Everything posted by hookem2010
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Active shooter thread
Hell, I don't think we're strict enough about prohibiting fireworks, much less firearms. Should any individual in the Western half of the country be setting off fireworks in the tinderbox they currently live in?
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Active shooter thread
Too on the nose, Google. https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1544025147694321667?t=1y72EHCzwkUT3P3Tua4r9Q&s=19
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Active shooter thread
No shit, a fireworks show with constant pops and bangs seems like the exact sort of place this would happen. Who is even celebrating the state of America at this point?
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
Nakashima seems like a guy who wouldn't get shaken by Kyrgios' antics much, so just had to beat him straight up. I didn't catch the last couple sets, but at least one American made the quarters.
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
Kyrgios has been pretty tame so far today, minus a betwen-the-legs shot for no reason. Guess the shoulder really is bothering him.
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Stranded dolphin dies after Texas beach goers try to ride it
Orcas do like to separate calves from momma whales and drown them, so I understand the resentment. Or kill an adult and eat only their tongue. Pretty cold-blooded bastards for mammals.
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The Climate thread
Livestock outweighs ALL wild mammals and birds by a factor of 10. Cool!
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
Just turned it on. What got Tsitsipas all worked up and penalized?
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The Climate thread
I'm not going to look at IV's bullshit, but if EU ranchers are anywhere near as entitled as American ranchers seem to largely be, they can go fuck themselves.
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The Supremes
How anyone thinks we (the US) do not owe places like Bangladesh for literally taking their land away is beyond me. I'm sure we will welcome the hundreds of millions of future climate refugees with open arms when the time comes, right?
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The Climate thread
Who's excited to experience higher temperatures than any human has lived through in our 200,000 years on the planet!!!
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The Supremes
Climate Force needs to look into nuking Greenland and Antarctica. If we vaporize all the frozen fresh water, it will prevent sea level rise!
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
As the other dude was celebrating what he thought was a winner. That was great.
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
I knew Nadal had a foot issue but I just looked up what he had. I used to work in foot & ankle surgery and I'm surprised he's been able to continue playing at this level. Mueller-Weiss syndrome basically causes the navicular bone in the foot to completely degenerate. If not manageable with conservative measures, it requires surgery to fuse it to the neighboring bone, and that requires probably 8-12 weeks 100% non-weightbearing, not to mention the recovery time to get back to running and get conditioning back up anywhere near his level. Suffice to say, if he did end up requiring surgery, I don't see him coming back at this point.
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2022 Wimbledon Championships
Did anybody catch his opponent's failed between the legs shot on an early match point that nearly cost him the match?
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How do you cope?
Clearly we're past the point of no return for serious consequences. It would be great if we could avoid global catastrophe though, but not looking great on that front.
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How do you cope?
Happy to humor you!
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Surly Dad Thread
The baby is 3 weeks old now. Fortunately, I'm not working right now because homeboy does not like to sleep from 1-6 AM. Otherwise, it's been pretty smooth sailing outside of the hospital mistakenly telling us that his newborn screen flagged a potentially serious genetic disease. Turns out they put in the wrong birthday and his labs were perfectly normal. That was a nice 18 hours of terror.
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How do you cope?
Haha, yea I received it as a gift right after I started birding and was inspired to do my own county-level "big year" after watching it. I got into it in the first place because Houston-area hiking can be rather monotonous and is entirely lacking in megafauna.
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How do you cope?
I could go on about the plight of birds for a long time. Populations have plummeted in North America by something like 30% in the last 40 years (habitat loss, outdoor cats, window strikes, dramatic decrease in flying insects, climate change, etc.). Hiking and camping are obviously still doable, but the season for it in Texas seems shorter every year and you pretty much have to travel to the Big Bend region or Easter piney woods to get more than a mile or so from a road. The west is on fire more often than not and the remaining protected areas are at risk of losing protection (see Grand-Staircase Escalante/Bears Ears NM, lots of places in Alaska under Trump), while the quality of land around NPs and national forests is constantly being degraded, concentrating outdoor enthusiasts and wildlife in smaller and smaller spaces. Globally, wildlife populations have decreased by 2/3's in the last half-century. The premier wildlife and natural landscapes on every continent are vanishing, whether I make it to those places one day or not. So basically I need to develop some indoor hobbies.
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
Mango confronting the reason she is no longer the center of the universe face-to-face, and protecting evidence of previous affection like Smaug slumbering on his piles of gold.
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How do you cope?
I am by no means glued to cable news, print, Twitter or any other source of "news". Some things are difficult to ignore though. That's where I go for my dopamine fix for sure.
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How do you cope?
Sadly, my hobbies are birding and hiking/camping. Those things are becoming more scarce and difficult to do by the day.
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How do you cope?
With the country and planet falling apart? I think I've been dysthymic for the last 5-6 years when I realized that despite occasional victories politically, environmentally and even personally, the world was in all likelihood going to become a worse place to live the longer I was around. With climate change already readily apparent and 40% of the country living in an alternate universe, these feelings have only intensified. Do you become more involved, despite the seeming futility? Live it up while you can? Watch the collapse with detached curiosity? Drink? Having just had my first kid, the desire to work to improve things has become greater, yet I also have profound sadness knowing he will grow up in a world more difficult than I did.
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The Climate thread
Yep, our kids and grandkids are going to hate us. I can't blame them.