There's some homeless camps in Houston but the Dems in charge routinely bulldoze them. Not quite like Portland despite nearly 4x more people. If you want to see the zombies in the wild, you volunteer at the food pantry near Gunspoint (greenspoint) on one of the days of the month they hand out methadone at the clinic next door. When you are done with your shift you'll get to slalom around the zombies as they shamble through the street all day. It has a real Walking Dead vibe to it.

but we're still derailing, those aren't the white fenty zombies this thread is re-criminalizing.

"The number of court filings charging a violation of the Colorado Organization Crime Control Act related to marijuana jumped sharply after legalization, from 31 in 2009 to 119 in 2017. But they declined to 34 in 2019"

The most comprehensive studies in Colorado say what I'm saying. I'm only slightly off in that the decline was in 2017 not 2019.

Of course that's completely separate from the the hordes of white fenty zombies filling impromptu campgrounds that are driving calls for reversing hard drug legalization.

#14 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-09-03 11:07 AM | Reply | Flag:

From legalization until 2019, Organized Crime charges for weed distro went up 400%. It took Covid.

The people that could afford licenses legalized. The people that couldn't, did not. Enforcement concentrates on those that did not.

It was inevitable when the entire structure to legalize weed was sold on how monetized and regulated it's going to be. People certainly got regulated, just not white ones.

In Colorado, when they legalized weed black incarcerations went up, not down. Licensing is expensive and designed to keep poor people from entering the market.

Anyways, Oregon reversed course due to the massive urban blight it caused. This experimentation in radical libertarianism created visible misery society isn't ready to turn a blind eye to.

#7 yeah that's the irony because his companies are still pretty average on DEI.

He was implying that the vote in California was not honest. Because of mail in ballots.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-08-29 12:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wow, really? He had the nerve to say that?

SpaceX has a Diversity and Inclusion rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 869 anonymous employee ratings. This is equal to the average for D&I ratings in the Aerospace & Defense sector.

but how do you set rates to begin with? You hire a company to do the market research for you and they suggest rates. The RealPage system is just more efficient at it. If the DOJ fails, don't be surprised.

it's none of the Governments business to lower rates or control prices for anything...

#26 | Posted by Maverick at 2024-08-28 02:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not the case though. "Algorithmic collusion". It's illegal for 2 companies to agree to fix prices. Should it be legal for a 3rd party to take data from the 2 companies and suggest their prices to them? Probably, that's just collusion using an intermediary.

Is that what he implied? It came off to me as "I'd need a miracle to win a blue state".

Getting the rocket back is non-trivial. The successful landing rate is very good.

It probably doesn't cost 10x more to make

#28 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-08-28 07:38 AM | Reply

Elon musk thought so to. Dunning-Kruger in action. We know he was factually incorrect. Besides volume and technology mattering significantly in pricing, there is a massive engineering gap between the two. Automotive grade displays can handle temps to 185F, consumer electronics is 104F. Humidity, vibration, & shock resistance have to be orders of magnitude better. It has to be a minimum 800 nit screen to read it in sunlight, your TV is around 300 nit. A TV life cycle is 2-5 years, Automotive displays are 10-15. An automotive display has to comply with ISO, AEC, and EMC standards, a regular display only has to pass basic FCC consumer electronics regs. The product has to go through extended, harsh environment automotive testing.

These are all things early Tesla absolutely refused to do or pay for. They used TV grade screens because it was an order of magnitude cheaper and readily available, and they test things on the road with end users instead of investing in the sprawling test facilities owned by the "legacy automakers".

Buy defense stocks. Bombing Iran is back on the menu.

On pricing my source is that I have more OEM Automotive Parts data than most people on the planet. I know what every part costs for the top 20 brands at each level of the supply chain.

Tesla use laptop grade monitors and they turned yellow and all had to be ripped out and replaced and a very significant cost to Tesla. They buried it as a Goodwill repair so they could Dodge lemon laws as usual. It definitely wasn't a recall for a defective component. That would imply there is a problem.

#28 5x, 10x, 20x. It's not a TV made by the million for walmart. Volume matters.

Trump did something that Bush and Obama wouldn't, directly attack the second amendment with an Executive Order, to ban items the ATF had clarified the legality of many times.

He fled Russia and purposefully selected to land in a country where he knew he'd be immediately arrested on landing.

Spy games are afoot. Speculation is he gave the encryption keys for Telegram to NATO because he'd have been thrown out of a window in Russia.

The thing in the automotive world with a high margin they can sell to suckers is software upgrades, like Tesla's launch mode.

That small LCD screen costs $80? Sell it for $800.

#7 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-08-27 01:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

No. You can't just use any LCD nor OLED display, it has to be automotive grade. That means more expensive.

Tesla tried to use laptop screens as a design shortcut. They all had to be replaced.

It's not A/B. They're more expensive and more profitable.

Shame, they used to build good space ships.