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Flight there booked. No flights back so driving back to DFW. Hotel booked but it was slim pickings at 5:00 pm last night.

From ESPN: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/playoffpredictions120223/2023-college-football-playoff-picks-conference-championships Here's who our experts are picking to be in the College Football Playoff: Andrea Adelson: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State 4. Texas Blake Baumgartner: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Alabama Kyle Bonagura: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State 4. Alabama Bill Connelly: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State 4. Texas Heather Dinich: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Alabama David Hale: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Florida State 4. Texas Chris Low: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Alabama Harry Lyles Jr.: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State 4. Texas Ryan McGee: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Alabama Adam Rittenberg: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Florida State Alex Scarborough: 1. Washington, 2. Michigan, 3. Texas, 4. Alabama Mark Schlabach: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Texas 4. Alabama Paolo Uggetti: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Florida State Tom VanHaaren: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Florida State Dave Wilson: 1. Washington 2. Michigan 3. Texas 4. Alabama Everyone except Kyle Bonagura has Texas on their list. 10/15 have us at the #3 spot.

Yeah, I think everyone is now assuming Texas is in. The argument has shifted to Bama vs FSU, which is great for us.

They should be excluded purely because of their tomahawk chop and cultural insensitivity. And they play in a terrible conference against bad competition.

Agree with your gonio findings.

I don’t think FSU is getting in. If being undefeated is that important, Liberty is a better option.

I think we want Bama to win an ugly game. Something like 23-17 with a missed XP, couple missed FGs, lots of penalties or turnovers in the second half. Just nothing controversial to the point that people feel UGA got screwed out of a game they deserve to win.

I was planning to go Saturday but wife is now sick. So I have 4 tix for sale if anyone wants them.

Am I the only one that finds this season fairly boring? I’m surprised to see it’s at 100% on RT. There’s not enough actual space stuff. It’s become a bit of a soap opera that exists in an alternate timeline where humans live on Mars, but the actual part about Mars or any space travel/exploration is pretty far in the background. Miles is incredibly boring to me and I don’t think the actor is very good. His scenes feel like a cheesy Netflix or Hallmark movie and drag the show down. I miss characters like Gordo, Tracy, and Molly, and I miss the tension of USA vs. Russia on the moon.

Well that’s a huge relief that I can still watch Looney Tunes on HBO.

I listened to the audiobook when it came out and thought it was just okay. Admittedly could be due to audiobook vs. actually reading the book. I just finished the TV series and thought it was great. A rare case in which the screen version is better than the book version for me.

We went to North Carolina for a long Thanksgiving weekend and really enjoyed it. Aside from a forced layover in Charlotte a couple years ago, we had never spent time there. My wife has always wanted to go because she thinks it could be a reasonable option to move to if we ever reach our breaking point on Texas heat and/or politics. I don’t entirely disagree, but we know very little about NC and we just need to feel it out. Flew into Raleigh and drove to New Bern on the coast where we have extended family. Spent Thanksgiving there and liked the area, but time was mostly tied up with family stuff. Quaint little town though and pretty scenery. Drove down to Wilmington for a couple of extra nights, which seems like a cool place. Found a cool restaurant called Seabird that I can’t recommend enough. The downtown area looked fun but perhaps a tad touristy, although that suited us for a short visit. Drove to Wrightsville Beach which we liked. Also drove to Carolina Beach which felt more like Panama City Beach or South Padre. Went down to Kure Beach which was nicer, but if we go back in the summer, we’d probably pick Wrightsville out of those three. It wasn’t great beach weather but at least we saw it and it was our daughter’s first time seeing the ocean, so that was cool. We both want to go back and see Asheville and the western side of the state. I struggle with the idea of the eastern U.S. having “mountains” after spending so much time in Colorado over the years. Maybe as a lifelong Texan, I’m in no position to be a snob when it comes to their geography. Not sure if I could ever move to NC. The biggest drawback for me is that Charlotte is their best airport and it’s nowhere near the coast. If I ever leave Texas, I want to be close to the coast without losing my easy access to a good airport. There’s some other criteria (good weather, moderate politics) that makes that Venn diagram very complicated for us. But we enjoyed our time there and plan to return.

Awful.

Poster X: Let me tell you everything that’s wrong with Chris Simms and Mack Brown, and oh by the way fuck Greg Davis, Chance Mock nope, Mack needs to go, sophomore Colt McCoy is bad, John Chiles should starts, David Ash nope, Charlie Strong sucks (he really did), Tom Herman sucks (he also really did), Sam Ehlinger nope, Seven Win Steve sucks, Steve’s wife sucks and makes him dress like a bitch, PK is awful, Ewers sucks, give me Arch Manning and perhaps Kirby Smart until I decide they both suck, and if you disagree with any of this over the last 25 years you’re a pathetic sunshine pumper go fuck yourself. Also Poster X: Don’t shit on other fans, we have the same goal.

Hook’em!

Same. They feel like Christmas movies to me, probably because Don Corleone was Christmas shopping when he got shot. That one scene is enough for me to make it a holiday tradition.

We should have immamac move it back here. Or don’t, whatever, but it makes more sense in Travel than in Hobbies.

It’s an activity that is heavily intertwined with travel. At least half of the discussion on skiing is actually discussion about which places are nice to visit, how to get there, where to stay, where to eat, etc. The skiing thread was on the Food and Travel board up until a few years ago and still belongs here.

Knowing what we know today, couldn’t one make an argument that continued corporate investment in China makes said corporation more vulnerable to IP theft, which is a significant threat to future profits and a violation of that fiduciary duty?

Which is a terrible place for it.

They appear to be significantly more expensive. Tru Earth 64 laundry strips for $39.95 Tide 64 load (92 fl oz) laundry detergent for $12.99 I like things that are environmentally friendly, but I struggle when the cost is 3x higher.

I think maybe troph was referring to the posters that originally criticized her for having a lake house and an F350. The intent of this thread is not to criticize each other for things we do that are short of perfect. It’s just a place for discussion of various topics and to share ideas for how we can possibly improve or make more educated decisions. I appreciate some of the different viewpoints that are offered, even if I don’t agree with all of them. I also don’t think sustainability is synonymous with carbon emissions or climate. It can apply to a lot of other areas in life, like what is the best type and source of fish to buy to avoid overfishing our oceans?

This is our setup: The teal bin stays under the kitchen sink and we fill it with compostable food scraps, coffee grounds, wine corks, etc. It gets emptied into the left side of the outdoor compost every 3-4 days. The left side also contains rubbish from the garden, dead flowers, etc. We turn it periodically and use the good stuff to put back into the garden when planting. The right side is for browns - dead leaves, paper bags, some cardboard, etc. We occasionally mix some of it into the left side to give it some more fluff and bulk. I am very much a novice but this is our system which I believe is working.

I saw your second reply and I think this is a valid question to be asking, but it does get more into the politics of the situation, rather than the choices at the individual level. On the one hand, the U.S. and other first-world countries have benefited tremendously from industrial and economic growth throughout the 20th century when no one was paying much attention to things like carbon emissions, clean energy, or the toxic effects of industry on our environment. And now that we do care, and we are economically in a better position to make some positive changes, we also need the entire undeveloped world to make responsible decisions, at a time when they are just getting simple luxuries like electricity and air conditioning. A coal power plant in India will do the same amount of damage as a coal plant in Texas. So I think there is a large amount of responsibility on the developed world to help these other parts of the world. When it comes to places like China (or insert any other country that doesn't want to play ball), I think money is the ultimate motivator. Economics are currently motivating them to use the lowest cost option for electricity and other resources. We would need to shift the economics in the form of tariffs, etc. that would them motivate them to change. We may still import your plastic trinkets, but there is a 200% tariff on it due to the environmental impact of its production, which then makes it such that no one in the U.S. wants to buy those items from that particular country. That of course requires citizens in places like the U.S. and Europe to support these actions, which may be a pipe dream.

Perhaps we are all hypocrites. Our very existence, all 7.9 billion of us, is bad for this planet. The worst thing most of us will ever do in terms of carbon footprint is to procreate. Each little fuck trophy we make is going to consume more and inflict damage. We are humans and we like human things. We’re posting on this message board with devices that have a carbon footprint. Some people have boats or like to travel. So, in light of that, should we not even try? Does troph owning a lake house make it so that she can’t participate in other actions without being ridiculed by you? Do you want to go ahead and ridicule every person here with more than one child? Should we keep drinking Fiji and Evian from plastic bottles, driving our F250s, watering our massive lawns, and just ride this ship down? Do you have kids? What kind of world do you want them to live in? What kind of world do you want your great grandchildren to inherit? Would you rather sit around and point out that every single person is a hypocrite? Is any discussion of trying to do a small good thing too hypocritical for you because you will point out every person’s shortcomings? I haven’t seen one positive thing from you, just showing up long enough to inject negativity. That’s not what this is about. That attitude will be the death of humanity.