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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

punkrorschach

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

bomberqueen17

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”

See he was misrepresenting the spider question imo

Like, I’m cool with spiders, I can be around them no problem and have no fear of them, but wolf spiders climbing my face requires that I be whole-ass Chill with spiders, and I don’t think I’m there yet

Outkast lyric levels of chill

Imagine being an urban fantasy werewolf but capitalism still forces you to go to work in your wolf form, which can't talk and experiences EXTREMELY heightened emotions

So as a "safety measure" (aka. legal discrimination) they make you wear something like this

It's so awful, but also so fucking funny, but goes back to being awful again because capitalism fucking would

justannoyingbear

I'm not a werewolf, but I need one of these. Bear sized.

Technically you could get it custom made

Only an act of god or the evils of capitalism could stop you

Live your dreams, get people to leave you alone

umarell

virtualgirladvance

i want to feel sorry for the poor thing but the absolute silence from the crowd is breaking me

virtualgirladvance

should have moonwalked its body off stage 2/10

couldn't have timed that music funnier if they tried

cerastes

I wasn't sure about letting this Hydromancer into the party at first, but it turns out her sword arm is unparalleled, and she only dabbled into Hydromancy so she could intentionally contain the enemy's blood after she rained countless slashes upon them like a meteor shower on the clear night sky for the express purpose of striking a pose, muttering "zan", and then releasing all of the blood on their wounds at once in a spectacle that the villager elder described "sick as fuck".

not-terezi-pyrope

Genuinely, I think the most publicly visible AI advance so far this year is how thoroughly and abruptly the "image generators can't do legible text" problem has beem fixed.

For those who haven't been paying attention, this is a recent ChatGPT output. It can do this sort of dense sensible text in images totally one shot, so don't rely on bad text to identify AI images any more.

crypticspyder

Was the text also generated? was it generated before, and given as an input, or was it generated with the image?

not-terezi-pyrope

The text was its own invention.

Here is the entire interaction that produced this image:

I've seen other people do much more sinister things with this! You can produce 100% realistic fake screenshots of news articles, tweets, that sort of thing, if you can convince the bot it's kosher to do so.

theothin

phaeton-flier

#I got soul #I'm super weird

oh god no.

If you're weird it means you have a soul

If you're not weird it means you haven't found yours

yet

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

hmmm...

t00thpasteface

imo the nature of tumblr is that everyone is constantly thinking to themselves "yeah maybe what i post is a little cringey but at least i'm not posting [blank]" and everyone is thinking this in a big web of "at least i'm not THAT guy" like that xkcd gag of everyone on the train thinking everyone else is a sheep or the "their barbaric invaders vs our righteous whatever" cartoon and there's no endpoint of who's truly uncringe. i can't even be like "stop putting the anime horse betting on my dash" bc someone would inevitably say "ok marvel fujoshi" and kill me instantly

Expect this post to be updated as Trump does more saber-rattling

undeadentropy

Oh this is gonna be a very long post

Real interview excerpt

I wish I was kidding

Again, I wish I was kidding

Trump acts like a "strongman" but he's the weakest president America ever had, and it's not even close. He's the Mussolini selling his country out to Putin's Hitler.

A direct quote

To explain further: Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, and declared that he's granting himself the right to detain every member of the Venezuelan cartel Tren De Aragua in the US without trial for being an "enemy alien".

That would a violation of due process and civil rights on its own. But what's even worse is that the proclamation doesn't specify any standard of proof for TdA membership, meaning Trump's administration can unilaterally declare every Venezuelan immigrant as a member and detain them without trial.

If that sounds familiar, that's because it's the exact same law invoked during WW2 to send Japanese people to internment camps on the mere possibility of them being enemy agents.

Don't think this is going to stop with Venezuelans. This is just the first step towards Trump declaring martial law and using it as a pretext to rule as a dictator.

The Trump regime said the judge "has no authority to stop them".

The Trump Regime detained without trial and is trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian protestor at Columbia University, based on a spurious accusation that he is aiding terrorists. Trump also issued an executive order to revoke student visas of prostestors.

Another executive order suspended all government contracts and revoked the security clearance of every lawyer working at the Perkins Cole lawfirm, for the sole reason that they worked with Democrats to defend voting rights during the 2016 and 2020 elections.

We really need to do a french revolution or this will just keep getting worse.

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh

khamingbird-blog

You’ve never heard of The Bog?

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the what

EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD

punkrorschach

This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.

Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.

thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,

bomberqueen17

oh here is a fun lil perspective on cranberry harvesting i never heard about anywhere else. the guy who owns the restaurant right down the road from the farm, who fries our chickens sometimes, is from Boston, with the strongest Boston accent ever, and in a former life before he started slinging reasonably priced barbeque and occasional organic chicken, he was a cranberry farmer.

His farm was on the leading edge of kinda using organic/sustainable pest control methods, and one of the things that they did to keep insect damage down was that they encouraged wolf spiders to live in the cranberry field, to eat the bugs.

This was all fine and good until they flooded the bog. Now, you don’t just like flood the bog and then go around it in a boat or whatever. No, you use hip waders to get in there and put the big floaty things where they go and get all the berries and such.

Well when you’re in the bog in hip waders, that makes you the tallest thing. Wolf spiders can swim a bit, but they don’t like it, so they’re, quite understandably, looking to climb out of the water onto a tall thing.

So yeah the first interview question he always asked potential cranberry bog harvester hires was “are you cool with spiders?”

“You’d be amazed,” he said to us, shaking his head a little, “how many guys would just straight lie. Like, you think I’m asking you that question to be cute? Nah man you’re gonna have like a hundred wolf spiders trying to climb your eyebrows, you gotta be chill, those wolf spiders are fellow employees. You really gotta be chill with spiders if you’re gonna work a cranberry harvest.”