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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by njaard to c/movies
 

I'm writing about the film The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) specifically in order to recommend it. I found the production of it to be an absolute mastercraft.

First of all, this movie is not a horror. Yes, it's terrifying. It has psychological horror. There are sequences of gore, violence, even body horror. But it's not "a horror". I would best describe it a psychological period drama.

There's this trope in cinema of "show, don't tell". The Devil's Bath does exactly that. It leaves nothing unexplained. Everything you see, from the protagonist's motivations, to the mindset of other characters, is explained without mystery. And it's done with a finesse I rarely see in film.

What's more is that the sound production and music are absolutely impeccable. The already high emotional impact in watching this movie is elevated so much due to the music.

This film is not action packed. It's slow and methodical. It's almost boring; but nevertheless, you cannot stop watching.

The Devil's Bath is expertly crafted. And I will absolutely not watch it again.

[–] njaard 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't blame it on media illiteracy. They are being knowingly malicious.

[–] njaard 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's something I call a "pill stick", into which you put it in the barrel, jam it into the cats mouth while holding their jaw and then push the trigger. Requires a little finesse but easier than other methods.

[–] njaard 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fractional scaling of your display?

[–] njaard 2 points 1 month ago

Progressives work against progressive agendas by naming pro-safety policies like "don't have police respond to mental health patients" as the Fox-news like "defund the police".

[–] njaard 4 points 1 month ago

Harris overtook Biden's polling numbers quite quickly. Also, I find that Biden's pardoning of the "kids4cash" judge demonstrates some extreme incompetence and tone deafness".

[–] njaard 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, that's incorrect.

It's "Thou are tall" or "Thou art tall"

Nominative   Oblique  Possessive 
Thou         Thee     Thy/Thine* 
I            Me       My/Mine*
He           Him      His
She          Her      Her/Hers**
You          You      Your/Yours**

* Used as an object (It is thine) or historically, when the following word started in the vowel (Thine eyes sparkle like diamonds, Mine ears ache)

** Used as an object (it is hers)

[–] njaard 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • Congress person addresses young people's concern 😁
  • Young people don't vote anyway 🥱
  • Congress person gets replaced by gerontological conservative 😔
  • Young people [surprised Pikachu face]
  • Boomers continue to bankrupt social security 🤑
[–] njaard 94 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's making reference to logistic curves and how rabbit populations, which can grow exponentially, will oscillate between a low and high population size.

In short, it explains why some years there are a shit ton of rabbits, and other years, very few.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by njaard to c/seattle
 

We may never recover from all the destruction

^/s^

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by njaard to c/washington
 

Dave Upthegrove won his primary by 51 votes. The manual recount was just completed.

One vote was incorrectly counted for Jaime Herrera Beutler. Therefor, Dave Upthegrove still won by 51 votes against the third place candidate, Sue Kuehl Pederson.

Update: The final vote count was a 49 vote difference.

[–] njaard 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Yes, they have to do something with the male chicks

[–] njaard 16 points 5 months ago

That's not how tax deductions work.

Gates is a dirtbag though.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by njaard to c/washington
 

All votes counted and Dave is in the top two position by 51 votes, out of 1.9M ballots.

Deficiencies of First Past the Post on full display.

Edit: pending certification

[–] njaard 1 points 5 months ago

There's this example:

// Instead of writing:
fn higher_ranked<F>(callback: F)
where
    F: Fn(&Arg) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + '_>>
{ todo!() }

// Write this:
fn higher_ranked<F: async Fn(&Arg)> { todo!() }
// Or this:
fn higher_ranked<F: AsyncFn(&Arg)> { todo!() }

But it seems that's in error and it should have the parameter:

fn higher_ranked<F: async Fn(&Arg)>(callback: F){ todo!() }
[–] njaard 131 points 5 months ago

It's North Carolina, according to YouGov.

Now you don't need to click on a Newsweek link and feel dirty.

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