@HPbasketball Alternatively, they did get a ring, when a bunch of guys in the various dynasty eras never did.
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Andy Lee
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It is certifiably nuts that Giannis and Jokic only have one for how good they are. They are truly great. But there were other great teams. Also the Heat did some weird stuff.
Betsey@Betsycashmoney
A lot of y'all gotta come to terms with this: Over the next few decades (I'm not making predictions beyond that, because who knows if we'll even have a planet by 2075), there will be a lot more cases of more of "Wow, I can't believe [Insert All-time Player] only won 1-2 rings!"
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@nickgerli1 Which also makes the reverse true, places where prices didn't runup significantly don't feel they have the ability to cashout and leave for a different part of the country.
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@nickgerli1 My off the cuff guess would be the huge runup in pricing in markets like Ca/Co during Zirp allowed equity rich homeowners to cashout and move wherever they like 2021-2024. Probably some of that now happening after the runup in prices in the Sunbelt.
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Chicago's housing market is in crisis.
Listings are down 59% from pre-pandemic norms.
There were 30k listings across the metro back in 2019. Now there's only 12k.
Such a massive inventory shortage is creating bidding wars and double-digit value growth in some pockets.
Until this shortage is resolved, home values in the Chicago metro will keep going up.
Check your ZIPs inventory by downloading the app: reventure.app/mobileZIP's
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@nickgerli1 Denver's inventory surges exactly when interest rates surge, Chicago's inventory plummets right after the interest rate surge.
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@nickgerli1 We really overcomplicate all of this. People are moving to where they can afford to live. That was the Sunbelt, now it's the Midwest. Expensive markets were reasonably attainable at lower interest rates but became prohibitively expensive when interest rates went up.
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@Shapalicious Edwards is a shell of himself right now, they absolutely should still win. If they don't win Adelman and multiple starters need to go this offseason.
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@Noahpinion It will probably mean the end of cognitive improvement for a significant number of human beings, but almost assuredly not the end of human cognitive improvement.
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This is why I'm not worried that AI will mean the end of human cognitive improvement
mickey friedman@mickeyxfriedman
the current fear is is that AI homogenizes culture and turns humans into passive consumers one counterpoint: in Go, human play showed very little improvement from 1950 to 2016 until alphago beat lee sedol - then human decision quality jumped. players started developing moves that were distinct both from previous human moves and from the novel moves introduced by machine intelligence this seems more likely to me - fun times ahead
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If there is anything we have learned over the last 12 months:
President Trump makes tons of major market-moving decisions on Friday nights, just hours after markets are closed.
Between June 2025 airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites, the October 10th "100% China tariff" threat, closure of Venezuela's airspace, February 28th strikes on Iran, and now the targeting of Khrag Island, it has become a clear part of President Trump's strategy.
Trump will look to apply more pressure this weekend before markets open.
He has 45 hours until futures open.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
What just happened to Iran's Kharg Island? President Trump just said the US has carried out the "most powerful bombing raids in Middle East history" on Kharg island. This is a MAJOR escalation for oil markets. Here's why: Kharg Island has been described as the "crown jewel" of Iran's oil industry. It is a vital, tiny island in the northern Persian Gulf that manages ~90% of Iran's crude oil exports. Kharg Island alone handles ~2% of global oil supply. In the lead up to the war, Iran was exporting as much as 3 MILLION barrels of oil per day from Kharg Island. Trump said that the US military has "chosen NOT to wipe out the Oil Infrastructure on the Island" for now. However, President Trump also said he will reconsider this decision should Iran "do anything to interfere with the free and safe passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz," which Iran is clearly doing right now. In other words, President Trump appears to be paving the path for the destruction of oil infrastructure on one of the world's most crucial oil ports and islands. It's no coincidence this came just 2 hours after markets closed for the weekend. Buckle up for a busy weekend ahead.
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@hamandcheese @ryxcommar True, most of his efforts are focused on destabilizing the US.
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@ryxcommar Yes, so far Trump has not destablized Iraq, Syria or Lybia
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Sure seems like Elon gave Hegseth anti-Anthropic brainworms to try to take out his competitor, coincident with Grok winning approval on confidential servers.
Samuel Hammond 🦉@hamandcheese
It's one thing to cancel a contract but to bar any contractor from using Anthropic's models would be an absurd act of industrial sabotage. It reaks of a competitor op.
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@mattyglesias I think Democrats can tie cost of living issues to climate pretty easily. Insurance, infrastructure and grid upgrades required because of climate change, crop issues, water scarcity, etc. I think that is both true and the best climate narrative going forward.
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@CharlesFLehman Of course you can??? America is certainly capable of attracting/absorbing a couple million immigrants a year in perpetuity as long as we don't actively try to not take in immigrants. Not everyone can fix their falling birth rate that way, but the US can easily fix it that way.
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Of course, the fertility decline is global, which means that you can't solve the low birth-rates problem with immigration.
"Just have more of other nation's babies" sounds nice, but those babies have to come from somewhere.
Billy Binion@billybinion
A reminder that you can’t panic about low birth rates & be anti-immigration at the same time. “Just have more babies” sounds nice, but natalist policies don’t work, especially in rich countries. If the U.S. doesn’t start letting more people in, we’re going to be in trouble.
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@dilanesper Significant public money for them is dumb, but the owners in Denver are exceptionally sharp and are about to spend 4 billion+ of their own dollars on a stadium. I can't imagine they are doing this with the plan for it to lose money.
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People really WANT to believe that new football stadiums are big moneymakers, probably because they think they are cool and want their football teams to build them.
But no, they really are basically empty hulks.
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It's pretty shocking the replies to this. One guy said the Cowboys stadium hosts 400 events a year. The Superdome, which hosts MAYBE 50, falsely claims it hosts 120.
These stadiums publish their calendars! They are largely empty!
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
this. it really is the worst possible thing economically that you can build. it just sits empty 340 days a year
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@jbhenchman Gallagher was awful policy, and assessments didn't go up. Colorado has just about the lowest property tax rate in the nation.
arl.colorado.gov/chapter-3-spec…
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Colorado voters in 2020 passed Amendment B which removed a 38-year-old limit on residential property assessment (via the ratio with non-residential property, called the Gallagher Amendment).
YES: 1,740,395
NO: 1,285,136
Opponents warned the likely result would be sharply higher assessments on residential property. While removing the ratio limit prevented a tax increase on business property, continued growth in local spending means taxes still go up for someone.
Zero Tolerance Policy@ThoughtCrimes80
My dad is 77 and lives on social security. He’s lived in the same house since 1993. It’s been paid off for two decades.Yet he owes $8k in property taxes, or the state of Colorado will take his home. This is criminal. @GovofCO
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@ZacharyDonnini I would guess the correlation between housing prices is at least as strong as red vs blue states. When interest rates went up the gulf in prices became significantly more important. Throw median housing prices on the x axis instead and see which has a stronger correlation.
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Because a million people are asking me, no, this pattern does not go away when you control for climate.
Controlling for partisanship, people are not moving to warmer states.
Controlling for climate, people are moving to redder states.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
A pretty clear pattern: people are moving from blue states to red states.
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@DenverCOrealEst @aaron_renn Denver has not built alot of housing.
Tennessee, Texas and Florida have.
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Even if true, imagine thinking you can separate housing prices from the politics.
Andy Lee@DenverCOrealEst
@aaron_renn It's not politics, it's housing prices. Growth in places with expensive housing was not sustainable when interest rates went up, it's that simple. Denver has the most expensive housing not on the coast, if it wasn't desirable to people, it wouldn't have expensive housing.
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@zekester116 @aaron_renn By every single metric Denver and Colorado built tons of housing the last decade. When a place booms though you can't build fast enough. The same thing many Southern metro areas are experiencing now.
constructioncoverage.com/research/count…
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@DenverCOrealEst @aaron_renn And who decided not to build more housing in Colorado!
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@aaron_renn I will say it for the 100th time, if you owned a house for a time in Ca, Co, Wa, etc, you can sell that house and move basically anywhere else in the country with the equity. You have tons of options! The opposite is true in less expensive areas.
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@aaron_renn The current Governor, who you say has caused this mass exodus, is the as close to socially liberal, fiscally conservative as any politician in the country. The previous governor is just about the most moderate Democrat in the senate today.
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