dont u dare

anyhoo. this is a good reminder for me to start a re read of neurotribes

yessir!

it makes so much sense. not the thing to go cheap on.

i was in the stands! there was no choices available!

welcome to hell!

buddy let me tell you

best movie

for sure. I doubt we'll see anything like the Roger's commission. I think this hearing was about as close as we'll get.

I mean now it's no different than speculative investing backed mostly on a&m fans like me thinking that this is the year we finally get to 9 fucking wins

but unfortunately it devolves into Dan Patrick blaming the judge when given the current culture and delineation of roles you could put 99 other people in that same system and have the same output. The system itself needs to change.

just circling back to this and the challenger comparison is so spot on. there's a cultural barrier in place here as well that resulted in none of the three decision makers being onsite until well into the morning.

the other part to this point is that it very much became a boy who cried wolf thing even the officials said we got plenty of warnings but we get plenty of warnings at all times. the city manager said he turned off the warnings on his phone.

how do we separate routine warnings from catastrophic ones

and like when you look at the maps and the policies there's the flood plain but also elevations and the elevations are just high enough to where it could be construed as within policies to build there but it's just not a good idea

the flood maps thing is huge. we poured over those fema maps and like you said exceptions were made to avoid the rules/laws instead of understanding the spirit of why the laws were there in the first place

Oh heck yeah gonna read now

right. my wife was a city manager in our small town and it ended pretty poorly due to 2 bad council members. local politics are just so messy at times.

would love to hear your thoughts!

sheriff, city manager qualifications, county judge -- all of those positions