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Honestly I do want to get into some Wagyu. I've found a lot of people toting SRF or Snake River Farms when it comes to "American Wagyu" I said it's an oxymoron because that's kind of like saying American Japanese Cow since Wagyu just means Japanese cow..., American Wagyu is made from Japanese cattle bred with primarily angus..I still think the whole wagyu thing where they make it out like the cow has a red carpet furled out while it walks and farts rainbows from it's premuim diet is a bit intense. The Japanese black is like the prototype wagyu cow I think right?... Just seems so pretentious to me either way at the end of the day paying out the ass for "wagyu". Or Japanese cow. Especially if you're just gonna order it from places that can serve you anything..

@wacky1980 I have a confession to make I've never actually used a drain snake before. I'm trying to figure out the best thing for the job here a snake, an augur.. If a plumber is going to charge me over a hundred to fix shit though I feel like I might as well invest in something better than chemicals at least.. See the plumber that came the first time may have used whatever this guy machined into the drain..Which probably is expensive as fuck. *sigh* He took the P Trap and all the PVC parts off and drained the backed up standing water filled with mixed with caustic chemicals because yes... Anyways.. Old Scruffy the plumber sent something through my drain after that while a helper went to the bathroom and shined a light down my bathtub drain. He was like "I see ya boss...meaning he was able to see the front end of that through the bathtub drain. If I had a better understanding of the pipe work that would at least help. I don't have plastic or pvc plumbing all the way through I know that. It's the old school shit where the PVC p trap is right there under the kitchen sink and it attaches to the metal piece that goes out...that has a name which I forgot, but that gives a pretty clear indicator of how the pipes run to someone with experience right? I try to stay up on this shit, but honestly I'm gonna fuck something up if I do this myself probably... That doesnt mean I'm not still tempted to try though. Someone help.. 🤣🙃

Meh I've never been sold on wagyu at all. American wagyu is quite literally an oxymoron, Angus and 1 of 4 japanese cow breeds..take your pick. All I know is I've never shelled out for wagyu after watching an industry vid saying you're suppossed to be able to see the paper trail, and certificates at a restuarant/now fast food joint I guess...Or it's probably not even wagyu just overpriced prime cuts if even..

Yup. I mean.... If we're gonna do all this... It sounds like we have a lot that forget just how massive the gun lobby is in the USA for 1, and what actually differs around the world. Here's some articles for thought. Should be good if we're just going to fucking brainstorm on an ambiguous scale right? .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/25/what-is-the-united-states-gun-lobby-and-how-powerful-is-it https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/02/world/international-gun-laws.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=229877C814B380B286F8E385BF6DBAD3&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL

The powers back on. A bucket truck from the power company drove by not too long after I decided not to go to work...My employers are probably pissed. I got a call from MY bosses boss..What was my first line supervisors bosses boss...Saying yeah calling in on a saturday. I can't do much eveybodies packed or something like that. I gave him a fairly detailed description of what's been going on here, told him I live alone with pets and a tenant that's gonna come back expecting shit to work and I even beefed it up. Having a main water line leak in my back yard and a transformer blowing up and cutting off my power with both utility companies onmy property still wasn't a good enough excuse, so I said fuck it. Kind of done at that point though I try to never call off... I worked a day with an ant bite that had my lip about to explode, and made me look like a fucking cown. Nah... I'm doing house maintenance today fire me.. Both the power company worker in the bucket truck, and this ISP here's competition have given me contacts and numbers and said fuck them basically come work for us.

Keep telling my roomate who pays to stay in one of my rooms and use a back area for band practice to WATCH WHAT GOES DOWN THE DRAINS. Hard to say it's even his fault though this house was built in like 59-69 if memory serves me, and I bought it from a really old lady with a lot of rental properties. This was rented out ir sold to a lot of people that got kicked out or foreclosed on before I got it.. There's a lot of run down looking properties in this town, and his one seemed pretty good comparibly. An inspector said there were ominous signs though like that old lady that owned it replaced a circuit breaker panel that made it look newer than it actually was because she just had them replace the panel or something. 🤣🙃

Yeah I think I'm going to buy a snake today. I watched a plumber snake my drain the last time this happened and drainos finest, hot water, all that shit didn't work.. HE was in my house 10 or 15 minutes with the snake, and got it all going good. I asked for how much I owed..."Don't worry we'll bill you"... I got a bill that was around $200 for that dude being in my house 15 minutes snaking the drain. 🙃

I bought this.

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..