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Just as I was about to leave for work there was a loud explosion. Hopefully it was a transformer or fuse in the alley, and I didn't blow something out at my house with all the shit I have plugged in because it sounded close as fuck and now I have no power in my house. That's it! Either way I'm calling it. This is a non working Saturday for me. 😬

Things are great.

So I didn't blow myself up or burn my face off, Already getting some drips under the sink, and I'm wondering if this shit ate a hole in a seal or pipe and didn't even unclog my slow drain. Acid should be diluted/ nuetralized with all the baking soda and water I've added now though..

Am I wrong to be as afraid of this shit as I am? I mean chemical ppe dawned I just poured what I think is 3/4 cup down my drain with a funnel with the bottom coated in some protective jelly. I didn't even know a solution as potent as this shit could just be bought at a store, and I mean the directions....It says let stand 5 minutes and flush with water. Still getting my nerves up to mix an acid with a base. MY main drain is metal pretty sure...Not going to be using this on the reg. I prolly already fucked up didn't I? I got my baking soda ready. Fuck this shit though should've just bought a snake...

I'm just gonna put this here. As I've said before I've been in support of Beto for a while. Even when he isn't running for office he's canvassing and running charaties and fundraisers, and spreading awareness for dem party ideals in Texas. Shit like abortion rights, the dumbass power grid, etc. Shit repuplicans keep fucking up. This isn't the first time blowing up about gun control has supposedly "cost" him as a politician either. 🙄 https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/beto-orourke-uvalde-greg-abbott/index.html

Not sure if it's been said or not, but Russia's been flexing it's airforce on american allies every chance it's got. First they scared Japan with a joint exercise with China while Biden and 2 other world leaders where there for a meet, and since Sweden has shown it's support for Ukraine and Nato they did a lil airforce exercise as close to their airspace as possible as well.. https://news.usni.org/2022/05/25/chinese-russian-bombers-hold-joint-exercises-near-japan-korea https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/world/europe/sweden-russia-NATO-Baltic-Sea.html

I'll see it when I see it. Not in theaters probably.

@PoofI've heard of Man Love Thursday only in that sarcastic joke kind of sense, it is a well known soldier to soldier inside joke as I know it though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was real for a few desperate and or gay soldiers though in a combat zone with no other way to get off. 🤣

That honestly sounds sad. Sounds about right for marines, I mean if we're talking infantry soldiers somewhere on the front lines who are sexually frustrated to that point I guess I can believe that actually happening,but it could've been a sarcastic joke as well.. As I've said my deployment in a military intelligence cell as a UAV operator was a world away from that of an infantry soldier. I did have air conditioned rooms and worked surveilence the whole time with that going for me but.. UAVs were going in the air 24 fucking 7 at the same time though with us putting one plane up exausting it's fuel and turning it back only to hand off controls to a newly launched plane at a relay point so the depleted craft could land for maintenance/refuel. That way we provided pretty much seemless overhead video coverage of our area. We flipped days and nights witth 2 diff crews as well. I mean it when I said 24/7...

I remember over indulging on pop tarts in Iraq with no remorse. That and Rip It energy drinks. There was always a heavy supply of pop tarts and rip it energy drinks. You'd love it.

Garter snakes are typically your most basic non-danger noodle so there you go. That was the actual question proposed in the post from the state park with extra points for the name.. It is a ribbon snake I'm sure...From there...Not so sure.

Ok I give up WTF is the full taxonomy of this snake? This came from a Texas wildlife group that stated the pic was from Lake Summerville Birch Creek Park in Texas. Based on that and my knowledge of garter snakes my educated guess is thamnophis proximus orarius (Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake). A subspecies of Thamnophis proximus (Western Ribbon Snake)...Which according to wikipedia IS a species of garter snake..Hence the (Thamnophis).🙏 There's a lot of snake maniacs out there that say ribbon snakes arent garter snakes, but again genus THAMNOPHIS! Technically and scientifically speaking they are still garter snakes if they are in the genus Thamnophis right? IDK Ribbon snakes are more slender and prey on more aquatic wildlife than anything the slenderness being where the name ribbon snake comes from. All ribbon snakes have that little mark in front of their eye as well where as non ribbon snake members of the thamnophis genus don't have that or the little dot in their head..Usually. Anyway that's my final answer. Garter Snakes/ribbon snakes whatever...There's too many of the fucks that was more of a rabbit hole than I expected. All for this lil guy. 🙃

\Noice. You cut your own cord though lol?

Just quoting this because I am interested. I work closely with tree trimmers and fucking tree executioners just because of my field. The dudes here often saw down trees that fall onto peoples (their customers) aerial cablle/network lines...They be like "Soddy soddy... Now you have to do dat again wow my bad"..Then they have break time, and just watch me fix their mess half the jobs I'm on.....Don't get me wrong I've had a lot of tree chopping connects come at me. There's good crews out there.. Here and a lot of places though only espanol will be involved if you want to speak to their workers. 🙄 So electrical short really? I doubt I'd buy a corded chainsaw...but lol hold on there cheaper right, here's a 100 foot constructruction extension cord we throw in... Naw. I'll leave the chainsaws to the dudes THAT TRy to get me drunk at their humble abodes when I install a bad ass line in their trailers/ bottom shelf apartments. 🙏 Stories for days there... The worker were asking me about me equipment, a lot I purchase myself you know...I like 'em.l and I'm sorry Viva la Mexico.

Holy shit way to shine a light on my dilemna. Who the fuck are you again?

So the moral of the story is dont use chainsaws on wet shit? Sorry I've never used a chainsaw to get rid of trees. (Or ever) My neighbors might've moved because they saw me use a katana and similar looking weapons in the same fassion.. This is not a flex. What happened to your chainsaw because I'm definitly not spending failing american economy amounts on a chainsaw or normal equipment people use to deal with trees unless I know I'm not fucking that shit up too...

and it did Jump out at me, but I couldn't put a name on it because J.k. simmons hasn't really been an actor with roles I care about I dunno.. His voicework in invincible, and his boss role in Night Sky were pretty dope. Kind of funny how his grumpy old man role seems almost interchangeable with his omniman voicework. Man voiced a galactic conquerer without trying and it's funny..

Until I watched another amazon original The Night Sky that he starred in thinking why does this dudes voice sound so familiar...Also didn't recognize Mark Hamil's voice as the costume designer in Invincible on the first watch through. Now I'm just gonna picture J.K. Simmons as omniman everytime I see him and I'm not sure how to feel about that lol. He does have that quintessential american dad voice going for him so I get why they thought he was a good fit for the role. Edit. Well that and his work in the Spiderman shit and other super hero series voice acting roles I guess. I knew his voice sounded familiar at first just didn't bother to look up the voice actors..

Horned lizard decline cant really be contributed to lack of forestor ant colonies if you ask me.. My fucking duck lips being proof.... I'm sure the primary factor is man related, but red h ants def arent on the decline where im from. Longer droughts, being sought after pets? idk, but I do miss finding these lizards. Maybe even climate change. (Gonna place a holder here for scientific support then)

Also these guys are fucking heavily endangered.. and I hope to see one in the wild again before I die, So parks and wildlife is kind of right...

Yep..**Sigh**....Poisoning the heavily gaurded queen deep within their hole is your only hope of vanquishing this Texas sized insect, and I mean Queens mature and fly out of one nest to mate and create an entirely new organization of all but unimpenitrable defense. Definitely a staple for me, and the horned lizard...etc (whatever) that suppossedly gave coyote peterson his nickname. I like his shit less and less idk.

I remember being the Bare Foot Bandit kind of kid I was in my youth, when I was about like seven or somethin, my answer to ghandi's walking on coals was walking across this massive ass bed of red forester ants that had gone unimpeded in the small town. I remember my grandmother of course fearing for my life..but that was my first measure of just how bad ass the ants were. My feet were pretty fucked up considering, but I wasn't allergic it probably spawned my addiction for seeing just what all this local powerhouse can do. I've also blown their mounds up with...alll kinds of explosives..flame-throwed, and tried to flood them out lol... Even put a bore and dripped a good bit of gasoline into the mound in front of my house recently...Thhat crippled the colony, but somehow not even that stopped them. Their tenacity is amazing, and they've won my respect especially amongst the insect kingdom in my years..

Yeah, but the sting I got in the lip was more potent than a bee sting supposedly. I think I'm just gonna let nature take it's course at this point, because I really don't get bit by red h ants that much.. It's just every now and then EVEN THOUGH I'M CAREFUL and know the little fools are all over the ground one ends up climbing all the way up me and stinging my kneck or face. I think they're blind and just follow scent trails as well IDK. Red Harvesters are actually known to go full aggro with/without pheromones. They're basically like the killer bee of harvester ants. Even some hybridization has occured so idk..The good folks at Texas parks and wildlife apparently think all that shit is cool, and I should just welcome them into my yard.

K now I need some actual Red Harvester Ant Broll what I put in the music thread looks like a few scouts stumbling into a fire ant mound or the fire ants just fucking them up... I bet it's because the harvester ants sting is more for larger predator defense, They can't really get a good sting on these little invasive cluster fuckers. Suprisingly little broll footage of these guys just coming and going from their tunnel entrance.. Might just go outside and get some. I have a nest in my yard... I stand right by it with a water hose watering my yard, and somehow don't have a worker crawling on my head. Not sure how or why they don't bite me, but I get bit by workers on job sites all the time.. Maybe the ones in my yard think I'm the rain god.