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The Royal We

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  1. I managed to get into IRM at $33.40, that was the only one that I felt I wasn't too late to the party.
  2. Volume is already 310mm vs. average volume of 54mm - what a bonkers day already.
  3. So you just tear them up and give everyone their money back, we was just joshing, lol?
  4. Seriously, how in the hell does this thing get unwound!?
  5. I watched the first two episodes again last night after seeing this thread. I think the book does a better job of painting the picture of Sobol, but Schwimmer did a pretty damn good job too. Every time I watch it I catch a few more things that Winters said or did that made him such a great leader. Cool as a cucumber under pressure and brass balls the size of grapefruits.
  6. This turned into a very interesting thread. Props to 956 and Shady for both bringing great viewpoints and discussion. The thought that polling in Russia is functionally useless because of the success of their propaganda machine is both impressive and terrifying at the same time.
  7. Thank you for this Bob. I've got a 20 pack incoming. https://www.unitedstatesmask.com/
  8. Good call on the diet Coke there chubbs.
  9. It was because of this thread on TOS that we got a bidet in our new house. My wife thought I was crazy and when I told our contractor that I needed an outlet next to the toilet he looked at me like I had grown a third eye. Fast forward to our power going out after snowpocalypse last week and my wife said to me - you know, it sucks for the power to be out and to not have lights/heat/TV, etc., but what I miss the most is our heated toilet seat. Never going back.
  10. Back to rail? This implies that KXL was already running and is being shut down, which is obviously not the case. If the Dakota Access Pipeline is shutdown that will definitely force more crude to be moved by rail, which I completely agree is bad all around - it's not as safe as pipeline transport, costs more, and is less efficient. I think the DAPL was ordered to be shutdown by a federal judge last summer but was overturned on appeal. Again, at this point, KXL is a political football used to rile people up - seems like it worked on some people.
  11. This is pretty much the gist of it for me too. I was willing to give him a chance, but that chance expired as soon as he spent the first days of his presidency bickering about the size of the inauguration crowd and banning the parks department from posting actual pictures of the crowd. I was pretty sure we were proper fucked right then and there. I don't have a strong faith like you do Mole, but I grew up in the Catholic church and have close family members and others that I'm close to who have always held themselves up as "people of God." I don't know that I'll ever understand how they rationalized their support for this shit stain. And not just "for the judges" or whatever other policy they supported, but were full-throated defenders of his actions, even when they were very obviously hateful/harmful/not Christ-like. It's really been a hard thing for me to stomach and has done permanent damage to relationships with people that I previously admired.
  12. I dipped a toe into GBTC today - trade executed at $32.
  13. Yea, that's some serious horseshit - even for these dipshits.
  14. I don't doubt that, but how much new capital is being deployed into the San Joaquin valley fields currently? And that is domestic production, not Canadian.
  15. Exactly - it’s a talking point for people that want to scare everyone. And yes, it would lower differentials for oil sands crude, but why do we want to do that again? That process is environmentally destructive af and we are swimming in domestic production.
  16. My thought too. This is only phase IV and I thought that was mainly to transport Canadian syncrude and oil sands crude down to Nebraska. So it might effect Bakken producers, but I don't think there are takeaway issues there currently anyway, correct?
  17. I was agreeing with you. It’s a frustrating thing to think about.
  18. I don't really get the allure of jet boats either. I know there's one guy on our lake that has one - I towed him in last year when he sucked his tow rope into the impeller.
  19. I think this picture after his extremely lackluster hate rally in Tulsa is my favorite. Not only do you get a completely disheveled looking Trump (including spray tan on the inside of the collar), but when you consider the context of the picture it's extra delicious. They thought there would be a hundred thousand people there and even set up a whole separate scene outside to handle the overflow from an arena packed with ~19,000 magats. The final estimate of the whole crowd from the Tulsa Fire Department was less than 6,200. With this being the first rally after the Covid shutdowns, you have to think that this was the first inkling he had that he might really be in deep shit. He could rationalize his way out of bad poll numbers, but him physically seeing the abysmal turnout for himself resulted in this priceless photo.
  20. Honest question - how did this person react? @Wanker Bob
  21. No doubt. It's just that they are much more likely to get "fixed" if they don't get shit all over with nanny-nanny-boo-boos at the first sign of starting to look for a mechanic.
  22. It's hard. And I'm not talking about every Larry and Leroy I know who fell for this shit. I'm talking about family and friends that we want to maintain a relationship with AND who show a willingness to admit that they were duped. For those people, derision and shaming will not work - I've been trying that with one very old friend for more than 2 years with no results... My plan now is to suppress the voice inside my head telling me to posterize him on the day when a big part of his world is crumbling and instead look for any glimmer that he's ready to enter reality with the rest of us. I'd want him to do the same thing for me if I was in the bottom of a bottle or whatever other dark place I might be stuck in and need some help finding my way out.
  23. This is the way. We should all really try our hardest to applaud every incremental step these people around us make towards admitting they were duped. Reserve your finger pointing and laughing for those who have already morphed their delusions to match the reality that Biden is now POTUS.
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