Objectively intelligent.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Cancel culture: A story in three acts.

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Ezra Klein was one of the guests across the table when this was delivered. https://www.thewrap.com/maher-on-can...headline-stop/

Like it or not, the tag is sticking.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Could be my last work.

Plaintiff will neither admit or deny the improper request to admit and instead, refers [Defendant] to the lyrics of the Rage Against the Machine classic 'Killing in the Name of.'"

I'm saving that for a judge. Too good to waste on a fucking lawyer.

BTW, if you've not seen them live, do so: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...r-2021-993233/

One of the best live shows I have ever seen. So tight. And of course the energy is insane.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

People whose pipes were inside the house ended up with disintegrated drywall walls/ceilings, etc., because due to lack of electricity, the houses weren't heated. A lot of people are recommending PEX plumbing to us, since it's less likely to burst under these circumstances.

So you are saying that Adder was full of shit? 2.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

So you are saying that Adder was full of shit? 2.

I'm saying that very little in Texas was designed for what we just went through.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I'm saying that very little in Texas was designed for what we just went through.

So are people likely to hope this doesn't happen again or start designing for it?

It's kind of hard to figure out with global weirding. Like, we are definitely warmer in New England than when I was growing up, to the point where plants that can live here are changing, but we also are probably windier and stormier. I'm not sure we're adjusting building codes, though, and there are now a couple of times a year when there are people who are so disoriented by the sway of our office building that they need to head home. There's going to be some big storm sometime soon where a lot of buildings just collapse.

[Hank Chinaski]

Patent Law cases almost never get to the Supreme Court, but this morning a case my firm won at the Appeals Court level was heard by the Supreme Court (you hire a S Ct. specialist to argue). It was an arcane issue of administrative law mixed with how the Patent Office works. I can't remember if all 9 Judges asked questions, but at least 8 did. The questions from each were informed and intelligent. It was reassuring to see the competence. Sometimes I think the circus around confirmation paints them in a way that does not go away, but there were no clowns.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

So are people likely to hope this doesn't happen again or start designing for it?

It's kind of hard to figure out with global weirding. Like, we are definitely warmer in New England than when I was growing up, to the point where plants that can live here are changing, but we also are probably windier and stormier. I'm not sure we're adjusting building codes, though, and there are now a couple of times a year when there are people who are so disoriented by the sway of our office building that they need to head home. There's going to be some big storm sometime soon where a lot of buildings just collapse.

Dunno at this point. Right now we're still trying to assess the damage and figure out what can be done. Personally, my priority is 1) replace plumbing with PEX, which did fairly well during this most recent freeze, 2) look into getting more insulation in the attic and underneath the house if possible (taking into account the very real mold problem), 3) get someone to look at my chimney which I've never bothered to have had inspected in the 19 years I've lived in this house. A dog claimed the fireplace when we first moved in and he had better use 99 percent of the time than I did so I never bothered to look into whether it worked or not.

Everyone I talk to is pretty convinced that this isn't the last time we'll see something like this. The bigger issue is the infrastructure that just wasn't designed for this, especially the power grid. The good news is that this hit in the MIDDLE of the legislative session, so the government can't put this off and hope people forget about it. Whether or not we have the national anthem play at every single state funded event is going to play second fiddle to how the fuck did the energy capitol of the world let this happen? And the Rs are in a particularly embarrassing spot because there are no Ds to blame because there are literally no Ds in any state government position.

Where we're looking at changes of building codes for climate change these days is in the flooding arena. We're at the point that a local weather blog has created a flooding scale so people have a general idea of what to expect when a rainstorm hits. We've been dealing with these sorts of floods for about six or seven years now when they were a once-in-a-blue-moon event before, usually only if a hurricane came around. I know someone who rebuilt her house three times since the Memorial Day Floods in 2015 due to flooding. It wasn't until Harvey that she tore it down and then put it on stilts nine feet off the ground.



From what I understand, the insurance hit from the freeze was bigger than a hurricane, because it's spread out all over the state. It took a week for my insurance company to get back to me after I filed the claim, because it's based in Texas and even San Antonio was frozen for nearly a week. Ultimately, I think the insurance companies will be the entities driving construction codes to adapt for global climate change, because they end up paying for the disasters that strike.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Can't wait for Sebby's hot take on Dr. Suess getting canceled. Who will save free speech?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

Oh, LPT -- to keep pipes from freezing run the water a bare trickle in anticipation. Not sure what would happen when the water stops but at an old apartment I had to do that any time it was below freezing. Wish I would have mentioned that sooner but I think by the time anyone realized it could be an issue it was too late.

I remember back when if we posted about "pipes bursting" on LT it meant something entirely different

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Can't wait for Sebby's hot take on Dr. Suess getting canceled. Who will save free speech?

What was that last line from “Killing in the Name Of”? https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...s/zgbs/books/4

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

What was that last line from “Killing in the Name Of”? https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...s/zgbs/books/4

You get down to #60 before you find a book they're going to stop publishing.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

What was that last line from “Killing in the Name Of”? https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-...s/zgbs/books/4

The last line of that song is “Uh.”

The first time is saw RATM was about two months after their first album was released, in a small club with a couple hundred people. The energy was raw and intense. The last time I saw them was in an arena, and it was a good show. But when they played “Killing In The Name Of,” I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by a sea of thousands of identical 20-something alt-frat boys, all shirtless and all wearing the same black skull cap, and they were pumping their fists in the air in complete unison and screaming “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” with the rehearsed choreography of a Third Reich rally. After the show, I approached one of the alt-frat boys and said, “Hey, um, do you realize that you actually ARE doing what they tell you?” He looked at me with vacuous contempt and said, “I’m an independent thinker!” Then he vomited all over his shirt.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The last line of that song is “Uh.”

The first time is saw RATM was about two months after their first album was released, in a small club with a couple hundred people. The energy was raw and intense. The last time I saw them was in an arena, and it was a good show. But when they played “Killing In The Name Of,” I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by a sea of thousands of identical 20-something alt-frat boys, all shirtless and all wearing the same black skull cap, and they were pumping their fists in the air in complete unison and screaming “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” with the rehearsed choreography of a Third Reich rally. After the show, I approached one of the alt-frat boys and said, “Hey, um, do you realize that you actually ARE doing what they tell you?” He looked at me with vacuous contempt and said, “I’m an independent thinker!” Then he vomited all over his shirt.

Take it up with Icky, for setting up the comment. I was piggybacking. Tying disparate posts within a thread makes things more resonant. It also conveys an appropriately dismissive tone. Ty made it easy.

You know, “Read the room?” A fair description of the complaint you threw at me when I wrote something flippant close in time to something sad and depressing Hank had written? Right. Well, you sound like a guy who thought up his joke before he considered context.

This’d be smart in a different context. But it’s dispatched here with this: “Read the thread.”

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

You get down to #60 before you find a book they're going to stop publishing.

Srsly? Mulligan. Put one at least near the fairway.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Take it up with Icky, for setting up the comment. I was piggybacking. Tying disparate posts within a thread makes things more resonant. It also conveys an appropriately dismissive tone. Ty made it easy.

You know, “Read the room?” A fair description of the complaint you threw at me when I wrote something flippant close in time to something sad and depressing Hank had written? Right. Well, you sound like a guy who thought up his joke before he considered context.

This’d be smart in a different context. But it’s dispatched here with this: “Read the thread.”

Don’t be all mad and pouty. I was just telling concert stories. Not sure what all you’re prattling on about anyway. I thought Icky’s post was funny. In my house, the rough equivalent was to end every response to a letter complaining about discovery with the Cypress Hill line, “If you don’t like it, here’s my dick, bite it.” Would have been funnier coming from my wife.