Fair, but the restoration is a pittance compared to what the herds used to be like. Granted, I wouldn’t want to step out of my house and be trampled by a bison because there were so many of them, but still, it was a tremendous upset to a natural system, and systematic genocide to boot. Nothing much to like about how it all happened.

A 20 year old wrote this

Fuckin rights eh bud?

I went to a national park and they had bison. I had the very awkward conversation about why bison are protected now, with my young children.

Humans are awful

it’s a deep, deep rabbit hole. We have a lot of disciplines that hybridize with soils, and you can get hilariously specific in academia. I know several people whose research is specifically about Phosphorus movement (via erosion) in agricultural settings, and have very complex models.

There’s a girl I heard about who was using soil microbial community structure to locate gold deposits.

I absolutely love this reference, and I use it all the time. Hell, I’m a walking simpsons encyclopedia.

I’m 40 next year… So far, I’m lucky. I’ve gone from a extremely physically demanding job (hike through back country bush, dig to 120 cm when you get there) to sitting at a desk. Where I used to not even think about the gym, I now find myself in one 5 days a week, just for preventive measures. I’m never gonna be a freakbeast muscle man, but I’ll settle for not having a stroke at 60, like my dad did.

trying to fit a sofa into fiat 500

Sex tape?

Idk but my knees are doing crack. I can hear them doing it every time I squat down to pick something up

Kek.

They didn’t say. Pants were shat though I bet

It’s the gearing and weight that make a dozer powerful. I’ve worked first hand with D-11s around me, and they are incredible machines.

You all laugh, but one time I was young, dumb, and just did what people told me to do.

In this regard, I found myself pulling a grain auger on a much-too-small flat deck trailer. The trailer was maybe 10ft long by 6 ft wide, so we put one wheel of the grain auger on the deck, and one on the external tail light of the trailer which was relatively sturdy. ‘are you sure this is a good idea?’ ‘fuck it, she’ll go. Just go slow’

So I start driving. No immediate problems. Turns out that going down a major, winding hill at the 100 km posted speed limit is not a good idea with an awkward load. It’s also a pretty interesting time to figure out that if you brake, you make the trailer sway worse. Hmm so speed up it is! Started at the top of the hill at about 90 km/hr and came out for it at about 120 km/hr. Lol.

And that’s just one of the times I shoulda died! Whee.

This is also why I mentor the fuck out of any junior I work with. too many stories like this.

I got you fam

Specs so you see how fucking big this dozer is: https://www.eltrakbulgaria.com/uploads/Specalogs/2020/D11.pdf

I prefer stuck mining equipment tbh

Not mine

Beautiful

This guy gets it

Ttin’ the Ote