Coffee Talk V: The Final Battle

[sbb122]

Thanks Dare. I was really good friends with his neighbor. He was a douche bag back then. I see nothing has changed. Lol

 

[thedddd]

Ugh. This hits too close to home.

McCandless residents express their opposition for fracking in North Park

Neighbors in McCandless expressed their opposition for North Park being designated as a site for oil and gas development.

www.wpxi.com

Seriously where in McCandless could you frack? Yeah North Park but it is even too crowded now.

 

[dash]

I doubt we've seen the last of high oil prices, especially if they start seriously restricting fracking in the US .

To be honest, given where the planet is and how sluggish oil demand is as half the first world is in some form of lockdown and air travel is non-existent I'd say oil is pretty expensive right now - it's basically where it was a year ago.

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and a plethora of other major energy companies due to “greater industry risk” associated with climate change.

The move by S&P Global Ratings comes as the oil and gas industry is on the ropes, unloved by equity investors and facing pressure from multiple policy makers after U.S. President Joe Biden put climate change at the center of his agenda.

Big Oil Credit Ratings Vulnerable to Climate Risk, S&P Says

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dut…

financialpost.com

 

[dare2be]

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and a plethora of other major energy companies due to “greater industry risk” associated with climate change.

The move by S&P Global Ratings comes as the oil and gas industry is on the ropes, unloved by equity investors and facing pressure from multiple policy makers after U.S. President Joe Biden put climate change at the center of his agenda.

Big Oil Credit Ratings Vulnerable to Climate Risk, S&P Says

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dut…

financialpost.com

That's a fracking shame.

 

[thedddd]

Being an IT guy, adapt or die is certainly a mantra you need to live by. Even though the majority of my working career is behind me, I still am attempting to learn new technologies as you need to keep yourself marketable.

/Especially when ageism rears its ugly head.

Yeah I am even Azure/AWS Certified but for the heck of it took a high level Data Science certification from Cloudera. Even if I never use it, if you don't adapt you will be that one "IT" guy somewhere down the road that is yelling at the clouds and unfortunately we can't ever be that.

Like you being the "older" person in the group you can see it passing you by if you don't keep up.

 

[dash]

Yeah I am even Azure/AWS Certified but for the heck of it took a high level Data Science certification from Cloudera. Even if I never use it, if you don't adapt you will be that one "IT" guy somewhere down the road that is yelling at the clouds and unfortunately we can't ever be that.

Like you being the "older" person in the group you can see it passing you by if you don't keep up.

Basically, if you are not working with clouds, you'll be the old man yelling at them.

 

[thedddd]

But what if the entire history of a state is based on coal? Do you expect us to just BUILD WINDMILLS and learn how to run them?

Sincerely,
West Virginia

Sad but true.

Unfortunately this reared it's ugly head in 2016 and will continue to hold true as long as those industries stay in the forefront.
Worst part about WV is there are barely any coal miners left. They just take off the top of mountains and only need a skeleton crew to do this work.

 

[thedddd]

That's one reason why I got into database administration. After about 15 years into my career I got tired of keeping up with the programming language du jour in the development world.

SQL hasn't/won't change much and the only new programming I've had to learn is going from VBscript to Powershell scripting.

Yep and most of our DBA's are basically becoming cloud data architects just because there is less need for actual administration.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and a plethora of other major energy companies due to “greater industry risk” associated with climate change.

The move by S&P Global Ratings comes as the oil and gas industry is on the ropes, unloved by equity investors and facing pressure from multiple policy makers after U.S. President Joe Biden put climate change at the center of his agenda.

Big Oil Credit Ratings Vulnerable to Climate Risk, S&P Says

(Bloomberg) — Big Oil suffered a fresh setback after one of the most influential rating companies warned it may cut the credit score of Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dut…

financialpost.com

Makes sense today. Don't think it'll be that way forever though even if it would be nice to see.

 

[forty_three]

Sad but true.

Unfortunately this reared it's ugly head in 2016 and will continue to hold true as long as those industries stay in the forefront.
Worst part about WV is there are barely any coal miners left. They just take off the top of mountains and only need a skeleton crew to do this work.

And every time you drive through there there are tons of billboards STILL blaming Obama for that. They call it his "No Jobs Zone". And Trump gonna save coal.

Like, you fucking morons, Hillary was going to build factories that made windmill parts and LED bulbs but you voted yourself into extinction for the right to die at 35 from black lung. AND YOU DON'T EVEN GET TO DO THAT.

 

[mattola]

But what if the entire history of a state is based on coal? Do you expect us to just BUILD WINDMILLS and learn how to run them?

Sincerely,
West Virginia

windmills cause cancer didnt ya know?

this is the only good use for a windmill

 

[forty_three]

windmills cause cancer didnt ya know?

this is the only good use for a windmill

They blow gay rays into people's houses.

Gays Are Utilizing The Power Of Windmills To Waft Homosexual Mist Into Homes

“You’re” mom might actually be gay after these new reports surfaced. According to the website Reading Republican, homosexuals have been utilizing the power of windmills to spray gay mis…

wokennews.com

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Being an IT guy, adapt or die is certainly a mantra you need to live by. Even though the majority of my working career is behind me, I still am attempting to learn new technologies as you need to keep yourself marketable.

/Especially when ageism rears its ugly head.

Yeah you gotta be flexible in this day and age.

As for the ageism, yeah it sucks. But your great grandkids are probable only in their 30s, amirite? With any luck they'll see the end of ageism in their lifetime. So progress is being made.

 

[puckhead]

lol

 

[dash]

^

Best way to treat Fox News lol

 

[thedddd]

If you watch any of this the end is very sad and telling about the war in Armenia/Azerbaijan right now.

BTW...around 13:30 is why he went back to feed the dogs at the end and the rest of the video is more traveling around Armenia and getting into details of the current situation.

 

[elocomotive]

So, Dash, you're admitting that you were part of the oil magnate profiteering problem, eh?

I bet you lament the old dot com boom, too?

I have no sympathy for these companies. Adapt or die.

I read in Forbes that green energy jobs outnumber fossil fuel jobs by 3-to-1 already, which is pretty amazing. It makes sense when you think about it. Oil and gas use a concentrated number of people to extract massive amounts of potentail energy at once. Their infrastructure and efficiencies generate profits, but not a particularly high number of jobs. By contrast, green jobs are decentralized. A company isn't building one massive power plant run by 100 people that powers hundreds of thousands of homes. It may be setting up solar arrays directly on tens of thousands of those homes, businesses, etc.

It's kind of shocking how often we see companies cling to their model instead of adapting. I guess they fear change. Hey... I guess corporations really ARE people. Well, we learned a little something about adaptation... and a little about dinosaurs (both figuratively (business moguls and literally (oil!)).

 

[elocomotive]

Speaking of electric stuff, there is an abslute glut of cool electric cars that are going to be hitting the market in the next few years.

Here's a full list.

Pretty cool to see so many new automakers emerging in this market. Rivian and Lordstown are American companies to watch. And Polestar (a spinoff of Volvo) has some awesome looking designs. The EVs are certainly going to usher in a new era of car design as well.

 

[dare2be]

It's kind of shocking how often we see companies cling to their model instead of adapting. I guess they fear change. Hey... I guess corporations really ARE people. Well, we learned a little something about adaptation... and a little about dinosaurs (both figuratively (business moguls and literally (oil!)).

I was going to make the dinosaur analogy in my post, but didn't.

 

[thedddd]

If anyone still supports this lady they need to just go away along with her.