What's your favorite small town bars? Best food? Funnest atmosphere? Quirkiest events? I love Gopher Days at the Wheel Inn out in Lincoln or grabbing a local beef burger at the Cut Bank Brewery myself! Would love to hear where everyone is going.
Here's an easy one. If you dont know the name of the mountain, location will do.
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I live up a mountain with a primitive dirt (mostly rock, boulders and ruts) road. I use a 2005 gen 2 CRV AWD as my "going to town car" for the gas mileage. She can get up and down pretty well, but I have to slow to a crawl through certain sections and scrape the bottom occasionally because the clearance is so low and in snow I basically become a plow.
I'm hoping to get at least a 2inch lift, but I've heard so many mixed things about lift kits on these things. It seems like spacer kits are a no go and I'm not sure what route is best for a suspension lift. If anyone has done a successful lift on these or has an insight/advice on doing one, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks everyone!
Title. She turned around and drove it home said it was being weird. Got in the truck and immediately noticed 4lo on. What could be the damage.
July 31, 2026
By Abha Bhattarai
Americans are looking for ways to save as the costs of basic necessities continues to rise. With inflation clocking in at an eye watering 1200% rise for the year, even those in higher income brackets have been tightening their belts and pinching pennies. Economist and viral tik tok creator Lou Sital, who's viewership has exploded over the past year, offers financial tips and tricks to a growing audience of wallet conscious consumers.
"Number one thing most people aren't considering is that if you withdraw and burn the cash you have, not only can debtors not collect it from you. But you're actually increasing the value of the money you'll earn in the future." Says Sital, who despite his success has also felt the pressure of rising costs. "If you're like me and only earn a few million a year, you might want to consider firing a few maids or hiring illegal immigrants for lower wages. It's not always easy, but in this economy nothing is."
Many lower income Americans have also swapped out buying expensive groceries for more thrifty alternatives. Money-wise nutritionist Ura Phattas has seen a rise in penny pinching trends and is currently writing a book on the subject. "If youre trying to find cost friendly alternatives, consider eating rocks in cigarette butts off the floor. These items are much cheaper than typical groceries and tend to leave you feeling fuller longer..." Phattas explains. "You could also consider giving up food altogether. Being dead is much cheaper than being alive, many Americans are finding that to be a more budget friendly option."
As costs continue to rise, experts have no doubt we'll continue to see more trends to save.
The New York Times
By Eleanor Vance
July 29, 2026
CHICAGO — It began, as so many scientific revolutions do, with a stubborn case of tinnitus. Dr. Miriam Kessler, an otolaryngologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, was testing a new sub-millimeter endoscope on a patient who complained of a faint, rhythmic clicking in his left ear, a sound he described as “a tiny pickaxe on stone.”
What Dr. Kessler expected to find was a stray hair or a fleck of wax vibrating against the tympanic membrane. What she saw instead, magnified a thousandfold on her monitor, stopped her breath. Nestled in the gentle curve of the ear canal, just beyond the isthmus, was a cluster of structures that resembled a minuscule, organic settlement. And moving among them were figures. Bipedal. Deliberate. Watching her.
“I thought I was having a neurological event,” Dr. Kessler said in an interview. “I blinked, checked the focus, and they were still there, staring back at me. One of them waved. I am a woman of science. I don’t use the word ‘miracle.’ But I had to sit down.”
The figures, measuring between 200 and 350 microns in length, are the first complex, multicellular organisms ever discovered living in symbiosis within the human auditory canal. Dubbed Homo auricularis in a paper published this week in the journal Nature Microbiome, they are already being called, with a mixture of awe and bemusement, “the Ear People.” And in a twist that has captivated the public imagination far beyond the rarefied world of micro-biology, emerging evidence suggests these minuscule tenants may be the long-sought culprits behind one of the most persistent domestic frustrations: the inexplicable disappearance of single socks.
The research team, a multi-institutional consortium led by Dr. Kessler and theoretical biologist Dr. Aris Thorne of the Santa Fe Institute, has spent the last eighteen months secretly mapping the world of H. auricularis. What they describe is a truly alien civilization, existing not just within us, but woven into the fabric of our daily lives.
The creatures live in architecturally complex “audio-villages” constructed from a bio-cement of earwax, shed skin cells, and a fibrous material that initially confounded the researchers. Their bodies are elongated and semi-translucent, with a bilateral symmetry that echoes our own. They possess large, dark-pigmented eyes, exquisitely adapted to the perpetual twilight of the ear canal, and four multi-jointed limbs ending in delicate, adhesive pads. Communication appears to be a blend of subsonic vibrations, transmitted directly through the bones of the skull, and a bioluminescent language of light flashes, invisible to the naked human eye.
“Their society is shockingly sophisticated,” Dr. Thorne explained, pulling up a 3D rendering on a tablet. The image showed a tiered metropolis climbing the canal wall, complete with a central spiral ramp, communal chambers, and what he identified as “fiber-curing pens.” “We’ve observed distinct castes: builders, foragers, a queen-like matriarch that is twice the size of the others, and a sentinel class that monitors the tympanic membrane. That clicking sound Dr. Kessler’s patient heard? We think it was the sentinels, sounding an alarm. They were aware of the endoscope. They were evaluating a threat.”
The connection to missing socks emerged almost by accident. A graduate student analyzing the chemical composition of the villages’ structural fibers noticed a familiar polymer signature: a mercerized, long-staple cotton, typical of premium athletic socks, blended with trace elements of synthetic dryer lint. Further analysis found microscopic dye particles in the cerumen-mortar matching 186 distinct shades, from “heathered charcoal” to “neon coral.”
A covert observation of a volunteer’s home, conducted with the informed consent of the resident (and the unknowing participation of his tabby cat, who proved an indifferent observer), provided the behavioral link. Under cover of total darkness, a foraging party of H. auricularis was filmed migrating from the host’s ear. The footage, published as supplementary material to the paper, is astonishing. The line of dozens, moving in disciplined tandem, travels across the pillow, down the bedsheet, and onto the floor, a journey that, at their scale, is a miles-long expedition. Their destination: the laundry hamper, and more specifically, the dark, fibrous sanctuary of a loosely woven sock.
“They don’t take the whole sock,” Dr. Thorne said. “That would be a logistical impossibility, a colony of Brobdingnagians trying to carry away a whale. Instead, they harvest individual micro-fibers, unwinding them with a technique that involves a synchronized twisting motion. Over successive nights, they can dismantle a sock from the toe down, leaving no trace of lint — just a sock that is, one morning, inexplicably shorter, thinner, and then, eventually, gone. It’s a masterclass in distributed, undetectable engineering.”
The theory, dubbed the “Acoustic Textile Hypothesis,” posits that the fibers, once cured in their cerumen matrix, create a material with unique sound-dampening and vibrational properties, perfect for insulating their dwellings and, perhaps, refining their aural perception of our world. They are not stealing socks for warmth; they are building a concert hall.
Reaction from the scientific community has ranged from stunned validation to deep skepticism. Dr. Ravi Kapoor, a leading mycologist at Johns Hopkins who has long theorized that household entropy is a function of unreported fungal blooms, called the findings “the most elegant nonsense I’ve ever read.”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Dr. Kapoor said in a phone call. “I’ve seen the supplementary videos. The resolution at that scale is incredible, but how do we rule out contamination from common dust mites, or even a very elaborate, AI-generated hoax? The ‘sock expedition’ is a lovely story, but it’s teleology. We want there to be a reason for the chaos. Before I accept a civilization in my auditory meatus, I need to see one harvesting a microfiber under controlled conditions.”
Yet, independent replication may already be underway. A lab at the University of Tokyo has reported observing similar bioluminescent signatures in ear-canal swabs, and a team at the University of Copenhagen has released a preprint documenting micro-tools — tiny hooks wrought from cat whisker fragments — found in samples of human earwax, suggesting a broader, previously invisible ecosystem.
The implications are dizzying. Are these creatures the source of the “phantom vibration” syndrome? Do they influence our hearing, perhaps subtly filtering out unpleasant sounds? Dr. Kessler, who has become the reluctant voice of a paradigm shift, is cautious. “We must not anthropomorphize. This is not ‘Horton Hears a Who.’ They are not a secret, miniature mirror of our society. They are a biological phenomenon, a new branch on the tree of life that we have somehow missed. Their existence asks us a humbling question: what else have we missed?”
In the practical meantime, one piece of advice has emerged from the preliminary observations: to protect a pair of favorite cashmere socks, you don’t nee
d to seal them in a vault. You need to keep them off the floor at night. The Ear People, it turns out, are efficient climbers but poor long-distance jumpers.
As for the larger mystery of why it’s always the left sock, Dr. Thorne allows himself a small, speculative smile. “Our data shows a statistically significant preference for the right ear canal in right-handed hosts, likely due to sleeping posture. The foragers exit from the primary colony’s side. If you habitually sleep on your left, the right ear is exposed skyward, and the right-foot sock is the first target. It’s not magic. It’s geometry.”
He pauses, looking at a 3D model of a fiber-curing pen, a structure no wider than a human eyelash, perfectly designed for a task we never imagined. “Though,” he adds softly, “from their perspective, we are the moving landscape, the weather, the gods. And perhaps, to them, a lost sock is nothing more than a quarry that has finally been exhausted.”
July 28th 2026
A groundbreaking new Harvard study conducted by esteemed Professor Dr. Harvey P. Sip has revolutionized the way scientists look at human urine. Conducting a double blind study over the course of several decades, the study finds that microdosing as well as macro-dosing urine either orally or through the use of a suppository has extraordinary health benefits. The study reports that participants experienced multiple benefits, including elevated mood, better smelling breath as well as increased luck.
"The importance of this study cannot be understated, every doctor in America will change their recommendations based on this new information" Dr. Sip told the New York Times in an exclusive interview. "Urine is truly a wonderful medicine we excrete, and it's been woefully underutilized until now."
The American Institute of Medicine has commended the study, and a followup study is already in progress to find the medicinal properties of fecal ingestion.
What's up Butte America!
I live up by Cascade, and my job will have me in overnight down by you guys. I'm packing my rod with me to do a little fishing while I'm staying in town and was just wondering if anyone had any pointers on some decent places to hook into some fish. I'm not asking for anyone to spot burn their best places or anything, but any pointers are appreciated. I dont mind taking the truck up a dirt road either if thats what it takes. Thanks for reading, stay cool out there! 🥵
Pictures aren't the best, but I've been seeing this guy around with one velvet antler and one normal. You can't really see in the photo, but at the base of the normal antler is a big thick nugget of velvet growing as well. I know injuries to their "huevos" can cause antler growth irregularities like button bucks, but I've never seen one retain the previous seasons antler for so long. Do you think it will just pop off randomly? Most sharing for fun, but curious if anyone has any thoughts or knowledge on the subject!
Posts that show people feeding deer should be against the rules and not platformed on this sub.
I assume everyone here loves deer, which is why we follow this sub. Most the people here know that feeding deer is detrimental to their health on an individual and population level. I recognize not everyone knows this and may feed deer without understanding the repercussions. That being said, allowing the constant stream of deer feeding post adds fuel to that fire, inspiring others to do the same and rewarding those who want to play snow white for fake internet points. As a community of deer lovers, we should be better and not promote content that hurt the animals we love. Many states also consider this to be illegal, and as deer populations continue to suffer from CWD, I believe more states will follow suit banning feeding. Wildlife should be enjoyed from a distance, as close to its natural state as possible.
If you doubt what I'm saying, know that it's not an opinion, its 100% a fact.
Feeding deer concentrates them on the landscape and spreads diseases like CWD and EHD.
It draws them to urban environments where they are hit by cars and culled by local management agencies as pests.
It makes them dependent on handouts, and whole herds can unlearn how to properly forage over time.
Deer are also browsers, which means they feed on shrubs and brushy plants and forbs. Corn, grain, apples and other things people feed deer are not a part of their natural diet and have harmful effects like rumen acidosis, which causes death.
This has all been scientifically studied, and there are plenty of resources available that back this.
Mods should really consider this, it'll make a better community and ultimately help the animals we love so much.
Here is an exhaustive list of different scientific resources that back what I'm saying in case anyone is still doubting.
Edit: oh and if youre a hunter who baits, get gud. You'll be a much better outdoors person if you dont spend your days sitting around a corn feeder, not to mention you'll help increases the chance you and your grandkids will actually have deer to hunt in the future.
From the laughable pay, straight up disrespectful scheduling, to all the disgusting corporate feel-good family BS. This company makes nearly 500 million in profit every week, but cant be bothered to give people a living wage, or work life balance. Safety is put entirely on the shoulders of employees while unsafe equipment stays on the floor forever. Imagine if all the money they spent on AI slop posters, balloons for every break room in the country and producing a constant stream of nonsense training videos went directly into the pockets of the employees enriching Marvin and the bigwigs. I finally quit and I've never felt better. YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS DYSTOPIAN CORPORATE SHITHOLE. And if they have it their way, they WILL replace everyone with AI and robots as soon as its technologically possible, its already starting. Don't wait around to get canned, free yourself! Oh and to the corporate spies lurking here, show some class solidarity 🖕
If you love deer and wildlife, please for the love of all that is good, dont feed them! Your good intentions actively hurt deer in more ways than one, but do t just take my word for it, wildlife biologist unanimously agree that it is detrimental to the wellbeing of deer. Honestly, suggesting to feed deer should be a perma ban, but i dont make the rules here...
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https://idfg.idaho.gov/blog/2022/12/more-harm-good-why-you-shouldnt-feed-backyard-deer
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https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wildlife/research/health/feeding/deer.html
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https://extension.unh.edu/resource/more-harm-good-why-you-shouldnt-feed-deer
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This is what peak performance looks like. No I will not elaborate. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Wish they still made them like this
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HOSSES,
THE AC IN MY 2002 1500 SILVERADO DECIDED TO QUIT ON ME IN THIS 94 DEGREE HEAT AND I’M SWEATIN THROUGH MY CARHARTTS LIKE A WHORE IN CHURCH. LISTEN HERE FOR A WHILE NOW THE FAN ONLY BLEW ON SETTING NUMBER 4. NOT 1, NOT 2, NOT 3. JUST 4. I FIGURED HELL THATS NO BIGGIE, BUT THEN LAST TUESDAY I FIRED UP THE TRUCK TO GO GET A PALLET OF COORS LIGHT AND TURNED IT ON 4 AND IT SOUNDED LIKE A FAMILY OF RACCOONS GOT STUCK IN A CEMENT MIXER. NOW I CRUISE AROUND WITH A BAG OF ICE ON MY NETHER REGIONS BECAUSE I AINT DRIVING A SAUNA.
ANY IDEAS HOSSES? THROW EM AT ME.
GOBBLESS, KEEP CRANKIN, WATCH FOR DEER.
So relieved to see this poor man finally able to return to his family and home. It's been truly amazing to see how the Froid community stood up and took action to help Roberto and his family. There are so many in the US going through similar situations who unfortunately dont have the same support Roberto has received and never receive justice. I'm so happy to see our strong montana communities doing what's right, and doing whatever it takes to help fellow Montanans ✊🏽
It has a loop twisted on one end
Weeks, nay months have passed since I took on this challenge. People scoffed, said it was impossible, but I was determined to see the inside of the private family bathroom. More times than I can recall was I struck with disappointment as I tried to open the handle and finally see the promised land inside, only to find it locked. I stand now basking in the light, no one farting or grunting within mere inches of me, free to get as naked as I need to in order to complete the task ahead. No watchful eyes here. Don't lose hope lads, you too could be this lucky one day.... if you believe.