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InkaUtexas

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  1. 23 minutes ago, troph said:

    This is awesome too. 30% of DR waters now protected. 
     

     

    This is great, but very misleading. This impacts the tourist trade. Not the water around the island. I lived there in the early 1980's for three years and was at the beach every weekend. All over the island. Reefs were pristine, lots of fish. Went back in the 1990's quite a bit. My brothers live there. It was night and day and has only gotten worse. Some areas, where the resorts are have maintained some beauty, but it is not the same and doubt it will recover.

    Santo Domingo is filthy. The two rivers do nothin gbut push waste into the water. You DO NOT swim in the city. I mean NEVER. No one does. Puerto Plata is going in that direction.

    So don't want to be a downer, and as I said, this is great. But it is a band aid when amputation is needed.

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  2. 1 minute ago, troph said:

    Why Dont We Have Both GIF
     

    I was referring to the Russians tho.

    I am not sure. I think there are two outcomes that would end this.

    1- UA holds, and can bleed the Russians. Halt the advance basically and keep hitting them in their rear areas. Infrastructure, air bases, etc. Russia can lose men, but equipment is probably more important. Many forget Lend Lease saved their ass and the West is not doing that. There are so many shells they can get from the Norks. India may buy oil (we should sanction the fuck out of them) but won't be sending equipment. In fact they have cancelled orders of Russian equipment. China? I think in the long run they would like to see a weaker Russia.

    2- Putin dies..... Who replaces him is the issue. Another hardliner or a military coup hell bent on going down with Mother Russia or the Oligarchs who are getting hit in their Versace wallets.

    What is in the aid package will be important. Artillery, anti-air and life support items are important. Some more Bradleys, etc. F-16's will guard Ukraine's skies, don't see them going into Russia.

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  3. So she pushed an amendment saying anyone who voted yes joins the Ukrainian military? Um, it is seen as illegal to enlist in a foreign military. So she calling for her fellow congress members to break the law? Crazy woman......

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    One of Greene's amendments called for supporters of the bill, which would see tens of billions of dollars in aid sent to Ukraine, to enlist in the country's military in its fight against Russia.

    Putin's Special Envoy! I love her being referred as that.

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    Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat representing Florida's 23rd congressional district, has openly mocked Marjorie Taylor Greene by saying he submitted an amendment appointing her as "Putin's Special Envoy to the United States Congress."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mtg-mocked-by-jared-moskowitz-ukraine-russia-2024

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  4. 18 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    Congress is going to send another $15 Billion , or maybe that was the first $15 Billion, I've lost track how much those murderous aholes are getting.  Anyway, the interesting part is $9 million has been allocated to Gaza aid.  $15 billion to kill them, $9 mil to anyone left alive.  

    Still not enough, but this is the amount passed in the Israel bill. No justification, just FYI.

    $9.1 billion for humanitarian needs

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-long-awaited-95-billion-ukraine-israel-aid-package-2024-04-20/

  5. 5 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Can anybody explain why the Magalitia thinks its conservative to support a guy who blows passenger planes out of the sky, throws political opponents out of windows of high rise buildings, poisons journalists, murders incarcerated dissents and kills thousands of innocents in Ukraine?

    Role model? Wishful thinking? Or just a bought schmuck. And I mean her, not you!

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  6. Unsolicited DM's on Linkedin offering training to help me be better at my job. Today it was learn spanish in one on one classes (virtual). Um, I am a 4/4 in Spanish, grew up in Latin America. At least read my damn profile. Linkedin is becoming Facebook/twitter 

  7. 5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    That never made any sense - what's the point of coming off the bench if you're not going to hurt players on the other team? You literally have sharp cleats on your feet and baseball bats at your disposal.

    It happens.

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  8. 15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Wait…are we training their cops to not protect citizens and actually abuse and kill them…or are they training OUR cops to do that?

    We train Palestinian Authority police officers. We did it in Gaza before Hamas took over as well.

  9. 4 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    Congress is going to send another $15 Billion , or maybe that was the first $15 Billion, I've lost track how much those murderous aholes are getting.  Anyway, the interesting part is $9 million has been allocated to Gaza aid.  $15 billion to kill them, $9 mil to anyone left alive.  

    Yep, numbers are real fucked up. And at the same time we have police training programs in the West Bank.

    And of that aid, how much will get down to those that really need it? Fund fucking conferences in Geneva to talk about the situation. Yeah, aid is used for that.

  10. Speaking of water use and conservation. Not sure I like this.

    https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2024-04-19/san-marcos-changes-its-water-restriction-policy-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-10-years

    The San Marcos City Council voted this week to change the city’s water restrictions during times of drought. The last time these rules were updated was in 2015. Since then, the region has experienced rapid population growth and increased water demand.

    What’s changed?

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    The old restrictions reflected how much water was available locally. The new restrictions will reflect water levels across all the city’s water sources. This includes local sources like the Edwards Aquifer and some that stretch farther out like the Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer.

    “It doesn't necessarily mean we're using less Edwards water,” Tyler Hjorth, director of utilities for San Marcos, said Tuesday in a presentation to City Council members. He said water from the Edwards Aquifer is also two to five times cheaper than other sources.

    Virginia Parker, executive director of the San Marcos River Foundation, said she’s afraid looking at the total water available may mislead residents about the seriousness of the region's drought conditions.

    She said things may look better than they actually are as local water sources struggle to keep up with demand.

    “The most representative drought measure would be what's going on underneath our feet,” she said.

    Parker said she commends the city for exploring other water options, but the new drought measurement could also pose a problem for those who have private wells and rely solely on the local aquifer for their water.

    “This has happened all over Texas: Municipalities go somewhere else in the state for their drinking water,” she said. “And then local wells around that resource end up going dry because that source is being pumped at a rate that it's not used to.”

    The new ordinance also reduces the number of water restriction stages from five to three. Hjorth said that allows greater differences between the stages.

    “[The previous stage system] really didn’t make sense for our citizens, and it was hard for them to track,” he said.

     

     

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