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Brisketexan

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  1. There's about a billion reasons why. Just the pipeline (without accounting for pumping infrastructure) is around $4 million a mile (probably closer to $5 million these days). Materials, construction, land acquisition, regulatory costs, etc. It's around 225 miles between Lavon and Travis. So, there you go, around $1 billion just for the pipe. Then add a couple hundred million for pumping infrastructure, then add pumping costs when it's transferring water, which it can only do every so often (as you noted....they haven't had so much water that they've needed to open gates for 13 years). So in between, that pipeline is just sitting there, gathering dust. Transporting large volumes of water long distances (anything over 20 miles or so) is a ginormous, very, very expensive proposition. And people scream if their water rate goes up 5%. So....nope, not gonna happen. Eventually, Texas is going to have to undertake some REALLY expensive options....because we avoided those options when they were more affordable.
  2. It's not even that deep. He says words that will obtain for him the most gratification possible in any given moment. Whether or not they are true, or he even believes they are true, has no bearing on it whatsoever. If he walked into a hotel, and the sign said "free night in the Presidential Suite for anyone from East Timor," he'd saunter up to the desk and say "I'm from East Timor." And whether that was true or not would not even figure in to the calculus. Rather, those are the words he needs to say to get him the gratification he wants in a particular moment, so those are the words he will say. That's all there is to it. Whether it's true or not never even enters into the calculus in his purely selfish and narcissist brain. Concepts like "truth" and "lie" can only be considered and calculated by someone who has a grasp of morality and a calculus of moral behavior. He has none. Zero. His brain does not come with that feature, so assigning to him the immoral act of choosing to tell a lie is not an accurate characterization of what happened inside his head.
  3. The boy is currently entangled with a German/Georgian girl. On the one hand, he says they are too different, and it just won't work out, so they aren't going to see each other anymore. On the other hand, she is a stunning Eastern European brunette, and he cannot stay away, and keeps coming back to her. I get it dude, I get it. That region has a lot to offer.
  4. "Remember, those of us who have first-class tickets on the Titanic did not die in the immediate flooding of the lower decks, and we had some really nice cocktails in the lounge. So, we have lots to be grateful for and should relax, we'll be fine."
  5. At this point, anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ knows with certainty that he's a madman or a moron (or, almost certainly, BOTH). It's not even remotely ambiguous or in doubt. He's a fucking psycho.
  6. Any of y'all ever had a brutal case of the flu? You know that feeling when you've had your first really crappy day, and realize this may be more than a mere cold, you test and yep...you've got the flu. And now you know that as crappy as you feel today....you've got at least another 5-7 days of feeling shitty, and actually, the shittiest days are yet to come? Yeah. That's where we are. We just had our first shitty night's sleep, realizing we have a fever and feel crappy.....and know that we're going to have many more days like this. We're just at the beginning of this shitshow.
  7. Amigo. Dude. It's been over for a while now.
  8. People actually care about this. The giant planet-killing meteor cannot get here soon enough.
  9. Counterpoint: seeing how easily she will debase herself gives hope to a fella like me.
  10. Also reading a hypothesis that something (atmospheric?) affected transmission lines causing voltage oscillations and…systems being very frequency-sensitive, caused multiple resources to trip and go offline, causing its own cascade. Will be interesting to see what will likely be a series of failures. But it is very unlikely that it was a “green energy failure” - as in, resources failed because they were solar or wind.
  11. What a horseshit headline. The cascading failures described - talking literally seconds to unfold - do not match up the a “failure of green energy.” The sun didn’t go black in 3.5 seconds. The wind didn’t instantly stop in seconds when it was blowing just fine before. What the story described looks like some massive failure of control systems (in the simplest terms, the systems that get generation onto the grid). And that it happened at multiple places sure raises possibility that it was an attack. Which could have happened to a fossil fuel plant’s interface with the grid as well.
  12. When your mouth is set to “maximum spew,” something true will come out from time to time - simple math.
  13. The Regime will find some way to demonize the family and make it alright. For example, I heard that the night before, they picked up tacos from a restaurant that is a known hotbed of Tren de Aragua activity. These people knowingly supported terrorists!* *The whole thing is utterly false and made up, but of course that doesn’t matter anymore. You know how that will go. You all know it’s true. And his supporters will eat it up, and this family will have to go into hiding.
  14. There’s no “probably” about it. Trump insisted - FUCKING REPEATEDLY - in the interview that it ACTUALLY SAID “MS-13.” His brain is fucking deconstructed jello. Seriously, the fucking assholes who voted for him yelled that Biden was mentally gone, yet Biden never said anything remotely that absolutely brain-dead stupid. He’s one of the dumbest people in the United States. Not one of the dumbest officials, or the dumbest POTUS we’ve ever had…he’s genuinely in the bottom quartile of all Americans.
  15. And for you, Mrs. Roper.
  16. The administration’s approval rating will go up. The pointless and arbitrary cruelty is what tells you the Regime is working.
  17. The modern GQP very, very much wants to tell ALL "not real Americans" (y'all know who we're talking about) "hey, be happy we treat you as 60% of a person. You're lucky to get that much from us, your lords and masters." I'd say they just aren't saying it out loud....but they pretty much are.
  18. Yeah....but I've always found Kaley Cuoco to be just damned adorable.
  19. I'm not young, either. And I'm afraid you're not considering an alternate option: sometimes, things are much, much worse than you thought they were. "How bad could it get?" Thought middle class property owners in Moscow in 1917. And black people in the US as Reconstruction began to collapse. And jews in Germany in the 1930s. And british men of fighting age in the late spring of 1914. And the American investor class in late October, 1929. Sometimes, it can get very, very, very bad. Worse than you thought possible. When you have someone who has 1) promised to make things as awful as possible, and 2) has launched a 100-day blitzkrieg doing just that.....you should consider that possiblity.
  20. Bingo bango bongo. And the entire scenario you just posted is CELEBRATED by "libertarians" and "strict constitutional conservatives." Because irony isn't just dead, it's been run through the woodchipper.
  21. And that's what we like about you, Thatguy. You're one of the good ones. [Satire, people]
  22. You don't grasp how deeply broken a country we are. FFS, we elected a man who promised to end the Republic, and is doing just that. There's no coming back from this. We are who we are, and that is a shitty people who will never be ready to elect a woman, and never again be willing to elect a minority. It's done. The die is cast.
  23. Why are you being so rude to the future administrator of NASA?
  24. Obama destroyed this country. Seriously, he did. No, not anything he did. Rather, the act of electing him did. We elected a black man president, and it irreparably and totally broke the brain of a majority of this country. Once we elected Obama, it was all over. Regardless of what he did. He could have been the second coming of Lincoln and Jesus combined, and it wouldn't have mattered. This country will never elect anything but a white male again in my lifetime, and probably my kids' lifetimes. I mean, presuming we have actual elections going forward. Which we won't.
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