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Brisketexan

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  1. The rub is all in the "affordable." Chemical processes require energy. Energy costs money (even renewable energy like solar -- initial investment, dispatching, maintenance, there's real cost there). So, desal costs money. The key to cheap desal is cheap energy. Which, indeed, hasn't been cracked yet. Oh, there's also the teeny tiny cost problem of transportation. Want to build a 450 mile pipeline to pump that desalinated water to Midland from Corpus? A decent-sized pipeline costs anywhere from $5 million to over $10 million per mile (and that $5 million number is way low from what I understand these days). Even if we split the difference and say it's $7.5 million per mile, that's around $3.4 billion....just to build it. Now you have to operate it (takes energy to pump water uphill) and maintain it -- a shitload in opex every year. There are solutions to every problem we have (energy, water, etc.). All it takes is ungodly amounts of money. What we're searching for are cost-effective solutions, and those are really hard to come by. Not criticizing your post, BTW -- you acknowledge the problem. Just building on it.
  2. Is it the GQP? Yes? Then the answer is "no, they don't understand, because they are so very, very, very, very stupid."
  3. It's like you haven't even heard of College Station.
  4. You, my friend, suffer from either 1) a lack of imagination, 2) a failure to observe any of what these Texas "conservative" types have been up to for the past decade+, or both. Trust me....they can utterly fuck shit up. It's the thing they do.
  5. What's that? ANOTHER leopard ate ANOTHER person's face? https://www.tortreform.com/press-release/tlr-statement-on-texas-scorecard-documentary/?fbclid=IwAR2W7qr9X3ZtiJ0qgAFAPwJsGXbQh62J9YNAqVioWpUOpq0wBzbeVC1mAHk_aem_AaCYmJ1kmb80BYJszZb0NfvPuLmspOL5ISIyOvtlxyHGlcjepSJkdtRnXCl9sIe9X6e5P3DWZhC93XSwOQo59o7Z Summary: Texans for Lawsuit Reform, a shitty hardcore conservative group that has worked tirelessly for the principle that businesses should be accountable to no one, is in the crosshairs of "Texas Scorecard," a nutbar MAGA-type group that 1) how has outsized power in Texas because the Texas GQP is nutbar MAGA, and 2) put out a documentary very critical of TLR (presumably as "deep state Rinos" or somesuch). The fascists always end up turning on each other. They always do.
  6. With the crew mentioned above, you are not off-target. Not even a little bit. Their mission will be to completely gut Travis County (primarily to defund its election operation).
  7. If you think that putting Mackowiak or Zimmerman into ANY position of ANY power is a good idea....you should change your thinking. Would having diverse rational viewpoints help any decisionmaking body? Of course. Do Mackowiak or Zimmerman meet that description? NO FREAKING WAY. They're both psychopaths.
  8. Only a Beta cuck soy boy would ask such a silly question. You probably drive a car that doesn't even HAVE a car wash mode, loser!
  9. Networking, dude. Make friends with the cute girl from London. In turn, she talks you up to all of her cute friends. It's a referral game.
  10. Repeating for importance. Seriously, this is important. Early voting for this one starts Monday. Don't let the crazies have influence.
  11. Well, also....grind the idiots either into submission or at least into irrelevance. Their thinking is a disease that literally threatens to bring down the Republic. Push them aside. Shove them back in their holes. Take away all influence they have, on anything.
  12. This. They're gone. They are never coming back. Move on, for your own good.
  13. Last year, my son had to deal with one of these Tate-disciples. One of his suite mates was a local Scot, and he was all-in on Tate bullshit. And he ended up hating my son. Why? Because the Scot had no fucking game, made women feel uncomfortable when he aggressively hit on them, and thus had little success with the ladies. Whereas my son is pretty laid back, likeable, and treats women well (e.g., two of his suite-mates girls, and he's quite good friends with them. Nothing romantic at all, just friends and they have a good time together and he looks out for them.....which in turn makes him quite attractive to THEIR friends. A lot of women are interested in decent, likeable guys - what a concept). His relationship with the suitemate ended in an argument where the Scot called him a "fooking yankee cunt" in front of everyone....and they all laughed at him. Bottom line...yep, all of these Tate fuckers are losers looking for lazy validation from a dickhead as opposed to spending an ounce of energy on actual self-improvement.
  14. Well, yeah....so long as one agrees with the premise of "ethnic cleansing is super cool," then you're right, no criticism of your plan at all. However, there DOES seem to be just a teeny tiny problem with it if one takes the position of "ethnic cleansing is a war crime."
  15. Parking sticker for the garage my daughter parked in when she was living and working here, and driving that particular set of wheels. Driving that one while my wheels are in the shop. MY parking sticker reads "DIPSHIT."
  16. Do you support continuing US military aid to Ukraine?
  17. This is a correct answer. So is Mr Mom.
  18. Yeah…there’s only one place to eat in Marlin:
  19. See, guys…he doesn’t OPENLY root for Russia to steamroll Ukraine and have total military success against the west from the Baltic on down. Nope. He just opposes every single measure, step, or action that might stand in the way of or impede in any way Russia doing just that. And you morons can’t see the clear difference. Brain worms.
  20. Ended up behind a cybertruck today. And realized you can’t see out the back. At all. The solution? A camera display on the center monitor. Do you trust that? I mean, beyond the fact that it’s Austin, and NOBODY checks their mirrors anyway. It’s a dumb fucking design. And everything I see or learn about it just makes it dumber.
  21. What the fucking fuck is fucking wrong with these people? What the fuck is he even talking about? Bringing back COVID? I hate the stupidity of this timeline. I really, really, really do.
  22. To be fair, selling all of your mint-condition track suits to buy 3 shares of stock matches that description, so.... yeah.
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