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LTbear

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  1. Texas schools + OSU + BYU would be a pretty fun division after UT and OU leave.
  2. Ya when I had to put down my old cat Jack last year it was truly the hardest day of my life. Harder than losing my grandparents or Dad or anything else. The overwhelming sense of responsibility just got to me. With Charlie, he occasionally had small "wheezing" spells, but only immediately after running around like a madman chasing laser pointers and whatnot. I always took it as just breathing hard from the exertion, but now I see perhaps it was something more. Just so unexpected for such a young and (outwardly) healthy kitten.
  3. I appreciate y'all. Wife is a doctor who's lost patients, done CPR to patients, etc.; she still said the 5 minutes of processing what was happening while trying to save Charlie was the most traumatic of her life. Just a rough day. Thank y'all for the words and encouragement.
  4. I'm not sure this is the best place but needed to let out some emotion today. Last night, our 7 month old kitten suddenly died. He was a stray we took in off the streets at less than two months old after he nearly got hit by a bus outside my work. He looked every bit to be a Maine ****. He was hyper and silly and so so affectionate. He loved people and followed you around everywhere you went.Yesterday he was completely himself. Last night, he suddenly let out a cry, collapsed, and was unresponsive. We tried everything we could, just in shock and my wife screaming. We did CPR and mouth to mouth. He was a limp body in our arms. After trying for several minutes it was obvious he was gone. His normal, healthy and hyper self one minute, then literally gone the next.It was so traumatic, so shocking, so crushing. Such a loveable little guy with so much life in him, suddenly just gone. Maine Coons are prone to heart disease, but even so, to collapse at so young an age isn't typical. It happens, but isn't typical. But to be so sudden, it is difficult to find any other explanation besides something blood or heart related (cardiomyopathy, aneurysm, thrombus, etc.). The entire time from him acting normal to unresponsive was less than 30 seconds. He had all his checkups, all his tests, all his vaccines. We did everything we could to make sure he was healthy and ready for a big long happy life. I took him off the streets to give him a good life, and boy did he deserve one, and then he just gets taken. My wife and I are crushed.Last year I lost a different cat, a dog in a cat's body, that I'd had for 13 years. That was like losing a best friend.I have no point in this post. If anyone has had something similar happen, please feel free to share/ I'd like to hear of it. I've never heard of anyone losing a healthy young kitten like this. When they're super young, sure; when they're old cats, sure. But not when they're past infancy and doing so well at several months old. The unexpected/ rare nature of this is so shocking to us. Or if people would like to make this a memoriam to lost pets in general, that's fine too.Again, apologies for the rambling post. Just need to get this out and vent somewhere. It's been an awful 24 hours. RIP Charlie
  5. Good god
  6. *of course I have prior experience with wild cougars Ba dum tisss
  7. Spending about a half hour with just my wife and a wild mountain lion who was intently watching our every move was quite the experience.
  8. It was amazing how absolutely still, silent, and camouflaged she was. You could easily see how you could walk by them all the time and never have a clue.
  9. After living and hiking in the mountains for so long, knowing they're out there but never seeing one, this really felt like seeing a ghost.
  10. That doesn't make sense. The only formats being considered include either guaranteed P5 champs plus one guaranteed G5 champ, or alternatively, simply guaranteed spot for top 6 conference champs (the plan Sankey endorses). Either option includes 6 at large berths. In reality, they're incredibly similar plans. But never put it past CFB to make something more difficult than it needs to be.
  11. As a Montana Grizzlies fan, I was torn on this game. On the one hand, good for the kids from Montana. But on the other hand, Fuck the Cats. I'm satisfied with how it worked out. U of Montana's stadium is even better - more seating/ bigger crowd, and built right into the mountains, rather than the mountains being on the horizon. Atmosphere for a big game is better than the majority of FBS games.
  12. Gaetz needs to get fucked by a humanoid cactus.
  13. Sorry to be a bummer, but this isn't actually an "image" of a cell, but rather the most detailed and "lifelike" model of a cell recently created by some Stanford scientists using a collection of various datasets. Still damn cool though.
  14. We have them in Montana
  15. That one Michigan fan in the crowd. If you saw her, you know.
  16. Shut the fuck up you dumb cunt. Tired of listening to dipshits like you every fucking day. Dumb as fuck limp-dicked failure, wouldn't understand basic fucking logic (much less the most bottom-level basic fucking biology) if it strapon-fucked your ass like your SO does every night.
  17. I grew up wanting to be either a paleontologist or a NatGeo wildlife photographer. I did my PhD in paleobiology, work as a biology professor, and do wildlife photography in Yellowstone and Glacier on my weekends and school breaks. Living the dream.
  18. If you have data showing this to be a risk at the population level, show it. Data matters, opinions don't. Further, quit skirting peoples' questions if you want to be taken seriously. Someone asked if there was data indicating getting the booster with a flu shot led to higher rates of problems. I'm a biology PhD, my wife is an MD, and neither of us is aware of such data, but both of us would both be highly interested in seeing it if it exists, as both of us are in a position to actually influence behavior among our local population.
  19. The dark spots on the map are the best places. Luckily I live near three of the biggest such spots south of Canada.
  20. You're reading it backwards. If you want to claim something about abortion is racist, it's that a lack of abortion options would be racist, because it is indeed women of color who need to seek them out more often, which is itself due largely to lack of access to healthcare during a pregnancy and lack of sufficient economic standing to care for a child. Thus a lack of access to abortion would disproportionately harm black women, which would be... racist.
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