@FamedCelebrity I bought a house in 2008 that had been carpeted over wood floors. My first step was to pull up the carpet and have the floors refinished. They were gorgeous. I just shake my head about people who do those things.
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Bicycle Boy
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Bicycle Boy
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I ride therefore I am. Cyclist, systems analyst, sailor, math & science fan, ex-newspaper reporter, husband, father, brother, radical capitalist
Columbia, SC Katılım Şubat 2009
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You're sick of hearing this from me, but this fits with my prediction we're returning to the 70s. Back then, people covered perfectly good wood floors with linoleum.
Will we see a return of drop ceilings?
EducatëdHillbilly™@RobProvince
Wait… WHAT! Why? Why would you do this?!?
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The essence of Keynesianism is the belief that somewhere between micro and macro levels lies a magical boundary where the laws of economics cease to exist.
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@neoavatara Covering the same topic this morning, CNBC said housing prices have dropped 4% year over year. A slow market will do that.
FWIW, my next door neighbor just sold his house, which has been for sale for six months. Three years ago, houses were selling like hotcakes in my area.
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Ooof.
That is brutal. And it isn't because of prices (which have been coming down a tiny bit). This is because the economy is stagnating and interest rates aren't great.
zerohedge@zerohedge
There goes housing: New Home Sales 587K, Exp. 722K, down 17.6%
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I find AI invaluable for home repair projects. Say I want to put undercabinet lighting in my kitchen. "Okay Grok, here's a picture of my kitchen. What lighting works best?" Out comes a product list with brand names and, if I dig further, installation instructions.
It's great stuff and worth every monthly penny I pay for it.
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As a carpenter & a contractor let me tell you this is total bullshit.
I use AI regularly as a contractor. There are sectors of the construction industry that are moving towards AI.
AI will never completely take over construction but it'll take over sizable parts of it.
Nithya Shri@Nithya_Shrii
10 jobs that are 100% safe from AI: 1. Dentist 2. Construction worker 3. Plumbing 4. Farming 5. Gardening 6. Carpentry 7. Cooking 8. Gardening 9. Welder 10. Electrician Did I miss any?!
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@Handre Keynesians were sitting around drunk on bourbon then, already high, decided to smoke some crack and came up with MMT.
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@neoavatara All the animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
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Shame on any member of Congress that bypasses the TSA lines.
Absolutely shame on them.
NOVA Campaigns@NoVA_Campaigns
Congress (both parties) don’t care about the @TSA delays… because they literally don’t affect them. Personally escorts to the front of the line.
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The Cuban government has been starving its people for over 60 years you fucking retard
Lazzyyyyyy@em_Lazzy
We need to be clear about this: TRUMP IS TRYING TO COMMIT GENOCIDE IN CUBA. Systematically starving 11 million people is a crime against humanity.
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We need to be clear about this: TRUMP IS TRYING TO COMMIT GENOCIDE IN CUBA. Systematically starving 11 million people is a crime against humanity.
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@PeterSweden7 Again, the US is not a democracy; it is a republic.
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So 7 of 10 Swedish people don't belive the USA is a democracy anymore.
Meanwhile Sweden has 65 no-go zones and Malmö is ranked as dangerous as Baghdad...
Are people completely brainwashed?
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This will give you a solid appreciation of the strategic questions at stake in the Iran War.
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad
Let's unpack this.. What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz? What if this war is really about ships & tariffs? I had a long discussion with senior DOE official yesterday on background. I can’t share any details but it’s clear everyone’s Strait of Hormuz calculus is wrong. We need to go back to the drawing boards. That's it. That's the tweet. Now a hypothetical 🧵 with my personal thoughts.
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@C_3C_3 Because people benefit from it. Now I’d ask who, what, when, where, and how.
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@BrandonDonkey2 She had the charisma and acting skills of a fence post. Hats off to her publicist though.
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@BRyvkin Sad but true. It seemed to me that he was distracted and didn’t care to push it hard. He definitely didn’t try to make a solid public case for it.
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@erichhartmann @AlecMacGillis @ajlamesa @timcraigpost This is why the Senate-passed bill on housing bothers me. Consolidating zoning standards is the opposite of federalism and takes control of our environment away from us.
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@AlecMacGillis @ajlamesa @timcraigpost The urge to max densify every neighborhood is problematic. We need to let locales craft the kinds of community they want to be, and stop forcing these progressive planning schemes down their throats; nobody wants this crap in their neighborhoods.
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In Princeton NJ, where the median home costs $1 million, residents are fighting a plan for 238 apartments on the grounds of a former seminary. Leading the resistance: historian Sean Wilentz. "We are being accused of being racist," he said.
@timcraigpost: wapo.st/4rBmPtC
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@neoavatara Well, water is a key component of mush, and my brain is mush, so I’ll bet my brain is 90% water.
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Actually 80% of your brain is water.
Dr. Dennis Walker@drdenwalker
Know this: Your brain is made mostly of cholesterol. When you start taking medication to lower your cholesterol, that's when you end up with dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc. Don’t fall for it. It’s a scam!!! RT and Share
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@johnkonrad Sixty days doesn't seem long enough for the waiver to get traction. I would think it takes weeks to arrange shipments. How long does it take for an oil shipper to reroute traffic?
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And there it is folks. The moment Jones Act haters have been waiting for…
gcaptain.com/trump-waives-j…
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@hashjenni Again, Cuba is free to trade with the rest of the world. Why don't they?
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It'll sound off-topic, but YouTube used to show dislike counts alongside like counts. I valued that as a guide to a video's time-worth. 5,000 likes and 10,000 dislikes meant don't bother watching. I lament that they removed the feature.
Perhaps a like/dislike count on posts would be a useful guide as well. If it proves a bad idea, X will change. They seem open to evolution.
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I’m perfectly fine with a dislike button. But you know Libs will massively abuse it just like they do with community notes when you post literally anything that goes viral. Even jokes.
Breaking911@Breaking911
X has officially started rolling out a dislike button.
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It's odd being in a diminishing pool of people who remember Reagan in real time, but here goes: He was immensely popular by 1984, but every two-term president loses popularity in the second term. The Iran-Contra affair eroded a sizable chunk of his support, yet he always held 50+ percent approval.
The RDS people always existed. At the time they were open communists, fellow travelers, or useful idiots who trumpeted Soviet talking points. Today they would be your average woke activist. I remember large protests over Star Wars and the placement of nuclear missiles in Europe. Both were instrumental in the fall of the USSR.
As for the dementia, in hindsight it may be true, but it was not apparent in public appearances, and I think it's overplayed today. People now often dismiss the fall of the USSR as some spontaneous historic oddity. It wasn't. It took the leadership of Reagan and Thatcher (with a big boost from Pope John Paul II) to make it happen.
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I don't remember much of it with Reagan. He was re-elected by 49 states, and I don't see that will ever happen again with any candidate. I do remember that Reagan became less popular towards the end of his 2nd term. His wife was certainly no help to him, and I think he was showing signs of dementia. Either way, it's definitely gotten progressively worse over time.
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I know it's called TDS, but I think it's so much more. They hate us. They hate America. And I have no delusions that their hatred will end when President Trump leaves office. They are AINOs. Americans In Name Only.
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