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  1. 14 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Not an orca but time to tell the story of my phone wallpaper:

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    I took this (no zoom) from a paddleboard in the Laguna Madre in winter 2020. Small pod of three that swam under and around my board and let me have a good look.

    And dolphins are charismatic and nice and (unless they want sexy time) entirely uninterested in harming you.  But they are also a LOT bigger than you think they are, and they swim a LOT faster than you realize and it is much more unnerving to be on top of them on a wobbly board than you’d think.  Very much a “they belong here and I do not” moment.  I can’t imagine orcas. 

    I saw this guy while diving at an oil rig in the Gulf. Scared the shit out of me as I saw it swimming toward me, especially when I couldn't tell if it was a shark or not. It just stopped about 100 feet away and watched for a while.

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  2. Our oldest is June and youngest will be September/October, so they'll be 3 years apart. I'm kind of glad they have that hopeful separation in social life.

    And I would say we're definitely not overthinking it this go around like we may have the first time. If the wife wasn't dying of constant morning sickness, this pregnancy would be much lower stress than the last one.

  3. 12 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    on the diaper pale thing - i know people like the one linked above and I wish we had gotten that one instead of a... whatever it is we have, one of those fuckers with the proprietary bags. With kid #1, the changing table was in her bedroom, which is on the second floor. I emptied the diaper genie every day to make it not retchworthy. Kid 2, we have a little table attachment set up on the pack and play that we keep set up downstairs (in addition to the one on his dresser upstairs) and I change 95% of his diapers downstairs. Kitchen trash is right there and I chuck them in there - typing that, maybe I'd be grossed out if it was an under counter thing, but it's just on the periphery of the kitchen in an open 1st floor. I empty that trash every day and the diaper genie doesn't get used much this time around. Much prefer it. My convoluted advice summed up here really is - make a changing station near where the action in your house is. And buy wipes in bulk.

    For bottles, I feel like the kid kinda chose the bottle, although we settled on the same bottles for kid 2 so maybe we're influencing that more than we think. These are what we wound up with and they're a little bit of a pain (6 parts counting the lid - base, gasket, body, top, nipple, lid) but I'm like Forrest Gump cleaning his rifle with these - 

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    what I wish for you is that you find the bottle that works for you well without buying every goddamn bottle on the market

    Look at this 3 month old. He was holding his head up almost immediately and desperately wants to stand 

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    Very jealous of those kitchen cabinets as I work to salvage mine from the 1990's. Oh, and cute kid!

  4. Anyone else with 2 boys about 2 years apart? I've got to imagine that the time from the little one becoming mobile to the older one starting school is going to an absolute whirlwind. I wouldn't describe the big boy as a chill dude, so I think we'll be holding on for dear life for a while.

  5. On 3/19/2024 at 8:30 PM, CleverNickname said:

    I saw a black bear in Big Bend in '06. Looked like a scrawy black lab. The end.

    Same, 2017. The one I saw in Lassen Volcanic NP? More like a bear. It also got all up in our campsite, despite having our stuff in a bear container 100 yards away. We moved camp for the night...

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  6. 3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Please don’t post about Toria Nuland, you’ll summon Anastasis to this thread. 

    I was about to say, I don't really remember the name outside of Ana thinking she was the one person/thing he couldn't #bothsides about. There was no opposite and equally bad counter to her, apparently. 

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  7. This pregnancy has been an absolute ass-kicking for the wife (anybody else's 2nd seem so much harder than the 1st?), and we had a brief scare earlier this week, but the 12-week US looked great! Now that the baby looks like something and we will know the sex soon, shit is starting to feel real again.

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  8. Great bump, guys. I definitely needed to discover this thread and was helpless to avoid clicking on the videos of the "injured" brawlers. Someone should bump the Russian guy eaten by a shark thread so we can all get some restful sleep tonight. 

  9. This is my favorite new show since at least Severance probably. Watched all 4 episodes over the weekend. Episode 4 kicked ass. The subtitles don't really bother me, but I find that they do in some languages, or at least some shows. Maybe because I've watched a fare amount of Korean films, but I barely notice Korean, Japanese and Spanish subtitles.

    I'm kind of glad I caught up and will be forced to wait between episodes, or I'd finish the show in the next day or two.

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  10. In more positive news, my cabinet doors are coming along pretty nicely. The wood grain is mostly hidden. Just need to paint one more round of them, install handles/knobs and sand+paint the actual cabinets... oh and do all of the lower doors, drawers and cabinets as well. I'll probably take a hiatus before I begin the 2nd leg of the project.

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  11. On 3/8/2024 at 5:15 PM, UT_OB1 said:

    I’d get more info on the backstab / wire size thing. Bunch of electricians with their noses in the air saying that’s not how we used to do things. Wire size is legit concern, but unless I’ve worked with someone before, I don’t trust them to not try and sell me blinker fluid, and I’d want them to show me their math or do it myself. 
     

    You got a pic of the hole in the breaker panel?

     

    eta - also, what exactly is wrong with your water heater?

    It doesn't have a drip pan or any way for the water to not cause a huge problem in the event of a leak and I guess a bunch of other stuff is hooked up in a not ideal fashion. I generally distrust anybody trying to upsell me, but this previous owner obviously loved to take on projects that he didn't know how to properly complete.

  12. 20 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Their open ocean cleanup is interesting but their real work is with rivers carrying plastic and other trash out to sea. Here is one of the videos from this group that is working to fix a wall of plastic flowing down a Guatemala river. They fail in this attempt but failures are not always negative.

    It's easy to say that poor people need to learn to properly dispose of trash but I bet most of the problem is due to lack of nearby infrastructure . Still there could be an opportunity to educate them on the importance of attempting to properly dispose of trash. Once again, if the option is there for them.

    Putting these locals to work continuously cleaning out the rivers seems like the best return on the dollar but you also have to independently monitor it. It could create an perverse incentive for an enterprising person to purposefully dump trash into the river to be paid to clean it up. See the story about the Brits paying Indians to kill cobras, or the Hanoi rat massacre.

    I went on a guided nature walk last year south of Tulum, which started with a walk through the neighboring town of Chunyaxche. Trash piled up in ditches in front of every house, as well as a huge trash pile right outside the entrance to the preserve. They simply don't have trash collection, so people have to dump and/or burn everything.

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  13. 23 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Every time I go to Costco, I see the millions of plastic containers for EVERYTHING and extrapolate that out in my brain as to how much of that inventory is replaced every day and how many Costcos there are and all the other big box stores and how many plastic water bottles  are used everyday and it is all just overwhelming and we are fucked.

    Dude, same. Reassuring to see I'm not the only one who experiences existential dread any time I walk into any large store.

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