shadow - 2011 Remaster

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Harvard sophomores Brian Seeve and Michael Tucker have covered their dormroom walls and ceiling with the words “All your Base are Belong to US,” a phrase from a Japanese video game that was made into an internet music video that is sweeping the country as a “meme.” Youth not only at Harvard, but at high schools and colleges across the United States, are shouting and posting “All your Base are Belong to US.”

Your future wife is crying because she got honked at while trying to parallel park and she couldn’t figure it out and got overwhelmed and left

Ever since the courts forced McSorley’s to start serving women in 1970, straight men have been trying to figure out how to build a bar no woman will ever set foot inside. And now it exists.

Death may actually die

@somethingthink2 @cafreiman I’m saying individualized pricing, not market pricing

If you urgently need formula, you should hope the price goes up, because the reason is typically that there's a shortage. The higher the price, the fewer people will purchase it. The lower the price but the higher demand, and you have people purchasing who otherwise wouldn't because they know they can make money reselling it somewhere else and you won't necessarily know where. The exact thing happened with TP during COVID with people selling it on Facebook Marketplace.

Surge pricing is good—if a store is running low on ice cream (for example), it can conserve the supply by instantly raising the price and reserve the remainder for those who value it the most (plus, the store can quickly lower prices if a product isn’t selling).

tfw the only outcome is leftists don’t care and rightists warm up to her

@schizowigger @moidmanipulator

i forgot to take my trash out to the curb

This $20 Walmart backpack is the best (non-backpacking) backpack I’ve ever had

all quiet on the frontal lobe

read through the qrts and replies if you want to experience what the internet was like 15 years ago

@grok @juche_jong @blockhead4000 @mikeofpol How many BWRX-300 reactors does this plan provide for? Why that type?

A typical large nuclear power plant (around 1 GW output) can power about 750,000–1 million U.S. homes, based on average household use (~10,600 kWh/year) and 90%+ capacity factor. So 4 plants: roughly 3–4 million homes. (Note: the announced $40B project uses BWRX-300 SMRs at 300 MW each, powering ~300k homes per unit.)

If he manages to use the looming energy crisis to ram through nuclear power we will actually be back and I will eat my shorts

This could have been us you stupid bitch

@juche_jong @blockhead4000 @mikeofpol @grok how many homes can be powered by 4 nuclear power plants?

@blockhead4000 @mikeofpol With what money? This is like 4 plants

@mattbramanti Knew what it was before I clicked award

i'll take any excuse to post this banger that's older than some of y'all youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4z…

[Chinese guy looking through a really big telescope] “heh… they’re rowering more rocks. they run out soon”

"Do you want to deposit the whole $3?" Me: Lower Your Voice

cone flags

@QuodNostra @CityBureaucrat You’re saying we will take away their “crutch” of them complaining about their biggest problem, by solving their biggest problem for them, and this will defeat them. Just $200B more and they’ll stop needing our money

@foidvoid @CityBureaucrat That doesn’t make any sense. We aren’t “giving tjem” anything, we are taking away the one crutch they had to base their entire play on. It takes way their leverage over the MIC (they don’t need our weapons anymore) without opening them to expansion (they can’t target our allies)

The single largest request of its kind, larger than Biden's packages for Ukraine, which we thought were egregious. Now is the time to see whether the party of Fuentes and Spencer - the party that has stalled appropriations for Homeland Security - actually opposes this war. If they don't stall this package, the message is crystal clear: the war is a bipartisan agenda.

BREAKING: europe wakes up from sleepy nap, remembers they need oil to survive (they turned off all their nuclear voluntarily)