wild_turkey

It seems like you are making a vague assertion without anything tangible to substantiate it. You disagree with part of the Paris Accords (or possibly the entire premise, I'm not sure), therefore, any other efforts to have a positive impact on climate change must be tainted and corrupt. That's a big leap in logic without some major gaps being filled in.

I skimmed a few articles and this one from TPG seems to give a pretty good breakdown: https://thepointsguy.com/guide/everything-you-need-to-know-carbon-offsetting-flights/ It seems like many of the programs are at least semi-legit. Maybe the bad ones could be compared to a bad charity, in the sense that your money isn’t being used as effectively as you would hope, and there are inevitably middle men getting a piece of the pie. At the same time, some of them seem like they are actually decent programs with tangible outcomes. A recent flight I booked had carbon offsets for $10/person. I would assume that out of that $10, around $5-8 of it goes towards planting mangrove trees in Central America or something like that. Surely part of it pays someone’s salary at the airline, and maybe the mangrove tree company is a for-profit organization, but at the end of the day, some money is going towards a forestry project that wouldn’t happen otherwise. It seems like that something is better than nothing. Now perhaps a more discerning person would research 3rd party carbon offset organizations and find one with a good reputation and specific measurable outcomes, which could be a more efficient use of the money. But we’re talking about $10 here. Although maybe if I average $10 x 2 people x 20 flights/year, then that’s $400 annually. So maybe instead of small incremental contributions, it would be worthwhile to just find a program I like and make yearly contributions. I’m about to go down a rabbit hole I guess.

If carbon offsets are purely bullshit, then what specifically are the airlines doing with the money? It would seem to me that at least within the U.S. there are regulations that prevent a major domestic airline from advertising and selling something only to not do what they say and merely pocket the money. Maybe I’m naive but there are restrictions on everything else in that industry.

Let's go offense

Bijan!!!!!

O-line needs to man up

Much needed turnover

I just came.

Yeah baby!

Saw it last night. Thought it was entertaining but nothing exceptional compared to other Bond films. Most of all, it felt good to sit in a theatre and watch an anticipated new action film that doesn’t involve superheroes. I enjoyed the typical Bond stuff - fancy Aston Martins cruising along a beautiful Mediterranean coastline, car and motorcycle chases through an Italian village, black tie dinner parties turned shootouts, etc. Ana de Armas looked fantastic in that black dress, even more so once she started shooting up bad guys. I didn’t love the overall plot. Thought it was kind of boring and unoriginal. Didn’t like M’s role and thought Rami Malek’s villain was kind of meh. And the ending was….?

Kinking? Can you not cut it and put 90 degree elbows/4 way/whatever on it? Yes that's possible in some places, but I'd like it to be flexible enough to bend around plants without getting a kink.

What type of drip irrigation is best for a 4x8’ raised garden bed? I already have one raised bed that has the 1/2” brown tubing as a zone on my main sprinkler system. I added another 4x8’ bed and need a new drip system but I’ve noticed that 1/2” brown tubing kinks pretty easily. Is there something better to use? Should I buy one of the kits? Any other tips?

Thoughts from this episode: 1. Nate sucks. He has an inferiority complex that rivals aggy. And what’s with the hair? 2. Weird that Rebecca and Ted and everyone willingly sent Sam off to be courted by the billionaire. 3. I would like to purchase Phoebe’s drawings in a coffee table book format. 4. Wife got a new nickname = Fuck Witch. 5. I would like to see them make Higgins’ play into a mini episode to air between seasons.

Please create a feature where a poster can get crowdsourced from a single thread if they earn sufficient neg rep. Or at least a 1 week timeout.

I’m not sure my sarcasm was coming through when I said Dirty Bones. You can go there if you want but I’m not endorsing it and I think you can find better options. How old are your kids and what kinds of places do they like?

Why are most topics on this forum combined into massive meta threads? If I want to read what people are saying about the spending plan, it seems like I should be able to come to this forum and click a thread titled “2021 Social Spending Plan”. Instead, I have to hunt around for it and eventually figure out it’s hidden in a thread titled “Joe Biden 2021” which has 6,300+ posts and a month ago was discussing Afghanistan and a month from now will be discussing Covid again. Then if the social spending plan becomes relevant again in 6 months, it’s very difficult to reference the present discussion because it’s buried 2,000 posts upstream. This is absurd. I don’t get it.

If this were to happen, could we get rid of the max 4 years of eligibility? Could a great college player like Colt McCoy choose to forego the NFL and remain a “college” athlete for his entire career? Obviously the NFL offers a higher salary under the current system, but some university boosters have very deep pockets and would probably be willing to slap the franchise tag on certain players.

Those are great places for Dallas folks to hang out. In the same area people can also check out Dirty Bones, a trendy wings joint with bottle service and a DJ.

I’m really enjoying this so far and hoping it builds momentum. I already have tons of questions. How do they have gravity on their interstellar space ship? It would seem the only way is centrifugal force but they don’t appear to be rotating. When they originally discussed the duration of travel in episode 1, Gaal estimated ~857 days. Then in episode 2, Raych said they have 54 months (1,620 days) remaining on their journey. Why did it double in length? And obviously I have no idea what to make of the last 5 minutes of episode 2. Can’t wait for the next one.

I see your Naples and raise you Paris. Never again. And that was just one day trying to leave the city for the countryside.

Great day all around.

Please no.

Just watched the finale and very underwhelmed. I would say it's somewhere between a mediocre and bad show. Maybe it worked better in book format. SPOILERS BELOW (anyone reading the thread at this point should expect that) Masha was not an impressive character. They initially built her up to be some kind of a psychiatric guru, but she was simply a grieving person who was trying to use psychedelics to connect with a dead loved one. And she was microdosing her wellness retreat guests without their knowledge, which felt like a "that's it?" kind of reveal. I expected her to have some kind of amazing people skills or healing abilities and she never really displayed that. She seemed frantic and out of control most of the time. Ben and Jessica were pointless. No depth to their characters. HBO would've at least used them for eye candy but Hulu didn't even pull that off well. The rest of the characters were cliché in every imaginable way. I'm surprised Nicole Kidman agreed to make this.

Central Marker is fine except for the people clogging up aisles part. Don’t go on a weekend.