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wild_turkey

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  1. Especially for a high profile case where he strangled his girlfriend.
  2. Giving up grand slams is more of a Houston thing.
  3. Buehler should’ve been out of this inning with 0 runs allowed. He’s gotta be frustrated but he also can’t throw a 4 pitch walk with the bases loaded.
  4. Man, a missed play on a fly ball and a missed strike 3 call have cost 2 runs.
  5. I kept hearing great things about Brix so finally tried it a few weeks ago and was not impressed. In fact, I didn’t finish eating and went straight to Dayne’s to finish lunch. Maybe I caught Brix on an off day. Panther City and Dayne’s are my go-to places. I clearly need to try Goldee’s.
  6. I guess it all depends on where you need to go, but for me, Southwest has not been the cheaper option for at least 5 years.
  7. Would anyone be interested in a Surly FW happy hour? Wednesdays and Thursdays usually work well for me and it’s nice weather right now for an outdoor spot.
  8. Given that the Dodgers pitching allowed 1 run and won the game, I don’t think anything was pointless.
  9. Hey, even I agree that it was a bad call. Probably a lot of Dodgers fans would agree with that and no one wants the series to end like that. Just pointing out that the Giants had ample opportunity to win this series without it ever coming down to an 0-2 count against one of the best pitchers in baseball.
  10. Here's an idea for the Giants. Perhaps don't put yourself in a situation where you are down 2-1 at home in a winner-take-all game, with 2 outs, and Wilmer Fulmer against Max Scherzer with the count already 0-2, depending on Wilmer Fulmer to check his swing to keep the season alive. Perhaps try averaging more than 2 runs a game if you expect to win a best-of-5 series against the team with the second best record in baseball.
  11. Pretty weird to look at the stats and see: Win: K. Jansen Save: M. Scherzer
  12. Love that the Dodgers won but I wish that wasn't called a swing. I don't want to hear people whining about that 1 pitch forever in a game that we had all but won anyways.
  13. I saw a couple people discussing this earlier in the thread. I thought it was good and entertaining but not as good as The Martian. I do love the way Andy Weir can weave science lessons into the chapters of a novel and it amazes me the random shit he thinks up. Worth reading for that part alone.
  14. I've had this book laying around the house for a while now but I thought it would be too cliché or cheesy so I put off reading it. Finally picked it up and I liked it way more than I expected to. It was a quick and easy read. It looks like the movie comes out next summer and will feature Daisy Edgar-Jones (who by the way, gets naked a lot in the Normal People TV show I mentioned upthread).
  15. I was fairly disappointed by this one. I kept seeing it in bookstores and on book lists but the description didn't draw me in. Once I saw it won the Pulitzer, I finally thought it was worth reading. It felt like the plot was pretty boring and just meandered along without much development. I was happy to have it end and move on to something else.
  16. Bought this on a whim in an airport bookstore and ended up liking it quite a bit. It's a relationship drama about a couple of young people in Ireland, which I thought did a pretty good job of depicting people struggling to get through their early 20s. It was also made into a TV show which I also thought was great and started a thread about.
  17. Technically didn't read this but listened to the audio book (narrated by MM). I think that's the best way to do it because he's very good at telling his own stories. I really enjoyed it. Learned a lot about MM that I didn't know previously. He's had a very interesting life.
  18. I liked it but thought it dragged a little bit in places. Pretty insightful and sad overview of the Osage tribe.
  19. Brand loyalty to a major domestic airline of all things is pretty baffling to me. If you fly them enough, they will screw you over for the most inexplicable things. All of them.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Let's go offense
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