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Americans have so much of their wealth sunk in their real estate / home that they eye any change with deep suspicion and an eye on how it affects their home value. Surely, a 5 story building next to your ranch home is going to lower your home value, so it must not happen.

I think this is a dilemma that everybody in the Bay Area faces: you can universally agree that more housing and especially more dense housing needs to be built, but you can't allow it to be built near you because that drags your home value down. Even just a 5% drop in value may be all the equity you built if you are a recent buyer.

I guess a compromise might be to give people near these new buildings a property tax rebate as counterbalance. Also, instead of mandating parking, maybe you mandate that people moving into spaces designed to be near public transit not register cars there.

Very good questions. I think the primary is that some form of workout is very important to your overall health, and you should just pick which type of workout works for you in the long run.

It doesn't really matter if you get a home gym, or go to parks, or to a gym, as long as you are consistent and have fun. For many people, the gym is intimidating, they might be better off with a home gym. I find the place semi-social, which means I get distracted by people watching, but don't have to chat with anyone. Works for me.

The key, I think, is to shift from "I can do all of that at home" to "I will do all of that at home." An insane number of home treadmills and exercise bikes collect dust because the mind is willing, but the flesh lazy. I love the distraction, others love the camaraderie or the friendships you make at a gym. They push you to go even when you don't feel like it, and that's the important part.

I am not so sure this is unintentional. Mesa County is the very strange place that brought us Lauren Boebert and Tina Peters. Their respective Wikipedia pages are astounding.

That is what utilities need to be doing. Right now, they refuse to do much about energy storage, and home owners with solar or wind generation have to buy expensive batteries to buffer their production. That is stupid expensive for individual producers and is something a utility needs to take over. They just don't want to because it's more lucrative to burn fossil fuels and charge for that.

Absolutely. The only mention of phones, at all, is in conjunction with the masses taking pictures of the Mona Lisa. Which is such a bizarre thing (the painting being tiny and so incredibly far away) that you feel compelled to take a picture just to show how strange it is.

At the same time, thanks to the decline in US tourism this year, the situation in Europe is at an all time worst when it comes to cost, crowding, and annoyance. The strike, it is mentioned, was due to the overcrowding.

For the life of me, I cannot understand if transphobes are just not aware of how stupid their arguments are, or if they know perfectly well and the stupidity of the argument is some kind of show of power.

Trump is one half. The other is Microsoft and their idiotic (policy of declaring virtually all existent government hardware not good enough for Windows 11.

I'd take a lot of pain if it means I don't have to buy entirely new computers for all my staff, and get ready to do that again when Windows 11.1 or Windows 12 comes out.

That's the thought I always had: When I develop in Node, I stand on the shoulders of ten thousand microbes.

I would venture the guess that this is a move meant to cripple the economies of blue cities and states.

Basically, the administration figured out that Trump's policies are poison for the economy, so they are applying them selectively.

I'll save you the read: they invented the Segway.

The only thing more important than "do nothing wrong" is to loudly correct those who are doing "almost right" and "in the right direction."

I mean, why would a guy that started a car rental company know anything about radio waves?

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