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  1. 2 minutes ago, F250 said:

    How long before someone tweets the economic benefits of reinstating slavery and Elon replies with an "interesting"?

    Well he is South African and would see it as a way to reduce payment to his workers.

    Also, how does he always happen to find these hot takes? He have a staff searching for shit he can respond to?

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  2. Just now, troph said:

    keep the large organics out of the tank (probably with a simple screen) and use gravity or a pump and go. yes super simple.

    Yep. Another system I used and liked, just not in the US, are underground cisterns for each house. The water is not potable and if the power goes out you have none unless you drop a bucket. Wonder if these could be installed in backyards here for just simple uses. Toilet and plants. They basically become a rainwater supported well.

  3. 42 minutes ago, troph said:

    rainwater collection starts very cheap and then gets stupid depending on how hidden, large and elegant you want your system to be.  I think gutters to large tanks enclosed by fencing is perfectly nice and then you can use gravity or a pump to push it out to the lawn. If it's drinking water the filtration isn't complicated but adds a few thousand. non-potable water? That can be super cheap.

    Yep, that has always been my experience. I helped my dad install the system you described for his gardens in New Mexico. Worked quite well.

  4. 14 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    they had to have the first game at home

    just had to have it

    i can hear talkiebird throwing a hissy fit about it

    okay

    in 25, it's the first league game of the season, in austin, at dkr, at night, and no permit to storm the capitol the night before

    and we play every game in austin the same way

    given the historical record, this means 2 of every 6 seasons for them will be over before the end of september and they won't be able to pivot to "next year" when they still have 8 games to play

    So lets just kick their ass in their Soviet era looking stadium.

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  5. One relatively inexpensive option is rain water collection for homes. Fuck lawns. We are not South Carolina or Kentucky. @troph you have a collection system correct?

    Have seen a few very nice systems. Collection tanks with automatic drip systems for small lawn areas. Roots work folks.

    I collect in buckets. Amazing how much water I can collect just off the back patio roof. I have heard this is illegal in some areas. My father's HOA does not allow it on homes.

    Why? It is going to replenish, just at a different rate and reduces rapid run off from big rains.

  6. 2 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Amen to that... the number of songbirds we have is cleansing, for sure. 

    I plant a lot of natives and sunflowers. Love working on the back patio in the mornings hearing them. Add to that the butterflies that seems to always be in the yard. I do have a 20  gallon water feature, shaded by potted mandarin trees. I keep that for them to be honest. And when we are dry, they appreciate it. Cannot remember last time I washed my car. Wife washes hers about once a month but she works in marshes and bugs do fuck it up.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yep -- Tesla even partnered directly with Del Valle ISD to create a pipeline to decent jobs for kids there.  https://americanconstructors.com/insights/del-valle-isd-tesla-partnership/

    We'll see if that survives.  And we'll see if there are any jobs for those kids to get once they graduate.  That those are questions pisses me off.  We should be excited about a major manufacturer setting up shop here.  Instead, it's a fucking shitshow of a goat rodeo staged inside a dumpster fire.  Fucking Elon is poison.

    Buddy from school is an engineer focused on green energy. Has his Masters from LBJ/ILAS. Smart dude in school. Wife was tired of him traveling, convinced him to go work at the Tesla plant. So he applies, they tell him he is in, he quits. Gets a call saying well we are not sure when you will be onboarding. So he is properly fucked. Sick kid, no insurance, and no income.

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Luckily, HEB won't even be open that day.

    And as for Elon and Tesla, they have reached "full aggy" status to me (and as they say, "never go full aggy").  By "full aggy," I mean that their comical, laughable stupidity....is no longer entirely laughable, because it is negatively impacting my fellow Texans in the real world.  Just like I could laugh at aggy as they squeezed their own nuts, and whined incessantly about the BOMC....but I quit laughing when they killed 12 of their own as a direct result of their aggy stupidity, and have harmed a university that is a public asset and resource of my state, educating the people of my state...Elon and Tesla are following the same path.

    I've laughed as Elon has repeatedly shot himself in the dick, and as his cult has consistently cheered him on with "brilliant shot, good sir!"  But now....the largest employer in my community is taking it in the shorts because of his stupidity.  A shitload of my fellow Central Texans have lost their jobs...and more are likely to follow.  Elon's utter stupidity is now directly harming my neighbors.  And it fucking pisses me off.

    The Elon knob-gobblers, including most of our state leadership, needs to tell him to quit focusing on being a pathetic fucking edge lord, and either start being an actual fucking businessman or clear the fucking way for someone who will be.

    When they announced the plant was going into Del Valle I sat back and thought. Well shit, few of the people who live there can get a good job for good ole'Elon.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, Nivek said:

    @Brisketexan OK, we missed out on the Trump Bibles, but I have other horrible ideas. Cyber Pet Rocks. It is like a pet rock, but with wireless technology that connects you to the earth without the dirt.

    Alternative plan, we get those little plastic/glass jewels from the dollar store, and repackage that has Cyber Soil: become a master of tech and terraform your kingdom with your favorite color. (Ad featuring Soleil Moon Frye)

    Take my money 

    1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    In looking at this photo:

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    What's going to happen, warranty wise, when it rains on these vehicles, birds shit on them, etc?  Tesla has already explicitly warned against this kind of thing:

    https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/cybertruck/en_us/GUID-65384C1F-86F2-44E8-A8BC-8A12E7E00A40.html

     

     

     

    Just don't go to HEB on a rainy day.

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  10. 5 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Yep and even further, OU can take a loss from us and still win the Big 12 and get to where they want. Always count on aggy to trip up along the way to fall short. The few times they have beaten Bama in their SEC tenure, didn't even result in a SEC West representative in the SEC championship game. I believe Bama both times have went to the national championship, so the loss didn't phase them.

    Saban Vs. Jimbo. I will pick Saban to recover from a loss.

  11. Nice.

    Total domination: Houck tosses MLB's first 'Maddux' of '24

    That term, in honor of Hall of Famer Greg Maddux, refers to a shutout accomplished in fewer than 100 pitches.

    Houck did the honors in 94 pitches, 69 of them strikes. It was the first shutout by a Red Sox pitcher since Michael Wacha on June 6, 2022 at Anaheim. And the first “Maddux” by a Boston hurler since Clay Buchholz on Aug. 31, 2014.

     

    https://www.mlb.com/news/tanner-houck-throws-shutout-vs-guardians

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  12. 9 minutes ago, beer said:

    Phoenix and Vegas probably need teams, but shit nothing in Tenn or the Carolinas? 

    I think Tenn gets one. 

    I would love to see more games played in San Juan. Rotate teams for a head to head.

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