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Wife. Mom. Physicist. Commercial Real Estate. Knitter. Deal maker. Daughter of the American Revolution. Talking about knitting, CRE, physics/tech

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The social capital that we had as kids for free has to be purchased now. Safe streets, neighbors who watch out for each others kids, no drugs, no crime, etc. That was common in affordable neighborhoods in the past. Today, you have to be able to buy a nice house in a “good neighborhood” to even hope to get these things. People want to buy safety and community. It’s not just about the magazine ready houses.
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Justine Bateman@JustineBateman·
This is an excellent point that is rarely mentioned when discussing housing affordability. I know someone who has a modest income and he just bought a house. Not in Beverly Hills or NYC’s upper east side. It was in a modest neighborhood in an affordable state.
Balsamicshoe@balsamicshoe

@Hurricane762 @JustineBateman I don't pay rent either but I also bought a house I could afford in an area I could afford. Most of the people in these videos want to live in the most expensive areas and complain about costs. My mortgage, property taxes, and utilities are likely less than their rent.

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Not expecting to hear from them, but I hope my former liberal colleagues that said I was bat 💩 crazy and “fringe” for saying it was mathematically impossible that Biden won the 2020 election are seeing all of the declassified documents right now. 🤓 ht toldyaso
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SacredThreads@SacredThreadsK·
@ResiVeteran @GMC Car dealerships are now baking in financing income (from in-house financing) with sale profits. If you plan on paying cash, do not tell them until you’re ready to wire the funds and go home.
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ResiVetUSA@ResiVeteran·
So I go into @GMC dealership today fully prepared to purchase this truck. Finance guy comes back and says “we’re sorry we can’t offer you the 1.9% rate unless we remove all of the discounts” Ummmmm…. That’s not what your website says, here look. Oh we know, it’s confusing I know. You can have the rebates but the interest rate will be 5.99% @GMC advertising false offers is not cool. Have a nice day…
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@SacAppraiser In central Texas, we call that an oven. LOL Fun idea in the right environment.
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Ryan Lundquist
Ryan Lundquist@SacAppraiser·
Having a man cave is one of the best things I ever did. Not only is it good to have a cool place for me, but it’s been a magnet to invite people into. “Hey, want to come over and play pool?” Easy to say yes to that. I highly recommend. This was last night.
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Mrgunsngear@Mrgunsngear·
A FOIA request revealed that, in just one town, 3rd parties (credit card companies, cell phone companies, alphabet agencies, retailers, foreign governments, etc...) accessed camera data more than 500,000 times in a 9 week period. "Flock Safety could not guarantee that it's not sharing information with federal agencies." No shit. Several municipalities in CT are "turning off" their Flock cameras in response to what one FOIA request revealed. The problem - the towns don't control/own the cameras nor the data they collect so they can't turn them off. They can instruct their employees to not access them but Flock, a private company funded *almost exclusively* (outside of people like Marc Andreessen & his ilk) by taxpayer dollars, owns the devices and the data. Plan accordingly... #rural #CT #police #crime #PoliceState #4thAmendment #14thAmendment #CivilRights #ALPR #cops #stalking #women #windsor #flock #SurveillanceState
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The worst closing of my career was with a debt fund who insisted on their title company and their mobile notary service. Both of which were subbing out the actual work and taking a margin. We had to have the notaries go back out twice for signatures on pages they missed or lost. Title took a month, and borrowers attorney had to hold titles hand through the process. And finally, it took 12 months after the note was repaid to get the lien of title. So lenders who insist on their own service providers are a big red flag for me.
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Casey Mericle
Casey Mericle@CaseyMericle·
A few things to look at here when selecting a title company 1. Have they been in business a long time Title companies get frequently audited and I don’t really trust any of them that haven’t been in business at least 20 years Most die in 5 years I don’t wanna trust someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing and doesn’t have a healthy backbone 2. Look to see if they’re recording releases or satisfactions upon a refinance. When a new loan is put on a property that already one from that same owner If you don’t see a satisfaction or a release in this situation then that shows you they lack attention to detail & leave title chain issues for their customers down the line 3. Do they have their own in-house title abstractors If they don’t have this locally it tells you that they won’t be able to get you a title commitment this week It might be more like 2-4 weeks out If you have a need for speed ya need someone with local in-house abstractors Hope this helps
Nolan Gore | SMB Lawn Cowboy@TheNolanGore

For my real estate bros… How do you choose your title company? Relationship? How much spend to take you to events? General competence? Whatever the other broker puts on there? Seriously interested.

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Yes, I made that part of my logs so that in case any mistakes are made, I can revert. I’ll do more testing before introducing agents, and my plan for first step is to stick with read only agent activities to provide quick updates, call attention to matters that might have been overlooked, meeting prep, etc. it’s a process, but the steps I’ve taken so far allow me to do the work of multiple people and grow my business.
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Uncle J
Uncle J@UncleJAI·
@SacredThreadsK @BrianRoemmele This is where CRM agents become useful. I would keep reads broad, but every send, reschedule, or field update should return a receipt with object ID, before/after value, and undo path. That preserves the time win without turning HubSpot into an invisible write surface.
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
Grok 4.5 is stunning it will be absolutely amazing when the 2T model is released. I would say this may be the breakaway point from all other models.
Elon Musk@elonmusk

@minchoi Our 2T model, which is better than our 1.5T in every way, will finish initial training next week. It might be able to exceed Kimi, but with speed and token efficiency close to our 1.5T (aka Grok 4.5).

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It’s not a dollar amount. It’s terms. The Manager does not want to be on the hook financially for any cost overages above 10%. It’s a ~200 unit condo development. Manager is only putting in half a million and refuses to accept responsibility if they screw it up. It’s a big retrade that’s been introduced after a land partner closed on the site. Investors (3 in all) have accepted most points. They want manager to face some minimal dilution if overruns exceed 10% outside of a force majeur. If my investor walks, manager doesn’t have the cash to fund predev entitlements. It’s beyond ridiculous, and manager has big emotional reactions in every conversation. God help me. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Casey Mericle@CaseyMericle·
Me offering to bridge the gap to the listing broker when their seller and the buyer are close, but can’t quite get to the right price
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SacredThreads@SacredThreadsK·
@Electroversenet It’s great to see this. Shameful that so much false propaganda has come from those profiting off of climate initiatives over the years. Earth is an incredible resilient planet that knows how to restore itself.
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Electroverse@Electroversenet·
Fresh data from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority is in, and it tells a very different story from the doom and gloom headlines. In September 2025, a total of 538 reef health surveys were completed across 46 reefs. The results show minimal bleaching in one southern region and none at all anywhere else. According to the official data, coral cover is now at its fourth highest level in 40 years, beaten only by 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Great Barrier Reef isn't dying, it's thriving.
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@Saronic A win for Texas and the city of Brownsville! Looks like we will see more growth in South Texas.
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Saronic@Saronic·
Today, we're proud to announce the future home of Port Alpha: Brownsville, Texas. Our next-generation shipyard moves from vision to reality through a planned investment of more than $3 billion to establish one of the world's most advanced shipyards, built for software-defined shipbuilding and autonomous maritime systems. Port Alpha is expected to generate more than $160 billion in regional economic impact for Cameron County and $264.5 billion for the State of Texas, while creating up to 10,000 direct jobs — which makes it one of the largest economic development projects in modern Texas history. More than a shipyard, Port Alpha represents a new model for American shipbuilding — combining advanced manufacturing, software-defined production, and autonomy at unprecedented scale. We're proud to continue building in Texas. Learn more: medium.com/saronic-techno…
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@annbauerwriter If you don’t know that you’ve got explosive diarrhea, you’ve got bigger problems. 😂😬
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I think that the nature of our consciousness is a point of great misunderstanding in the world of science now. And it’s key to understanding our place in existence.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Roger Penrose just broke the most expensive assumption in human history. Every major AI lab operates on one belief. Scale it far enough and consciousness just appears. Penrose: “There is this sort of view that once you make a computer complicated enough or something, it suddenly becomes aware. I just don’t believe that. There’s no reason to believe that.” Nobel Prize in Physics. Proved black holes are inevitable from general relativity alone. And he’s calling the foundational thesis of the entire AI industry a baseless assertion. Not flawed. Not premature. Baseless. No one proved that complexity produces consciousness. No experiment. No paper. No mathematical proof. The most technologically advanced industry built its core thesis on an assumption indistinguishable from faith. Penrose: “The keyword is the word ‘understanding.’ You can follow rules alright, but we don’t understand what we’re doing. The understanding is the key point.” These models don’t understand anything. Not the questions. Not the answers. Not a single word they generate. They process. They predict. They output. But understanding requires something no architecture has ever produced. Awareness. Penrose: “It doesn’t make sense to say of a device that it understands something if it’s not even aware of it. There is something much more profound in being conscious of something.” They built the most sophisticated language machines in history. Not one has ever experienced a single moment of its own existence. Penrose: “There is something quite different involved in understanding things, in being aware of things, of feeling things, which is not part of computations.” Awareness is not a software update. Consciousness is not a scaling problem. You cannot build what you cannot define. And no one alive has defined consciousness. Penrose: “I believe that the brain is following the laws of physics, sure. We don’t have a good picture of the laws of physics.” Penrose: “Quantum mechanics is not an answer to the way the universe operates. It’s a partial answer. It’s incomplete.” The physics that lets you read this sentence and know that you’re reading it might not exist in any textbook on Earth. We are not just trying to build machines that think. We are trying to engineer something we experience every second of our lives and cannot explain. You are proof of that right now. You are conscious. You know you exist. You feel yourself thinking. No one alive can tell you what that is. That is what the largest investment in human history is trying to build.

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Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
In 2000 frustrated by a missing exit marker on the 110 Freeway, Richard Ankrom spent months studying state specs to fix it himself. Disguised as a worker, he installed a perfect I-5 shield in broad daylight a legendary act of "guerrilla public service." His rogue sign fooled officials for 8 years until Caltrans finally replaced it, officially adopting his exact upgrade—forever.
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We’ve known for years that NASA lied about the face on Mars being a trick of light and shadows. I hope that when humans go to Mars, actual on site investigations will be done.
Maaneli (Max) Derakhshani@MaxDerakhshani

No, not necessarily, and not even likely. Transient lunar phenomena (TLP), particularly from or around Aristarchus, were observed by amateur astronomers, lay people, and scientists of all stripes for hundreds of years, or long before there were any "planetary scientists". Yet they were considered taboo to discuss in the scientific community, and even the post-1950s planetary science community, for decades. Brown University and former Apollo selenologist, Prof. Peter Schultz, has told me directly (email communication) that Dr. Barbara Middlehurst's work on TLP in the 1960s and 1970s was considered taboo at NASA and that she lost her funding and job for working on it. He has also said this publicly in media interviews. Yet, since the early 2000s, NASA has freely admitted to the reality of TLP and admits that they are "poorly understood" and lacking a generally accepted plausible natural-geological explanation or set of explanations. As well, a persistent massive plume (of something still not fully explained) extending 150 miles high above the Martian surface, well above the atmospheric limb of Mars, visible from earth-bound telescopes, was independently discovered by an amateur astronomer named Wayne Jaeschke. The "planetary scientists" completely missed it before he spotted it, and when he spotted it, all but one "planetary scientist" contacted him to evaluate his data, and that "planetary scientist" thought it was a mistake/illusion/data artifact at first. After years of evaluation, it was finally acknowledged as real by the "planetary scientists". Yet, to this day, "planetary scientists" admit they still have no plausible explanation what it is: Mysterious Mars Plume Discovery Is Amateur Astronomy at Its Best space.com/28670-mystery-… europepmc.org/article/MED/29… As well, Viking orbiter project scientist, Gerald Soffen, told the press in a public NASA press conference in 1976 that the apparent 'face' on Mars imaged by Viking was a trick of light and shadow that went away a few hours later upon a second image being taken: "Isn't it peculiar what tricks of light and shadow can do...? When we took another picture a few hours later, it all went away; it was just a trick, just the way the light fell on it." Yet, Soffen flatly lied. There was never a second photo taken hours later. Not only that, but there *couldn't* have been one, because the Viking orbiter wasn't even in position anywhere close to Cydonia until a couple months later, as was discovered by Vince Di Pietro and Greg Molenaar (DPM), and later noted by Richard Hoagland and many others. Moreover, when it was imaged again a couple months later (frame 70A), that Viking frame was *withheld* by NASA from public knowledge and public access (as discovered by DPM), and the frame showed the 'face' at a higher sun elevation angle *still looking like a face* (it was even labeled as "Head" in the Viking imaging archives where DPM discovered it). Even Carl Sagan, who initially was mocking of independent researchers suggesting that the 'face' on Mars might be artificial in origin, later admitted that Soffen was wrong, 10 years later, in a private letter to Dr. Mark Carlotto (see attached). Moreover, in his Cosmos video series in the 1990s, Sagan while talking about Mars discussed the 'face' and said that although he thinks the 'face' is most likely just a blocky mesa, if we are going to visit Mars with manned missions, "there's no harm in [going to the 'face' structure and] "taking a look": Carl Sagan Cosmos Clip youtube.com/watch?v=ya6G1P… Sagan also used Carlott's shape-from-shading imaging results of the 'face', both in his Cosmos series and in a later book The Demon Haunted World (neither of which he had to do at all). Sagan also said this in DHW: “Unlike the UFO phenomenon, we have here the opportunity for a definitive experiment. This kind of hypothesis is falsifiable, a property that brings it into the scientific arena. I hope that forthcoming American and Russian missions to Mars, especially orbiters with high-resolution television cameras, will make a special effort – among hundreds of other scientific questions – to look much more closely at the pyramids and what some people call the Face and the city.” markcarlotto.com/2023/06/03/dr-… The point is that Sagan was very late to the party, but eventually came around to agreeing that the 'face', 'pyramids', etc., look anomalous enough that they warrant further study. The very position of non-planetary scientists such as Carlotto, Hoagland, Torun, McDaniel, among many others, and the position of minority-view NASA "planetary scientists" like Di Pietro, Molenaar, and Brandenburg, among others, several years before Sagan came around. Finally, we have Jared Isaacman, the current head of NASA, recently admitting that there are UAP-type anomalies in NASA's own image archives from the Apollo era. Anomalies which clearly NASA leadership never publicly acknowledged (or perhaps even noticed) until the first tranche of UAP files from the DOW. Don't believe me? Believe Isaacman's own words (quotes all from the same May 2026 Fox News interview): "I would say that some of the most interesting data that NASA has provided as part of the UAP disclosure was taken on the surface of the moon from Apollo 12 and 17. You can't be a moon landing denier and also believe that those photos captured unexplained phenomenon." ""There’s nothing I’m aware of in terms of alien bodies or spaceships," Isaacman said. "But observations from decades past — from some of our adversaries and potentially some of our allies — essentially saying, ‘We saw something, we documented it, and we kept it buried in a file somewhere,’ are now being made public."" ""What’s being surfaced isn’t crashed ships or alien bodies, but real unexplained phenomena," Isaacman told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday." foxnews.com/politics/nasa-… There are many other examples of genuine planetary anomalies that "planetary scientists" were NOT the first to recognize, and/or stubbornly refused to acknowledge until much later, and/or have still been unable to satisfactorily explain in natural/geological terms, and/or recognized them but simply suppressed them from public knowledge or publicly suppressed their recognition of those anomalies. The point is that your idea that "planetary scientists would definitely have noticed any anomalous objects on the Moon and/or Mars first, if they existed", is flagrantly contradicted by the available facts. Not to mention totally unscientific.

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