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Eastwood

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  1. Both. Century Plant went online sometime in the early 10s and the NET facility went live in the last couple of years.
  2. A lot of them don't, but the point was that imma would go into the Oil Baron thread and get a Trumper-like response. Several people over the years have come into the Oil Baron threads and have attempted to stir the pot by trying to "out" climate change deniers and I can't recall a single time where someone has outright denied climate change, called it a hoax, or denied the science behind it. That's because everyone in that thread is college educated, many of them having post-graduate degrees in various sciences. Most people who bring that argument receive ambivalence, at worst. There are plenty of climate change deniers in the industry, for sure, but in my personal experience they have been the older generations (65+) and the roughnecks, neither of which are a key demographic for this website.
  3. A tale as old as the industry...
  4. Not a single person was hostile to the idea nor were they hostile in general. Not sure why you feel that the responses in that thread merit hostility as a default in dealing with "those people." If you find people on the opposing side to your views willing to engage in debate without hostility, then encourage the debate by avoiding using hostility. This is really where we've gone sideways as a nation. We've got to get back to being able to exchange ideas freely and without hostility looming over good faith arguments.
  5. I think that climate change is occurring, but to blame it solely on the oil and gas industry when everyone across the globe is voraciously consuming their products is ridiculous. Oil and gas are the blood of the world economy and without some kind of massive, global joint effort, oil and gas will continue to be the blood of the world economy for at least the next 3 decades. To shut down oil and gas production in the United States in the next 5-10 years would absolutely kneecap the US economy and be a huge advantage to oil producing countries that have been adversarial to the United States on the global stage and would seriously endanger the national and economic security of the United States. Over the next 5-10 years, efforts would be better spent on improving existing technologies to lessen CO2 emissions, whether it be reduced ICE emissions, carbon capture, or whatever else may be needed to actually reduce atmospheric CO2 to pre Industrial Revolution levels. In my opinion, it is far more likely to find the technology to do that in the next 5-10 years than to eliminate the oil and gas industry. Occidental Petroleum, for example, is part of two projects that I know of that have developed true zero-emission power generation. The NET Power Facility in La Porte and the Century Plant out in West Texas both capture 100% of the CO2 generated in a form that can be stored. So, it seems like we are closer to that technology than the entire global overhaul necessary to halt and then eventually reverse climate change.
  6. Obviously out of the loop on the SoL on defamation in Georgia, but if the fallout of all this is bad enough, Georgia could possibly toss Dominion within the year. If R state legislators quote Powell during the process, that's a greenlight for Dominion to bring suit against her, in my opinion. Then they could lay out, in detail, how their process absolutely does not allow a changing of entered votes after the fact while simultaneously compelling Powell to produce where she received her info from. The juice might not be worth the squeeze, though, as I truly believe that Powell is going through some kind of mental distress or cognitive disorder. Some public figures may have embraced Q for the grift, but I think Powell has some undiagnosed issues going on.
  7. Honestly, Dominion would be best just laying low. Last thing Dominion or the country needs is for a defamation suit to enter discovery and have internal emails disparaging President Trump pop up. All it would do is add fuel to the fire. Honestly, if I were them, I'd let all of this play out and wait for the first state after inauguration to drop them, possibly citing concerns parroted by Powell, then bring the suit. At least then any anti-Trump emails churned up will be moot and Dominion could prove actual damages in the loss of a state contract.
  8. Can we rewind a minute here... On Parler, a retweet is called an "echo?" So, the people who made Parler literally made a feature that allows it to unironically called an echo chamber? Parler has to be some kind of grift with the people behind it laughing at their customers' expense.
  9. For almost 4 decades now the bailouts and tax cuts have been handed out at the c-suite and corporate level under the theory that those cuts will make it all the way down to the rest of the economy. I think it's time to see what happens when it makes it directly into the hands of the consumer. I'm not even talking full bailout. I would like to see a TARP-esque type bailout where "troubled assets" are identified and then restructured to where payment each year doesn't exceed 5% of the person's net adjustable income for a period of 5 years or the remainder of their note's term, whichever is shorter. Combine that with government set limits on amounts that can be borrowed depending on degree. The reality is that some of these departments and degree programs need to depend on charitable endowments rather than student loans to survive. If someone wants to go get a doctorate in Victorian literature, by all means, go with God, but it shouldn't be supported with $250k in government back student loans that will just be restructured into a payment program where most of it will be forgiven after 20 years, anyway. Let those programs survive the same way museums and city orchestras survive: good budgeting, lots of fundraising, and a little bit of income on the side.
  10. It's a product of the Republican party further descending into madness. People will laugh off the crazies in their party and blow off concern from others about them as long as they have evidence that sanity still rules supreme for the majority of them. That's all gone now. As I stated prior, I think the Giuliani/Powell presser was rock bottom. Having talking heads and the random freshman congress person that don't directly represent them say these things, it's easy to toss aside. Have the head of Trump's legal strategy go up there and rattled off the crazy while black hair dye oozes down their face and then have the other one sound like she is one step away from a total mental break and a padded room and Rs are starting to man the life boats. We're seeing all kinds of R defection now as more and more Republican voters are starting to do their best Seinfeldleavingtheplay.gif impression.
  11. If you could go ahead and put the Nutrition and Food Science program out of its misery, that'd be great. Thanks in advance.
  12. I think we're going to see more of this now. The accusations that were thrown out today were absolutely insane. I think there are a lot of Rs in Washington who are ready to get off this ride after today, to be honest. Hannity, Carlson, and Dobbs will keep auditioning for another network on Fox News' dime, but we're already starting to see that Fox News has hit diminishing returns on the Trump factor. It may be a foolish hope, but I really, really, really hope that today was the bottom. My amusement at this legal flailing has shifted to serious concern.
  13. Sounds like a situation from the not so distant past. Those people got a bailout, though...
  14. Since we're going in on lawyers and the like, she's a Harvard law grad by way of transfer from Miami.
  15. I would love a series that leads up to Clayton becoming the firm cleaner, gambling addiction, failed restaurants, and all.
  16. This is the big one, here. As someone who had delayed assistance from the PPP only to learn that publicly traded companies with market caps of 9 figures or more from loans from the Small Business Administration got their loans first. Where was the outrage? I explained this to Trump voting family members and got just a bunch of "huh" and shoulder shrugging. College really has become a huge money-making scam. A lot of us growing up in the 90s and early 00s had it hammered in our head over and over that "if you want to get anywhere, you need a college degree." If you ask them what kind, the response was "doesn't matter, just having the degree will get your foot in the door." Ok, sure, let's go do it. Then you start undergrad and then a lot of these programs, whether they be BBA, BA, or BS, start telling you "well, sure you might get a job when you get out, but if you really want to be competitive, you need a masters." Then these same people graduate in 08 through 11 and guess how that went. Then they have to deal with older generations who enjoyed affordable college and being able to provide for a family with just a high school diploma if they didn't go to college chirp non-stop about how "nobody forced those people to take loans they couldn't pay back." They took the loans because they were convinced by the older generations and the system itself that college was necessary and the loans were the only way they could afford it. The advising system in college is completely broken. Departments depend on students enrolling in them for survival. My wife, who started having second thoughts about her degree, did a little research about job opportunities after graduation and learned that to get the most out of it, she needed an expensive and lengthy internship program after. She didn't like the sound of it, had an opportunity to switch to a related major with possibly better job prospects, but outside of the department of the original major. She goes to the department, voices her concerns, and they tell her with the utmost confidence that she should stay in her current degree and that she didn't need the internship to get a good job. She stays in and finds out after she graduates two things: 1. there is a ceiling without that internship and it is insanely low, as in "shouldn't have even gone to college" low. 2. The department was on its last leg and needed to keep as many students as possible to avoid being eliminated by the school. I am convinced they straight up lied to her to save their own ass. Now she has a useless degree, but thankfully no student loan debt because her parents paid for it. Very fortunate. Now what happens to her classmates that weren't as fortunate? They are stuck in student loan hell for 20, 30 years? A lot of us from that generation did what was expected of us and were left holding the bag. It makes sense that as more of that generation comes into power that they want to fix those situations for others.
  17. Your resident GME bull checking in. Looks like there might be a hostile takeover by Ryan Cohen in the making. https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/RC Ventures Letter to GameStop.pdf Cohen was the Chewy founder who cashed out, then cashed in on GME, which caused the initial price spike into the console season.
  18. I'm taking the Bar next year. Your explanation tracks with what we were taught, but I still think it's wild that some of these instances wouldn't trigger a Rule 11.
  19. I remember that sanctions are very seldomly brought down. In Civ Pro we had a case, can't remember which, where the judge spent the bulk of the opinion beating the offending attorney about the head and shoulders only to not levy sanctions against them. Now that attorney is immortalized in casebooks. I'm sure Thor up in Michigan might meet a similar fate of being in a casebook or two.
  20. That thread is jaw dropping. Shows just how desperate some of them are for good news or evidence of a "long game." A question I have is if Rule 11 sanctions are coming any time soon. It seems like every case I read about runs afoul of 11(b). Especially (3). How much longer do the courts need to give them for a "reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery" when this was the most covered election in the history of the world? I watched McEnanny hop onto Fox News and talk about how much fraud there was and wave a stack of papers, conveniently marked "Exhibit J" on the front in 70 pt Times New Roman, saying it was all affidavits detailing how poll watching laws weren't followed in PA. What she didn't do, not one time, is cite a specific law and how that law was broken. That essentially tells me that what she was waving around was either just a stack of hurt feelings of R poll watchers in affidavit form or, given this administration's stunt with the health care book presented to 60 Minutes, a stack of Family Circus comics printed on 8.5x11.
  21. I bet Hannity jumps to wherever Trump does. Bet he could even negotiate a piece of whatever network into the deal.
  22. Sounds like she was hired to do a job but spent the whole time worrying about someone else's job.
  23. OK, great, now show the world evidence that all of that happened.
  24. This episode was essentially The Fly episode from Breaking Bad.
  25. They're digging down between 5500 and 7500 feet? That's wild. /s
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