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#31

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 01:37:58 PM

What grows in North East Oklahoma where the land is swept by the wind & no trees grow?

#32

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Valmy - Today at 01:31:08 PM

Well anyway for the time being I am just making sure the land is used.

Other options will be considered if a time comes where nobody wants to use it for agricultural purposes.

#33

Off the Record / Re: Director Rob Reiner and wi...

Last post by Valmy - Today at 01:29:03 PM

Apparently lots of rumours being spread by maga crazies the son was trans (he isn't)

Yeah the narrative was that guns weren't the probem it was mental illness. Which made some of us hopeful mental wellness was going to be a topic of concern and action.

So at some point it was decided that the mental illness responsible for mass shootings was being trans. So...it just shows that whatever the options are the right will usually take the most evil one.

#34

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Syt - Today at 01:27:23 PM

I like Pluribus

I'm a bit surprised; I would have thought you might find it a bit slow (after our brief discussion on some episodes of The Bear).

The last episode was the lowest rated on IMDB (7.5), while I thought it was really strong. :shrug:

Yeah, I thought it was beautiful cinematography. I guess the audience don't like it when the focus isn't laser focused on the American

A commentator pointed out that Manouso's journey mirrors to some degree Jesus' 40 days in the desert - he receives the tape on day 8 (I think?), and we end on day 48, and he gets tempted repeatedly by "the devil" before meeting angels (helicopter?). Though I guess Jesus was nicer to his mom, and he burns Virgin Mary in his act of defiance.

There's a a lot of allegory, symbolism and topics touched on in the show.

#35

Off the Record / Re: Director Rob Reiner and wi...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 01:08:16 PM

Apparently lots of rumours being spread by maga crazies the son was trans (he isn't)

#36

Off the Record / Re: [Canada] Canadian Politics...

Last post by Grey Fox - Today at 01:00:02 PM

He hasn't put the tilde on any of his publication he sends us in the mail. He doesn't want to be a piglet.

#37

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 12:54:24 PM

I like Pluribus

I'm a bit surprised; I would have thought you might find it a bit slow (after our brief discussion on some episodes of The Bear).

The last episode was the lowest rated on IMDB (7.5), while I thought it was really strong. :shrug:

Yeah, I thought it was beautiful cinematography. I guess the audience don't like it when the focus isn't laser focused on the American

#38

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josquius - Today at 12:24:57 PM

A tree or two in your yard does not a forest make your words were rewilding. Haphazardly planting some trees in a field is not making a forest, nor is it rewilding. The diversification won't be there for good habitat. Sure the deer will be happy for a while when the trees are saplings for the free food, and maybe mice will be there, but not much more.


Also, this is bring back flashbacks to grade 9 when my school board started enforcing "volunteering" to be able the graduate. I volunteered for a tree planting program that came to visit my school. They bused us up north for 2 weeks in the summer to plant the first stage of the forest (the pines I mentioned). We learned about the whole process. The area has to be managed for decades. This began my dislike of forced volunteering (and my disdain for sheilbh's youth "volunteering" position ). Not the trip itself, that was fun, the fact we had to volunteer to graduate. Hadn't thought about it in forever. It's been over 25 years, and they're probably just starting to thin out some spots now for second planting.

I think what you have in mind is environmental remediation. And that is a lot of work indeed. Rewilding is a bit different.

Yes. This stuff isn't black and white.
That does indeed sound quite hard core and way above what even proper official projects I know of locally engage in.


For me-it's more than just a few trees in my garden. But less about trying to do it perfectly and more about just getting trees out there.

#39

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by viper37 - Today at 12:22:34 PM

I always find it funny that they set it during the 5 minutes in which finns and nazis were at odds in WWII 

Tbf, the Soviets invaded them and the allies didn't do shit about it.

When hostilities resumed in 1941, the USSR asked the US to intervene for territorial concession in exchange of peace, so Finland asked Nazi Germany for help. England then declared war on Finland.   Difficult times.

#40

Off the Record / Re: Climate Change/Mass Extinc...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:51:55 AM

The Lower Mainland of BC is going through its second 1 in 100 year flood event in 4 years.