happybadger

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah but it looks cool as hell when I do it.

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

I mean, the guy didn't know that water and ice are the same thing.

What was his logic here? I still believe that but I'm curious to hear a scientific reason why.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish I had been born into the era of science where I'm smart enough to discover things. I can't code. I can't do calculus. I would have thrived in the 19th century where I could invent washing my hands and be considered a world-class doctor.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean the period of heat death beyond that. The black holes have to be fed and eventually that matter will dry up. The universe will keep expanding and chasing thermodynamic equilibrium until some maximum point of entropy where every particle is spread out over increasingly vast distances, with such a total loss of interactions between them that temperature across the universe is 0 K. We'd be doing the Alpha Centauri generation ship thing but to find the next electron.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

As existentially bleak as living through climate change is, I'm glad my brain only has to deal with the crisis of watching one planet in one solar system die. The average schmuck in Warhammer 10^10^ will be chasing the last sparks of warmth in a blizzard that will only get worse. The last habitable planet, the last active star, the final energy source they can find that will keep the temperature above 0 K for their grandchildren. They'll have every beepboop gizmo the universe ever achieves to counter the crisis but there's nowhere they can go short of making a new one, the same kind of deus ex machina we hope for but representing a new kind of hyper-death instead of just clean energy. Maybe they'll still be able to grow crops if scientists manage to duplicate physics perfectly in some kind of thing outside of everything within the next 18 months according to the latest IPCC report. Individuals aren't built to manage whatever psychic damage that causes no matter how much we abstract what it means to exist.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

She's an unstoppable chaos queen with a stink-nipple on her butt

New Jordan Peterson book just dropped

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Step 1: everyone be nice to each other

Step 2: please bro

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

I just have a sense of morbid curiosity about 2028. How little will democrats have learned from the past decade? How can they possibly fail in a more embarrassing way than 2024 or install a more embarrassing person than 2020?

This is liberalism's moment to really eat ass+hair.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm considering applying this to my plant science research. In response to drought stress we observed that the tree became -3 smaller marijuana. Accelerometer data reflects the impact of this change in biomass, with hotdog levels variably +2 to +5. We demonstrate that as the tree becomes smaller marijuana it also becomes bigger hotdog.

 

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?

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