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Nice Planet 18: Welcome To Our Planet. Sorry It's So Messed Up.

aparch said:
Boomer generation is ruining everything.

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It's not just Boomers. Back in 2018, my old firm convinced a 50-something Managing Director to come back from semi-retirementto lead a huge program I was involved with. Good guy, had lots of fun stories from working in Brazil and Argentina in the mid-2000s, such as getting mugged like an amateur in Sao Paulo after a night of too much cachaca. However, I remember realizing that as an experienced hire (rather than a new grad associate laddering their way up), it would be tough to ever make Director if they had a ready pool of experienced Gen X and younger Boomers they could just throw ridiculous money and bennies at to come back when needed.
 
So in this week's sign of the apocalypse (and example 1 of the horseshoe theory of politics), an attorney I know who had a short-lived run for congress as a Democrat 10 years ago, and who is otherwise to the left of AOC, is representing Steve King (yes that one) to fight against CO2 sequestration and the CO2 pipelines proposed across the Midwest.

Oh, and the attorney explicitly invited the current AG, who is herself a former Steve King staffer, to file an ethics complaint against her because she's conflicted out, having worked on the same cases while previously employed by the AG's office.
 
unofan said:
So in this week's sign of the apocalypse (and example 1 of the horseshoe theory of politics), an attorney I know who had a short-lived run for congress as a Democrat 10 years ago, and who is otherwise to the left of AOC, is representing Steve King (yes that one) to fight against CO2 sequestration and the CO2 pipelines proposed across the Midwest.
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That doesn't sound ideological, it sounds like being a mercenary and going to the highest bidder.

What's with King's opposition to sequestration? Does he think it's being transported by Mexicans with melon thighs?
 
Kepler said:
That doesn't sound ideological, it sounds like being a mercenary and going to the highest bidder.

What's with King's opposition to sequestration? Does he think it's being transported by Mexicans with melon thighs?
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His beef is private property rights. He doesn't like the fact that eminent domain can be used once a permit is issued. The tax credits are also going to the wrong people, so he's against those, too.

The attorney's beef is unknown. She's adamantly against these projects, which is why she left the AG's office when the new administration signaled they weren't going to fight against them as much as she wanted to, and she's become extremely vocal about it since leaving. But I don't know why she's so personally invested in this.
 
So the Left criticism of carbon sequestration is it's environmental theater, like "clean" coal?

I don't think this is a good example of horseshoe theory (which I don't buy anyway). Horseshoe theory is if you go far enough left or right you wrap around to the same values. For example, Stalin and Hitler are allegedly so extreme right and left respectively they meet on the opposite side of democracy, which is totalitarianism. This is nonsense, since the democratic/totalitarian axis is orthogonal to the left/right axis.

But, arguments aside about horseshoe theory's vacuity*, Left and a Right rejection of sequestration happen to coincide with a particular vote, but the values are still completely different, between the preference for wealth concentration (the right) or humanity (the left).

*Horseshoe theory ignores that there is totalitarian center: Radical Centrism, which attacks and thwarts democracy by dictating averaging between sides regardless of their ethical merit. For Radical Centrists, the Klan and the civil rights movement, or Slavers and abolitionists, or feminists and misogynists, are oppositions to be averaged. Radical Centrism does not recognize that some political dimensions are not Aristotelian golden means balancing equally noxious extremes, but simply vectors out from a humane center towards extreme unfairness.
 
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state of hockey said:
Tell you what, makes one re-think the whole “Topher is stuck-up because he’s not buddy-buddy with the rest of the cast” narrative.
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I mean, both can be true. I think it's more likely that clubbing just wasn't his thing. Not sure I buy into the "he saw through the others" stuff that's floating around.

But that said, yeah, he's looking like the only one coming out of this untarnished. Never really had a negative opinion of him. I just assumed the characters in 70s show were eerily similar to their real life selves. Which is typically not the case.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
I mean, both can be true. I think it's more likely that clubbing just wasn't his thing. Not sure I buy into the "he saw through the others" stuff that's floating around.

But that said, yeah, he's looking like the only one coming out of this untarnished. Never really had a negative opinion of him. I just assumed the characters in 70s show were eerily similar to their real life selves. Which is typically not the case.
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This is anecdotal and means absolutely nothing, but I spent a long evening confined with topher on a Booz cruise and he was a super respectful guy while certainly buzzed. Never got a creepy feeling from his friendly advances
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
This is anecdotal and means absolutely nothing, but I spent a long evening confined with topher on a Booz cruise and he was a super respectful guy while certainly buzzed. Never got a creepy feeling from his friendly advances
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I mean this in the least objectionable way possible, but, would you consider yourself Professional Athlete sexual partner material?

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I'm sure you are, but...
 
Kepler said:
I mean this in the least objectionable way possible, but, would you consider yourself Professional Athlete sexual partner material?

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I'm sure you are, but...
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But what? Lol

I used to hang around some nhl players that I knew from college. Some of those guys aren’t the pickiest and I never had interest in getting herpes or any other disease. But it wouldn’t have been difficult to sleep with a few of them back in the day, and that doesn’t make me special.

Do I resemble the cookie cutter pro athlete arm candy? Uh no. But I’m also not as drew once imagined when he said that if you’re good looking enough dating won’t be difficult

I was quiet, athletic, blond and large busted and that’s more to an enough for some
 
I wonder about the idea that the Church of Scientology wrote many of these and simply presented the support letters to the actor for submission to court.
 
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