Landlords add great value. They buy properties, often distressed ones, repair and maintain them and provide a desperately needed place to live. They take on a fair amount of risk and make a modest profit. Areas with greater profit potential are generally undesirable areas so it all balances demand.
I've liked most of my roommates, whatever their ethnicity, but my very worst roommate was a Caucasian rapper. He would freestyle in his room at all hours - it was awful and distracting and embarrassing. I'd have a young lady over, putting my clumsy moves on and he'd be shouting about how disrespectful he was towards women in his fake hood accent. He was painfully privileged, white, suburban. He was a total wannabe thug, posed with guns and stuff like that. He got busted for knocking over a liquor store and when they were hauling him off to his arraignment he broke away from the guards and jumped, handcuffed, to his death in the Santa Barbara courthouse.
I felt pretty guilty about it because I spent so many sleepless nights fervently hoping he would die. I know it wasn't my fault but I still feel guilty about it.
You answered your own question. E-vehicles run at reduced efficiency due to impaired battery performance at low temps. Cabin heating can consume well over half the battery in stop-and-go traffic. These make E-vehicles trickier in some areas by unpredictably reducing the range significantly.
People don't need a computer to turn into selfish assholes. Many of them successfully turn behind the wheel of a car. I suppose the glass makes them feel anonymous enough to unleash their true selves.
I'm curious where you live that CO seems bad in comparison. I live in the bay area, where the post-apocalyptic road conditions make Colorado roads seem like they are paved with gold. People routinely total their cars on potholes, and the dept of transportation has to reimburse them for repairs/replacement.
People who live on the street tend to drive at or below the speed limit.
Horseshit. I'm a career speeder and I never slow down in my neighborhood. I probably drive craziest there since I know where the cops like to hang out. All the other lunatics in Silicon Valley drive way worse than I do so it is not just me. I got rammed by a moron last year when I slowed down to 5 over the limit for a speed bump!
The way it was explained to me is to reduce friction on skin. Having the padding fixed to the seat means the pant/skin rubs against the seat with every pedal stroke. Moving the padding to the skin allows the friction to move from the skin/pant boundary to the internal cushion/pant boundary. Apparently it makes a big difference to serious riders.
Thank goodness I am not a serious rider, I just wear regular pants. I haven't noticed excessive friction on my ~25/mile day round trip commute. I think it's sort of like other hobbies where people almost compete to see who can spend more on fancy equipment. I am happy on my $200 bike and the few upgrades I have made are to make my life easier - bulletproof tires, nice solid cargo rack, water compatible brake pads.
You're awful wrong about lead. California is too new to have lead pipes. You'll find lead piping in older areas such as the eastern half of the US. Sure there is a bit of lead solder on old copper piping, but that is miniscule and won't poison a whole community like Flint etc.
The reason California is so weird is simple: all the crazies that were run out of town or too strange to fit in moved west. California was populated by the misfits, dreamers, gold rushers, and entrepreneurial visionaries, Don't hate CA too much though, that is the story of America you're hatin on. The whole damn country was founded by loonies who couldn't fit in back in Europe or wherever.
I bought a dorm fridge in the 80s for about $150 and it is probably still running. It was horrible and sucked electricity so hard it dimmed the lights. It cost about the purchase price in electricity every year!
I bought a dorm fridge this year for about $150 and it is quite energy efficient, $30/year electricity use. It is really nice - separate door for the large pizza capable freezer, main compartment light, better temp control. No idea how durable, but it carries a nice warranty and with the energy savings I can afford a new one every other year and still save money and resources..
In my case fridge prices have dropped considerably as they have gotten better.
Speaking as an impartial observer who has been to Albuquerque and Portland I think that both cities are priced suitably. Portland has a lot of attractive features that Albuquerque lacks (proximity to other big/prosperous cities, near ocean, better climate, more cultural resources etc.)
Part of the way people decide where to live is to balance all the factors. A lot of people simply aren't willing to live in NM at current prices, and that is why there isn't much upward pressure on prices there. People find Portland and Denver and so forth desirable at current and future prices and that is why they keep going up.
Wishful thinking that a majority can legalize grass.
Shit, you need to go tell those merry fuckers in Colorado. They've been happily smoking legal recreational weed for a couple years now. Crime is down and Denver is booming.
You're not thinking big enough. Why not put that turtle on top of an even larger turtle? And so on and so on until there are enough turtles to hold up the plane and it doesn't crash in the first place!
People have been predicting the end of the world for millenia. They have always been wrong. You're wrong too, and all the shitheads who predict the end of the world tomorrow are wrong as well. All those doom and gloom prophets have been wrong. All of them!
Who knows where the jobs will come from. Nobody a hundred years ago predicted anything much like what we do today. Very few people working today do anything remotely resembling typical jobs from a hundred years ago. We have always found things to do for money when technology destroyed old occupations, why would that ever stop? Maybe most people will create universe simulators and play god. Maybe that has already happened and we are inside one of them!
You're so fearful, defeatist, and have a really low opinion of humanity. I'm grateful there are people who think positively and creatively, trying to come up with ways to continue improving our culture.
It's truly amazing what we have done. Who would have thought that those filthy cavemen would one day struggle with the "problem" of too much bounty and not enough work to go around?
Clean fuel could be burned in widely available engines. Bunker fuel anywhere near land with environmental regulations can only be dealt with in refineries or waste disposal facilities and it is a money losing proposition.
Whatevs. Been burnt too many times by third party apps that require in app purchases or have ads or whatnot. Say what you want about gooble, at least they don't want my money and won't show me flashing banner ads.
I'm so happy to have this. I finally can use the glide typing. I have a free iphone from work and am too cheap to have a second phone, and I was envious of my android friends better keyboards.
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Landlords add great value. They buy properties, often distressed ones, repair and maintain them and provide a desperately needed place to live. They take on a fair amount of risk and make a modest profit. Areas with greater profit potential are generally undesirable areas so it all balances demand.
I've liked most of my roommates, whatever their ethnicity, but my very worst roommate was a Caucasian rapper. He would freestyle in his room at all hours - it was awful and distracting and embarrassing. I'd have a young lady over, putting my clumsy moves on and he'd be shouting about how disrespectful he was towards women in his fake hood accent. He was painfully privileged, white, suburban. He was a total wannabe thug, posed with guns and stuff like that. He got busted for knocking over a liquor store and when they were hauling him off to his arraignment he broke away from the guards and jumped, handcuffed, to his death in the Santa Barbara courthouse.
I felt pretty guilty about it because I spent so many sleepless nights fervently hoping he would die. I know it wasn't my fault but I still feel guilty about it.
You answered your own question. E-vehicles run at reduced efficiency due to impaired battery performance at low temps. Cabin heating can consume well over half the battery in stop-and-go traffic. These make E-vehicles trickier in some areas by unpredictably reducing the range significantly.
People don't need a computer to turn into selfish assholes. Many of them successfully turn behind the wheel of a car. I suppose the glass makes them feel anonymous enough to unleash their true selves.
Good thing they're trying so hard to eliminate VOR, LORAN, NDB, etc,
[Loran - shudder] When doing things the hard way half measures are no way to go. Don't worry, grandpa, your astrolabe will function perfectly.
I'm curious where you live that CO seems bad in comparison. I live in the bay area, where the post-apocalyptic road conditions make Colorado roads seem like they are paved with gold. People routinely total their cars on potholes, and the dept of transportation has to reimburse them for repairs/replacement.
People who live on the street tend to drive at or below the speed limit.
Horseshit. I'm a career speeder and I never slow down in my neighborhood. I probably drive craziest there since I know where the cops like to hang out. All the other lunatics in Silicon Valley drive way worse than I do so it is not just me. I got rammed by a moron last year when I slowed down to 5 over the limit for a speed bump!
I spent $200 on my box store bike. It's got 10k miles on it in 18 months, only routine maintenance. Thank god for cheap components and crappy frames!
People in bike shops make hard fun of me, say my bike is a piece of shit. They can spend thousands if it makes them feel better, fine with me!
The way it was explained to me is to reduce friction on skin. Having the padding fixed to the seat means the pant/skin rubs against the seat with every pedal stroke. Moving the padding to the skin allows the friction to move from the skin/pant boundary to the internal cushion/pant boundary. Apparently it makes a big difference to serious riders.
Thank goodness I am not a serious rider, I just wear regular pants. I haven't noticed excessive friction on my ~25/mile day round trip commute. I think it's sort of like other hobbies where people almost compete to see who can spend more on fancy equipment. I am happy on my $200 bike and the few upgrades I have made are to make my life easier - bulletproof tires, nice solid cargo rack, water compatible brake pads.
Natural monopoly my ass. On my uncle's moisture farm we use vaporators to harvest water from the air!
You're awful wrong about lead. California is too new to have lead pipes. You'll find lead piping in older areas such as the eastern half of the US. Sure there is a bit of lead solder on old copper piping, but that is miniscule and won't poison a whole community like Flint etc.
The reason California is so weird is simple: all the crazies that were run out of town or too strange to fit in moved west. California was populated by the misfits, dreamers, gold rushers, and entrepreneurial visionaries, Don't hate CA too much though, that is the story of America you're hatin on. The whole damn country was founded by loonies who couldn't fit in back in Europe or wherever.
I bought a dorm fridge in the 80s for about $150 and it is probably still running. It was horrible and sucked electricity so hard it dimmed the lights. It cost about the purchase price in electricity every year!
I bought a dorm fridge this year for about $150 and it is quite energy efficient, $30/year electricity use. It is really nice - separate door for the large pizza capable freezer, main compartment light, better temp control. No idea how durable, but it carries a nice warranty and with the energy savings I can afford a new one every other year and still save money and resources..
In my case fridge prices have dropped considerably as they have gotten better.
Speaking as an impartial observer who has been to Albuquerque and Portland I think that both cities are priced suitably. Portland has a lot of attractive features that Albuquerque lacks (proximity to other big/prosperous cities, near ocean, better climate, more cultural resources etc.)
Part of the way people decide where to live is to balance all the factors. A lot of people simply aren't willing to live in NM at current prices, and that is why there isn't much upward pressure on prices there. People find Portland and Denver and so forth desirable at current and future prices and that is why they keep going up.
Wishful thinking that a majority can legalize grass.
Shit, you need to go tell those merry fuckers in Colorado. They've been happily smoking legal recreational weed for a couple years now. Crime is down and Denver is booming.
Your bike is cool, I love the idea of a pedal/sail powered road craft that works in cities.
You're not thinking big enough. Why not put that turtle on top of an even larger turtle? And so on and so on until there are enough turtles to hold up the plane and it doesn't crash in the first place!
As a general question to all commentators; if you're not using Open Street Maps, what is your reason?
I'm super lazy. Last time I tried OSM there were no good free navigation apps that used it. Has that changed?
Good luck, so far nobody has lived forever so I call your odds poor.
People have been predicting the end of the world for millenia. They have always been wrong. You're wrong too, and all the shitheads who predict the end of the world tomorrow are wrong as well. All those doom and gloom prophets have been wrong. All of them!
Who knows where the jobs will come from. Nobody a hundred years ago predicted anything much like what we do today. Very few people working today do anything remotely resembling typical jobs from a hundred years ago. We have always found things to do for money when technology destroyed old occupations, why would that ever stop? Maybe most people will create universe simulators and play god. Maybe that has already happened and we are inside one of them!
You're so fearful, defeatist, and have a really low opinion of humanity. I'm grateful there are people who think positively and creatively, trying to come up with ways to continue improving our culture.
It's truly amazing what we have done. Who would have thought that those filthy cavemen would one day struggle with the "problem" of too much bounty and not enough work to go around?
Clean fuel could be burned in widely available engines. Bunker fuel anywhere near land with environmental regulations can only be dealt with in refineries or waste disposal facilities and it is a money losing proposition.
Whatevs. Been burnt too many times by third party apps that require in app purchases or have ads or whatnot. Say what you want about gooble, at least they don't want my money and won't show me flashing banner ads.
I'm so happy to have this. I finally can use the glide typing. I have a free iphone from work and am too cheap to have a second phone, and I was envious of my android friends better keyboards.
Many movies and TV news stories mistakenly assume that all aircraft can dump fuel, when in fact most cannot.
- That is from yer wikipedia article