This has been in my mind for a while. If he was THAT rich, why does he live in a studio apartment while Rebecca who is considerably less rich than him live in a house (which she paid for herself, because her roommates only pays 80 bucks per month)?
Also Nathan is a stupid name and any Nathan should go by Nate instead
Hello Reddit. I’m Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTH: A RECENT HISTORY, about the earliest efforts to prevent climate change in the 1980s and the birth of climate denialism. I’m a writer-at-large at the New York Times Magazine and the author of the novels KING ZENO and ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW.
A couple of years ago the Times Magazine asked me to write an entire-issue-length article about climate change. My editors and I decided to tell a story that has been largely forgotten, set between the years 1979 and 1989. Why those years? By 1979, there was consensus about the fundamental science of climate change, and a handful of people—activists, scientists, and politicians—began the fight to prevent catastrophic global warming. Losing Earth is the story of their triumphs, and ultimately their failure, to develop a global solution. The narrative follows the stories of Rafe Pomerance, an activist and political lobbyist, who during the decade was the only full-time climate activist; James Hansen, the NASA scientist who by the end of the decade would become the most prominent climate scientist in the world; Al Gore, who began holding hearings in the House of Representatives in 1980; William Reilly, who headed George HW Bush's EPA; and John Sununu, Bush's chief of staff, who singlehandedly managed to thwart a binding global climate treaty.
I spent nearly two years conducting research, interviewing more than 100 sources, visiting archives, reading newspapers from the period. The piece was published in August and became an international phenomenon: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html
I've expanded the piece into a book, with a fuller narrative, new information, and a new afterword that takes the story to the present day and questions what we can learn from the history of this decade and what has happened since.
Read more about the book here:
https://www.mcdbooks.com/losing-earth/
My twitter, which I'm very bad at using: https://twitter.com/NathanielRich
Ask me anything—
Losing Earth, A Recent History - Nathaniel Rich
Notice how the ball on the lowercase r sort of overlaps the stem, same with the lowercase y's descender.
The tail on the 'e' comes all the way up to the corner of the bowl.
The tail on the 'a' and the 't' comes up off the baseline.
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Rebecca/Rory: Will admit that these two aren't very similar personality-wise, but they are main female characters, both attended Yale, often find themselves in love triangles, and end their shows as single women.
Josh/Dean: The "first love" of the MC because they're nice and good-looking. Gets dumbed down slightly as the series progresses. Their stans in the fandom are rare.
Greg/Jess: The angry Italian whose issues prevent a deepened relationship between him and the MC, leaves the show and comes back with great self-improvement, and the show heavily hints is the one the MC will end up with.
Nathaniel/Logan: The blonde, rich douchebag with the terrible father who dates the MC and changes due to the relationship, gets dumped by the MC, and cheats on SO with MC because he's still in love with her.
The similarities just kinda hit me today (and it makes sense as CXG breaks down these romantic tropes). I also noticed that I'm a Jess/Rory and Grebecca shipper (but only after the guys come back from their off-screen development...and really only for Jess/Rory in the original series). I wondered anyone else who's a fan of both shows have a similar experience (i.e. are fans of Josh and Dean or Nathaniel and Logan, or also like Jess/Greg).
Also, if you haven't watched Gilmore Girls, does your favored guy fall into the type of romantic lead you're drawn to in other shows/movies? I kind of find this sort of thing fascinating!
Greetings Draft Community,
I decided to spend the past few weeks throwing together an offseason mock since my workload will finally allow for it (tis' the Holiday Season!). I've done many mock drafts but this is the first full offseason mock I have ever done before so go easy on me if there are several mistakes on my part. I tried to make sure I didn't draft any players that are returning or sign any FA players that have already been extended. I'm sure I slipped up somewhere so if you see something that looks off just let me know so I can correct it.
For Free Agency, I signed roughly 80+ guys and did my best to prioritize multiple signings for the teams that had a lot of cap space to work with. Please keep in mind that this is not a full list of free agents. There are still several others out there available to be signed so just because you don't see certain players signed by your team does not mean that they passed on them or made any type of decision on them yet.
I wanted to go crazy with a bunch of blockbuster QB trades/draft trades but decided to dial it back a little bit. There are still some juicy ones but not nearly the level I wanted to take it lol.
For Playoffs, I used playoffpredictors.com to simulate every week from here on out and pick the teams I thought would win their matchup each week. I then used PFF's mock simulator to generate the draft order based on where teams finished in the playoffs and by record for non-playoff teams.
I will go through each section in my post here but if you want to go ahead and dive right in then click here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GNKO3z33OACYqD6fd3t3afTcA90fbtfrJ13rVMz2ymQ/edit?usp=sharing
Lets get started!
- Playoffs
AFC Wild Card Round
Kansas City Chiefs(1) =bye
Tennessee Titans(2) vs Los Angeles Chargers(7) Score: 37-31
Buffalo Bills(3) vs Indianapolis Colts(6) Score: 27-24
Cincinnati Bengals(4) vs New England Patriots(5) Score: 23-20
NFC Wild Card Round
Green Bay Packers(1) = bye
Tampa Bay Buccaneers(2) vs Philadelphia Eagles(7) Score: 31-17
Arizona Cardinals(3) vs San Francisco 49ers(6) Score: 21-13
Dallas Cowboys(4) vs Los Angeles Rams(5) Score: 28-24
AFC Divisional Round
Kansas City Chiefs(1) vs Los Angeles Chargers(7) Score: 34-28
New England Patriots(5) vs Indianapolis Colts(6) Score: 2
... keep reading on reddit ➡Say you can pick 5 or so books, which would you choose and what order would you have a person read them in? The intended audience is someone who is perhaps not at all collapse aware, still clinging to the myth of progress, or perhaps just starting to see the cracks in modern society. I’m not sure which I would pick. Perhaps “The Long Descent” and “Dark Age America” by John Michael Greer, maybe “The End of Growth” or another title by Richard Heinberg. “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace Wells might be a good introduction to climate issues specifically, or perhaps “Losing Earth: A Recent History” By Nathaniel Rich. For a fictionalized look at the present and future I might pick “The Collapse of Western Civilization” by Naomi Oreskes. Finally perhaps "Limits to Growth" or some other such title that looks at the system perspective of modern civilization. As to the order I would have someone read these books, I have no idea. What makes sense to you?
This is a list of acts that are potentially playing OSLs 2022. I intend to update this list via edit from now until the lineup drop. If you want to add someone to this list just comment below and I will modify the list and credit your handle next to the edit. If you want to find someone in particular quickly I suggest you use ctrl F.
The list is seeded by user suggestions, predictions, and festivals with historically consistent crossover. All festivals used to seed the list have a 5 act or greater share rate over the course of the last four years.
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Festival Key:
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GB = Governors Ball: June 10th-12th
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Lo = Lollapalooza: July 28th-July 31st
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Fi = Firefly: September 22nd-25th
POTENTIAL HEADLINERS
- Abba (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- AC/DC (added by /u/sconce2600 on 11/2/21)
- Adele (added by /u/marblebluevinyl on 11/1/21)
- Aerosmith (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Arcade Fire (added by /u/mik3l16 on 11/2/21)
- Beyonce (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Billy Joel (added by /u/bababooey7789 on 11/1/21)
- Bruce Springsteen (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Bruno Mars (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Dead & Company (added by /u/jeemsta on 11/3/21)
- Diana Ross (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- The Eagles (added by /u/Drugba on 11/6/21)
- Eminem (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Fleetwood Mac (added by /u/musicfestivelguy94 on 11/4/21)
- Frank Ocean (added by /u/emilyinstantly on 11/2/21)
- Genesis (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/1/21)
- Green Day (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Harry Styles (Co)
- Imagine Dragons (RW) (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- J. Cole (Bo)
- Jay-Z (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Jonas Brothers (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Justin Timberlake (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21)
- Kanye West (Co)
- Katy Perry (added by /u/amwoods13 on 11/2/21
I wasn't a Rebecca/josh fan. I was definitely a shipper of Rebecca/Greg. Then Greg leaves and this nathaniel guy shows up. And it was like, oh great yet another guy. But man, after his Let's Have Intercourse and I Go To The Zoo songs, he started growing on me. By the time "greg" returned (I like Skylar in zoeys extraordinary playlist, but not in this) and we had an entire episode dedicated to nathaniels own romantic comedy, he just took the show for me. Rich dick becomes nice guy becomes someone who really understands what it means to love someone else.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Long time lurker, first time poster. Hello!
I feel like it's time to contribute and engage a little more with the CC community, so here I am. Hi!
To kick things off, I thought I would share a great big "what I've learned so far" post. :) It's a long one FYI, you've been warned.
When I was starting out in crypto, a few substantive posts from experienced crypto Redditors were helpful to me, so I thought I would do something similar and pay it forward a bit. (Even though it still feels like I'm just starting out, as you'll see below.)
Anyway, most of this isn't rocket science or new information for y'all, but I still hope it's helpful. (Or at least, good for a laugh.) It feels good to reflect back on this crazy year in crypto, too. Maybe I'll do a Part 2 next year or something.
EDIT: Okay okay, TL;DR LOL: HODL, it'll pay off long-term. Trust yourself. Do your own research. Google that shit. Breathe. It's all just a game, enjoy the ride. Diversify. Buy the Dips. Invest smaller amounts. DCA + but have fun shopping. Track your portfolio data. Get a hardware wallet. Spread out your crypto. Coinbase blows, but get on Coinbase Pro. Tighten your online security. Taxes?? LOL. Don't compare yourself to others. Don't trust strangers on the internet like me. :) Be kind.
Preface & Disclaimers
- First off, I am a HODLer, not a day trader. So my thoughts below are geared towards that approach. Bless all y'all who are more active traders. That's just not for me. Also, I'm based in the U.S., so my experience is based on that country.
- I've been investing in crypto since wayyyy back in early spring 2021. LOL. That makes me some kind of crypto grandmaster by now, right? (Time works real different around these parts...)
- Just kidding, I'm still just getting started. But I did give myself an intensive crash course on all things crypto in the spring and learned a ton very quickly. It was so exciting. And complicated. And nuts. LOL. This year I also experienced BTC's big ATH in the spring, the big crash of the summer (thanks, Elon and China), the turbulent fall, the new fall ATHs, and whatever the heck is happening now, LOL. Whew. So I feel like I at least have my "beginner's crypto certificate" or "baby's first dip & ATH cycle" sticker or something. Maybe? Who knows. LOL.
- Many of you are much more experienced than I am. Or you have a different approach to crypto. Rock on. You're great. Keep it going. Feel free to add your th
I recently watched a YouTube video by Nathaniel Drew, titled "How Self Help Brainwashed Me". As someone who has been dedicated to self improvement for the last few years, this video managed to articulate what I have been struggling with for the longest time and I am curious as to what everyone else thinks about his message. I will summarise the video below.
He talks about how we view self help as a way to get "there" - a place where our problems no longer exist. However, if we do not manage to do that, we see ourselves as failures. The thing is, "there" does not really exist and we are doomed to fail if this is the goal we set for ourselves.
Self help feels good and we get addicted to it. It may work for a day, a month, or a year. But when we fall off track, and we will, things get interesting. It is impossible to live a perfect life. Things happen and we are emotional creatures. When we fail to hit our goals, we feel guilty and we punish ourselves. All of a sudden, you feel like you are further away from "there" than when you first started, because the goals that we set for ourselves can often become moving targets. We fall into these unhealthy mental spaces, these internal prisons, of never feeling like we are enough. We are never fully in control of life and it never works to fight against this reality.
Life gets bigger when we are less rigid. We do not truly want these well-oiled routines and these optimised productivity systems. We want an expansive life, we want a rich life. Self help is making us rigid, going against the spontaneity that makes life what it is.
Self help can be useful and it can get us out of ruts. But when it becomes something you have to do rather than something you get to do, it becomes a problem. All of a sudden it doesn't make sense anymore. It is self torture to live in a way that implies we are broken.
This isn’t my first post of this sort, so I don’t have much of an explanation to give this time. I read short story collections and post my thoughts on each individual story. I find it a fun exercise. Hopefully horrorlit doesn’t find it too annoying. Here’s some recent ones I read.
(As a note: this was originally going to be one post covering four short story collections and anthologies, but it got too long for the Reddit character limit. The other post, where I talk about collections by Brian Hodge and Hailey Piper, is right here.)
The Children of Old Leech (Edited by Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele)
Laird Barron hardly needs any introduction at this point. He’s one of the best modern cosmic horror authors out there. Although, for anyone here who might be unfamiliar: Barron’s an author who writes gritty, noirish cosmic horror primarily centered around an elder god called Old Leech and an alien species that calls itself its Children that mimic humans to do Spooky Eldritch Shit on Earth. For this anthology, a whole bunch of horror authors got together to write stories in tribute to Laird Barron’s incredible writing. I love Barron and there’s some real big names here, so I’m excited to dig in.
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“The Harrow” by Gemma Files – A perfect start to the collection, and notable because it’s an Old Leech tale that takes place in Files’ home country of Canada rather than the Pacific Northwest. A woman makes a strange archaeological discovery in her backyard, and as she finds more and more of these artifacts, she gains the attention of forces best left alone. It also focuses on the way that Barron sets up strange stories from his protagonists’ youth that come back in a new light when they start to make contact with cosmic forces. Absolutely incredible.
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“Pale Apostle” by J.T. Glover & Jesse Bullington – An Old Leech tale set in Seattle’s Chinatown in the early 20th Century. A shopkeeper is given a job by a stranger: she needs to deliver him a package covertly without dealing with couriers. Naturally, things don’t go well. The story blends Chinese traditions with Barron’s cosmic terror stylings really well and ends on a surprisingly upbeat note for an Old Leech story (although it comes with its own horrific implications).
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“Walpurgisnacht” by Orrin Grey – The attendees of a lavish party held in an old German transmission tower find themselv
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Dandelion
Amber Houston was born light-years from Earth, aboard the enormous colony starship Dandelion. By the age of fourteen, she has spent her entire life training as a "Ranger," ready for the day when she will be among the first humans ever to set foot on an alien world & build a new civilization.
When Dandelion suffers an emergency toward the end of its journey, Amber & her fellow young rangers are evacuated & land on the planet Newhome years ahead of schedule. While the adults left behind on Dandelion slow the ship & turn it around to come back---in eight years---Amber & her friends must build lives for themselves amid revelations that will change Humankind's destiny forever.
Meanwhile, aboard the ship, secrets that were buried over three hundred years ago finally come to light...
Co-authored alongside Justin C. Louis, Dandelion is my debut novel, and you can download the Audiobook edition from Audible, or buy it in hardcover, paperback or ebook through any major literary retailer.
##What you are about to read...
...is chapter 81 of an ongoing story, the writing of which is funded by the kind donations of my patrons and subscribers! If you enjoy this story and think that I deserve something for it (thank you!) then all the details you need to support me are included at the end of each chapter.
This chapter comes in at 24,906 words! No padding here!
In this chapter:
The Hunters have struck back and wounded the deathworlder allies. Morale wavers, and President Chambliss is faced with a choice---swallow his pride and ask for help, or risk losing everything.
But he is not alone.*
##IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS SERIES...
First of all, welcome! The Deathworlders has been in production now for several years now, and is entering its final arc, but there’s still plenty of story ahead of us, and I’m glad you’re here to join us for it.
While I hope that the story stands well enough on its own, the setting (Also known as “The JVerse”) has often been a collaborative effort, building on the talented work of other writers who have breathed life and detail into its every corner. Characters, species and concepts have entered this narrative thanks to those other writers, and while I have made every effort to keep the story coherent and readable without requiring you to read those o
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
