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My Cousin's husband is a full blown koolaid drinker. He's a great guy, but man, they cray.

The rapidity that the Surl goes from “do the right thing” to “thirsty af” never ceases to entertain.

That’s not what I meant. I was referring to the traditional bureaucracy around the helicopter crews, within DOD and VA. Equipment has to be accounted for, HR/benefits arranged, grief management systems start to turn. So the military has to have an official response/reaction, hence the public announcement of an “accident.” Some of the more secretive ground elements have a less obvious “employment” chain, so to speak. I understand that SOAR crews don’t discuss their deployments.

That's another fun thing: Industrial Compostable is very different from home compostable.

Well, and there is an entirely separate conversation about where we need to be putting our work on critical materials. Lithium is important, because we will need a lot of it, but the two biggest lithium producers in the world are Chili and Australia, which are free trade partners. My bigger question is whether we really ran the life cycle math on whether an immediate transition to EV was the best move, versus a wholesale move into plug in hybrids.

The American Chemistry Council spends a lot of money fighting community information programs like this. It breaks the myth that plastics are sustainable.

Given that no other Spec Ops deaths have recently gathered news, I'd guess they were carrying either CIA or something like Delta and got shot down somewhere they shouldn't have been, diplomatically speaking. The families of the actual pilots and crew aren't part of the culture of secrecy that surrounds the shooters on the ground.

I had an SOC guy on his pentagon rotation who lived near me when I was in Virginia, right around the beginning of the War on Terror, and he intimated that when a bunch of warrant officers die in a random training exercise, unless people specifically saw the wreck, it's usually safe to assume something more is going on.

Coaches in general simple do not understand that the clock, not the other team, is the enemy when working a substantial lead.

The way most recycling works, is the "cleaner" the bundled recycling, post sort, the better the chance somebody will buy it. Capturing Aluminum basically pays for everything else in the recycling process, especially since the Chinese no longer accept cardboard and paper. So the price of the recaptured aluminum, to some degree, subsidizes everything else. With Plastics, only 1 & 2 are widely recycled (occasionally 5). so the first thing you want to do is never, ever, bother with 3,4, 6 or 7 (and probably 5). Just don't. Throw that shit away. If the container isn't clearly marked, throw it away. Separate the caps and toss them. Mixed materials are largely not recyclable. Basically the more hourly workers have to hand sort that shit, likely the more expensive it is and the less somebody will want the post sort bale. Which means the landfill. Plastic bags are the fucking worse. The absolutely gum up the machines in most facilities. Never, ever, ever, ever leave plastic bags in your single stream. Unless your community tells you to. Most grocery stores will accept your bags. But I encourage folks to get reusable bags and use them. Everytime.

Most of New England has bottle and can deposit and this is the way it works. you wash and save your empties and take them back to the corner store and get your money back. Which obviously you just turn around and buy another 12 or 24 pack. Beer companies want their bottles back to clean, refill, and label. Otherwise glass is heavy and prone to breaking and spoiling other recyclables.

Yup. His accuracy isn't as good as Pennix, but he also doesn't have Pennix line, which to me is what separates the two. Oregon's issue is Lanning is prone to Herman-esque "We are too smart to do the obvious football thing" moments. Like going for it on 4th when he should just take the points or punt and play defense. Also, Lanning is fucking TERRIBLE at lead management. He blew a lead over Oregon State last year by needless gambling on 4th down, and not simply slowing down his teams play snaps on a 3 touch down lead to milk clock. He's allowed some opponents to remain competitive by not just using the full play clock coming out of half and instead needlessly sticking with hurry up.

We rented a cabin in rural VA during Covid, and when took our recycling out to the dump, they actually had the glass broken down by color: green, brown, clear, other. It was amazing. Most glass breaks in single stream and is only useful in asphalt production. By separating by color, you incentivize potentially refiring and using the glass. But again, that requires education and dedication. The advice I give everyone with recycling: If you aren't 100% sure, throw it away. Don't wish cycle. It's far more harmful than just landfilling.

IT's funny, I've worked in DC on a lot of sustainability issues. The best recycling programs are actually rural self sort at the dump. It encourages people who care to actually do the work to sort Aluminum, Paper, Glass, then separate sort Plastics by 1,2, & 5. Single bin recycling is a total failure. If you actually care, we should incentivize aluminum over plastic and glass, and use a deposit system to ensure the bulk of it gets recycled. I also think that with modern scrubbers, if we are going to send so much garbage to the dump, we might as well burn it. What's the point of pulling hydrocarbons out of the ground so we can turn it into a non degradable substance, then throw it away. We might as well get some steam heat out of it. Every load of garbage you burn is a load of coal or gas you don't have to burn to keep the lights on.

There is an obvious sex joke around Mr. Fantastic simply can't be waived away. It just sits there and potentially turns every scene into a "That's what she said" farce. Plus the Thing looks stupid in Real life. They are just a comic that's time has passed. Kind of like how Strangers in a Strange Land was edgy and important in the early 60s, but reads very silly now (Groking). It's why the Incredibles is the definitive Fantastic Four.

Feels like a good time to repost one of the great memes of all time:

Lol, a guy on my Facebook was literally just doing this.

Plus any of Fisher’s assistants buyouts. And possibly one or two of Lanning‘s assistants as well, if he wants to bring them along. And I would be shocked if Nike doesn’t also have a side deal with Lanning that would have to be paid back.

👆Also, this.

I have no inside knowledge of UO, other than having a sophomore there. What I can say is: 1)Two weeks is lots of time for Shoe Daddy to make sure Lanning stays out. 2)Show me Dan Lanning after Nix graduates, and I’ll tell you how good he actually is. He’s made plenty of dumbass in game choices that Nix and a veteran defense mostly recruited by Cristobal have covered for.

So at the risk of outing myself as an amoral DC swamp dweller who will do anything to defend their client.... Michigan is taking a page from the modern crisis management playbook: Accuse your accusers, threaten legal action, get politicians to bully your opponent, muddy the narrative, play the persecution card. The old days of do the right thing and get in front of the scandal died on the second tuesday in November of 2016. Also, the NCAA is such a limp dick fuck up, it couldn't get laid in a whore house on pay day.

You would make a hell of a lobbyist. Hit me up. This is how it is done.

Well, it shouldn’t be a state, but the GOP in the 1880s needed senators.

Join the cool kids, bro:

Whatever the technical cause of death, he died of the same thing that killed Sizemore: Hard Living. He and Kudrow were the comedic glue of the show. Even if it was always second rate to Seinfeld.