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DeadlyMuffin posted:Post frog pics. Can't believe I just got stickbugged lol in 2022.
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Feb 9, 2022 09:43
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here's a cool spider i saw today spoilered for the spider sensitive
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Feb 9, 2022 13:40
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thatbastardken posted:here's a cool spider i saw today spoilered for the spider sensitive 
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Feb 9, 2022 14:13
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i regret every post i have ever made on these forums. but i am also tremendously thankful to this stupid place because otherwise i would have gone posting somewhere else when i was an idiot child, like reddit, or 4chan, and now i would be dead i only regret some of my posts. most of them. i've blanked out the rest.
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Feb 9, 2022 16:08
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Post frog pics. thatbastardken posted:here's a cool spider i saw today spoilered for the spider sensitive
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Feb 10, 2022 00:31
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thatbastardken posted:here's a cool spider i saw today spoilered for the spider sensitive
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Feb 10, 2022 00:48
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thatbastardken posted:here's a cool spider i saw today spoilered for the spider sensitive wow, that's cool as gently caress
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Feb 10, 2022 00:57
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spiders are just lovely creatures
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Feb 10, 2022 07:52
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Goons Are Great posted:spiders are just lovely creatures I don't think that, but I stopped using the bog because a spider made a web between the scrubbing brush and the wall and I might kick it. (I have another toilet seat in the bathroom; I didn't just stop making GBS threads.)
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Feb 10, 2022 08:49
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australian spiders are gorgeous, we are blessed with spiders. occasionally they're the size of my hand and that's a problem for me, but most of them are just these exquisite harmless little bejewelled creatures. where i'm living now has peacock spiders and they are so beautiful. i haven't seen one doing the mating display like a turkey yet, but i've seen them signalling to each other from neighbouring blades of grass by waving their pompoms in a complex and incomprehensible language of dance
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Feb 10, 2022 19:26
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BHB posted:special chicken photos!
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Feb 10, 2022 19:42
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Jumping Spiders best spoods.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:46
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1492108776350097409 this senile pervert is starving people to death!
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Feb 12, 2022 00:52
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you got lost on the way to usnews
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Feb 14, 2022 21:19
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Feb 15, 2022 05:34
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this is a place to talk about the sins of empire, whatever that empire may be
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Feb 16, 2022 01:16
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in fulfilment of the ancient text, i am now at war with king david
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Feb 16, 2022 01:17
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i accept my inevitable death, getting tangled in a tree by my luxurious hair and cut down by monarchists like a pińata
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Feb 16, 2022 01:20
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You have the inevitable part right, at least
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Feb 16, 2022 01:36
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:i accept my inevitable death, getting tangled in a tree by my luxurious hair and cut down by monarchists like a pińata maybe if you tie your hair in a bun?
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Feb 16, 2022 02:43
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:maybe if you tie your hair in a bun?
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Feb 16, 2022 07:34
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david may have been a decent general but his personal life was a catastrophe
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Feb 17, 2022 00:50
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i blame saul for setting a really bad example
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Feb 17, 2022 01:14
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it's strange to think some of the projects i'm working on now probably won't be completed till i'm nearing retirement
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Feb 17, 2022 06:27
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:it's strange to think some of the projects i'm working on now probably won't be completed till i'm nearing retirement this is what you call job security, isn't it
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Feb 17, 2022 08:42
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:it's strange to think some of the projects i'm working on now probably won't be completed till i'm nearing retirement have you tried not posting during office hours
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Feb 17, 2022 08:45
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V. Illych L. posted:this is what you call job security, isn't it well we could also have the republicans come into power at the state level and slash the budget of all ongoing projects in a series of vindictive culture war moves. a lot of the real long term projects are dam removals, which conservatives hate even though the dams are no longer functional as power generators or water reservoirs cinci zoo sniper posted:have you tried not posting during office hours as a government employee i think that day posting was part of the oath i swore? i don't remember
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Feb 17, 2022 20:01
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:it's strange to think some of the projects i'm working on now probably won't be completed till i'm nearing retirement GhostofJohnMuir posted:well we could also have the republicans come into power at the state level and slash the budget of all ongoing projects in a series of vindictive culture war moves. a lot of the real long term projects are dam removals, which conservatives hate even though the dams are no longer functional as power generators or water reservoirs  i would love to hear more details about what you do, although i know you can't share much at all for fear of identification
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Feb 18, 2022 01:26
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i blame saul for setting a really bad example
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Feb 18, 2022 01:36
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:the weirdest thing about environmental work is training yourself to think in geological time. especially when you're still constrained and beholden to idiots who think in financial time (i.e., everything is immediate, there is no long term). well in this specific instance is more thinking in terms of government time. i'm thinking about an end to construction, not even the when all the natural process start to stabilize. and the wild thing is, all these projects have like one or two decades of folks laying the groundwork to even get us to this point i'm involved in a lot of stuff, from dealing with members of the public who have questions or concerns, to helping coordinate day to day maintenance, to grant writing, to helping with the coordination of permitting and project management. it's a very small team covering a wide geographic area, so there's a lot of just ad hoc work that rises out of the day to day and week to week. luckily i'm not at a level where i have to think about very long-term planning or budgetary fights or things along those lines mahershalalhashbaz posted:saul was a hot mess but his kids seemed more well-adjusted than david's wikipedia posted:On two occasions, Saul threw a spear at David as he played the harp for Saul. David becomes increasingly successful and Saul becomes increasingly resentful. Now Saul actively plots against David. Saul offered his other daughter, Michal in marriage to David. David initially rejects this offer also, claiming he is too poor. Saul offers to accept a bride price of 100 Philistine foreskins, intending that David die in the attempt. Instead, David obtains 200 foreskins and is consequently married to Michal. Jonathan arranges a short-lived reconciliation between Saul and David and for a while David served Saul "as in times past"[46] until "the distressing spirit from the Lord" re-appeared. Saul sends assassins in the night, but Michal helps him escape, tricking them by placing a household idol in his bed. David flees to Jonathan, who arranges a meeting with his father. While dining with Saul, Jonathan explains David's absence, saying he has been called away to his brothers. But Saul sees through the ruse and reprimands Jonathan for protecting David, warning him that his love of David will cost him the kingdom, furiously throwing a spear at him. The next day, Jonathan meets with David and tells him Saul's intent. The two friends say their goodbyes, and David flees into the countryside. Saul later marries Michal to another man. amazing that saul's kids were so well adjusted when he was constantly throwing spears around the house
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Feb 18, 2022 02:12
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When you remove a dam do you ever get to just… dynamite that sucker? Or do you have to take it apart more slowly?
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Feb 18, 2022 03:04
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dams are built to be incredibly solid and stable, so you can't implode them like a building. and exploding them with enough force to level the entire thing would take a massive amount of explosives. the dam buster bombs in ww2 used over three tons of high explosives in each bomb, and that was only intend to breach a dam, not completely remove it. generally, you're taking it apart piece by piece with construction equipment. even if you had a small enough dam that leveling it with explosives was physically possible, you'd still have to bring in construction equipment to gather up the massive chunks of concrete and haul them away plus your ostensibly doing this to help the surrounding habitat, so blowing up everything in the vicinity of the dam is maybe a bad look edit: i realized i'm coming at this from a very southern california perspective where you're dealing with a ton of sedimentation and very irregular rain events. it might be different in areas with actual water pressure behind the dam, though even then i'd have to imagine it's still just a smaller breaching charge, not blowing the entire thing up GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Feb 18, 2022 03:30
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I admit I'm not sure what scale of dam you're talking about removing, so I don't know how hard the process is.
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Feb 18, 2022 03:56
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:dams are built to be incredibly solid and stable, so you can't implode them like a building. and exploding them with enough force to level the entire thing would take a massive amount of explosives. the dam buster bombs in ww2 used over three tons of high explosives in each bomb, and that was only intend to breach a dam, not completely remove it. generally, you're taking it apart piece by piece with construction equipment. even if you had a small enough dam that leveling it with explosives was physically possible, you'd still have to bring in construction equipment to gather up the massive chunks of concrete and haul them away Up here you need to specify man made dam or beaver dam.
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Feb 18, 2022 08:26
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would have thought you'd start the same way you start building the dam, by diverting the river.
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Feb 18, 2022 13:28
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thatbastardken posted:would have thought you'd start the same way you start building the dam, by diverting the river. that's a little more site specific. around here there's usually not much of a river to divert when it's not raining Furnaceface posted:Up here you need to specify man made dam or beaver dam. if you send in someone to explode a beaver dam don't the beavers just end up eating them?
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Feb 18, 2022 20:43
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:if you send in someone to explode a beaver dam don't the beavers just end up eating them? Typically they dont explode a beaver dam because more than just beavers live in/around them. They slowly break them apart so as to not disturb too much of the local ecosystem. Also to not flood everyone downstream. Totally unrelated but now that Canada has gone full pants on head stupid, where is safe to move to? I always thought NZ was the safe place but they were the first country to copy our idiot right wing protestors. Or is nowhere safe from the US meddling?
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Feb 19, 2022 17:17
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https://twitter.com/catsdogwithduck/status/1493887541916798978
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Feb 20, 2022 12:33
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A harsh proclamation issued against Kook in 1926 contained letters from three European rabbis in which Yosef Rosin referred to him as an "ignorant bore", Shaul Brach intimated that his Hebrew initials spelt the word "vomit" and likened him to King Jeroboam known for seducing the masses to idolatry, and Eliezer David Greenwald declared him an untrustworthy authority on Jewish law adding that his books were full of heresy and should be burnt. get him!!
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Feb 20, 2022 13:04
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:dams are built to be incredibly solid and stable, so you can't implode them like a building. and exploding them with enough force to level the entire thing would take a massive amount of explosives. the dam buster bombs in ww2 used over three tons of high explosives in each bomb, and that was only intend to breach a dam, not completely remove it. generally, you're taking it apart piece by piece with construction equipment. even if you had a small enough dam that leveling it with explosives was physically possible, you'd still have to bring in construction equipment to gather up the massive chunks of concrete and haul them away
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Feb 20, 2022 13:05
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