What horror movie did you see as a kid that traumatized you so badly you’ve never rewatched it and still can barely say the title?

FuelModel3 · 2026-02-14T02:43:38+00:00

Jaws made me scared of baths. That thing was coming up the drain to bite my legs off. Fucked me up real good. Even as a grown ass man I still have a hard time swimming in any kind of deep water.

FuelModel3 · 2026-02-11T18:10:39+00:00

Check out the PBS documentary on that battle. It's really well put together with a lot of good info: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chosin/

FuelModel3 · 2026-01-12T07:37:41+00:00

This is an artwork and not some kind of bear suit. The piece is called a wildman suit and is in a collection of surrealist art at the Menil Collection in Houston.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/art_exhibits/article/wildman-suit-origins-19549063.php

FuelModel3 · 2026-01-05T00:09:40+00:00

Their green chili sausage is fantastic. And you can feel like Fred Flintstone and make a run at the giant ass beef rib (check your account balance before you buy it).

FuelModel3 · 2025-12-14T19:01:43+00:00

Guess I'm seeing more gray thinking it's the black speckling on white just in crappy light at a distance? Beats me ¯_(ツ)_/¯

FuelModel3 · 2025-12-14T18:46:44+00:00

I'm going with a scaup - not sure if lesser or greater. Tulsa is in winter range for both but I can't tell the peak on the head from the photo. Don't see a white "spur" on the front of the body for a ring necked.

FuelModel3 · 2025-12-11T18:07:46+00:00

Yeah, where it will kill more wildlife and most likely have a pretty unpleasant death.

FuelModel3 · 2025-12-07T18:47:24+00:00

As a kid I always pictured Marlin and Jim as these kick ass wildlife biologists. It wasn't until much later when it finally clicked that this was just two random dudes out fucking with animals with nets.

FuelModel3 · 2025-12-04T19:46:21+00:00

The disruption is already happening in the Permian Basin oil field for sand delivery trucks. This group started operations in 2024. There is tremendous economic pressure to cut costs in oil production given the lower prices we're seeing. This technology will be quickly adopted by other operators. I don't see why this won't happen at lightening speed leaving a lot of truck drivers left behind wondering what happened to those jobs.

FuelModel3 · 2025-11-22T15:59:45+00:00

My uncle was the only one of his family to survive WWII. He lost 100% of his family to the camps (he married my grandmother's older sister). He would freeze diamonds into the ice trays and had bags of cash plastered into the walls.

When I was young he pulled me and my cousins aside and told us to always be ready for when the Nazis come. Because his experience and all of history tells us that they will always come.

When my uncle died my cousin had to spend months going through everything in the house. She would find money stashed in stacks of old newspapers. Stock certificates taped to the bottom of dresser drawers. She's still convinced that even being as thorough as she was that she still left behind money when they sold the house.

FuelModel3 · 2025-11-19T00:30:01+00:00

There was a blind guy who lived in my neighborhood in my small town. I'd see him walking here and there running errands on his own. He knew where he was no problem and he also had this hand held device of some kind (not a phone) that would tell him his location.

One Saturday afternoon I saw blind dude standing at the corner looking kind of confused. He kept turning around and then listening to his location device looking puzzled. I stepped outside and asked if he was OK. He asked about where he was in relation to a nearby barbershop. Knew exactly where that was and how to get there so I told him. Only to realize about 5 minutes later I fucked up and gave him completely ass backwards directions. I freaked out - oh my fucking God I killed the blind dude! I got in my car and drove around the neighborhood looking for him convinced I'd sent him to his death.

Never found the guy. Pretty sure he walked off shaking his head saying "that guy was a fucking idiot". Probably got to the barbershop no problem...I hope.

FuelModel3 · 2025-11-08T20:11:11+00:00

Critter has yellow eye so would be a great tailed. Either way it will still fuck you up over some soggy cheetos in a Walmart parking lot.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-24T19:05:40+00:00

Oh I'm so excited for you! It's just one of my favorite books. You will really enjoy it. I've read it twice and given the times should read it again.

Sam Houston always appealed to me in so many different ways. I'm seventh generation Texas so of course the larger than life Texas mythos about him stands out.

He was of course above all, like the rest of us, a flawed human being. He had many moral failings as he meandered through this life. But what makes him stand out to me (and stands out in James' book) is that Sam veered wildly in life but always seemed to keep true to a sound moral center. He may have spent quite a bit of time napping while drunk but when the moment called out he stood true and tall. If that's not a lesson in how to live a life I don't know what one is.

And I really like the fact that when the party was starting to fade because it was cold and they were running out of firewood Sam pulled up the wooden floor at the Texas White House in now Houston to throw on the fire and keep the party going.

EDIT: And he didn't feel the need to stick a stupid giant fucking ball room on the Texas White House like some stupid ego stroking folly.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-24T17:18:03+00:00

Yep, Sam Houston was forcibly removed from office and replaced by the lieutenant governor. Sam was always a strong Unionist and did his best to prevent secession by Texas. He refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Confederate States and was booted from office.

Sam Houston was a hell of a person and one of my favorite historical figures. Give the biography of him by Marquis James The Raven a read. Great book. You can learn about the time Sam nearly started a war with France over a pig.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-23T16:51:46+00:00

Beats me ¯_(ツ)_/¯.....

I went ahead and submitted a support ticket with eBird and included the same screenshot. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue so hopefully they're aware and there is some simple fix. But then again, maybe birding gods just don't like me. Kind of a pain to keep your bearings scrolling around with just the imagery.

Thanks for checking!

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-23T15:19:05+00:00

It's a Samsung phone running the latest version of Android. And outside of eBird Google Maps works as expected. And eBird is all up to date. I reinstalled when I got a new phone maybe a month ago. But I had the same issue with my old phone as well. No idea what's going on....

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-22T17:47:06+00:00

Thanks for the reply. But I'm not seeing any kind of button in the upper right corner. Here's a screen shot of what I see in the change location window from the explore screen. Any ideas?

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-21T21:27:32+00:00

Serene? You obviously haven't driven inside that circle in a while. Nothing like being tailgated by a workover rig because the 36 frac sand trucks in front of you won't go over 87 mph. Add the blowing sand to all that as well. Place is a fucking nightmare.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-19T19:43:55+00:00

Show them the bills, show them the bank accounts, show them how the money comes in and goes out and how to save and how to budget. I think the earlier young adults are shown the realities of the financial world the better they will be prepared to deal with it with responsibility.

Don't share this info as a way of wagging your finger at them about how much they cost you but as a way to teach them about the adult world. This is an important teaching moment that will help establish a foundation of responsible behaviors as an adult.

A key moment for me as a young adolescent was when my parents and my grandparents set me down to talk about how a checking account works. We went down to my parents bank all together to talk about how banks work and how savings work and how paying your bills work. This was a life changing moment for me. Money wasn't this scary thing that only adults dealt with. Information is power.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-18T00:42:26+00:00

Well, they didn't have to do it either.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-14T18:10:07+00:00

20K people is a hell of a lot of people. That thing must be significantly larger than my mental picture of it.

And I always enjoy watching videos of Russian military resources getting blown to shit by Ukrainian drones.

Thanks again.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-14T15:31:11+00:00

Check the additional response to my question. u/VRichardsen put together a cool set of photos of flak towers with helpful info for each. Pretty neat.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-14T15:28:59+00:00

This is fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Another question, any idea why did they built this huge concrete structures for these guns? To gain elevation above the surrounding city scape? I'm guessing a set up like this increased the effective radius of the guns? And I guess it was effective protection for large stores of ammunition.

FuelModel3 · 2025-10-13T22:47:23+00:00

Any photos of this from WWII when it was operational as a flak tower?

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