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hookem2010

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  1. Yikes, that is a tough dude.
  2. In somewhat related news... https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/us/extinct-animals-2021-list-scn-trnd/index.html Most of these species have generally been assumed to have been extinct for a few decades now. CenTex makes the list with a fish. Hawaii's remaining native birds are pretty much fucked thanks to avian malaria, and warming temperatures allowing those mosquitoes to move to higher elevations. It's going to be really surreal watching creatures I've seen vanish entirely during my lifetime.
  3. The massive human suffering is going to be horrible. It also really sucks to lose the things that provide joy. As someone who likes to spend leisure time, hiking, camping and wildlife watching/birding, my favorite activities are going to become a shadow of what they currently are in the not-so-distant future. Fuck...
  4. I just read The Uninhabitable Earth mentioned in the article, as well as The Ice at the End of the World. The latter at least began with tales of Scandinavian and Native badasses making incredible journeys into the interior of the Greenland ice sheet before getting into how fucked we are. Even since I was a kid, I was concerned about the state of the natural world, but some time in the last couple of years, the bleak reality has hit me. The world is only going to become a more difficult, less beautiful place to live for likely all remaining generations of people. We can make it less bad (if climate denying fuckers would get out of the fucking way), but that's the best we can hope for now. Not a pleasant realization as someone with potentially several decades of life ahead of me. Happy Tuesday, everyone!
  5. I had a guest at the park yesterday strike up conversation with me. 50ish year-old white dude in an American muscle shirt with cutoff sleeves. He was being very friendly and asking a lot of questions. He found out that I used to work in medicine, then immediately hit me with "What do you think about HCQ and Ivermectin?" By this time, his wife was interested in the discussion as well. I was so taken aback that he would want to steer the conversation this direction that I instinctively answered immediately and honestly that I didn't think much of them for this illness and that everyone should just get the vaccine. He went on to say that he didn't feel like much was being done to help those who were very sick, to which I responded that hospitals are overwhelmed right now and it's difficult to treat people who are that sick. Shockingly, they were not as eager to talk to me after that and left for another area of the park. The Covid denial shit was bad enough when I was still seeing patients last December. I can't imagine dealing with this shit on a daily basis with the idiots of the north Texas extras, much less still living in sub-40% vaccinated Wise county.
  6. DeMangoion Dobershown thinks the wait for even an 11 AM kick is interminable.
  7. I remember being a 160-pound freshman. Didn't score that much though
  8. Weird how making no real changes is not preventing us from careening toward disaster the scientists have been warning us about for decades. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/us/catastrophic-climate-change-un-report/index.html
  9. I don't visit my parents because the people making those racist comments on a social media platform I don't use also make those comments in person and are a constant presence when I am there. And while they may contain themselves to some degree when my wife, who is not white, and I are around them, I know that my parents are not above those same thoughts. Did I spell it out well enough for you this time?
  10. Tell me you're listening to NPR without telling me you're listening to NPR
  11. Ha, Conroe is pretty bad but perhaps they were visiting the big city from the nearby town of Cut and Shoot, Texas. I try to avoid conversations with random strangers in Conroe, as the conversations with the people I know there are unpleasant enough.
  12. I don't visit my parents in Conroe, because the lake water seems to have rotted the brains of everyone in Montgomery County. I told them this would be the case a little over a year ago, when all their buddies were spouting off hateful shit on Facebook (which I don't have, but the especially heinous comments get relayed to me). They can drive to central Texas to see me, which they have done a couple of times. I certainly don't have the respect I once did for them, though.
  13. This shit is pretty fun to dig into, minus the whole state of the Republic being at stake thing.
  14. Lol, I know this is tongue in cheek, but I remember saying the same thing during the Strong Era. 5 years, 2 coaching staffs and 434 species later and birding is still proving to be a much better part of my weekends than watching Texas football. I still pay far too much attention, but 2009 me would never have predicted this turn of events.
  15. The O line was pretty consistently bad, but I felt like they got somewhat better in pass pro after the first 2 horrible series. After that, seemed like Card moved into trouble more often than not. Run blocking was consistently pathetic
  16. Think the line will give us time for that? Lol
  17. Here's an anecdote. FIL needs open heart surgery and it is delayed for a week-plus due to dipshit unvaxed taking up hospital beds. And if I found out one of the healthcare workers who will take care of him was unvaxed, I would lose my fucking mind.
  18. After growing up in a moderately conservative household (lol at the concept today, or even in retrospect), I immediately moved left socially upon going to college 15 years ago. I have migrated very much farther left economically over the last 5 years or so, despite being solidly in what I suppose you would call upper middle class. I just don't see how significant social progress is possible without redistribution of wealth at this point. The fact that the wealthy (including myself, on a global scale) are WAY overcontributing to climate change and other forms of environmental degradation, which will clearly effect the economically disadvantaged most, who are marginally contributing to it, is a large part of why I feel the way I do. Seeing what the democratic party, not to mention the republican fuckwads, are accomplishing these days, I do not have high hopes for what our country looks like when I am an old.
  19. I'm happy see that Bijan can be folded in half from multiple angles without any ill effects. Dude must stretch occasionally.
  20. People would walk into clinic with ruptured Achilles all the time. They usually aren't super painful after the moment the injury occurs. But that was without a doubt an Achilles injury.
  21. Yea, definitely ruptured his Achilles there. Done for the year
  22. Remember how we all joked about how shitty 2020 was, as if it were some sort of aberration? And now 2021 is trying to equal it. I'm pretty sure that after a couple centuries where there was a trajectory of general improvement in human life, we are now on the downturn. It really is something to witness, although I would rather have experienced it a few more decades into my life.
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