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I FORGOT THE SEALS.We have fur and leopard seals that sunbathe and breed in our town. When they come on shore on mass they STINK. Holy cow. Rotten fish smell for the whole day but they are both endangered AND the leopard seals get to be like a tonne.
Ever since moving ~8 months ago, there's a train that apparently passes by somewhere near each morning and night. And by that, I mean at the hours in which NOBODY (except for me of course because I'm part opossum) is awake by choice. I've wondered how many people it wakes up each day... Probably none, but who knows.Before that, it was living next to a walking talking ticking time bomb of a man, but that's a whole other story entirely.Quote from: Loa on June 18, 2022, 11:00:28 PMI FORGOT THE SEALS.We have fur and leopard seals that sunbathe and breed in our town. When they come on shore on mass they STINK. Holy cow. Rotten fish smell for the whole day but they are both endangered AND the leopard seals get to be like a tonne.I would still like to see them!
Our other (South African) neighbour and his interesting ideas on gardening. (Who uses a pickaxe to remove bamboo?!)
i think i prefer TV animals without the smell.
blaming Biden for gas prices.
There are entire neighborhoods in San Antonio where the invasive bamboo has taken over.
Quote from: Beth3346 on June 21, 2022, 05:35:24 AMblaming Biden for gas prices. Huh? OK that's a new one on me. Communitites everywhere seem more divided so it's interesting that you see evidence for views on both ends of the spectrum even in such a conservative state. In my local area it looks like chocolate-box villages but people have this fake passive-agressive attitude where they talk up a good storm about doing charity work and like to show how virtuous they are, but they are really not nice people. For example, they drive dangerously and hate poor people.
I actually blame most of my problems on Ronald Reagan so we're all pretty irrational down here in Texas. In all seriousness i think it's a similar mentality to blaming all of a sports team's problems on the coach or the star player. it's easy. people know who the president is. they become the face of whatever is going right or wrong.IMO Texas politics are not well represented in a lot of media. most of the urban areas and even more suburban areas are pretty liberal. statewide we're ruled by more and more extreme conservative politicians. but statewide elections here are closer than they used to be. i don't think we can vote all of our problems away. Texas politics is ruled by a few people with a lot of money. it's also heavily influenced by oil and gas. so many people work in oil and gas and adjacent industry. and there are a lot of keep taxes low, pro-business types who vote Republican. as if Dems aren't just as influenced by big business. i remain hopeful but Texas keeps disappointing me. i really want to leave but family obligations keep me here for now.
Quote from: Beth3346 on June 24, 2022, 08:20:47 AMI actually blame most of my problems on Ronald Reagan so we're all pretty irrational down here in Texas. In all seriousness i think it's a similar mentality to blaming all of a sports team's problems on the coach or the star player. it's easy. people know who the president is. they become the face of whatever is going right or wrong.IMO Texas politics are not well represented in a lot of media. most of the urban areas and even more suburban areas are pretty liberal. statewide we're ruled by more and more extreme conservative politicians. but statewide elections here are closer than they used to be. i don't think we can vote all of our problems away. Texas politics is ruled by a few people with a lot of money. it's also heavily influenced by oil and gas. so many people work in oil and gas and adjacent industry. and there are a lot of keep taxes low, pro-business types who vote Republican. as if Dems aren't just as influenced by big business. i remain hopeful but Texas keeps disappointing me. i really want to leave but family obligations keep me here for now.TBH this doesn't surprise me because oftentimes, I've found that the typical citizen of a given state or country or other area disagrees with the big wigs in charge, even if only a little bit. But also, the stereotype that the South is full of close minded Bible-thumpers and the North is where all the 'modern' minded people live is alive and well. I'm in the Midwest in a town that is more right-minded, if you get my drift, while I've heard of thriving minority communities on the other end of the USA- including in Texas, your state! (I seem to have a lot of friends in/from Texas, I don't know why...)Which brings me to my second contribution - I don't know about y'all but some places still have signage or writing cheering on Trump; some have been there since all the way back in 2016. Some folks still have bumper stickers from that time, or from the 2020 election. Now I understand disappointment if your "side" didn't "win" but seriously? Why would you want to keep that stuff around that long? I've never heard or seen this sort of thing outside Trump, it'd be like if I had a sign in my front yard urging my neighbors to vote for Eisenhower. In 2022! Idungeddit.