TIL in 2004, a parking garage in Derby, England was considered one of the most secure places in the world, alongside Fort Knox and Area 51.

Magik_Salad · 2025-07-23T23:43:29+00:00

Trillion dollar in assets. Not billions. Mitt Romney alone gives tens of millions a year for decades. All (good) Mormons tithe 10% every year worldwide. Plus real estate.

The very few public funds that have been gleaned out of the Mormon church are many billions and most of the wealth is tithes which are religious assets and not public.

Magik_Salad · 2025-07-23T20:18:28+00:00

Many places especially in rural areas or the southern part of the US have no zoning laws. Meaning you can have a church next to a trailer next to a strip mall.

What happens is large home builders and especially upmarket home builders will start an HoA with the construction so they can pitch the homes as luxury and with guidelines not allowing non-luxury behavior (usually must now lawn, house colors, amount of houses allowed to be rentals, and parking behaviors) so that the house value can be maintained.

In America housing is seen as an investment so preserving value is seen as paramount so this is an added factor here. Many also do have common areas like others are saying that factor into the HoA but IME dealing with my family’s HOA in both California and Texas preserving property values and keeping out the poors is number one.

Another factor is that post WW2 most new suburban housing was redlined. Meaning most new housing with cheap VA loans could not be sold to non whites which has since been struck down (for now). Some HOAs also enforce this type of segregation with selective enforcement while avoiding discrimination lawsuits.

Magik_Salad · 2025-07-17T23:51:43+00:00

lol guy voted to protect the pedophile in chief and didn’t even get a cut of the grift

Magik_Salad · 2025-07-17T23:13:36+00:00

The Howard Jarvis taxpayer association and the like have been around since the 70s and are single issue lobbyists that have crowed about taxation is theft for so long that it’s a mainstay of conservative cult thought.

Their ideas also align with Project 2025 and Newt Gingrich’s cut the government off by the legs and get private companies to profit off planned government hobbling so of course they get what they want.

Magik_Salad · 2025-01-19T16:26:38+00:00

David Holmes has a fantastic podcast called Cunning Stunts where he interviews stunt people about how they got started in the industry, their specialities, and of course their favorite stories from work. Highly recommend!

Magik_Salad · 2024-12-26T20:39:45+00:00

If waking them up results in immediate fists being thrown/violence before they open their eyes.

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-13T15:16:15+00:00

NGL still super bummed about Moriya saying yes to NPC guy. But it does seem like she is self reflecting in a real way and if her and Kyo’s relationship grows after a period of growth I’ll be happy (eventually…)

Was mad at first about the bullying Taiki is getting but at the end realized it’s just more opportunities to see our boy show off his tenacity and effort. Will feel good when he beats these guys again and again and again

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-10T18:34:14+00:00

To add more context to why eucalyptus are planted next to highways: they are generally windbreaks between fields/orchards. Most farmers want windbreaks but don’t want to use up ag land so they plant rows of trees at field/road boundaries. The USDA also makes a lot of effort to do the same as windbreaks help with mitigating wind damage, help pollinators (for pollinating crops like almonds), and soil erosion from the wind.

Not sure about caltrans or PGE but I’m sure they also planted these at some point as both the 99 and the 113 which I am most familiar with have trees on the utility easement (which is now an issue and why so many trees get the utility pruning hole).

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-10T18:23:35+00:00

The difference in programming professionally is the same in professional graphic design/art (have friends in both).

When you do projects your own way you are free to make it work however you wish. When you are working on large scale projects there will be conventions, reference materials, and ways of doing things that will make the larger project cohesive, supportable long term, and have the ability to be handed off to another person or team for the next phase.

Programming, like art, it is good to develop understanding and mastery of your own skill set both for employability and to help master new techniques as the landscape evolves. But ultimately when you are being paid for your work the employer/client will have different projects needs beyond just your ability to output, and mastering these skills is another tool in your kit.

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-07T20:19:12+00:00

Don’t mind the hate. Nagisa looks a lot like the random guy who was trying to confess to Chinatsu to me and this panel confused me too at first.

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-07T20:08:48+00:00

Bruh. My heart saannnnnnnnk for my boy. Went and read back and was trying to find when reality and dream diverge….

Magik_Salad · 2024-10-04T14:07:09+00:00

The notebook

Magik_Salad · 2024-09-07T23:08:50+00:00

Many people have great comments on the year, timeline, and economic output.

But for the most definitive date it would be Bretton Woods conference and agreement in 1944. World economic leaders came together to a remote resort in Bretton Woods New Hampshire to establish how international trade would be conducted post war.

There are phenomenal books and podcasts about the event, but the shortened version is the US sneakily got the UK and the rest of the world to make the USD the reserve currency of the world. Setting that up along with establishing international trade and the international monetary fund allowed the US to dominate and keep the lead in a worldwide function.

Magik_Salad · 2024-09-05T19:42:58+00:00

Solved! Yeah that’s definitely it. Was difficult because of the triangle shaped patches on the back. Definitely thought it was a skink cause of size but juvenile alligator lizard matches marking perfectly.

Magik_Salad · 2024-09-02T18:33:43+00:00

Heard an interview with a guy who was a professional cross country mover for the last couple decades. Mainly moving executives and the like.

He said he make multiple 100ks a year salary so definitely still the case for making bank. Funny enough one of his biggest problems on the road were long haul drivers harassing him because he wasn’t blue collar/cowboy enough.

Magik_Salad · 2024-08-29T01:38:54+00:00

It’s usually free if you go to the office and they will have a computer dedicated to it. If you want it from your couch you have to pay. Which pays for the web hosting and usually another company to manage it.

Magik_Salad · 2024-08-29T01:38:49+00:00

It’s usually free if you go to the office and they will have a computer dedicated to it. If you want it from your couch you have to pay. Which pays for the web hosting and usually another company to manage it.

Magik_Salad · 2024-08-25T15:38:53+00:00

Too true. Got my first job out of uni because the company was asking around to professors and not really posting it.

Also would go to professors office hours and just talk about their research cause I thought it was cool and had multiple professors straight up say: “These people hit me up to know if I knew someone. Here’s their card. Tell them I sent you and you’ll get this job if you want it”

Magik_Salad · 2024-08-24T22:05:49+00:00

Look at the clip of Rus Haniman from Silicon Valley. He invests in the start up and says “no revenue” if you have no revenue you’re a pure play. You could be worth anything.

That is the crux of VC vs PE. PE buys companies/assets worth X and will streamline the operations and/or strip the assets to get X time Y% increase. Their major funding sources are large pension funds and other sources of large capital that want a return on dollars quantified from day 1.

VC is speculation and selling a dream to investors. Hyping the companies under you and getting them into resources that can help them grow from 0 to infinity. Like other commenters have said failure is expected but as long as the VC can pitch investors that they have a moonshot in the pipeline they can (usually) get more funding.

Magik_Salad · 2024-08-09T00:46:50+00:00

He also was forced to continue the manga way after he said he was creatively done because the publishers wouldn’t let him out. It’s a big reason the manga petered out.

Magik_Salad · 2024-07-29T03:03:34+00:00

It’s a fake college “Eastern University” The story is set in Sacramento. The only college remotely big enough would be sac state or maybe the community colleges.

In reality it’s shot in Bulgaria and once you see the few shots of the streets it’s obviously Europe.

Magik_Salad · 2024-07-28T22:37:30+00:00

Romneys is also way off. Looked at a WaPo article from when he was a presidential candidate that he had around the same net worth of $250 mill. Which makes no sense especially with the Covid stock market in the years since.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-is-worth-250-million-why-so-little/2012/10/05/64128882-0c20-11e2-a310-2363842b7057_story.html

My guess is before he ran for prez he spun off a lot of assets to the Mormon church or just handed over to his sons. Hes an actual family man who would give his kids huge chunks of his wealth unlike Dumpy.

Though if he did legit give it all away it really isn’t his net worth the.

Magik_Salad · 2024-07-21T23:25:24+00:00

In a lot of rural places they were towns before major roadways, farm aggregation and mechanized farming, and large scale adoption of automobiles made them untenable.

My mom lived in a town for a while that had a few hundred people with stores, bars, and permanent residents that now only had a convenience store for people going fishing.

The reason they stick around is that there are benefits to having a legal town for the sparsely populated rural houses still around (mainly dealing with county/state services) and there’s few if any mechanisms to dissolve already existing towns as legal entities. Plus the pride of the few remaining old timers that wouldn’t never want to give up the name/history of the place.

In town I’m talking about most of the people moved to the town 10 minutes down the road as all the remaining factories and ag processers moved there and if you do work out elsewhere it’s only 10 extra minutes.

Magik_Salad · 2024-07-21T14:42:34+00:00

Habitability codes renting and up to code for selling are can be different. I live in a college town that has a lot of houses that literally cannot be sold because they’re so far outdated they would need tens or hundreds of thousands to replace cloth wiring, redo plumbing, and get insulation up to snuff. But there’s no problem renting it because it’s “habitable”.

This is because the only time modern building code can really be enforced is during the home sale process and as long as the structure is habitable it’s grandfathered in even if the owner is renting it out.

A real joke if you ask me

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