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MaxxBot posted:Disruptive and innovative 1818 technology! MiracleWhale posted:my taint hurts just looking at this thing the original taint reaper
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The dude in the background is having a great time riding his wooden wheeled dandy horse on a bumpy dirt road.
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I saw the CEO of Uber on the street a couple months ago, my only regret is that I didn't have a weapon on me to kill him right there
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Live here and this is basically correct. 500k+ layoffs in 1 year in the third largest city in the US means things aren't looking too hot. yea he works in the oil industry and said he's basically waiting to be told his job is donezo any day now. gas is apparently 1.67/gal there in houston holy loving 
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Dec 18, 2015 16:54
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if it leads to the carpetbombing of SoMa i'm all for it
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 checkmate startup STEM folk best get into management consultancy while you can
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thathonkey posted:yea he works in the oil industry and said he's basically waiting to be told his job is donezo any day now. gas is apparently 1.67/gal there in houston holy loving Well theory is that if the EU embargoes hold against Russia and the ISIS/Syria poo poo gets worse, that the US Gulf Coast will start exporting refined fuel instead of importing crude, which could save a lot of jobs
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Dec 18, 2015 17:00
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Pff.. It's not going to pop. It's the Golden Age of Tech! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j3cG-Iu6Q
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dot com bust took my college fund derivatives collapse took the job i worked so hard to get after high school wonder what this one will take hopefully its my life so i suffer no longer that would be the greatest
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bring back LF full communism now
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Crow_Rodeo posted:So will this spell the end of those cardboard boxes full of food to make one dinner because nerds are scared of the grocery store? lol, I saw a commercial of these once, you subscribe to the food then it gets sent to you. Sounds dumb as gently caress imo.
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thathonkey posted:yea he works in the oil industry and said he's basically waiting to be told his job is donezo any day now. gas is apparently 1.67/gal there in houston holy loving Just earlier this year I was reading about how petroleum engineers got six figures right out of undergrad, god drat the fickle economy is a harsh mistress.
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Jenkem Delivery posted:I saw the CEO of Uber on the street a couple months ago, my only regret is that I didn't have a weapon on me to kill him right there Was he wearing his "ironic" taxi socks?
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Why is gas so cheap all of a sudden?
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notZaar posted:Just earlier this year I was reading about how petroleum engineers got six figures right out of undergrad, god drat the fickle economy is a harsh mistress. Hope they saved (they didn't save) Don Tacorleone posted:Why is gas so cheap all of a sudden? China's economy is slowing down so they want less, so now there's a glut I think?
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Dec 18, 2015 17:24
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bush's blood oil plan is finally showing dividends.
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Don Tacorleone posted:Why is gas so cheap all of a sudden? Saudi Arabia trying to crash the price to eliminate competition from North America. However now OPEC are at each other throats so they couldn't set a price right now, even if they wanted to
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Don Tacorleone posted:Why is gas so cheap all of a sudden? Well a few months ago all the talking heads were saying that OPEC is flooding the market to kill off competition from fracking. No idea if that's still the case.
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notZaar posted:Well a few months ago all the talking heads were saying that OPEC is flooding the market to kill off competition from fracking. No idea if that's still the case. The Saudis are being big whiny babbys about potentially not having a stranglehold on the energy industry so they're flooding the market with hella cheap oil to kill off alternative forms of production (fracking, oil sands), since those are only profitable at higher oil prices. Then once they all shut down they'll cut production a bunch, the price will skyrocket, and they'll make bank again while competitors take years and years to restart production. Of course this happens at the same time Iran can/desperately needs to sell oil again so there's even more supply because of that. Basically Saudi Arabia is the worst.
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So now would be a good time to start hoarding gasoline ? I need to go buy some tin buckets. Gonna make mad bank on it in a few years.
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notZaar posted:Just earlier this year I was reading about how petroleum engineers got six figures right out of undergrad, god drat the fickle economy is a harsh mistress. i dont know what he earns but i wouldnt be surprised. he is a PHD chemical engineer. Booblord Zagats posted:Well theory is that if the EU embargoes hold against Russia and the ISIS/Syria poo poo gets worse, that the US Gulf Coast will start exporting refined fuel instead of importing crude, which could save a lot of jobs forgive my ignorance but wouldn't exporting less hurt jobs here?
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thathonkey posted:
yea but he said exporting more and importing less
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thathonkey posted:i dont know what he earns but i wouldnt be surprised. he is a PHD chemical engineer. No, the us exporting refined oil hurts local refineries and American owned oil companies far less than importing less fuel since it keeps our refineries operational while we sell the results of our own efforts. It's not as good for the bottomline, but it still keeps it in the black
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I can't believe we don't have nuclear power as a standard in 2015 the human race dropped the loving ball so hard.
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actually that is pretty much all the fault of leftists/environmentalists
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Flesh Forge posted:actually that is pretty much all the fault of leftists/environmentalists Yeah, a ton of outright false information was made up to scare people off atomic power. Some blame the left, others blame big oil, and others just blame Matt Groening
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Moridin920 posted:I can't believe we don't have nuclear power as a standard in 2015 the human race dropped the loving ball so hard. have you met the human race, brother?
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To be fair, when a nuclear plant goes pear-shaped, it's pretty drat catastrophic. I was disappointed that the nuclear power plants near Portland, Oregon were torn down before I had a chance to visit them. Apparently the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant or the Hanford plant in SW Washington were the inspiration for the Springfield Nuclear plant in The Simpsons At least Oregon State University has a legit nuclear reactor.
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Dec 18, 2015 18:11
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Android Bicyclist posted:To be fair, when a nuclear plant goes pear-shaped, it's pretty drat catastrophic. Yeah but to be fair modern designs aren't capable of melt downs (Pebble Bed Modular Reactors). They're designed such a complete loss of cooling doesn't cause melt down, as opposed to needing constant cooling (and if disaster happens and the cooling stops you get melt down). It's just a bunch of 'oh we didn't do proper maintenance on this super rear end old reactor and WHOOPS LOLOLOL' and even so the nuclear plant disasters are way less environmentally damaging than say a giant rear end oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or oil trains derailing all the time or coal ash just being dumped into rivers and ground water. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Moridin920 posted:Yeah but to be fair modern designs aren't capable of melt downs (Pebble Bed Modular Reactors). They're designed such a complete loss of cooling doesn't cause melt down, as opposed to needing constant cooling (and if disaster happens and the cooling stops you get melt down).  But, but, but, radiation! Bad! No movies have been made about a coal plant! Burn things for heat, we understand this. Atoms and poo poo can't be seen so it's magic. Nuclear power is magic power that can kill you without being seen! With fire we don't have to go near it, fire no hurt us! Checkmate Atheists.
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That is true, but when people suggest alternative energy sources they're either shouted down for ruining the pristine view or "Sucking up all the energy from the sun*." Me, I just want enough electricity to keep my house air conditioned in the summer while browsing the website Something Awful. *(though the actual truth is a lot more reasonable).
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Tech is a multiplier, not additive. 3500+ employee circle jerking the same app can only do so much. Remember Amazon is built on the backs of good old fashion distribution and marketing. The original warehouse managers just saw the wisdom to invest in their own operations. Please let the tech bubble pop.
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All the capitalist environment rapers would be totally down with a nuke plant on every street corner, it's those god drat tree huggers that hosed it all up 
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Moridin920 posted:Yeah but to be fair modern designs aren't capable of melt downs (Pebble Bed Modular Reactors). They're designed such a complete loss of cooling doesn't cause melt down, as opposed to needing constant cooling (and if disaster happens and the cooling stops you get melt down). Why did the reactors in Japan melt down then?
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Fukushima happened during the earthquake/tsunami that hit Japan. What that means is that a (relatively) unexpected variable was introduced & hosed things up. Could Japan have modified their plant designs to better handle earthquakes as that region is susceptible for those situations? Maybe, but hindsight is 20/20.
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Flesh Forge posted:actually that is pretty much all the fault of leftists/environmentalists Yes, the save the earth crowd, ironically, is the one that pretty much doomed it to another hundred years of coal and oil based power
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notZaar posted:Why did the reactors in Japan melt down then? A record strength tsunami? So yeah, don't built the reactors in California. Even then, a lot of the aftermath was as bad as it was not because of pure danger but because people are super careful whenever radiation is involved. IIRC a lot of the evacuated area experienced radiation levels that would have almost no impact on health, but they were cleared to be absolutely sure.
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