Kingpenm3

The watermelons you are buying this time of year are probably grown in Honduras last year and been in cold storage since.

Lost my feed after the first hour

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Any thoughts for my entirely sober but apparently crazy arse?

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Headed to work about 6 months ago. I saw something shiny as if the sun was reflecting from it. It was perfectly stationary thousands of feet in the air. Stared at it for about a minute and then it just disappeared.

From Gemini-

As of early 2026, Ted Turner remains one of the largest private landowners in North America, holding approximately 2 million acres across several states and countries.

Following the news of his passing on May 6, 2026, his long-standing conservation plans are now being enacted to ensure his land empire continues to operate as a "self-sustaining" ecological model.


Land Ownership Overview

Turner’s holdings are roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. His primary properties include:

New Mexico: Over 1.1 million acres, featuring the Armendaris, Ladder, and Vermejo reserves.

Nebraska: Approximately 450,000 acres in the Sandhills region, including the Spikebox and McGinley ranches.

Montana: Home to the famous Flying D Ranch, which spans over 113,000 acres.

Other Locations: Significant acreage in Kansas, South Dakota, and international holdings in Argentina.


Plans for the Land After His Passing

Turner spent decades preparing a "perpetual" management strategy designed to prevent his lands from being subdivided or sold for development. His estate plan focuses on three pillars:

Turner Enterprises & Sustainable Business: Unlike traditional non-profit preserves, Turner’s ranches are managed as economically viable businesses. Revenue from bison ranching, sustainable timber, and high-end eco-tourism (via Ted Turner Reserves) is designed to fund the conservation work indefinitely without relying on outside grants.

The Turner Endangered Species Fund (TESF): This fund will continue to use his private lands as laboratories for restoring imperiled species, such as the Mexican gray wolf, Bolson tortoise, and Westslope cutthroat trout.

Conservation Easements: Most of his properties are protected by strict legal agreements that mandate they remain in their natural state. These easements "run with the land," meaning future owners or managers are legally prohibited from developing the property.

Family Stewardship: His five children have long been involved in his conservation boards and are expected to oversee the Turner Foundation and his companies to maintain his vision of "rewilding" the American West.

"The planet is collapsing all around us. My goal is to leave it a little better than I found it." — Ted Turner

Anyone have any websites that surprise you for how poorly they perform?

My big one is tractorsupply.com. Over a minute of load time on pages. Pages get timed out all the time.

But the more surprising one is bestbuy.com. Of all the sites that you would expect to be optimized, nope. Same thing, you put a filter on search results and just sit there while half the page loads and half the page just blinks.

Shouldn't be a throughput issue, is it processing on the server end?

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136,000 acre

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Who owns the land now?

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A poster here is a great tennis coach and I was shocked when he told me it’s almost impossible for americans to make d1 rosters. Even at small schools like USM the players come from countries like Thailand or Spain.

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I was at the Louisiana High School tennis tournament last week. There are 2200 high school students that played this year. I bet 5 make a college roster next year because there are so few opportunities for them.

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I’m trying to remember. I feel like I said it every day in elementary school and maybe stopped in Middle School?

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You stopped?

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PSC

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Don't expect any help from them. They are worthless.