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21 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

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over/under on how many Filipino teens Matt Forney has shackled in his basement is…?

I was wondering what happened to Raydog

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Posted
26 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Pretty sure he’s in a Filipino landfill, or maybe tuned into fish food.

 

8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Or sucked into a wormhole

All equally satisfying outcomes.

Posted
1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

That's mental illness. 

Yeah.....nevermind the horror show plastic surgery, look at her arms and legs.  Eating disorder and manic exercise seems to be the order of the day there.  That's fucked up.

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21 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Maybe this is more suited for IPIHB.

 

Trump used to rant about this to. What the fuck is this about? Who has this problem? Buy a new showerhead? Why is federal action required because they have shitty plumbing and/or a shitty showerhead?

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6 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Trump used to rant about this to. What the fuck is this about? Who has this problem? Buy a new showerhead? Why is federal action required because they have shitty plumbing and/or a shitty showerhead?

A federal requirement for low flow showers was implemented some time back.  Just like the low flow toilets and faucets, it was to help with water conservation, and it works well.  But when you have terminal opposition disorder, can't nobody make you save water by taking a "weak" shower.

The shower heads are more difficult to modify, but it's generally not hard to remove the required regulator from the faucets and shower heads.  They still work fine, they just let fuckheads waste water.

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The low flow toilets seems to do ok most of the time flushing down my shits, and my shower heads have never really bugged me, but just for reference Austin loses over 9 billion gallons of treated water to decaying infrastructure and water leaks each year. That's 110 gallons of water per hookup per day according to the AIs. But thankfully we have federal regulations about shitter flow.   

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20 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

A federal requirement for low flow showers was implemented some time back.  Just like the low flow toilets and faucets, it was to help with water conservation, and it works well.  But when you have terminal opposition disorder, can't nobody make you save water by taking a "weak" shower.

The shower heads are more difficult to modify, but it's generally not hard to remove the required regulator from the faucets and shower heads.  They still work fine, they just let fuckheads waste water.

Well I don't know what these Boomers are talking about. My water pressure is great. Sounds like user error.

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20 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Austin loses over 9 billion gallons of treated water to decaying infrastructure and water leaks each year. That's 110 gallons of water per hookup per day according to the AIs. But thankfully we have federal regulations about shitter flow.   

14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Sounds like Austin should get a measure on the ballot to raise taxes to fund infrastructure repairs and improvements. I’m sure it’ll pass easily. 

They are slowly but surely replacing that infrastructure.   They’ve been working in our area, and man the stuff they are digging up to replace is old.

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America is the land of huge expense for capital improvements, but hardly a dime for maintenance.  In all of the plant improvement projects that I helped with we specified the pumps, blowers, and other equipment based on best value over the expected life of the equipment.  We spent a lot of time and effort to get as close as possible to the actual maintenance costs needed, then put the anticipated annual maintenance costs in our budget requests every year.  Every year the finance department took those specific numbers out and put in their own, much lower, numbers.  Then they wondered, every damned year, why our maintenance costs exceeded budget every year.

When you add that maintaining burried utilities is difficult, expensive, and inconvenient, you get ancient, decrepit water and wastewater lines that fail more and more frequently.  In 1992 assisted with a repair on a broken water line on the courthouse square of the city where I was working.  The line was installed in 1912, and was made of oak barrel staves.  Basically about 500 feet of two foot long, 12 inch diameter oak barrels.  We repaired the break with PVC and oakum sealant and got it back in service that night.  That city did not replace the barrel stave pipe until around 2006, from what I was told.  That is not uncommon, especially in smaller cities with very limited budgets.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

America is the land of huge expense for capital improvements, but hardly a dime for maintenance.

When finance bros run the world, CapEx good; OpEx bad.

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4 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

America is the land of huge expense for capital improvements, but hardly a dime for maintenance.  In all of the plant improvement projects that I helped with we specified the pumps, blowers, and other equipment based on best value over the expected life of the equipment.  We spent a lot of time and effort to get as close as possible to the actual maintenance costs needed, then put the anticipated annual maintenance costs in our budget requests every year.  Every year the finance department took those specific numbers out and put in their own, much lower, numbers.  Then they wondered, every damned year, why our maintenance costs exceeded budget every year.

When you add that maintaining burried utilities is difficult, expensive, and inconvenient, you get ancient, decrepit water and wastewater lines that fail more and more frequently.  In 1992 assisted with a repair on a broken water line on the courthouse square of the city where I was working.  The line was installed in 1912, and was made of oak barrel staves.  Basically about 500 feet of two foot long, 12 inch diameter oak barrels.  We repaired the break with PVC and oakum sealant and got it back in service that night.  That city did not replace the barrel stave pipe until around 2006, from what I was told.  That is not uncommon, especially in smaller cities with very limited budgets.

Wow

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3 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

A federal requirement for low flow showers was implemented some time back.  Just like the low flow toilets and faucets, it was to help with water conservation, and it works well.  But when you have terminal opposition disorder, can't nobody make you save water by taking a "weak" shower.

The shower heads are more difficult to modify, but it's generally not hard to remove the required regulator from the faucets and shower heads.  They still work fine, they just let fuckheads waste water.

Imagine it stems from complaints from tenants/occupants of his properties.

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36 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

America is the land of huge expense for capital improvements, but hardly a dime for maintenance.  In all of the plant improvement projects that I helped with we specified the pumps, blowers, and other equipment based on best value over the expected life of the equipment.  We spent a lot of time and effort to get as close as possible to the actual maintenance costs needed, then put the anticipated annual maintenance costs in our budget requests every year.  Every year the finance department took those specific numbers out and put in their own, much lower, numbers.  Then they wondered, every damned year, why our maintenance costs exceeded budget every year.

When you add that maintaining burried utilities is difficult, expensive, and inconvenient, you get ancient, decrepit water and wastewater lines that fail more and more frequently.  In 1992 assisted with a repair on a broken water line on the courthouse square of the city where I was working.  The line was installed in 1912, and was made of oak barrel staves.  Basically about 500 feet of two foot long, 12 inch diameter oak barrels.  We repaired the break with PVC and oakum sealant and got it back in service that night.  That city did not replace the barrel stave pipe until around 2006, from what I was told.  That is not uncommon, especially in smaller cities with very limited budgets.

Was gonna ask where you got oakum.  Pirate supply? Arrrr.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/JONES-STEPHENS-Brown-Oiled-Oakum-with-Bentonite-27-in-Cut-Length-3-Strands-per-Bag-for-Sealing-Pipes-O15006/100181800

https://nupakoakum.com/

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Posted
11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I have no idea where they got the oakum from.  It had to be in storage at the shop, because the repair was done late at night, and no stores were open.  It was a strange night.

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America is the land of huge expense for capital improvements, but hardly a dime for maintenance.  In all of the plant improvement projects that I helped with we specified the pumps, blowers, and other equipment based on best value over the expected life of the equipment.  We spent a lot of time and effort to get as close as possible to the actual maintenance costs needed, then put the anticipated annual maintenance costs in our budget requests every year.  Every year the finance department took those specific numbers out and put in their own, much lower, numbers.  Then they wondered, every damned year, why our maintenance costs exceeded budget every year.
When you add that maintaining burried utilities is difficult, expensive, and inconvenient, you get ancient, decrepit water and wastewater lines that fail more and more frequently.  In 1992 assisted with a repair on a broken water line on the courthouse square of the city where I was working.  The line was installed in 1912, and was made of oak barrel staves.  Basically about 500 feet of two foot long, 12 inch diameter oak barrels.  We repaired the break with PVC and oakum sealant and got it back in service that night.  That city did not replace the barrel stave pipe until around 2006, from what I was told.  That is not uncommon, especially in smaller cities with very limited budgets.

This story is dead-on balls accurate. For most of the infrastructure you can think of. I’ve heard utility types brag about keeping things working in a maintenance budget that was 10% of what it should have been….because that’s what they were told to do because leadership never wants to raise rates. Those guys can keep shit going with duct tape and baling wire for a LONG time, until they can’t. And then 75 yrs of deferred maintenance comes due. And everyone bitches about the rate hike.
It’s our national ethos. Opex is the devil.
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