[dailyflicks]

BACK TO THE FUTURE 1985 • dir. Robert Zemeckis

[edgar-allan-possum]

[guerrillatech]

[draconym]

I really hate a lot of the advice on the Internet about taming birds.

So much of it is literally "isolate your birds so they bond to you instead of each other" or "clip your bird's wings so it can't get away from you when it feels nervous." I'm no expert, but that's fucked up, man.

[draconym]

My advice for winning over untamed birds:

Include the bird in your daily routine. Eat, read, and do activities in their presence.

Figure out a treat the bird enjoys.

Spend time with the bird while offering them this treat, directly from your hand if possible.

Go up to but not over the limit of the bird's comfort with you. When the bird is nervous, back off.

Accept that you cannot force anyone or anything to love you.

Love the bird anyway.

[draconym]

I'm other news, my housemates and I are redoubling our efforts in Operation: Teach Cheese to Love.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I can verify that you are absolutely correct because that's pretty much exactly how two of my great-grandmothers tamed a shitload of wild-wild songbirds and a condor, respectively.

[draconym]

Gallus, hang on: a condor??? Please elaborate.

[gallusrostromegalus]

It was like 1910, the migratory bird act didn't exist and neither did much modern conventional wisdom re: not messing with the wildlife.

Great-grandma Agatha lived in Big Sur, where condors are endemic and weren't remotely endangered at the time

One of the local birds had decided her garden shed roof made a good sunning perch and then started following her around while she did the garden because they're curious birds.

California Condors are like three and a half feet tall standing up and Agatha was 4'10" so she didn't exactly intimidate the creature, and she liked "having a dog I don't have to bend over to pet".

Condors, being intelligent and curious animals, clocked immediately that this woman wasn't going to be a problem and would sometimes give him fun snacks or play games (she taught him tricks), so he hung about the place, roosting on the shed and getting very protective of her and the property in general.

He also brought his wife and children to hang around the place but was apparently kind of a jealous boy who would get nippy if she paid more attention to another bird than him.

Which was good, because there was an unfortunate amount of anti-irish sentiment in the area, and against her house, my other great-grandma Florence and their four children. So a flock of birds with wingbeats hard enough to knock a man out and the ability to projectile vommit acid was a handy thing to have about.

I think his name was Gregory, but I'm not sure.

"Tamed A Condor For Fun" is one of the less insane things Agatha did.

[heedra]

In these parts, they say, if you are lucky when wandering the wastes between city and town, you may encounter a truly exemplary creature. Its skin, like that of the rhinoceros, plates its body in geometric folds; its feet are like four enormous sand-dollars, pleasing to the eye and rapid in their movement. Its snout is broad with the same placid strength as a great ox and its breath is heavy and warm as the same, but its eyes flash so like those of a lion at night that no traveler could believe it truly tame for long. The name of this beast? Toyota Corolla.

[parasitoidism]

The celebrity Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors being some of the best ones is like the retail equivalent of having to go to a restaurant and order a rootin tootin yeehaw cowboy burger or something

[parasitoidism]

The Tonight Dough is a downright hedonistic ice cream flavor concept but in order to obtain it you have to purchase a pint of ice cream with Jimmy Fallon's face on it and then see him in your freezer every day for a week

[underestimated-heroine]

[wifegideonnav]

why are there so many tonight dough posts

[cannibalcaprine]

i feel like we don't appreciate these days how much the twin towers sucked, like, design-wise

they were contemporarily hated for just being these giant grey monoliths

like there probably could've been an easier way to get rid of them, but they probably needed to go either way

[tgirl-subway-the-dark-ages]

crying at this. the curb is brutalist. the sidewalk is brutalist. house made of concrete bricks is brutalist. lmao??

[cue-jay]

[nevereacheaven]

nothing could prepare you for the opening of the second paragraph (source)

[cheddar-baby]

you just know the ceo of some tech start-up called like flupee is having a full on cop fentanyl breakdown at his employees daily cause hes convinced himself hes the next assassination target

[memingursa-deactivated20250625]

This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

[avaricesstuff]

I personally said the same thing when AI art was first really taking off. Oh and you can thank PETA for this.

For those that don’t know, there’s a semi-famous story of a wildlife photographer who had her camera stolen by some monkeys she was taking pictures of. When she got her camera back, she discovered one of the monkeys had taken a selfie, and she published the image in a journal as a “look what happened” kind of story. PETA, being the insufferable waste they are, took it upon themselves to sue the photographer, claiming that because the Monkey took the picture, the monkey owns the copyright and thus the photographer was not allowed to publish it. The courts ruled this whole thing stupid and that now art can only be considered protected by copywrite if it was made by a human. So, this “only made by humans” ruling could easily apply to AI as well, meaning Hollywood is gonna screw themselves over if they try to replace their writers with bots.

[ekjohnston]

Me: I don't want to thank PETA for anything. Me: ...actually, that's funny, they can have this one.

[tomboy014]

I don't want to thank PETA. I'm going to thank the monkey instead

[ekjohnston]

Good point! Thank you, monkey.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I mean. This is of course not true.

The photographer in question is David Slater, a wildlife photographer who spent weeks befriending a troop of macaques and setting up his camera equipment in such a way that if a curious monkey pressed a button, it would take what appeared to be a selfie. The above image is one of a set. He was not a woman whose camera was stolen and just happened to result in a monkey selfie.

The lawsuit that reconfirmed that "non-human people" cannot hold copyright in American law was nothing to do with PETA - it was actually the Wikipedia Foundation. They were hosting the image on the Wikipedia Commons because they held that as the monkey took the photo, it therefore fell under public domain. And that's true, and the court re-affirmed that works created by non-humans can indeed not be copyrighted, but made no judgement on whether David Slater was the true owner or not. Legal experts reckon he does have enough of a role in the creation of the images to establish copyright.

The PETA thing was a completely separate challenge where they swung on from stage left and insisted that animals SHOULD be allowed to be copyright holders, and therefore the macaque should get the money from the picture, but as the macaque can't use money, the money should go to PETA on its behalf.

Which was totally dismissed as being motivated by furthering PETA's own interests, rather than the rights of the monkey

So, it's actually Wikipedia you can thank for this, and you can go back to laughing at PETA and stuffing them in a locker.

[penroseparticle]

This website is elite. This website is the blueprint, it's the pinnacle. There is no website like it. I lwill never leave this website

[lokaror]

They have something like 20 alive greys at area 51 and they have already gotten all they can from from them so they just make the the poor lil fellas fight. Im talking bare knuckle weak little noodle arms slamming into those huge noggins. Really sick and twisted stuff.

[orcboxer]

Haha fuck yeah mixed martian arts

[bippus]

Hy can I put my cigarette out on your dog

[galacticpasta]

accidentally hit something on the treadmill at my gym and it opened a web browser??

[galacticpasta]

[guidonian-hand]

Why was I today years old when I learned that lead compounds taste SWEET and THAT'S why kids eating paint chips back in the day was a concern?

[entomologistologist]

people these days, it's always "stop eating lead" and "lead is poisonous" and never "was the lead yummy?" or "you looked really cool eating those tasty lead chips" smh

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[girafeduvexin]

[girafeduvexin]

"so funny, op is french" do you think we don't know. i work in paris. I know. I know.

[tepli-mravenci]