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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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)?
  7. 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).
  8. 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.
  9. Please try to contain yourself.
  10. 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:
  11. Please don't start with this. Y'all get a room.
  12. I thought this was a great graphic (if a little dated):
  13. 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.
  14. “this ain't the squash beef state/ You thinkin' makeup, we thinkin' Lark Voorhies face”
  15. 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?
  16. 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):
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Looks like we both either work for or know folks who work for Chevron. The worst kept secret went public today: Chevron to lay off 15% to 20% of global workforce https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/business/chevron-global-layoffs/index.html
  20. Just watched this movie. Not sure if this goes in unpopular opinion thread, but I thought it was really good. It's a suspense/psychological thriller with a legal drama vehicle. I thought Phoenix played the dissociated mentally ill person remarkably realistic and thought the raw cuts of song (and dance) served really well Joker's reawakening, and further dissent into fantasy. I appreciated that Arthur wasn't fully Joker-- he is mentally ill, but not a pscyopath. The Gary Puddles questioning highlighted Arthur's humanity and showed that Arthur is what you CAN get if you sexually and physically a human as a child and then abuse and bully the malformed and maladaptive human adult until something or some things break. Arthur is a survivor of horrible trauma who then goes on to inflict services inkind. I think the Gary scene was the climax of the movie. I thought the end was actually super satisfying-- the real Joker is a (self-diagnosed, it would also appear) pscyhopath. He merely stole the origin, something Arthur accidentally began but couldn't live up to be. Standing on the shoulders of giants, as they say. The last two take-aways that stuck with me. 1) Lady Gaga was so good. She was scary good as an insane, antisocial person and 2) I couldn't help but draw some loose lines between Arthur Fleck/Joker and the admiration and surge of social support for doing the heinous and Luigi the guy who killed the UHC CEO. It felt real and it left me feeling dirty.
  21. A couple of disjointed comments @F250 on that verse: "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." I have heard it said that the "rock" that Jesus says he will build his church on, is the rock of confession-- that we confess Jesus is the Messiah (which is what Peter had just done and 16:18 was in response to that confession/posture). Matthew 16:16-17 Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. That said, I have also heard it said that Jesus was one for nicknames. He nicknamed James and John "Sons of Thunder" and more famously Simon was renamed as Peter (Greek Petros means Rock) in what I have heard would be a modern day equivilent of giving your buddy the nickname "Rocky" or someone bull-headed, strong, stubbon but also heart of gold, underdog and loveable....like the eponymously named boxing movie. Lastly I've heard that verse used as an invitation for Christians to take up their cross and not be fearful, but be on the attack-- be on the offensive. For Gates are a defensive barriers. A lot of folks get it backwards in their minds that the Christianity and faith (and evangelism) is something to hide behind like gates, as the forces of evil push against it. But it's quite the opposite. We are called to push against the wicked and sinful and storm those gates with the righteousness and steadfastness of faith, etc. etc. Or so that's how I've heard it said.
  22. The Roma people are the correct term for the group, and "Gypsy" is a derogatory term that should be avoided. The word "Roma" is the ethnonym used by the Roma people to describe themselves. "Gypsy" is an exonym that is considered insulting and offensive by many Roma. Google told me this: In America, "Travellers" are generally considered to refer to "Irish Travellers," and based on available estimates, there are significantly fewer Irish Travellers than "Gypsies" (Romani people) in the United States, meaning there are more "Gypsies" than "Travellers" in America.
  23. not supposed to say Gypsy. It's Roma. Not to be confused with Gypsy Rose.
  24. I'm a certified hater. Wasn't happy that Kendrick was the performer and I think Drake sucks. New Orleans is Little Wayne's city and the only good and right answer for the headliner. I was holding out hope K.Dot would do the right thing and bring him on stage, but alas, the world is dark and justice is spare.
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