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  1. 5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    The people we met there were nice, but many were quite poor.  They were quite flattered that we were there to explore their country and culture, and like most anyone, they were proud to show it off.  But it was clear that they depend on other countries for a lot -- tourism from Iran, investment (and control) from Russia, subsidies from China (looking to expand the Belt and Road project).

    You know you are at the bottom of the rung when you are relying on Iran for tourism..."and if you go around the corner there, you will find a nice little uranium shop".

    Also, the Kardashians need to step up with some financial backing for their motherland (actually fatherland). They are probably worth more than the entire GDP of that place.

  2. On the long run by the Tech RB, Overshown came flying in, never wrapped up and bounced off the RB.  He plays out of control at times.  He can get to places others can't because of his speed but he's going to have play more disciplined or there will be a lot more of those type of missed tackles from him.

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  3. 2 hours ago, jeevsie said:

    The first time (post lockdown) someone brought us breakfast a few weeks ago, people just kind of stared at it for a while.  "Is it safe" kind of deer in the headlights.

    Then the engineers caught wind. "Mmm...Free Food..."

    That's funny and accurate...needs to be in a Dilbert cartoon.

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  4. 7 hours ago, Eastwood said:

    It's funny to me because I have been working from home 75% of the time for years in this industry. I'd have zero problems working for any company that has made the transition. But the application process for in-house doesn't seem to take that into account. They'd rather roll the dice, right now, with some 45 year old CPL who has only ever worked in an office and then shrug their shoulders when their new hire spends months adjusting to and accumulating the programs and equipment necessary to do it. And the experience with those programs and processes is actually cumulative. The more you work with those programs and newer tech, the quicker you'll pick up the next round of programs and processes the company will eventually transition to.

    For example, right before I started my last project, they were having problems with people not being able to figure out how to share things over Google Drive and Dropbox. People with decades of experience just dead in the water because they can't function in a work from home environment and are spending a significant chunk of their day just trying to figure out how to send someone a PDF or turn in something. Then they add a program or a new method of doing things and these people haven't even figured out the last round, so now they are double behind and spending all of their day scratching their head. Then yet another process comes out and the next thing you know, you have people complaining about putting in 12 hour days with nothing to show for it because they are completely turned around and confused and there isn't a person to sit down with them for a week and walk them through all of it. The best we could do was a monthly meeting to try to get everyone sorted out. Eventually, they get let go, which is a shame because they have the knowledge but are analog people stuck in a digital world.

    Well Concho just built a brand new big ass analog building, so if they really are going to WFH 75%, that new building sitting at about 25% full, seems like a massive waste. My guess is they will go back to much more in office when Covid calms down.

  5. 55 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    I think the point is that steps could have been taken to reduce the spread of a deadly and incredibly contagious disease, but they didn’t do any of that.  We are the only developed nation in the world insisting to live life without first controlling the spread of the virus. Our death toll is embarrassing. We can’t travel internationally without a visa. This is why. 

    We are also the most non-compliant, free, heterogeneous country in the world. That is currently quite polarized.

    Imo, once the shutdown took place in March and April, and most people here got past the initial fear and feeling of unknown, we were never going to shutdown like Europe or SE Asia, and like what happened here early on. 
     

    If this country wasn’t so spread out with multiple population centers, perhaps that first, fairly comprehensive shutdown, might have been more effective.

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  6. 1 hour ago, B00M said:

     

    But that article straight up says case to case, fir 15-24 year olds, covid is more dangerous in every projection..??

     

    Not the way I read it. Like Newdoc said on a 1 to 1 or case by case basis it's mortality rate is less than the flu for 15 -24 yr olds. Once you hit about 200,000 deaths from covid then it starts to exceed the flu for that age group.  In other words, the way I understand this, since covid spreads easier and will infect more it will eventually surpass flu in mortality rate for 15 - 24 age group if enough people are infected. Correct me if I am wrong.

    That's not to say that there aren't plenty of dangers associated with catching it, even if you are in that young age group, which has been discussed.  Obviously spreading it to the more vulnerable is at the top of that list, and the unknown, possible long term damage you may incur from infection.

    I am particularly interested in this information because I have two college age kids that are about to leave home for school.

  7. 15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    I thought the US was already exporting oil to Mexico ?

    I think what he signed was for approval for specific infrastructure.  Like pipeline right-of-ways, construction of railroad bridges across the border, etc... I assume it requires his approval because of crossing international borders, but not sure.

  8. 42 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Yeah, which is why I've mostly stayed out of the discussion and likely will continue to moving forward.

    Yeah I usually don't wade into this type of discussion.  What a shitshow this has turned into.

    I guess because I/we disagree on some points from certain posters I/we are quickly labeled alt right Americans that need to be beaten...  Not only that but there is an entire generation of a certain race that are bunch of losers that should hang their heads in shame.  Wow! That's some fine work by the resident attorneys!

    Christ guys, I think we have more in common than you would like to believe.  There are positive changes being made, good things happening.

  9. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    No, but I felt it should be mentioned since Onboard was also making a sweeping characterization that most if not all violent protests/riots were being instigated by BLM/antifa. And you know, that it's a notable and new report by the police that's directly salient to the current events being discussed in this thread.

    I certainly don't doubt that has happened in some instances. There's enough radicals on all sides to go around. 

    So exactly who the fuck do you think is behind the majority of the violence/riots?

  10. 2 hours ago, Foosters said:

    Edit: I'll move on. @Wally Fairway articulated what I was trying to say. Yes, there's nuance. I reacted a certain way because I perceived blame being shifted on the victim for requesting someone wear a mask. I don't see that as "initiating a confrontation."

    I would agree with @BabaYaga that without knowing more about how it went down, we're all just speculating on the level of risk inherent in making that request.

     

     

    If you watch the second to last video on the link, which is a press conference with a state trooper, the trooper says that the old guy said something to the stabber in the store about not wearing, and then the clerk at the store refused the stabber service.  The old man had left the store and was out front when the stabber came out, likely pissed. According to the trooper the old man said something again to the guy and this time he pulled a knife.  So yeah, sounds like he snapped.

    Really shitty deal, but it sounds like the old guy may have said one thing too much.

  11. 38 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    This just kind of illustrates the reporting problem.  So "Texas" reports 21 deaths.  Dallas reports 20 deaths.   I highly doubt only 1 other death in the State.  How the hell have we not managed to sync up reporting?  Like, I dunno, every County has to provide data they will release that day to the State by 2 PM so the State can release at 5PM.  Doesn't seem that difficult. 

    Ector County (Odessa) reports confirmed and probable cases. The number on the website linked above (BNO Newsroom) is showing only the confirmed cases.  The probable cases are all from rapid testing done at a private site and are all positive, like an additional 200+ cases.  The Ector County Health Dept. doesn't consider the rapid test accurate enough to report them as confirmed cases. However,  a doctor at one of the hospitals basically came out and said the test were accurate and those probable cases should be listed as confirmed.

    Odessa gonna Odessa...

    https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/new-details-from-ector-county-officials-on-wednesday-paint-new-picture-of-total-covid-19-case-count/513-1f8ad4b6-7b32-427a-8082-307b63570206

  12. 13 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    Daily new cases aren't totally worthless. If daily new cases and percentage of tests positive is also going up, then it's a pretty safe bet that it's spreading. But they're definitely the most volatile and prone to being swayed by irrelevant factors (more testing or just reporting delay). 

    Hospitalizations are fairly reliable. But even those have issues. I mentioned on the Texas re-opening thread that as of yesterday we may be seeing hospitalizations decrease or plateau which hopefully means the surge from Memorial Day was just that - a brief surge. But we're seeing a spike in new cases, which I'd attribute to the protests. I don't expect we'll see as many hospitalizations (because demographics). But that doesn't  mean the protests won't create more spread.

    Point being - hospitalizations can even be a result of who is getting it (young active people vs. fat/old people). I'd expect a lower percentage of protesters to be hospitalized than if the spike was at, say, a BBQ cookoff. So it's not always a perfect way to figure out community spread.

    You sort of have to look at everything together and make only halfway-insane guesses based off of imperfect data. 

    Or just bust out your Magic 8-Ball.

    Daily new cases have gone up significantly in the last two to three weeks, where I live, but hospitalizations have not increased much. Certainly not relative to new cases.  Most of the new cases are younger people which is the most obvious explanation for the relatively low hospitalizations numbers. But, is it possible that the severity of the virus is lessening?

  13. 37 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    Damn.  Are there enough DUCs out there to turn this around anywhere near as quickly as it did in '17 or '19?

     

     

     

    I think the bigger problem is frac crews. There is a large inventory of DUCs and it's going to take a while, with the amount of crews still intact, to get to them.  So doubt it will turn around as fast.

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