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GSU&UT

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  1. If I make it back there I will, but I live in Georgia now closer to my parents and siblings since my wife wanted to be near one of families before we had a kid. These aren't fantasies, there is actual research that is having to be screamed at us now so that we'll stop trying to kick the can further down the road. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/climate/climate-change-food-supply.html https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-media-humanitarian-crises/ And here talks about one study that is estimating thousands in the US alone could die during a catastrophic heat wave in the near future if emissions are barely curbed. India is already seeing more and more deaths from heat waves as each year has passed recently. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/climate-change-heat-waves-deaths-cities/
  2. I dropped out of grad school with over 10,000 in debt and I had to work for a few years making not much more than the federal minimum wage (temp jobs then a low paying salary at the American Cancer Society and then a toxicology lab) before taking a risk and trying to become a software developer without incurring another several thousand dollars of debt in attending some coding bootcamp. I had to ask my parents to help pay my rent for a few months and I just finished paying off my student loans after having saved for several years. I have been desperate, I am aware of the pain, and I'm much more keenly aware of what's at stake if we don't make sacrifice.
  3. I have a financial stake in this too. I'm a software developer for a company in the energy sector who deals with installation and monitoring of generators at sites, 90% of which are diesel fuel. We're slowly trying to work towards "microgrid" sites that use solar to push energy to generators that run at a base load (when sunny) and backup battery power, but it's quite possible a quick shift my cause our company to cut me and the rest of the monitoring team. I'm willing to make a sacrifice because I want to see my daughter still enjoy this world as it more or less is now (some change is already irreversible), if I had to change careers again then fucking so be it because the alternative is going to mean death to millions of people in central america, the middle east, the indian subcontinent.
  4. No offense but you're acting as if O&G would be the only industry where people have had to make sacrifice. There are tons of us who have debt, a more shaky financial situation due to wage growth that hasn't come close to matching increasing profits, an inability therefore to get better housing. I'm sorry if I don't exactly feel upset if people in O&G may face an uncertain future, because they aren't the only ones. The GND also calls for tons of these people to be able to take jobs that still would be in the energy sector. There would be plenty available, and yeah it may be a career change (which I've done twice now because of debt and forces outside of my control).
  5. Holy fuck, what is this argument that China is just chugging along and ignoring climate change? If anything they're doing a HELL of a lot more than the US in investing in renewables, high speed rail, and nuclear energy (which yes the GND doesn't call for). And yes I can understand if you're skeptical of what they say publicly, but pointing the finger at someone else and saying "why should we make sacrifice when they aren't" is 5 year old logic. If the US significantly curbed its emissions it's still going to have a huge impact on fighting the worst possible effects of climate change.
  6. What's going to be catastrophic is having to spend on the order of trillions of dollars in repairs, building sea walls, people moving from the coast and being unable to sell their homes (and likely struggling to find work quickly), etc.
  7. So just completely ignoring the first part of my post then right? Sorry that radical change is needed, maybe if we didn't have decades of voting for presidents that pushed deregulation and actively denying the problem we wouldn't see candidates (correctly) taking an aggressive stance on this.
  8. So are we doing this thing again where we pretend that virtually all climate scientists aren't telling us we basically have no time to stop the worst effects of the ongoing warming? Slow rolling something out over 20+ years is not going to do anywhere near enough to stop massive damage to the earth. Also, how many coal miner jobs are there? This states that there were only about 80,000 in 2018 and that number is going down regardless of any executive or legislative action. https://www.wvpublic.org/post/coal-comeback-coal-new-low-after-two-years-under-trump
  9. I got Beto texts last year even though I moved away from Texas in 2015 and never registered with any democratic party organization. Most campaigns are going to text you if your number turns up somewhere and they think you're a possible voter.
  10. LOL at Cumtown making it on here.
  11. My thoughts exactly, request definitely seems like they want to leave a lot of wiggle room.
  12. Gonna be a good'un
  13. Yep, just like App. Spread all over the field and wide open running lanes.
  14. They really do look like App from the past few years, just a ton of athleticism and it seems like every guy can accelerate.
  15. Yep, THAT argument in particular is insane to me. China is aggressively trying to build out rail and move to renewable energy because they understand exactly how fucked humanity is in the next 50 to 100 years. You can't point the finger at China anymore and I'll be India will be doing the same.
  16. I figured my first alma mater, GA Southern, was going to get whomped by LSU but they got absolutely skullfucked by a very very physically dominant team. God damn it would be a good season if Texas can beat them.
  17. Georgia Southern, not State.
  18. nm
  19. Is this sarcasm? My company monitors and installed the gens at a landfill that was capped and uses the methane to operate the gens that powers some of the county's grid.
  20. His fucking brain is as smooth as jello at this point and we're going to be stuck with him being the nominee.
  21. Love my shitty-ass state. Must have had black and whites only voting booths.
  22. What sucks is that we're going to have basically a jungle primary (at least with multiple Dem candidates) for his seat in the general election in November 2020 and almost certainly a runoff unless somehow only one R and one D candidate file.
  23. I think this is fairly old and just making a round again on Twitter so neg away, but we need to get this bad girl a free agent contract to some damn NFL team. Absolutely dominates her man
  24. Like Hugo just said, there's a almost a 6% MoE. It's not a shitty poll, just probably not as accurate as some others.
  25. Eat shit Biden
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