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  1. 5 minutes ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

    For the first 20 minutes after its cooked, Kraft Mac and Cheese is fucking outstanding.

    No complaints here.  As a kid, fishsticks and Kraft Mac and Cheese was one of my A-#1 meals.  Mom only made it for me when dad was out of town (because my mexican dad sure as shit wouldn't eat any of that processed shit).  I'd look forward to it all week.

    Still love 'em both, in moderation.

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  2. The ultimate terms of the deal don't matter.  And in simplest terms, here's why:

    Horizon in which Ukraine needs significant military aid: right now, and for perhaps another (hopefully no more than) couple of years.

    Horizon in which the US would be repaid by mineral extraction: 5 years out, at the earliest, for any meaningful result.

    Ukraine gets what it wants now (or a good bit of what it wants).  What the US wants is well off into the future.  Meaning that Ukraine could back out, ask to alter it, etc....or a future, less assholish US regime wouldn't hold Ukraine to all the terms of a deal made under tremendous duress.  

    As a negotiator, I'd recommend Ukraine take a deal like this one at least 9 outta 10 times.

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  3. These discussions of terrible Texas Foodways overlap a lot with "midcentury foodways" of the US as a whole.

    And along those lines, for years, my wife and I have toyed with throwing a potluck party with the theme of "low-rent midcentury favorites."  We will supply trays of baked fish sticks and ketchup, and giant bowls of Kraft mac and cheese made right from the box.  Others should bring....whatever favorites they can think of.  PB&J made with cheap welch's grape jelly on Wonder bread?  Hell yes.  Fried spam sandwiches....jello dishes....cheap chocolate pudding....all of it.

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  4. I made my grandmother's pea salad just the other day. Shit rocks. Hard.
     
    If you haven't sat on the front porch shelling peas with your grandmother, then I don't know what to tell you.
     
    Salmon patties rock.

    LOVE salmon patties. My MIL was not much of a cook, lotsa mid century modern convenience stuff. And salmon patties was in her rotation….and I loved em. Salmon patties with a crispy cornflake crust, eaten with ketchup. Glorious.
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    I was told that all of these MAGAs were SUPER concerned about pedophilia, and pedophiles must be executed and all that.

    Wait…were they lying about THAT as well? Gosh, I’m shocked.
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  6. 26 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    She also asked the 15-year-old to rate her sexual performance, to which he replied, “Seven out of ten,” the affidavit read.

    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."

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  7. Just now, Hagbard Celine said:

    show me a study assessing the best way, or any way, to move all of the excess from the red, sabine and trinity basins, to any other basin to the west

    one study only

    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):

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    A summary of the total project costs of the project for the Toledo Bend pipeline is listed in Table 7.13-2 for both the entire project and Dallas’ portion. Dallas’ portion of the total project costs are $2.3 billion. Annual costs for the project assume a 30 year debt service with a 5.5 percent interest rate and Dallas’ portion is estimated to be $204,709,000 per year. Based off of previous planning estimates, the raw water purchase cost from SRA of Texas is estimated at $22/acft/yr. This value would need to be negotiated between Dallas and SRA as part of project implementation. The unit cost of water for this project is $1,024 per acft or $3.14 per 1,000 gallons. After debt service, the unit cost of water would decrease to $236 per acft or $0.72 per 1,000 gallons.

    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.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    lake livingston was impounded 690101 and took 5 years to reach 100% capacity

    it's been at 100% capacity for 98% of it's existence since 1974

    upstream water at higher elevations in the trinity basin should be moved west before houston dumps it in the gulf of vespucci because houston WHERE IT FUCKINIG RAINS ALL THE TIME is scared about having it's precious lake below 98% conservation pool

    so no, i won't forget about it

    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.

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  9. 23 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Does anyone live in Washington? Many folks there are apparently pretty ticked off that they’ve rolled out a zero interest $100k loan for blacks and certain minorities only to buy a house in Washington state. It is only repayable when they sell it. 

    https://www.homeownership-wa.org/services/bhi/

    This is a backdrop to very serious debt and deficit issues facing the state as well. I really don’t think these types of programs help Democrats win elections. If anything, these programs should be economic based not race based. 

    Yeah...seems pretty tone-deaf.

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