hookem2010
Certifiably Surly
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
I just started the show. Thought I'd get a little high and enjoy some fun zombie shit. Didn't foresee getting emotionally gutted for an hour and a half.
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The Portugal Thread
I am planning a trip with the wife and kids for next January (only time that works for us right now). Kids would be 15 months and nearly 4. If I tailored a trip for myself it would be nature-driven. For my wife, it would be food-centric. The baby is chill (for now). The 3 year-old is into animals and trains. My rough itinerary at the moment is to fly into Lisbon early Saturday and stay in the city for 4 nights. I'd use one of those days for a trip to Sintra. Then, we'd rent a car and head to the Algarve. I've been looking at some of the towns in the hills rather than staying right on the coast. Perhaps Monchique? Spend two nights there with a trip down to the coast for a little while one day. On Friday, head back to Lisbon taking a detour through the Castro Verde Biosphere (steppes of the Alentejo region), and fly back on Saturday. Any thoughts on kid-specific restaurants/activities or other Algarve towns would be appreciated.
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Costa Rica
Seconded. I think I went in May. It rained most every night, but was sunny all day. By then, we had either scuba'd, hiked, ziplined, kayaked, whatever we wanted to do. Then we just chilled with a few Imperial and hung out with the other people at our camping/glamping site on Osa. I loved that trip. Why I want to return so badly with my family.
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Surly official camping and backpacking thread
If I was in a different life stage, I'd definitely take you up on this. Good luck, I'm jealous.
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Costa Rica
Due to the activities being geared toward non-toddlers? I certainly don't want to burn that bridge and struggle to convince the wife to go back for a more fulfilling experience.
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Costa Rica
Since I'm here, any thoughts or recommendations on a family trip to CR with young kids? Im looking at a week in late January. Oldest kid is about to turn 3, the other is currently 8 months. I'd happily leave them with the grandparents for a week, but my wife isn't there yet. The youngest is very chill (for now), and the 3 year-old loves to be outdoors generally. I really want to go to Arenal area one day, but it seems like a place to save for when they are a little older and can do more of the active stuff. My wife's #1 priority for travel is probably food, mine is nature. Would Quepos/Manuel Antonio be the ideal location in our situation, or are there other places you would suggest? I figured we could find a hotel or rental with a pool and be on the edge of the jungle, while also having easy access to the beach and dining options.
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Costa Rica
I went with a friend in 2014. We did I think a half-day trip into the park. We had caiman, crocodile, tamandua, 3-toed sloth, family groups of spider and squirrel monkey and most remarkably tapir. I wasn't a yet a birder when we went, but pretty sure we also had scarlet macaw and some trogon species without any effort. It's a very cool place.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
It just made it to Round Rock.
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Trump’s America
Moron, idiot and imbecile. But I don't remember which one is the dumbest. Just looked up to confirm. Moron>imbecile>idiot. So our own Rex Tillerson was incorrect. Trump isn't a moron. He's a fucking idiot.
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Texas -- a failed state
Imagine being such a fucking dork that not only did your high school and college peers refuse to invite you to parties, share their joints, or sleep with you, but half a century later you are still so obsessed with this rejection that you work tirelessly to ban porn and weed. I can only imagine sex not for the purposes of procreation is next.
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Trump’s America
I mean, the USAID cuts alone have caused thousands of deaths already, and will likely lead to millions more. I guess it's not killing if we're just removing aid that these people in no way earned, right? And they aren't Americans anyway. We're saving those deaths for when we get these Medicaid cuts solidified. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2025/mathematician-tracks-deaths-from-usaid-medicaid-cuts/
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Trump’s America
This forum consists largely of aging white men of some financial means. That demo will be among the last to suffer. I guess it's silly and hyperbolic to care about literally anyone else.
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The Climate thread
I guess I'm just being histrionic. Doug Burgum says there is "plenty of time" to solve a "potential temperature crisis" after we beat China in the AI arms race and prevent Iran from getting a nuke. These rich guys are so nice to be looking out for us all the time and telling us what really matters.
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The Climate thread
We are so fucked. Record deforestation last year. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lnngl6713o
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Trump’s America
I believe it is the hospital, apparently attempting to follow state law. It had already been 3 months, so if it was just a lawyer thing, I'd hope they'd have figured it out by now.
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Vasectomy
I spent my operative day watching silo in energy-saving mode, so I couldn't see shit but was too tired and lazy to fuck with the settings. It took a little longer than I expected for everything to feel normal, and im pretty sure I'm in the 40% of men who develop a granuloma, which is occasionally painful. But 5 months later and no more pregnancies! Now is this because of the vasectomy or other factors...?
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Trump’s America
Keeping a dead woman "alive" for 6 months to give birth, just as Jesus instructed in the Bible. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-s1-5400266/georgia-brain-dead-fetus-abortion-ban-hospital
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Dog Killer, Kristi Noem
I know it has been said a million times, but the creators of this Matrix are clearly testing how absurd a reality our minds can be made to believe.
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Trump’s America
Oklahoma to require high schoolers to learn about "discrepancies" in the 2020 election. Texas should follow suit here shortly, I'm sure. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5384282/oklahoma-education-standards-2020-election
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Birding
Someone turned up a flock of Bobolinks in the agriculture fields near Granger this weekend. They rarely turn up this far west, but were still hanging out today. Also got on some yellow-headed blackbirds and a blue grosbeak.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Democrats need to use this. I mean Baraka specifically, but all the rest as well. Go put yourself in position to get arrested for some bullshit, then when they are forced to release you, hammer them. If they arrested one of the best modern mouthpieces for the Dems, like Crockett or AOC, or Bernie's ancient ass, I've got to think that would really rile a lot of people up.
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Trump’s America
Wouldn't expect anything else from SEC football fans. They're worse than NFL fans. Wait....
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Birding
Migration has been weird this year, in the Austin area anyway. Black-throated blue warbler is a fantastic bird.
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Birding
That's awesome! I saw that a small flock reported recently down there and a lone bird has been hanging out in Port A for a while now. A ton showed up all over the place after one of the recent hurricanes and some seem to have hung out, or at least returned regularly. I need t8 make an excuse to go see them. Nice ID on the scoter. Even on the coast they're not all that common.
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