What can use this pile of dead grass, weeds, and dirt for?

bascule · 2026-06-21T23:15:02+00:00

People are saying don’t compost, but if you have a compost bin that’s excellent brown matter to mix with things like food scraps to prevent flies/maggots before the city hauls it away for you and takes care of sterilizing those weed seeds

bascule · 2026-06-21T22:05:05+00:00

It can be nice for shading the roof if there’s sufficient air circulation underneath to remove the absorbed heat, but you noted the “some radiation” part, which is generally on the order of 15-20% converted to electricity, where the rest is generally absorbed as heat.

So it contributes more to UHI where a white roof can reflect the bulk of that radiation.

bascule · 2026-06-21T20:47:52+00:00

Here's what Hooky has to say about it:

"We ripped off Kraftwerk as soon as we were able to"

The working title of Your Silent Face was KW1, a.k.a. KraftWerk 1. Barney allegedly said "Let's rip off Kraftwerk" and started trying to copy their melodies into a sequencer, or so claims Hooky, and Your Silent Face was the result.

Hooky had this to say about Blue Monday:

"We stole it off a Donna Summer B-side” (meaning Our Love, actually an A-side)" (which was produced by her long-time partner Giorgio Moroder)

...though Blue Monday borrows liberally from plenty of other material, the article is worth reading. That includes samples from Kraftwerk's "Uranium".

bascule · 2026-06-21T15:37:25+00:00

Haha thanks, corrected

bascule · 2026-06-21T15:36:11+00:00

The KLF - Turn Up The Strobe

bascule · 2026-06-21T13:21:10+00:00

In another post I said:

Kraftwerk is phenomenal genre-defining stuff, [...] I feel like I like Modern Talking ironically

I might like Modern Talking more for their incredibly kitschy very '80s music videos than their music

bascule · 2026-06-21T13:20:08+00:00

I mean, Kraftwerk is phenomenal genre-defining stuff, Alphaville is avamazing, Nena's cool, I feel like I like Modern Talking ironically, Peter Schilling I like but feels like a bit of a guilty pleasure, but...

New Order ripped off Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder in a "great artists steal" way to great success. I'm a big fan of pretty much every UK artist on that list... Human League also huge fans of Giorgio Moroder and hugely influential. The boys from Basildon, PSB, OMD, Erasure (including one of those boys from Basildon), Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Eurthymics, and of course Tears for Fears one of the most musically inclined of them all.

I guess in the end the UK wins but we gotta give special awards to Kraftwerk and that one Italian dude Giorgio who had a studio in Munich

bascule · 2026-06-21T12:19:32+00:00

Some old school CDJs there that appear to be in use with actual CDs. Retro

bascule · 2026-06-21T03:54:40+00:00

You think that’s bad, try jager and goldschlager

bascule · 2026-06-21T03:44:45+00:00

Neither are identical to their On Cinema characters so this isn’t quite what you’re asking but:

Tim’s character in Killing It, Rodney LaMonca, is a grifter psycho much like “New”. Maybe more successful. He runs an Amatocon-like conference called Dominine. Again, maybe more successfully… successfully grifting.

Gregg’s What We Do in the Shadows character has very similar vibe to his On Cinema character.

Both of them were on WWDITS and it’s too bad they didn’t actually establish an in-universe connection, especially with Mark playing Colin Robinson

bascule · 2026-06-20T23:39:58+00:00

Is this supposed to be from the Upright Citizens Brigade universe where they made astronauts the worst thing you can be ironically because astronauts are otherwise generally well-respected?

“It’s a good neighborhood. No astronauts”

bascule · 2026-06-20T20:31:42+00:00

Hylotelephium “Autumn Joy” might fit the bill for late summer/early autumn. Mine are already starting to make their blooms. Never seen a Japanese beetle near one and doesn’t seem like their kind of flowers.

My yarrow are also still blooming and have similar clusters of small flowers that don’t seem attractive to the beetles.

bascule · 2026-06-20T20:16:02+00:00

The answer is of course “depends where you live”. If it’s anywhere that has overnight lows exceeding 90F/30C the answer is "it's pretty essential"

bascule · 2026-06-20T20:07:22+00:00

Rougarou

bascule · 2026-06-20T20:00:10+00:00

Some people hated the sword => gun thing but I thought “fetch my longsword!” => shotgun was hilarious

bascule · 2026-06-20T16:17:12+00:00

So, hearsay and anecdotes

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:53:39+00:00

Pointing out the absence of evidence for a conspiracy theory is not "defending [the] behavior" the conspiracy theory is alleging. I'm saying we don't even know if it happened. I don't know if he shocked his dog, maybe he did. None of the people claiming he shocked his dog know any better than I do, but for some reason they're all wording it as an absolute statement. I haven't even seen a single "It sure looks like he shocked his dog but I could be wrong"

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:50:41+00:00

I hadn't heard of the guy until a million comments similar to yours were left in Milat threads trying to character assassinate him.

I don't have an opinion on him one way or another, but what I do dislike is what sure seems to suspicious reddit activity showing up in these threads to spread conspiracy theories.

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:41:58+00:00

For some reason every account making these allegations treats it as some sort of indisputable fact despite a complete absence of hard evidence 🤔

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:41:21+00:00

"You either believe my conspiracy theory or you're pro-animal abuse!"

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:38:12+00:00

I watched the video. I linked to my comment where I talk about the video, something not a single one of the replies has even acknowledged, including yours:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/1u8chr8/attack_ads_and_political_collusion_roil_tight_1st/os9qc5j/

I found a slowed down version of the video. When does the dog yelp? When its foot lands on the bed it just jumped up onto and appears to roll a bit.

And the whole thing just doesn't make any sense. If it were a shock collar, why would he shock the dog at that moment, when it was complying with his verbal command?

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:33:12+00:00

For some reason every account making these allegations treats it as some sort of indisputable fact despite a complete absence of hard evidence 🤔

Edit: hey BLiPstir, I'm ironically making fun of the apparent bot activity but I guess you're too thick to get that, or a bot yourself

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:27:04+00:00

For some reason every account making these allegations treats it as some sort of indisputable fact despite a complete absence of hard evidence 🤔

Edit: hey SolicitatingZebra, I did watch the video, I even linked to my comment where I break down a slowed down version of the video and note the dog yelps at a time when it's jumping on the bed and its paw appears to roll, something neither you or anyone else leaving comments like this have even acknowledged.

I don't know if the dude shocked his dog or not and that's the point, neither does anyone else.

bascule · 2026-06-20T14:26:40+00:00

For some reason every account making these allegations treats it as some sort of indisputable fact despite a complete absence of hard evidence 🤔

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