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    More: Scary, Boiling, Texas, early Tuesday morning, Water, Water supply, Houston, State of Texas, deploying support  
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4482 clicks; posted to Main » on 28 Nov 2022 at 2:35 AM (17 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  
12 votes:
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.
 
mistahtom
2022-11-28 2:50:37 AM  
10 votes:
Republicans would never sell a state's reliable water procurements to the beverage manufacturing companies while simultaneously defunding municipal water companies.
 
Some Junkie Cosmonaut [BareFark]
2022-11-28 2:46:14 AM  
8 votes:

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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Archie Goodwin
2022-11-28 2:58:34 AM  
8 votes:
They can filter it through their bootstraps can't they?
 
LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2022-11-28 2:48:03 AM  
7 votes:
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maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-28 3:41:57 AM  
5 votes:
Good thing they have a reliable power distribution grid that doesn't use an Uber style demand based pricing structure.
 
SomeAmerican
2022-11-28 7:52:36 AM  
4 votes:
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 :(
 
Corn_Fed
2022-11-28 3:11:26 AM  
3 votes:
The Texas motto: Forward, into the 18th Century!
 
Abe Vigoda's Ghost
2022-11-28 4:39:29 AM  
3 votes:

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.
 
OptionC [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 2:58:09 AM  
1 vote:
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Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 3:29:21 AM  
1 vote:
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.
 
Raoul Eaton [TotalFark]
2022-11-28 4:29:16 AM  
1 vote:
Texas sure has a problem managing to deliver basic public services consistently.  I wonder why?
 
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