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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities confirmed Thursday.

Foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is ongoing.

Hackman, a revered actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from Hollywood two decades ago and spent his later years writing novels.

He lived in New Mexico since the 1980s, remaining largely out of the public eye. His death comes just days before this year’s Academy Awards.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    underappreciated

    They’re literally the cause of most of our dedicated energy production infrastructure.

    I highly recommend the book

    No, I don’t care.

    I’m not evangelizing fossil fuels here

    s u r e

    • hansolo@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      What you missed here is that the underappreciated aspect is energy density plus portability. That’s it.

      If you’ve never been in a taxi in Africa where some guy has 20 gallons of gas in plastic bags and old cooking oil bottles to drive out to a moto driver 100 miles from any sort of infrastructure at all, then I can see how you might not understand viscerally understand this.

      There is nothing else to replace fossil fuels at that level of both portability and energy density. We need more work, more innovation, and more development not for people on the grid, but to get the people OFF the grid away from fossil fuels.