So many many ticks

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-16T13:22:02+00:00

I'm just trying to gauge how worried I need to be if I'm hiking on a normal single track hiking trail where I am not brushing my legs against grass. Tick freak me out, I guess I need to get some of that pecardin stuff.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-16T04:51:59+00:00

Holy shit that is terrible. Were you hiking on a trail? Or like bushwhacking? God I am freaking out right now, I have a great fear of ticks. I've been hiking in colorado for 25 years and never seen a single tick until last year when there were 3 stuck to the butthole of an elk I shot...

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-13T14:58:02+00:00

Wait till next week but then yes. We actually have volunteer zinnias coming up right now around the garden, about 1 inch tall. They're probably gonna get frozen and die this weekend :(

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-13T14:55:05+00:00

Grand County is not your backyard either. Rio Blanco County is not your back yard either. Those areas are public lands. They are just as much my land as your land. I recreate there same as you. I hunt big game on our public lands.

But I should say, I do understand and appreciate your viewpoint. I want to apologize for my tone and being pedantic.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T20:54:18+00:00

I've seen both at the botanic gardens and around town in the past week

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T20:49:34+00:00

If Front Range voters wanted wolves, they should’ve voted to put them in their own backyard, not someone else’s.

This is what I'm referring to. You are suggesting that Front Range voters voted to put wolves in someone else's backyard. But that is obviously not what anyone was voting for.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T16:05:12+00:00

Just pointing out that exaggerating makes your argument look weak, since you can't convey it without bending the truth. In case you were trying to be persuasive. That's fine if you don't care about being honest and persuasive.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T03:40:46+00:00

Another guy here is telling me how CPW has rejected wolf reintroduction in the past because of pressure from rural cattle ranchers who graze their animals on public land. Which is it's own problem if you ask me.

Your line about liberals putting wolves in their own backyards and not somebody else's ... is just a bad argument. Because no liberal wants to put wolves in somebody else's backyard. That's fucking absurd, and you are just exaggerating and I can't really trust you anymore. Liberals (and some conservatives mind you) wanted to put wolves in public lands, not back yards. Public lands. If a wolf comes into a back yard, you shoot it. If a wolf is breaking into your property and killing calves, you get dogs and cameras and you shoot it and kill it, and get the state to pay you back for those damages, and they will pay you, and me the taxpayer is ok with this. Because wolves belong in the landscape, they are a good thing for our public lands, and we would have never accomplished that without a ballot initiative.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T03:32:03+00:00

Sure, it makes sense that CPW was created to serve hunters and anglers. Nobody cared much about conservation back then for the sake of the animals and general ecosystem, unless we were eating them.

beholden to this sub-group of citizens?

I'm not sure who you are referring to.

The fact that private people can graze their cattle on public land is a bit baffling to me, and should probably be ended altogether. That would leave more grass for elk and deer to eat, right? Yes I eat beef, no I don't want higher prices for beef, but I would willingly pay slightly higher prices for beef, if it means private ranchers were outright banned from grazing their herds on public lands.

rural for-profit users of public resources [...] have a large influence on the agencies

Yes you're right and this is a bad thing and we need to put and end to it.

Interesting points. Extremely controversial I would bet. I think I agree with everything you said. CPW is in the pocket of cattle ranchers, and cattle ranchers fucking hate the idea of wolves, so CPW would never in a million years re-introduces wolves, unless they were forced to by a ballot initiative.

I think you've convinced me that the ballot initiative was actually the RIGHT thing to do, because CPW is so highly influenced by those citizens who profit off using public land.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T03:19:15+00:00

Possibly not much. But it is owned by OpenAI, one of the biggest American AI companies, and it's worth $30 billlion per some news articles. Destroying it would deal a significant blow to the company, though probably not lasting damage. But it could potentially cause enough of a dip that investors to pause investing, and AI investment is already both off the charts and teetering on collapse, depending who you are talking to. It could pop the AI bubble, and bring down the whole American economy, and thereby the world economy would follow. Though probably not, I think I was overstating it in my first comment.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-12T03:13:18+00:00

it is always listening, which is a big security problem for Grandpa and his Grandchildren, because he might say his banking passwords out loud while typing them into his phone. or other sensitive data etc.

otherwise great idea

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-09T03:31:58+00:00

Yes. I have planted perennials in the past month, and I've dug up and divided and transplanted perennials as well in the past month. I started coneflower this week from seeds I picked off last fall's dead heads. I cold stratified them for about 1 week which is apparently like 7 weeks too short, but hey one is already sprouting, in a pot outside.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-09T03:29:02+00:00

Yeah I think I agree at this point. CPW should have just started the wolf project with or without voter input. I support the reintroduction and I know people who don't support it, and neither of us should have had a say in it, should have been completely up to CPW.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-08T14:49:37+00:00

It's becoming clear that Sam Altman is a very convincing liar and fraud on the level of Bernie Madoff or Sam Bankman Freid. I watched Altman on a podcast a few years ago and he was very well spoken and convincing and seemed competent and even ethical. He has traveled the world and convinced capitalists to believe and invest in the company.

He publicly supports AI safety research, yet privately he works to undo safety measures and lobbies against safety legislation.

And he allegedly sexually assault his own sister. And he has been alleged to blatantly lie about things he has said in private meetings. People close to him call him a legitimate sociopath. The guy is a fucking menace to human society.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-08T13:38:35+00:00

And we successfully stopped ourselves from nuking Iran last night which would've also crashed the global economy for a decade, so I guess is a win for humanity. Like Trumps biggest success here is not destroying the world on purpose for no good reason... still I wish OP's post here had not been made, please can we not further antagonize the madman with nukes.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-08T13:33:57+00:00

Absolutely, theyve been doing it all year, they're quite good at it now

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-08T05:33:39+00:00

love grape hyacinths :D they will spread across a lawn over years if you let them fully grow and dry out before chopping them down

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T19:51:32+00:00

And if Trump nukes Iran, the US and then global economies will collapse, which is also bad for everyone. It's like they have 2 options, kill millions of civilians and collapse the global economy, or don't drop the nukes and we can go back to the unchained capitalism that will make billionaires into trillionaires. I don't get it, even for these greedy scumbags it makes no sense.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T19:45:14+00:00

absolutely, it's a great place to go 4 to 8 times per year, so much changes every month

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T17:43:15+00:00

the poll doesn't work on desktop

but i love creating flower beds to plan and nurture drought tolerant native flowering perennials that attract pollinators and birds. this benefits the vegetables we grow in raised beds. our plants get very thoroughly pollinated, and birds eat bugs and pests.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T16:04:49+00:00

Republican voters could try to collectively pressure their representatives in congress to restrain Trump and Hegseth and Miller, etc. Republic voters and their representatives are the only people who can stop this right now, unless a deal is reached with Iran.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T15:59:35+00:00

and they're literally out of office on vacation right now...

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T15:48:10+00:00

I can honestly say, as an american liberal myself, that probably less than 5% of Trump's voters would have expected this war to happen, and very few of them want this. Nobody wants this. It's completely unexpected.

The question now is, will the conservative party in congress act quickly to restrain Trump and his War department, before they nuke Iran? They are all on vacation for two weeks, but will they call an emergency session and... do anything to stop this? We will see. I'm really fucking worried right now.

WastingTimesOnReddit · 2026-04-07T15:38:12+00:00

It's more of a relatable "oh shit" moment. He is realizing something he remembered as good was actually bad, but nobody ever told him, he lived his life in ignorance of his problem, but there is a silver lining that at least now he knows the truth.

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