Adam Deermount

Narrator: So it turned out that buying the worst properties in the worst markets and aggressively raising rents was not the brilliant and innovative strategy that the syndicator gurus would have had you believe it was.

Thank you, capitalism!

The State of California makes more money off a gallon of gas than the oil company that refined it and got it to market. Almost $2 of every gallon there goes to Sacramento’s coffers. And these people are *still* mumbling about “corporate greed” and more taxes.

Pilot Victor Glover has 3000+ hrs in 40 aircraft and 400+ carrier landings. Mission Specialist Christina Hammond has 300+ days in space as a flight engineer on the ISS. To say they are on the Artemis crew bc of “DEI” and not bc of their merit is both racist and sexist.

Extreme left nonprofit bizarrely promotes North Korea as utopia where housing is free to cash-strapped New Yorkers: 'Is your rent due?' trib.al/oS0Px9B

Why don’t you STFU and let the Club Pyongyang timeshare salesmen make their pitch to the Tankies

Matt Mahan as California governor would be an *incredible* whitepill If we want to save California, this is the one way it could happen

I built CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded. It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇 Numbers don't lie, but criminals do. courtwatch.us @bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback

How much is gas in your neighborhood? It will help give context for @RepRoKhanna

According to Waymo's published data, their technology is preventing injuries & deaths. My view is that if this is true, and I have yet to see a debunking of their data, then we safety advocates should be welcoming the technology. If Waymo is lying or manipulating data, then write about how they're doing that! Instead the analysis in this recent Streetsblog article is limited to "the authors of the Waymo safety report work for Waymo!" FFS, are we going to toss out all the NYCDOT reports about how their bike lanes improve safety? Are we going to toss out the decongestion pricing reports because they were written by the transit employees who want transit to succeed? I hope not! Here's what we've been told by Waymo: ✅ 170.7 million rider-only miles driven without a human driver (equivalent to roughly 200 human lifetimes of driving). ✅ 92% fewer serious injury or worse crashes compared to human drivers in the same cities and conditions (0.02 incidents per million miles vs. 0.22 for humans; 35 fewer such crashes). ✅ 83% fewer airbag-deployment crashes in any vehicle (230 fewer crashes). ✅ 82% fewer injury-causing crashes overall (544 fewer crashes). ✅ 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to human benchmarks. ✅ 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes. ✅ 81% fewer motorcycle injury crashes. ✅ No fatalities caused by the Waymo Driver across these 170.7 million driverless miles. ✅ At current scale (over 4 million miles per week), Waymo prevents 1 serious injury crash every 8 days. If data is manipulated or false, then report on that. Otherwise you come out looking like someone who only likes safety benefits that aren't shaped like a car. It's going to set back Vision Zero advocacy in states across the country that are on the fence about allowing autonomous vehicle operations. Waymo does have a profit motive. So do corporations who build homes, distribute food, host concerts, publish books, and make medicine. Not all of them are the same and some are downright awful. Always challenge motives and incentives. What's interesting about Waymo is that they have a financial incentive in being the absolute safest form of motorized vehicle on the street. They'll lose business if their software is just as dangerous as an average human driver. But that in no way means streets must be overtaken by motor vehicles (theirs or any other brand). What do we want? 92% fewer pedestrian injury crashes compared to humans? 85% fewer cyclist injury crashes? Then come up with a way to let AVs into cities across the country.

Normal Californians: This is the guy

One of our borrowers is the developer (we aren’t the lender on this one). Can’t wait to see it completed

Quite a mess brewing in Calif. But some of us can remember a gov race there that featured a porn star, the kid from Diff’rent Strokes, Arianna Huffington, a 100-year-old woman, Larry Flynt, a sumo wrestler and … Arnold Schwarzenegger.

MLB owners: we need to appeal to young people Rob Manfred:

@housleyd No cold plunge or meditation either

@ADeermount What? No sauna? Unsubscribe

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I hope this is true but I suspect that the CA electorate has gone too far off the reservation for this sort of sanity.

A study found LA's Measure ULA mansion tax cut large apartment permits by 1,910 homes annually and blocks over 100 affordable homes per year — while generating revenue to fund only 70. Exempting new multifamily buildings could preserve some revenue and the housing. Link ⬇️

I guess corporate greed has drastically decreased.

Time might be up for these secondaries funds, which have completed fabricated positive returns through buying at a discount to NAV and immediately marking to NAV same-day. People are starting to sniff for the next blow up… wsj.com/finance/invest…

@FARlikewhoa Why are we raising pay faster than inflation, instead of using that $$ to hire more teachers to reduce class sizes?