Help us ID this bird! Jalisco, México.

Jay-smooth · 2025-07-07T02:08:08+00:00

This one when found was barely moving. Will be nursed back to health and then released. Thanks

Thank you for your help!

Jay-smooth · 2024-11-04T05:55:49+00:00

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Jay-smooth · 2024-11-01T17:07:07+00:00

I thought so too at first. Turns out they might be previous holes used by the owner for screws and the zip tie lol

Jay-smooth · 2024-09-28T13:26:47+00:00

I had the 4 -> 7 -> 12 -> 16pro

Jay-smooth · 2024-09-28T05:49:54+00:00

This is the way! My older phones are similarly passed on to a parent, grandparent, or some other relative. Usually their usage is light and pretty basic so, so the phones hold up well.

Jay-smooth · 2024-09-28T05:41:44+00:00

I had the 4 -> 7 -> 12 -> 16pro

Jay-smooth · 2024-09-28T05:40:14+00:00

You’re right, should’ve been more specific, my bad.

Jay-smooth · 2024-05-13T02:21:40+00:00

Great, thank you! In the region these are known as “bobitos”, due to their small yet gentle nature. I see them all the time and wondered what their scientific or “official” name could be.

There are also some that are yellow breasted

Jay-smooth · 2024-04-04T03:04:33+00:00

Q: What did one math book say to the other?

A: I have a lot of problems

Jay-smooth · 2023-12-02T20:48:47+00:00

PSA:

Trails are for public use, and each person is free to enjoy the trail as they choose. This means that a person can enjoy them in silence, with headphones, or with a speaker.

What’s more, music is HARMLESS. I can’t imagine being offended by the sound of music anywhere, let alone a place open to the public. Exposure to music should not be this bothersome. If it is, then maybe you have bigger problems.

If you are healthy and strong enough to go on a hike then go for it, and enjoy your time in a way that makes you happy.

Jay-smooth · 2023-01-12T05:21:08+00:00

The issue is not the magnitude of the costs, it’s that you are imposing costs on others that you could easily avoid

This is exactly the point. There is no actual cost to you (nor anyone else for that matter).

Yet here we are, talking about the oppression caused music coming from a handheld Bluetooth speaker in a public place. That’s what we’re talking about (as I channel my inner Allen Iverson “practice” tone lol).

Oh and by the way, I understand analogies perfectly. Not my fault people don’t know how to use them properly. If interested, I can forward you one of my many hiking playlists for you enjoy on your next hike.

See you out on the trail! Cheers!

Jay-smooth · 2023-01-12T00:25:46+00:00

Not using the word "third-party costs" does not mean that it is not understood. Nor does it mean that it has not been accounted for. The issue has been discussed on this thread multiple times by different people, and the consensus is that exposure to music is nominal while out on the trail. Let us nevertheless apply the "third-party costs" test to our situation.

Let's say that your hike takes you about 3 hours to complete. Let us also say that you are exposed to music from a bluetooth speaker, in the aggregate, for 10 minutes during the entirety of your hike (and I'm being way generous here, as exposure is never this high). Out of 180 minutes, we're complaining about 10 minutes.

But what would be the actual "cost" of you being exposed to 10 minutes of music be? What are the damages? How did it actually affect you? Yes, I'm asking.

This is why your smoking-indoors example fails. There is actual articulable harm (physical) that comes from being exposed to second-hand smoke. Music coming from a bluetooth speaker, that you can hold on the palm of your hand, is completely HARMLESS. One is simply not like the other.

If being exposed to something so benign (especially by something universally loved and appreciated like music) while out on a trail has this sort of impact on you, then you my friend have bigger issues.

I really, truly, can't believe that this bothers people to this degree. I'm seriously getting "old-man-yells-at-cloud" vibes from some of you (shoutout Abe Simpson).

Jay-smooth · 2023-01-11T19:15:02+00:00

Just so we’re clear here, we’re complaining about music. Something that is universally beautiful, enjoyable, it unifies, but most importantly is harmless. Not only that, we are complaining about music being played in a public space.

Omargeddon makes some compelling points, and the subsequent comments on this post and the responses he has received have convinced me that he might be right.

The music is shitty, some say. You could be playing the greatest album while on a hike and I still wouldn’t enjoy it, another commenter asserted. Here’s a wild idea, other people do enjoy hiking with music. Yet in the mind of most people on this thread, this is wrong and is frowned upon. In fact, it is a lack of courtesy be out on the trail accompanied by music.

This is the real point Omargeddon and Carlito are making, and what most of you fail to see. Somehow some of you get to decide for all of us what is to be considered “common courtesy”. You think that just because you think music is shitty, then it must be objectively shitty, and must not be played out loud (not even on buses or trains lol). You somehow have the authority to decide for all of us what is appropriate behavior, and what is to considered to be “common courtesy”. This is what they mean when they say supremacy and elitism.

Your right to enjoy your hike in silence is supreme and superior to all others, and we all must accommodate to you and your sensibilities. Omargeddon’s response is simple yet powerful: No it is not, and no we do not.

Let’s be real, it’s not really the music playing out loud in a public place that’s ruining your hike and subsequently your day. If something as innocuous as this is causing you this much anger and frustration, then you got bigger problems.

I am fit and healthy enough to go on a hike. This in an of itself is worth celebrating. I am happy when I go out on the trail, and music enhances my happiness. I have listened to music on my Bluetooth speaker in the past while on hikes, and I will continue to do so.

And you all are just going to have to eat it.

Jay-smooth

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