happybadger [he/him]

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>[everything else they post is Horny Mein Kampf]

I hate this version of it. Kicking the first Nazi out of the bar is so critical because they infect the non-political subforums. Every hobby, regional, and news aggregation subreddit immediately fills with fascists while the non-fascists don’t want to drink in the Nazi bar. Then all of a sudden you’re acting as Yelp for people who don’t think you’re a human and want to kill you, funneling them to your favourite spots and inviting them to your meetups. Reddit always felt like playing Russian roulette with posting. The feds and Nazis here are segregated to the Nazi bars that everyone can easily identify as such.

I just can’t do 90s zany/wacky. It’s such a godawful style of postmodernist comedy which set comedy back like 15 years. Even the Joe Rogan anti-woke shit isn’t as damaging in how much it shapes mass media.

Campy horror isn’t a genre that I watch in general, but of the films I’ve seen I can’t think of another which tries to be as zany as Wishmaster. It’s like a 2010s reddit thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto

It’s better than Rob Ford at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIrlvJfgvE

It’s too derivative of everything that came out immediately before. I only found it because I was looking for other 1990s devil characters to find the one where Brad Pitt speaks Jamaican patois. This is the one without any redeeming qualities. Bad effects, acting that’s directly lifted from other 1990s characters by bad actors, zany comedy- entirely forgettable.

He’s trying to play the devil but comes off as the lead character from Sling Blade.

I wish I didn’t. It’s a terrible 1990s film called Wishmaster where the top guy is a Djinn who finds obnoxious ways to kill people with their wishes. He does that smile the entire film.

Thankfully it hasn’t made it into my workplace yet. We have a quarterly newsletter that someone tried to submit ChatGPT slop to. It was immediately identified and rejected by the rest of the horticulturists. My bosses are the kind of people who only talk about plants in Latin so there’s a big institutional focus on getting the right information from primary sources and then using multiple layers of expert review.

However, we’re facing massive budget shortfalls over the next few years and I doubt that will get any better if the economy crashes. Outside of installing/maintaining plants, the bulk of the job is intellectual and creative labour that the public isn’t even aware of. I can absolutely see my workplace hollowing out the job and not hiring based on expertise. Instead of five people with scientific degrees debating a space for an hour, at some point it’s going to be someone who hasn’t seen that space feeding words they can’t pronounce into an LLM that doesn’t understand what space is. On paper it will look great for the metrics admins and other departments track. In practice it will immediately ratfuck everything that makes our urban forest function and drive away the really rare pool of overqualified people we have.

https://lingojam.com/FancyTextGenerator

There might be a better one out there. This one sometimes displays the text wonky.

My great grandfather had the monopoly of eggs in all of China and my grandmother was super rich living in a mansion when the cultural revolution happened and communism took everything away.

I’m just as much a leftist as you, but my opinions reflect the US State Department’s for 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓼.

This appears to be supported by the findings of a 2022 paper, in which scientists describe the results of taking C. sphaerospermum into space and strapping it to the exterior of the ISS, exposing it to the full brunt of cosmic radiation.

There, sensors placed beneath the petri dish showed that a smaller amount of radiation penetrated through the fungi than through an agar-only control.

The aim of that paper was not to demonstrate or investigate radiosynthesis, but to explore the fungus’s potential as a radiation shield for space missions, which is a cool idea. But, as of that paper, we still don’t know what the fungus is actually doing.

That’s where it seems really cool to me. If we have nuclear spacecraft or even just passive cosmic radiation exposure, what’s otherwise a waste/threat could become a factory. Reinforcing the hull with a regenerative radiation shield, genetically engineering it like E. coli to biosynthesise needed compounds, mass producing it as food for something we can eat- it’d be so useful to have something like that in space where you’re surrounded by energy you can’t use.

Fuck off crypto demon. You’ll be facing felonies when your scam crashes.

It’s so universal. Even when I ran /r/snackexchange there were beef companies trying to bribe me with steaks to astroturf a subreddit where people send boxes to each other. Probably dozens of companies over the years until I set a strict “offer a coupon code for your redditor-owned company on the sidebar” policy for anything I thought was branded content. The admins did a hostile takeover and handed it to a guy who used it once a decade prior and wanted to run his own third-party “verification website” farming personal information. /r/fifthworldproblems has a whole ecosystem of third-party offshoots because one of the mods tried to coup the subreddit to partner with Lovecraft slop brands off-site. /r/ebikes is nothing but brands stealth marketing, users stealth marketing their referral codes, and organic users asking why those shitty bikes keep breaking.

I love how free the bike lane is all the way down, even if a painted line isn’t infrastructure. This hill would be so pleasant both ways on my ebike. Great view, urban forest, 5 minute access to what looks like downtown from the high density housing. The same density of commuters wouldn’t need more than a two lane bike path to not feel congested.

Healthy slop

Start by sauteing a mirepoix. If you’re doing meat or mushrooms, saute those until browned as well. Then anything healthy goes in the slow cooker with some stock until it’s slop. If it’s something that gets sweeter when roasted, it’s roasted first. I season it with a bay leaf, mushroom powder, onion/garlic salt, black pepper, and whatever works for the protein. I like my soups/stews very earthy and comforting, with healthy slop ending up being like a non-acidic borscht or thicker chankonabe.

A cargo ebike. No insurance (very cheap anti-theft insurance if you want), no registration fees, $20/year in electricity. I can get anywhere in the city as fast as driving but that’s no longer stressful. Instead of being stuck in traffic and dealing with road raging drivers, I get to zoom along nature paths with the strength of an Olympic athlete. My commute feels liberating instead of like the first and final insult of my day. It’s the first thing I’ve purchased since a smartphone that feels like it’s a foundational 21st century technology. Most of my problems with 20th century development go out the window with it.

Give yourself time and space to distance yourself emotionally from it. Delve into something that lets you reestablish your identity and do independent personal growth, then use that regained confidence to find the kind of relationship you want. I just hike exhaustively until I no longer think about them or care what they’re doing, becoming more of a naturalist which helps my self-worth. In that community I can find people with similar politics who make better partners. If you try to rush your recovery from that relationship or turn to self-destruction instead of growth, you just further entrap yourself in the patterns that resulted in the last one.

Step 1: everyone be nice to each other

Step 2: please bro