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6 hours ago, hookemATL said:

Goats are great.  Low maintenance.  Eat almost everything (except bull nettle and tin cans).  Our herd cleared 15 acres of raw land scrub/yaupon/etc., allowing for much easier work to get dry fuel cut and piled/mulched.

Occasionally, one would get their horns stuck in the fence overnight and coyotes would get a free buffet.  Wandering up to a find a head sticking through a fence attached to a spinal column covered in viscera was metal af.

I don’t believe you 

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1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Spent the last few hours driving around picking up supplies, dropping them off at local churches that are bringing up donations. We’ve got U-Haul’s full of stuff heading up to Pasadena area and all the evacuation shelters everything from board games to pillows, charging cables, clothing, things that these people are gonna be without for the next few months.

We’re staying at the hotel attached to the Pasadena Convention Center.  They are at full capacity.  They could use that stuff.  Thanks for your efforts.  

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4 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

   Anyway, we're walking along the stalls, the wife is feeding each horse a carrot, and I'm calling them by name and saying hello to them.   Usual horse-type names..."Hello Billy Bob"..."Hello Bandit"..."Hello Charlie Brown".   And then I come to a stall where the horse isn't hanging his head out.  The tape on the stall reads "Emu".  Hmmm.  That's a funny name for a horse.  So, in the fog of my exhaustion, I stick my head in the stall saying "where are you Emu" and of course, IT'S A FUCKING EMU ABOUT TO PECK MY FUCKING  EYEBALL OUT.   

You’d be pissed too if nobody even bothered to learn your name.  Especially when Billy Bob and Bandit and Charlie Brown had been laughing at you. 

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7 hours ago, Blotto said:

My sister has some goats on her property. They are somehow simultaneously some of the smartest and dumbest creatures on the planet, but they can eat some greenery. We give them the christmas tree every new year, and they fucking go ham on that thing. 

This place in dallas invites everyone to drop off their christmas tree for their goats to feast on

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They going to bring in that crazy mother fucker who flies the firefighting DC-10 like a Skyraider in 1965?
 

You ain’t livin’ until you’ve flown 50 miles more or less sideways in an Augusta 109, piloted by what I always assumed is a former IRA member, chewing on an unlit strawberry philly cigar and yammering on in unintelligible Irish jibberish about the snotty weather.

Military trained pilots > civilian trained every day and twice on Sunday
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19 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:


You ain’t livin’ until you’ve flown 50 miles more or less sideways in an Augusta 109, piloted by what I always assumed is a former IRA member, chewing on an unlit strawberry philly cigar and yammering on in unintelligible Irish jibberish about the snotty weather.

Military trained pilots > civilian trained every day and twice on Sunday

I second this. But my example is a C-130 from the Alabama national guard on a waterfall tour in Honduras. I got to stand by the navigator station for that one.

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dunno if posted, but there may be some financial incentives to commit arson.

As the Palisades fire tore through parts of the Los Angeles area on Wednesday, Polymarket — the prediction-market platform — allowed people to place wagers on certain elements of the disaster.

There were at least nine predictions you could place money on as of Wednesday afternoon that were related to the fire. The topic had its own trending module on the site.

One question asked: "Will the Palisades fire be contained by Friday?" Betters gave it only a 2% chance of happening. (Officials said on Wednesday morning that the fires raging through California were 0% contained. Two people have been reported dead in the wake of the disaster.)

more at:

https://www.businessinsider.com/polymarket-takes-bets-palisades-california-wildfire-2025-1

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46 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

I second this. But my example is a C-130 from the Alabama national guard on a waterfall tour in Honduras. I got to stand by the navigator station for that one.

Better than being in an Alabama Natl Guard B-26C Invader.

Or were you...

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/bay-of-pigs-invasion-and-the-alabama-air-national-guard/

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4 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I struggle with the magnitude of what has happened to our community.  A neighbor sent me this.  We will recover, but it may be a decade or more.

That's brutal.  In a strange way it's harder to watch some of the remaining houses burn than just to see the ones that are already gone.

Hang in there.  Let us know what we might do to help -- local charities with specific needs, etc.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

That's brutal.  In a strange way it's harder to watch some of the remaining houses burn than just to see the ones that are already gone.

Hang in there.  Let us know what we might do to help -- local charities with specific needs, etc.

He'll probably ask you to contribute to the UCLA football NIL fund.  Don't fall for it.

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1 hour ago, Goredho said:

dunno if posted, but there may be some financial incentives to commit arson.

As the Palisades fire tore through parts of the Los Angeles area on Wednesday, Polymarket — the prediction-market platform — allowed people to place wagers on certain elements of the disaster.

There were at least nine predictions you could place money on as of Wednesday afternoon that were related to the fire. The topic had its own trending module on the site.

One question asked: "Will the Palisades fire be contained by Friday?" Betters gave it only a 2% chance of happening. (Officials said on Wednesday morning that the fires raging through California were 0% contained. Two people have been reported dead in the wake of the disaster.)

more at:

https://www.businessinsider.com/polymarket-takes-bets-palisades-california-wildfire-2025-1

yeah, we're sick. 

 

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46 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I struggle with the magnitude of what has happened to our community.  A neighbor sent me this.  We will recover, but it may be a decade or more.

I'm curious how many people will just pack up and leave.  To hang around and see it through you have to eventually acquire temporary housing.  There's already a crunch for rentals.  Then there's the fight with insurance.  Those who win that fight or have the cash to rebuild, you have to find a builder and materials.  I agree: decade(s).

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

That's brutal.  In a strange way it's harder to watch some of the remaining houses burn than just to see the ones that are already gone.

Hang in there.  Let us know what we might do to help -- local charities with specific needs, etc.

I have more widespread options to donate, but these are dear friends of ours that lost their home.  They were struggling a bit financially before this happened.  Their daughter is my daughter’s longest childhood friend.  Just one option, I have others for more broad help.

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I have more widespread options to donate, but these are dear friends of ours that lost their home.  They were struggling a bit financially before this happened.  Their daughter is my daughter’s longest childhood friend.  Just one option, I have others for more broad help.

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I’ll figure this out when I get to a computer.

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7 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I have more widespread options to donate, but these are dear friends of ours that lost their home.  They were struggling a bit financially before this happened.  Their daughter is my daughter’s longest childhood friend.  Just one option, I have others for more broad help.

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I’ll figure this out when I get to a computer.

This it @Sbbruin?

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebuild-the-gokgoz-home?qid=f30989aaa97adcfd256b12ec326f7b57

hey man, if we can help with little admin shit like this let us know. You focus on the family with the rest of the Surly Surfer gang.

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I used to work for a Chicago-based company and spent a lot of time there.  I rarely saw a woman that turned my head.  Lots of "hearty" women there

Can vouch. GOLL and I got stuck in O’Hare for 5 hours back in 2020. So we did one of our favorite things: camped out at the bar and drank beer to watch the world go by, and check out the scenery.
There was no scenery. None. Just large midwestern women. A very depressing flight delay.
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I support life in prison for whomever was doing this, along with anyone looting evacuated homes.

https://www.twz.com/air/one-of-just-two-cl-415-super-scooper-planes-taken-out-of-palisades-fire-fight-by-drone

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A drone’s collision with a water-dropping aircraft fighting the Palisades fire in Los Angeles caused the temporary grounding of all aircraft working that fire and took out one of just the two amphibous planes capable of repeatedly scooping 1,600 gallons of water from the ocean and delivering it onto nearby flames, Cal Fire told The War Zone.

 

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