Only liberals mod logs smdh my damn head

Theres room for at least 4-7 more wdym

I mean, that could be a good time depending on my mood.

‘Wait til they get a load of my pronouns’

• Jack ‘the woker’ Nicholson

rest in peace Grandma.

I empathize with how she thought. I get into moods occasionally where i think like that too. The mind is willing but the body unable.

That sentence seems to really carry some weight, doesnt it?

Is this even Extremely Online anymore or do we need to coin a new term for this?

I grew up sorta close to the place where the plant will end up.

The area gets its water from surface sources; Lake Corpus Christi in Mathis Tx ( Nueces River dammed by the Civilian Conservation Corps back in the 1930s IIRC) Choke Canyon near Three Rivers Tx (dammed portion of the Frio River before it meets the Nueces; former ranch land owned by one of Corpus’ good old boys who got a honey of a deal on 50 acres of basically swamp lands) and the Mary Rhodes Pipeline (she was a well liked mayor in Corpus once upon a time) which pulls water from Lake Texana. Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus are currently sitting at a combined capacity of around 16-17%. There is so little water that they are considering DRAINING CHOKE CAYON INTO LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI.

The city just recently had TCEQ permits approved for the first saltwater desal plant in Texas. There are other desal plants in Texas but they use brackish water which is a much lower salt content. They intend to discharge back into the hypersaline estuaries and backwater bays which are a breeding ground for some of the most diverse saltwater nurseries along rhe entire texas coast. Corpus Christi has shot itself in the foot multiple times; it gas sold out its water capacity to industry like Flint Hills which is owned by the mother fucking Kochs, places like TEPCO which produce pvc products, CITGO, etc.

The desal plant is supposed to produce something like 30 million gallons per day at full boogie. Of that, 8 will go to Tesla right off the fucking bat. The fat lot of it is currently being split up amongst multiple industrial shitholes looking to upgrade or expand into a state with lax environmental protections, and into a specific city that really doesnt give a fuck about its residents but will whore irself out to industry. The water that the citizens need to drink is siphoned away to be used by corporations owned by business men to line their pockets with.

The whole fucking thing sucks. And its only gonna get worse for the poor sods who still reside there.

Corpus uses somewhere around 90-95 million gallons daily, of which some estimates are as high as 75 million gallons going to industrial uses alone.

elong should be [redacted] and then [redacted] into a [redacted][redacted]

The other billionaire should be too, but elong first.

Straight dudes rock.

Twelve to fifteen hours a day?

What the actual fuck

Imagine getting you bank creds stolen via MITM thru your kitchen faucet.

That, is a $1400 dollar bar faucet.

That is a $2,400 dollar faucet. Brushed brass, not gold. Replacement parts not available readily, must be ordered. So, i cant even fix the fucker if you call me because its leaking. Meanwhile my 125 dollar Moen kitchen faucet i can find parts for it six ways to Sunday.

just throwing this out there, steer clear of anything from HD/Lowes etc if possible. It may be Moen branded but it is the equivalent of a black Friday good. The exact same faucet from a plumbing supply house will have a different SKU, because it is a distinctly different item; more plastic, more non serviceable stuff.

At any rate tell your sister to keep her reciept. Cartridges/seats/springs etc are free if you call the mfgr (assuming you are stuck here in the US that is)

I was actually going to mention pissing in the sink but ive been beaten to it.

Plebe!

Shit, im currently in the process of a top out/trim out on a plumbing remodel, i just installed a $2,400 Waterstone branded faucet.

And they go even further from there. There are niche plumbing fixtures that run upwards of 5,000 apiece. Waterstone, Brizo, Phylrich, Hans Grohe, etc.

Its absurd.

Moen makes a device that is internet powered.

It ties in to your incoming 3/4"-1" distribution line where it enters the house… puts usage stats on a nice pretty dashboart, and also contains a shut off to kill the house feed on the off chance you are not home and spring a leak.

IIRC there are active security exploits for it if one were so inclined.

Every day, further from the light. Or whatever.

‘Alexa turn the kitchen faucet on hot’
‘Alexa turn the faucet on cold’

Meanwhile i just my faucet on manually because i still havent figured out how to wash my hands remotely despite my faucet being internet powered.