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I'm not arguing with your post, just one of your sources.

I live in Houston and was really interested in what that article has to say, because based on your comment, I thought, "Am I wrong? Was I misled by bad information and failed to do my due diligence?"

Nope, that article about Houston flooding is absolute trash.

One of his points he's like, "I don't even know what that means."

One point he argues more green space would lead to more paved surfaces and then doesn't really explain how that supposedly works.

Another point he says something along the lines of, "Like, I guess an argument COULD be made that some people were impacted because developers built on a flood plain..."

GTFO with that bullshit article.

Yeah, Harvey dropped more rain than the land, that was overbuilt, could have absorbed, but that was just one of the contributing man caused factors.

There was always going to be flooding from Harvey, but it was WAY worse than it should have been if proper planning had been used. But Houston, like Texas as a whole, seems allergic to zoning and real urban planning development.

Developers always have been and always will be happy to build anywhere, and cut every possible corner they can, as long as it stands for the for the 10 years they still have a warranty.

At this point I don't know.

Initially I thought I could "undermine" from within. I'm a 50 year old, white, vet, so I tick a lot of conservative boxes, and I imagined I could plant seeds of doubt with people that might assume to include me in certain groups.

But that never really happened, and both parties can hang for all I care. (At least 90% of the ones over 65.)

So now I just vote straight Dem for harm reduction and tell young folks they need to be active, vote, and take the roles away from us older folks cuz we can't be trusted to do what is obviously and objectively the right thing to do.

What is funny is I have been reading and listening to a lot of early US history and this has literally been the same story over and over again.

Is there a political system that works?

And the stock market is just another way for the top percent to continue to siphon wealth.

When you have kids, you will realize just how often they fucking wait until the absolute last minute to do anything.

So we are trying to make sure everything has been taken care of and a low level of stress by the time you leave the house.

By the time you have your own kids(assuming you do), you've also likely already experienced what it's like to miss a flight because traffic/flat tire/ had to go back because something important was forgotten/kid had to go to the bathroom, etc... And you are doing everything in your power to prevent that from happening.

Well, I have been a registered Republican as long as I have been voting.

And have been voting straight Democrat for over a decade now.

I wonder if there are more like me?

So Neutral Evil just means lazy bitch-ass trash?

You misunderstand. I went to from the A71 to the 6. I am only recently on the 9.

Fuck red light cameras and fuck you for suggesting them.

I am glad you have had a better experience than me. I am pretty happy with Pixel now but I am going to try the Graphene route this weekend.

I appreciate your response.

It was constantly giving out mistaken SOS messages. It would lock up and I'd have to constantly reset.

The final straw was when I was travelling to a work site I had never been to before. It locked up with a static screen and refused to reset. I had to stop at a gas station, at 4am, actually talk to another person and buy a map.

It was slow, buggy, constantly trying to get me to use their Samsung store, .etc...

When I moved to Pixel, it gave me the iPhone experience where shit just worked. And it integrated more things for me, which was convenient at the time. (But now I know it is scraping the fuck out of everything I do/see/hear.)

I just upgraded to the 9 and assume it's scraping every bit of data it can from me. I will do it this weekend.

Sorry, no way I am going back to Samsung. I had the A71 and it was a TERRIBLE smart phone. I switched to the Pixel 6 and it was night and day.

I just need to get off my ass and install Graphene.