Ha! That was the exact scene I had in mind!

We have mountain lions, even in NW Florida. I’ve seen a hulking male plenty close enough. Problem is people shoot them as a threat to their pets and livestock.

For neocon think Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, that whole gang.

We used that in the 80s all the time. :)

:a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation

I honestly can’t understand why governments and businesses “allow” unions. How the hell do they intend to stop employees from coming together?! Anyone?

If you miss the exit to our camp, you’re going to the next town 15 miles away. One slip’ll cost ya 30 miles.

When he does finally croak, I’m betting the administration hides the fact as long as possible while they devolve into a backstabbing, power grabbing, Bulgarian clusterfuck. The implosion is going to be Biblically epic.

The Trent Reznor version please.

Nothing new to me, but I was in Nashville for the Great Cicada Apocalypse of '24. My god. I have never experienced anything like that in my life.

Not only were they deafening, they we’re spazzing around, sticking to your clothes, corpses everywhere. LOL, my office swept the bodies out every night. Birds were having a feast!

Felt bad about purposefully letting her sweat a bit as the sun went down and I started a fire. At the same time I tried to tell her that merely speaking out loud would run off any animals larger than a lizard.

Later, she tried to throw me under the bus with my wife. Now I wish I had tortured her for real!

“Yeah… We’re gonna have to spend another hour here. I’m waiting to see that panther that was here last week.”

Ah! Perfect example as I won’t touch Chick Fil A. :)

So yes, those who care and are politically aware are boycotting what they can, but the vast majority of Americans neither care or are aware.

You need to extricate yourself from your bubble if you think American’s are meaningfully boycotting anything.

My wife is from the Philippines. Squirrels are a thing you have to visit the zoo the see.

We took my wife’s friend to our camp in the boonies. I think she was from Leeds?

The sounds as the sun started going down, and being in the woods in general, scared the shit out of her. She honestly thought wild animals would come at night and attack us.

Told a lady I had just moved here (NW Florida).

“Oh honey you’ll love it here! We have four seasons; green, green, green and brown.”

I just made much the same comment!

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/19106662

One of the guys that came for our February wedding was truly alarmed at all the dead tress. I couldn’t figure out why he was saying that, but he was a tree guy so I went with it.

10 years later I figured it out. He assumed none of the trees dropped leaves because Florida. Some do, some don’t, some stay yellow all winter and drop in the spring. It’s not even consistent within species.

Try Florida, flattest state in the union. You would laugh out loud at what I call a valley around here.

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back.

Sick of the constant, “Where my 2A people at?!” around here. I am right fucking here, but I’m not in much of a position to mount a personal assault on Washington DC. All I can reasonably do is defend my immigrant wife and our home if it comes to that.

FFS, some of these people even question self-defense. “They’ll just kill you, moron!” Yeah, well that was on the table anyway.

And if any gun-grabbers think the cops and ICE and politicians are fascist enough as-is, imagine how they would be acting if they could kick down doors with full impunity and zero fear. Yeah, the local cops could get a squad of 20 and take this house apart. But somebody’s getting hurt. I guarantee it.

Here’s an interesting thought, let’s see how this plays out. Florida is red enough ATM, governor and state Congress. Why haven’t they passed open-carry legislation? Why isn’t it even under discussion? Think they’ll make it happen?

I’ll give you three guesses, but you’re only going to need one. Fuck no they will not legislate open carry because men like me will be at every protest with an AR-15 on my shoulder and a Colt .45 in my belt.

I can’t get ChatGPT to even touch on anything political or sexual. But this works? Fuck me.