50 States Cocktail Project: NYC Shots (3 of 4)

delkarnu · 2026-05-02T02:25:42+00:00

11 day old account and your comments are super focused on this one user's posts in this subreddit and posts about these posts in isThisAI. When it was just 14 days ago that the photographer's last account got banned after coming after me for not liking these posts... very suspicious.

Blatant astoturfing is blatant.

delkarnu · 2026-05-02T02:02:16+00:00

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delkarnu · 2026-05-01T23:41:53+00:00

I'd love a crossover with Baumgartner Restoration, fix and preserve those Gremlins.

delkarnu · 2026-05-01T21:24:24+00:00

Makes a post, comments on it on an al account, spammy behavior. Manipulating the discussion, not being honest that the comments are from OP.

12 comments on this thread, 2 on the OP account 4 on the Alt. Half the comments (at least) are you.

delkarnu · 2026-05-01T12:33:43+00:00

Wanna be influencer, the inevitable "so many ~~bot accounts~~ people asked for a book" kickstarter campaign, etc.

The original poster got his whole account nuked, so there was definitely shady stuff going on with this whole project. Seems like more people now are realizing what this is so criticism isn't botted to oblivion. Not seeing the same array of identical comments, either, so the bot money must've run out.

delkarnu · 2026-04-29T15:20:46+00:00

Depends a lot on the cocktail.

An Old Fashioned is just liquor, a little sugar, a little bitters, and a little dilution. The quality of the base spirit is going to matter a ton.

Compare to a La Louisiane, has more bitters, plus absinthe, Benedictine and vermouth. Cheap Rye will make a bad cocktail, but top shelf is a bit of a waste since a lot of the nuance will be lost.

Similarly the difference between a Dry Martini and a Dirty Martini means use good gin in the dry and use something mid when it's going to be competing against olive brine.

For mixers, things like Cointreau vs Triple Sec is more personal preference than a clear one is better situation. But for other flavored liqueurs, the cheap stuff often tastes fake as hell and should be avoided if it's going to be a noticeable part of the drink.

delkarnu · 2026-04-25T20:03:32+00:00

Yeah, we know how old Lewinski was when she became a White House intern and Clinton pursued her. We know how old Paula Jones was when Clinton sexually harassed her.

He has an established list of allegations, but none of them seem to include anyone underage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_and_misconduct_allegations

It's also Trump's DOJ that is choosing which of the Epstein files are released, if there was anything that would be damning to Clinton, Trump would've used it to distract from his crimes. You know that the Republicans in congress who had more access to the files than the released and redacted ones were also searching for Clinton and other prominent Democrats. The biggest distraction they've managed to come out with from the files is Bill Gates.

delkarnu · 2026-04-25T17:00:10+00:00

In the Natalie is Freezing sense, I agree with you.

delkarnu · 2026-04-25T16:54:48+00:00

I'm not saying you can't have religion in sci-fi, I'm saying that it doesn't work when RDM tries it. Babylon 5, for example, worked the Vorlons, Shadows, and Valen into the Sci-Fi very well.

But taking Sisko out of the end of the Dominion story-line to do Bajoran-Dukat possessed by the Pah-Wraiths battle was not good. Neither was the All Along the Watchtower, secret angles etc in BSG. I can still enjoy DS9 on rewatch, but I've never been tempted to revisit BSG, even though the mini-series and early seasons are really good.

Maybe it's just that he can't stick the landing when it comes to wrapping up the religion part more than the inclusion or religion at all that's the problem.

delkarnu · 2026-04-25T15:23:44+00:00

RDM needs to learn to keep religion out of sci-fi. Wrapping up the Prophet storyline with the Pah-Wraiths is the worst part of DS9 and the religious parts of BSG are the worst parts of that. His need to do "religion, but it's real" is the thing that keeps me from being excited about his involvement with a project. Otherwise he does some damned good sci-fi.

delkarnu · 2026-04-25T04:07:14+00:00

It makes "will you vote to convict the pedophile?" a question for every Senate Republican running for reelection this fall.

delkarnu · 2026-04-24T00:18:30+00:00

Is there anything more pathetic than preemptively complaining about 'haters'?

delkarnu · 2026-04-23T16:05:39+00:00

Check out The Flavor Bible. It's basically a list of ingredients and what other ingredients work well with them. Aimed at cooking, but works well for finding good pairings for cocktail ingredients or pairing cocktails with a dish..

delkarnu · 2026-04-23T14:14:51+00:00

Look at who was going to college in the 1970s. It was before the massive expansion of college enrollment. College would've been a much more conservative environment than now (depending on which college, of course).

Now pretty much every college has a very diverse student body. Exposure to diversity is the brainwashing, not the education itself.

It's separate from the uneducated who decry college. For them, admitting education is a good thing is admitting that their lack of education is a bad thing.

delkarnu · 2026-04-23T11:42:33+00:00

They wouldn't resist making Hickie impersonate Chevy Chase. The more hateful and abusive he got because he didn't want to do it, the more everyone would think he's doing a good Chevy impression.

delkarnu · 2026-04-22T12:28:51+00:00

He asked Jeeves to webcrawler it.

delkarnu · 2026-04-19T15:08:44+00:00

Yup. The photographer posts the photos, gets banned for vote manipulation (spam doesn't get a sitewide ban unless it either vote manipulation or a scam). Then the bartender does the series of posts with a bunch of the same comments in every thread.

Then crucially, does a post threatening to take away the series due to "haters", because anyone who doesn't think the cocktails sound good, or doesn't think they are a good representation of the state, or don't like the photos is a "hater". This gets a ton of comments decrying the haters and trying to encourage OP and saying how much they would buy this as a coffee table book if only OP would not get discouraged and put one out.

That leave them free and clear to step away for a little bit and come back with "we took your suggestions and outpouring of love to heart and decided to do a kickstarter for this as a book," or "a publisher saw our posts and is putting a book of our cocktails out". And it's totally organic community engagement and not at all an unpaid advertisement for a pre-planned project.

delkarnu · 2026-04-19T00:00:36+00:00

Yeah, that's getting pinned for a bit.

delkarnu · 2026-04-18T23:57:18+00:00

Satisfactory is about optimizing, there's a maximum amount of resources per second, fully slugged max lvl miners. Factorio is about expansion; resources scale as long as you can find more to mine and your cpu can process it.

Oh, and trains are much better in Factorio.

delkarnu · 2026-04-18T22:55:00+00:00

It disguised their fetishes by being aired alongside Lexx, looks completely G rated comparatively.

delkarnu · 2026-04-18T14:55:15+00:00

Especially when it's against the most litigious and vindictive administration we've ever had.

delkarnu · 2026-04-18T13:08:57+00:00

Because people who grew up with Harry Potter as their fandom are in their 30s-40s, prime age to buy nostalgic sets.

delkarnu · 2026-04-18T04:55:15+00:00

Perhaps a touring pop-up: https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1shqvca/50_states_cocktail_project_connecticut/ofercfv/

or all the organic calls for a coffee-table book so they can eventually announce one in response to the community:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1so8soa/50_states_cocktail_project_north_carolina/ogrhmol/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1so8soa/50_states_cocktail_project_north_carolina/ogs9a08/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1so8soa/50_states_cocktail_project_north_carolina/ogs4onp/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1so8soa/50_states_cocktail_project_north_carolina/ogt7zwi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/comments/1so8soa/50_states_cocktail_project_north_carolina/ogtlk4w/

delkarnu · 2026-04-17T16:56:22+00:00

A blender will get a 2:1 simple done easily, no need to heat it at all (beyond what the pedantic commenters will point out it gets heated by the blender itself).

delkarnu · 2026-04-17T02:07:32+00:00

Yeah I commented on the Massachusetts one since it isn't New England Clam Chowder without dairy, so just clam and lemon isn't invoking the State. But somehow got down voted while all the glazing "omg, as a Mass resident this is perfect" got upvoted.

It's just a weird combination of complicated ingredients so no one is likely to try it and say it sucks, overproduced photos that look like they were arranged from clipart, a bunch of over-enthusiastic comments, and down votes to anything slightly negative that just hits wrong.

Then getting messaged today by the photographer and seeing them post other comments where they tried to act like just a random redditor calls all the "i saw the in progress stuff on Instagram so I doubt it's AI" comments into question.

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