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Mike Bonds
naturalstatereb

Don’t knock it til you try it

Gotta have somewhere for the boomers to see pics of the grandkids and spread unsubstantiated rumors and Russian disinformation.

Anything on Winds of Winter?  It had to be said.

I’d say Wanda Sykes and I have found something to agree on.

If an armed society was a polite society, then it would have been called the Polite West instead of the Wild West.

He probably had IRS liens on his property for nonpayment of federal taxes.

Because we’ve had a tendency to use concerns about global warming and air pollution interchangeably.

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So Apple is willing to go to war with Epic Games over paying 30%, when it’s not willing to do so itself?  Just another fact that shows Apple just as much, if not more, nefarious than other corporations.

Not really; I used to work in the environmental field. It mostly is about combustion efficiency. If you’re thinking about a coal plant having a guy (or a machine) that throws coal in a furnace, that’s not really true. Combustion efficiency is directly related to surface area, so the coal that’s actually burnt is

How else are we going to make room for the person who won Best Costumer Design in 1974?

It does seem pretty ridiculous.  Maybe it’s just an oversight, but you’d sort of think she’d be part of the party.

They really needed to get Ozzie Guillen.

A nation shrugs

Plus, we can’t just go cold-turkey on coal. We’re getting there, particularly as we retire old coal plants and retrofit existing plants with more efficient combustion processes, and we’re able to increasingly switch to renewables.

Better live in a very temperate area or energy costs will eat your lunch.

Altered States really is a freakshow; I love it. Couldn’t make a movie like that now, because it’d just be weird without the 70's ESP culture behind it. He was also good in Dark City, which is criminally underappreciated.  

I remember watching that episode.  I just teared up at my desk.

Declining to be an activist doesn’t mean you’re taking the other side.

For rural America, a town of 12,000 isn’t tiny.