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Schiff should bring with him some old clips from Cheap Seats at Garvey's old golf tournaments.

I've followed Cook pretty closely for a couple of years now, and there seems to be some obvious bias (towards conservative candidates) to it as well. I know it's billed as being non partisan, but it sure seems slanted.

It's like a recruitment poster for atheism.

The home healthcare pay for family providers is such a great idea. How many families simply can't afford in home care of any sort, and the ultimate result is that the person in need winds up in a state run facility which is called something crappy like "Shady Pines" but is really just indigent care? And as for that indigent care, what does that actually cost? I'm guessing a solid several thousand dollars a month if not more. Instead, paying a family member $1500 a month or something along those lines would result in financial ease for those in that situation, the ability to actually care for a loved one nearing the end in their home, and save taxpayers money. It's a win on so many levels.

Well, the best lawyer of all time just wakes up and lets the court know that everything the other guy just said is bullshit.

Irrespective of outcome with the job, you have chosen correctly.

This is a real good point, what exactly does a typical person in their 20s have that they can't take with them and that is worth losing their life over? Yeah, it might suck to lose some stuff, but at the end of the day, it's all stuff. I lost everything in a fire in my 20s, in a strange way, it was liberating, I don't think I'll ever feel overly attached to material things again (I wouldn't say I was hugely that way to begin with, but even less so after that). Someone's life, especially a young persons, is so much more valuable than any of the crap we keep, and for the most part, it's all crap. I sincerely hope you can appeal to this person's senses.

Those are interesting ideas, as was the aforementioned wainscotting idea (though I don't know the foam insulation capability of being repeatedly soaked). I'm not sure how builders to scale this, but it would at least appear the cost difference would be negligible. The other downside to the concrete designs, one I didn't initially consider, is that concrete production has been estimated to be a cause of up to 10% of global green house emissions. So, while 3D printing with concrete and building hurricane proof domes sounds great on paper, in a sense it would also be contributing to the over all problem, especially at scale. Now I have read about a few concrete companies getting involved with carbon capture in their own plants, particularly because they see a viable commercial opportunity for using carbon to create products. I don't know how close any of that is to being a potential reality, nor do I know what sort of capture percentage that would represent. Both of those figures would obviously play a factor. It also leaves me wondering if you could potentially use a carbon fiber panel as a finish product, with different architectural finishes (seeing as though that bares on the conversation, it's an interesting thought).

Well, he was into Revolution reenactments, so it would be more appropriate if he "fell" on an ice axe (Trostkied)

I am familiar with breathable membranes for weatherproofing, but to my knowledge there really isn't a finish material that does this. I've read a few articles on design ideas for homes in hurricane zones (I think some concepts have even been built), most all of them that I recall were reinforced concrete domes, with the windows being above storm surge height (the general idea being that with the curvature of the doom you would still get ample natural light). The obvious downside of this is the cost, combined with the subjective notion that it's just unsightly. With regular old steel, including in wall cavities one of the concerns would be exposure to salt water and material degradation. Encased in concrete, it's a different story though. The point sure stands though, if people are intent on living in these areas, which it sure appears that they are, we are going to have to rethink how we do this.

Not necessarily, I mean you could get decapitated by flying debris, or knocked out by debris and drown. But yeah, beyond that its probably drowning and having to embrace that terror, or being crushed by debris and suffocating, or exposure, or hypothermia, .....

Well good news, I know how to stop that, just put the Vandy offense on the field.

It's been 20 years since I went to the Dali museum, I remember it being fairly inland in St. Pete. I hope it comes thru ok.

Totally worth it man. I got my first flu in 2020 in a long time, given all that was going on with Covid I just felt obligated to do it. I used to get it about every other year, since I started getting it every year, not once.

I saw a concert there about 25 years ago and I was worried about the noise perhaps knocking it down.

Look twice save a life?

Mike Norvell is having a tough year already.

Apparently the Harris Walz campaign is opening another office in Duval. I think there are a couple things that factor in to this, 1. the DNC and the campaign clearly has excess financial means to do this, 2. The internal polling indicates that Florida is tighter than people think, perhaps not tight enough for a Harris win, but maybe enough to get rid of Rick Scott.

If memory serves, Helene made landfall with pressure at 938 mb. Milton is basically already there, with time to gather more strength. That is scary, scary shit.

The tired trope of guys being dumb enough to buy anything because some decent looking skanks recommend it still works. What put it over the top for me was the Pauley Shore endorsement though.

I don't get it now. I've been all over Florida on business, and I just don't get the appeal at all. That, of course, is entirely subjective, but to me it's crowded as all get out, they have traffic that would make Atlanta blush, it's architecturally ugly, everything is built on a sandbar, it's uninsuralbe, and at every turn you have a toll of some sort. I get that people want to spend their later days somewhere warm, but man is that a lot to take to do it. I can't recall if it was here or somewhere else I saw it, but during Helene a woman broadcast her house flooding, and apparently she was killed. Here's the added kicker, she and her husband had just moved there, spent their entire live savings to do so, and were depending on that as their end game. I suppose without a note the plan was to live on SS money and enjoy whatever time they had. They couldn't afford or choose not to pay for insurance, so of course she stayed to attempt to save her life savings. Ultimately, that decision cost her life. That's an incredibly sad tale, but what amazes me is that it will be far from the last time we read something like this. Unfortunately, and this is just my opinion, the dream that is Florida for a lot people is a big antiquated myth. Despite all this, there appears to be no shortage of people that still want to pursue and attempt to live that myth.

Sort of funny how buildings built with laundered cocaine money weren't exactly the best.

I don't believe that it is a first, but rare. If you think about the jet stream this seems to make some sense. What does seem rare is that it would pick up so much energy so quickly.

Missed the game yesterday, probably a nothing burger (right? right?) to help package up at the food bank. The folks that deliver said they haven't been able to get into western Carolina, but had to south Georgia and Augusta. They called the situation grim.