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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Texas does a lot of things wrong, but what it does the least wrong is Brisket.

The answer is Mexican Street Tacos though.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I can't decide if the pun is a play on the phrase "food for thought" or a pun on "brain food"... or a secret third thing....

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

some restrictions apply

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

...at the same time?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I like what hollow knight did.

You find out you're just the latest incarnation of the hollow knight, and you have to fight the last one

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If he got back as fast as humanly possible then his alien-colony-of-vermin-in-a-human-suit-ass was sandbagging.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The entire county only has a population of like 50K people, and it's not an especially wealthy area.

All that said, this was a tragedy that probably could have been prevented if Texas had fewer Republicans, I'll 100% give you that, but flash floods are fucking terrifying, and in hilly areas, the flood can reach you in some cases before the rain does if it's especially bad.

This video shows how insane it got on the Guadalupe River that morning. I'm not sure about the timeline, but this would have been roughly downstream and after it hit camp mystic. The river rose over 26 feet in under 2 hours.

https://youtu.be/akzaqhRH0HQ

The owners should have closed the camp if they knew those rains were coming.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Well, when you don't vote you're guaranteeing your opinion doesn't matter. The math always works in favor of everyone voting.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't speak to my point at all. I'm saying you can't tell how well a system works when it barely has half the participation it's supposed to have, and is constantly fucked with. This is the direct result of Republican interference in Texas, no conspiracy theories required.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kerrville, where the campers all died, is an hour west of San Antonio, and 2 hours west of Austin. no where near the city limits of either city.

San Antonio lost 13 people in early June when a massive wall of flash flood water pushed every car on a specific section of road into a ditch and carried them a mile down stream. I don't think anyone died in the most recent storm.

Austin had a similar event where one specific area where two rivers converge caught a group of people.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

40% of voters in Texas didn't vote in November.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Be a lot easier to discuss how well things worked if everyone participated.

 
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