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4459 clicks; posted to Main » on 28 Nov 2022 at 2:35 AM (16 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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hissatsu [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 2:40:27 AM  
They should use a free market solution, like selling their water supply to Nestle and then paying them for the water. Have faith in the invisible hand.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-11-28 2:46:14 AM  

hissatsu: They should use a free market solution, like selling their water supply to Nestle and then paying them for the water. Have faith in the invisible hand.


I was looking for a good invisible hand gif, but then I found this.  This is a thing that exists...

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LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2022-11-28 2:48:03 AM  
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mistahtom
2022-11-28 2:50:37 AM  
Republicans would never sell a state's reliable water procurements to the beverage manufacturing companies while simultaneously defunding municipal water companies.
 
OptionC [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 2:58:09 AM  
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Archie Goodwin
2022-11-28 2:58:34 AM  
They can filter it through their bootstraps can't they?
 
Corn_Fed
2022-11-28 3:11:26 AM  
The Texas motto: Forward, into the 18th Century!
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 3:29:21 AM  
To be fair, if you drank the water before the boil notice went out and there was any risk...you'd know it by now.
 
maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-28 3:41:57 AM  
Good thing they have a reliable power distribution grid that doesn't use an Uber style demand based pricing structure.
 
daffy
2022-11-28 4:12:57 AM  
This is what bottled water is for. It's not supposed to be for everyday use unless you have no access to fresh, clean water. We buy bottles of water and then reuse them by filling with tap water.
 
Raoul Eaton [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 4:29:16 AM  
Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services consistently.  I wonder why?
 
Abe Vigoda's Ghost
2022-11-28 4:39:29 AM  

Raoul Eaton: Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services consistently.  I wonder why?


They keep busing potential talent to northern states.
 
sephjnr
2022-11-28 5:27:01 AM  

mistahtom: Republicans would never sell a state's reliable water procurements to the beverage manufacturing companies while simultaneously defunding municipal water companies.


IANAPolitician, but when you say 'never' do you mean 'always'?
 
payattention
2022-11-28 6:00:19 AM  

daffy: This is what bottled water is for. It's not supposed to be for everyday use unless you have no access to fresh, clean water. We buy bottles of water and then reuse them by filling with tap water.


Now now! We don't do sensible things that include recycling and resource management. This is 'Murica!
 
PunGent
2022-11-28 6:18:40 AM  

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Raoul Eaton: Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services consistently.  I wonder why?

They keep busing potential talent to northern states.


Or spending millions to fly them...
 
Rehab Is For Quitters
2022-11-28 6:54:25 AM  

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Raoul Eaton: Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services servants consistently.  I wonder why?



FTFY
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 7:24:25 AM  

sephjnr: mistahtom: Republicans would never sell a state's reliable water procurements to the beverage manufacturing companies while simultaneously defunding municipal water companies.

IANAPolitician, but when you say 'never' do you mean 'always'?


More like "often".
 
SomeAmerican
2022-11-28 7:52:36 AM  
During college I wrote some document management software for a satellite program.

I discovered a bug and reported "Houston we have a problem"...

... only to find out the hard way that the physicist I was talking to was in the control room for Apollo 13.

I've never been so chewed out, nor deserved it so much :(
 
mikaloyd [OhFark]
2022-11-28 8:12:05 AM  
Texas Texas everywhere and not a tag to see
 
AdmirableSnackbar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-28 8:36:07 AM  
Greatest country in the world and yet how many cities don't have clean water?
 
The_Shade_Richard_Swift
2022-11-28 8:39:11 AM  
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Natalie Portmanteau
2022-11-28 9:38:31 AM  

Some Junkie Cosmonaut: hissatsu: They should use a free market solution, like selling their water supply to Nestle and then paying them for the water. Have faith in the invisible hand.

I was looking for a good invisible hand gif, but then I found this.  This is a thing that exists...

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It doesn't exist anymore they stopped making them.
 
Natalie Portmanteau
2022-11-28 9:40:00 AM  

Raoul Eaton: Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services consistently.  I wonder why?


Two words: Joe Biden

/this what most Texans apparently believe.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut
2022-11-28 3:36:31 PM  

Natalie Portmanteau: Some Junkie Cosmonaut: hissatsu: They should use a free market solution, like selling their water supply to Nestle and then paying them for the water. Have faith in the invisible hand.

I was looking for a good invisible hand gif, but then I found this.  This is a thing that exists...

[Fark user image image 364x364]

It doesn't exist anymore they stopped making them.


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