CompactFlax

I’ve spent some time in these crossovers lately and can confirm that not only are they unsafe, they’re absolutely not fun to drive - and impractical. Give me a car any day. These station wagons with factory lift are terrible on several levels.

I agree there’s missing context.

There’s a few other places that I can think of which have a lot of “new dwellings” built, even without parking, but local rent is unaffected because the type of dwelling is simply undesirable - for either financial reasons (luxury apartments are too much money) or practical (I have 2 kids and can’t live in a 1 bedroom + den - or they’re distant from work, no transit, and there’s no parking) or personal (I have 2 kids and don’t want them to grow up in the pollution etc. of a downtown core).

There is not a simple solution to this problem.

The Mustang has been the car of choice for mid-life crises for a long time.

It’s not just industry. Now they’re killing the development of skills and knowledge in engineering (hardware, software) and design

The screwballs will be out in full force over this, but they always protest the census anyways.

But this data is, as evidenced by current events in the USA, very sensitive. I’m not convinced they can protect it.

USA could have spent money developing an electrified economy but the republicans are focusing on bringing back coal mining and reshoring shoe manufacturing instead.

This admin has set the USA back 100 years.

ETA - what I mean is that China is rampaging on in electrification, developing manufacturing skills, infrastructure, and design/engineering/technology around renewables and electrification. Europe is thinking about it but not going crazy to the extent China is, because legacy - China doesn’t have 100 years of cars and 150 years of trains; they’re building new. USA meanwhile is actively regressing under Republican policies.

They’re mostly all made in one or two factories in China. Midea and another one.

When it comes time to replace the AC, consider getting one that’s reversible and runs as a heat pump. You don’t need to use it, but it shouldn’t cost much more and gives you flexibility.

MS pulled access to the azure environment of a (Russian owned) bank in NL and despite NL court orders asking for the data to be made accessible, it took diplomacy and a US court order to get access. This was not during trump admin.

We’ve been saying “this would never happen” and trump admin has slowly been shifting the Overton window.

Yep one of the big drivers is flexibility in capex vs opex. They’ll shape the contract whichever way you want but on prem is straight to capex. I think. I’m not an accountant.

My dishwasher never gets hot water. The line is stone cold before it starts and the hot water doesn’t reach the dishwasher before it stops filling. I should really just plumb it in to the cold side and save the energy on the water heating. Intake water temperature shouldn’t matter for dishwasher performance in 2025. Any dishwasher worth owning has water heating capabilities built in.

So my conclusion (reinforced by the other trouble you’ve had) is that the water heater has failed, or perhaps it or the temperature sensor wasn’t plugged back in when you took it apart.

Look at the top valued companies in USA. This will hurt.

1. Slash funding to postsecondary education, encouraging institutions to bring in international students
2. Heavily market immigration opportunities to potential international students
3. Act surprised when entry level jobs fill up

President Taco notwithstanding, it can’t have been that surprising.

This is important:

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