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hookem2010

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  1. I'm about to finish The Journeyer by Gary Jennings, historical fiction of Marco Polo's journey into Kubilai's khanate. Very explicit, very entertaining. It's a beast of a book though, nearly 800 pages. Interested to check out his book in a similar vein, Aztec.
  2. Perhaps we can trick the earth into not warming, just like we trick consumers. It's worth a shot!
  3. 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?
  4. Too on the nose, Google. https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1544025147694321667?t=1y72EHCzwkUT3P3Tua4r9Q&s=19
  5. 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?
  6. 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.
  7. Kyrgios has been pretty tame so far today, minus a betwen-the-legs shot for no reason. Guess the shoulder really is bothering him.
  8. 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.
  9. Livestock outweighs ALL wild mammals and birds by a factor of 10. Cool!
  10. Just turned it on. What got Tsitsipas all worked up and penalized?
  11. 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.
  12. 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?
  13. Who's excited to experience higher temperatures than any human has lived through in our 200,000 years on the planet!!!
  14. Climate Force needs to look into nuking Greenland and Antarctica. If we vaporize all the frozen fresh water, it will prevent sea level rise!
  15. As the other dude was celebrating what he thought was a winner. That was great.
  16. 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.
  17. Did anybody catch his opponent's failed between the legs shot on an early match point that nearly cost him the match?
  18. 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.
  19. Happy to humor you!
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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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