Santa Fe County Sheriff’s deputies found Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and a dog dead when they preformed a welfare check, a spokesperson said.

Summary

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.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    Actually, the one thing that gas is good for is cooking

    Adding on to what @Delta_V@lemmy.world said. The main reason that cooking with gas indoors is a very bad idea, is “natural gas” isn’t just methane. The oil companies just pull the gas, and whatever may be with it, out of the ground, refine it somewhat to remove some things, like water that would rust their gas lines, and send it down the pipes.

    They don’t process it further, however, leaving nasty stuff like benzene in it, as one summary hilariously put it, “Ultra-pure methane isn’t necessary for home use. The gas needs to be clean enough for safe combustion and pipeline transport, but further refinement isn’t economically justified.”

    So they clean it enough that their infrastructure doesn’t degrade, but not enough to be safe to humans.

    If you’ve ever cleaned the igniter or parts of the combustion chamber of a NG product, even one with hyper-efficient burners, it’s a wonder they filter it all, given how much crap builds up.

    Bonus points as well: to maintain pressure regulation, every gas meter will vent methane periodically (as well as other places in the distribution network), so they’re venting a greenhouse gas that is worse than carbon dioxide, collectively in tiny amounts, from millions of homes.

    Gas has been used in homes since the early 1800s, its time has passed, and it should go away.