Hey, I don't normally do this, but
Someone in my family got scammed out of US$6000. I'm trying to help them. If you have any available cash and are willing to help, I'd be very glad. Spread the word.
Raised thus far: $286.34
Debating whether to go to a house show on Sat. Music will probably be shit and the people there insipid but the vibes might be good. Either way, it's near where I used to go for parties in college. Good memories of leaving a god-awful noise show and waiting in the nearby diner for the 1am metro train.
Pros: Found out about it on twt from "former editor of defunct online litmag" (sounds pretentious, it sort of was, but it was good quality, like what n+1 should be & with none of the excessive ironism of the HOMINTERN) & it only got a handful of retweets
Cons: It's now an annoying area of the city to get to, instead of being convenient.
go for it, it's better than not going
I was thinking about how bizarre it seemed to me thst hunter gathering was/is like a viable survival strategy, it seems to tenuous, but I thought about it more and for malthusian reasons we should expect the HG lifestyle to be right on th edge of plausibility. If it was super prosperous, population expands until it isn't anymore, if it's too tenuous, population decreases until it isn't anymore
hunting/gathering works because the entire world boils down to some overwhelming complex matrixes
what's likely is that H/Gs were opportunity hunters and scavengers at first, but that depends on environment
plus the creation of tools to aid in hunting (notably anything to do with fishing but also things like wire traps) and the development of agriculture with forest gardening basically meant a lot of it was a slow but steady growth
very slow though
if you are Firefox a user like me who keeps open dozens of tabs open at the same time, typing % into the awesome bar (the url bar) and then a space followed by your search, Firefox will search among the currently open tabs. This is much faster than using hunting manually.
overheard at work:
"if I have enough money to buy and maintain a fighter jet, the government should let me do it"
"you can, you just become a PMC by that point"
ah, Kentucky.
I was trying to remember the worst rap bar I'd ever heard from a major white rapper during a conversation with my girlfriend. I knew it rhymed "jimmy neutron boy genius" with "penis" but I couldn't remember anything else so I absentmindedly typed "jimmy neutron boy genius penis" into google and pressed enter. I smiled at my phone, serene, not even THINKING about what the cost could possibly be
and then it loaded
I literally felt like I was going to throw up from laughing so hard
FOR THE RECORD it was "jimmy neutron, I'm a young boy genius / on the futon, I'ma give her that penis"
May he plow the Lord’s fields in heaven
Dave Brandt was probably the longest running no-till farmer in the state; he'd been running his land no-till since 1971. He experimented with fertilizers, cover crops, and different irrigation techniques and he'd been doing all of that for a very long time.
The guy was an institution all on his own; look at this.
- The “A” profile in his soil is now 47 inches deep compared to less than 6 inches in 1971 and acts like a giant sponge for water infiltration and retention.
- From 1971 through 1989 David used an average of 150-250 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre to grow his corn crops. After adding peas and radishes as a cover crop mix, he cut his nitrogen needs in half and was able to get it down to 125 pounds per acre.
- When he added multiple species and became more aggressive with his cover crop mixes, he was able to achieve an additional drop in applied fertility. His starter fertilizer is now just 2 lbs of N, 4 lbs of P, and 5 lbs of K. His corn crop now only requires 20-30 lbs of N throughout the entire growing season. He requires no fertility for his soybeans, relying on fertility gained solely through his cover crops. He uses only 40 lbs of 10 N – 10 P – 10 K for his small grains.
- Ten years ago (source study published 2019) David stopped using any fungicides and insecticides. This occurred at a time when fungicide and insecticide use has increased significantly with the average commodity farmer.
- Four years ago he stopped using any seed treatment, including neonicotinoids.
- His cash crop yields have been increasing by an average of 5% annually for the past 5-6 years, with far less fertilizer and no fungicides, insecticides or seed treatment.
- What started as a basic heavy clay soils when David purchased the farm in 1971 have been officially re-classified by Ohio State University soil scientists as a highly fertile silty loam soil.
I legitimately fucking lose my shit at this every time it comes on my dash it’s one of my favorite NV posts
Just woke up from a dream where one of my Tumblr mutuals taught me about an image processing transform called the "communist transform" that was... apparently part of some specific open source movement to track changes in DRM'ed media?
and I pulled out a whiteboard and fucking worked through a 4x4 example by hand
I think my brain is broken
@medium-amount-of-gay asked for more context, so: this is the code for the Communist Transform (it's basically a five-point estimation of Gaussian curvature?)
and here's what it actually looks like (on a picture of Karl Marx for thematic coherency)
I have no idea what it has to do with communism, or open source software, or anything, but that's dream logic for you. I'm just kind of amazed that something someone told me in a dream was mathematically coherent enough to code it at all.
Oh, it's really sensitive to pixel-level noise. I blurred the original image and it's a lot clearer what's going on -- it's an edge detector.
you see, this is the communist transform because the low signal represents the proletariat and the high signal represents the bourgeoisie, and therefore
...the funny thing is, you were the mutual who taught me this in my dream
Losing my mind at this security cam footage of a guy that looks like concept art for the Once in a Lifetime music video
Lets hear it for Malicious Compliance
*filming literal mold* “There is a bit of a damp problem…” The signs saying “DON’T BUY THIS” are a beautiful touch.
“IN FUCKING JANUARY”
Customer: HOCKEY FAN DMV: 14 GANG REFERENCE no 2014 on record Verdict: DENIED
it fucking sucks how you can do all the therapy and self healing in the world and you still have to wake up living under a capitalist death cult that's killed community and crushes your soul
congrats you want to live and be happy
bad news the world doesn't want that for you
I'll still love fully and crawl to hope until my body gives out anyway I guess
If you live in the first world and are saying this you should the fuck up. "The world doesn't want that for you" the world has never wanted that for anyone. There is nothing good or virtuous about the state of nature. We used to have famines, we used to live in a world without antibiotics and where your bones being dragged into a cave to be gnawed on by wolves was not an uncommon occurrence.
If you are a first worlder living above the poverty line you are one of the most spectacularly privileged people to have ever existed and you should stop being such a fucking ingrate.
The world is evil, but the world has always been evil. You can fight for a better world while acknowledging that being alive in the west in 2023 makes you spectacularly privileged from the point of view of almost anyone else in history, indeed it is vital to do so so you realize what the stakes actually are
"I think the form of social life I live under is making me miserable"
"You fucking idiot. You could be being eaten by wolves you absolute moron. Don't you know you have cheap carrots now"
Why are you being like this?
yeah that person's a fucking idiot with no perspective on human empathy and misery and is treating it like a zero-sum game
piss-poor reading comprehension on display here
how dare you say we should compress the poor
hmm fighter jets need like 15-25 maintenance man-hours per flight hour...wonder what the number is for passenger airliners... must be much lower because sure you can put several maintainers on it per wall clock hour, but if it's not in the air it's not making money.
There should be a romantic drama about a US air force pilot, and one of the mechanics responsible for maintaining their plane...
there's an anime (based on a book) about a fighter pilot falling in love with his plane
there's a 4chan greentext about that as well
something something infinite monkeys with typewriters
it's internet brainrot discourse right out of the better part of a decade ago shit but
man every time I see one of those posts about how women feel intrisically unsafe around men in like 20 different ways whether it's by being too loud or having safeties when going out on a date or whatever I become incredibly disheartened
the world is a cold enough place as is and you'll have interpersonal conflicts up the fucking wazoo, hell I go to therapy for the intrapersonal because I'm in a good enough position to do economically speaking
the culture of fear and paranoia and everyone having to wear emotional armor around you wears you the fuck down, because the world isolates itself from you
I don't think that the entire spiel of women being terrified of men is false by any stretch, but I don't think it helps either; I need friends as much as anyone, and I love my friends out of college, I talk to them daily, I've helped them big time and so have they
but it's also a sausagefest nonpareil, and I really wish it wasn't, and that we had more than like 3 girls in the friend group that aren't just like the girlfriends of some guys
because that just creates stupid large barriers that go nowhere and makes me feel like there's glacial walls everywhere I go
and it's a painfully alone existence
which in a big way it's why I crave so much being put forth as someone's primary emotional focus for however brief a moment; being on the other end of those barriers telegraphs to you that you are unwanted, unlovable and to an extent unworthy
and it sucks.
that post latched onto my brain in ways it really shouldn't, spanning the self-depreciating veering into the tantric ("the only reason I'm getting struck by it about it is the knockdown of personal pride and social status and the only person that cares about my pride and social status is me and my opinion doesn't matter so why bother") to the borderline hedgehog-like ("if I'm going to be treated like a potential extreme danger when out on a date I'll treat them the same way - if you're taking photos of my ID I wanna do the same") to the paranoid depressive ("I can never be trusted and can never be loved and I'm going to die alone")
so I don't think I'm doing too good