NoblePublius

This is completely meaningless. Home appraisals are not objective measurements of the value of a home. They exist for the benefit of mortgage companies to ensure that the buyer has collateral to cover the difference between the sale price and the actual likely sale price of the home. Appraisals are are always made relative to a specific buyer’s offer and will never ever ever appraise at higher than what the specific buyer needs to get financing.

I think this says that mortality appears to be lower for Omicron, and that the need for oxygen treatment is lower in severe Omicron cases. Looking forward to Fauci not talking about this ever.

So if I film you, say, bashing my head with a skateboard before I shoot you in defense of my life, Twitter will delete the video upon your request?

It’s ok. You can say “black supremacist anti semite” instead of “said person.” Try it. Omicron.

Buy low, sell high. You need “data science” to do this? $VNQ is up 33% since 2016. Do you realize how dumb and bad you have to be to lose money on real estate in this time? I imagine randomly picking homes off the MLS would have yielded better returns in the last five years than whatever Tableau-powered nonsense the biz ops analysts at Zillow used. The entire iBuying concept is a farce, completely divorced from basic fundamental analysis.

“Kai”

What credibility does the WHO have at this point?

The narcissism necessary to insist on this is perhaps only rivaled by the desperation of Spotify to secure her business.

$2 trillion of tanks and $1 trillion of pipelines, just for North America. Meanwhile, electrical grids already exist.

this will be used as an excuse to expand production of hydrogen made from carbon fuel on the basis that eventually the carbon will be made sustainably. Don’t fall for it.

It wasn’t voluntary. Wells Fargo lost a mega million dollar lawsuit for reordering transactions.

This is fantastic. It’s long been difficult for me to understand the prevalence of instant payout mechanics, or the propensity of ordinary people to use debit cards like credit cards. I’m that guy who only uses his debit card to withdraw cash, puts everything on high reward credit cards, but never carries a balance.

I watched this live. This is a standard objection in any criminal proceeding when digital evidence is introduced. The defense admitted he doesn’t know what he’s talking about (he kept saying “logarithm” when he meant “algorithm”) but asserted a well established precedent that requires digital evidence be accompanied by affidavits of its authenticity, especially in a context where it is being enhanced (magnification is enhancement). What I don’t like about this coverage is that it ignores the much more salient fact that the prosecution has utterly collapsed in the last two days. The prosecution witnesses have explicitly endorsed Kyle’s self defense theory and the prosecution has obviously acted in bad faith since.

I love it when characters like | break OneDrive

Saying an NFT grants ownership of something is like saying the address on my drivers license grants ownership of my house.

Sounds like a great time to fire healthcare workers who won’t get vaccinated.

Because Free energy from the sky is cheaper than costly energy from state sponsors of terrorism

The humanity that lives in Siberia is very much looking forward to the climate change you fear so don’t act like you speak for the entire world. Rising oceans might make Central Africa look more like North America. My original point is that this problem (if real) has already been solved by Tesla, and that the progressives who still think it is a problem are suddenly more concerned with supporting the unionized competitors of Tesla than acknowledging the supremacy of solar + batteries + EV transport.

There are more significant changes of climate in recorded history that predate the Industrial Revolution. If I learned anything in the many science classes I took to get my physics degree, any prediction based on a single controlling variable is usually wrong.

I have a degree in physics. There are more significant periods of climate change in recorded history that predate the Industrial Revolution. Just because we put more carbon in the air doesn’t mean that subsequent “changes in climate” are caused by that additional carbon.

Just gonna be that guy on this thread who is not convinced anthropogenic climate change is a thing, or that if it is a thing that it is more significant than natural variations of climate. The economic and political consequences of the proposed solutions to this alleged crisis (enrich these corporations and these nations at the expense of these corporations and these nations) are too glaringly one sided to suggest empirical impartiality.

It also continues to astound me that proponents of the “climate crisis” narrative never make any mention whatsoever of the fact that the most valuable energy company/car company in the world makes solar panels, batteries, and electric cars. Instead climate crisis actors demonize Tesla for not being unionized (eg, Tesla excluded from the White House American Electric Car Summit) and are lining up at the piggie trough for exclusive Biden bucks that will fund infrastructure investments that will help Ford and GM catch up to Tesla.

To wit: our best bet to speed the transition to sustainable energy is to get out of the way of the capitalists who have already solved this problem with superior transportation and energy products.

More children have died in car crashes in 2021 than have ever died of Covid

You’ve got a huge swath of america who doesn’t want the vaccine because they either have superior natural immunity already OR understand that the virus poses little-to-no-risk to them or their family. Covid is essentially equal to the flu in terms of mortality for people under ~55 and children are virtually immune from serious Covid illness.

My local government seems to be dedicated to the opposite: instilling panic about Covid, particularly with rules around protecting children (who are effectively immune from serious illness and transmit the virus less than adults).

I don’t understand why it’s more reasonable to characterize those who do business in low tax areas as “tax dodgers” than it is to characterize high tax governments as “new business haters.”

Imagine planting your own leak to claim you don’t censor enough to justify your plans to censor more.

I have a new laptop on which I set DDG as default and have been tracking myself resorting to Google 50% of the time due to poor results.

Perhaps my use of the term “earmarked” was confusing. This refers to a congressional requirement that certain tax revenues be allocated for specific purposes. That’s the gasoline tax and very very very few taxes are written this way.

Why would anyone take seriously the opinion of SF government about “safety” when it’s official policy explicitly condones open IV drug use?

It took 400 days to construct the Golden Gate Bridge in 1933. It took six years to build a new offramp for it in 2000.