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  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I liked it but thought it dragged a little bit in places. Pretty insightful and sad overview of the Osage tribe.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Let's go offense
  11. O-line needs to man up
  12. Much needed turnover
  13. 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….?
  14. 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.
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
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