Brock Beauchamp
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What are the chances Hillary approaches Bernie for the vice-president position? I can't decide if it's "zero" or "really high". Bernie won't bring Hillary a swing state, which she certainly could use right about now. If she locks up two swing states, she's nearly president by default. But Bernie could go a long way toward unifying the Democratic Party and that might be more important than any single swing state in the nation.
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Unanswered questions, tough decisions loom for Twins
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Absolutely not. No way, no how. Gordon is 20 years old and having his first above average season in high A ball. He has no business being within a thousand miles of a MLB lineup in 2016. -
To be fair, Amazon had Transparent in 2014, which was/is a pretty fabulous show... Obviously, entirely different than The Man in the High Castle, though.
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Has anyone else watched this yet? I watched the pilot during Amazon's pilot run but then forgot to follow up on it (largely thanks to the wife who wasn't into the idea of watching it at all). ****ing hell. The show got me to side with Hitler. ****ing hell. It's really good. The show is only superficially based on the book but I'm surprisingly okay with that. The world they've built on top of Dick's novel is complicated, the characters intriguing, and I'm dying to see what comes next. It reminded me a lot of the good parts of Game of Thrones except it occasionally pays off and the viewer is rewarded with genuinely noble characters whom you want to see succeed. I wasn't that impressed after three episodes but once I got through 5-6 episodes, there was no stopping me until I finished. The show continues to ramp up through the season.
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Ditto. I said to myself "well, that's nice... wait, what skills?"
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Oh, I don't disagree with that part of the argument. My only comment was that Arya advanced considerably as a character leading up to her arrival in Braavos (and was intriguing for some time after arriving). But yeah, I'm not sure what the hell is going on with the character lately. My interest has dwindled in her as other characters have stolen the spotlight.
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I disagree that no character has grown since the inception of the series. Arya and Jaime made huge strides through the first few books. The problem is that now they both appear to have stalled out and possibly regressed in some cases (how Jaime handles Blackfish will be interesting).
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I'm surprised no one has posted Hillary's Trump takedown speech. It's a thing of beauty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_wkSGLVpcE
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I hope you're also watching Silicon Valley. It's too awkward for my taste a lot of the time but there are some pure gold moments in the show. It's worth watching the entire first season just for the Optimal Tip-to-Tip Efficiency episode. It's a classic example of taking a middling joke and beating you over the head with it until you're crying from laughter.
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An alternative solution is for Arizona to pull its collective head out of its ass and put enough money into infrastructure to deliver clean, drinkable water to its populace. I understand how it's frustrating to you (and being new to the state, it's certainly not your fault) but that's the real solution to the problem... But Arizona gets a lot wrong about a lot of things. They're pretty much an honorary Southern State at this point.
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For example, my "vice" is that I buy too many electronics, which are very damaging to the environment. I've tried to scale that back a bit in recent years - to middling effect - but I tried to make up for it by selling my second car and using public transport to get around (along with a motorcycle on occasion). Everyone has vices and reasons they "need" (term used loosely) to consume certain things... But everyone should find small ways to scale back their lifestyle and sometimes accept inconvenience over convenience for the good of the planet. It's not a lot to ask and it adds up over time.
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No, it won't entirely fix the problem but it's a big step in the right direction. My point at large is that we can't continue to make ****ty decisions and defend them because they're easy and make us comfortable. Everyone has to chip in a little and if someone is resistant to doing that, they need to take a good long look at why they're resistant to making the world a slightly better place to live. I don't expect everyone to go plastic-free and grow 50% of their food in their back yard but if we all make small efforts here and there to conserve, it'd make a difference to the world.
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I can't wrap my head around the idea that consumer choices can't impact things positively. Americans consume over one gallon of gasoline per day per capita. Cut that by only 25% and that means we consume nearly 40 billion fewer gallons of gasoline per year. Every year. How can that not make a difference? Sure, China may make up the difference through poor regulation and increased wealth but we can't take the moral high ground and enact global change if we refuse to do it ourselves.
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Sure, but we have limited ability to force other nations to comply. And given how the US leads the way in over-consumption and carbon footprint per capita, getting our own house in order is a good place to start. It's the one thing we have complete control over fixing. As for your last paragraph, I don't entire disagree... But on the other hand, I feel people wash their hands of the problem because it's "too big to fix myself" and continue leading a life of over-consumption because "it doesn't matter anyway". Both are wrong-headed. Decisions need to be made at both the personal and national level to change things. Americans used 50 billion water bottles last year. Now, I don't rant and rave about water bottles most of the time because it's such an obvious thing to cut out of our lives (most of the time) that it should have been done voluntarily years ago. And that's just one thing. One thing. You don't believe 10 trillion water bottles has an impact on the world over a 20 year period? Simply cutting that consumption in half results in 5 trillion fewer water bottles being manufactured, discarded, and left god only knows where to (never) decompose.
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I think you're both right. I also dislike the use of the term "elites" but it's pretty obvious the modern GOP has mastered the art of distracting their own constituency with shiny baubles that don't really matter to the average person. They routinely get people to vote for them despite the GOP's plans to vote directly in opposition to that person's best interests, all in the name of the weird social environment we've seen manifest over the past three decades. It will ultimately end with the demise of the current GOP - we're already most of the way there, IMO - but seeing how the GOP has double downed on this idea repeatedly over the past 15 years to the point where America has reached absurdist levels, it's hard to deny "distraction" is a real tactic in use in politics.
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This is one situation where I think the government could have had a big effect by taxing gasoline when the price started to drop in 2012 or 2013. People were buying smaller cars when gas was $3+ per gallon. The moment it started to drop, people resumed buying pickup trucks and SUVs. My heart sank when that happened. It didn't surprise me but it certainly disappointed me.
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Yeah, definitely steps in the right direction but it's the tip of the iceberg. I hope following generations begin to implement more consumer-level ideas that drastically reduce consumption but I'm not holding my breath.
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I could chop off eight fingers and still have more fingers than water bottles purchased in the past two years (was stuck on the road once and badly needed something to drink). Our daily decisions matter.
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Yeah, maybe... But so many of those people want to change something external while allowing their bad habits to carry on indefinitely. And that won't work.
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I think the idea of protesting is wrong-headed... I mean, sure, it might do *some* good but it's a lazy, easy way out of blaming oneself for the mess we're in. The answer is to stop using so many products, stop consuming so much energy, and the rest falls in line. Using the government to clean up energy producers will help but what will help the most is if we reduce consumption. The government can only do so much. Protest can only do so much. At the end of the day, it's our fault. Every damned one of us. We're the ones who double-bag plastic bags in the grocery store. We're the ones who buy disposable plastic cups from fast food chains. We're the ones who drive giant SUVs 25 miles each way to work. We're the ones who demanded cheap meat at any cost. We're the ones with 2800 sq ft homes that consume crazy amounts of electricity and gas. I'm not some self-righteous prig about it... I certainly over-consume in my own ways but we need to stop blaming others for our mistakes and laziness.
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It's easy to care about one dead animal. It's hard to change your entire life by reducing plastic use, eating less meat, driving fewer miles in smaller cars, and reducing consumer tendencies.
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Sure. It's easy enough for the writers to walk their way out of the situation but right now, it just seems a bit odd and forced. But the story is far from over so we'll see how it all pans out.
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Oh, to be clear, I don't think her conversion is real at all, I'm more curious why she didn't reverse course when given the opportunity. That seems a bit like intrigue for intrigue's sake. She already has Tommen under her thumb and would return to being Queen. Bonus points for eliminating the religious whackjob who imprisoned her.
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Is this still happening?
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Given how often Joe hits the ball on the ground, I think the turf of the Dome probably helped a bit but yeah, your point stands. Joe wasn't a great baseball player because he played in the Dome 81 times a year. Joe was a great baseball player, period. The Dome may have helped him here and there but his 2010-2013 seasons were still outstanding.
