Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space

"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."

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[msawzall]

Gonna have to outsource the folks doing the innovating though. I hear your public school systems aren't really being supported unless they've got the blood of Jebus pumping through them.

 

[msawzall]

Short-term thinking. Business decision makers give zero thought to the long-term consequences of moving to a 3rd world state, as long as they get their tax breaks and next quarter's profits are up.

And in all fairness, until the last 10 years or so, Florida actually kind of tried to hide their complete ignorance of reality. Now they're proud to display it. Meanwhile, the retirees keep moving down there and just bury their heads in the first sand trap of their local private club's links.

 

[msawzall]

give it a rest. Texas gets a once in a century storm and grid isn't prepared. Rest of country has a laugh.
Turn to 2023 and the Northeast gets a record storm. The same jokers that smugly droned on about how prepared they were for any winter storm get to watch their neighbors freezing to death in cars and on the streets.

Kicker is, some administrations learn from their mistakes. Texas seems to flaunt them.

 

[msawzall]

So what you're saying is that people who SHOULD have known all about being ready for a Nor’Easter failed.

Also, I do not hump flags.

Failures happen. What you do after them matters.

And as far as what things which people are humping, Texas seems extremely concerned with that.

 

[msawzall]

Bullshit. It is not normal for a governor to decide he doesn't politically like a stance that a company is taking, and then to arbitrarily go after something completely unrelated the company does the way that DeSantis has done in Florida. I really fucking hate defending Disney, but what is happening to Disney isn't right.

I can't think of anything on par with what is going on in Florida today.

The government of course has a role in regulating industries. Creating regulations for industries and enforcing them is the job of the government. That isn't what is going on in Florida.

I don't think California has had a regular summer in a long time. They are heavily investing in new generation and fixing the grid to be safe in a climate it was never intended for. California screwed up pretty badly with deregulation, but it is far better off than Texas.

Exactly. This is exactly what Obama was being accused of in "picking and choosing" which companies the government would subsidize with wind and solar power. Meanwhile, Trump went on a shit talking extravaganza on Twitter with various private companies and DeSantis has a personal vendetta against Disney and now it's crickets from the usual rightwing hypocrites.

 

[msawzall]

Your state sure does. I’ve never seen a place so insecure as to who and where they were that they needed to fly their country’s flags, everywhere, all the time, as big as they can make them. Hundreds and hundreds of miles from any other country. Like, did y’all forget you were in America? Do you need that much of a constant reminder?

The flag folks need their flags for a positive display. When your actions are cruel and go against everything you say you stand for, you need a cover.