I can’t stand it, I know you planned it

I can’t stand rocking when I’m in here 'Cause your crystal ball ain’t so crystal clear

My NAS just arrived today. I’ll have ~42 TB of self hosted storage for 1k.

Google is charging me something ridiculous like, 300 a year for the same.

Russian propaganda bot.

Oh he’s not a bot. They are a real verified human doing this as a labor of love.

Seems like you could market a line with even worse statements on it:

“This cigarette kills babies”

Chinese shill

But he’s our Chinese shill and we love him dearly.

Airplane. Young Frankenstein. Emperors New Groove. Paper moon.

Whatever Toronto.

Sure, what odds?

I think it’s important to note how much hardscape and channelling has been done to prevent widespread and sheet style flooding, and how they contribute to this problem of ground water recharge.

Most places that are flat enough to build are flat enough to build because of thousands of millenia of flooding, especially sheet flooding, laying down sediment and making them flat. Then humans get annoyed because the flat low places floos, so they build flood control.

There is a post further down about how Muni water really isn’t an issue and I agree with this. I’ve put up a couple posts explaining this on Reddit and hacker news. I could rehash it if some one was interested.

I joined Reddit during the digg exodus. Before digg I was into fark and before fark, something awful.

It’s good that things die. it’s where new mediums come from. It also keeps the power with the user. It’s an important part of the internet life cycle.

Wow that is excellent.

I just wish they would have done this in a different order. If they IPOd then pulled this shit, I could at least buy puts.

Welfare programs in capitalist countries can be socialism.

NATO members in general are too comfortable relying too much much on the U.S. defense umbrella. It is something the U.S. has been warning NATO members about for a long time. It’s meant to be a collective defense. What’s happening in Ukraine should be a loud wakeup call.

I’m fine with NATO members relying on the US defense budget as long as they spend their money on socialist programs at home. The US could provide the best socialist safety net on the planet, and still outspend the rest of the world 40:1 on defense if it would just tax the rich. Tax capitol gains like income as well, and 80% tax on everything over 20 million a year, 95% tax on everything over 200 million a year, and 99% tax on everything over 1 billion a year.

Boom now we can do the best socialized medicine on the plan and have enough left over to build a couple hundred new NATO bases where ever member states want them.

Rest in piss.

Stance? They are easy to detect. Much easier than shaded turf grass or artificial turf. What I can tell you is that the term “non-functional turf” has entered the language over the previous 3 years in via the regulatory agencies. This term describes areas of turf grass like median strips or decorative turf around shopping centers (the strip mall soul patch bit of green near the entrance or sign).

These areas will likely be excepted in the current legal and regulatory framework, and its important to understand why. Groups like farmers or golf courses have strong advocacy groups going to bat for them in the water rights world. Other groups, like home owners, do not receive the same advocacy when it comes to laws, and often more importantly, agency policy (the interpretation and implementation of law).

So if we ban water use to golf courses, should we ban it to city (or heck, private) private sports fields?

In my personal politics, I’m as anti-grass as they come, unless its deep rooted annual grasses. But in practice there is a bit of nuance to appreciate, with a big part of that being that relative to agriculture, irrigated turfgrass is a nothing burger. Agriculture is far far more heavily subsidized with regards to water use, and far more wasteful. Look just south of pheonix and you see fields and fields of cotton. Southern Arizona is where your lettuce is coming from.

This is super interesting. I do some work in outdoor water use monitoring and California and water districts across the west are pretty starving for approaches to reduce water use. At the same time, there seem to be no real efforts being made to reduce water use where it is most gratuitous (read: agriculture). Home water use maybe accounts for 15-25% of the total water budget in some of these areas, but is something that is being singularly targeted by water districts.