, They’re rollin’ on wheels, gonna steal out of sight. Little furball bandits, ain’t no one suspect, In this phonk song, their caper’s perfect.
(Outro) In the end, they made it away with the dough, Through tunnels and alleys, they continue to go. Those hamster bandits, the legends they’ll be, In the annals of rodent crime history.
For some reason I read it with that agressive shouting gangster rap voice and it was awsome. Tho chat gpt mostly pumps out mid content. Just reminds you how important is the creative factor that often lack in these generative contents.
When ChatGPT was newer I saw a lot of posts about raps made by it, there were always this same flow. I tried to get it to make decent rhymes, but it cannot get out of the most cheesy typical rhyme scheme possible. This was 3.5, maybe 4 or other models are better. I found I could make interesting lines if I said something like “write a paragraph with as many words that rhyme with ‘taken’ as possible”, and then you could do that with a few rhymes and twist those around to make an interesting verse.
If you give it a different form to follow (iambic pentameter, sonnet, etc.) it kind of works. I’ve only tested it with poetry. I’ve gotten responses technically comparable to a human, but even eliminating the “nonsense” words it throws in, it still has no artistic soul… The closest I’ve gotten to art was specifying “in the style of Edgar Allan Poe”, but it was only good because it copied a few of his poems verbatim…
That’s true about ‘in the style of’, I did get some interesting responses when I said in the style of Allen Ginsberg, but it would just rip lines straight from him at times. As someone who enjoys creative writing I don’t see a necessarily beneficial use for AI to be extremely capable at creating poetry haha but I am interested in the mechanics of it and how it could be improved.
Yeah, I’ve only ever used it for speechwriting with very, very heavy modifications to the output. If I need a really long speech I’ll feed it an entire outline, summary, etc, then have it rewrite stuff about 20 times. Then I rip the best parts from each output, join them together, and proofread, rewrite, repeat until it’s good.
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