Official Landman (on Paramount) Thread
I'm 2 episode in. Enjoying it thus far.
I've always been a big Slingblade fan and appreciate his various roles.
Some decent tittays for the Throbber.
I'm endlessly fascinated by the oil bidness and plenty of good free pub for @UW_Doog_Bot
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I think it's entertaining which is nice. Billy Bob is great
It's also pretty fair on the enviro v oil debate. Course it leans my way but still
Ali Larter is still hot as fuck
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Billy Bob is one the most underrated western actors of all time. Guy is perfect for this stuff.
Seems fair thus far on oil and yet Ali is hot AF. I believe her jugs make an appearance later in the series.
I guess they had to cast her because of Friday Night Lights being another west Texas, Permian Basin film.
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Seems to be the best of the Taylor Sheridan productions. Billy Bob is in his perfect role as foul mouthed cowboy.
Yellowstone was fucking awesome after two episodes, too. Like Joe Biden, never underestimate Taylor Sheridan's ability to fuck things up.
The hot AF daughter is 27 IRL. brb, jo.
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Also, Billy Bob, likes to call people "bud" a lot. Respeck!
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I may have to check this out. I keep seeing ads for it while watching Yellowstone.
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The Taylor Sheridan app also known as Paramount is pretty good
He has half a dozen shows
Lioness is decent. The 27 Yellowstone sequels and prequels are decent. Harrison Ford and Tim Mcgraw among others
Sheridan couldn't get work as an actor so he started writing and made millions and got roles in his shows
America baby
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Just in the trailer, several incorrect assertions. Looks like it could be a fun watch, though.
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Drill baby drill.
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Great show, Billy Bob Thornton is The Man.
Can anyone around here create a gif of the part when he says, "Fuck Alabama." ??? -
Libarus need gas too.
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I really liked 1883. Not gonna lie, the ending really got me. I watched the first season of 1923 thinking it was a one shot thing like 1883. Looking forward to the completion of the story. I like both those shows better than Yellowstone. It has gotten too over the top, but I’m pot committed at this point, gotta see how it plays out.
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Landman has been enjoyable. Through 3 episodes.
The rant against wind turbines in episode 3 is a bit over the top. Yes there is a need for carbon to get them set up and running but once in operation it’s very minimal carbon burn to capture the energy. Compared to 20 years of pumping oil instead? Come on. The infrastructure issues are real but to imply we shouldn’t do anything about it is insane.
I also like Yellowstone and will be intrigued how they wrap this season up. 1883 was really good. Haven’t checked out 1923.
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I'm not going to Tug it out but yes, HIS argument is a Hollywood strawman of the actual argument against wind.
That said the ROE on wind sucks and wind will NEVER provide any meaningful contribution to sustained baseload. That alone should disqualify it from discussion as anything other than a niche application. Yet at this point trillions have been dumped into it.
Wind and solar are scams for rent seeking grift.
Your options for baseload are coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear. Hydro where feasible. That's it.
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Billy Bob is the frontman for a band called the Box Mechanics. Saw them play a small venue here in Lexington in 2019. The only reason I went was for the novelty of seeing Billy Bob up close.
Mrs Nacho is a former pianist and a bit of a classical music prodigy and she said the musicians in the band were legit.
Billy Bob is Good singer but was super fucking awkward on stage. I expected him to be much more gregarious and entertaining between songs and he was anything but that.
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Liberal rag Forbes disagrees. For five years now, the unsubsidized cost per installed MWh of onshore wind and utility scale solar have been below the cost of operating existing coal infrastructure. Nuclear is promising if the red tape weren't so expensive, so hopefully we get some movement there. It is cheap and easy to install enough capacity to supply the country entirely with renewables. It's expensive and difficult to build out enough storage capacity to make it work.
The reason my plant is owned by some two-bit company I'd never heard of instead of the second largest energy company in the world is the big players like making money. I think the big players can also see the writing on the wall that they'll eventually be sued into oblivion by governments that care, so they're trying to get ahead of balancing their energy portfolios.
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yeah Billy bobs 20 year and still not ahead carbon wise didnt sound right to me.
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Isn’t a place like Texas great for wind though? Always windy and close to metro areas? My understanding is that is only makes sense when you don’t have to transmit insane distances.
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Lol. But but muh article!
I do large capital projects for a living. For one of the top energy companies in the world.
Without subsidy wind and solar are toast. That's before the fact that all the low hanging fruit has already been picked.
Storage has the same fate as fusion. Just around the corner forever. Just pour another trillion into it and cross your fingers.
Big players are into these things for marketing to the ignorant and because of government handouts. Full stop. Not because of risk mitigation for lawfare.
If there was actual money to be made they'd own the major projects instead of some green startups founded by the brother-in-law of a congressman.
Lol I personally know owners of major solar installers in California. I promise you your perception of the industry doesn't line up with reality by and large.
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New vanilla sucks for edits btw.
Isn’t a place like Texas great for wind though? Yes
Always windy and close to metro areas? Yes
My understanding is that is only makes sense when you don’t have to transmit insane distances. Yes
And the economics still suck and rely on government market manipulation. That's without considering negative externalities either.
Then you have stuff like the Texas storms. Sure, lots of factors and multiple causes there but it's still a case study in how you can't ramp up wind or solar when you may need to.
"Renewables" are also anything but. We've just mostly offshored all the environmental damage to China.
They have a niche but that's all it really is unless you are a full blown cultist that wants people to go back to living in the stone age.
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Well I’m in the cult of nuclear. Nothing has changed with me. We need to quit being pussies. Make camping by the San Onofre tittays great again.
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We've wasted 50 years demonizing oil and nukes
Time to get serious
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@YellowSnow bc vanilla is aids.
Been a whole fleet of nukes hanging out on the coast for 50+ years without incident.
It's really not a hard engineering problem.
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@Swaye hasn’t gotten Chernobyled once.
it’s a non issue.
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That's the tell that all this other stuff is a scam.
We? could have been carbon neutral in 2 years 50 years ago before it was "too late" to stop.
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"Negative externalities"… Of wind and solar!? Is Thank You For Smoking your favorite movie? You talk of offshoring environmental damage to China, but refineries in the US and Europe are closing while 181 are planned to be opened by 2030 in Asia, Africa, and the middle east. As for subsidies, global subsidies for fossil fuels was 70% of total subsidies in 2017. It's the inverse in the USA, where 50% of energy subsidies go to renewables and 15% to fossil fuels, with the remainder going to point of use incentives. Fossil fuels are fungible, so the global subsidies matter. Plus, even the U.S. has a history of heavily subsidizing fossil fuels, with 65% of federal energy subsidies going to fossil fuels between 1950 and 2016. Meaning much of the existing fossil fuel infrastructure in this country was built out with >$half-trillion in subsidies from Uncle Sam.
And not "article," but articles. Seemingly all of them. Plus 10th grade math and historical data. Toss in the 50-year roadmap of the fourth largest energy company in the world and dozens of emails from its CEO (we both have CEO buddies, experience the emotions in the tunnel, and have cabs that drink like merlots).
Global consumption of fossil fuels is increasing at a 1.5% annual rate, about the same rate as overall energy consumption. If that continues, we will consume the same amount of fossil fuels in the next 48 years as we have in the history of mankind. If you can read a graph with two axes, you should know we're whistling past the graveyard. And if your attitude toward that is, "Okay, but I'm going to get mines in the meantime," that's valid, I guess, but then that's the end of the conversation.
Edit: and, yes, I'm all for nukes.
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The oil men in episode 3 have the same discussion our two oil men are having here
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Lol
Yeah, you're right, wind and solar are miracles that have no trade offs or negative externalities at all unlike everything else in the history of energy. Or economics for that matter.
Counting tax breaks and government spending as the same subsidy is either stupid or dishonest. Which do you fall under?
"Trust the experts" I am an expert, literally, like people pay me lots of money for my actual analysis on things like ROI for energy projects. I'd send you a consulting invoice for my time but you can't afford it. Hth.
Next up will be the "trust the science", I always get a kick out of that one.
Better build nukes yesterday if you believe burning fossil fuels will end the world. Hint: there's a reason politicians pushing this won't just build nukes and buy beachfront property with their kickbacks from "sustainable energy". Total existential crisis.
TITTT
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Wind is a fine alternative energy source, but acting like it’s a win from a “carbon footprint” standpoint is retarded. Those things break down before they break even.
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I'm much more interested in them from a decentralized application.
The Bigger they get the harder and more complicated it is to get that break even and the engineering gets really wild.
Much easier to get break even on a small scale and the gains from a resilience standpoint vs. Our current failing grid infrastructure.
Have a friend working on a small scale Hydro out of the box company.
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I'm gonna need to see some facts and figures on this stuff when I show up in Newport Beach this summer to drink beer.
