I just had a realization….there are now 5000 households from Palisades alone that are “homeless” (except those with second houses) and sounds like another 5000 around LA.
It’s a good bet these are mostly the same people who consistently voted against low income housing in LA, definitely NIMBY. They now find themselves competing for the few available rental properties.
In the short term that’s karmic. In the long term, I wonder what it means for their homeless population and wonder if we can expect an exodus since services and opportunities are about to dry up.
Good time to be in demolition/construction in LA.

On a side note, thousands of animals are now homeless, lost, hurt, or in need of supplies in LA. If you can donate directly to a local rescue, do it. Don’t donate to national charities that spend 98% on advertising and administration costs, donate directly to rescue organizations that spend donations on animals.

This makes me want to go back and play HL2 Episodes 1 & 2. I know I bought them, but don't remember ever finishing them. HL2 was so technically impressive. Portal 2 was also great, especially the co-op multiplayer. Alyx is a good VR title- it's close to a "killer app" for VR, but not quite there. 1 of the few VR titles compelling enough to keep headset on for more than 1 hour.

Not half-life related, but "old but cool" PC tech from that era: I had a DVD/MPEG2 decoder card that did VGA passthrough, and would replace black pixels with the movie content - so I could watch the Matrix in the background of playing Quake or other FPS (this was a dual PIII-450Mhz). I later installed an ATSC tuner card - one of the first channels that broadcast in HD was Fox, and one of my favorite shows, 24, started to broadcast in HD - and the early days all the makeup artists took advantage of low-res, so as soon as the show went to HD, you could see how fake all the blood, makeup, and other effects were. Hollywood ramped up quickly once the first HDTVs started shipping.
That computer also ran BeOS quite well.

Any attempt to deflect blame from the upcoming disaster of Trump’s economy to the man who averted a guaranteed depression and created an economic boom that’s the envy of the entire planet and record low unemployment numbers his entire tenure gets an automatic downvote.

Wow! I actually get to say NDT is wrong, and why!
Because the tide is not only affected by the moon’s varying gravity (its orbit is not a perfect circle) but also the sun, and they are not in a locked position, the bulge height (and slightly its position) varies. That’s why you have different tide levels and need a tide table to know how high (or low) any given tide will be. If he was correct, every high tide would be exactly the same height.

If there are people out there dumb enough to think that might actually be an option, that would certainly explain their low paycheck.

And those born with both?
Or neither?
Or a cloaca?
Or (since you’re 9) a stick and boobs?
Or a slit and high testosterone/low estrogen? You and your ignorant ilk claimed that’s a man just recently when an unaltered and born female athlete was too large for your liking, now you flip flop because you really have no idea what you believe besides hatred of “the other”.

Just because your tiny brain can only comprehend a simplistic binary situation doesn’t mean it is one.

Brain chemistry and architecture create unmodifiable (with extremely rare exceptions) gender. Physical traits are modifiable, so if they determine gender to you, by definition you believe gender is fluid, invalidating your own arguement.

Clap……..clap…….clap

(PS- “a” stick, and “you’re a dude”, and “you’re a chick” Mr Mensa…holy sheep shit, you really didn’t graduate 3rd grade, did you?)

Why did Elon block “whitedudesforHarris” from Twitter?
He won’t say, but I bet it has something to do with fundraising $4 million in one day through his platform for Harris.

So…lemme guess…you don’t have an issue with this election interference, but you thought blocking covid disinformation or Hunter’s dick pics was treason.

😂Laura Loomer, the felon’s surrogate, bull dog, and spokesperson said “[The felon] has a Fulton County mug shot, his own sneaker line, and 3 baby mamas. [The Felon] is blacker than Kamala Harris will ever be!"😂
Can even you think this horrifically racist statement will gain him minority votes? Do you even see the overt racism in such a degrading blanket statement that publicly displays his campaign’s and his unbelievably low opinion of minorities?

Bidenomics saved America from the disaster that was 2020 and before. His worst economic numbers were better than the last guys best. He kept unemployment at a record low for most of his term, and it’s still lower than under the felon who lost almost 3 million jobs and near a million small businesses. 4.2% is pretty much the Goldilocks number, btw. A healthy unemployment is between 3%-5% with around 4% being preferred. 😂
The trade deficit he insisted would be his crown jewel and would turn to below zero instead went UP by 36.3% from 2016 to 2020 despite his trade wars and hundreds of billions paid by American consumers in tariffs and more in subsidies to American producers.
“Illegal immigration” increased 15% under the felon.
Economic growth was a NEGATIVE 2.2% under the felon.
The crime and murder rates rose faster than ever in history under the felon, and are down over 25% under Biden.

And don’t forget Biden just got his 70th political prisoner released including 2 taken by Russia during the last administration without paying a dime or removing sanctions or handing over Ukraine and got 2 prisoners for each criminal we released, unlike the last administration that only got 50 something released, paid cash, removed sanctions, and always got the short end of the deal, once releasing 5000 Taliban for nothing but an agreement they wouldn’t attack us if we left fast. The contrast is stark.

You are such a delusional tool, constantly regurgitating the lies you ate hook line and sinker…like your last post of an adult only closed event you claimed was happening right in front of children.
No surprise you won’t admit it….again. You never can, you have no spine, zero testicular fortitude, zero honor, zero honesty….you are an infant whining in his full diaper screaming that he didn’t poop in them. I’m done listening. I bet your family is too.
The felon has lost, his racism and sexism are on full display, his complete lack of self control is too. His vp is the biggest loser ever, worse than Palin and that’s not an exaggeration (his favorability rating started at -6 and has plunged to a disastrous -15%! The average favorability rating is +19%. The campaign is now at around -9%), and his project 2025 that he supported and praised since 2022 is an anchor he cannot escape. Even Fox polls have her up by as much as 10% and she hasn’t chosen her vp…she’s at a 50%favorable 46%unfavorable (+4%) now, Butigieg could get her to 75% favorability. Good job morons, you couldn’t keep your fascist dictatorial plans to yourselves and now no one believes you about anything but your fascism.
The felon won’t get to use the presidency to escape his vast array of crimes like he planned, and will end his days in Ryker’s Island.

Downvote based purely on the description, which is insanity. Could only make it 30 seconds into this delusional masturbatory fantasy. “Everyone's getting fired across all industries, says Danielle. U.S. recession is here and the housing market is crashing.” She actually said this recession started last October. The economy is falling the economy is falling!…the MAGA mantra since Biden took office and never true.
(Edit…gave it another try only to find out it’s at least in part a commercial for real estate agents from a real estate agency! LOL)

The market is at record highs and rocketing up, unemployment still at (near) record lows, gdp up 3.4% 4th quarter 23, inflation 3% and falling (-.1% in May-June), yearly wage growth 4.7% in April (last #s), manufacturing steadily on the rise, profits are record highs, oil production at record highs and rising, and the 100% guaranteed deep recession/depression we had coming after 2020 was averted.
Even immigration is getting drastically better since Biden sidestepped the obstructionist MAGA congress and acted unilaterally like he should never have to if congress functioned.

The current state of the economy is not good, it’s GREAT!

Compared to the last year of the felon’s administration, 2020, it’s impossibly amazingly stupendous, the Trump administration failed in every way and left the next administration holding the bag…this administration turned the failed economy 180 degrees around to become the envy of the world economically, created more jobs than every Republican president in my lifetime combined (the last guy lost more than anyone ever) created more manufacturing jobs than the last guy lost (and that’s a lot) took a negative gdp to a healthy positive, turned record high unemployment into record low unemployment for a record long time period, saved democracy and NATO in Europe, avoided the guaranteed recession/depression we were headed into in Jan 21, and never sold state secrets or policy for personal or familial gains (despite all the myriad of false never proven claims).
More projection from the party that nearly ended America in 2020, then tried again on Jan 6 21.

Hunter Biden has filed to have his case dismissed on the same grounds. 😂
What’s good for the goose…if special council appointments are unconstitutional, his is too. Drop the case now.
Who is going to argue against that in his case now?
Not Republicans, they need to pretend it’s true to protect their candidate….
…not Democrats, they think Hunter has been railroaded over spiteful politics and lies and should at worst have gotten the plea deal he originally agreed to.
His dismissal should come well before the appeal, so her ruling stands for now as if special councils are actually illegal. Jeopardy has attached in his case, so any dismissal is the end, unlike the other case. 😂

Never thinking through your positions before enacting them. Low IQ voters get low IQ leaders doing low IQ things.

Low tech version of https://videosift.com/video/Real-Mjolnir-Electromagnet-Fingerprint-Scanner

Again, you predicate your argument on the blatantly overtly racist idea that “blacks” are just all too dumb to see who uses them as props and who works and legislates for their benefit….and you are too dumb to see your own deeply rooted and flawed racism even when it’s pointed out with a spotlight.
Democrats don’t believe all the members of any “race” are genetically predisposed to be that stupid. All the members of some political/religious movements maybe.

Crime is down nearly 25% in cities under Biden. If political leadership controls crime rates, Democrats win hands down. Why do Republicans always end up raising crime rates when they’re in control, like 2020 the biggest increase in violent crime on record?
You do know the highest crime states are mostly Republican states, right? You do know that Republican counties have higher PER CAPITA crime rates than big cities, right? My guess, even knowing those facts doesn’t make you think twice about your incorrect position…because you believe admitting a mistake is a sign of weakness, which is a sign of insecurity and weakness itself. Adults can admit mistakes without guilt or shame….hiding from them is shameful.

Republicans cut federal and state public school funding, and legislated teaching to the point that all competent teachers fled red states (making your party even dumber generationally). That’s why public schools in low income/low tax revenue zones struggle, especially in red states. When 100% of funding comes from property taxes, clearly schools in low value areas will suffer, and that’s 100% Republican legislating.

Democrats get 85% because they work to fund programs that help minorities far beyond your racist trope of “government cheese” (cheese like school funding or redlining protections). Republicans would strip them of those programs, the cheese, and any civil protections…eventually even their vote because they/you say the founders only wanted white male land owners to vote, not the poor, not minorities, not women. Trump’s/MAGAs project 2025 is all about that….stripping rights away.

Once again, people can see who works for their interest and who works against it, and it’s an 85%/8% split…I say that’s because the 85%+- are intelligent and have their eyes open and 10-20% of all people are just brain dead slugs (looking directly at you)…your position is the 85% is just too dumb to know better and are easily tricked because they’re black….but you think you aren’t racist. 😂

Awwww….you don’t wanna talk about today’s MAGA pedophile groomers caught having sex with students…but without blue hair, not transsexual, not gay, not Democrats but hyper MAGA married “Christian” women.?!? SHOCKER!!!
You don’t wanna talk about the phone and message records showing near daily calls with Epstein and “massage appointments” for Trump on kiddie rape island multiple times in 2004 alone, exactly when Epstein was KNOWN to be running a child prostitution ring on the island with client’s liaisons called “massages”? Or the 3 credible underaged witnesses/victims of rape with his aged minuscule shriveled penis? SHOCKER!!!

OK.

Yes they have been revised…and they are STILL WAY ABOVE all estimates for those two months. WAY ABOVE!! 😂 LOSER! 😂

Yes, up to 4.1%…which is starting to be sustainable. 3% was not, hence the high interest rates today. The economy was doing TOO GOOD after just over a year of Bidenomics and the fed had to slow it down, unlike 2020 when the fed couldn’t give money away for free and oil was at zero…YES ZERO in 2020…and people still couldn’t afford gas. (or find TP or eggs or bacon or other staples on shelves)

Also, don’t think it went unnoticed that the horrific unemployment numbers from the felon’s last year were still artificially low because of the (set up to be defrauded) PPP handout program that kept people “employed” that were suddenly unemployed when it ended spring 21 ramping up unemployment NUMBERS under Biden in 21 with millions that really lost their jobs in 20 under Trump but got Trump-welfare/socialist handouts (but were not working).

Yes, Biden had record LOW unemployment numbers SINCE NOVEMBER 2021, and a low 4.1% is the highest he can be held responsible for…I’m surprised you want to bring that up yourself…how about your guy, what’s his high unemployment number? (Hint, it’s over 14.7% but under 15%) 😂

Both too low to make up for the abuse and too high for the public to pay.

These settlements should come from the police pension fund and payroll, not the general fund until the pension fund is empty and payroll a bare minimum. Police might police themselves if they paid a price….they have proven they won’t if they don’t.

$825K is too low.