Jump to content

hookem2010

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    1457
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by hookem2010

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.”
  7. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump "Beyond betrayal."
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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!
  11. 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?
  12. 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.
  13. Perfectly captured the voice of a BBC reporter.
  14. 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.
  15. Hans Zimmer at Moody last night was fantastic.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The next 4 years are going to be like weather events with climate change. We can never know exactly how much each specific event was due to climate change, but it is damn sure playing a starring role. I'm sure there will be numerous tragedies the next few years that may seem like freak accidents. But when you put morons/oligarchs/bootlickers in charge and chip away at any and all regulations, this shit is inevitably going to occur at a greater frequency.
  19. Comparing getting rid of guns to getting rid of humans, very cool. Do y'all have a simple equation over in DT for calculating how many brown lives equal one gun?
  20. I bet the world seemed like shit in the 20s depression, better post-war in the 40s and scary in the 60s with Vietnam followed by the Cold War. I'm sure the financial crisis is the 80s was worrisome, as was the recession in the 2000s. None of those eras contended with a world population of 8 billion, where despite improving technology, the general populace was conditioned to have random bullshit they didn't need delivered overnight or have watermelon available in January, or have at least one car for every member of the family over 16. In 1920, humans and their domesticates did not outweigh wild land mammals by 50x as they do today. There is a tipping point, and our technology is nowhere near where it needs to be to save us from ecological catastrophe. In fact, those at the controls of cutting edge technology appear most concerned with hoarding wealth or consolidating power rather than helping their fellow man or planet in any way. Watching Elon catch a rocket booster is cool, and I'm sure the iPhone 46 has tons of sweet features, but that doesn't make me feel great about 2050. And this doesn't even begin to address the growing threat of global authoritarianism that will slow any progress that would help the average person.
  21. "The world has always been fucked" seems like a cop out to me. I think quality of life was generally improving for most people across most of our lives, certainly in the US. Im not sure if that's going to be the case for my children. In fact, I doubt it will be. Outside of the obvious political stuff, the planet turning into an empty husk of what it once was is problematic. The fact that 90+% of people continue to treat this as some niche issue is mind-boggling to me.
  22. So the rich aren't coming to save us? I thought for sure this would be the time...
  23. I was mostly rageful the first go-round with Trump. This time, while still incredibly angry, particularly with people I care about (like my parents) for voting for Trump, I am just very depressed. I had a pretty good idea what was coming, but seeing it actually occur still fucking sucks. For my own sake, I'm happy I have kids so I don't just drink myself into an early grave. For my kids sake, this is the worst. Assuming the fat fuck lives long enough, he will be the first president my eldest remembers.
  24. Pardoning anti-abortion "activists" now. We should all have the freedom to indimidate and harrass doctors and their patients!
×
×
  • Create New...