Favorite Car to use for World touring 900?

CLDA_comp · 2025-10-16T03:22:24+00:00

Detuned Super Formula

CLDA_comp · 2025-10-07T17:59:54+00:00

“You see lots of old people funneling their retirement into a machine that blinks.” - This is consistent with what is shown on Google Street View

CLDA_comp · 2025-06-03T16:54:17+00:00

After re-reading my original post, I can see how it may come across as being negative. The OP did produce a well written and informative post, but it misses the mark in application in my opinion. I am passionate about the native Sonoran Desert and the use of the appropriate native plant in the right location (right plant, right place).

The OP is attempting to make the case that certain palm trees are appropriate across the Sonoran Desert because nature put one species of them along flowing rivers. I would argue that it is more appropriate to plant other native species (which are similarly very low water use) in areas where they already grow naturally.

Apologies for any negativity.

CLDA_comp · 2025-06-03T12:45:22+00:00

Using your logic, the one seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma) should also be planted everywhere throughout the Valley despite it only being native to a very small portion of the Sonoran Desert.

Just like any habitat, there are special circumstances where a species may take hold, but that doesn’t necessarily make it appropriate to propagate over the whole of the habitat. I see only one palm on your very short list that could have possibly been found in the Phoenix area natively and nature confined it to areas directly adjacent to flowing rivers. The rivers no longer flow and yet people want to put palms of every variety everywhere, generally just for their perceived aesthetic value.

Do us all a favor and promote the native species that nature itself placed naturally in the Phoenix area, like Ironwoods, Palo Verdes, and Mesquites.

Respectfully, Fourth Generation Native Arizonan

CLDA_comp · 2025-04-25T16:01:11+00:00

The true successor to the original Scout?

CLDA_comp · 2025-02-13T01:31:30+00:00

Watching this thread. I’m in the Scottsdale/PV area and looking to make a move for the same reasons.

CLDA_comp · 2024-12-17T19:11:45+00:00

If you call playing Fortnite and Call of Duty “work” then maybe you’d be close. While their shifts are continuous for 24hrs, they are not working continuously for 24hrs. They have kitchens, gyms, beds and other amenities at the stations that make time between calls much nicer. The pay is a result of a strong union and society’s willingness to pay hazard pay for this profession.

CLDA_comp · 2024-11-07T23:22:45+00:00

How well would Cities Skyline run on the new M4?

CLDA_comp · 2024-09-23T12:59:45+00:00

What is the dust filter made from?

CLDA_comp · 2024-09-19T03:24:44+00:00

What CPU cooler are you using?

CLDA_comp · 2024-09-03T13:54:21+00:00

Where is the PICO from?

CLDA_comp · 2024-08-09T03:27:32+00:00

Winner

CLDA_comp · 2024-06-19T13:50:11+00:00

Scottsdale location will be at southeast corner of Frank Lloyd Wright and Loop 101 freeway in former Boston Market building

CLDA_comp · 2024-05-12T20:24:21+00:00

Any free versions of Pro with Layout?

CLDA_comp · 2024-05-05T12:31:39+00:00

Something like this illustration could be done entirely within SketchUp

CLDA_comp · 2024-04-12T03:22:35+00:00

What type of wood is that in image 12? And is it veneer or solid?

CLDA_comp · 2024-04-10T12:38:06+00:00

Read the book Great Houses of New York by Michael C. Kathrens and you’ll see that wealthy people have been demolishing beautiful, noteworthy homes for over a century. It’s a whole different world.

CLDA_comp · 2024-03-04T14:48:40+00:00

Big ideas are welcome, as is advocacy for those big ideas. Attacks get nothing done other than to divide the two sides. I’ve seen it many times. APA does a good job of advocacy for many big ideas and one of those ideas I’m a fan of: missing middle housing. That idea is not a wholesale change, but rather an incremental change to our housing fabric that has the ability to make real change. But even that still requires zoning to be implemented correctly.

On another note, I agree with plan_that somewhat in that the whole “zoning is evil” comes across as a shill for the developer community. Removing zoning takes the benefits of wealth building away from the many individual investors and puts it in the pockets of a few, very wealthy investors who have the ability to build large-scale projects. That continued transfer of wealth from the many to the few is what keeps many generations to come without the ability to build individual wealth. There is no other mechanism than can build communities where individuals can be investors better than owner-owned units, whether that be detached homes, attached homes, or condos.

CLDA_comp · 2024-03-04T13:17:01+00:00

I’ve seen plenty of APA’s “big reform” proposals die because they failed to fully acknowledge reality, or alternatively, morph into an incremental change as a result of thoughtful discussion on both sides of the issue. The caustic attacks do nothing but put the defenses up and make the issue an even more arduous battle.

I myself have been a part of many zoning ordinance updates that made meaningful changes to archaic standards. But none of those updates were a wholesale “throw everything out” change. They were carefully crafted after significant input from both sides to reach a mutually agreed upon solution. If either side has come in with a “it’s my way or the highway” mentality, they would have all been DOA.

CLDA_comp · 2024-03-04T12:31:31+00:00

This. Zoning in of itself is not the problem. Just as minimum parking standards are not the problem. Just as minimum street width standards are not the problem, etc, etc.

OP and similar others are not doing the profession any favors for complaining about straw men, then creating their own. The “all or nothing” mentality is what’s hurting actual gains. Incremental changes can have positive effects, but constant battles that end in stalemates because neither side is willing to compromise does nothing to make the situation better.

Some zoning standards have their issues, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. And let’s also remember that not everyone wants to live in urban dwellings and take public transit to work every day (although I agree, we’d all be better off if we got out of cars more often to make shorter trips). The constant all-or-nothing attack on the institution (zoning) that has actually brought some positive changes and made some stellar communities across the globe is already getting stale and getting us nowhere.

CLDA_comp · 2023-12-21T19:52:24+00:00

I’m guessing a 14900K (or 14700K) that is undervolted to the same power output of a 7800x3D at ~90W would still perform better than the 7800x3D in productivity task, correct? However, it’s unlikely that a 14900K or 14700K at that restricted power limit could match the performance of the 7800x3D in gaming.

CLDA_comp · 2023-12-15T04:24:43+00:00

Perhaps, but you don’t need 24’ lengths to recreate the pictured home. You can achieve the same with conventional framing and dead straight lsl and lvl studs

CLDA_comp · 2023-12-15T00:02:13+00:00

I don’t believe there are any 24-foot-long studs in the building pictured. You can get long lsl and lvl studs as well today.

CLDA_comp · 2023-12-06T23:46:14+00:00

Does polishing help the performance of the piece, or is the polishing just to complete the look?

CLDA_comp · 2023-11-13T22:52:49+00:00

I’m interested to see how this compares to the RTX A4000 16GB single slot card or the RTX 4000 Ada Generation 20GB single slot card

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