"It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise with the dead animals scattered over the grounds and the herd beginning to mill and the riflebarrel so hot the wiping patches sizzled in the bore and the animals by the thousands and tens of thousands and the hides pegged out over actual square miles of ground and the teams of skinners spelling one another around the clock and the shooting and shooting weeks and months till the bore shot slick and the stock shot loose at the tang and their shoulders were yellow and blue to the elbow and the tandem wagons groaned away over the prairie twenty and twenty-two ox teams and the flint hides by the ton and hundred ton and the meat rotting on the ground and the air whining with flies and the buzzards and ravens and the night a horror of snarling and feeding with the wolves half crazed and wallowing in the carrion.

I seen Studebaker wagons with six and eight ox teams headed out for the grounds not haulin a thing but lead. Just pure galena. Tons of it. On this ground alone between the Arkansas River and the Concho there was eight million carcasses for that's how many hides reached the railhead. Two year ago we pulled out from Griffin for a last hunt. We ransacked the country. Six weeks. Finally found a herd of eight animals and we killed them and come in. They're gone. Ever one of them that God ever made is gone as if they'd never been at all.

The ragged sparks blew down the wind. The prairie about them lay silent. Beyond the fire it was cold and the night was clear and the stars were falling. The old hunter pulled his blanket about him.

I wonder if there's other worlds like this, he said. Or if this is the only one."

Hmm today I will further antagonize someone clearly in distress in le gun country

Did any news happen while the site was down?

Inside Out dad was voiced by Kyle MacLachlan

Kyle MacLachlan played Paul in Dune (1984)

It all comes full circle

Been a while since I've seen it but pretty sure this video touches on it

This might be controversial to say on this website so sorry if I offend anyone,

but I don't think you should be able to take large, wild jungle cats into any establishment, be they het or ace or gay.

edit1: downbears? really? Real mature.

Great article, real bloomer stuff, thanks for posting

Some person on r*ddit is complaining about their job in which they open up returned bezos packages. They are complaining because apparently the biggest company on Earth doesn't actually check returns for the actual item and instead just checks the weight, resulting in this person having to work for a company that basically opens up garbage lootboxes en masse. Of course, no responsibilty for this should fall on the multibillion dollar behemoth that has almost certainly already decided it'd rather eat the losses and sell off the returned items to this guy's temporarily embarrassed boss than go through the trouble of verifying it themselves. I wonder if there's any items at all that end up back where they started or if there's no infrastructure for that. Anyway, all this is very funny, especially when the poster explains:

And just so you know, there's return info included in most of the packaging and we all make fun of you. You're all ignorant in so many ways.

Like sorry friend I honestly think waste disposal is important but I cannot hear you over my 100% discounted airfryer

Haha surely not. Unless...?

In honor of Stalin defeating fascism on this day and every other, Hexbear users are reminded to enjoy the remainder of their weekend

Ukranian Defence Ministry amends order on military medical commissions, expanding limits of fitness for service

the words and figures "with the exception of articles 2-c, 4-c, 5-c, 12-c, 13-c, 14-c, 17-c, 21-c and 22-c" have been removed from the Regulation, i.e. everyone will be recognised as fit under the "controversial" articles:

2-c – clinically treated tuberculosis;

4-c – viral hepatitis with minor functional impairment;

5-c – asymptomatic HIV carrier;

12-c - slowly progressive and non-progressive with minor functional impairment and rare exacerbations of anaemia, blood clotting disorders, purpura, haemorrhagic conditions, other diseases of the blood and haematopoietic organs, and some disorders involving the immune mechanism;

13-c - diseases of the endocrine system with minor functional disorders;

14-c - mild, short-term, painful manifestations of mental disorders;

17-c - neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders with moderate or short-term manifestations, with an asthenic state;

21-c – slowly progressive diseases of the central nervous system with minor functional disorders;

22-c – episodic and paroxysmal disorders, except for epilepsy, with minor impairment of organ and system functions.

explain?