Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
You might have seen a Hairy Woodpecker. They're about halfway between Downys and Pileateds in size, but look exactly like Downys in all other aspects.
Woodpeckers in general are just nice. We've also got some red-bellieds, and a Northern Flicker or two, which I believe are adjacent to woodpeckers, but ours just seem to enjoy throwing mulch halfway across the yard as a daily activity.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I like my local pileated woodpecker. Comes to the feeder and yells.
Recently, I saw a few waxwings. Never seen them before in person, so that was cool.
Bird I know we have locally, but I don't see as much of as I'd like: plover types (killdeer, etc).
Bird we don't have locally that I'd like to see: woodcock.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
I mean, you certainly couldn't play Counter-Strike without someone saying quite an awful lot about your private life. And your mom's private life, too, for that matter.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
the Russian joke about the blank pamphleteer.
I don't think I know that one, but I can kind of guess as to the punchline.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
you pour it over ice
Fascinating. I'm used to that being a Magners-only gimmick.
That said, I dont see ciders becoming popular with the bud lite crowd. They're either too sweet (like Angry Orchard's mainline stuff, owned by Sam Adams I believe) or a bit on the dry, non-crushable side.
You'd also need an ad campaign to make them seem manly and tough rather than the softer alternative to beer, at least in the states. Although you could possibly manage that by invoking the rural spirit of the UK's West Country and focusing on "scrumpy". Or hell, cider used to be the Colonial drink of choice (what, you don't think Johnny Appleseed was going around planting apple trees for eating, do you?). A nice patriotic George Washington/frontiersman advert, or something something pre/post prohibition era, would probably do the trick nicely. So now that I think about it, you're right -cider could absolutely be the way to go.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
a game whose entire point is its pointlessness. playoffs are everything now, it didn't use to be this way. the fall classic was the last celebration of the season, not the point of the season. in baseball's greatest eras people were packing stadiums of teams that had no shot at the pennant. they weren't there to feed avarice, they were there to pass time watching summer's mandala.
I'll add a point of agreement to that. I never watch baseball on TV; it's incredibly dull. But I can have a blast at a game with my dad, because it's not about the game. It's a good time hanging out and chatting and drinking, with the occasional impressive/exciting play and interjection of obscure stat from my father.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Leinenkugel's solid, but i was thinking of something targeting the "cocktail in a can" demographic.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
I challenge anybody reading to name an occasion on which they met a bear they weren't actively going out of their way to meet.
My grandmother had a local bear who liked to sit in her peach tree and eat the fruit. Occasionally would wander up onto her porch. She was more concerned with the deer, since they ate more of her vegetables (up until the bear broke half the peach tree by being too large for the branches. She wasnt pleased by that).
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
My 5e group is between games at the moment, and I'm hoping to find/run a group with a different system. 3.5, Pathfinder, Numenera, Traveller, Wolves of God... you name it, just something different from 5e.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
It's going to be interesting to see which way the culture war swings on this one. On the one hand, I've seen a lot of rumblings because Tiktok is (generally) pro-Palestine. On the other hand, Trump.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Israel has dropped white phosphorus on Gaza. Yes, but it's not unique. White phosphorous is too useful to not drop; everybody be dropping white phosphorous. If it lands on you you will die one of the worst deaths imaginable; but armies generally don't directly try to land it on people.
My understanding of WP is that the "warcrimeness" is based entirely on if its being used (nominally) for smokescreens/illumination/whatnot, or if its being used as an offensive burning weapon against enemy forces in a civilian area - the latter being Bad and the former being Eh, Fine Enough.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
Weird meta-thought: if Hylinka had gone for a paraphrase of the Dr. Samuel Johnson quote about a woman preaching being like a dog walking on its hind legs (not done well, but you are impressed that it is done at all), would that have passed muster by seeming high-effort? Same sentiment, better language.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Apparently the Navy did pick it up, and probably informed the seach team despite it being protected tech, but you have to search anyway in case it was something else.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
The only thing inaccurate about the scene in Down Periscope where the guy stretches a string across the engine room, and it sags as they dive? He states that you wouldn't see it on a nuclear sub, which is wrong. I'm pretty sure every submarine is designed to compress under water pressure, and combat subs don't dive nearly as deep as exploratory subs.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Wanting to fire 750 000 rounds containing depleted uranium over Iraq causing thousands of children to get birth defects
the reviewed studies and the available research evidence do not provide a clear increase in birth defects and a clear indication of a possible environmental exposure including depleted uranium
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Man, I wish our resident blue jays would chase the grackles away, but the latter are completely ungovernable.
Actually, scratch that. It's not the grackles I mind half so much as the starlings.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
It's interesting to me that it seems to be like the whole Net Neutrality thing, where all of a sudden every single subreddit (exaggeration, but still) is announcing that they'll be going dark to protest it.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
kidnapping
How do you figure?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Wait, is that meme from an ad? I thought it was from a sitcom!
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
As one historian put it, the NAUTILUS was Admiral Rickover's pyramid.
Mantergeistmann
14d ago
You're thinking that it might be a case of, "if we're going to he accused of genocide for asking civilians to leave a combat area, we might as well commit some anyway to make it worthwhile?" Or more of a "just be less careful" sort of thing?
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
she's anti-Semitic, the goblin bankers* are Jewish caricatures!
I think that argument has been quietly dropped since Oct 7. Its very difficult to argue that *she's * dog-whistling by setting the goblin uprising during a year when something bad happened to a Jewish community elsewhere in Europe, but that chanting a slogan used by an openly genocidal group isn't an anti-semitic dogwhistle.
It will, of course, still be vaguely remembered on the internet that of course she's been proven to be anti-semitic and that the details don't matter, but that's just the way things always work. (And, as an aside, that sort of thing really pisses me off in a general way - that the accusations are bunk, but get forgotten and stick regardless)
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Ithaca: Eternal shithole, long has been, long will be. Those who must live there deserve nothing but pity. I’ve heard it’s even worse now, but how that’s possible is beyond me. 100.
I assume this is the part where you're taking the piss. Ithaca's always struck me as a very nice place, whenever I've gone there to visit family. Or is there a different Ithaca, one that doesn't host Cornell?
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Man, the confederate flag has really taken a nosedive in terms of cultural... something.... over the past decade or two, hasn't it?
Hard surfaces maybe; I believe that hot surfaces can do what you described. I think it's normal enough, though.
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