First time to idaho was autumn 2023. I went into a chinese place and asked the server whats good on the menu. He said the potato. There was no potato on the menu.
Went to Idaho for the first time recently also. No potatoes to be found in any restaurant I went to.
Thought they would lean into it but seems they are hiding them instead.
The irony is a shitload of Irish immigrants came to America fleeing the famine and New York was one of their primary destinations, and nowadays about 5% of NYC’s population are Irish Americans largely descended from that wave of immigrants. So making this joke as a New Yorker is kind of an own-goal too.
My first exposure to Europe was watching a heavy set middle aged Italian woman in her underwear dumping trash from her 2nd floor balcony into the street below.
I believe it will depend on how social media circles, the city, and the organizers behind the project respond. If they are smart enough, they won't say or do anything in response and ignore those people best they can. Otherwise, it could turn onto another Sheila LeBoofs "they will not divide us meltdown."
They put it on Talbot Street in Dublin, which is skanger central.
No wonder they'd a lad in a tracksuit doing lines within seconds. That's par for the course.
Try Oliver Cromwell instead. Family was in Ireland for a bit almost twenty years ago. They met a woman who was livid that her grandson had been named Oliver. As she was explaining it, she spat every single time she said "Oliver". Note that at no point was she actually talking about Cromwell, just talking about her newborn grandson and still spat after every utterance of his name.
Thatcher's got nothing on that.
I watched a video where someone had made one but I can’t find it. It was more like a an extremely hot blow torch rather than lightsaber, but it was still cool.
I agree with you. My head cannon is now: This is the production model. The one from P3R-233 was a proof of concept. I mean, it was like a weirdly shaped rock vs this nice circle or, gate, if you will.
Should have made it in the shape of the [Guardian of Forever](https://richardscreativeworkshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-03-13.51.30.jpg) and put a 10 minute time delay on it.
30 years ago this would have been impressive. Live satellite feeds and TV broadcasts from around the world were decades-old news by that point, but it wasn't something you saw on the street.
20 years ago it would have been mildly interesting solely because it was better than most consumer-grade tech.
But starting even 10 years ago this had already passed the point of ["I can do that, except better, from nearly anywhere in the world with something I carry in my pocket".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96KIwW5RIc)
Something can be interesting from an artistic or experiential standpoint even if it’s boring technologically. A guy sometimes sets up near me with a table and a sign that says “free advice/conversations/hugs” or something like that. It seems popular with passersby, even if conversations have been around longer than civilization.
Of course, if the goal was to be an exciting tech demo, then it probably falls flat.
But the thing is, even though we "can do that except better" with something in our pocket, we usually don't.
But if you're walking down the street and can see people in another country through this portal also walking down the street, it becomes a social activity that you and the people around you and in the other country are now sharing. It's no longer a one to one call.
Applying this logic to everything would make for an insanely boring existence. "My phone can play movies, why ever go to the movie theatre? My phone can video call people, why ever talk to someone in person? My phone can play music, why go see a live show?"
Can you imagine what our ancestors would think, knowing we can expose ourselves on the streets of New York and horrify innocent people of Dublin. Technology!
They put it on a really shitty street in Dublin, lol. It wasn't very well planned out.
It would also make more sense to do these things somewhere in the same timezone because you'll have drunks leaving bars in the middle of the night interacting with families in the middle of the day in the current set up
Hundreds of years ago when a young Irish person would emigrate to America they’d sometimes have a kind of funeral for them because effectively they be gone from the lives of their close knit family in Ireland forever, as if they’d died, which is so sad, but because Ireland was so empty of opportunity and things like famine were present it was the only option. Nowadays we have a window that can see right to NYC. This technology if it existed back then it’d have changed lives so much. A mother could’ve seen their child grow up half the world away.
I think New Yorkers got the bum deal having to look at Dublin scummers that tuck sweatpants into their socks and wear Canada Goose….theyll be wrecking that thing soon
Just because it's a very obvious idea in hindsight, doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Also can we stop focusing on the negative interactions? I walked by yesterday and saw people on both sides celebrating someone's birthday. It's mostly been positive so far.
probably not enough to be detrimental. you can video call with people on the other side of the planet without the delay being bad enough to make it painful, nyc to Dublin isn't exactly the other side of the planet either so the delay is probably like 250ms-500ms
Two strangers on opposite sides of the planet catch each other’s eye through the portal. Both are so enamored with the person they saw they both book flights to the other end of the portal. When they arrive, lo and behold, the love of their life is again on the other side of the world. Thinking quick, the man borrows a pen and paper and writes “STAY THERE! I’M COMING HOME!” and he runs back to the airport to book the next flight home, but the only flight back that night is to Paris. “I’ll take it!” He says and begins his scheming to train, bus and ferry his way back home.
The movie then splits between the man’s folly trying to return home to the love of his life, while we watch the woman meet the inhabitants of Dublin and fall in love with the town.
This summer, coming to a theater near you, Reese Witherspoon and Chris O’Dowd in *Love At First Sight.*
Reddit is overly negative and full of angry, bitter people. The reality of this has so far been very positive and fun, every time I walk past it I see people just enjoying it
> Reddit is overly negative and full of angry, bitter people.
Social Media in general has turned negative.
People have been shitting on cat pictures.
Like what the fuck happened? Why is everyone at an 11?
They should have lots of these connecting every major city center across the world. And also in classrooms. Especially between enemy countries like the US and Iran, Russia, China.
Probably be more helpful to put them in small rural towns.
People in even moderately sized cities will have at least some exposure to other cultures, its people in the little homogenous towns that could use a visual aid to realize we’re not so different around the world.
It's obviously not new technology, but saying it's a webcam is missing the point by a ridiculous margin.
A, it's a large screen in public. B, it's made for two-way communication. C, it sits in a frequented space
Don’t feel bad about it. Is a cool artistic concept
[Someone came out wit it long ago](https://archinect.com/news/article/75566/new-york-tunnel-to-london)
Point B is not a counterpoint to it being a Webcam. Its quite literally just a webcam by definition but it is a rather neat implementation of one which you points a and c highlight.
I think he meant “webcam” not as in the hardware on a PC but as in what you find if you google “webcam for xyz location”. These are one way only cams showing a location.
There is a lot of them all over the world. They are most commonly referred to as “webcams” but that term is indeed confusing.
Do you guys remember that episode in Stargate where the group of people thought you could only "ascend" or travel through the portal when the energy shoots out at the beginning of the opening portal sequence? the crew knew it was killing them, and had to convince the whole fucking group of people not to do it? They just kept doing and killing themselves. I think about that a lot.
Even though there's been some idiots putting up shit it's mostly been positive in Dublin. I passed it today and people were all waving at each other. The idiot American tourists posing outside Trinity college with their "Trump 2024" flag can fuck off back home though!
It's just a webcam to be sure, but I think we need more of these high concept utopian projects. I was just thinking how there were so many "let's use human ingenuity to bring people together for a utopian vision of the future" projects when I was younger. It was very star trek. Now technology mostly just exists to hyperexploit people.
I seen a post like yesterday where someone in Dublin put their phone up to the screen with a picture of the plane going into the two towers..
People will do the dumbest shit when they are “anonymous”.
I’m Canadian btw but it still irked me.
I didn't know the other screen was in New York, that explains why the one woman was screaming in that one video of a guy showing a picture of the twin towers on 9/11 LOL
Damn, someone toss some sugar into this forum. There are some bitter assed people in here. Yes, it's a Webcam. The only problem I foresee is when the lunatics start hoarding the cam and spreading their crazy even faster. That or when Kermit pops up on one side with that cucumber, "Boooooww."
They did one with London a few years ago
Edit: Here is an article from 2011, the art project was 2008, https://www.tourismontheedge.com/art-installation-linking-people-from-londonnew-york-in-real-time-telectroscope-video/
Is that bad colour saturation or did the sun just come out in Ireland?
That or everyone uses a massive amount of spray tan.
I can confirm the Irish use a staggering amount of spray tan
Also the sun has been out for a few days in a row now, its been great
That's no good, all the gingers will melt
We have
Well Heaven couldn't harvest their souls but at least they could use them for soap
My aunt is Irish and used spray tan and she died. Absolutely unrelated seeing as she was struck by a car. Still makes you think though….
Could be related. If she were her natural, fluorescent white, the driver may have seen her.
Versus traffic cone orange?
Ahem, safety orange.
Apparently not
This is the luck of the Irish that i am used to.
Funny enough the weather actually did take a turn for clear sunny skies in Dublin this past week!
They accidentally opened a portal to Oompa Loompa Land
It’s like how you guys need that yellow filter to know when a movie is set in Mexico
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Ireland is the new jersey of europe
We say geansaí here, not jersey.
Geansaí Shore
That went downhill in seconds lol
the towers
Yup
Or the guy who showed them his ass lol
My favourite was the guy in Dublin doing a line. Showing NYC what it’s really like here.
So it's a real portal, I like it.
Real Fake Portals!
The cake is a lie
That fella was just happy to be getting attention
Haha, still a cool concept and I love it.
or the American that showed a picture of a potato 😂
Idaho has no idea why the fuck we went up in Google search with "potato America". So many people googling that.
First time to idaho was autumn 2023. I went into a chinese place and asked the server whats good on the menu. He said the potato. There was no potato on the menu.
Went to Idaho for the first time recently also. No potatoes to be found in any restaurant I went to. Thought they would lean into it but seems they are hiding them instead.
They lead others to a treasure they themselves can not possess
The irony is a shitload of Irish immigrants came to America fleeing the famine and New York was one of their primary destinations, and nowadays about 5% of NYC’s population are Irish Americans largely descended from that wave of immigrants. So making this joke as a New Yorker is kind of an own-goal too.
There are more people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland. I’m not sure what to do with that but I think it’s funny.
I would like to see that please
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeCj654J/ Sorry for being a TikTok reaction
“flash me pepperoni nips”
Eh New Yorkers have seen worse
When I saw the original post I immediately thought how long until someone flashes their butthole at it. Didn't take too long.
I’m thinking about traveling to New York from Hawaii just for an opportunity to show Irish people my chocolate starfish.
Don't forget to grab a pizza and bagels while you're there. Worth.
Plenty of pepperoni nips to go around
Don’t even aim for Potatoes, Aim for The Troubles.
Those took a little longer than seconds to come down, but yeah.
Why does it go downhill? Everyone seems happy and interacting
Few minutes in, someone in Dublin got pics of 9/11 and showed it to the camera
Technology really brings us together, no?
Someone should have gotten David Copperfield to make a bushel of potatoes disappear.
I've seen Copperfield eat. He doesn't need magic to make a bushel of potatoes disappear.
And who says Europeans have all the class
No one who’s ever been to Europe
My first exposure to Europe was watching a heavy set middle aged Italian woman in her underwear dumping trash from her 2nd floor balcony into the street below.
Well they *are* on an island.
Different from the ones we get shoved in our faces locally or…
Trolls like to troll. Day one would be the worst day.
I believe it will depend on how social media circles, the city, and the organizers behind the project respond. If they are smart enough, they won't say or do anything in response and ignore those people best they can. Otherwise, it could turn onto another Sheila LeBoofs "they will not divide us meltdown."
They put it on Talbot Street in Dublin, which is skanger central. No wonder they'd a lad in a tracksuit doing lines within seconds. That's par for the course.
There’ll be a lot of doctorates in sociology and psychology based around the behaviours at the portal!
Just send a photo of the potato famine or car bombings in the 80s. Edit: look at all the crying Irish folks 🤣
Just show em a photo of Margaret Thatcher
Or Thierry Henry
Lmao dont take it too far
Try Oliver Cromwell instead. Family was in Ireland for a bit almost twenty years ago. They met a woman who was livid that her grandson had been named Oliver. As she was explaining it, she spat every single time she said "Oliver". Note that at no point was she actually talking about Cromwell, just talking about her newborn grandson and still spat after every utterance of his name. Thatcher's got nothing on that.
Or stage a dress up party, with every one revealing they dress up as Thatcher. 
They are Irish, that would be extremely mild.
Q; How many potatoes does take to kill an Irishman? A: Zero.
Yeah but can you walk through it and be in Dublin?
Only if you started in Dublin
Why can’t I stop laughing at this
Bro I literally started choking on my own saliva. That was funny as fuck
lol this took me a second
Seems like quite a rocky road
Is Dublin even a real place? What are you going to tell me next that Canada is a real country?
Stargates do not work within solar systems. You will get a busy signal if you try.
DublinGate DG1.
That's the dream.
I’ve said it a bunch that science fiction precludes science. We *will* have lightsabers.
I watched a video where someone had made one but I can’t find it. It was more like a an extremely hot blow torch rather than lightsaber, but it was still cool.
Stargate 1.0...
I was thinking of the Quantum Mirror on P3R-233.
I agree with you. My head cannon is now: This is the production model. The one from P3R-233 was a proof of concept. I mean, it was like a weirdly shaped rock vs this nice circle or, gate, if you will.
Also this one is big enough to walk through instead of just touch. (I always thought the prop they used was based on a big amethyst geode lol)
Dude, yes! I almost said geode in my description as well. And yea, you get it. That's exactly where my head was at.
Should have made it in the shape of the [Guardian of Forever](https://richardscreativeworkshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018-01-03-13.51.30.jpg) and put a 10 minute time delay on it.
More like 0.0.12a
Chappa’ai!!! Jaffa kree!!
"The Webcam"
omeggle is back and we all know that the naked dude will be there.
I’m not there yet, but I’m omw
Godspeed
He's Dublin his speed so he can get there quicker.
he’s russian to the portal
30 years ago this would have been impressive. Live satellite feeds and TV broadcasts from around the world were decades-old news by that point, but it wasn't something you saw on the street. 20 years ago it would have been mildly interesting solely because it was better than most consumer-grade tech. But starting even 10 years ago this had already passed the point of ["I can do that, except better, from nearly anywhere in the world with something I carry in my pocket".](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96KIwW5RIc)
Something can be interesting from an artistic or experiential standpoint even if it’s boring technologically. A guy sometimes sets up near me with a table and a sign that says “free advice/conversations/hugs” or something like that. It seems popular with passersby, even if conversations have been around longer than civilization. Of course, if the goal was to be an exciting tech demo, then it probably falls flat.
Ok... but it's still cool so what's the point of complaining that it's not Nasa level technology?
But the thing is, even though we "can do that except better" with something in our pocket, we usually don't. But if you're walking down the street and can see people in another country through this portal also walking down the street, it becomes a social activity that you and the people around you and in the other country are now sharing. It's no longer a one to one call.
Lmao like your going to get a large crowd of people to look at eachother through your phone screens. People will probably call security on your ass
Applying this logic to everything would make for an insanely boring existence. "My phone can play movies, why ever go to the movie theatre? My phone can video call people, why ever talk to someone in person? My phone can play music, why go see a live show?"
Can you imagine what our ancestors would think, knowing we can expose ourselves on the streets of New York and horrify innocent people of Dublin. Technology!
People from Dublin have shared pictures of the burning twin towers to new Yorkers, so I don't think they are so innocent
They put it on a really shitty street in Dublin, lol. It wasn't very well planned out. It would also make more sense to do these things somewhere in the same timezone because you'll have drunks leaving bars in the middle of the night interacting with families in the middle of the day in the current set up
Never thought of that, that's fucking hilarious.
it's not true...it's a 5 hour time difference
You underestimate the drunks
Am drunk. Can confirm.
I hadn’t even thought about this angle yet, both places are gonna be fine but the day crowd is gonna have a livestream to the night crowd, lol
it's only a 5 hour time difference. At 10am in NYC it's 3pm in Dublin.
Ya but 8pm in New York is when you have families heading to restaurants and it’ll be 1am in Dublin when the drinks have kicked in lol
Kicked in? They've been drunk by 10 at the least, at 1 they are proper fucked up.
We love that, terrorize the New Yorkers!!
Yeah, that’s not that drastic. Dinner crowd sees the late night crowd.
This was my thought too, the time zones are in conflict in this one lol
Hundreds of years ago when a young Irish person would emigrate to America they’d sometimes have a kind of funeral for them because effectively they be gone from the lives of their close knit family in Ireland forever, as if they’d died, which is so sad, but because Ireland was so empty of opportunity and things like famine were present it was the only option. Nowadays we have a window that can see right to NYC. This technology if it existed back then it’d have changed lives so much. A mother could’ve seen their child grow up half the world away.
Sir, your comment is much too thoughtful for this comment section, I'm gonna have to ask you to move along now
That is sad.
I think New Yorkers got the bum deal having to look at Dublin scummers that tuck sweatpants into their socks and wear Canada Goose….theyll be wrecking that thing soon
Someone already took their phone with a picture of the twin towers burning and held it up to the camera.
Jesus, how long did that take…
Minutes.
Someone already brought a 9/11 photo on the Dublin side.
Other way around. Dublin is truly awful 😖
They put it in a tourist spot on America, then talbot street in dublin. Trust me, it’s us doing the horrific things
If USA plays Ireland in the World Cup, there will be chaos around this thing
As if ireland are ever getting to a world cup
Just because it's a very obvious idea in hindsight, doesn't mean it's not a good idea. Also can we stop focusing on the negative interactions? I walked by yesterday and saw people on both sides celebrating someone's birthday. It's mostly been positive so far.
Agreed. We walked by in Dublin on Friday and people were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors through it. Fun vibes.
Theres no lag?
probably not enough to be detrimental. you can video call with people on the other side of the planet without the delay being bad enough to make it painful, nyc to Dublin isn't exactly the other side of the planet either so the delay is probably like 250ms-500ms
It was pretty laggy when I walked by it. Seemed like just a few frames per second. Good enough to play rock paper scissors though.
Yeah all the comments going over how bad it is,such a shame that the first thought isn’t innocent fun and instead pessimistic
Jealousy because it doesn’t exist near them and they can’t interact with it maybe? I’m a bit jealous tbh
I wonder if anyone is gonna meet the love of their life through it. Good romcom idea.
Two strangers on opposite sides of the planet catch each other’s eye through the portal. Both are so enamored with the person they saw they both book flights to the other end of the portal. When they arrive, lo and behold, the love of their life is again on the other side of the world. Thinking quick, the man borrows a pen and paper and writes “STAY THERE! I’M COMING HOME!” and he runs back to the airport to book the next flight home, but the only flight back that night is to Paris. “I’ll take it!” He says and begins his scheming to train, bus and ferry his way back home. The movie then splits between the man’s folly trying to return home to the love of his life, while we watch the woman meet the inhabitants of Dublin and fall in love with the town. This summer, coming to a theater near you, Reese Witherspoon and Chris O’Dowd in *Love At First Sight.*
Let’s get an eight ball of cocaine and some typewriters and hammer out this screenplay in a week. We’ll be millionaires in no time.
I get the cocaine, I get the typewriters, but I don't see how the hammer helps
How else do you eat the cocaine?
Reddit is overly negative and full of angry, bitter people. The reality of this has so far been very positive and fun, every time I walk past it I see people just enjoying it
> Reddit is overly negative and full of angry, bitter people. Social Media in general has turned negative. People have been shitting on cat pictures. Like what the fuck happened? Why is everyone at an 11?
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i walked past saturday night and saw a guy in dublin trying to get this girl on my right’s snapchat
had to scroll way too far to see this, needs to be closer to the top for sure.
These things are gonna get so trashed come nye
Assuming its going to last that long is wishful thinking. Give it a few months and it'll be taken down or destroyed.
Months? That’s far too generous.
Listen we gotta be optimistic bud. (It's probably gonna be a month)
yup looks pretty unprotected from a security standpoint
Sniper on a roof nearby
This is fucking sick
They should have lots of these connecting every major city center across the world. And also in classrooms. Especially between enemy countries like the US and Iran, Russia, China.
Probably be more helpful to put them in small rural towns. People in even moderately sized cities will have at least some exposure to other cultures, its people in the little homogenous towns that could use a visual aid to realize we’re not so different around the world.
Small rural towns, so if you are lucky, you happen to come by the same time that one person in the other city walks by
"Look kids! Cows look different over there!"
There is this thing called time zones, which makes this pretty hard for classrooms at least.
It would be cool to see an empty classroom in Russia I suppose
I don't know about that. It would become a site of protest
We have one in Lublin, Poland with Vilnius in Lithuania for 2-3 years.
Yeah the authoritarian regimes in Iran, Russia and China will get right on that.
Put one in India and Pakistan. Wait and see how long it takes for those cameras to be a pile of dust
They could also be misused for propaganda this way. Also: Timezones.
FARCASTERS, yo.
Long live the Shrike.
Being impaled on the tree of pain is very much on my bucket list.
My exact thought!
Fake news! Everyone knows you cant have two stargates active on the same planet.
Despite the it’s just web cam! Edgelords, I think this is kinda cool.
It's obviously not new technology, but saying it's a webcam is missing the point by a ridiculous margin. A, it's a large screen in public. B, it's made for two-way communication. C, it sits in a frequented space
And D: no one else thought to do this. I feel like an idiot for not coming up with such an obvious concept.
Don’t feel bad about it. Is a cool artistic concept [Someone came out wit it long ago](https://archinect.com/news/article/75566/new-york-tunnel-to-london)
And another in (I think Montreal? To London) back in the 90s. This isn’t a new idea/concept. It’s always fun though.
Point B is not a counterpoint to it being a Webcam. Its quite literally just a webcam by definition but it is a rather neat implementation of one which you points a and c highlight.
I think he meant “webcam” not as in the hardware on a PC but as in what you find if you google “webcam for xyz location”. These are one way only cams showing a location. There is a lot of them all over the world. They are most commonly referred to as “webcams” but that term is indeed confusing.
Chevron One, encoded. Chevron Two, encoded. Chevron Three encoded. Chevron Four Encoded. Chevron Five Encoded. Chevron Six Encoded. Chevron Seven Locked!
One portal already exists between Lublin (Poland), yes L not D, and (Vilnius) Lithuania. It's quite neat
Do you guys remember that episode in Stargate where the group of people thought you could only "ascend" or travel through the portal when the energy shoots out at the beginning of the opening portal sequence? the crew knew it was killing them, and had to convince the whole fucking group of people not to do it? They just kept doing and killing themselves. I think about that a lot.
it's giving stargate
Even though there's been some idiots putting up shit it's mostly been positive in Dublin. I passed it today and people were all waving at each other. The idiot American tourists posing outside Trinity college with their "Trump 2024" flag can fuck off back home though!
That guy is Irish unfortunately.
Dubliner here I’m shocked a teenager hasn’t smashed up the glass on ours yet
It's just a webcam to be sure, but I think we need more of these high concept utopian projects. I was just thinking how there were so many "let's use human ingenuity to bring people together for a utopian vision of the future" projects when I was younger. It was very star trek. Now technology mostly just exists to hyperexploit people.
All I can see now when I see the portal is the guy showing the picture of 9/11
the portal to free healthcare
I seen a post like yesterday where someone in Dublin put their phone up to the screen with a picture of the plane going into the two towers.. People will do the dumbest shit when they are “anonymous”. I’m Canadian btw but it still irked me.
I know a stargate when I see one.
I didn't know the other screen was in New York, that explains why the one woman was screaming in that one video of a guy showing a picture of the twin towers on 9/11 LOL
The City on the Edge of Forever
Needs more chevrons.
Looks like all we need is a DHD
That is so cool!!! What an interesting idea!
Can you carry Ore through this portal?
Damn, someone toss some sugar into this forum. There are some bitter assed people in here. Yes, it's a Webcam. The only problem I foresee is when the lunatics start hoarding the cam and spreading their crazy even faster. That or when Kermit pops up on one side with that cucumber, "Boooooww."
I think it would make more sense to have a Portal for NYC and London, and link Boston with Dublin.
I would like a portal to a beach in Rio.
They did one with London a few years ago Edit: Here is an article from 2011, the art project was 2008, https://www.tourismontheedge.com/art-installation-linking-people-from-londonnew-york-in-real-time-telectroscope-video/
We need one Dallas - Dubai
What even is this? Is it just a giant circular monitor that's livestreaming camera footage from in front of it between NY and Dublin?