Dasus
@Dasus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anting 15 hours ago:
Fucking English collective nouns. :D
I actually had a raven once, I was so surprised. I was just being followed by Muninn, as normal, saw him, he glid a bit next to me while I was going to the store. Got them a bag full of balls, put it all out there on a field and stayed and watched.
I live in the outskirts of the city, so not too urban, but also not too unurban… There’s places within like 5km I know there’s ravens. But usually they’re not here.
Muninn saw me going to the store, glid aside me, I got them a bag… Oh wait I wrote that earlier.
Anyway that’s when I saw this
The scale isn’t evident from this photo, sorry. But ravens are huge compared to hooded crows which are like twice the size of magpies. Ravens are like 80cm from beak to tail. So many while I was in the army. Gorgeous corvids.
- Comment on Anting 18 hours ago:
Well I’d say few friends then whole lot of trolls. Some other birds have begun taking notice, but I’m not going to feed the seagulls. (Although they’re not as dumb as they look and can live several decades.)
Basically there was a nesting pair or crows on top of a building I lived next to, and I lived on the sixth floor. So I began to mimic their head movements, to line myself with the position of their beak. Mirroring, you know.
Then it took a while and I got them to come get some opportunistic foods from the windowsill and now they just remember me. They had a nestling at one point, definitely. There were three, imo.
Magpies there’s loads can’t keep track. One fat one though, he was a proper fatty boom batty one spring when I’d been leaving out basically whole bags of meatballs, like 400g a bit shy of a pound. I was sort of proud, he/she looked pretty healthy, despite the harsh winter.
I have the images in my old phone I see if I’ll care enough to post some.
Idk if magpies are assholes, per se. Definitely eager, I would say. The crows are always having trouble with them. I have trouble not imagining it as WWII bombers (the crows) getting harassed by multiple smaller bogies (the magpies).
- Comment on Anting 18 hours ago:
It’d be sweeter if I had a house and could arrange a spot to do it reliably. Now its just me relying on them spotting me. But it’s kinda fun, as sometimes when I’m scooting/cycling to the store, Muninn will glide next to me a bit to remind me he’s there and to get him something as well.
I don’t always buy them meatballs and there’s been plenty of bans for bird feeding.
In my last apartment I accidentally taught a squirrel to plunder aparments, because I fed the crows from my windowsill.
Then I got fed up with finding squirrel poop in my kitchen so one time I caught him in a large see through moving box and put him in time out for a few hours. (I made sure there were s few twigs, water and some food in the box.) I don’t know whether he leaned his lesson, but the crows certainly learned and followed me despite the move. I only moved like 150 meters as the crow flies, hehe. So it was easy of them to still follow me while not needing to change where they nested.
I’m sort of coloured like a big black crow often, as well. Gray and black.
But sometimes it’s kinda hard to know whether I’m imagining them having followed me and just looking at some random crows. As sometimes they follow me even when I take the bus.
But I go to supermarkets which are like 2-4km again as the crow flies (pun’s getting old tho). So it’s reasonable they do follow me. Especially in winter when it’s hard for them to find food, not as much in the summer.
Also magpies and a blackbird, I think but less so. The magpies don’t follow as far, but there’s more of them and they’re more nimble, so if I feed the crows near my house, the magpies might disturb them. Which is why I feel like they follow me to the stores a bit further away.
Idk it’s not too empirical but I’m definitely karmically positive when it comes to crows.
My ultimate fantasy would be to train them well enough to perch on the sleeves. That would be rad, but I don’t believe it’s realistic.
Hugin and Munin Fly every day Over all the world; I worry for Hugin That he might not return, But I worry more for Munin
— From Grímnismál
- Comment on Anting 19 hours ago:
Oh well. Read about it now, and realised you’re right, I wasn’t aware, but now that I recall, people have memed about him a lot to me because I’m a bit of a crow fanatic as well.
I’ve friend crows. They follow me around and I give them meatballs when I visit the store.
I call this one Muninn Blackbreast.
- Comment on Anting 22 hours ago:
Uhm, no, not the same thing.
That’s like saying “pasta” is the same as “spaghetti”. Spaghetti is pasta, like jackdaw is a crow, but “crow” is contextual. Where I live, it means the European hooded crow, but in Australia, it wouldn’t. Just like pasta can refer to spaghetti or macaroni.
A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly, a synonym for all of Corvus.
- Comment on Anting 22 hours ago:
We Finns actually also practice it.
Not too common, but definitely not unheard of.
Ant hill = muurahaispesä , to sit = istuu/istua istu*
Look it up in YT I’m sure there’s more than enough results
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 22 hours ago:
Reintroducing wolves won’t work everywhere.
Hunting can be an effective population control as well, but seeing how large and sparsely populated Yellowstone is, it’s probably why it didn’t work there.
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- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 2 days ago:
Idk man.
I went to the Wiki article, and it’s formatted in a way that basically implies he did the app himself.
Renner explained the shutdown in a goodbye post. “Due to clever individuals that were able to manipulate ways to impersonate me and others within the app, I have asked ESCAPEX, the company that runs this app, to shut it down immediately and refund anyone who has purchased any stars over the last 90 days,” he wrote. Stars are the app’s version of currency. “What was supposed to be a place for fans to connect with each other has turned into a place that is everything I detest and can’t or won’t condone.”
So it’s some company called ESCAPEX. I could put money, but not a lot of it, on them having sold Renner the concept instead of the other way around. Artists always have tons of passive income from things like that, and it seems like it ran pretty smoothly for a few years, until the trolls, and when he found out, he shut it down.
Idk maybe it was his idea and he only shut it down when it became completely uncontrollable idk.
But I don’t know, and definitely haven’t seen enough evidence to say he’s a bad person.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when my cat steals my penis! 5 days ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=g-AwCl4jr9w
3.word slogans are old as fuck and still going strong
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 week ago:
Me too buddy.
Nothing like listening to Dan get properly wasted on vodka and talking about some serious shit.
I had the sub to Harmontown at one point years ago.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 week ago:
There’s been one season without Justin…?
And honestly, he just wasn’t as big of a deal to the show as people think. He being the voices netted him a creator credit, and I’m sure he gave Harmon ideas, but I’m gonna 100% stand behind Harmon being the creative force which made the show so popular, not the silly voices or absurdist ball gags (some of which would’ve been Harmon’s obviously).
The show was plenty weird well before Justin left, but yeah, Harmon probably is responsible for the majority of the incest jokes.
How do I know this?
- Comment on Anon gets dommed by his barber 1 week ago:
You’re not at all wrong with the first part.
But I can tell you with hair like that, you can actually just roll out of bed and have it look good. But that presupposes you’ve actually taken care of the hair and that it’s cut well.
Definitely wasn’t a great stylist if that’s how unevenly they cut the front, but also that dudes hair is kinda dry, so perhaps with product he could make it look better.
I had horrible problems with a frizzy mess of hair until started using a leave in conditioner spray and a bit of hair oil. I also sleep with a silk bonnet. But yeah, when there’s a suitable amount of both, the next day I’ll just wake up and slightly brush it and it looks great. Whereas last year I couldn’t even get a brush through it. And if I don’t wear the bonnet I don’t need to brush even, as it squishes the hair a bit.
If I style it I use a tiny bit pomade, but like a really soft one. Almost like a cream.
But yeah you’re definitely right that someone should teach men about hair care. I’m still just learning but my hair is already much better. Just would’ve enjoyed knowing these things in my 20’s for a gorgeous mane. I don’t have male pattern baldness in my family really but it does thin a bit.
- Comment on Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not. 1 week ago:
But why is NYTimes reporting on it. It’s been a rag lately in line with basically Russia.
So…
Well, I guess further infighting in the US wouldn’t be against Russian goals…
- Comment on Moar garlic 1 week ago:
Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
Can’t you read, it said three.
I’ve started making extra when cooking then storing it in the fridge for the coming week to slap on everything.
Peel a few heads of garlic and put them in a food blender with a little bit of rapeseed etc oil (not olive, cause then it’ll harden in the fridge), then you get a nice white paste you can just smack into things and it’ll store pretty damn well. So well I don’t think I’ve ever even considered it might be off because a box like that won’t last a week.
But white isn’t the most appetising colour, pale white at least, so toss in a habanero or two and it’ll have a beautiful orange colour.
- Comment on Moar garlic 1 week ago:
You could just use rapeseed etc oil to avoid it going solid in the fridge, unless there’s a specific reason why you use olive oil?
- Comment on Moar garlic 1 week ago:
Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
Can’t you read, it said three.
I’ve started making extra when cooking then storing it in the fridge for the coming week to slap on everything.
Peel a few heads of garlic and put them in a food blender with a little bit of rapeseed etc oil (not olive, cause then it’ll harden in the fridge), then you get a nice white paste you can just smack into things and it’ll store pretty damn well. So well I don’t think I’ve ever even considered it might be off because a box like that won’t last a week.
But white isn’t the most appetising colour, pale white at least, so toss in a habanero or two and it’ll have a beautiful orange colour.
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
Hugh Grant’s middle name is Mungo.
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 1 week ago:
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 1 week ago:
White is also an option.
See this positive article from 2023.
- Comment on "confiscated" 2 weeks ago:
Sagan took acid and shrooms, Nietzsche used coke.
Cocaine is purely dopaminergic, which makes you energetic, but emotionally “cold” compared to serotonin.
Just switch Nietzsche to Terence McKenna and then the meme is correct.
- Comment on Super accurate 2 weeks ago:
Oh cmon guys, @ThePantser@sh.itjust.works , a tracksuit is a type of suit, isn’t it?
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 weeks ago:
The intelligence doesn’t matter. The point is what is physically possible.
Even if we were hyperintelligent in the same scale as making current ants intelligent enough to build ships to ride the world around in, we’d still have to face the issue of the speed of light being a limiting factor.
Unless we actually manage to find some of those theorised strange particles which would fit with the math of the warp engine theory.
- Comment on God is a dick. 2 weeks ago:
I think it wouldn’t be too unreasonable to suggest hyperintelligent ants could build a vessel the size of a human or larger and travel the Earth with enough speed.
Some of those ant colonies are larger than people so, seems reasonable enough.
That’s closer to us exploring our solar system I think, in scale, than it would be for us to explore even the galaxy let alone the whole observable universe let alone the whole universe.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 weeks ago:
Only us fish have “true” lungs
- Comment on Getting a bit crowded in there. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even know what you mean.
- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 2 weeks ago:
Bronn wasn’t featured in the books and only continued because of the show but…
Or Jamie, surviving his hand getting cut off i. The worst conditions ever…
This happened in the books a decade before the show even came out. Also, amputations really aren’t that rare in history, and Jamie had a Maester to tend him, a Maester who by all accounts pretty much knows some necromancy basically. It isa fantasy series, I might remind you, and this medical procedure — which one might survive in real life as well — is tended to by essentially a member of the closest thing to wizards there is (as in wise men who hold all the books relating to magic, even if the magic has “gone out of the world” .)
The show got shit at s6 because they ran out of books. Even before that there was a bit of divergence, but it was very clear that it went to shit after they ran out of material, despite working with GRRM and knowing “the large strokes”. Hell I know the “large strokes” of lots of stories well that doesn’t mean I think I could write a show about them.
I still can’t believe they were noth of the wall stuck on that lake and were like: you are a fast runner, right? You go and get help, we chill here.
Shit I didn’t even remember that. I mean I guess George would be able to write in a battle that lasts a few days while a runner goes for help, much like the original Marathon, but in the show that seemed just really silly the way it was portrayed.
Ironically the whole saga began because George was tired of producers always fucking up this shows by making grand battles duels and whatnot, so he decided to write a show that could “never be adapted for TV.”
Well gz, George, you did it. Unfortunately the poor reception of the mangled show meant that George has been avoiding finishing the series, because he’s afraid the books will have poor reception as well, not realising that the people who actually have bothered to read the books aren’t the usually the most vocal about how garbage the story is. Perhaps vocal about how shit the show was yes, but not of the quality of the story.
Preston Jacobs is essentially writing a fanfic version of how he’d continue it. A very popular GoT youtuber.
I hope George finishes the story. In the books the last time we saw Jon Snow was when he was getting stabbed over and over and over. It was like 2012-2013 I think, I was reading the books in our smoking room at work on the night shift. “Sure George had been killing main characters but surely Jon Snow is the main character and George wouldn’t… oh no… what are you… noooooooooo!”
And I’m still waiting for that feeling to be resolved. What happens next?
- Comment on Anon's gf has unfinished business 3 weeks ago:
You can visit or at least check up on sectioned ppl.
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