Friend came limping over one day. Our other friend watched him rolling around in agony for almost 20 minutes.

“Dude! You can stretch it and it goes away instantly!”

Played around with Chile on Google Maps. Fascinating geography! I’d love to get in there and camp for a month, but it’s damned lonely looking in most places. From the driest place on Earth to jungles, wild place.

That’s all because you’re bored. The world isn’t geared for genius level intelligence.

50s and 60s are OK ages for politicians. That age brings wisdom and experience. OTOH, they can’t hang in long. Maybe 40s is a solid age range to start? (In the power roles, not lower down.)

OP isn’t talking about himself. He’s talking about why so many libs sat it out.

Incarceration is expensive, be more financially workable to leave the system as is.

Oh! Would have thought that would require longer tines, but I’ve never golfed, guess the divots are smaller than I imagined.

My guess: The pre-election drop was probably the usual investor jitters before a major event. The rebound was from people betting that other people would throw in money after a Trump win. Does that make sense?

No voltage drop, but it’s an easy 80’, maybe 100, maybe even a little more. Hard to say as it cuts through the woods.

Picked up an old Fluke at the store, I’ll try an figure out how to read amps.

Well?! Gonna just leave us hanging?

Finally spotted some vipers in my area so I started researching what to do if bitten. Basically, clean it up and “Call me if it’s not getting better.” Still, I’m wearing my combat boots every time I’m in the wild from now on.

Dunno know about Cretan dragons, but I’ve never even heard of someone getting bit in the South (US). I’m around them all time.

Think one nipped me as a child, but I’m around them all the time and never heard of anyone getting bit. We get some absolute units down here!

Would you like to know more?

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13603951

You just scared me into weighing myself. Looking in the mirror yesterday worried me that I had suddenly lost a bunch of weight. Actually gained a couple of pounds!

Had an Akita in the day. Dude looked like a black bear cruising the house, and he was bigger than the actual bear I caught on my trail cam last week.

Ha! I’ve been bitten by rodents a time or three and never had a spurting wound! Little dude must have been infected with rage.

Thought I was allergic my whole damned life from a childhood incident in '76. Had a long talk with the CVS doc one day. We really hit it off and shot the shit for almost an hour.

He told me the same! When I related getting hives when I tried penicillin later in life he told me that mono is often mistaken for strep throat, and yes, treating it with penicillin often results in hives.

I’m going to quit telling doctors I’m allergic.

BTW, just imagine how we could all benefit from being able to chat with a doctor for an hour now and again! Also, he knew I had just lost my job and my insurance wasn’t working. He gave me two antibiotic prescriptions for future use, even though I didn’t need it at the time. Also fudged the insurance paperwork to make it look like a software issue so I could just pay later.

Got bit fishing a mouse out of the trash can at our wedding. When I sobered up the next morning I was seriously sweating about rabies.

Turns out mice don’t carry it, or at least have never infected a human. Plus, despite all the woods around here, rabies is very rare in this county.

Certainly flares. You couldn’t shoot a monster bullet/shell like that even if it was black powder.

Look here now, we can’t say there are any issues at the border! It’s all just GOP talking points, nothing to see here. And for god’s sake, don’t point out the humanitarian issues. Liberals (rightly) hate humanitarian issues, but they can’t talk about this one because they would have to admit there’s a problem to begin with.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

Yes, crossing are clearly down this year! But we’re looking at a major city worth of people, even for a “slow” year. The logistics of absorbing that many people are staggering. We would have to build my entire metro area 4 times over just to cover 2024.