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  1. Yeah it seems the message was delivered by NWS/NOAA and in time. You can quibble about whether it was "serious" enough, as if predictions of 4-8" when 10+ came would have really made much difference. It did say "life-threatening flash flooding events." The message didn't get out and wasn't heeded.
  2. utee94 is a good guy I think and not actually a Trumper and probably considers himself pretty apolitical. But in that may have his head a bit in the sand about what Trump is doing to our country. The thrall in which Trump holds hardcore red state politicians like Texas' is something to behold and really fucking disgusting and un-Texan.
  3. Yeah, let us not forget that DOGE blasted email to everyone giving them a deal to retire/resign that included an implicit threat that if you don't, you'll be terminated.
  4. Oh I see the address you put in. Again, that's the nearby Camp Mystic Cypress Lake. The Camp that was destroyed is north where the striped part meets the blue part, just south of the River and on either side of that creek. It's not labeled on Google Maps (and is not searchable any longer oddly) but here about where it says "Edmunson Creek" is about the center of it. One of my best friends growing up's mother grew up in a really cool house right around there on Hwy 39 and was a Mystic camper herself I guess in the 50s. I used to know the area pretty well, but it has been quite some time now and things have gotten hazy. But yeah, the FEMA map was kind of spot on as far as Cypress Lake being out of the flood zone.
  5. Not sure how you're reading that, but the adjacent "Regulatory Floodway" means certain to flood, and the rest of it means Special Hazard Flood Area (SHFA), so squarely within the 100-year floodplain and without a base flood elevation.
  6. Yeah that's a bald faced lie. But I think the real answer is that cell phone service sucks out there so people didn't get the blast. I think it has been established that NWS made the warning at 114AM.
  7. Yeah and a lot of this area is unincorporated Kerr County, so the Kerr County Judge is the authority.
  8. See my post above. Wrong part of Camp Mystic. The one in question is over by Mystic Springs on that view and further to the west. Correction: I was looking at the wrong camp-like cluster of buildings. The original Mystic is north of there, right before 39 crosses the Guad.
  9. But, y'know, if the dumb motherfucker really does recant, that is one of the best omens for the end of current fascism. There's hardly anything Dems could do that would be more effective. So, they should get their asses on his pod and connect the dots for him and the rest of the troglodytes.
  10. Yeah, the problem is that the old, original Camp Mystic is the one we're talking about, not the newer, added on CM-Cypress Lake. The original camp is to the west on the bank of the Guadalupe. For whatever reason, only Cypress Lake is indicated on Google Maps/Earth.
  11. Well, over the years, I have known various folks that "checked a box" for affirmative action that were very privileged, but nonetheless members of minority groups. It certainly violates the intent of the law, but not the letter. So, it's one of those morally ambiguous things like taking a tax break that's legal but not consistent with the intent of the law. And, of course, any law that permits use of the law in a way highly inconsistent with its intention or purpose is, at minimum, a poorly drafted law. Also, given that his father was Columbia faculty, he was "deceiving" no one. I'm sure the admissions committee was gtfo with that. Politically, though, it's pretty toxic in multiple ways, as you note. Then we have the whole fruit of the poisonous tree problem with the information itself. I think denigrating factual information because of its tainted origin (key word here is factual) is something best confined to circumstances like the 4th Amendment. It seems rare that truth should yield to circumstance or procedure.
  12. And, unfortunately, even if it doesn't reflect poorly on him, it's one of those edge cases in which affirmative action (DEI!) is actually inequitable.
  13. I thoroughly enjoy Waterworld.
  14. Meaning it's not a new traveshamockery, it's the same one from a couple of weeks ago.
  15. Probably worth pointing out that this is just more DVD. The district court tried an end run around the stay of injunction and this cuts it off. Kagan concurred with this despite dissenting from the stay.
  16. Yeah, and that's the problem Dems have. They sound smart and wonky.
  17. Yeah I do show up, I don't try to lie my way out of it. I'd do it if I got picked, but thus far it hasn't happened. Mostly doesn't have anything to do with me because I rarely make it to a courtroom even, but once there, I do feel the chances are slight that I'll get picked.
  18. Unfortunately, this can't be pinned on one guy. Trump is the catalyst, but this is the culmination of decades of work by people way smarter. It doesn't end with one guy's death, it'll take a huge overhaul. Remember, it'll only be bloodless "if the left allows it to be". Thing is though the people way smarter had no idea how to win elections like Trump can. Without Trump, we could have gone another 20-30 years and maybe completely outlived the P2025 broligarch problem.
  19. I get called every other year like clockwork. Been on a death penalty panel, came close in a JP case where the lawyers had no idea what they were doing, but I was like 8th or 9th on the panel, so they got a jury before me. Came really close in a child sexual assault case back in Fort Fun, but it plead before they started questioning. Most of the time I don't make it out of the Central Jury Room. Although I would kind of like to sit on a jury in certain types of matters, I mostly don't want to fuck with it. I want to stand up and say I am a degreed engineer and a lawyer and I distrust cops, can y'all just go ahead and strike me now?
  20. Well, the problem could well be your "receiver" (considering each sensor a sender or transmitter). I've only ever had one go out in four vehicles since 1995. Three of the four American.
  21. Also highly presumptive to assume that you will actually get something out of the death of another person in vengeance. If you REALLY know that, might need to seek help. I believe you consider yourself a Christian. Accordingly, you will realize that, believer or not, the Bible is full of pretty good psychology, primitive as some of it is. "Vengeance is mine" I think is one of those pretty solid psychological tips.
  22. If you are waiting on the death of a perp to obtain closure on the death of a loved one, you're never going to get closure, no matter what happens.
  23. Adults in charge. Don't usually like the term, but complete beta cucks.
  24. Some truth to this, for sure. But in the case of both Christians and Muslims, the fundamentalists seek and get more attention than the more devout and principled adherents. And potentially comprise a larger percentage of both religions. And, of course, one of the practical, if not theological, aspects of fundamentalism is a willingness to inject the religion into politics. Fundamentalism often IS politics.
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