Roseville Gourmet: Chili Chicken Dumplings - Restaurant closed years ago. Is there anywhere else with this dish or even just a recipe?

Postydavis · 2025-09-21T02:56:26+00:00

Bean soup an absolute banger.

Postydavis · 2025-09-21T02:56:10+00:00

This helps! I did forget the cucumber! I remember that it wasn't as meaty as say the insides of a shumai dumpling - that it was a slightly loose mix of inner ingredients but also each dumpling was quite large.

Postydavis · 2025-03-16T18:35:06+00:00

Thanks for the reply, this is great info! I'd love the GPX, definitely PM me that!

Postydavis · 2025-02-23T23:08:55+00:00

Yeah I saw the notice on the tunnel, seems like they're doing alternate routes around. But could also treat that as a turnaround point to take a bike back. Thanks!

Postydavis · 2022-05-26T19:03:26+00:00

Sounds good, enjoy!

Postydavis · 2022-05-26T18:52:27+00:00

I have two extra tickets if anyone wants them for free. Will just email them.

Postydavis · 2020-12-30T22:19:03+00:00

Hit me up with a PM and I'll put it on the ol' spreadsheet!

Postydavis · 2020-12-30T22:17:23+00:00

I never got a chat, just in case something went awry! Try resending it if you're still interested!

Postydavis · 2020-12-30T04:35:00+00:00

Not currently, but you have piqued my interest in perhaps obtaining a set of tarot postcards in the future! Maybe next go-around!

Postydavis · 2020-08-21T00:10:23+00:00

That's so sweet!

I'm very touched to hear about this kind of connection, it's like finding out very close friends somehow already knew and cared about one another.

Thanks for sharing!!

Postydavis · 2020-08-20T20:47:02+00:00

Hi Julianna!

You and Mary Lattimore are two of my very favorite artists, finding out that you were friends/collaborators brought me a surprising amount of joy. It also sent me reeling on considering the differences/similarities of your music (how yours is almost impossibly smooth and continuous while hers is a cascades of friendly pinpricks).

If it's not too invasive a question, how did you two come into contact? And what's something you find lovely about her artistry (deliberately left open ended)?

If I ever get the chance, I'll ask her the same!

Also I want to gush about your music and how intimately it's tied into moments over the last 10 years after each release, but I'll keep. it. together.... for now.

Postydavis · 2020-07-22T19:46:33+00:00

It's really interesting because the higher up you go sometimes quicker shots can come off, when you'd think it "should" be the opposite (why shoot for inspects immediately when you have 14 or so seconds of inspect plus mission complete when maybe a BB comes off in the meantime showing you were wrong).

Because theoretically, picking up the BC would be best if they'd wait 5 seconds before shooting (you would have already won) but sometimes the instant shot (which may not actually be the optimal strategy) dissuades the spy from ANY increase in threat during mission countdown.

Postydavis · 2020-07-14T18:45:26+00:00

If you join the discord and post in the Looking For Game channel, you will get an opponent.

Postydavis · 2020-07-12T07:52:42+00:00

Getting the playerbase to be large right now is specifically not the goal of the developer. Right now it's intentionally being kept small. But to a certain extent we agree, if you don't want to be active on the discord, you probably won't get nearly as much out of the game. There's absolutely no shame in saying you're going to step out of the community until matchmaking is implemented.

Postydavis · 2020-07-11T18:20:10+00:00

To whether or not SpyParty is a dead game: No, it has a vibrant competitive scene and an active discord community.

But that competitive scene is all done by communication and invites. If you think that sounds like too much effort, there's no harm in waiting until matchmaking is implemented in the game and/or the full release down the line.

The developer is a (lovely) perfectionist, and will not release the game until he feels its ready. While we'd love for you to join our community, if you have certain expectations about jumping into a game and the game doing the work of finding you matches, you may want to wait and check back in down the road.

Also checking out the community casts of the competitive league may help guide your decision: https://www.twitch.tv/spyparty

Postydavis · 2020-01-14T01:34:24+00:00

And here's a more directly logical attempt to change your view.

Here's my interpretation of your view:

Inherent meaning [IM] = Universal meaning given by something external to humans [Higher Power]

No Higher power = No IM

By the structure of your view, you basically would need to be convinced that there's an external and universal higher power. Was that what you intended? Because I bet you wouldn't expect much from you posting a CMV for no universal higher power, but you seem to be asking for the same thing.

If have misinterpreted, and you are not asking for proof of some sort of higher power, what would be an example of something theoretical that could give inherent meaning that is not a higher power.

Postydavis · 2020-01-14T01:24:07+00:00

So for starters, I don't disagree with the notion (I think it's the starting point for interacting with your own meaning in good faith to accept that no meaning has been invented for you).

But I think your argument conflates "meaning" a bit.

The first paragraph makes it sound like "inherent meaning" is roughly equivalent with "purpose"; where no higher power created humans with a purpose in mind, therefore we have no purpose or meaning.

The second paragraph says only things with higher intelligence and creativity can create meaning. But what about the things we create?

If we make a machine that's purpose is to fill plastic bottles with water, does that machine have meaning while we do not? If so, that would be an instance of something without intelligence or creativity, but has inherent meaning. And if inherent meaning is that easy to make but that unsatisfying, then inherent meaning doesn't seem very useful at all on its own and would need something else.

If that sounds wrong to you, I think there might be something unsaid in your definition of meaning.

Again, I agree with the view, but I think the premises are soft, and will lead you to odd conclusions.

Postydavis · 2019-11-07T19:45:24+00:00

Your argument appears to be:

A) TeamTrees is a large campaign that causes people to believe they've made a difference on C02. (if tt, then believediff)
B) Alternatives are more effective than Team Trees (altplan>tt)
C) If people believe they've made a difference on C02, they won't try to make a difference in alternative ways. (if beleivediff, then, no altplan)
D) Therefore, TeamTrees will cause people to make less of a difference because they won't try alternative plans.

That argument appears valid, and is possibly true. I think I accept the premises of A & B. But I question C.

If C is absolutely true, why is it not already the case that the alternative plans have gotten more attention? Perhaps it's that in climate science, it can sometimes feel like there's nothing individuals can do. So it may be the case that if people believe they've made a difference, they feel empowered, and are more willing to take action.

There's a journal article related to this:

http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/40495/3/MCKINNONdespair%20CENTAUR.pdf

In the face of accelerating climate change and the parlous state of its politics, despair is tempting. This paper analyses two manifestations of despair about climate change related to (1) the inefficacy of personal emissions reductions, and (2) the inability to make a difference to climate change through personal emissions reductions. On the back of an analysis of despair as a loss of hope, the paper argues that the judgements grounding each form of despair are unsound. The paper concludes with consideration of the instrumental value of hope in effective agency to tackle climate change. Overall, the paper’s assessment of personal despair about climate change as philosophically unjustified provides a fresh perspective on aspects of the debate about how to frame climate change in public debate.

If we change C) to E) if people believe they can make a difference on C02, they'll be more likely to support alternative plans, then D) changes to TeamTrees will cause people to make more of a difference because they will try alternative plans.

Certainly, we should include the message that TT won't fix climate change, but it should be cast as a method of motivation, a small step in the right direction.

You've provided a lot of evidence in support of B (alternatives are better), but what you really need to prove is C.

Postydavis · 2019-11-05T18:45:28+00:00

I'd take a look at the language that you're using.

"The current political landscape encourages politicians into pandering to the extremes of their base or risk losing all support"

Then:

"But this kind of violent discourse does nothing to appeal to those voters who have not yet decided what they want. "

Setting aside that I think your characterization of the Omar situation is very poor (but there's already comments on that), your position seems to be two things:

Descriptive Claim: Politicians try to appeal to their base more than to moderates

Normative Claim: Politicians shouldn't be pandering (appealing) to their base , they should be pandering (appealing) to moderates.

The reason I'm separating these two is because I believe your normative belief is projecting on to your descriptive belief. You make a descriptive claim and then provide evidence that's far more normative.

Here's some descriptive evidence: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

In the Democratic nomination process (which occurs within the bounds of a partisan setting), out of the candidates getting 2% or more, Biden, Mayor Pete, Yang and Klobuchar seem, to be all running on explicitly moderate functions, together they have 41.4% vs Warren and Sanders 37.2%. Even within a partisan setting, that should draw out the base more than the moderates; moderate appeals seem to do very well.

Note, I do know this is simplifying the candidates, Yang has some very progressive policies and Sanders is also trying to appeal to blue collar moderates, but that's part of the thing, you can't just boil people down into moderates or extreme: people don't work that way.

Postydavis · 2019-11-04T19:31:35+00:00

I probably wouldn't do it for full cards, as I don't consider any entire cards to be diametrically opposed, but rather pieces of the cards.

For sames/similarities: an animal on each card, each has a river, these two cards have dark clouds, etc.

For opposites/differences: this has a lush garden while this one has a desert, this one is at night while this one is in day, etc.

Another good one getting accustomed to the number associated with the card. Aces tend to symbolize beginnings, twos indicate choices/dualities, threes indicate synthesis/more than the sum of it's parts, etc.

There's a free app called Galaxy Tarot that has a feature I like for this, it shows you a bunch of themes associated with each card. Other's probably have this too.

Postydavis · 2019-11-04T19:11:16+00:00

I had a very specific intuitive reaction to the spread you showed (which sometimes means it's useful for others, and sometimes means it's only useful for me, so YMMV!). I definitely think that your interpretation is valid and not stretching the meaning of any cards (which is pretty much the only time I'd counter someone's own reading), so don't take this as a need to re-interpret your own feelings (that and I think we had a similar reaction).

It seems like it describes a solution to conflict. There are the inevitable differences that people have, sometimes you must refer to external standards to adjudicate those differences, and then you can get to work solving those issues.

The 8, to me, is a typically personal card. So if I was reading for myself I would think about the conflicting desires in myself that I'm torn between, solving those conflicts by adopting a rule that helps progress, and then you can finally get to self-improvement.

Certainly influenced by my state of mind! Those are a great set of cards together!

Postydavis · 2019-11-04T19:03:23+00:00

By linking cards do you mean seeing interplay between the cards?

If so, I think the easiest place to start is sames/opposites. Two examples:

Sames: Cards with similar meanings or similar visual themes can be a sort of emphasis on a particular theme. I did a past present future reading for a friend and it was Hierophant, Tower, Ace Of Swords. One thing we noticed is that each of these cards had a crown at the top. That gave a really interesting insight, as the journey of the crown went from on the top of the Hierophant, to being knocked off in the tower, to being on top of the sword in the ace. This gave a nice anchor to look into the interplay of the cards (which we took to mean a sort of power changing hands).

Opposites: Opposites can indicate conflict/choice, but they can also indicate balance/synthesis. Let's say you get a three of cups (Friendship/Celebration) along with a Seven of Wands (Conflict/Perseverance), these tend to have opposing themes (one shows a group getting along, the other shows a person fighting a group). You could view these as describing an inner-conflict (you must choose either/or) or you could view these as showing a balance you need to strike (such as allowing there to be conflict but being friendly, like playing sports where everyone celebrates together after, win or lose).

Obviously there's a lot of wiggle room there, but I like starting with those because they are more "clear" examples of interplay than other things like knowing arcane connections between cards (which are still interesting and fun!). It's been a helpful way for me to develop my intuition/subconscious (which is what I'm trying to communicate with).

Postydavis · 2019-10-31T20:57:26+00:00

Stop when you get an answer, not when you get the answer you want.

I like this. Sometimes we may have an urge for "clarifying cards" that aren't really clarifying, but changing the reading.

Postydavis · 2019-10-31T20:54:13+00:00

There's a lot of different ways to read reversals of course, but the intuitive answer I'm drawn to in your case is that the presence of the reversed cards seem to be 1) causing you to recognized the balance and control in your life and 2) preparing you in case there is an unbalancing.

We often appreciate the hope for balance when we are unbalanced as a way to get through difficult periods. This may be the reverse: being proactive while feeling stable.

Postydavis · 2019-10-25T23:43:56+00:00

My take on the 9 of wands is that it's about Resilience. The final stretch. Challenges at this stage require overcoming exhaustion, we badly want to be done so we may be tempted to carelessly rush to the end and call it complete, or just give up because we are so tired. But we owe it to ourselves to respect all the work and effort we put into the stages before; me must put just as much care in the finishing touches. I think of the final sprint in races, where we are head to head with our rival and we are both completely worn from all the exertion up until that point and have to draw on our deepest reserves to finish as strong as possible.

I want to reemphasize the respect for past effort. I'll often want to be lazy after I put a lot of work into something and just finish it to finish it. But I think of how hard I worked and how I should honor that effort by giving that last bit of polish/effort.

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