And how much did it save by hiring the minors? Cost of doing business…

All the article says about their parents is:

Stan’s 84-year-old parents, Don and Shirley Ledgerwood, have watched oil companies drill multiple wells on their farm, where the family had grown crops and run cattle. The family received small royalty payments from the oil production.

Which still does not say that their parents let them. They received the royalty payments I’m assuming because the law about mineral rights requires the drillers to pay the land owners.

Nowhere in this article does it say they ever gave them permission. From what I understand their parents did not sell the mineral rights.

Can you please cite where it says or implies otherwise?

Did you even read the article? Due to the way Oklahoma law works the family owns the land and farm, but the oil companies have the “mineral rights” underneath which obligates the family to let them drill even after they tried in the courts to stop it.

Oklahoma law allows the oil companies to drill an unlimited number of wells on only a $25,000 bond. So they just don’t clean up the wells and let the state have the bond because it’s cheaper.

The problem is the state, not the family. Nowhere does it mention the family selling their rights to the minerals underneath or anything like that.

I fail to see how the family is supporting the oil industry.

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adopted globally

Lol yeah, okay. Talk to me when you can actually get to most sites with IPv6.

Lmao I’m in the NYC area and my whole house shook. I’m right there with you. Thanks for the explanation!

Okay honest question, when you merge a PR in GitHub and choose the squash commits box is that “rebasing”? Or is that just squashing? Because it seems that achieves the same thing you’re talking about.

Sachs is an economist and public policy professor. The guy doesn’t have a medical background at all.

What does “he lead the lancet team” even mean?!?

The Lancet is a medical journal. Of course it is referenced in the wikipedia page, they are links to peer reviewed medical articles. None of which have anything to do with Sachs as far as I can tell. So what is “the lancet team”?

And why is someone “deeply involved with the government’s response” writing an opinion piece for a publication barely anyone has ever heard of? Surely if they were so high profile they could get an actual renowned publication to publish their piece.

Not to mention the fact that medical researchers don’t write opinion pieces on their subject of research. That’s just not something that is done. They write journals.

Maybe because this Sach’s guy just wants attention, notoriety, and money? He has a whole personal website with a page dedicated to his articles, again something that is not typical for a researcher: https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles

Every single article is at Common Dreams. And look at all those topics. Writing about the war on Gaza, and the War on Ukraine too. Is he an expert in virology, world politics, or economics? Which is it? Lol

I could understand politics since that is his actual field but this guy has zero background in economics nor health. Not sure why you’re deciding this guy is the hill you want to die on.

This “article” which is a trash opinion piece (see the /opinion/ in the link) paints the US as responsible but then references and links to The Intercept’s article which states the following:

Documents obtained by The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them, despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.

So the US Government literally told them they could not use the funding for that purpose and this non-profit organization did it anyway. And then this trash article proceeds to paint the US Government as responsible for what happened not to mention the fact that there is no direct evidence showing this lab has anything to do with the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s circumstantial conjecture at best.

This isn’t journalism, it’s a trash opinion piece that’s clearly meant to smear the US as responsible for COVID-19. Ask yourself why that is.

Lol, didn’t the fucking SCOTUS wedding cake case also clearly make this illegal? As per that case it’s unconstitutional because you can’t compel someone to make art, that’s compelling speech and against the 1st amendment. So you can’t force the writers to include a character in their art either.

I’m gonna sum up my feelings on this with a (probably bad) analogy.

AI taking software developer jobs is the same thinking as microwaves taking chefs jobs.

They’re both just tools to help you achieve the same goal easier/faster. And sometimes the experts will decide to forego the tool and do it by hand for better quality control or high complexity that the tool can’t do a good job at.

Good thing there’s no Spotify for sheet music yet… I probably shouldn’t give them ideas.

Support for Palestine does not equal antisemitism. And it’s incredibly problematic that that’s what you’ve implied here.

Yes because Colorado was never going to go to Trump anyway. Maine splits their electoral votes but 1 or 2 electoral votes are very very unlikely to make a difference in the election. And that probably won’t matter anyway because SCOTUS will almost certainly rule to keep him on the ballot.

That’s how the normal doors work because they aren’t permanently secured in place. The reason is weight as it pretty much always is in aviation design.

Lexus is made by Toyota

I’m well aware :) I don’t think that really changes anything of what I said though. Them being owned by the same parent company doesn’t really change anything other than the company culture of reliability, but even so Toyotas are more well known for their reliability. Luxury cars are also inherently less reliable just due to the fact they have more parts and also newer technologies for the luxury aspect that sometimes haven’t had all the kinks engineered out yet.

Lol I don’t think the reliability difference between Lexus and Toyota is measurable. If anything I see way more old Toyotas on the road than I do old Lexuses. But that may be just because less were produced.

I definitely feel like you could find a help desk position making about that much, just gonna be about getting lucky finding one that is remote that would be willing to give you a chance. But you never know until you try.

Lol Ukraine may not have taken back the country during its counter offensive but the US won extremely big by showing the Russian military isn’t actually the 2nd best in the world, probably not even top 10.

Putin is desperate to restore Russia to its former USSR glory. That’s why he wants Ukraine so badly.