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minitrr t1_j4d8hzu wrote
Bill is a smug sob for sure but I’ll be damned if I don’t tune in on Fridays.
The format and guests are incredible - where else can you see Killer Mike and Tom Morello duke it out with journalists and politicians? Ben Affleck and Sam Harris getting in a slap fight? Salman Rushdie scolding Mos Def?
People bitching about Bill getting too chummy with right wing folks are beyond daft. The whole point of the show is having conversations no matter how different the personalities, beliefs, and backgrounds of the guests might be. Bill has some terribly stupid and uninformed gripes about millennials and Gen z, but he’s never trying to silence them - he usually has at least one millennial or Gen z-aged guest on his panels.
There’s nothing interesting about watching likeminded people jerk each other off in an echo chamber or the same pundits spewing their party’s talking points on “debate” shows.
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Reply to [Image] Be Yourself by Lioness-
…unless you want friends
minitrr t1_iuhp17j wrote
Reply to comment by iowan in For Halloween I'm not a cat. by Greenwing
Haha a friend of mine made an amazing costume a few years back. She was going to a roller rink for a Halloween party and went as a dung beetle. She made a giant ball of dung that she rolled out in front of her while on the skating rink. One of my favorites.
minitrr t1_iuho7lf wrote
Reply to For Halloween I'm not a cat. by Greenwing
You crazy son of a bitch you did it.
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Reply to comment by Fmarulezkd in Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage: Enhanced geothermal systems are well suited to store excess renewable power as heat. by filosoful
Absolutely I agree - different markets will require a different configuration of solutions. It’s just that geothermal will probably be particularly niche.
minitrr t1_irvulfb wrote
Reply to comment by _AtLeastItsAnEthos in Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage: Enhanced geothermal systems are well suited to store excess renewable power as heat. by filosoful
I mean for the WECC, sure, but not EI, ERCOT, or the rest of the world.
minitrr t1_irvs9lk wrote
Reply to Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage: Enhanced geothermal systems are well suited to store excess renewable power as heat. by filosoful
Ehh I wouldn’t bank on geothermal as a widespread solution. It’s great in active areas like Nevada and California (also some demo projects in Louisiana).
Permits for drilling are tough and can take years upon years.
minitrr t1_j4dtlso wrote
Reply to comment by d311h0p in Euston shooting: Girl, 7, and three women injured near church by millajones
It was funny because it was a criticism of America’s hyper obsession with guns to the point it’s a part of our National identity and culture.
They used irony by highlighting that a headline you constantly see in the US is coming up for the UK. And they got bonus points by weaving in another classic American cultural trope of being paranoid about cultural appropriation.
That’s why it was funny, not because people got injured.