happybadger

joined 5 years ago
[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 5 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 14 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

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 limmy-what smile the entire film.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

I can't pinpoint the exact unit, but that's an A-37B Dragonfly on the patch. It'd be sometime between the 70s and 80s.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

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.

 

Introducing the brand new DJI FC100, 85 kg payload capacity with dual battery, 2 payload systems, integrated seamlessly with a powerful developer ecosystem, redefine professional delivery and break through the operational boundaries. The intelligent and advanced Safety System enables unstoppable delivery from mountains to oceans, unlocking infinite possibilities.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lingojam.com/FancyTextGenerator

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

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

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. kitty-cri-potato

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The .45 has me disgost. That's specifically the cartridge that people buy when they want to say a 9mm is too weak for whatever combat scenario they have in mind. Some guy near me has a bumper sticker that says ".45 ACP: it's like 9mm for men". You can't be both a .45 ACP chud and a smol bean.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

You can't complain about the quality of your guns in the US. If I pissed in a circle I'd hit six gun stores. $300 and an hour later, I'd have a better weapon than any of the insurgent groups that beat the US military.

 

Goddamn swamps are beautiful. The only place I've been to which felt more alive is deep jungle in Panama. Driving to Miami, I stopped in Big Cypress before the Shark Valley area of the Everglades. Whereas the latter is mostly sawgrass marshes with islands of trees that are a few inches higher in elevation, Big Cypress has extensive cypress swamps that took me an hour and a half to drive through. The life there grows in layers and everything has a rich network of epiphytes growing on it. I couldn't ID the specific air plants but they're so large that I think they're the endangered giant ones. Similar species grew over almost every other tree, some of them as massive as witches brooms.

Surprisingly not as many vines as I thought there would be, but the climbing asters that dominated the area were probably 10m long and coming off a bush as large as a car.

I'm definitely going back to Florida to explore its ecosystems more and kayak around the tip. Both carnivorous plants and live fungi were totally absent that far south.

 

Called the Pa-Hay-Okee or River of Grass by the local Seminole tribe. It's 97km/60mi wide and flows so slowly that I couldn't see the water moving, draining Florida's main lake into the state's southern coast. Ecologically it's fascinating, with like 4m/12ft of elevation gain across it representing multiple ecosystems linked to how much water persists throughout the year. In the Rockies the ecosystems change every 300m/1000ft, here it's whether the water is at your ankle or your knee.

Highly recommended. It's remarkable.

 

Parrots are known for being adaptable, but you might not expect to see them in the trees of snowy Stuttgart. Yet it’s true: Around 50 yellow-headed Amazon parrots live in this German city. And they don’t just survive here – they thrive.

From making the most of the daily commute to major success in breeding, the Stuttgart parrots are of great interest to conservationists. With wild parrot numbers in sharp decline and more cities across the globe reporting urban parrot populations, could they offer hope for their species’ future?

view more: next ›