Shortshanks Viewminder
@Tenelachicity
Gardener, husband, father, lover, adventurer, observer, fighter, sailor, builder, road tripper, pilot, global circumnavigator, magician, deal maker, epicurean.
You’re not imagining rent in America skyrocketing, this is the actual data In the year 2000, average rent was $639. It would slowly increase, all the sudden recently it started jumping 6-8% year over year Now it’s $1,650. In California average 1 bedrooms are $2,198. Apartments…
Unpopular opinion: 20° with snow is better than 95° and humid
the **actual** biggest political story that no one talks about in redistricting is that the Census Bureau messed up their count in 2020 in a way that gave like 5-10 extra seats to blue states, ADMITTED they messed it up, but we all just sorta have to wait 10 years to fix it
The biggest political story no one is talking about? @chucktodd and I think it's the re-redistricting happening around the country. Full convo at link in my bio.
Some countries where VPNs are banned. - North Korea. - Belarus. - Turkmenistan. - Iran. - Iraq. And now British authorities are considering banning VPNs.
🚨 President Trump's 17.09% tariff on Mexican tomatoes has triggered an astonishing boom for U.S. tomato farmers. Within just two days, farmers report a flood of business inquiries, with one stating, "We've had a lot more calls from people expressing interest in doing business!"
An all black town? Imagine if white people did this.
White people: *create a Whites-only town* Media: “THIS IS LITERALLY SEGREGATION!” Black people: *create a blacks-only town* Media:
The worst thing to happen to higher education was the government guaranteeing loans and loaning directly to students. Colleges no longer had to produce graduates with viable economic skills, which opened the hell-gates of ideological programming. Free association is quality.
Hundreds of unemployable felonious hooligans take over several intersections throughout Downtown Los Angeles. They rode all day through the streets of LA with impunity and ZERO report of intervention by LAPD, let alone any arrests
I think Canada is a powder keg waiting to explode. It's the grimacing I see in public. The looks given to obvious hijabs and turbans. The flash of anger when conversations aren't in English or French. The aversion to go to malls or down by the lake. The fatigue is real.
There was a time when we knew how to build: Port Camargue – The Largest Marina in Europe. Built on the Mediterranean coast in the commune of Le Grau-du-Roi 🇫🇷, Port Camargue is the largest pleasure port in Europe and the second largest in the world after San Diego. Conceived…
Europe has never recovered from the 2008 financial collapse Our line should've followed something like this, but it didn't. How come?
HVAC Technician explains how AI is even coming for blue collar jobs
NYC has 50,000+ apartments that can’t be rented because they need renovating to meet code, but the landlord cannot raise rent to pay for renovations because of stabilization laws. So they sit empty. This is what socialism gets you. City run grocery stores will work great tho.
The average career state retiree took home $93,558 in pension benefits last year. That's $24K more than the average working Illinoisan earned. illinoispolicy.org/illinois-pensi…
Just returned from the UK. The countryside is stunning, but London feels like South Africa 15 years ago - still functional but showing signs of strain. The outskirts of London look particularly rundown and dirty, echoing downtown Johannesburg. Wishing the UK strength to turn…
We are living in the largest Bubble ever. It is insane (....and it will burst)! Market Capitalization to GDP: Long-term average: 88% Typical historical range: 70% - 115% Peak before Great Depression (1929): 81% Peak Dot-com Bubble (2000): 136% Peak before Great Financial…