spinne

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[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Costume Quest

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Tbh, neither did I until I read it hahaha

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo:

  • As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York;
  • As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English[1][2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
  • As a noun to refer to the animal (either the true buffalo or the bison). The plural is also buffalo.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's completely true. It's up to each person to decide what their standards are and where they draw the line. Like Roman Polanski anally raping a 13 year old and using his money and fame to leave the country and avoid the prison time may be across one person's line while another person says, "Eh, what can you do? It was almost 50 years ago." Also true, but that piece of shit is still alive and making money--from people who like his work at least enough to keep consuming it.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

And we just threw them that pizza party with mandatory attendance last week!

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whale sharks are the peak of fishitude, my friend

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

The look of mischievous nihilism entering public art spaces.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cultivating live food for your fish friends is a great idea! Research, trial, and error are going to be really important in the process, so it's better to do it in a separate tank to keep your fish safe. We don't have the ability to bring an entire complex ecosystem into our homes and put it in a glass box; the best we can do is mimic one as best as possible. This means that an experimental tank won't have as many of the same "redundancies" nature does when nutrient, light, or oxygen/dissolved gases get out of balance, and population crashes can happen a lot more easily. (Even if it's just the food creatures that die off, the decaying matter can cause problems like ammonia burns for your fish.) Rather than trying to establish a sustainable colony of food animals in your fish tank, starting a tank with food animals and slowly adding fish to it will give you a much clearer picture of how large a population they can sustain.

Some tips to help you build as robust a system as you can:

  • Use a 10 gallon (about 40 liters) or larger tank. Greater water volume means increased stability because the water dilutes concentrations of things like ammonia and gives you a nice buffer for environmental changes; a 5 gallon (about 20 liters) tank will have much narrower safety margins and will make it harder to figure out where the problems lie.
  • Add a lot of plants, both in number and variety, to improve oxygenation and reduce carbon dioxide in the water. They'll also provide food and grazing surfaces for a lot of smaller food animals.
  • Use a canister filter or AquaClear-style hang-on-back (HOB) filter that gives you a lot more filter medium for housing the microbes that process nitrogenous wastes like ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate than a single, fiber-covered plastic cartridge. Don't run charcoal or activated carbon in it unless you're finishing up a round of disease treatment--it'll pull out a lot of the stuff the tank's plants and animals can use. Canisters and HOB filters will also give you better gas exchange than an undergravel or sponge filter will.
  • Tank barriers are easy to make out of plastic mesh used for crafts like needlepoint. I think the holes would be big enough for most food animals to swim through, but not allow fish in their area, but I'm not sure.

This sounds like a really cool project. If you decide to do it, I hope you'll post updates!

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 79 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination." -- rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Schrodinger's dipshit, ugh

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fast food joints already offer lower prices in their apps than at the drive through. You pay the difference through all the data they harvest.

[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If someone has an invite to share, I'd love to get in and try it out!

Thank you so much for the invite, Cancer Mouse <3

 

I started off using different colors because I liked them. Turns out that my brain really likes this style of information organization, and it's helped me a bunch when it comes to learning and sticking with good design habits!

Notebook: Colorverse Nebula

Pens, L-R: Platinum Preppy (fine, Colorverse Brane), TWSBI Eco (broad, Birmingham Pen Co. Lightning Twinkle), Opus88 Mini (fine, Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-budo), and Bonecrusher (medium, Diamine Writers Blood)

Photo description: Stationery items on top of a large desk mat printed with a night forest scene. A Colorverse Nebula notebook is open to two pages of notes and drawings on tips for designing snap-fit joints on 3d printed objects, written in different ink colors. The notebook is surrounded by pencils (a Bic mechanical and Tombow 4H), a plastic pencil sharpener, and a test tube rack holding four fountain pens.

 

I just started playing Curse for the first time the other night, and the gameplay/mechanics have been so much fun. I've tried claws, machete, pistol, and whip so far, but I'd love to hear about which weapon combos or full builds you found the most fun! What all did you like about them?

 

I've been growing for my partner and me for a little over a year now, and have worked out most of the hiccups in my process. Now I'm looking to grow my favorite strain, Skywalker OG. I have no idea who the original breeder was; I was buying it in oil carts made by Crystal Clear out in Washington state, but stopped once the pandemic hit.

I've tried the Mephisto Skywalker and it wasn't the same, so I'm asking for help from the knowledgeable folks here. Please throw your recs my way! My preference is for autoflower (because I am not on top of stuff enough to do photos), but I mean, I have a small second tent...

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