You are very correct. We both could have regretted the events much more than we did.

When I see parents take their smaller children places, I count them as “not dangerous.”

This is where I was.

People will photograph each other chilling there all the time. I don’t want to get close enough to see over the edge since I don’t like heights, I just wanted to walk on the creekbed.

This is still at the top of the falls, but more indicitive of the side of the falls where she “disappeared” on me and what I was looking for her in. What I bounced off on the way down was three or so of those big boulders to the right of the tree there.

I’m sure I deserve partial credit. I was in a bad place mentally back then so I did a lot of stupid and inconsiderate things I regret. But I’m also now with someone who wouldn’t walk away from me even when I am being an idiot because they care about my safety, so I learned a lot of lessons since then.

I went with my ex to a local waterfall once. It was pretty dry, so I wanted to explore the top of the falls a bit since it’s normally not accessible. It’s very flat up there, and I kept back from the edge since I don’t like heights anyway, but she got mad at me for being up there since she didn’t feel comfortable coming out with me.

So a couple minutes later, I’m done poking about, and I turn around and she’s nowhere to be seen. Now I’m worried she went over the side and something happened to her. I started looking over the edge of the hill leading up to the falls and trying to see if she’s down there, but there was enough water to still be spraying the rocks. My foot slides out on a wet patch, and now I’m falling down the rock face!

I crashed off at least 3 ledges on my way down, and was flipping over and trying to grab onto things to catch myself, but there was nothing but rock and moss, but I finally come to a stop. I have no clue how I didn’t die or break anything. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. After I checked on my own life, I saw she wasn’t there, so I made my way to the car. She was there just being annoyed.

She seemed to think I deserved it for not listening to her for saying it was dangerous, while it was not the activity I was doing that led to me falling, but that I thought I needed to be looking for her after she disappeared without saying she was going to the car. I don’t think she must have realized it was not just one rock I fell off of, but probably at least 10+ feet of rock, but needless to say I wasn’t very appreciative of her lack of concern. I was just grateful to be alive at that point. I was sore for a few days and had some bruises that lasted a couple months. Was I a jerk? I don’t feel so, but I don’t believe remote places in the outdoors are the place to put arguments ahead of everyone’s safety either way. If I would have gotten hurt badly, who knows how long she would have sat there before looking for me.

Nice! Glad I was able to help.

I’m not gay myself, so I wasn’t quite sure of some of your descriptors, but for a gay-bro music video night, I felt this would have to at least check some of the boxes.

My best friend’s ex-bf was Ukrainian and he showed me music videos for Kazaky. Seemed very gay and the music was cool (synthpop/EDM) and the videos, outfits and dancing seemed really good to me. It made me think of if Lady Gaga did a collar with Rammstein.

Most likely that will have been one of mine. The Blakistons Fish Owl. It lives in Siberia and Hokkaido.

I just found a book of Ainu folk tales called The Song the Owl God Sang and the first story is about the god that inhabits that owl in their beliefs. They have quite the pantheon, but their 3 main gods are the bear, the wolf, and that big chonky owl. Neat stuff!

That fish owl is difficult to find photos of, so it’s always extra special when I come across them. I need to get the book Owls of the Eastern Ice next. It is all about a guy’s 5 year adventure with them.

I’m glad you found something you enjoyed. I try to find things that should impress anyone, and the owls always deliver!

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Lemmy, honestly. We make jokes and share the occasional funny picture in the comments, but it’s never really been the focus of the content.

I’m the main poster, though not a mod, for SuperbOwl and we’ve grown well without watering down the content. I try to stick to mostly educational, yet fun things, but I summarized a research paper this week on how levels of street traffic affects the hunting success rate of nocturnal owls. It was a pretty big hit, better than some pic only posts.

Maybe if the captivating content is keeping up with the volume of users, it’s less of an issue of conversation deteriorating. I’m still at a point I have a big audience but can keep up talking with everyone. If it got to a point where I couldn’t, I imagine it may be like any other group gathering where someone will inevitably try to fill any awkward silence with whatever and that could detail the previous flow of sticking to the real topic of the community.

I don’t know if that’s helpful to anyone whose community may have already passed that point, but we haven’t had to take any mod action or try to force anyone to do anything. I just feel we’re pretty good example of how popularity doesn’t need to mean sinking to the lowest common denominator.

11 square meters is literally the size of a bedroom lol

Now that I’d like to see! Though I’d still only eat the pieces with the crust, that’s my favorite part.

This Japanese style curry powder tastes really good in a Japanese style curry.

It tastes similar to the S&B curry in the can, but fresher and without the orange peel. I should try adding some zest sometime, but otherwise it uses all things I have on hand. If I have S&B, I’ll mix them half and half to get the freshness of my mix with all the secret tricks the S&B has in it.

The curry recipe is a chickpea curry, but I also sub chicken thigh chunks for the chickpeas if I want a meat curry. Just as good either way.

“Give a man injera and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to make injera and you feed him for a lifetime.”

This was my solution with naan/roti at least. I wish I had African food available near me.

I’d say anyone not planning to get screwed by this administration is doing their people a disservice.

I am happy to see the Scouts give some push back. It frankly seems more than some leaders/countries are willing to do.

Yup, screw any non-discriminatory animal control. I work at a wildlife rescue and we have to pull birds and all kinds of animals off those things, and it’s just plain cruel to rodents as well.

From reading other articles and pieces from people associated with Scouts, while they don’t get any money from the government, that isn’t to say they don’t get perks.

$1/yr leases for public land, access to property/equipment, logistical support/medical staffing for the Jamboree, jet flyovers, etc that help them stretch their funds or provide things they would t be able to access without the government’s support.

The Jamboree is a 10 day event this July, so all that staffing provided by the gov is probably a huge expense, and if Hegseth pulled all that now or in the future, they’d be screwed. So essentially, this is coercion to get what they want.

You are quite correct, I should have said the book highlighted those issues, not that it was about them. As Sinclair said, “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

While socialism never took off to the extent Sinclair hoped, we did get the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act, though those are feeling more like suggestions rather than standards with things like these policy changes and how cleanliness and food safety were treated through the COVID epidemic.

Taken together, the draft rules are a “very telling sign of this administration and how they view blue-collar workers…they have decided that they no longer have to care about workers at all.”

If only it was new or just this administration. Thirty years ago in high school we read a book about this same exact garbage from 1906, and it wasn’t exactly news then either.

Lol, you are correct, I just rewatched it. He was debating with Jerry at the dinner about turning it into a “real charity” which quickly devolved into people showering him with praise in order show worthiness of his “generosity” (jeez, this is sounding like how I imagine the Board of Peace will operate…). When Kruger calls him in, he still chickens out and gives the money back unprompted and plays the victim of religious persecution for his father’s celebrating of Festivus instead of Christmas.

I don’t know if George would have went through with it, because his cowardice, paranoia, and desire to not actually do anything likely would have won out, so I still think he’s less evil as he at least somewhat confesses to being a fraud and he returns the money without a fuss, which doesn’t seem like the behavior of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

At least The Human Fund didn’t actually have George stealing from anyone, it was just him being a jerk. When Mr. Kruger gave him that big check he at least somewhat came clean it was fake. The president taking tax money for his League of Villians is just outright theft like if George would have cashed the check and called the accountant a liar.

Yes, but it has been accepted as your contribution to the Board of Peace. Thank you for your donation.

One can go to other language versions of the Wikipedia as well and the info is different. The pages aren’t just translations from English.

I’ll check out different countries’ pages sometimes to see different culture references or to see what names are in other languages. Very useful.

en.wikipedia

de.wikipedia (translated)