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Celery Man

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  1. the whole dolly parton book thing (she sends free books to kids) is rad as hell. it's kinda weird actually the... I know this is a big program and it's very impersonal and etc but we get the dolly parton books and I explained to my daughter that Dolly Parton sends her these books, and that makes me love Dolly that she sends my kid books. She's the female Willie Nelson, or vice versa - goddamn treasure.
  2. Thanks Al. I'll give that some good thought while I'm applying wet urea to my yard tonight.
  3. how old is the swiftie fan base really? I mean, I'm sure whatever this is won't amount to shit but also, where typically mobilizing a young fanbase doesn't mean shit politically because they don't vote maybe...swifties could actually move the needle? You Belong With Me dropped 15 years ago. I think that teenage girls are still on the swift wagon but I know that 30 somethings are.
  4. is it weird that this is the fastest swiftest i've ever picked a side?
  5. I'm not even on the stupid part of the dunning-kruger curve when it comes to ag but I think nitrogen used in fertilizer is kind of a big problem? Or, it's a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, although even just from a quick google it looks like it may be pound for pound worse but accounts for far less than carbon dioxide. Either way, that's a thing too. I'd be interested if an @Al_4_ISU could comment generally (sorry to tag you buddy although actually I am interested) but I think generally there are a lot of farmers who are interested in adopting more "green" practices when it comes to stuff like cycling and fertilizing and what have you but the in general (and especially one with as... complicated of a landscape of regulation and incentivization/etc) there needs to be policy that helps support those kinds of choices economically. I know there's a lot of incentives around carbon intensity in ethanol production (which I think is state by state and California leading the charge) but I'm not sure how well that trickles back to the "planting crops" phase of decision making. Again, I know just enough to be incredibly stupid on this topic but am curious about it.
  6. My interpretation of this conversation is that troph was complaining about the same attitude that I'm talking about now - people laughing at the futility/hypocrisy/etc of folks who are trying to do better as a way to deal with their own cognitive dissonance around not trying to help at all. I'm not going back to analyze the exchange because I'm getting sucked into reply/reply/reply thing here that I'm not trying to do but I clocked that as frustration and not defensiveness.
  7. Literally everyone is hypocritical. A particularly stupid lie that many people tell themselves is that it is better to accept bad than to try and do good and often fall short.
  8. we left the state and i still kept my subscription to the Observer. That shit is important and meaningful, I need to find the NC version.
  9. cool buddy, hope you feel smart and good about yourself, which is your underlying goal every time you engage in this specifically stupid genre of slorching
  10. is the guy who points and laughs at the dude with the bb gun brave, smart, and improving the situation in any way at all?
  11. and that is why it is stupid to try and do better
  12. Inglewood is always up to no good.
  13. You could have stopped in Central America to grow up on your way to Texas.
  14. now I get your username We could do way better, I shouldn’t really judge, but I see the land cows loading up pallets of plastic water bottles up on their carts at Costco and I do judge. All the fucking gas to drive a bunch of water all over the place too, goddamn. tell you what isn’t saving the fucking planet - letting the yellow mellow. Flush the damn toilet.
  15. are there just tons of people walking around with successful versions of this kind of cosmetic surgery and we don't even know because of course if you notice it, it is bad?
  16. it's so bitchassed for hiring folks to do that. if they don't understand how much that sucks for people they are unqualified for their job and if they do understand and don't follow up anyways they are pieces of shit.
  17. i took a texas history class at UT and the prof had us read that book. not a single test question/essay or assignment that had us verify that we completed the book or provide any analysis of its content at all, and I was kinda pissed off at the time. But also, that is one of the most impactful books about Texas that I have read and Nate Blakeslee is a badass. As is that Blackburn guy - looks like he died this year. Rest in peace you badass. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/jeff-blackburn-innocence-project-texas-obituary/
  18. Always this big “WTF” when her outgoing mail gets ruined and yet there it is again
  19. Yeah I would unapologetically enjoy Jade Bird, as well as Gin Blossoms. I grew up in the 90s and lived near the Woodlands Pavilion. I had many an opportunity to see Dave Matthews Band, and I probably did see them 3 times in my teens. It’s not my thing, I’m on board with making fun of them, dookie in the river is funny, they were always great live and they had some good songs. I have one of those “dad is trying to be a good dad” memories of my dad winding up with some free tickets, surprising me after school, sweating his ass off bringing nachos up the hill, probably right around when he bought me my first guitar. Which I took out the other day and played for a bit, still a great guitar (Martin DM) that holds its own with my other more expensive Martins.
  20. i don't know how this story occupied a long unused fold in a dark corner of my brain, but it did and likely was from the shaggy days? I'm not sure if this originally came from aggy, but that is where i found it just now
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