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Often, commercial landlords allow for less-profitable shops because they drive traffic to your more profitable tenants and generally improve the value of the other properties around it. It is very obvious when this is not done, because you
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Can't wait to see the revisions in all the economic data after the US Midterms. The EIA in particular has given up a lot of its reputation and credibility this year.
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I'm not sure why we even need a trial. It will be a resounding success and the guaranteed income and MMT crowds will point to this study as "proof" that guaranteed income does not cause economy-destroying inflation, always ig
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Looking at the chart, would it not be a good time - especially with USD losing 8% of its value on a yearly basis? After all, you can only invest so much into capital projects and who knows what will be left of the US after Biden's ten
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The scary realization I had recently, is that compared to most other furniture that requires assembly, IKEA is quite easy. Also, I don't understand why hex bits for drills are not a thing. My new measure of "wealthy" also sw
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At that point, the minute we start taxing scope 3 emissions, every single EV company goes bankrupt. Surprise: mining runs on diesel and natural gas. Now add in all those emissions to those 30 kg of lithium (and let's not even count al
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What settings would the average user find useful beyond adding a blocklist (which Transmission supports)? Genuinely curious as someone who used Transmission back in the day and appreciated the simplicity.
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The biggest difference is political: when someone the media doesn't like does it, it's a chemical weapon. When someone the media likes does it, it's nothing. See: https://www.salon.com/2020/06/02&#x
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> Not a word about Voter ID Every serious, even-remotely-democratic country on the planet requires voter ID, yet one US party is staunchly against it. Until the US changes this, then its electoral process should be seen with extreme ske
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I haven't figured out a good way of quantifying them, but the "Day in the life of an X at Facebook/Meta" are a fantastic proxy for utilization. Executives should have an alert set up and the minute one pops up, they can
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I do wonder how badly the earth will be salted by the activist Twitter employees on their way out. Also prepare for "bots being banned soon, definitely by end of year" for the next 30 years.
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I remember a similar experience and I received precisely two phone calls: 1. From the bank's investment arm asking if there were any investment needs I had. 2. From the bank's private banking division to inform me of their servi
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Well the TSLAQ community is certainly assuming they're gone. It will be funny of the Blue Checkmarks have to form their own social media platform - or in incredibly irony - end up in one of the "right wing" platforms as a ref
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Now imagine a writer did the same thing. "I took a warehouse job at Amazon". Then 1 year later they wrote a fascinating tale of the subcultures that develop within an Amazon warehouses, the stories and aspirations of people who a
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What would be your preferred course of action when violent insurrectionists attack a Federal court house? https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/21/portland-riots-read-out-...
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And yet the cost of gas is cheaper than the current electric equivalent in many European locations at this point. See: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63029226
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> "What things do you believe today that will be embarrassing in 40 years?" The fun one for me is the derivative: "What things do we claim to believe today despite knowing they are factually incorrect, due to social pressu
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At this point he's quite likely the majority shareholder of a fast food empire, a chocolate bar company, and the owner of the Youtube channel. On top of that there is a layer of distribution deals and sub-channels (I mean there's
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To put it simply: ignorance is bliss. Many people are underpaid, but are happy. Telling them they are underpaid and broadcasting it to the world is a great way to destroy that happiness. This becomes even worst when there are non-monetary
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I find that reminding yourself to be charitable really helps. We just had most of the West undergo 2 years of non-stop government psy-op. Propaganda was constant. Dissent was suppressed at every step. It's only natural that this has
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I much prefer to borrow the Great Reset crowd's language: Nothing is Built Nothing is Back Nothing is Better.
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Give it a few. It's only a matter of time until the Leftist tech platforms ban a critical amount of content producers and make themselves irrelevant. After all, each creator you ban represents a multiple of monetizable viewers that yo
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I agree with you, but I wish there were more effort from big-name directors or producers to crowd fund their film or series. Imagine for example something like the Expanse being crowd funded. That's about $3.5 - $5 MM per episode - a
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Your birthday does not move on the calendar, but your celebration can certainly be ramped in order to try to overwrite how badly you behaved a few weeks ago.
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It is a huge flaw since it is notoriously opaque and leans towards public company shareholders. Another easy example is that they completely miss the mind-boggingly wealthy like Queen Elizabeth II who was at the time the largest land owner
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Every time I see this type of comment I imagine a freshly minted Harvard undergrad walking up to the Colombian President[1] and saying "yes, but you're Extension so not REAL Harvard". --- [1] Now ex-president, but President U
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> What can crypto and blockchain legitimately offer that is better than what the current financial system offers? Cancellation resistance. Protection from oppressive governments trying to squash freedom. Protection from retroactive law
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> in the future hope to buy a Tesla in large part to avoid that experience And see Tesla knows this, which is why the margin on their cars is higher than most. You may have disliked that sales experience with a dealer or used car salespe
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The best part is the reward of lying for "journalists". If you lie and get caught, ignore it. If the person who called you out has too much of a following to ignore, then just write a small sentence at the bottom clarifying how yo
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That's the very dangerous game that Biden is playing with the SPR releases to buy Democrats votes, while simultaneously being very hostile to domestic oil and gas. If there is any sort of supply disruption in oil domestically, it'

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