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  1. While that may be true, perhaps the future of the planet should not be left entirely up to public companies and capitalism. Those same public companies have done a shitload of damage to get us here today, and continue to lobby against efforts to shift away from fossil fuels. I would assume that any hope of solving this problem will involve a massive economic loss by governments around the world. This thread has suddenly painted government subsidies in a negative light, as if anything that receives a subsidy is an impractical technology, but these are all pieces of the puzzle and we can’t approach this problem from the standpoint of what is the most profitable. Is it profitable for multiple large hurricanes to hit the east coast and wildfires to destroy Hawaii and California? Imagine 50 years from now. How big of a government investment will be needed to build seawalls around Miami and New Orleans?
  2. Specifically which fossil fuels compared to which renewables? Can you provide sources?
  3. I could give 3 dry fucks about his outie. He put the dick in contradiction.
  4. Can you explain this last comment in more detail? I was under the impression that renewables, or at least wind energy, has a better EROI than sources like oil and natural gas. It looks like solar is considerably worse, but I assume a number of factors go into that with highly variable results.
  5. Watched The Gorge and thought it was mediocre at best. It felt like a cheap Netflix movie of the week and a notch below what I normally expect from Apple+. I liked Miles Teller in Top Gun and The Offer but his acting felt very flat in this, like he wasn’t sure he wanted to be in the movie or not. The supposed chemistry between him and ATJ was nonexistent. I wasn’t expecting much from the plot, just a popcorn action flick, but it somehow fell short of that.
  6. Idiocracy is happening as we speak so it makes sense that Don’t Look Up will also happen.
  7. This is repulsive. I hate our country right now.
  8. It would appear so: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/11/us/president-trump-news https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/politics/musk-trump-conflicts-of-interest/index.html What in the fuck is happening? When has a private citizen ever stood behind the POTUS desk in the Oval Office to address the media? We are so helplessly fucked and we have 1/3 of the country cheering this on and another 1/3 of the country oblivious and wondering why eggs are still expensive. And our entire government has been reduced to 2-3 lunatics wielding unprecedented and unchecked power.
  9. Very similar situation here. I had a 4Runner that was 19 years old before replacing it with a new 4Runner that I currently drive. Wife had a 4Runner that was 14 years old before replacing it with a Tesla Model Y, which was the best EV option we could find at the time of purchase in 2021. Due to Elon’s bullshit, I would very much like to replace her Model Y with a Rivian or other non-Tesla EV, but we are also considering moving houses in the near future, so that’s the financial priority. Switching her car now would be a dumb financial decision, but it is definitely on our list of things to do. There is no way in hell I would buy a Tesla now.
  10. If that bill were to pass, it would not only shut down IVF to future couples who need it, but it could create some significant legal problems for people who have already used it. Destroying an embryo would be considered murder. Suppose you’ve already been through IVF and you have unused embryos that are still frozen. What if you don’t have plans to use them? They will force implantation of all embryos or donate to another couple? What if the mother dies and only the father is left alive with embryos that he cannot biologically carry? Would he be legally required to find a surrogate mother? I guess you could say this is too radical to actually ever happen but look around at the radical shit happening lately. If I hypothetically had frozen embryos right now, perhaps I would hypothetically consider transferring them to another state, but Ken Paxton has previously indicated he would go after Texan women who leave the state for an abortion, so why should this be any different?
  11. I feel like I read that in Project 2025, you know, the radical right wing agenda that Trump denounced and his supporters said would never happen.
  12. If this passes, wouldn’t it effectively end IVF in this state?
  13. I registered for the Cowtown full marathon (Feb 23) and my training has been going really well, had a great 20 miler last week and planned for a 21-22 miler today, and then I sprained my ankle during my run this morning. There was a car sticking out a little bit at an intersection and I ran slightly out of my path to go around it and my foot planted awkwardly where the asphalt met the curb. It was maybe a 1” lip but somehow my foot/ankle fully rolled over and now I can’t put any weight on it. It’s fairly painful and swollen so I’m doing the whole RICE thing. The Cowtown seems out of the question and I’m moderately concerned that my ski trip next weekend will be screwed. Nothing much I can do about it except let it heal and hopefully find another race later in the year. It sucks to feel marathon ready and not get to run the race.
  14. I would like to see The Brutalist but holy hell 3 hr 34 min is a long time to sit in a theater. That will have to wait for streaming for me, which probably means after the Oscars.
  15. I have similar feelings about music biopics but this on was very well done. I think for anyone who likes Dylan’s music or even feels neutral towards him, it should be an enjoyable film.
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    Landman

    I very reluctantly started watching and made it through 3 episodes before calling it quits. For starters, it’s just another version of every other Taylor Sheridan show that features overly macho guys swinging their dicks at each other and a cast of women that is largely portrayed as being stupid and fairly annoying eye candy. If this show was a restaurant, it would be Hooters. It’s very clear that Sheridan struggles to write good female characters which makes me wonder if this is just how he views women. The part that made me quit was the scene with the wind turbines. The lawyer saying “What are those?” was a major eye roll, but then it was followed by a BBT rant against wind and renewable energy that was absurdly false and makes this show appear to be a thinly veiled propaganda piece for the O&G industry. His claims that the wind turbine will not offset its carbon footprint in its 20-year lifespan are not even remotely true. There are plenty of reputable resources that do life-cycle assessments for wind turbines and most indicate that it takes less than a year to offset the initial environmental impact. This is not even a gray area and it’s insulting to the intelligence of the viewer. Perhaps you could say that BBT is speaking from the perspective of his landman character (which is really more of a Midland, Texas ripoff of Michael Clayton if we’re being honest), and that may be true that his character would speak from this obviously biased and misinformed point of view, but he delivers his lines in such an authoritative way and there is no pushback against this to present an alternative viewpoint, so it really feels like Taylor Sheridan is using this character to force his own misinformation onto the viewer. Scenes like this are apparently getting reposted by fans on social media as sort of “gotcha” message, so clearly there is a demographic that gobbles this shit up and it feeds into their misinformation echo chamber. I think there is another one with Jon Hamm in a boardroom and I don’t know beyond that. I don’t expect the show to improve in any of these areas because I think this is just who Sheridan is and he has an audience that clearly likes it. There are much better things to watch so I’ll see myself out and move on.
  17. This movie deserves its own thread. Looking at the Oscars thread, a lot of people aren’t familiar with it, and there isn’t a dedicated place for discussing. It has 8 Oscar nominations. Timothée Chalamet plays young Bob Dylan as he rises to fame in the early 1960s. Incredible performance from him including singing Dylan’s songs. Monica Barbaro was stunning as Joan Baez and the rest of the cast was also really good. And the music is obviously great, unless you don’t like Dylan, in which case disregard this thread. If you like movies and get frustrated by a lack of quality movies, I think this one is worth your time.
  18. For all the talk about how bad the Boomers are, every generation of adults today shares blame for the future of this planet. I don’t think history will look kindly on us. Maybe there won’t be any people to have a history so it won’t matter.
  19. I like movies enough that I check an app every few weeks for what’s coming soon to theaters and streaming. I also glance at RT and Metacritic and, if a movie I don’t know about gets in the 80+ range, I’ll at least watch the trailer and read a few reviews. I probably would not know about Anora and The Substance if not for that, but I liked both of them.
  20. I’ve seen Dune 2, A Complete Unknown, Anora, and The Substance. Liked all of them for different reasons. Apparently need to watch The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez. I’m surprised how many of you seem to not at least be aware of A Complete Unknown. Timothee Chalamet was the celebrity guest on College Gameday for the SEC CCG and they ran ads for that movie in practically every commercial break for both Gameday and the actual game. Were y’all too focused on the Ro Sparks commercials?
  21. Finally finished rewatching S1 and now the first 2 episodes of S2. This show is so good. I suppose the accident that killed Gemma was never really an accident, but all part of Lumon’s sinister plan. I don’t think Gemma could be in a coma because they would need her body to be functional when Ms. Casey wakes up. A comatose person can’t suddenly walk around like everything is normal. Her outie must be in captivity, or else maybe the cloning theory is somehow at play. I’m most curious about Cold Harbor and why Mark is clearly more important than Dylan and Irv. They were expendable and he was not. Burt was teary eyed while watching Irv’s outie, which suggests that Burt was never severed. Does that mean Burt was part of the sinister plan or is there a different significance to that?
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    Landman

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  23. Can anyone recommend a good CPA in central Fort Worth?
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