Old news. The report came out early on when the protocol was implemented. Nobody cared just like many other unscientific measures like ok to play college and pro sportsball but not any level below collegiate. Ok to have live TV skits with no masks like SNL but not ok to walk on a wide open beach with no mask....meh.
I visited the National Bowling Museum near Dallas as a spontaneous joke with some friends. Impressive museum for bowling. My favorite part was an animatronic pin boy talking about how he was making a lot of money setting pins and was moving up soon to shoe rentals. Hilarious. Highly recommend checking it out if you are in the area.
Much sympathy. My spouse had a 401K with a portion of it in "Mediterranean assets". She got a letter saying those were Russian assets in reality. All gone, sorry.
It however worked out better by default. She was so infuriated she closed the 401K and bought an investment property which we work on together. I haven't seen her this excited in a while. We work on the property on the weekend together.
Ouch, that sucks. But you may well have cause to go after whoever sold you that bill of goods. Props to you for how you handled it, I hope it wasn't too much money. Over the years I've become more and more conservative as an investor, in part on account of stories like yours. If it's a REIT I want to see an assets list. Note that the fact that it is 'all gone' may well be an indication that you are being defrauded, it's not 'gone' nor is the asset manager off the hook. So I'd definitely look into recovery options and if you are the only one or one of a few to do that there is some chance you'll see some of your money back. Best of luck!!
Futile effort. AC units draw an enormous amount of power. The only thing that might help is drying clothes outside since dryers also pack a serious draw. Now who is with me!
I moved to central Europe a few years ago. I don't know a single person who uses a dryer over here, even though some washing machines include that feature. We all have those folding drying racks. Saves power and wear on clothing. I can't believe I used a dryer all those years in the USA.
Also, it seems beyond dumb that TX is not a solar powerhouse. Is there a valid argument against solar in TX?
Do high dollar people have solar panels on their roof? NO. They do not. It looks like s**. They do not do this. You might find a few but solar is a sign of financial weakness. Take Obama with his propane tanks. Do you see solar on his house? Getting rid of gas.NO. You do not. These things are for the feeble minded and weak:
That wiki page does not really give me any context.
I see here [0] that solar is ~4% of TX electricity supply vs Germany's ~8%. [1]
Texas has twice the land area and 50 million less people taking up space. Let's not even consider the relative insolation.
It seems to me that Texas could do a lot more.
I wonder if investment in Texas PV would be more attractive if you could sell the power to other states in non-summer months. As I understand it, a solar farm in Texas would not be connected to the national grids, correct?
I will personally give you context. Nobody in my neighborhood is doing solar panels. Why? Because we don't want that on our roof. It looks like shit ok. It ruins the look of the house. We have enough coin to not do it and waste as much energy as we want. If you want to do it then go for it. I personally do not care what you think or do with your own coin. If you want to put solar panels on top of your car, on your lawnmower DO IT. I will not and never will. Nothing you can do about it.
Stalked? Sounds like some cheesy psycho thriller title...meh. He probably is being harassed but that's par for the course for anyone running their mouth about controversial topics.
Instead of making office furniture modular it needs to be the actual buildings. I recall seeing an early form of it in Hong Kong in the early 90's where one building was put together almost like legos (minus the bamboo scaffolding).
I've never used FB or Meta. I do find Elon's comments on free speech on target. We will find out together where this goes I guess. I personally like free speech and I mean all of it. Hatred, spite, honesty, truth, humility...all of it. Put it all out there and let it rip.
Elon's behavior never matches his words, and that's never been more true than with regards to free speech.
He personally bans people who criticize him or just disagree with him. Twitter has also stepped up compliance with authoritarian governments around the world.
I have no info on what he banned or blocked. All I am saying is if someone wants a KKK platform or a white hate platform then so be it. As long as they are not harming anyone physically or financially it is fair game. We can't have this now for some reason but I grew up in a time when it was allowed. Nothing bad happened unlike today. The more things are banned the more bad thing happen. Maybe stop banning things? Just a suggestion from personal experience.
I grew up in a time when David Duke was allowed to speak on campuses. He is still a joke just like he was then. You are deluded being there was no major media platforms back then. Major media platforms didn't exist outside of antenna TV.
> I grew up in a time when David Duke was allowed to speak on campuses.
College campuses are not major or important platforms.
> Major media platforms didn't exist outside of antenna TV.
Cable news has been huge and important for 40 years. Before that (and today), there are thousands of widely-circulated publications with dissenting opinions that reach millions of people.
There's no reasonable argument that information is censored since it became essentially free to publish on the web in the 90s.
Almost nobody had cable TV in the early 80's. I grew up during this period but believe what you want. Cable TV was barely off the ground. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, but outside of that it was nothing. No reach.
Fast forward to the 90's when hate groups were allowed on the internet. No race riots, burning of cities. That only happened when things started getting banned. And the violence was not from the right. It was the left. They were the ones who looted and burned but again, believe what you want to believe. If you believe it then it happened. Right wingers burned and looted Walmarts..meh.
Amazing how many such cases we see: "Once I looked upto Elon, but now not anymore". This almost always occurs due to a very specific pathology: You've inferred motives based on outcomes. When he was focused on SpaceX, Tesla he was "earnest", "sincere", "cool". When he focuses on right wing politics and twitter, he's a "wannabe", "selfish", "duplicitous", there are many such descriptions I see online. The only conclusion I can come to upon seeing sentences like this is that you live in a comic book reality. When people have good outcomes, they decidedly have noble and good intentions, when people have bad outcomes, they have evil and selfish intentions. The possibility that someone can have objectively horrible outcomes with noble, pure intentions or vice versa does not exist in this world. To someone who does not live in a comic book, Elon has always had pure and earnest motives, in the sense that if he acted duplicitous he was not consciously aware of it. He does believe he is saving free speech, making humans multi-planetary, saving the environment, saving lives with autopilot etc. Now whether his earnest desires are leading to good real world outcomes is probably something you disagree with and that is a judgement you can make, yet it's very weird when you make assumptions on motivations. In the comic book world:
1. Journalists who often lead to good outcomes are earnest and moral in stature while when you actually interact with journalists you would realize they are easily the scum of the earth and the most deceptive group in real life to ever exist. You do not want to be their friend. When journalists are aware of their pathology you get amazing lines like: (from Hamilton Nolan in Gawker):
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Because journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power. It is about bringing important people to heel, on behalf of the public.
All I know is that there is only one way the press maintains its power in society: by metaphorically putting the heads of powerful people on pikes. If the Post and all the other respectable media outlets lose their ability to do that, powerful people will, by extension, stop caring what the well-informed segment of the public thinks.
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2. Non Profit's often have very noble intentions and high aspirations Yet, a very large number of Non Profit's are the worst thing to happen to the society they're trying to help. One only needs to look at the drug problem at SF and their enablers, but one can also marvel at the death toll of the Arab Spring.
He calls himself a “free speech absolutist” and then he turns around and bans a bunch a people for speech he doesn’t like. So much for the “absolutist” stance on free speech my dude.
