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hookem2010

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  1. Does our resident Alaskan hibernate during winter? I haven't been in this thread long enough to know if he returns with the arrival of spring.
  2. Elez is back! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/07/jd-vance-doge-marko-elez-resignation-racist/78333485007/
  3. I've read Blood and Thunder (years ago) and On Desperate Ground last year. Very easy to read, compared to some non-fiction.
  4. I picked this up on a recommendation from I believe @mdmost? It's a real page-turner, not just because it's captivating, but also because large print was the only option at the library. I feel like a speed reader.
  5. I was hopeful that might be the case. This should be a pretty good warning with anyone with half a brain, but the previous decade should have been as well.
  6. So when do we all flee to the west coast, northeast and Minnesota, pray Canada doesn't go too far right and beg for annexation?
  7. We just hit the fast forward button. Should be a pretty spectacular flameout. Hundreds of millions of years of spectacular life on this planet and we're the lucky ones who get to watch most of it get extinguished.
  8. I found this guy out near Granger today. I thought it might be a bald eagle in flight at first glance, given its large size, but as I got closer, the plumage was all wrong. I almost just kept driving, but decided to U-turn and scope it out. Ferruginous hawk. The SE edge of their normal range is Lubbock, so pretty scarce in these parts.
  9. Well in my case, my parents are in the valley for a while, although they normally live half an hour away. So this all took place over email so I could compose and organize my thoughts, with citations. My father responded that he gave money to a candidate for the first time in his life to Haley and voted for her in the primary. He also put on his Anastasis hat and said he hated the far right as much as the far left, and that we need to have faith that our checks and balances will prevails. I'm sure my mother is still crying.
  10. The fucking national championship was interrupted by Trump addressing the nation himself. My interest in the outcome was not remotely great enough to continue watching after having his bitchass shoved in my face without warning.
  11. On a personal level, my parents just fucked around and found out. The continued support of an obvious racist is just too much, even if they aren't openly espousing those views in front of me. I don't want my mixed-race kids around them until they do some serious soul-searching, and I told them as much. It fucking sucks, but pretending everything was ok and ignoring the state of the world when they were around was not going to be sustainable.
  12. I think plenty of people are blaming the Democratic party for fucking around and losing the election, but that doesn't absolve the idiots who voted for Trump. If my dumbass parents get screwed by cuts to Medicare or social security, or find their retirement account isn't enough to float them along thanks to Musk upending our financial institutions... Well, they made their bed. They can lie in it. I have no empathy.
  13. Another open white supremacist in the State Dept. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/politics/kfile-darren-beattie-state-department-controversial-tweets-white-nationalist-conference/index.html Three months ago he said “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
  14. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump "Beyond betrayal."
  15. We definitely do. Look at a satellite view of Oregon national forests. Very patchy. Do we overdo it? I imagine so, lots of things need primary forest, which is practically an endangered habitat. But I'm pretty positive national forests aren't exempt from logging. That would be national parks only, or declared wilderness areas, I imagine.
  16. It's like people want interstellar to be real life. There ain't no wormhole to save us, and Mars isn't going to cut it. Our technology is not remotely advanced enough. And if it ever does come to pass that we have to leave this planet, it would have to be pointlesslu far in the future to even contemplate if you think any but a couple hundred spots are going to be open. As I think has been posted elsewhere, Don't Look Up is a much more apt comparison.
  17. I personally think adding Trump to Mt Rushmore short-changes him. He shouldn't have to share a mountain. Give him all of Half Dome!
  18. 2 1/2 year-old booked it out of the store toward a busy strip center parking lot while I was pushing the baby and Mom was otherwise preoccupied. I ran to the exit, pushing the stroller to a stop right at the door and sprinted to grab the kid a few steps from the parking lot. Meltdown then ensued in the car as we left his stickers behind. Then, while trying desperately to kill time before the nap, as everyone was beginning to hate each other, we went for a bike ride, which became a bike walk, which became whatever this is. Is it Monday yet?
  19. I don't actually have one. Just a metaphor for getting very comfortable as I will be staying a while. I feel like I've said similar things about the ledge in the past, but always end up leaving, only to come back with even greater despair.
  20. Perfectly captured the voice of a BBC reporter.
  21. I remember when your whole ledge thing seemed like a schtick that had run its course and was beginning to get tiresome. But apparently that dead horse needed to be beat much harder for most people to grasp how shitty things were going to be/already are. I knew shit was bad. I thought it might get slightly better. Then, I thought it would at least get shitty at a more gradual rate once Trump was re-elected. How naive my already very pessimistic and cynical view turned out to be. Everything is shit and we're all fucked. I'm bringing my La-Z Boy and a full cooler to the ledge and getting real comfortable. I don't imagine we'll be leaving anytime soon.
  22. Hans Zimmer at Moody last night was fantastic.
  23. My parents are no longer vocal about their politics, but they definitely voted for Trump 3 times. It was great initially when they moved nearby to have help with our 2 kids. They just left for the Valley for 2 months, which will be a good trial run for how much we actually need their help. As much as I hate to say it, I just don't care to be around them at all right now.
  24. Just got this from my wife. Round Rock, TX. My wife is of Asian descent, born in the US and raised by a white family, with an advanced medical degree. But she's the one who doesn't belong.
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