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The Royal We

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  1. I'm feeling pretty despondent today. Every time we have a school shooting it's like watching the same fucking terrible movie all over again on this site and social media in general. You have a lot of upset people begging our horseshit "leadership" to do something, anything that would attempt to decrease the frequency of these events. Then you have the "it's a magazine, not a clip" crowd show up with their "we've tried absolutely nothing and we're all out of ideas" BS. Then the country sees something else shiny and moves on after a few weeks. Gun culture in this country (along with a pile of other BS) makes me not want to live here any longer. I don't know how we put the pig back in the proverbial pen WRT to our country's sick fascination with guns. Living in a small town in East Texas you see it everywhere - bumper stickers, shirts, hats, etc. - people advertising their idolization of guns. You see it on literal signs in people's yards - God, Guns and Trump 2024. The proposed solutions from the leaders in this state are never Less Guns, it's always MOAR Guns. These days even gun safety is seen as an attack on the right to own weapons of war. My wife led a local chapter of Moms Demand Action after the school shooting in Florida. She built a pretty active group in our town, had buy in/support from some of the local churches, and had a few well attended events every year. She had to stop doing it because she was getting threats from loonies on FB. Moms Demand Action isn't trying to take away guns - she would give away free handgun locks and whatnot at their events and their main goal is gun safety. That warranted threats from some assbags who probably have punisher stickers with ARs in a cross behind them on their trucks. How do we as a country turn that around? I don't think we can. I'm a gun owner. I've been shooting guns since my grandfather gave me a single shot .410 and an old Winchester pump .22 when I was probably 8 years old. I don't hate ARs, I've been pig hunting with them and I know it's a better functional option than the bolt action rifles that I own. But, they absolutely need to be harder to get. Period. I have to have a license to sell insurance, to drive a car, to go fishing, to go hunting, etc. etc. But I don't need shit to go buy any gun I want and carry it wherever I want in this state any longer. How fucked is that?
  2. My first thought on the AFE was ~$20mm+, but I'm pulling that out of my ass. That's a metric fuck ton of frac stages. If it was my client I'd make them confirm in writing if they elected anything less than $50mm COW limit. That's a lot of opportunities for shit to go pear-shaped.
  3. No joke, that was my first thought as well - what was the afe on that bad boy? And I wonder what Control of Well insurance limit they had on it - if it was a smaller company I bet it wasn't enough.
  4. Naw man. I'm no Crenshaw fanboi, but saying he's basically MTG isn't accurate at all. He's well educated and knows better than some of the shit that he says on occasion, but he's somewhat sane, which there is less and less of in the modern GQP.
  5. Hey, at least my TURV is up 292% this morning... I'm still down on it tho
  6. Only if we acted like it wasn't us after the fact. Sad Sack stays completely on-brand in demonstrating why the cult doesn't care.
  7. I'm pumped to see this dude at the Majestic Theatre next week. He's part BB King, part Jimi Hendrix. The guitar hits around 1:45:
  8. Hand wave Jan 6th away as no big deal and you get a neg. Come on fatty, I thought you were better than that.
  9. Anyone been to T&C recently? Kicking tires on a trip without the kids and there are a lot of different options. Como Parrot Cay looks really nice but pretty spendy. Grace Bay looks like it may have lost a step according to some recent reviews but is not much cheaper.
  10. I worked at a golf course in high school and we had one of these to mow the deep rough. I don't think it's possible to kill them. We beat the shit out of that thing and it would just take it like a champ and keep on running.
  11. Thanks for the rec, I'm going to look into this. My kids are just coming into internet age and I have not prepared enough for what is coming. It looks like this might even address kid's phones - correct? i.e. disconnecting from wifi and using cellular won't get around this?
  12. The oil execs that I talk to aren't blaming Biden for anything. They may bitch about his rhetoric, but it's the banks/shareholders that don't want reckless spending to return that are more to blame for the lack of a massive ramp up in drilling activity.
  13. The way I read the article is all heating will have to be electric, no gas fired furnaces allowed for keeping buildings warm. Where do they think the electricity is going to come from? As someone who lives in the sticks and has to use electricity to heat my house in the winter, let me tell you how expensive that can get. I'd spend quite a bit of money to run nat gas to my house if it was an option.
  14. Fucking fantastic! Congrats all around Troph!
  15. Pos rep sent for "micturate" usage.
  16. What the orange man says is not always what the orange man actually did. https://www.factcheck.org/2022/04/strategic-petroleum-reserve-oil-stocks-declined-under-trump-contrary-to-his-claim/ In his defense, he tried to refill it when prices were in the $30s, but of course it was blocked and Democrats shrieked that it was a bailout. This actually makes sense to me, we should have been building additional storage and buying everything we could get our hands on when oil was <$40, but again, we can't have nice things.
  17. Lulz, how did you know? I thought I remembered the Senate already passed something, but it was just that Booker and Wyden were working on something similar. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-vote-bill-legalize-marijuana-rcna22527
  18. Wait. So is this actually going to happen unless Biden vetos? And throw this on the pile with the rest of the issues that my former party is on the absolute wrong side of...
  19. I guess it read to me like you contradicted yourself - you'll vote in your financial interest (tax), but you'll vote for Biden over Trump. Sorry if I misinterpreted that to mean you would continue to vote for the GOP for everything except for POTUS. And yea, when the leader of your party authorized a release from the SPR when oil was at SixtyfuckingOne dollars, I think it's germane to the conversation about which party is in your best financial interest. The current populists in the GOP will do everything they can to keep oil prices low. But their rhetoric would be more friendly to the industry, no doubt. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/15/trump-says-he-has-authorized-release-of-oil-from-strategic-petroleum-reserve-if-needed-after-saudi-attacks.html
  20. I'd even argue that the aims of the current GOP are not even in your financial interest. If 2024 is close and the Raffensperger type GOP leaders don't hold the line and actually do overturn the election this time, the damage to the country/economy/oil prices will make you wish you'd opted for the higher taxes option. The populist version of your party will still be doing stupid shit like boneheaded releases from the SPR, but at least they'll have more 'murican flag lapel pins I guess? Surely you don't actually believe this? Did you watch TV at all during the latest round of primary commercials!? Republicans at every level of government in TX were blasting out how they were Trump's preferred candidate. And it's not just the GQP crazies like that gremplin Huffines, it was the supposedly sane candidates too. In a sane party, attaching yourself to TFG who instigated 1/6 would be something you would avoid like the plague as a candidate, not plaster all over your mailers and the airwaves. Right?
  21. The SPR releases are total horseshit and won't do anything except likely force us to refill the SPR at even higher prices. The Jones Act is a POS law that needs to be thrown in the trash too, but that's another conversation altogether. It's very disappointing (but not surprising) that our industry is being used as a political football at a time when we should be flexing our energy muscles to help bring more stability to the world while at the same time creating more high paying jobs here at home. Fucking depressing and why we can't have nice things.
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