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  1. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    That's 1.3 acre feet of water per minute.  Around 80 acre feet per hour.  Just under 2000 acre feet per day.  3.5 days of that, and you've added the amount of water Samsung uses in a year.  So, helpful....but not world-changing.

    Good thing is when everybody in Austin dies of dehydration we can go loot all the electronics, drive Samsung demand down and put them out of business.  Sorry about you all dying though.  

  2. I will say one astounding thing.  If it could indeed be proven that the youngs have, as a cohort, a considerably reduced interest in sex, that there are virgins that are perfectly fine with it, etc. then we have stumbled upon quite the breakthrough.  Humans, and all animals in general are hard-wired to survive, adapt and.....reproduce.  There are and have always been a number of individual exceptions.  But, when you start looking at some of the numbers like the ones that lead this thread off..... if one could in fact attribute it to the fact that a primary driving factor in those numbers is youngs are just not as interested in sex and don't any longer have the drive to participate in the act of reproduction then that means that on a much broader non-exception level we are evolving (at a seemingly a breakneck pace).  And, evolving in a way that doesn't follow the general "survival" driven path of evolution.  

  3. 22 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    This is 100% correct.  I've had the conversations, multiple times, with at least a couple of dozen new voters.  They won't vote for Trump, but they won't vote for Biden, either.  I'm talking smart, educated students, but they're naive and unaware of the nuance of what is going on.  Biden will suffer because of it.

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  4. My kingdom for the measured wisdom of…the University of Chicago.

    The interesting thing is that statement isn’t capitulating it all. There’s even a little nicely veiled “you can go have your little protest over in the corner and we will look the other way in deference to your rights to free speech” snark to it. Then outlines the somewhat vague notion of “when this gets disruptive we may act”.


    Smart in that it doesn’t come across as heavy handed but still makes clear there is a line.
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  5. 2 hours ago, Bevo said:

    Booster pumps are usually cheap. But, in any case, the wetside is probably okay and you just need the motor side. I replaced a 1.5 uprated motor on a Pentair whisperflo used for water features and it was pretty easy. I think $450 instead of a couple thousand for a new pump. The reason I did it is that I haven't found any good repair guys. I hired one company and he told me that since Covid the prices have skyrocketed and that the part itself was going to cost $2000 and then approximately $500 in labor. Fuck that noise.

    The downside, I have some Intellchem issue that is keeping my saltwater chlorinator from working properly. The online stuff that I have found so far is outdated so I may have to find a repair guy who knows his stuff. That equipment supposedly only lasts a couple years and only controls acid which is easy to keep in range manually and the parts are expensive - acid pump is $500. New pH sensor and ORB sensor are $200. New computer module is $1500. It really is a waste of money.

     

     

    The other option is to just fuck off whatever you are using for a pressure side cleaner that probably has or will break, the pump and put the money in a robot cleaner.  That's what I finally did after over 10 years doing multiple minor repairs and then ultimately replacing a Polaris and a few years after that finally starting to hear the same noises out of my booster pump that indicated it was on its last legs.

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