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Gatorubet

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  1. Questions by a non-O&G guy to you petro brains….this article was posted in one of the Ukraine threads. What are the negative effects of having to cease production on the Russian wellheads and pipelines? If you have to temporarily stop extracting due to market forces (or drones hitting your facility) - what short term and long-term affects will this article’s facts (if true) have on Russia’s oil industry if they don’t have a way to move their product? To be clear, I’m not talking about political ramifications. I’m talking about the technical aspects of the problems Russia may be experiencing because of the inability to ship product- whatever the cause? IOW, is this actually a problem or just a nothing-burger article trying to get clicks?
  2. interesting website. Here we have a “climbing rope” that……breaks when used to…..you know….climb.
  3. Not a good night to be a Wildcat, is it?
  4. Utes balling against Kansas, up by 7
  5. She’s gone gray
  6. Congrats Fuckers!
  7. what the fuck was that smooth brain doing throwing up a three attempt with nobody under the basket?
  8. “I don’t understand…” would make a really good tombstone quote when she dies from primary ciliary dyskinesia.
  9. about four minutes left and Vandy is within two of Tennessee. Anchor down you bitches, make sure gata keeps the fourth number one seed!
  10. Number seven Purdue is down 10 right now to whiskey with six minutes to go.
  11. We certainly have a disconnect, as you saying, I am “not grounded in their class or privilege” hits my ears the same way as “drain the swamp” - a phrase many people use without giving any details on what the hell they intend it to mean. I grew up in a working class/lower middle class family. One car. Neither my father or mother were college graduates. My privileged ass worked as a union laborer, a security guard, a cashier in a liquor store, a ditch digger, a non-union Mason’s helper, and a poor college student who had to work at the worst job invented by man - a shelf reader at the UF library. And by that I mean, you go down rows of books sorted by the Dewey decimal system and put “9.312 A” between “9.301 FG” and “9.322 H”. IOW, mind numbing boredom Hell on earth. I’ve also spent 30 years representing plaintiffs in a city and state filled with extremely poor people, arguing cases to juries filled with people who are blue collar folks or poorer - who probably think I’m some elite sum- bitch just because I have a law degree. The essence of my job description is to attempt to successfully relate to those people. To your point, there is a large category of people who didn’t vote at all. And that same category has never voted much, so apparently there is no politician in the history of America in any party with any ideology that they relate to. (True, Trump did excite some of the non-voters to vote for him. Because, I guess, they did not think billionaire Trump was part of a privileged class). I know lots of lawyers and judges who are Trump fans. They share a hell of a lot in common with the single wide trailer Trump fans. And what those lawyers and judges share has nothing to do with not voting blue because they had a sense they could not relate to the Democrats because of privilege or class. Many of those lawyer/judge Trump fans were born with a silver KKK spoon in their mouth, so your class theory and being relatable is not meshing with my life experience. My life experience says they all share Trump‘s dislike for anyone who doesn’t fit their idea of the type of person your kind should hang with. They share the hope that Trump will make the lives of those black brown gay Muslim atheist trans people worse. Lastly, they also share the hope of getting richer under Trump. You say I missed the point about class and privilege? Please DO tell me about the privilege and class problem with some detail because I am honestly not getting what you’re trying to sell.
  12. A bit of what? Black tar heroin. Maybe. None of your business.
  13. Which is why the Republicans have so many minority and women candidates - and the Democrats don’t? Snark aside, and with due respect, I think you also fall into the trap of thinking that GOP fans give a shit about Democrats who “relate” to them - if the Democrats keep on insisting on diversity, inclusion, gay rights, women’s rights, vaccine use, and all of those things that voters in those deep red rural districts do not….relate….to. It’s hard to keep the peasants with pitchforks from attacking your democratic balloon - unless you tell them the balloon is an anti-woke weapon that lets you drop bombs on the criminal illegals. They would relate to that better than saying “science has allowed mankind to fly like the birds God created.” TL;DR How do you get them to relate to you when the things that they do relate to are things antithetical to the Democratic vision of governance?
  14. no woman, no cry. Messenger, no shoot.
  15. Brisket encourages us to be entrepreneurs . I should reach out to the brewers of Old Milwaukee beer and see about getting them to bottle “No Flu Brew - the only light beer containing Ivermectin!” (“triple filtered to eliminate nano bots”) (”Each 6-pack costs less than a dozen eggs…”) (“Bottles NEVER recycled”)
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