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Brisketexan

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  1. The old man really made her Geiger counter click, if ya know what I’m sayin’.
  2. Just like the sirens on the Pedernales, which are specifically designed to give people close to the river advance warning so they can leave the low area and get to higher ground. BTW, I have years of involvement with Mo Ranch. “Get to higher ground” is 100% one of the protocols. Warning helps you do that.
  3. How was Shin Lim?
  4. Correct. We would still have valid criticisms and concerns about building in floodways, and we’d criticize individuals who disregarded clear warnings and sirens. But from a standpoint of public/govt measures, we wouldn’t have a big list of things they should have done differently.
  5. Yeah…I mean…the point is to make the toll as low as you can. Cut it by 1/3? That’s a win. Nothing is perfect. Bad outcomes will still happen. But you do what you can to mitigate them. There are some car wrecks that are gonna kill you no matter what measures are taken. But it’s still a good idea to have crumple zones, seat belts, and air bags. Because they REDUCE crash deaths and serious injuries. Sirens are an easy, low-cost measure that surely would have saved some number of lives. At the end of a disaster, you should be able to say “we did everything that reasonably could have been done.” That can’t be said here. That’s not good.
  6. Well, yeah. For injecting the adenochrome harvested from the sex trafficked kids by Epstein and Podesta in the pizza basement.
  7. No. They are loud warning sirens, which the dozens and dozens of visitors in RVs who died, would have heard, and had a chance to escape. Also, they go off a decent bit of time before the flood actually reaches you, so it’s a meaningful chance to escape. Warning sirens are a thing because they work. I think that more than a handful of lives could have been saved by a piece of technology that is cheap, effective, and not exactly innovative - they’ve been in use for decades for such purposes.
  8. Sure. This flood is a good example. You can't prevent the disaster here (in this case, the flood). But there are multiple points where the death toll could have been dramatically reduced. One of those points is river flood warning sirens. Those warn not just regular river residents, but also visitors (like folks at RV parks), more of whom would have had time to get out/get to high ground. Or a shipwreck. Often, there's multiple things that could have been done to avoid the ship sinking - so, avoid the disaster altogether. Then, even if it couldn't be avoided, having good, practiced lifeboat drills with sufficient lifeboats lessens the losses suffered when the ship sinks. Winter Storm Uri: we couldn't stop the freezing weather from coming. But we could have learned from the lessons of the very close call in February 2011 (when our grid came very close to a Uri-like crash) and taken measures to better winterize our grid, adjust our market to provide for more capacity, etc. Such measures could have helped us avoid the total grid collapse that we suffered in 2021, and a lot fewer people would have frozen to death in their homes. It's not about stopping mother nature. It's about planning for it, and having mechanisms in place to help people stay out of harm's way, meaning fewer people die.
  9. Nothing about that sequence makes any sense. I don't do conspiracy theories, but FFS, that looks staged as fuck, right down to the guy directing the cameras and the flag being lowered into the shot.
  10. This. Simple, effective, cheap solutions (like that exact solution, which is deployed elsewhere to positive effect) were available, and were available for a long time. They were rejected. Soundly. For some of the dumbest, idiotic, painfully mean reasons imaginable. You can read the actual transcripts, they are quite open and plain about it. Every disaster has multiple failure points, any one of which being removed prevents the disaster/lessens its toll. Could have taken all other failure points out of the mix by having river flood warning sirens. But they didn't. And the whole world knows why. Some people are angry about that. That's shitty, because ALL people should be angry about it.
  11. Yep to both. There was also a team mini-pennant set that I had on my wall, in like a windmill formation: Earl Campbell made young Brisket quite the NFL fan. Once the Oilers left Houston, though.....meh.
  12. Elmo, telling us his place is the coolest:
  13. I mean, might as well put this label on all of his products, platforms, etc.:
  14. That is a real letter. From the attorney general. Of an entire state. Jesus monkeyfuck. Florida policy might as well have banned werewolves, and required all veterinarians to report all dogs that show signs of being a werewolf. We live in the stupidest, most insane timeline imaginable, and it’s only getting worse. Much worse.
  15. This…is an excellent post.
  16. Groovy. Man, they are pricier than last time I went (which, granted.....was like 12 years ago). We're gonna eat plenty of seafood in Boston, but we're also going to grab some North End italian (we'll get plenty of seafood in the following days, as we work our way up through Maine). Not sure where to grab Italian. Thinking Tony & Elaines for just old school east coast red sauce italian, but can be persuaded otherwise.
  17. So...you're going to the Sox game that night? Got your tickets yet? Want to go together? Seriously, taking my wife to her first game at Fenway July 25th as well (we're having dinner at Union Oyster House the night before, the 24th).
  18. I mean, "MechaHitler" pretty much perfectly aligns with the policy interests and goals of this regime, so.....this totally checks out.
  19. Just remember, every single fucking Republican voter LIKES THIS AND WANTS MORE OF IT. BECAUSE THE ENTIRE MOVEMENT IS NOTHING WITHOUT ITS FASCIST AND RACIST HEART.
  20. You sound like a "treasonous communist."
  21. ASR (aquifer storage and recovery) is absolutely part of the mix for water supply in the state water plan. Availability of water isn't our issue, believe it or not. The issue is the COST of available water. People want two kinds of water: 1) lots of it, and 2) cheap. Turns out, you can only have one or the other, not both. I worked with an old water engineer who had a great way of putting it: "Shit, water is free, it falls from the sky. It's the catching it, holding it, treating it, and transporting it that costs so much damned money." We can build more reservoirs, build very expensive transport pipelines, do expensive ASR and desalination, all that stuff. It costs lots and lots of moolah (we've discussed transport pipelines here before -- people think and ask "how much could it be?" not realizing that the answer is "a metric fuckton of dollars, that's how much" is the truth). So, we can do all the stuff Clever suggests and more. You're just gonna get a bill for it. Which you'll scream about. So, very little of it will actually ever get done.
  22. Man, I ALMOST ordered that, but I went with the steak pane' (sort of a milanesa/CFS approach with gravy, with a biscuit and scrambled eggs). My wife got the quiche florentine, and it was the best quiche we've ever tried. I also started with the special watermelon gazpacho, which was outstanding. BUT, last time I went, I got the croque madame and it was meh -- a bit on the dry side. Will be hard pressed to order something other than the quiche or something with scrambled eggs next time we go.
  23. I dunno - I would THINK that maybe you get more even heat distribution and thickening throughout the egg mix (up the cooking column) as opposed to just on the pan bottom? I also dunno. I'll try it, and see what happens and describe it when it does. Expect me to use the terms "viscous" and "thick" a lot, and y'all try not to get all turned on by it.
  24. Dude. That's already happening, and it's irreversible. Remember how European countries got too lackadaisical and too dependent on cheap Russian gas, then Russia made it plain that it's an unreliable, maniacal, dangerous trading partner? And those countries did a shitload to disentangle themselves as much as possible from the Russian gas trade? Yeah. Those lessons also apply to the US and everything we trade in. The more dependent you are on trade with the US, the more vulnerable you are to American malevolence and batshittery, which we have max-full levels of these days. The smart strategy is disentanglement to the extent possible. Other countries may not be geniuses, but they're smart enough to have figured that out. The US is going to find itself at a long-term trade disadvantage, entirely of our own making. It's too late to stop it. We've demonstrated that we are dangerous and untrustworthy. Not because Trump is our president, but because we ELECTED him to be our president, and a sizable percentage of our population SUPPORTS this idiocy. We are too dangerous and untrustworthy to be treated as a trusted trading partner, so we won't be any longer.
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