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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 03, 2017, 08:06:40 AM »

emo of all people should appreciate someone challenging themself

He doesnt seem to be handling it very well.  Puni didn't either.

And why should I handle it well?  I've outlined why one shouldn't.

To even remotely defend this is beyond reproach.  It's not even worth debate.

Then you're just as boneheaded as the people you're lashing out at.  Sad.

There. Is. No. Debate. The science is settled.

You want to talk solutions and ideas on how to bring renewable energy to the market through public and/or private means? Fine. Let's do that.

But there is no debate on whether climate change is happening. There is no debate on whether or not humans are causing it.  There is a little wiggle on impacts, but that's like debating if you want your whole house to burn down vs. your garage.

There is no point to having meaningful discussions with most conservatives on this issue because you want to take the debate to some weird ass fringe where we may as well debate whether or not the sky is green.

That's what's sad. We need to have a debate on how to combat climate change. Not whether or not it exists or if we should just ignore it. The reason the entire world is pissed is because we have the greatest ability to impact change, and 40% of our country has been brainwashed to believe there's no there, there.

So, you want a debate? Fine. Let's talk solutions. But say the science isn't settled, and you can go sit in the corner with the people who think Obama is listening to people through their microwaves. 

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 11:44:12 PM »

emo of all people should appreciate someone challenging themself

He doesnt seem to be handling it very well.  Puni didn't either.

And why should I handle it well?  I've outlined why one shouldn't.

To even remotely defend this is beyond reproach.  It's not even worth debate. 

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:24:52 PM »

What do you think is going to happen in 50 years to the earth at current trajectory panj?

Well, they're finding that things are progressing, negatively, faster than they thought.

So, I have no idea. Nothing good if we maintain the status quo.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 05:16:36 PM »

Panj it'd be easier to move to the country you want to live in than to change the one you're living in now.

Go where the sinners are.

Seems like this is ground zero.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 01:29:38 PM »

I'm not going to justify all of the things I do. There's more.

Of course, you're too goddamn obtuse to have a discussion with, so there's little point.

I didn't ask you to justify anything. You're the one who brought these things up as if you're Mother effing Teresa. Owning a high efficiency AC and appliances is your contribution?! Do you realize (you don't) that if everyone on earth owned such things CO2 emissions would skyrocket? The only thing you're "contributing" is far more carbon than the average human being. That, and huge gobs of hypocrisy.

You are melting down over the US withdrawing from a non-binding agreement you have not even read while enjoying your carbon spewing AC, fridge, and internet most of the world will never experience.

The best part of your ignorant, whiny, sniveling, delusional, hypocritical, and pretentious rant is that, just like all the liberals in meltdown, you have no recognition of how ignorant, whiny, sniveling, delusional, hypocritical, and pretentious you are. It is hilarious!

I love how if you don't live in a mud hut, you're a hypocrite.  To assume that life is so binary that if you aren't living on the extreme fringe that you don't have a dog in the fight.

Do I make the vast majority of my purchasing decisions on energy efficiency where applicable?  Yes.  Do I use more carbon than your average European?  Yes.  Do I live in the most powerful country in the world that could do something relevant about Climate Change?  Yes.

Once I can legitimately replace my roof tiles with ones from Solar City that power my Tesla Power Wall, I will.  Once Tesla, or other automotive providers, create diverse, cost effective transportation powered solely by batteries, I'll buy them.  There?  Does that make you happy?  I'm sorry that I don't have an option to buy an electric van.  That's a Detroit problem, not a me problem.

Maybe I want to live in a country where we continue to use the EPA to push American innovation in the automotive industry for better gas mileage, less emissions, and more options for consumers to buy environmentally friendly vehicles.

Maybe I want to live in a country where we make it a priority to use subsidies and tax breaks to help make living environmentally friendly much more palatable.  More tax breaks for solar and wind.  More subsidies for efficient products.

But here is the damn fallacy that makes me so angry at the Republican party and their supporters; why try and stifle what would be great for America, American industry, and the world in the long run?  Other than the obvious truth that the vast majority of Republicans are on the fossil fuel lobby payroll, but beyond them being sniveling, morally bankrupt cowards, why are they against pumping some life into an industry that is set to outpace fossil fuel job creation by vast margins in the next decade?  To prevent a guy working at an industry on the tail end of the product life cycle from losing his job?  He'll get another job if he takes advantage of job training that the government "could" ultimately help provide and subsidize.

This is just one issue that is so damn cut and dry that it's hard to imagine anyone being against it.  Unless the limit of someone's vision is five feet in front of their face, that is.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 02, 2017, 07:28:55 AM »

I'm not going to justify all of the things I do. There's more.

Of course, you're too goddamn obtuse to have a discussion with, so there's little point.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 11:48:47 PM »

I'm sorry.  I forgot to give the President credit for some of his other wins that protect Americans, since he pointed out he's such a steward of American safety and prosperity today.

Trump has rolled back hunting regulations on Alaskan bears, since he's the President of the people Juneau (and not Japan).

Trump has aggressively fought Net Neutrality and Internet Privacy Regulations, because while our national energy interests should be sovereign, your personal data and information shouldn't be.

Also, he's rolled back requirements set by the Labor Dept. for workplaces to report injuries because, well, there's no good reason for that.  He's just an bad person.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: June 01, 2017, 11:24:33 PM »

Like, this was what made musk and that other guy realize trump was a piece of crap?

I think Musk realized that the PR hit wasn't worth it when Trump basically had a circle jerk in the Rose Garden with a bunch of fossil fuel industry lobbyists.

Probably better to go take a few photo ops with Jerry Brown.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 11:11:37 PM »

I'm still pissed, so I'm going to vent.

It's so damn annoying to say you care about this issue, but some damn jackass comes at you and insinuates that because you aren't Ed Bagley Jr., Ubering people around in a rickshaw while drinking collected rainwater in a recycled plastic bottle, that you are some poser.  I drive ULEV vehicles.  I buy Energy Star everything.  When I had to replace my HVAC and water heater, I spent ungodly amounts of money on a high efficiency paired system and a ultra high efficiency water heater.  Did I have to?  No.  Will it save me money in the long run? Maybe not.  But that's my contribution.  I sleep better at night.

Do I think the agreement is the end all be all? No. It's non-binding for Christ's sake. But what does it say that we don't even give enough of a crap to join a non-binding agreement that LITERALLY the rest of the world is a part of? Well, except Nicaragua, who wanted an even more strict agreement, and Syria, which is less of a country and more of a parking lot these days.

What this means is that our "President", and the goddamn oil and coal lobby that we call the Republican members of Congress, feel like it's a good idea to tell the rest of the world to screw off because they are so desperate to look like they're actually accomplishing something.  They can't ban Muslims, the can't reform health care, and the OMB apparently can't even use a calculator, so, hey, eff Paris.

On top of that, even the staunchest Trump supporter has to admit that at least some of this has to do with the fact that his European trip was a disaster, and he was essentially laughed out of the continent.  It's no small coincidence that he probably took a beating behind closed doors when he met with the G7, and promptly came home and gave them the middle finger.  He's a rough ridin' child that is willing to basically give the entire green energy future to the Chinese because Angela Merkel probably treated him like an idiot all week (because he is) and Marcon gave him a firm handshake.

And this short sighted "Dealmaker" thinks that giving money to developing nations is a bad investment?  I mean maybe, just maybe, this business "guru" could have seen an opportunity to sell green tech, developed, engineered, and manufactured in America to these countries WITH THE MONEY WE GAVE THEM.  But, no, let's sell off half of the strategic petroleum reserves to a global market that is already heavy on the supply side.  Because making a few quick bucks there and selling off our fuel reserves doesn't mean a damn thing when you can just rip up Yellowstone and put up a few rigs.  Hell, let's find some Indian reservations and strip mine them for clean, CLEAN coal. Real CLEEEEAN coal.  But when these countries actually decide to buy green tech, I'm sure the Chinese will be thrilled to sell them all of the solar panels and wind turbines they need.

A fraction of this is about the environment.  We've already hit the CPP goals for carbon reduction due to our rapid move to natural gas and the private sector quickly moving towards renewables.  All this is going to do is make people even more likely to buy an electric car and a high efficiency dishwasher because they want to stick it to Trump.  But what this is really about is continually ceding ground to the Chinese and Europe.  It's giving a win to those dumbass nationalist assholes who think we can stem the tide of globalization, automation, and international cooperation for some mythical past where everything is a zero sum battle for world domination and supremacy.  It's about some Creationist in the Bible Belt who thinks Republican Jesus is going to use the cosmic Hoover to suck the carbon right out of the sky...

Now, more than any time in the last five months, we see pure idiocy.  Not just incompetence and disorganization, but pure, unyielding evidence that this entire cadre of door humping retards can't even get on board with a non-binding treaty, that has goals so low we can shuffle over them, and provides great global PR and a drivers seat to dictate the market for what will be the most lucrative industry in the 21st century.

I'm not worried about the planet.  We'll figure that out.  I'm worried that we're actually going to have to spend literal decades cleaning up amazingly avoidable bullshit.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 03:48:59 PM »

Libs meltin' down. Take a breather fellas. Maybe do some meditation. Here's a few questions to meditate on....

What is the optimal global temperature?

How much will the temperature rise if CO2 increases from .04 percent to .05 percent?

Am I confident enough in my answers that I'm ok cutting thousands of US jobs and driving up the cost of energy (and thereby all the goods and services I consume?)

Did I enjoy air condition today? Drive a car? Charge my phone?

What's it mean to take a gender-responsive approach to climate change?

Breath in.... breath out....

Everything you said is stupid.  Shut up.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Scott Pruitt "If the models are all wrong" thread

« on: June 01, 2017, 03:33:41 PM »

It's ok, clearly the US can't handle decision making anymore, let's just keep sliding down the relevance ladder and let big kids do all the thinking and work for us.

I read a hottake somewhere that said the world may be better off with us on the sidelines for a while until we get our house in order.  The world can move faster to address the problem if they aren't dealing with our Trump drama.

A part of me agrees with that.  What will be interesting to see is how individual states, like California, may end up making their own commitments with other nations.

I did listen to his speech.  God, it's like he was reading a Breitbart article in the Rose Garden.  It made me nauseous.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: White people name, White people shame

« on: May 31, 2017, 02:34:29 AM »

My son apparently had a Huxley in his class this year.

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Essentially Flyertalk / Re: Shows that have you by the balls, or vag...

« on: May 31, 2017, 02:32:04 AM »

American Gods just premiered. Full of WTF, but it looks cool, so I'll give it a whirl.

If you stuck with American Gods, episodes 4 and 5 were excellent.

This is really great TV. I'm not sure if my new favorite show is AG or the Expanse. Toss up.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Presidency

« on: May 14, 2017, 11:31:45 PM »

Rush is a piece of crap and basically everything that is wrong with the world.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: May 08, 2017, 03:33:04 PM »

Texas not having a lot of NFL talent is killing the conference in this stat.

During the Mack era, Texas was good for 3-5 (or more) draft picks per draft.  They didn't have any in 2014, 1 in 2016 and 1 in 2017.

I mean you can look at the high water years of this conference, and Texas was winning ten games a year.  Once they started going South, everything in this conference went with it.

Oklahoma is pumping out 5+ almost every year. 

I mean, really, if Texas produced the talent they had been producing, we'd probably be closer to the Big Ten.  Also, TCU has been upping it's number a bit as they have filled their roster with Big 12 talent, so they'll be a stronger contributor over time.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Sean Snyder - CBS Sports

« on: May 08, 2017, 01:44:29 PM »

Apparently, Bill literally did interview him.  And then he got the job the same day.

Welp, Sean it is, I guess.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: April 27, 2017, 02:25:08 PM »

Panj, you seem like a 150 page ppt deck kind of guy.

Not really.  I usually just show pictures and basic graphs/figures. 

But I've received a lot of formal training on such things.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: April 27, 2017, 12:49:38 PM »

In all seriousness I think they (ESPN) bought a little too high. Live tv is still a huge advertising juggernaught. People will still watch the games, they ust have a lot of (hate to say it) dead weight to process over. I bet ESPN can't wait to renegotiate down the Longhorn Network, and everyone will have to settle for a little less come contract time. Everyone will get antsy, but the market will adjust, and hopefully all expansion talk will die down. Money fueled expansion, having either the same or slightly less will temper it.

I'm probably wrong, but a lot of topical shows seem to be dying out a little bit in the age of binge watching.

I'm using my own habits, obviously, but I don't watch Colbert.  I watch clips from his monologue on YouTube.  The same with Seth Meyers. 

I try to stay on top of topical podcasts, and I end up deleting half of them because I can't get around to them by the time the new episode comes out.  If you can't binge watch something, it just seems like there is a shelf life in the current environment.  If something really great happens, highlight wise, I'm getting it on Twitter or a team specific Facebook page.  Even WatchESPN has the big highlights at the top of their app so you can see them.

Hell, I don't think I've watched an episode of SportsCenter for three years or more.  I certainly haven't watched any programming outside of 30 for 30.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Smoke your cigars and enjoy the band while you can....

« on: April 26, 2017, 09:53:18 PM »

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2017/04/26/big-12-revenue-tax-return-sec/100929214/

Add in the Texas Bevo channel and they pull in more than the SEC schools, while the rest of Nu Logo are about 5-8million behind? That sound right?

Oklahoma is probably close to 3(ish) behind the top schools (Alabama, Florida).  Same with KU.

The rest fall in that range.

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Kansas State Football / Re: spring practice 17 tidbits, nuggets, and hearsay

« on: April 25, 2017, 01:47:49 PM »

Ertz Number 1
Thompson number 2
Delton number 3

(Scratches beard...)

I don't know.  I didn't see the game, but I listened to most of it and saw the highlights.  It looked like when Delton was playing within the offense and taking what was given to him, he had some nice passes that were on the money.  The TD to Zuber was really quite good.  I think that this was one of his first opportunities to get out there and push the limit a little bit.  We don't know what the coaches told him to do; maybe they told him to go out there and try to make something happen if he felt like it.  That gives him some tape to review over the summer.

I think when you let Delton swing it around a bit, in a no impact environment, it has a lot of benefits.  Klein has some good tape to review with Alex to say, "What didn't you see there?  Why didn't you look at the third receiver?  Why didn't you tuck it and go?" 

Do I think Thompson is the best option, long term?  Sure.  Next year?  Eh.  I'd let Delton and Thompson sit there as "OR" on the backup chart most of the year and let them knife each other a little bit in an intense competition.  In the event Ertz goes down, you start with Delton and pull him if he doesn't do well.

Now, if I'm being selfish, I'd say that in 2018, if Jesse doesn't decide to exercise his sixth year, Thompson probably wins that battle.  If Jesse exercises it, I'd put Skylar as your primary #2 and let Delton figure out what he wants to go do with his last season.  The ball is going into Thompson's hands in 2019 unless there's a significant injury, so there's no need to make a hard decision on him today.  Make him work for it.

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Kansas State Football / Re: spring practice 17 tidbits, nuggets, and hearsay

« on: April 21, 2017, 11:20:38 AM »

I will now root for Vanderbilt in every game that they do not play us.  That was awesome.

they kind of rape'y tho.

Are they?

Admittedly, I don't really follow college football at the macro level like I used to.  I only have time to really do Big 12/KSU.

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Kansas State Football / Re: new athletic director nickname

« on: April 20, 2017, 02:55:01 PM »

Whiskey Bubbles Sr.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: LOL TRUMP

« on: April 20, 2017, 01:50:06 PM »

South Korea’s government wants to know whether Chinese President Xi Jinping gave alternative facts on the nation’s history to Donald Trump.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal last week, Trump said Xi told him during a recent summit that “Korea actually used to be a part of China.” The comments sparked outrage in Seoul and became an issue in South Korea’s presidential race, prompting the foreign ministry to seek to verify what Xi actually said.

“It’s a clear fact acknowledged by the international community that, for thousands of years in history, Korea has never been part of China,” foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said at a briefing in Seoul on Thursday.

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-20/south-korea-tells-trump-it-s-actually-never-been-a-part-of-china

They're missing the fact that, regardless of what Xi told him, Trump wouldn't have had a clue either way.  He's inconceivably ignorant about a staggering number of things.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: Will this election process take down FOX news?

« on: April 20, 2017, 01:47:45 PM »

I'd find it hilarious if Bill ended up on the Blaze and Tomi ended up on Fox.

Probably won't happen, but I'd chuckle.

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Kansas State Football / Re: spring practice 17 tidbits, nuggets, and hearsay

« on: April 20, 2017, 01:45:47 PM »

I will now root for Vanderbilt in every game that they do not play us.  That was awesome.