"LastFirstMI is my name" (donstone13)
02/12/2020 at 00:46 • Filed to: None
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"LastFirstMI is my name" (donstone13)
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Land Cruiser Sahara Edition. 4.5L Twin Turbo V8 diesel Land Cruiser....
I can handle the spiders, snakes, fires and crocs if I have 479 lb-ft of torque to sustain me.
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I’ll go ahead and answer your next question:
https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-immigrate-to-Australia-from-the-USA-legally
DipodomysDeserti
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 01:08 |
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Just got done reading a pretty comprehensive case study on water management in four basins around the world. I was pretty shocked to see how fucked Australia’s federal water management policies are even when compared to the western United States. The aborigines managed to live there for 60,000 years, and the place is burning down a few centuries after the English show up.
That said, I guess I’ll drink gasoline if it means I can has a TTV8 LC.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 01:26 |
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g’day
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LastFirstMI is my name
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 01:33 |
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Yeah, I grew up in a farming town on the Ogalalla aquifer, and there’s just no way we’ll still be irrigating 20 years from now. I mean, I won’t give up my SUV and steak dinners, but everyone else definitely needs to radically change their lives.
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LastFirstMI is my name
> pip bip - choose Corrour
02/12/2020 at 01:41 |
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*checks goo gle translate*
Hooroo Mate!
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DipodomysDeserti
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 01:44 |
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Groundwater management is a shitshow throughout the world. Pretty scary seeing how much populations everywhere rely on it. Quite a few oil pipelines running over the Ogallala aquifer which threaten the water supply of the whole Great Plains region.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 05:32 |
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Don’t think I’ll be ponying up 125,000 dollars for one...even though the dealer down the road would happily sell me one.
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SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 05:38 |
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That’s pretty much because our Federal Government’s policy is to pretty much blame the States who actually have the constitutional right to manage water and water access rights...and each State blames the one upstream for causing the grief.
As someone who has worked in two of the basin states in the field of catchment management...sometimes it is more productive to just let the politicians and senior bureaucrats. shout at each other.
shop-teacher
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 07:23 |
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I know very little about ground water management , but I learned enough about it in high school geology class to scare the shit out of me. When we bought our house, I made sure it had Lake Michigan water.
jimz
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 08:07 |
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wow, the first answer to that quora question has to either be satire or just reeks of privilege.
Nibby
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 08:29 |
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load up on tim tams
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DipodomysDeserti
> shop-teacher
02/12/2020 at 08:35 |
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Only thing about that is Lake Michigan is a navigable waterway, meaning that the surface water actually belongs to the feds, who historically haven’t managed them very well. Even if you live on the Lakes, you have no water rights. That, and there’s an old oil pipeline that runs across the bottom of it which could burst any moment, causing one of the biggest environmental disasters we’ve ever seen.
Interesting fact, but there’s believed to be a deep aquifer under Phoenix which contains as much water as Lake Michigan. Good thing, as Motorola poisoned a good deal of our shallow aquifer.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 08:36 |
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All the torque in the world doesn't stop it from looking like a blingy, overinflated 2012 Highlander. Not to mention the interior quality is no better than cars costing half as much.
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DipodomysDeserti
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/12/2020 at 08:59 |
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Sounds about right. The case study I read dealt with the Murray-Darling Basin. It noted that while Australia has a wealth of knowledge on water management, none of it is being used by politicians to manage the water. Thankfully there’s been quite a bit of inter-state and international cooperation where I live. However, it’s mostly because we realized we screwed up and over allocated our resources, and would be absolutely fucked without cooperation.
The complete lack of consideration for indigenous water rights in Australia did catch me by surprise. I didn’t think anyone could be worse than us in that regard.
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shop-teacher
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 09:12 |
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I figure there is enough water there, that it’s not likely to run out in my lifetime.
Didn’t know about t he pipeline though. That’s scary!
KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 12:00 |
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But what about teh Drop Be ars? Does a Landcruiser protect you from them?
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LastFirstMI is my name
> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
02/12/2020 at 13:05 |
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My older brothers used to take me snipe hunting when I was younger, so I feel pretty confident in my survival skills
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KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 13:22 |
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Just keep your sunroof closed at all times, mayte.
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LastFirstMI is my name
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/12/2020 at 13:23 |
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This is OPPO! I’ll wait and buy one with 200,000 miles for about 3 Miatas (which is the official currency of OPPO)
Amoore100
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
02/12/2020 at 13:53 |
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Doesn’t detract from the fact that if you’re in that part of the world it’s pretty much your only choice if you’re in the market for a hard-core off-roading diesel eight-seater; Toyota knows their niche and they charge dearly for it. A base GX on steelies with a standard snorkel is $60k US and they just go up from there.
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Amoore100
02/12/2020 at 14:05 |
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In the U.S. they start at $85k. An $85k car shouldn’t have buttons that creak when you press them.
I drove a nearly new one (>8k miles on the odometer) and there was a rattle coming from the back and the center console panels would flex if even minor pressure was applied. Shameful from one of the most expensive no n-supercars on the market.
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SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 14:44 |
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Its the MD Basin that I’m familiar with. And the coordinated management of it is only with regard to surface water.
The lack of indigenous water rights is unfortunate and comes down to all surface water being the property of the Crown. Landholders were then issued with the right to access the crown's water. Since Aboriginal people were neither considered people or landholders at the time... it's another shitshow that'll take time to sort out.
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SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> LastFirstMI is my name
02/12/2020 at 14:47 |
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It might cost you 1 and a half to 2 brand new Miata with that mileage...
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DipodomysDeserti
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
02/12/2020 at 15:37 |
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Interesting. Riparian water rights in the US are still mostly regulated by English common law, which states that water rights belong to the land owners, and that they must use a reasonable amount of water without disrupting the water supply of other rights holders down stream. Navigable surface waters belong to the feds, with the land underneath belonging to the states.
Many of the Indian Reservations in Arizona had their water diverted from them via dams. In the US you can take someone’s water or land, and it becomes yours if they don’t do anyth ing about it. It took decades of lawsuits for the tribes to regain their water. Now they’re a big player in water allocation for our current drought conting ency plan. They could have told us to screw off, but didn’t.
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DipodomysDeserti
> shop-teacher
02/12/2020 at 15:42 |
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Having water is one thing, getting it to people is another. Interesting article on Illinois’s water infrastructure.
https://ilenviro.org/the-state-of-water-infrastructure-in-illinois/
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Amoore100
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
02/12/2020 at 15:47 |
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I mean I’m not saying that they should, it’s just that they can because of their market position . I suppose I’m a bit of an apologist since my boyfriend’s parents have an ‘09 as their family hauler that I rather admire , but I just feel like I can overlook certain faux pas in lieu of the overarching theme of reliability and simplicity. No competition = no alteration, and in most markets the Patrol is the only thing that comes close albeit with a lesser brand image and often gas-only.
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shop-teacher
> DipodomysDeserti
02/12/2020 at 18:27 |
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I can’t say any of that surprised me. The state and local governments here are mostly see combination of corrupt and incompetent. Our local water supply and sewer collection has been upgrading and investing thankfully. The bills got spiked starting a few years to pay for the upgrades. Some people around here were ripshit pissed, or course, but I’m happy to pay that bill.