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It’s going to be too cold to visit once the Gulf Stream stalls from reduced ocean salinity, and Britain’s climate is more like northern Canada or Alaska.

It’s debt by a thousand cuts. Congress doesn’t want to know because most states have lucrative defense contractors helping prop up their economy.

DoD contract obligations, payroll spending, and grant awards in the 50 states and the District of Columbia totaled $558.7 billion, which is 2.2 percent of the country's gross domestic product.  If the total spending were divided across every U.S. resident, it would amount to $1,679 per U.S. citizen.  Of those funds, $389.5 billion (70 percent) were spent on contracts for products and services, $159.4 billion (28 percent) paid the salaries of DoD personnel, and $9.7 billion (2 percent) were awarded as grants.

Virginia, Texas, and California topped the list of recipients for overall defense spending.  However, Virginia, Hawaii, and Connecticut ranked highest when considering defense spending relative to their respective state GDPs.

The top ten states for total Defense spending in Fiscal Year 2022 were:

Texas, Connecticut, and North Carolina had the largest overall increases in DoD spending from Fiscal Year 2021 to 2022.

Source (actually the government funny enough)

Multiunit housing is actually a lot more efficient, cheaper to build and reduces sprawl. Building multi family housing with passive heating and cooling is actually comparable to traditional multi family housing costs.

In a better world that would be how we solve the housing crisis. Move more people together (better for mass transit, utilities, and services).

Then you can keep a smaller (greener) camper van for weekending or holidays to escape.

I’m sure they’ve all got plans to purge their own ranks when they’ve secured power.

Racists gonna racist.

You’re right, but he’s not looking for campaign money, he’s looking for personal gain and some more money for lawyers.

Almost, there was a bunch of nft trading cards with grotesque illustrations of Trump super hero’s though.

I was about to agree, but they fucking disabled reader mode! No dark mode is no bueno for me.

This was my feeling after seeing it too. Architects also love to see models and more tangible things, even printouts in my experience.

Offering a fully rendered environment sounds amazing but someone would have to do a lot lore work at the office before presenting it to the client because it would look less complete than simple foam models can.

It may be useful for investor presentations for really large projects (Saudis or UAE style projects), but again, those are pretty narrow audiences and so expensive that bespoke displays could be viable.

They’ll make it illegal to charge your own battery. And enshitification will guarantee perpetually rising prices, lower and lower range batteries, or some combination of the 2.

A little tricky with all that rotor wash, but we should get Peter Strepol on it.

Apple has a long history of insanely expensive ( but quite high quality) displays.

There are photographers and design professionals out there, but it’s pretty niche market. That’s what the Vision Pro seems to be aimed at. But it’s not very good for mouse based design, and harder to trust in the usual proofing/editing environment. Plus wearing it for an 8-10 hour shift is never going to happen.

Musta meant share housing with crazy people.

Because we all have to live with crazy people, even more so if you have to work services or retail.