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  1. 23 minutes ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    Question for the group: Have y'all had shrimp that developed a lighter stripe down their backs? I googled and some places say it's genetic but they didn't have it when I got them so I'm wondering if it's a reaction to the new tank. 

    Yeah, I've had some cherry shrimp that have done that.  I vaguely remember reading somewhere that it could be related to their mineral intake or maybe their molting cycle.  Can't really remember.  It was never widespread for me.

  2. I'm glad somebody got this thread going again.  A couple years ago I had posted about challenges I was having with our first planted tank here.  Thanks to some of the advice on this thread, I've really been able to get it dialed in.

    Here's what it looked like at first just throwing some plants in there without knowing what we were doing.  The house sitter didn't help leaving the light on all the time.

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    Six months later we'd done a lot of experimenting and things were looking much better:

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    After another 12-18 months, we had a lush little ecosystem going that I felt confident I could sustain.

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    It was a long journey, but we learned a lot from.  After that experience, I decided to take a shot at building out a new aquascaped tank now that I knew a little about what I was doing.  I'm about 9 months into that process now.  Once I have a little time, I'll share some photos of that tank.

    On 9/22/2023 at 8:43 PM, hookem2010 said:

    I might be getting back into the game after a 3 year hiatus. My 15 month-old loves looking at fish (for now), and I'd love an excuse to get another tank now that I will finally not be moving every year or two. I've already convinced my wife we need to do more than a beta bowl. Now I just need to see if I can bump up from a proposed 10 gallon to 20+.

    You gotta tell her that a 20 is going to be more stable and easier to maintain, plus it doesn't really take up much more room.

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  3. This past Saturday I was making breakfast for my 9 year old.

    Son: "Dad, what does superstitious mean?"

    Me: thinking..."Well, superstitious is when you believe in something even when there's no evidence for it."

    Son: "So, like God, right?"

    Me: "...don't talk to your Mom about this."

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  4. 4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    You don’t understand what I was saying?  Let me help.  Apparently, we have a bunch of people who can take out loads of debt, but not fulfill their end of the bargain. Stupid, lazy, hell, you pick the reason why.  Can’t get rights.  No matter what they do, they cannot get their shit in order.  Our president, in a pretty brilliant political move, has purchased the votes of these walking albatrosses of society for the foreseeable future.  While throwing a middle finger to those who were able to crack the incredibly difficult case of…paying our bills.  Politically, an outstanding move.  A class of college educated welfare queens straight ticket voting D for the foreseeable future. So, the D’s really don’t need the lovey dovey bullshit anymore, just write the free shit army another fucking check and be done with it. 

    I think you should take a closer look at the debt relief plan that has you so upset.  Here's the gist:

    • People enrolled 20+ years ago in repayment plans with the agreement that their loans would be forgiven once they pay for 20 years
    • These people paid for 20+ years
    • Because of administrative screw ups, those people didn't get credit for their payments and had to keep paying well beyond the 20 year mark with no clear target on when their loans would be forgiven
    • Biden's plan is forgiving the loans of those people if they've already paid for 20 years

    In other words, these people upheld their end of the bargain but the plan administrators screwed up.  Biden's plan is correcting that.  Why is this such an injustice in your mind?

     

    More info:  https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-begins-wiping-student-loan-debt-804000/story?id=102264052

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  5. 2 hours ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Instantly labeling anyone who celebrates Rapinoe's recent World Cup failure as a bigot seems just as ignorant as those who categorize her as some sort of "all-time" loser.

     

     

    Dude...just two posts above yours @Longboard Horn posted a meme featuring Rapinoe in comparison to the Swedish team.  The underlying message of that meme is, "women who don't look and behave the way I expect women to look and behave are deserving of hate and ridicule."  That's the joke.  It's a joke that only bigots will find funny.  Pointing this out is not ignorant.

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  6. Not sure if this has been mentioned, but the full page Google "vignette" ads in CR are causing navigation problems.  For example, let's say a thread is 4 pages deep and I've read 2 full pages so far.  If I click on the thread name, it should navigate me to the top of page 3 as the first unread post for me.  But sometimes a full page Google vignette pops up on the redirect.  After I close the ad, it sends me to the top of page 4 as if I already read page 3.  I hope that makes sense, but happy to clarify if not.

  7. 20 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    lol wut?  I'm guessing that's a newsmax or oan talking point.  

    It is their talking point, but it's also a little true.  At the White House Pride event, a trans woman with breast implants took off her top/bra and was dancing topless.  She was arrested, removed and banned.  Before this incident occurred she took a photo with Biden.

  8. @Helobious Two other Biden accomplishments that I didn't see mentioned but should register with you and everyday Americans are 1) the PACT act protecting veterans impacted by burn pits and 2) the part of the Inflation Reduction Act that capped insulin and out-of-pocket prescription codes for seniors on Medicare.  Both will help a lot of people and are easy to understand.

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  9. 46 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Really CHIPS was the only thing I had no idea about. Seems like a good thing but it’s a  niche accomplishment. I don’t know that most people are going to care about increased computer chip production 

    Really, it's not a niche accomplishment and you should be pumped to give Biden credit for it.  Everything in our lives revolves around semiconductors.  Remember how dealerships didn't have any cars to sell during the pandemic?  That's because they couldn't get chips.  75%+ of chip manufacturing is in Asia now.  That's a threat to our security as much as if we relied on Asia for 75% of our food or oil.  The CHIPS act brings manufacturing back to the US, protects our supply chain and makes us less dependent on foreign countries.  When you run into those people who don't care about, feel confident about educating them on what a big deal it is.

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  10. 19 hours ago, HamsterHookah said:

    Do you realize that you could pick out the problems from every year or decade? The premise was that today America is in better shape than it's ever been and I don't think that is accurate. From a sociological (we all hate each other, mostly), political (again, we all hate each other and our democracy is in bad shape), or psychological (we kill each other and have kids dying in schools literally every other day with mental health issues that are more out of control than typhoid or polio ever posed).

    But there is some privilege in my thinking the '20 and '50s were great-- if you are a BIPOC or LGBQ you probably don't want to be anywhere before 1988 (as Louis C.K. said).

    The 2010-2020 decade (pre-Covid) is better in almost every respect than today, for my money. Covid broke us.

     

    It really was a blessing that everyone was completely unified and nobody hated anyone else in the '50s:  McCarthyism says hi

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  11. 7 hours ago, Blotto said:

    are we gonna start a new thread for every tech firm culling their bloated workforce? The article you linked stated that the layoffs represent 6% of their workforce. Their last quarterly report shows they had 186K employees, which represented a 25% increase from a year ago. 

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    I had the same reaction.  It seems like companies have been hoarding tech talent for the past ~18 months and now things are rebalancing.  It's not just these tech giants, but large banks and automotive firms have been stocking up on people, probably other industries I'm not exposed to as well.  Hopefully things are calming down and the talent pool will stabilize.

  12. Does anyone have good solutions for monitoring kids' texts on an Android phone?

    My wife has not been happy with the Gabb phone my 12 year old daughter has.  She (wife) is pushing for a Pinwheel because it has text monitoring built in, but I don't really want to shell out for a kid-specific device that is locked into it's own OS and set of apps.  (Partly because we're only halfway through the 24 month contract on the Gabb phone that my wife didn't realize was a 24 month contract, but that's another story...)

    I'm trying to setup my old Pixel 5 for her and I like most of what you can do with Google Family Link.  Part of why I like it is we can still give access to any apps we want, like Netflix and such, without worrying about social media apps.  Having that flexibility is nice for traveling and things like that.  I've got it locked down where she can't install apps or even visit sites without permission.  The time limits and locking are great for what we need to do.  But there's no text monitoring and my wife is really set on this for some reason.

    I've been playing with Qustodio also, but it has limitations.  It captures SMS messages, but won't log MMS or any message when Google Chat Features are enabled.  I'm not sure if there's a good way around that without going to something like Pinwheel.  I'm leaning towards dumping the data plan, limiting her to SMS and sticking with Family Link and (maybe) Qustodio for now.  That would work for me, but the wife is really hung up on having a real-time feed of all texts (even if the kid deletes some).

    Any suggestions?

    PS - @Jerry Callo @Damor thanks for sharing the contracts above, those seem like a good idea.

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  13. I made up a batch the first week of November that's been aging in an old milk jug. Plan was to crack it open tomorrow when I'm smoking two briskets for the family. My wife had a cleaning crew come in today to deep clean the house before guests arrive.  The cleaners threw out the nog because it had a November expiration date on it. Words cannot express the depths of my sorrow.

    I need to make a visit to the wives thread...

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  14. On 12/4/2022 at 10:38 PM, GoPokes83 said:


    I was confused on the last episode. Who was the Indian kid? Feel free to spoiler the answer.

    Spoiler

    He was the son of the chief the soldiers killed at the very beginning of the first episode. After the chief was killed, Scout saved the kid and his mother from the soldiers.  The kid and his mom apparently got split up at some point and both ended up in bad situations.

     

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  15. 13 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

     

    Jesus didn't, but Paul did in Romans 1:18-32:

    18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,

    19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. 26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

     

    Most of the members of a congregation that leave probably leave over verse 32.  Having a gay wedding in their Church is seen as approval, even celebrated. It is, indeed, scriptural.

    CHIEF 

    Honest question...why do we care what Paul said?  Why does he get the final vote?  Paul was obviously very influential and changed a lot of hearts and minds, but who decided we have to accept his opinion on all things?  In my best estimation, Paul was a man moved by God to be better and to encourage others to be better.  He's doing the best he can to share this message, but at the end of the day he's a fallible person and he probably didn't get everything 100% correct.  

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  16. 2 hours ago, 4th and 5 said:

    We are staying at Basecamp Terlingua in a bubble in October for 4 days. This thread has a lot of info, almost too much to sort out. What are the main hikes to see the best of the area?

    We are not camping, we are not "hikers" really but we've done a few, like Zion. Not trying to get hurt or die of thirst or exposure before I play 18 at Lajitas. 

    What are 3 or 4 trails the average 50 year old can handle to see the best of the area?

    Thanks in advance.

     

    The other suggestions are good, but Lost Mine is partially closed right now and Santa Elena is also closed.  So backup plans are good.  We did Upper Burro Mesa Pour-off a couple years ago with my 6 year old and I thought it was a great hike.  You don't have the elevation gain like you do on the mountain trails.  After the first 1/4 mile or so, you drop down into a canyon for most of the hike which provides a lot of shelter from the sun/heat.

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  17. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    I like to go the other direction, coming down the laguna meadows side. The Pinnacles trail is steep. Personally, I'd rather go up the steep than down.

    I hear you, I'd prefer a gentler downhill route too. But for some reason, kids seem to be the opposite.  They don't like to climb, but they have those young knees that just bounce down the steep stuff.

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