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hookem2010

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  1. Weird how making no real changes is not preventing us from careening toward disaster the scientists have been warning us about for decades. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/us/catastrophic-climate-change-un-report/index.html
  2. I don't visit my parents because the people making those racist comments on a social media platform I don't use also make those comments in person and are a constant presence when I am there. And while they may contain themselves to some degree when my wife, who is not white, and I are around them, I know that my parents are not above those same thoughts. Did I spell it out well enough for you this time?
  3. Tell me you're listening to NPR without telling me you're listening to NPR
  4. Ha, Conroe is pretty bad but perhaps they were visiting the big city from the nearby town of Cut and Shoot, Texas. I try to avoid conversations with random strangers in Conroe, as the conversations with the people I know there are unpleasant enough.
  5. I don't visit my parents in Conroe, because the lake water seems to have rotted the brains of everyone in Montgomery County. I told them this would be the case a little over a year ago, when all their buddies were spouting off hateful shit on Facebook (which I don't have, but the especially heinous comments get relayed to me). They can drive to central Texas to see me, which they have done a couple of times. I certainly don't have the respect I once did for them, though.
  6. This shit is pretty fun to dig into, minus the whole state of the Republic being at stake thing.
  7. Lol, I know this is tongue in cheek, but I remember saying the same thing during the Strong Era. 5 years, 2 coaching staffs and 434 species later and birding is still proving to be a much better part of my weekends than watching Texas football. I still pay far too much attention, but 2009 me would never have predicted this turn of events.
  8. The O line was pretty consistently bad, but I felt like they got somewhat better in pass pro after the first 2 horrible series. After that, seemed like Card moved into trouble more often than not. Run blocking was consistently pathetic
  9. Think the line will give us time for that? Lol
  10. Here's an anecdote. FIL needs open heart surgery and it is delayed for a week-plus due to dipshit unvaxed taking up hospital beds. And if I found out one of the healthcare workers who will take care of him was unvaxed, I would lose my fucking mind.
  11. After growing up in a moderately conservative household (lol at the concept today, or even in retrospect), I immediately moved left socially upon going to college 15 years ago. I have migrated very much farther left economically over the last 5 years or so, despite being solidly in what I suppose you would call upper middle class. I just don't see how significant social progress is possible without redistribution of wealth at this point. The fact that the wealthy (including myself, on a global scale) are WAY overcontributing to climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, which will clearly effect the economically disadvantaged most, who are marginally contributing to it, is a large part of why I feel the way I do. Seeing what the democratic party, not to mention the republican fuckwads, are accomplishing these days, I do not have high hopes for what our country looks like when I am an old.
  12. I'm happy see that Bijan can be folded in half from multiple angles without any ill effects. Dude must stretch occasionally.
  13. People would walk into clinic with ruptured Achilles all the time. They usually aren't super painful after the moment the injury occurs. But that was without a doubt an Achilles injury.
  14. Yea, definitely ruptured his Achilles there. Done for the year
  15. Remember how we all joked about how shitty 2020 was, as if it were some sort of aberration? And now 2021 is trying to equal it. I'm pretty sure that after a couple centuries where there was a trajectory of general improvement in human life, we are now on the downturn. It really is something to witness, although I would rather have experienced it a few more decades into my life.
  16. I jumped ship from medicine and am working in parks now, with an ultimate goal of natural resources management. Do you think you will ever do the Pacific Crest Hike you were planning for 2020(?), or is that out of the cards now? Here's another fun link, since I'm such a ray of sunshine today. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1032822337/every-national-forest-in-california-is-closing-because-of-wildfire-risk?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social
  17. It's going to be great when the entire American west is desert and savanna.
  18. This is a fun thread.
  19. Haven't seen the film, but just went to the show at Universal Hollywood and it was really cool.
  20. Between hurricanes, the city sinking and climate change (all obviously linked), I seriously wonder if NOLA is going to be on the map a few decades from now.
  21. Did Swam kill MNLonghorn and assume his username or something? The time-line makes sense...
  22. I believe they're dropping a 900+ death total today. Not sure what's up with their reporting now.
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