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I appreciate your perspective and experience. Mine is a bit different, I just got back from Houston and two full days of meetings with a large, publicly traded midstream company with its origins in Enron (wink wink), where I can attest that ESG is a board/C-level hot button issue that they are activated around. Not only Scope 1-3 but more interestingly the DEI stuff (the “S” in ESG most people forget about) is still a metric that they care about positively growing. My experiences and interactions differ considerably than yours and probably the people we interface with and their goals are different. I’m corporate focused and care about increasing earnings per share, versus dyed-in-wool oilman stuff or field operations.

I’ve seen worse homelessness than most American cities not named SF, Austin or Nashville in Calgary freaking Alberta. Canada has warts too.

DB Cooper Jr.

What and who?

My mans Bret Taylor whopped him.

@BrickHornDid you give up on this show after s2's fall from grace? I'm curious your take on s3 thus far, if not.

You are 100% spot on. But I'm definitely pot-committed and invested and will watch until the end, and it's probably for the best this is the last season (I'm going to be curious to see the ratings for this season compared to s1 and even s2). That season one was lighting in a bottle and special wasn't it? Crazy how that works with creative arts and things like TV and s1 just so happened to catch that slippery zeitgeist and nail that wispy perfect time-and-a-place for something fresh and earnest and sincere and funny before devolving into the familiar and formulaic sitcom-y, trope-y, above average show that are a dime a dozen.

Speaking of OXY, read this fascinating piece in the WSJ:

Agreed. I read today that Bud Light has lost $5bh due to the whole rigmarole, which I found surprising.

He’s such a bully https://twitter.com/Jamin2g/status/1646108572911116290?s=20

I posted this on the other thread. But yea, doesn't seem good: Only 37% of Americans who started streaming Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” actually finished the series. Which, by the way, cost $500m+ to produce

I wonder if this opens the door for Artifact, a relatively unknown social media product that just launched, by the founders of Instagram. They unrolled a new feature this week that has shades of twitter feed to it. https://gizmodo.com/instagram-founders-artifact-reputation-scores-comments-1850323907

prob. Hey you'll get a kick out of the Elon answers from his interview, paraphrased: On why he bought Twitter: Musk admitted that he went ahead with the $44 billion acquisition because he believed he would lose his legal case to try and back out of it. Buying Twitter has come with “emotional strain,” he added, saying running it had been “painful.” But he said he still thought buying it was the right thing to do. On profitability: Since buying Twitter six months ago, Musk has slashed staff and made big changes to the platform — including an $8 monthly blue-check subscription — to try to reverse losses. (The slimmed-down Twitter has experienced a series of outages and user unrest, but he largely blew off those problems as glitches.) Musk reiterated that Twitter was on a path to be cash-flow positive this quarter (without giving evidence) and claimed advertisers were returning to the platform. Head count: There are 1,500 Twitter staffers on payroll, down from “just under 8,000” when he took over, Musk said. He defended the mass layoffs, saying the company was four months from going bankrupt and “drastic action” was needed. But he added that it was “not fun at all” to fire people, and admitted that not everyone had been told in person: “It’s not possible to talk with that many people face to face.” On bots, disinformation and mainstream media: Musk, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, pushed back hard on the BBC’s assertions that there had been more hate speech on the platform since he took over. He said it was his mission to make Twitter as accurate as possible — by, for example, removing automated accounts — but he added that “no system is going to be perfect.” He also returned to a favorite punching bag: the mainstream media, which, he complained, “is able to trash me on a regular basis.” On blue checks: With advertising revenue shrinking, Musk is going all in on subscriptions. He says the blue checks that were once given to celebrities, influencers and journalists to verify their accounts will be phased out by next week, after the company missed an earlier deadline. But he also grumbled that big media companies were reluctant to pay for blue checks. “It’s a small amount of money, so I don’t know what their problem is,” he said. On who succeeds him as C.E.O.: Musk said in December that he would abide by the results of a Twitter user poll and step down from running the company. When pressed on that promise, he joked that his dog was in charge. But his jovial mood vanished when he was asked about running the business. He said that the workload meant he sometimes sleeps on a couch at Twitter headquarters. (Another regret: When asked about his sometimes controversial tweets, he said, “I think I should not tweet after 3 a.m.”)

"The system made us vicious, swear to God; someone play with me, my trigger-finger get 'em. GET EM!"

SpaceX will launch Kenya’s first operational satellite into orbit this week, providing agricultural data to support food security. The satellite was developed by engineers from the Kenya Space Agency.

Yep. We are back to season two level quality after being teased the last few weeks. Even the motivational speech at the end felt canned. I wonder if the writers are using chatgpt

Les scene has been telegraphed for two episodes now, I guess an attempt to make keeleys character interesting or relevant again. Speaking of interesting, probably not great that the best and most interesting parts of this episode was the Nate story arc and his emotional journey. I’m just sick of Richmond being losers on the pitch and am tired of them sucking I guess.

@Chopper pasted an interesting reason why they did this on the business of hollywood thread, but I'll post it here since it's specific to HBO, and it does make sense, especially the bolded: I think there are a ton of people like me, as I mentioned in the other thread, who gladly pay the HBO subscription to open the app once a week for my show (Succession) and that's it. Once the show ends, I'll cancel my subscription again. I can see how trying to be more sticky is important these days to Wall St. and investors, and to be growing outside of the small and intelligent viewer who likes prestige shows and into more reality-shows and stupid vapid crap that HGTV and Cooking Channel competitions do all day.

Huh. I thought it came out on Wednesdays.

There is a 100% chance you owned JNCOs.

Would buy them at the grocery store.

And yes, that was Colin his "fixer", his bodyguard, etc. the one who got Kendall out of the mess with killing the drug partner in the car.

Thanks for posting this. That makes a TON of sense now. And I agree with the Street and the analysts that HBO, while a premium product with premium content, is more "appointment" TV than background noise/general entertainment. I am one of those who gladly pay the HBO subscription to open the app once a week for my show (Succession) and am one of those the article talks about that is content to do so. Once the show ends, I'll cancel my subscription again. I can see how trying to be more sticky is important these days.

I'm glad I got the Shingrex vax from what I've heard.

My understanding that the whole reason they merged this companies and brought in that CEO was to be aggressive in cutting costs and turning profits a la "year of efficiency" that has gripped all the tech companies.