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  1. 2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    A person is not awful. A person is great. People are awful. 
     

     

    The larger the group becomes, the less accountability each individual has. Soon, individual accountability is completely eroded and a group becomes capable of horrible things. The only way to prevent it from happening is making sure those in charge of the group maintain their individual accountability and have them understand that they are liable for the actions of the group. We have always fallen short, as a society, in doing that. 

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  2. 2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Based on Sark suddenly committing to a run heavy offense instead of constant playaction because he didn’t trust Malik to throw.   And based on Murphy and Ewers coming here at the same time, and Ewers always being the starter while Murphy was 3rd string and then 2nd string.

    If you really want to stretch for a glass half full spin, it might be that we would be better when Sark has to take his running game seriously instead of just thinking about how it sets up his next playaction pass.  So, maybe we get some inadvertent benefit. 

    If Sark has a hint of MackBrownitis, I could see him playing Quinn if both practiced equally purely because of the NIL/name recognition/big dollar component same as the Simms/Applewhite debacle. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, naija said:

    sorry, but what part of 195 lbs being light for an NFL QB do you think is not true?  unless you are saying that weight that has been quoted ad nauseam  is incorrect. this was a point of discussion as recently as this year's draft and QB #1

    Kyler Murray got drafted. He’s only 12 lbs heavier and probably 4 inches shorter than Quinn. (I don’t trust that 5’10” number for Kyler, at all)

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  4. 33 minutes ago, Basil said:

    You guys are aggy - so obsessed with another team you’d rather them lose even if it decreases the odds of Texas going to the CFP. Don’t be aggy.

    A one loss, Big 12 champion Texas gets in the playoff no matter what OU does. Therefore, I hope OU never wins another game this season. 

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

    Most old landmen are also unrepentant alcoholics, in my experience. 

    When I first got out of law school and went and ran title for a year, used to get a kick at the old veteran coots that "worked" maybe 20 hours/week, billing $400/day or more and complaining about politics.

    I loved having those guys on the crew. It was job security when it came time to cut the fat. Will they keep the old curmudgeon who was over paid and barely worked or the scrappy young guy constantly turning in work product, cost less, and had the attitude of “learning every day”? 

  6. 10 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    The older guys all hate their f***ing lives. I don’t get it, but they’ve seen some shit. I haven’t met one that isn’t cynical. The business has changed a great deal. It’s much more administrative now. F*** ton of meetings they don’t want to be in.
     

    The old guys tell funny war stories, but the underlying rage is there. 
     

    Eagle Ford leases back in 2012-2018 were very complex with pretty tough continuous development clauses. And the documents were written by regarded South Texas personal injury attorneys. Random paragraphs that shouldn’t be in an O&G lease. References to irrelevant Texas Supreme Court cases.

    I’m pretty fortunate in that I deal with state and federal agencies, and other O&G companies 95% of the time. Everybody is a professional. There are some Biden Administration shenanigans, but that they’re manageable and can be planned around. 

    Those leases still exist, by the way. They never left. 

    I’ve never seen a grouchy Landman while in-house (I’m in the new school batch, I guess), but I have seen, and have had to do it myself personally, situations where we have to tell the rest of the company no on something because of land and legal. I know you guys want to go out there and break open some prime rock that has everyone in the building with a STEM degree creaming their pants, but we have to check the legal boxes first to make sure we have the right to do it. So, I am effectively being the Bad News Bear all the time. And don’t even get me started on the Production Accounting side. 
     

    But I realize that I am raining on the parade and try not to be an asshole about it. We’re all just doing our jobs and when we’re all in sync, we make the company a lot of money. 

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  7. 9 hours ago, LonghornJones said:

    XOM plans to offer 90% of Pioneer a position at XOM including field employees. From what I’ve heard, maybe 30% make the move.

    Most decisions not to go have been culture based. Pioneer was the greatest place to work on earth, and for those who signed on right after college are abt to see what the real world is like.

    So, is my LinkedIn about to be flooded with XOM job openings, then?

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  8. 11 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    Timothy McVeigh admitted he knew the Murrah Building had a daycare in it on the second floor and still blew them up because he was mad about Waco. There are evil people in this world from all walks of life.

    McVeigh saw it as necessary collateral damage to get his point across. That’s the mentality of most extremists. The non-combatant victims either deserved it or was collateral damage necessary for the cause. Sprinkle in some religion and we get a “God/Allah will sort them out and reward the innocent” angle. 

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  9. Their main shot caller is rubbing elbows in Qatar and nowhere near in danger. My thought is that he received a boatload of cash to pull this particular trigger, but the question is from whom. But Qatar isn’t as safe as he thinks it is. History has shown that Mossad will find a way. 

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  10. This concept that Hamas cannot conduct “total war” is a flawed one. I’m not a trained fighter, but if I take a swing at Tyson Fury on the street and get two cheap shots in, I’m in a “fight” with Tyson Fury. The skill level between the two parties is irrelevant. It’s the intent of the initiator that matters, in my opinion. I hypothetically intended on knocking out Tyson Fury with a cheap shot and my life would probably meet a swift end after I failed. 

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  11. 2 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

    So if the IDF pushes hard into Gaza, does the north and/or West Bank pop off significantly while they are pre-occupied? Also since every one is talking about Israel striking Iran, that a pretty good haul for the planes they have at their disposal right? 

    It’s not the distance, it’s the airspace they have to cross to get there. The Arab nations in between might not be openly hostile to Israel, at least not right now, but their leadership would be under immense pressure if they let Israel cross the airspace of a majority Muslim nation to attack another Muslim nation. 
     

    If Israel did, it would be with a FAFO declaration putting everyone on notice that whoever shoots them down will get some, too. Which is why this is so dangerous. A cold religious war just went hot. Predictable and logical behavior are not on the table. 

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  12. Israel could glass the Gaza Strip without ever putting a boot on the ground and Hamas’ anti-air isn’t very effective, if it even exists. These air strikes seem very limited, so far. Makes me think Israel is softening them up and going to send in ground forces to completely clean, sweep, and level that place. 

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  13. 7 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

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    “ I’m not sure if you carry a phone, but by any chance, would you have even one dollar??”

    Trump with Godfrey of Bouillon at the Siege of Antioch - 1098 AD

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  14. 28 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

    To be successful investing in stonks, you have to hit a few home runs because there will be so many losers. You won’t ever hit those 10+ baggers by selling at the beginning of a spike. 

    Chasing the top is some gambling addiction, heart breaking shit. Profit is always better than bag holding. 

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  15. I took the bar exam on a gaming laptop because I knew it had the power to handle the exam software, even if the software was very poorly optimized. You think I’m going to go into the most important test of my life with a Chromebook?

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