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[x Tame Impala]

Just felt my first earthquake ever here in NE.

What's it like?

Didn't we have a really small one in Illinois like a decade ago or am i misremembering?

 

[ChiHawks10]

What's it like?

Didn't we have a really small one in Illinois like a decade ago or am i misremembering?

Illinois has a bunch every year. Mostly southern Illinois, down towards Missouri. And they're mostly small. I think the one you're remembering was just last year in Northern Illinois, and was like a 3.5 or something along those lines.

Illinois, USA, Earthquakes: Latest Quakes

Latest Quakes in or near Illinois, USA: This month: 1 quake | Latest quake: M3.0 Near O'Fallon, Missouri, USA | | Strongest past month: Mag.2.8 1 km NNE of Germantown, Illinois

www.volcanodiscovery.com

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Slept through my only earthquake back when I was in college in southeastern Indiana.

 

[x Tame Impala]

The cicadas are coming in full force this year. The 17 year cicadas AND the 13 year cicadas cycle is lining up for the first time in like 200 years apparently. It's going to be nuts.

 

[TLEH]

What's it like?

Didn't we have a really small one in Illinois like a decade ago or am i misremembering?

Not sure, I grew up in Orlando for the most part. It just felt like a little tremble here in Vermont for like 30 seconds.

 

[ChiHawks10]

The cicadas are coming in full force this year. The 17 year cicadas AND the 13 year cicadas cycle is lining up for the first time in like 200 years apparently. It's going to be nuts.

Yep. Just the 17 year ones were insane last time around. My dogs will have lots of extra protein in their diet when they pop up... lol.

 

[Paul Allen]

What's it like?

Didn't we have a really small one in Illinois like a decade ago or am i misremembering?

I remember my first earthquake was 07/08 while I was at SUIE outside of St. Louis.

I’ve slept through plenty out here in LA

The biggest one I’ve experienced went on for about 90 seconds, it was like my house was a boat in the ocean going up and down with the swell.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Happy eclipse day. Spent the night downstate to save on some of the travel, price inflation thankfully not a thing outside the path of totality, so much shorter drive in store for today.

 

[belfour30]

Totality Mountain Home, AR.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

The cicadas are coming in full force this year. The 17 year cicadas AND the 13 year cicadas cycle is lining up for the first time in like 200 years apparently. It's going to be nuts.

Keep your eye out for horny infected cicadas

Once the cicadas emerge from the ground, they molt into adults, and within a week to 10 days, the fungus causes the backside of their abdomens open up. A chalky, white plug erupts out, taking over their bodies and making their genitals fall off.

"The cicada continues to participate in normal activities, like it would if it was healthy," Kasson told CBS News. "Like it tries to mate, it flies around, it walks on plants. Yet, a third of its body has been replaced by fungus. That's really kind of bizarre."

"But there's also something else unusual about it," he said. "There's this hyper-sexualized behavior. So, males for example, they'll continue to try and mate with females — unsuccessfully, because again, their back end is a fungus. But they'll also pretend to be females to get males to come to them. And that doubles the number of cicadas that an infected individual comes in contact with."

Usually, male cicadas will let out a loud humming sound to attracted female cicadas and the female will flick her wings to signal she wants to mate. But the fungus has males flicking their wings like females to attract males and in turn, infect them, Kasson says.

Nature is f***ed up sometimes

 

[Mrfenn92]

Keep your eye out for horny infected cicadas







Nature is f***ed up sometimes

Glad I’m not a cicada

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Benton, IL was a blast. As usual, irl was way better than a filter-less photo.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

This is the worst birthday ever

Have to take my dog in to be put to sleep in 3 hours

Her health has been going downhill in recent weeks but I was hoping I could put this off longer but this morning she is clearly in discomfort and struggling to even get up and walk. In recent weeks besides issues walking/slowing down dramatically she has struggled with her peeing/pooping and at times appears as if she doesn't know where she is (Stopping and starring as if she loses track of why she was going into a room)

She was also a dog that would always want to go out and even in late Feb would still get excited when I would go open door. But in recent weeks she barely wanted anything to do with outside and would stand aimlessly staring after going out. Also stopped waging her tail or showing joy when even my nieces/nephews came over in recent weeks.

This part of things is just awful and this will be 4th dog I will have had to put to sleep in my life. Her sister was put down because of cancer years ago

16 years is long time to have dog (Almost all my dogs and cat have had long lives),,, ugh think this is last one for me

 

[hawksrule]

This is the worst birthday ever

Have to take my dog in to be put to sleep in 3 hours

Her health has been going downhill in recent weeks but I was hoping I could put this off longer but this morning she is clearly in discomfort and struggling to even get up and walk. In recent weeks besides issues walking/slowing down dramatically she has struggled with her peeing/pooping and at times appears as if she doesn't know where she is (Stopping and starring as if she loses track of why she was going into a room)

She was also a dog that would always want to go out and even in late Feb would still get excited when I would go open door. But in recent weeks she barely wanted anything to do with outside and would stand aimlessly staring after going out. Also stopped waging her tail or showing joy when even my nieces/nephews came over in recent weeks.

This part of things is just awful and this will be 4th dog I will have had to put to sleep in my life. Her sister was put down because of cancer years ago

16 years is long time to have dog (Almost all my dogs and cat have had long lives),,, ugh think this is last one for me

Sorry man, losing a dog is painful, I wish they had longer lifespans.

 

[ChiHawks10]

This is the worst birthday ever

Have to take my dog in to be put to sleep in 3 hours

Her health has been going downhill in recent weeks but I was hoping I could put this off longer but this morning she is clearly in discomfort and struggling to even get up and walk. In recent weeks besides issues walking/slowing down dramatically she has struggled with her peeing/pooping and at times appears as if she doesn't know where she is (Stopping and starring as if she loses track of why she was going into a room)

She was also a dog that would always want to go out and even in late Feb would still get excited when I would go open door. But in recent weeks she barely wanted anything to do with outside and would stand aimlessly staring after going out. Also stopped waging her tail or showing joy when even my nieces/nephews came over in recent weeks.

This part of things is just awful and this will be 4th dog I will have had to put to sleep in my life. Her sister was put down because of cancer years ago

16 years is long time to have dog (Almost all my dogs and cat have had long lives),,, ugh think this is last one for me

Sorry to hear man. Always tough to have to do that.

Sorry man, losing a dog is painful, I wish they had longer lifespans.

Yeah, it's kinda shitty that one of the most loyal and loving creatures in our lives have such short lifespans.

 

[swerdnase]

So sorry to hear that. It's always a tough decision to make but it's good that you're doing what's best for her. Easy to hang on a little too long because it's painful for you. We've had to put down four dogs ourselves. It's never easy.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Sorry to hear man. Always tough to have to do that.

Yeah, it's kinda shitty that one of the most loyal and loving creatures in our lives have such short lifespans.

Yeah, its bullshit that dogs/cats have such limited lifespans while something as useless as a New Zealand eel can live as long as human being (Some have lived over 100 years)

 

[x Tame Impala]

This is the worst birthday ever

Have to take my dog in to be put to sleep in 3 hours

Her health has been going downhill in recent weeks but I was hoping I could put this off longer but this morning she is clearly in discomfort and struggling to even get up and walk. In recent weeks besides issues walking/slowing down dramatically she has struggled with her peeing/pooping and at times appears as if she doesn't know where she is (Stopping and starring as if she loses track of why she was going into a room)

She was also a dog that would always want to go out and even in late Feb would still get excited when I would go open door. But in recent weeks she barely wanted anything to do with outside and would stand aimlessly staring after going out. Also stopped waging her tail or showing joy when even my nieces/nephews came over in recent weeks.

This part of things is just awful and this will be 4th dog I will have had to put to sleep in my life. Her sister was put down because of cancer years ago

16 years is long time to have dog (Almost all my dogs and cat have had long lives),,, ugh think this is last one for me

Sorry to hear it my man. It’s a sad, sad, thing losing your pets.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

It was awful as expected to go thru with it

But it was clearly time she laid down entire trip to vet and then inside she laid on table entire time without any of old self (In past she would be anxious, growl at workers, want to leave, etc)

I just kept petting her until she went to sleep

 

[ChiHawks10]

It was awful as expected to go thru with it

But it was clearly time she laid down entire trip to vet and then inside she laid on table entire time without any of old self (In past she would be anxious, growl at workers, want to leave, etc)

I just kept petting her until she went to sleep

Sorry bud.

 

[Giovi]

This is the worst birthday ever

Have to take my dog in to be put to sleep in 3 hours

Her health has been going downhill in recent weeks but I was hoping I could put this off longer but this morning she is clearly in discomfort and struggling to even get up and walk. In recent weeks besides issues walking/slowing down dramatically she has struggled with her peeing/pooping and at times appears as if she doesn't know where she is (Stopping and starring as if she loses track of why she was going into a room)

She was also a dog that would always want to go out and even in late Feb would still get excited when I would go open door. But in recent weeks she barely wanted anything to do with outside and would stand aimlessly staring after going out. Also stopped waging her tail or showing joy when even my nieces/nephews came over in recent weeks.

This part of things is just awful and this will be 4th dog I will have had to put to sleep in my life. Her sister was put down because of cancer years ago

16 years is long time to have dog (Almost all my dogs and cat have had long lives),,, ugh think this is last one for me

Sorry to hear. The last days with a pet are always hard. Don't give up on having pets though, remember the years of joy they bring.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

 

[Pez68]

 

[Hattrick Kane]

 

[x Tame Impala]

I saw him at the airport like 6 months ago. Everyone was still going up to him like he was a huge celebrity and not a murderer. It was strange.

I was only 4 or 5 years old when the Bronco chase happened so I couldn’t appreciate how huge of a celebrity he was. He was basically one of the first football superstars right? Super-talented and successful on the field and then appearing in all sorts of things on tv and movies?