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  1. Let’s create a Surly Junior High (5-8th) and target the siblings of the kids in the “Can’t get into UT thread”. Immamac could spin that up in a day and be ready to ingest $10k checks when they get released.
  2. This is why I think the rural folks will vote for it.
  3. I think that’s being too much. I think it’s likely more the sociopathy of, “we want what we want and, oh? It hurts others? Oh well.” Versus your argument of psychopathy where the whole intent is the cruelty versus the self-centered value creation with little care to the blowback.
  4. I had the Keller kerfluffle from a couple of pages in mind as well. That doesn’t seem cruel for cruel sake or greed, but more what I described around retrenching in smaller homogeneous values and class tribes.
  5. These are our concerns, dude.
  6. Great post. The issue is that everything you just said is true and logical and rational. But then when you talk about (and it happened here just a page or two back) shutting down schools due to legitimate demographic and attendance data, people react emotionally in the negative and don't want to accept that as reasonable. I suspect they just want to throw more money at it (raise taxes? not sure where all these free money tree mangroves are) rather than rationalize within reason and good financial sense, to maximize efficiency and results. It's the same issue with DOGE. I think the execution of DOGE has been horrific, but the actual underlying idea of efficiency is smart and sound. IMO I think the issue is a span of authority or span of control issue. The trend in general seems to be one of retrenchment and that is extending to state and local stuff too. I think folks want to decouple from a broader, big tent and regroup around smaller, more homogenous and more regional/cultural/tribal pods because they look out and think the bigger picture isn't working for them individually. That's my opinion as a neutral observer (not having children in public ISDs) but being concerned about it.
  7. Do you have dibs on that name? Can I use it?
  8. It's crazy to me how some people just have the cockroach ability to never get cornered, never get stomped out for the long game, they just somehow get away with it all. Reminds me of the Trump meme "all well, nevertheless..." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/musk-s-x-is-in-talks-to-raise-money-at-a-44-billion-valuation Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is in talks to raise money at a $44 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. That's the same as what Musk paid for the company back in 2022, in a "remarkable turn of fortunes" after the takeover and subsequent loss of advertisers caused its value to plummet. The talks, which mark the first known investment round since it was taken private, are ongoing and could change.
  9. So it’s essentially a break for parents already paying for private school, at best. At worst it’s not a benefit to anyone except the schools who capture an extra $10k a head thanks to the state/tax paying public.
  10. The middle class gets screwed again! Our (America's) favorite past time. So you make more than $155k as a household, you get three choices: 1) get no voucher but have to pay full boat private school (financially expensive) 2) get no voucher, go to local public school which will suck even more because of diverted funds and lower middle/middle class white flight (opportunity cost for your child's future, potentially) 3) get no voucher, but have to homeschool and you get $2,500 for the trouble (expensive with time, might have to do one income).
  11. I don't think that is EXACTLY accurate in that most EROEI models I've seen in modern times from sustainability consultancies (the big "McKinsey of ESGs" that all the big O&G use) account for the externalities as inputs/outputs in EROI calcs. LCA is a huge compononet when financial and physical modeling of new energy projects are being evaluated-- and these life cycle assessments (LCA's) aboslutely evaluate the environmental impacts of whatever you are trying to do (A or B in your analogy) throughout the entire life cycle, from soup to nuts.
  12. Yea good question. I assume if you are good and have a future for football you will stay in your local public powerhouse (e.g. Allen, DeSoto, Southlake, etc.). But maybe highschool football goes the way of AAU basketball in that a lot of times the studs don't play for their local public, but private academies that pipeline into NCAA.
  13. Let's game this out. Vouchers pass. What does that mean for Texans? Do we get $10k to use towards private school tuition (similiar to Oklahoma)? Is this just going to cause a run on private schools for those with even a little bit of means and/or private schools just increasing their base tuition by $10k? Essentially the state is going to be giving the private school administrations and teachers a raise, while making the publics even worse (and they are already unacceptable, ont eh whole)?
  14. The hackneyed attempts at trying to demonstrate wit or contorting yourself to try and say something fresh (or in your case, being extremely emotional and not matching the speed and tone of the thread and conversation) is the problem when trying to discuss. I suspect Rex is most likely an O&G bigot in the sense he has a hard-wired bias that's hard to be objective or decouple his lived experiences and/or politics with the industry and macroeconomics (and intersectionality of "Climate"), but you being hysterical isn't a productive use of any one's time in this thread. I hope this is the last I will have to address this behavior with you. /s (attempt at some wit to placate you).
  15. Not to speak for him but I think him putting the scientists in scare quotes there is to make the distinction from scientists (real, authentic, as we use the term) and the psuedo-scientists or those who purport to be serious academics/scientists but are disingenious.
  16. Please try to contain yourself.
  17. From what I've learned being in the business and in grad school, EROI (or EROEI), SOME renewables are very close to MODERN day O&G extraction. I say modern day O&G (horizontal drilling, ultra deep water, etc.) because Spindletop and Thunderhorse ain't walking back in the door. A few graphics:
  18. Please don't start with this. Y'all get a room.
  19. I thought this was a great graphic (if a little dated):
  20. As someone who doesn't want to pay taxes and find them detestable, please let us know how this goes. I assume it will go about as smooth as it did for ole Wesley Snipes. But I'm rooting for him nevertheless.
  21. “this ain't the squash beef state/ You thinkin' makeup, we thinkin' Lark Voorhies face”
  22. All this. are the first few posts here conspiracy theorizing that the MAGATs funded and managed Pro-Palestine protests? But now that MAGATs are elected, they don’t need to anymore? beyond it being a brain worms thing to think, much less say outloud, if one were to really believe this, what would be the underlying motivation? MAGATs are racist and antisemitic and nazis and so they hate the Jews and would secretly support anything that erodes Israel’s power?
  23. I need midstream was a crappy business and midstream companies were crappy to work with, but this was an interesting view (h/t Visual Capitalist):
  24. Akshully, the buy backs were in part to buoy the technicals for the stock price/shareholders so that they could better compete with benchmarking peers (like the aforementioned IOCs), but there was STILL too much fat and redundancy in the organization. If you've ever worked in and around Chevron, you would understand. Either way, this was McKinsey coming in and providing a blueprint to better compete with their peers for capital.
  25. My read is that this isn't an industry-driven thing as much as it is a corporate-specific ting. IMO this has been a long time coming. There was a re-org last year that predated this and this was a corporate move to catch up to the other big integrated's on stock price, e/ps, valuations, margins, etc.
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