Not getting into the ethics of poor/uneducated people eating endangered species. Everybody sucks. It’s unfortunate.

Turtle is fucking delicious. I’ve only had freshwater turtle from non-threatened species. Best way I ever had was as barbecue sandwiches using a crockpot recipe prepared by an old man. Seven kinds of meat in a turtle. Killed a snapping turtle in a stocked pond once and spent hours trying to recover it just so we could eat it.

“I have extended an offer to President Trump and incoming border czar Tom Homan to use this 1,400-acre property to construct a facility for the processing, detention, and coordination efforts of what will be the largest deportation of violent criminals in our nation’s history.”

Buckingham said a facility built on this farmland recently bought by Texas will be the final stop for processing migrants before deportation.

She also promised more Texas land for mass deportation: “The new project that the General Land Office is going to bargain that I have created is the Jocelyn Initiative, in which we will locate appropriate land under my jurisdiction to lease for the construction of violent criminal deportation facilities.”

Texas Public Radio article

I only have the heart to read so much of this. My little family is white and we have moved to a safer state from the deep south. We’re guessing we’ve got about a decade of safety before things get dangerous for us again.

Trying to strike a personal balance between being aware of safety concerns and not feeding myself large amounts of depressing info.

I think Texas has already volunteered land for camps.

That’s miserable.

You might try one of those motion activated air duster things. Or a catapult for the worst one.

I’m not familiar with Owl House.

Lilith, obviously the solid black one, is dumb as a box of rocks. She can be a real pest about wanting attention and will slobber on you and lick you.

Lulu is a deadly mouser and very smart. She is feral in her mannerisms. Does love to be petted but wants to have an escape route. Won’t get in your lap.

Fighting got a lot better when we moved to a bigger place. Now you actually see them side by side like this occasionally. Obviously, “get a bigger house” is not really an answer, but making sure they each have their own space might help.

Just like there is no hate like Christian love, there is no hate like cat hate. IDK, many cats seem to prefer a certain amount of hate and conflict.

Welp. This will be stupid.

Looks like Ruger is not a part of this other than them buying Marlin who did it back in the day.

So I get 10 years of wealth before you harvest my soul? Just sign on the dotted line? Is this ink made from blood?

Nah, don’t lump farmers and such into this, please. Cows and bulls, hens and roosters, nannys and billys, sows and boars. There are also words for modified gender/castration similar to agender: steer, stoat, gelding, bellwether.

Thank you for bringing this up. Anytime this fuckwit is allowed back in the public eye, this should be right at the top to help invalidate the shit he spews.

Shh. Only dreams now.

Ehh. IDK if that would be bad or good for Linux. More choices against the possibility of weaker teams/poorer code. Even if things did fragment for a while, one version likely comes out on top and everyone migrates slowly back together.

Interwebs and tech seems to route around this sort of thing.

No clue how all this shakes out. Not real invested in this ideological/bureaucratic slap fight.

It’s always entertaining when Linus flames off.

I concur with your gut.

Hunter and have a small farm. My wife actually has more handguns than me. My primary use case for firearms is as tooling, but I totally understand the enjoyment from shooting sports and collecting.

Ooo. Worms is on the Switch! My son doesn’t play with it and I mostly use it as the Tetris machine.

I’m going to have to get this and do some serious shit talking. One of the best multiplayer couch games ever.

I’m in my forties. Was raised with an apocalyptic mindset.

I really hope you’re right. Our family motto is pretty much hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

We keep a well stocked pantry, recently bought a little play farm and moved to a purple state instead of deep red. The move was a positive change for my family. COVID and political insanity gave us the push we needed to take the leap. Our friends and family mostly went deep down the rabbit hole and we didn’t have ties holding us anymore.

Anyhow, I don’t have warm fuzzies about the future, but about all I can do is build a new life in a new place for my people. Crazy is lower where we are now, schools are better, cost of living is cheaper, weather is cooler and less violent. Long term, possible grandkids are positioned better for climate change, we’ll have our little farm producing our own meat and some vegetables.

Honestly, I really hope things continue to improve. You’re right, many things have gotten better. However, I’ve seen friends and family spouting insane shit and a New York city slicker con man be worshipped. It feels different. The parallels between the Nazis and this terrify me.

Wow, you’re catching all the down votes for this. For a valid opinion. Way to go Lemmy. Points don’t matter here, so whatever.

Anyhow, I don’t have your optimism about this at all.

Would you describe yourself as a generally optimistic person?

Is it a feeling or do you have a chain of logic that causes you to conclude there will be a positive outcome?

I understand and do the same. It scares the shit out of me how ignorant the left is of the danger we’re in. Blows my fucking mind. People really don’t know even recent history.

My moral high horse?

I moved my family out of the deep South to a purple state. Every one in my house knows how to shoot, as well. That’s about as much as I know to do.