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.

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.

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.

The .45 has me . 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.

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.

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

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.

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

Favourite: civic infrastructure. I turn a lever and safe water comes out. If my entire city uses the bathroom at the same time, nobody gets cholera. I’ll be warm this winter. I can bike on a flat path to a lake owned by the public, then charge my phone for it at free and browse hexbear instead of looking at that lake. When infrastructure works and meets our core needs it’s a miracle of collectivism.

Least favourite: Atomisation and the idea of isolated “first/second/third place”. There’s no reason a park can’t be as educational as a university class or as enriching as a wilderness or as productive as a homestead, other than we choose to develop it for one limited set of recreation use. Downtown cores don’t need to be hyper-commercial, hostile spaces that are unsafe to walk around but we develop them for the benefit of capital instead of pedestrians. The ideal garden city is intensely focused on critical geography and situating people in a larger socioecological project. The lines should be blurred between grey and green space, between commercial/residential/social, and between human/natural enrichment as much as possible. It’s all the worse when you bring in the separation of town and country with those rural communities alienated from civic infrastructure and cultural participation and the urban communities alienated from touching something other than grass.

At what point did the current politics leanings of the Democratic party would make up your spiritual and moral framework?

When Obama won in 2008 and didn’t end the wars or close Guantanamo Bay or provide recession relief, I knew I wasn’t a liberal and that the democrats represented a .

Before that I read the Communist Manifesto at like age 12. Its worldview made more sense than the social studies textbooks I was otherwise reading and when I found the Theses on Feuerbach it gave me a foundation for secular morality/ethics that clicked with the Sartre and Camus I was starting to read.

I don’t know what you are, but my is beeping.

Geology and hydrology are intertwined. When the mountain grows or erodes, it changes the flow and composition of the river. When its glaciers melt the water level increases, when there is no snowpack the river recedes. The river meanwhile cuts into the mountain, metabolises its minerals into biodiverse ecosystems, and populates the mountain seasonally with those organisms. As one changes the other will irreversibly change in response. If one stops its function, the processes shaping the other no longer occur and it becomes something different. Over time we’ll see the canyon or the desert where there was once a plateau or stream.

I like using nature as the proof of dialectics because you can point at it. There’s a clear and easy to understand sense of historical materialism when can use your immediate surroundings.