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"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 06/23/2018 at 12:39 • Filed to: Movies

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A reminder that the first 10 minutes of Up are both lovely and heartbreaking. Don’t wait for adventure.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > f86sabre 06/23/2018 at 12:53

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Censored > f86sabre 06/23/2018 at 13:08

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As the husband in a family that can’t have biological children, this movie tugs at my soul. Our Russell came a bit sooner though in the form of an adopted daughter. W e didn’t name her Russtina though it would have been sweet .

My bird IS the word > f86sabre 06/23/2018 at 13:53

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Similar to up, I am too poor for adventure.

f86sabre > Censored 06/23/2018 at 14:43

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Families are formed to in all kinds of ways. Lovely that you and your spouse found a way. 

f86sabre > My bird IS the word 06/23/2018 at 14:43

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Adventures don’t have to be grand trips. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Censored 06/23/2018 at 22:25

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I almost cried because it was looking like no kids for us at the time, but years after giving up on fertility treatments our son came completely naturally and by surprise .

I quite agree, a masterpiece. Tells you everything you need to know about the characters.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > f86sabre 06/25/2018 at 14:38

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Just got back from a 5000+ mile western road trip. =)

It is a beautiful piece of film-making .

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > f86sabre 06/28/2018 at 09:31

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Well said, Sir.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 09:31

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Assuming United States, it’s also a beautiful country.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 11:05

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Yessir!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 11:13

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Looks like fun. I’ve loaded up the family and driven from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back three times.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 12:16

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Wow! Over a month, or how long?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 12:19

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I’m a teacher, so over a chunk of Summer. Shortest trip was about four weeks, where we spent a week at the beach with extended family.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 12:39

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Fantastic benefit of the job!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 13:28

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It’s a lifestyle. Point to anyone with a real job who can take even two weeks of vacation at a stretch at any salary level.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 13:48

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Thankfully, at my current place of employment, we can take 2 week trips without too much hassle (as long as we’re not super busy). But yeah, this is the first place I’ve really felt that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 13:55

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How do you make your living?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 14:05

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I’m at a small oil & gas start up. I do  mapping and software support for a group of geologists and engineers. We didn’t have an active rig for the last few months, but are about to pick one up and start drilling again.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 14:18

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En ecoterrorist! Damn! I liked you right up until then.

Kidding...

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 14:42

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My wife and I are both in the business, in a state where ~20% of workers are employed directly or indirectly in oil & gas. We’ve been very fortunate over the past 15 years to survive layoffs and find better jobs when required . Will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple decades. I love watching the advancement of technology, but it is very hard to replace the poten cy, tran sportability, and storability of a barrel of oil, or a gallon of gasoline. The real nut to crack is storage of electrical power (and fast charging for transportation) - that it hasn’t been figured out yet shows just what a challenge it is.

Wind & solar are rapidly increasing, coal is starting to drop off, replaced by cleaner-burning natural gas, but oil consumption continues to climb. Will take a global slowing of energy demand or some amazing advancement in clean energy tech to change that.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 15:42

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There’s a two-hour conversation to be had here. I remain unconvinced that a Tesla or a Prius is all that much better for the planet than a small, efficient fossil burner.

Energy policy: why burn our own oil when we can burn someone else’s? I’ve never understood that.

What state?

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 16:05

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Oklahoma.

As to the effects of building an electric car , it all just depends on what kind of damage you’d prefer to do to our planet and its people , I suppose.

“ The SPR’s formidable size ( storage capacity of 713.5 million barrels) makes it a significant deterrent to oil import cutoffs and a key tool of foreign policy.” I guess they feel that if everything goes to hell, this will at least cover us for few months... There’s lots of oil to be produced in the U.S. if it comes to that, it’s just not economic to do so today.   And the difference in the U.S. to almost everywhere else in the world is that private companies and citizens actually own the rights to these natural resources, and the government really has little power to tell them whom they can or can’t sell to.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 06/28/2018 at 16:49

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Oh Kay.

I wonder at the amount of gases put out by the thousands of airliners flying around each day.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 06/28/2018 at 17:22

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https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2015/09/evolving-climate-math-of-flying-vs-driving/