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computer parts posted:i remember seeing a budweiser factor right next to some residential housing too one time 
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the best part is for all the construction put into em, the interchanges are inefficent and a waste compared to more sensible designs.
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Feb 12, 2015 06:18
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everybody talks about NYC and LA as the post-apocalyptic wasteland to rule with your cannibalistic biker gang, but honestly I think Houston really has some of that Southern Charm that really makes it a top tier contender for your rape gangs in the post-petroleum Flesh Wars of 2060
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Feb 12, 2015 06:18
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Nintendo Kid posted:texas is a failure of texans, yes. thank you for noting that it isn't just Houston. Houston is perhaps the worst case of it but every Texas city has a sprawl problem which is starting to choke the city. some claim it is because the state is just booming too quickly for planning or anything but quick to toss up tract housing but the real reason is a lack of any attempt to plan in a coherent manner. and once that single family housing gets built good loving luck increasing density without a massive Nimbyism fight.
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Feb 12, 2015 06:26
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computer parts posted:oh yeah if you've never driven there the highways are literally spaghetti, i've never seen anything like it before (well, it's a texas in general thing but you get the idea) ever driven thru atlanta's "spaghetti junction"
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Feb 12, 2015 06:27
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Mr. Nice! posted:Yeah someone asked for the state with the lowest point and I know plenty of stuff on the gulf coast is below sea level. it's california, of course (death valley, 200~ feet below sea level) fun fact: the bottom of death valley and the top of mount whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 states, are like 80 miles away from each other
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Feb 12, 2015 06:30
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computer parts posted:i remember seeing a budweiser factor right next to some residential housing too one time i love the gigantic rail siding. beer is one of the last products that uses 19th century distribution. it's too bulky and too heavy for anything less edit: they still float rail cars on barges from new jersey to long island. for beer. at some point, trucks stop being an option
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Feb 12, 2015 06:40
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 come to the pacific northwest for all your hiking needs
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qirex posted:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/11/8022411/how-many-vaccine-deniers-silicon-valley "But Google told both The Verge and Wired that 49 percent merely reflects the use of old data." http://valleywag.gawker.com/anti-vaxxers-theyre-in-silicon-valley-too-1683324631 http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2011/01/14/in-autisms-storm.html?page=all "My experience in Silicon Valley has been when this many establishment players line up against you, you are on to something big. I think you need pioneers like Andy to break glass, and unfortunately he's broken the glass and been cut by it. So pioneers are always filled with arrows in their back, and Andy's that guy. But he can obviously take it and so we're backing him."
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Sagebrush posted:it's california, of course (death valley, 200~ feet below sea level) and there's a by-invitation-only ultramarathon race from one to the other 
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Cardboard Box A posted:"My experience in Silicon Valley has been when this many establishment players line up against you, you are on to something big. I think you need pioneers like Andy to break glass, and unfortunately he's broken the glass and been cut by it. So pioneers are always filled with arrows in their back, and Andy's that guy. But he can obviously take it and so we're backing him." that's not so much a mixed metaphor as it is a blended metaphor
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Feb 12, 2015 13:31
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qntm posted:and there's a by-invitation-only ultramarathon race from one to the other ultramarathoners should be treated for addiction like heroin addicts
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Feb 12, 2015 13:49
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aaaaaaaaah Melanie’s Marvelous Measles is a book written by Stephanie Messenger who has devoted her life to educating people about vaccines and natural health choices. This book takes children on a journey to learn about vaccinations for childhood illnesses, like measles and chicken pox.
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Feb 12, 2015 13:53
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gotta love dat encephalitis!
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carry on then posted:i went to college at 7000 feet, it was a p nice place and i didn't mind the thinner air at all u of wyoming?
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Feb 12, 2015 14:25
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San Francisco real estate posted:Incredible fixer opportunity; heavy fire damage. https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/2008-Vallejo-St-94123/home/1642339
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Feb 12, 2015 14:54
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meth or bitcoin
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Feb 12, 2015 15:41
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Nintendo Kid posted:Louisiana on a map that renders areas underwater most of the time as water: There is a movement to get our highway signs changed to a map that looks like this to raise awareness of our shrinking coastline but lol thats too depressing. People don't realize when they visit New Orleans that its basically an island, with parts of it of course below sea level. Only a little sliver of ground and levee around the Mississippi connects it to the rest of the state. The three big thoroughfares out are over water (1-10 towards Baton Rouge, 1-10 towards Slidell, the causeway bridge over the Pontchartrain) ADINSX fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 15:57
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ADINSX posted:1-10 towards Baton Rouge here is what that looked like during hurricane isaac right before you hit laplace 
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Feb 12, 2015 16:25
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:here is what that looked like during hurricane isaac right before you hit laplace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A I was in Baton Rouge for Katrina, we got ~two weeks off at LSU and my power was only out for about 6 hours. People ask where I'm from and they always ask about the storm, and welp, thats my story! We also ate a ton of MREs, which are gross.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:32
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if the ocean wants louisiana back i can't think of any reason why america should stand in its way
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infernal machines posted:if the ocean wants louisiana back i can't think of any reason why america should stand in its way Lets try to at least negotiate with the ocean and see if they'll take Florida instead.
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Feb 12, 2015 16:39
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ADINSX posted:Lets try to at least negotiate with the ocean and see if they'll take Florida instead. why stop there?
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Feb 12, 2015 16:40
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infernal machines posted:if the ocean wants louisiana back i can't think of any reason why america should stand in its way can u even imagine what would have happened if that second hurricane would have made landfall on louisiana
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Feb 12, 2015 16:41
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Elder Postsman posted:
I can actually feel the heat radiating off of all that pavement across the time and space mercifully separating me from it also it's pronounced house-ton, teyhas
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Feb 12, 2015 16:49
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graph posted:can u even imagine what would have happened if that second hurricane would have made landfall on louisiana the forums would have been lost at sea
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Feb 12, 2015 16:51
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Munkeymon posted:the forums would have been lost at sea has richard moved the servers to somewhere that is above sealevel
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Nintendo Kid posted:case 1: houston's actual city borders: what are the little red slivers in the top left, highways?
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Feb 12, 2015 16:53
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ADINSX posted:Lets try to at least negotiate with the ocean and see if they'll take Florida instead. that's a done deal already, just not gonna be implemented for a little while yet 
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Feb 12, 2015 16:54
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graph posted:can u even imagine what would have happened if that second hurricane would have made landfall on louisiana it did tho hurricane rita just annihilated rural hicks ADINSX posted:I was in Baton Rouge for Katrina, we got ~two weeks off at LSU and my power was only out for about 6 hours. People ask where I'm from and they always ask about the storm, and welp, thats my story! same i had disaster engineering class and we got to see a buncha hosed up pictures that year the SA newstream was hilarious tho b/c they kept playin music over the ads like "under the sea"
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florida is pretty drat hosed because of rising sea levels. soon they won't be able to supply fresh water to miami due to saltwater infiltration of the aquifers. the outer banks were also hosed but thankfully the NC government passed a law saying it wasn't and that's the end of that!
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Munkeymon posted:the forums would have been lost at sea i still remember that running commentary from the lone guy left at the datacenter, talking about how the support guys for the building generator were coaching him on how to run the generator continuously, about what the streets looked like.
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Shifty Pony posted:florida is pretty drat hosed because of rising sea levels. soon they won't be able to supply fresh water to miami due to saltwater infiltration of the aquifers. i wonder if disney's got some kind of master plan in place for ensuring continuity of like you know if walt and the other guys from the 60s were still around they'd probably be drawing up concepts of like gigantic hydraulic lifts that would just raise the park lands above sea level or something equally off the hook
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Feb 12, 2015 17:22
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fritz posted:u of wyoming? northern arizona
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also i never realized how much houston reminds me of phoenix my hometown gonna be a wasteland in 20 years, 
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i wonder if disney's got some kind of master plan in place for ensuring continuity of orlando's 100 feet above sea level. are the oceans coming up that much?
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prefect posted:orlando's 100 feet above sea level. are the oceans coming up that much? in theory sea levels can rise a maximum of 260 feet but that's if every piece of ice on antarctica and greenland melts
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Feb 12, 2015 17:25
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Shifty Pony posted:the outer banks were also hosed but thankfully the NC government passed a law saying it wasn't and that's the end of that! they're hosed one way or the other regardless. even without sea level changes, they're basically migrating inland. they've literally had to dredge up sand to make the beaches exist again in some areas (which also hosed up some sandbars that were protecting said beaches from erosion in the first place, sooooooo)
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Feb 12, 2015 17:28
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computer parts posted:in theory sea levels can rise a maximum of 260 feet but that's if every piece of ice on antarctica and greenland melts is that also taking into account thermal expansion of the water
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prefect posted:orlando's 100 feet above sea level. are the oceans coming up that much? even if the ocean doesn't the swamped out refugees will disneyworld needs to invest in some electric fences, concrete, and razor wire
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