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Eastwood

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  1. 1 minute ago, Valmy77 said:

    That is a shitload of money to piss away. I hope this one extra year in the SEC is worth it.

    Anyway glad we finally have a definite end date.

    We pulled the "fuck you money" card out of the deck and slammed it on the table.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, NoName said:

    why would they want to run people to much more secure means of discussion and contact (IE Signal) when they can just have them all in 1 place and have  backdoor into DMs, etc?

    Put on your tinfoil hats, gang, because we’re doing a conspiracy deep dive. 
     

    The Saudis, with their entire modern existence tied to fossil fuels, targeted the narcissist who has been the face of the worldwide push to green energy and whose most popular and lucrative product is a direct competitor to the internal combustion engine. They back his Twitter bid knowing that he will have to put up stock to buy it, they have the psychological profile research that would indicate that he would become obsessed with Twitter and destroy his image, and simultaneously become a pariah to his target customers while potentially ruining him financially and getting removed from his own company. 
     

    Sounds like a good movie script. And in reality, it always seemed really weird that Elon Musk would want to be cozy with the Saudi Royal family. Why not shack up with Exxon and Chevron while you’re at it. As to why the Saudis want to cozy up to Elon, it’s the same reason that they get close to anyone: looking for a good place to stick a knife. 

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  3. 35 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

    I'll take a guess and based on the o/g profits coming in last year, they'll find a way to not lower prices even if demand wanes. Hell, they'll probably go up.

    It’s a capital intensive endeavor and not all basins/assets are created equal. As prices increase, exploration fires up in areas with higher breakeven prices, supply goes up until it meets demand. Then demand wanes, prices go down, exploration wanes, supply wanes, and the bottom falls out. The industry takes about 6 months to respond to increases in demand, but about only 2 months to respond to decreases in demand. That’s why it is a boom/bust business. Everyone chases the high prices, produces themselves out of business, the healthiest companies devour the smaller, rinse and repeat until the final bust in 2063 or whenever. 
     

    Saying that oil companies are jacking up prices never made sense. Their product is an openly traded commodity. They get paid based on the market indicies tied to their midstream contracts. They scored huge profit because the market dictated that the price of their product was very high in 2022. They’re not barreling oil and placing it on store shelves like it’s Coca Cola. 

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  4. 19 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    Understandable, but way too paranoid.
    We are not going to have an event like that in my, my kids', or my grandkids' lifetime. People forget just how utterly unworldly the combo of events were, it's probably more likely I'll win the lottery than that happening.  Maybe somethng close (3-4 days) but nope, no 10 day not-yet-hitting-25 degrees after FIVE winter storms in FIVE days.  

    I'm certain of it.  Period.

    You arrogant ass, you’ve killed us. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    Yeah, yeah I'm still alive. I'm not Missing in Action, at least that's what the Chinese and Russians told me at the ladies' garden meeting (yeah, it's a reference to something).

    Not a poster much any more, by design.  Weather? Sometimes if needed. This one's borderline.

    Seriously, what do y' want to know about this, if anything?  I'll try to answer.

    How long have you been a degenerate ginger and why did you pick the name MissingInAction?

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  6. 22 minutes ago, Not that Bob said:

    Explain something to an old. Why would an upper, for example Adderall, laced with a downer, fentanyl, be an item? If I want to study, or otherwise get "up", assuming I live through the first dose, why would I seek that same pill a second time? Is it an "8 ball" thing? Seems counterintuitive. 

    It’s not intentional, most of the time, when uppers get laced with fentanyl. They’re cutting a bunch of different drugs and then not cleaning the area before they move on to the next drug. They’ll cut a bunch of downers with fentanyl, package it up, then turn around and cut cocaine on the same table with the same tools. Fentanyl is so potent that the exposure form that alone is sometimes enough. They just had two people in Galveston overdose on cocaine laced with fentanyl on Christmas. Got it from the same dealer at the same party. 
     

    Street drugs are hardly even close to worth the gamble, right now. Way more deadly that they were in the 80s and 90s. 

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  7. 4 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    I think Bayless ran into the situation where a known asshole does not get the benefit of the doubt when he doesn’t act with the utmost decorum in this kind of circumstance. Anything less than thoughts and prayers from the likes of Bayless is going to be treated with extreme prejudice in the court of public opinion. He’s earned it. 

    Bingo. If Bayless wasn’t such a renowned muck raking, contrarian shit heel, people would pause and think “man, he doesn’t really mean that the way I think he means it, does he?” Bayless has made a living off of being an insensitive, hot take guy who “just calls it like it is,” so his room for error is zero. Him sprinting to Twitter to dish out a poorly worded hot take is Scorpion and the Frog level self-destruction and I’m all for it. 

    He’s been in the business long enough to read the room. He didn’t because he doesn’t. He just flings shit on the wall and people are beyond done tolerating it. 

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  8. 9 minutes ago, immamac said:

    That's just the drama you see. It's a toxic cancer to the rest of the locker room. He's not treated special even though he feels like he's a cut above and entitled. 

    Well, shit, if that’s the case, is there any money left in the wreath fund to buy him a suitcase? We could put up a poll in the Southwest Airlines thread about which one is the best to buy for him and get a neutral color so he can slap whatever sticker of the team he’s going to on it. 

  9. Most reasonable Surly folk had us at 8 or 9 wins, it just sucks to be right about it. That being said, there has been a decent amount of improvement. Recruiting is where it needs to be, we just need to see development follow. That’s where Herman and Strong lacked.

     

    10 wins and a conference championship appearance is the standard next year. Anything less than that and it’s hot seat time. Miss a bowl game and he’s out. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Do y'all drip your faucets during a freeze? I didn't this storm, and sure enough Day 4 without running water is upon me. 

    Cover the in-wall spigot on the south side of the house, drip and create a wind break for the spigot on the north side that has an exposed pipe. I also try to insulate the exposed pipe as best I can, but the geniuses that owned the house before me appear to have installed this north spigot after construction, which is why it is exposed, and I can't get the screws out to properly insulate it, so it is a yearly thing until what I have done falls off. I have to more than drip that one, though, and let it run a very, very small stream. If I drip, I'm out there with a hair dryer every morning.

    I also drip the inside faucets that have any exposure to outside walls and open cabinet doors.

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  11. Team Drip doing well, so far. 
     

    On the gas conversation, there is some truth that there are a bunch of stripper wells out there that are barely profitable that don’t support modern winterization from a financial standpoint. But the take that gas companies aren’t financially incentivized to weatherize after Feb 2021 is silly. Companies that got all their gas to market in Feb made an absolute killing. Companies absolutely winterized after, just not in the way the government was trying to mandate. 
     

    This event isn’t an apples to apples comparison with Feb, but getting gas to market in a high pricing environment is a pretty good incentive to fix what went wrong last time and the lack of flow disruption, so far, is good evidence of that. 

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  12. We had a similar cold snap in January of 2017 that was only a couple of degrees warmer. I think I did the bare minimum for that and we made it through. The real break will come from the sun coming out with no cloud cover on Friday. The forecast may show it only getting into the mid 30s, but that sun exposure will thaw us out. We are getting only about 12 to 14 hours of sun freezing with no sun. 
     

    Snowmageddon had 72 hours below freezing, very little sun, and freezing precip. We should take precautions, but let’s take a deep breath. My only concern is that my heat pump is now just over 10 years old. It ran for what seemed like 3 days straight in 2021 and handled it like a champ and I’ve kept it in good condition, but Murphy’s Law is ever-present. 

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