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  1. Well, the MMR vaccine efficacy against measles is 97%, so if this shows up in schools, you could expect about 1 in 33 vaccinated kids to get measles. So the selfish and/or ignorant anti-vax crowd is hurting more than just their own family, and even some normal responsible people will suffer.
  2. I really liked this one. Reminded me in some ways of The Dog Stars mixed with a little bit of Station Eleven.
  3. NHM is going to be our elementary in 3 years. Hopefully.
  4. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd9v3r69qo
  5. I like seeing BTC and TSLA going down together and thinking about Elon’s net worth going down.
  6. +1 for Sex Education
  7. I think it depends a little bit on what your interests are, but for my tastes and travel style, it would be hard to visit Mallorca for less than 4 nights. We were there 5 nights and it could’ve easily been 7 nights. If you prefer a lot of sightseeing and historical stuff or museums, you might get bored after a few days. We just like to bum around and scope out small towns, beaches, look at the scenery as we drive from place to place, eat good food, etc. Kind of a slower pace without a big agenda, and Mallorca has plenty to explore in that way.
  8. Since that injury 3 weeks ago, I’ve done very little running. A few treadmill runs and a couple of trail runs, nothing over 3.5 miles. Ankle was feeling decent but not great. I had a ski trip in which it did fine inside my boot, but unfortunately I also had an episode of shingles which affected sleep and my willingness to exercise for a while. I tried to switch my registration to the half marathon but it was too late to do that. I then decided to show up and run as far as I could until I sensed pain and then I would stop, really not expecting much at all. I like the spectacle and vibes of the race environment and I had already paid so I had nothing to lose. My expectations were so low that I drank 3 glasses of red wine last night because today was just a casual jog. Turns out, my ankle held up surprisingly well and my stamina from January was still mostly there. The half marathon turnoff came and I became perturbed at the idea of finishing a half and not even getting a medal, but instead a DNF, and I decided screw that, I would finish the full if I had to walk it. My other foot blistered up which never happens, but I think it was a shoe thing. I powered through and finished with a 4:11 time. Not my fastest but I surprised myself and I’m pretty proud of this one. I’ll rest up and hopefully try again in the fall.
  9. Mediocre but registration was non-refundable so my lame ass got out of bed and went to the starting line. It will probably be a short training run but I’ll cheer on some friends at least.
  10. I’m hoping Milcheck will start to question his loyalties and eventually turn again Lumon and help the innies escape their captivity. I think possibly this episode could be the beginning of that.
  11. What a colossal waste of taxpayer money. Elon is using DOGE to go after his political enemies government waste, blanket firing thousands of Americans from their jobs because he claims they are wasteful, and meanwhile, Trump spends $200MM to proclaim to Americans that he did something good. That money would've paid 2,000 of the people fired a salary of $100K for a year. How in any way is that remotely justifiable? Even if you do believe his bullshit, wouldn't a tweet or a truth or a press conference or something have sufficed? I realize I'm asking stupid questions at this point, but it's maddening to see this unfolding. Telling everyone how much waste there is, then using massive tax dollars to publicly suck his own dick.
  12. I think it would be hilarious if they keep him as a background character with no relevance to this season’s plot and no dialogue, then he gets accidentally killed in the crossfire.
  13. We need more people like this.
  14. I’ve suspected Burt of being an un-severed mole ever since his retirement party. It seemed completely out of character for Lumon to allow an actual severed employee to casually walk away.
  15. https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-need-offset-our-carbon-emissions
  16. I understand all of the objections to vouchers (I'm in that camp), but can someone please provide the rationale for vouchers from those that support them? I'm struggling to see the upside for the vast majority of Texans. 1. From the standpoint of Greg Abbott or one of our other elected state or local officials who is pushing for this, what is the sales pitch in favor of it? Are they saying that private schools are inherently better equipped to provide education than public schools? Isn't that an admission of failure on the part of The State of Texas that they are in control of? How does someone rationalize that? Are they acknowledging that only a small percentage of students will even receive a voucher? What do they claim will be the benefit for everyone else who doesn't receive or qualify for a voucher? Are they at least giving lipspeak to efforts to simultaneously put more money into public schools, or are they just admitting that public schools are failing and nothing can be done? 2. From the standpoint of Tim Dunn or the Wilks brothers or other billionaires who are pushing for these changes, what are they proposing as the upside? Why do they want this? 3. For the families living in any rural or semi-rural community with few or no private school options, what do they get out of it? What good does a private school voucher do for a family with no available private schools? What is Greg Abbott claiming their upside will be? Creation of new private schools to fill that gap? Will anything also be done to help their struggling small town school districts? Surely, many of these communities are filled with Republican voters who support this guy, but this shift seems to directly harm his voter base. 4. For the families who already send their kids to private school, or who plan to in the future, but make too much money to qualify for a voucher, what is the upside? Additional applicants to their existing private school so the rates go up or their kid may not get accepted? How is the state claiming this will benefit them? Sorry, I know that's a ton of questions, but this entire situation is really hard to understand. If I saw a friend lighting money on fire or cutting off their own finger, I would have a similar list of ridiculous questions.
  17. This is the climate thread but your post reads more like an explanation or a justification of your career in O&G, like maybe you are speaking to an O&G interest group or your family or a therapist, trying to explain your history. I'm not trying to be a dick. The world's understanding of these things was a lot different for most of your career, but we have learned a lot since then. There's a lot of shit we still do today that future generations may not look upon favorably. That's great that your family respected you and your colleagues; I just don't see what those past feelings have to do with climate change today and our path forward. I never suggested that you, PTINS, personally stood in the way of progress to fight climate change. What I'm saying is that the O&G industry as a whole spends millions of dollars on lobbyists to prevent change. That seems pretty indisputable but someone please correct me if that is somehow inaccurate. We should plant more trees, but please tell me you don't seriously think that is the solution. Nothing to do with shifting away from fossil fuels, but simply plant more trees to restore the balance?
  18. Someone should alert Elon and DOGE to go after this FRAUD!!! that is happening in his own state.
  19. Okay, but even then, only a small percentage of rich families who may then see their education expenses rise by a similar number. What’s the point?
  20. Well, Congress was supposed to stop something like this from ever happening, but the Ds are outnumbered and the Rs are scared shitless to stand up to Trump. They are more concerned about their future political careers and the very real prospect of getting primaried in 2 years if they don’t support everything that Trump and Elon want. Elon has said he will contribute $100MM to primary people who aren’t team players. Look at how easily they bullied Senator Joni Ernst into confirming Pete Hegseth. She’s a sexual assault survivor and an outspoken advocate against sexual assault and was respected across the political aisle for that, but they threatened her and she flipped her stance to confirm a man accused of sexual assault and with a very poor history of treating women. That was a dress rehearsal for any future opposition within the Republican Party and the message was highly visible to the rest of Congress.
  21. In fairness to you, fossils fuels are very necessary for you to be able to dip on an airplane in 2025. Some of us are just hoping for a future in which people don’t dip on airplanes and fossils fuels comprise a much smaller percentage of global energy consumption.
  22. Interesting how you put "scientists" in quotation marks as if broadly scientists are suspect and untrustworthy, and then explain that they have an agenda. Maybe we should try that with everyone else as well: "Free money" with an agenda "Venture capitalists" with an agenda "Politicians" with an agenda "Midstream commercial developers" with an agenda "Oil and gas executives" with an agenda
  23. How will we ever find out if the O&G industry makes every effort to prevent change? People would rather bury their heads in the sand and condemn future generations if it means their current income and retirement plans are protected. The world today would not function without fossil fuels, but no one is suggesting we immediately stop using them overnight. That’s a ridiculous strawman argument and you know it. We need to reduce consumption and make progress towards better technologies, but we just elected a president who pulled out of the Paris Agreement because it “imposes unfair burdens on the American economy” (O&G lobbyists want him to help their stocks), and we are instead going to “Drill, baby, drill.”
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