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Brisketexan

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  1. Also, I'm annoyed that it just now occurred to me that the "Biden Overhang" is what happens whenever Hunter pulls his shorts down.
  2. Wait...what? I would presume that, upon having sex with an older nurse, every single 15 year old male would rate the experience a solid "eleventeen."
  3. I live in a world where 1) Derka 2) can observe that Dave Portnoy speaking as to the economy is important, and 3) both Derka and Dave are right. Stop this planet, I'd like to get off.
  4. ....says every sane Texan every two years.
  5. Sounds like those folks don't know many nurses.
  6. Shit like that pisses me off more than you can imagine. Because you know what "belongs to the President?" FUCKING NOTHING. NOT A GODDAMNED THING. That information belongs to the people, and the Republic. He works for us. That shit pissed me off when Nancy Pelosi said shit like that (about her title and power and shit), I am 100% bipartisan on this. Rubio and Trump work for ME. They are my bitch. On the org chart of this Republic, they are at the fucking bottom, under "We the People." I fucking hate them. I hate them all so, so much.
  7. Beats the hell outta me. I'm going to guess that there aren't any recent studies because . . . follow me here . . . it has already been determined, without the need for a particular "study," that it is not feasible. There's likely no "study" of that for the same reason that there's no study of how to get from here to Hawaii on horseback. But if you want some samples of "studies" of large-scale transfer projects, sure. https://dallascityhall.com/departments/waterutilities/Documents/DWU LRWSP 2024_with Appendices.pdf Go to section 7, discussing the Integrated Pipeline Project to bring water to Dallas from relatively nearby Lake Palestine. Or you can go here, where it contemplates a long-range project to bring water all the way from Toledo Bend to Dallas: https://dallascityhall.com/departments/waterutilities/DCH Documents/2014_LRWSP_Final_Report_all_11302015.pdf Here's a snippet, showing the estimated cost of that project at $2.3 billion...in 2015 (in the ten years since, that cost has likely doubled or more): Again, that's a 2015 number. Assume it has only gone up around 50%, so it's now $1,500 per acre foot. By way of comparison, there was great hue and cry when LCRA recently raised its contract price for water from Lake Travis from . . . $155 to $165. An East Texas-to-Dallas water supply would cost TEN TIMES that (again, that's being very conservative). There is a reason there aren't crews out there digging to lay a pipeline that will deliver water that costs 10X or more what other sources cost.
  8. Cool. Think about it all you want. Again, if you think you just came up with the idea of a massive interbasin transfer, and how it will solve all of the water woes to the west, feel free to think that. We're just suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the literally thousands of engineers and boots-on-the-ground policymakers who work on these issues every day, many of them for their entire careers, MIGHT have had the same brainstorms you're having. And they MIGHT have run down the practical implications, costs, regulatory hurdles, etc. as part of that exercise. And those efforts MIGHT have consistently revealed that large-scale interbasin transfer projects are not particularly practical. Again, I've seen actual plans for potential projects - the kind of thing that went beyond mere concept and into nuts and bolts, and said "if there's anyone out there who wants to acquire this water and move it elsewhere, here's how it could be done. Any takers?" Nope. Our existing water supplies are well-inventoried. Future sources and supplies are likewise well-inventoried. Projects to maximize and develop supply are discussed openly. These plans are developed on both a state-wide and regional basis. https://www.twdb.texas.gov/waterplanning/index.asp You can click through there to the State Water Plan and each Regional Water Plan. Those plans are developed after literally tens of thousands of hours of analysis by people who do this for a living. There are a shitload of reasons that there are no 200+ mile pipelines to move water from the wet east to the dry west. And it's not because nobody thought of a good way to do it until earlier today.
  9. They're already running with "the contraction was due to the 'Biden Overhang'" -- no explanation of what that actually IS, or connection to any actual data. But trust us - anything bad is Biden's fault.
  10. You just told Immamac that the denizens of this board are functionally worthless. You're not wrong.
  11. Yeah...seems pretty tone-deaf.
  12. I hear you. And I'm trying to be nice and not come across as patronizing, honestly, I am. I don't have time to write up everything that goes into this, but I deal with very large water utilities (including raw water sales and transport issues) all the time. I know firsthand what these projects entail (although the last time I was elbows-deep in possible costs for one was 5-6 years ago....and I know that costs have skyrocketed since then). And the "trust me" part is as to my comment that lifetime water system engineers and the like, with decades of experience, have designed/proposed and sometimes built projects like these for decades. If there was a massive money-saving "cheat code," trust me -- they'd have done it. As just one point, explaining why these projects are ALWAYS going to use very large diameter pipe.....you've acquired the land. You're incurring the cost of installation and construction. Knowing those things, you never, ever want to come even CLOSE to being undersized on your pipe. Which means you go big. And all of those things together mean high costs. Here's a note on one of the largest raw water supply projects that's been completed in our lifetime, using 96 inch pipe (and canals, which are most suitable on relatively flat, easy-to-dig terrain: It is the mission and business of a shitload of people to try to get water from where it is to where it's needed. There has been a metric shit-ton of "outside the box" thinking on water supply the past 50+ years (a good example is Aquifer Storage and Recovery). The people in the industry are in world-wide networks, attend massive global conferences on new ideas and projects, read all the literature you can imagine. If some water provider in Slovenia came up with a clever workaround to transport thousands of acre-feet of water cheaply . . . it would be written about and shared industry-wide within a year. If your ideas were viable and yielded meaningful cost savings, they would have been done. I'm not saying that to denigrate your brainstorming....I'm suggesting to you that thousands of really clever people who know everything there is to know about engineering water projects think about this stuff every single day, trying to find the most effective and cost-effective solutions. They aren't just proposing the same-old same-old. Anything new, they run the simulation and the numbers.
  13. You should probably stick with your sub-deal of jerking off to pics of Sydney when your wife is out of town.
  14. Diameter matters....a lot. See the 108 inch (which is the kind of pipe you're talking about) in the Tarrant Regional Project above. Trust me, my $1 billion figure for a Lavon-Travis line is certainly WAY low. Sewer pipe is also quite different than a raw water line (sewer lines generally are not run under any pressure, for example). Large-scale water transport is super-expensive business. Always has been (otherwise, the easy idea of "just build a pipeline from wet areas to dry areas" would have been done 100 times the past 75 years. Instead, such projects are few and far between.
  15. I had nostalgia for the treat of vienna sausages and mustard. A great fishing and camping treat. So, I bought a coupla cans last time I was at the grocery store. Last night, I broke one out as a snack. Mustard on the plate for dipping. Dig in.....shit. Tasted like disappointment. A poor man's classic, and it turns out, I don't really like 'em anymore. Bummer.
  16. And the "Biden Overhang." Love that entirely made-up, completely disconnected from all facts or data, fucking headline. "Overhang" my ass:
  17. Longest Roman aqueduct was around 250 miles. Of course....material and land acquisition costs were a BIT lower (stone....and the empire just took shit). And you can't beat the labor costs -- slaves, fed a coupla bowls of gruel a day. No worries, though. I'm sure that there are folks in Texas leadership looking at how to "get rid of burdensome regulations" so we can follow the Roman model more closely. Infrastructure is expensive, but it's also an investment. And America, 2025....we don't do investment. We just treat everything as OPEX, and OPEX is bad, so don't spend any OPEX.
  18. It's not even that his material is that bad -- groan-inducing dad-joke type stuff can actually be funny and endearing. What it requires is SELF-AWARENESS. Of which he has....zero. If you crack a groan-inducing joke, but are looking around like you expect people to be wowed by how clever you are, then you just had a complete miss. Both the jokester and the audience HAVE TO BE IN ON THE JOKE TOGETHER. The joke is not "I wear a lot of hats." The joke is a self-aware person, knowing that is a TERRIBLE joke, telling it anyway. He is a loathsome, irredeemable human being, from top to bottom.
  19. Ahh yes. Thanks to Dear Leader HIs Royal Majesty Trump, we will now be bringing these jobs to you. And don't worry about finding people to fill them....we'll MAKE them work there (because it's the only way to make it work in the US). Soon, we'll see these happy faces across the country! And don't give me anything about Trumpco being concerned about Chinese slave labor/wages/working conditions. Trumpco has one problem, and one problem only with the picture above: those women are being exploited for the profits of CHINESE businesses, instead of American businesses. That's it.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. "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."
  24. 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.
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