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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. Pork rinds are best bought already spiced with cajun spices. But hot sauce should be used on chicharrones de harina. I'm partial Valentina, but Cholula works as well.
  2. It's pretty sick how the state is treating her. As a tax payer, I would much rather the state admit they were wrong and pay her, not that any sort of financial compensation can make her whole again. This could be an interesting case to keep an eye on, however. I'm not up to date on what the status of cases like this are nationwide, but we as a society clearly need to flesh out exactly how fetal rights work post Dobbs.
  3. Don't worry. Someone will be posting stories about her in the wives thread before too long. And not long after that someone will be posting about your grandkids right here. All will come in due time. Just keep doing what you're doing and being a good father. Most things tend to work themselves out with enough time and patience as long as you do your part.
  4. Yeah, I'm ready to draw some dicks on some ammo. We need an update.
  5. The Comanche were most likely a fairly insignificant mountain tribe before Europeans arrived and they acquired horses. It's pretty hard to pin down, and I'm sure someone contests that version of history, but we do know that they didn't occupy what later became to be known as Comancheria until after the Spanish began their conquest of middle America. Within a few generations they became some of the greatest mounted warriors in the history of the world and swept south taking over everything in their path. It took the invention of the Colt Patterson revolver to finally put them on the downhill slope. Without the Comanche, the Spanish, and later Mexico, probably would have never seeked to settle white Americans in Texas.
  6. Anybody ever had any problem with their spypoint only sending one photo?
  7. It's beginning to look like they may not have much choice.
  8. I wish I had thought of that when my girl was at that age.
  9. I didn't realize you meant clearcutting for development. We should definitely be doing more multifamily and other denser development to avoid cutting down out forests.
  10. Moving a tree that big and old is kind of like looking at a really old person hooked up to life support and on dialysis and chemo all at the same time and saying, "we should move them to a different hospital." Sure it might work, and that other hospital is probably better, but is it really a smart thing to do?
  11. Fires specifically don't occur at near the rate that they historically did. And if we didn't practice forestry like we do with southern pine (clearcutting), there is no way that we would be able to meet the need that we have for housing. That said, it is often done poorly, and often because landowners hire loggers to do it instead of hiring a forester. A properly done clear-cut will leave streamline management zones with a minimal amount of basal area uncut, and will also leave strips along roads and such uncut so that the general public doesn't have to see how ugly it is. Because it is ugly. But clear cuts provide habitat for all kinds of wildlife that wouldn't otherwise have it. Saying clear-cuts are bad is like saying agriculture is bad, because that is what it is. Unless you just hate people in general, I think agriculture is pretty necessary.
  12. For a more serious response, I majored in forestry and wildlife at about the worst time possible. I finished up school in the fall of 2009 when the economy was in the dumpster due to the housing crash. Of course, houses being primarily built out of wood, there was absolutely nothing out there in the field of forestry. Even folks who had made a good living with forestry for years were looking for a way to make ends meet. So there was no way I was going to find a job doing that. And wildlife, well that's one of those majors that lots of people do because it is a pretty cool thing to major in, but the job market doesn't support the number of folks who major in it. Especially when there is a major recession. So I worked a few odd jobs here and there and eventually went into operations at a chemical plant (way more money than I would have made with my degree). After a couple of years they decided to bring an R&D unit back up that did reactive extrusion. The original plan was to train an operator on each shift to run it, but it was a pretty complicated machine and you really had to know what you were doing to get it to run right. I was vacation relief at the time and there wasn't much vacation to cover, so I ended up training (which was more figuring out the best way to run it on your own) more than anybody else, and I had a pretty good knack for it. They ended up making me the sole operator on it once they realized that the other operators would have to spend so much time learning to run it while only training on their long weekends which only happens once every four weeks. When I first went down and started running it, it was in a pretty sorry state. They had rebuilt it all wrong and there was no way it was going to do anything useful because it was incapable of maintaining any sort of steady state conditions. I was able to use my education to demonstrate to management what exactly was going on and figure out exactly what they needed to do to fix it. See, one of the fundamental aspects of both forestry and wildlife is figuring out what you have so that you can then make management decisions about what to do with it. Trees don't grow uniformly, animals don't stay exclusively on whatever property you are looking at. They die, new ones are born. You have to figure out a way to take all of that into account when you survey them before you can make any management decisions. Well it turns out that that kind of thinking is perfectly suited for R&D. In my first year there, I was basically able to not only make the thing run properly, but also able to design experiments and design new ways of collecting data from those experiments so that what we learned from them would actually be useful. I'm not sure that I learned any more that year than I have any year since doing what I do, but it was by far the most transformative.
  13. Jedediah Luke. Or Jedi Luke for short. But who am I kidding, your child will be Harry or Potter.
  14. Dude, Walker comes flying out of the container boot first when he opens it up to inspect it. Then roundhouse him when he tries to get back up. Walker ain't gonna let this guy try to escape.
  15. Took the boys out to go feed the deer and stuff. It's not so hot that they don't still enjoy playing/exploring in the creek.
  16. I see them all the time at Walmart in East Texas. But, yeah, get a Winchester 94. Or if you want a .45 or .357 lever gun, get a Winchester 73. You won't find a smoother lever gun than a 73, but the action isn't really strong enough for much more than a .45 Colt.
  17. Clearcutting actually similulates natural environmental disturbances to an extent that would exist if not for the meddling of humans. It's also necessary if you want to have houses.
  18. Good thing he can act, because his art skills are severely lacking.
  19. Yeah, but you can take work calls on the shifter if you WFH. You can do it at the office too, it's just a bit awkward when the stall next to you flushes.
  20. Lol, was this from the drones they were bragging about sending towards Moscow?
  21. Yeah, the advertisement is definitely done in poor taste. Sounds like it's a pretty cheaply made gun compared to some of the classic contemporaries, so I guess they have to try to appeal to those of lesser intelligence.
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