This is just fearmongering. Oh no the sneaky Chinese cars are mapping our potholes…

The home was reportedly listed as a power of sale, which differs from a regular home sale. The clause is usually written into a mortgage note that authorizes the mortgagee to sell their property in the event of default to repay the mortgage debt.

As a result, the lender forces a sale on the public market and gets all the funds owed to them, while the current owner gets to keep any excess profit. In a foreclosure scenario, the lender usually takes ownership and gets to keep all the profits from the sale.

I bet the former owners initially made an $800,000 down payment. The timeline of price drops was rapid, just over a matter of months, so I’d guess the low selling point was probably pushed through by the bank trying to recover the money they lent as quickly as possible.

I really don’t understand why you’re nitpicking someone who is trying to drastically reduce their impact. What would you recommend they do?

Love it, a tale as old as time. No really, our ancestors were probably doing this for millennia.

Did this leak happen before or after NYT published an investigation detailing how Israeli forces were raping and torturing defenseless Palestinian detainees brought in from the Gaza Strip?

Kiwi farms?

No, that’s not really correct. They’re pro-democracy since true communism requires democracy. They believe western governments have been captured by capitalists and therefore need to be opposed. That’s why they tend to cheer for authoritarian regimes because they’re fighting what they consider to be the good fight. They believe that once western capitalism has been defeated, communism can finally flourish, since the only reason communist governments are authoritarian is to protect themselves from the west.

Based on my observations, some of them support present and past left-authoritarians, but most don’t. They’re definitely critical of the west, but I think there’s room for that criticism here.

It’s kind of funny when they post about Ukraine. They’re anti-NATO and anti-Putin, so they sometimes seem confused which side they’re on.

You have a strange definition of fascism. I’ve poked around in those instances to see what the fuss is about. They’re super far left and very much ideologically opposed to fascism. They’re something weird, but they’re definitely not fascists.

It’s like we’re going back to the pre-internet era but it’s obviously a little different. Before the internet, there were just a few major media providers on TV plus lots of local newspapers. I would say that, for the most part in the USA, the public trusted TV news sources even though their material interests weren’t aligned (regular people vs big media corporations). It felt like there wasn’t a reason not to trust them, since they always told an acceptable version of the truth and there wasn’t an easy way to find a different narrative (no internet or crazy cable news). Local newspapers were usually very trusted, since they were often locally owned and part of the community.

The internet broke all of those business models. Local newspapers died because why do you need a paper when there are news websites? Major media companies were big enough to weather the storm and could buy up struggling competitors. They consolidated and one in particular started aggressively spinning the news to fit a narrative for ratings and political gain of the ownership class. Other companies followed suit.

This, paired with the thousands of available narratives online, weakened the credibility of the major media companies. Anyone could find the other side of the story or fact check whatever was on TV.

Now what is happening? The internet is being polluted with garbage and lies. It hasn’t been good for some time now. Obviously anyone could type up bullshit, but for a minute photos were considered reliable proof (usually). Then photoshopping something became easier and easier, which made videos the new standard of reliable proof (in most cases).

But if anything can be fake now and difficult to identify as fake, then how can you fact check anything? Only those with the means will be able to produce undeniably real news with great difficulty, which I think will return power to major news companies or something equivalent.

I’m probably wrong about what the future holds, so what do you think is going to happen?

They show how particularly northern Europe from Britain to Scandinavia would suffer devastating impacts, such as a cooling of winter temperatures by between 10 °C and 30 °C occurring within a century, leading to a completely different climate within a decade or two, in line with paleoclimatic evidence about abrupt ocean circulation changes. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts. These (and many more) impacts of an AMOC collapse have been known for a long time but thus far have not been shown in a climate model of such high quality.

Anybody know any further details about what to expect if it collapses?

They definitely act like it

This lack of action, is this a human characteristic, a capitalist characteristic, or a Western characteristic? I ask because through most of recent history and especially today, it feels like the general population of each country has little to zero real control over what happens within their borders, be it at the local or national level. Would we still end up where we are today if a different socioeconomic system(s) dominated the world? I have this nagging feeling we wouldn’t be in this mess if people had real control over their government’s actions.

Like, if you could give anyone an objective viewpoint and ask them, hey, if we keep doing this there’s a high chance we’ll damage our children’s or grandchildren’s ability to produce and procure food and the weather will get really fucky in a bad way, they’re going to say we need to change where we get energy asap. I don’t believe they’ll say anything else unless they think “we need to beat this other nation for reasons that don’t benefit me,” or “I need to keep doing what I’m doing because that’s how I make money and there’s no easy alternative.”

It just feels like regular people haven’t been in control since forever, we’re not in control today, and we have no real legal means of seizing control. We either simply don’t have control, or we technically do, but are manipulated so thoroughly by those with the means that we have no real control.

Russia doesn’t need Ukraine on its own, they need Ukraine to get access Poland, Romania and Moldova.

But why? Poland and Romania are already in NATO. Isn’t that why they’re attacking Ukraine now and Georgia in 2008, to prevent them from joining NATO?

duckduckgo has been working well imo

Yeah what happened to that one out of South Korea?

This particular hierarchy is specific to medical science, it doesn’t fit the other scientific disciplines perfectly.

Also, if I had a nickle for every conflicting pair of meta-analyses… happens so often.

Oh what rubbish, and so much of it too. Where to start? An uncontrolled nuclear reaction vs controlling a sustained plasma reaction with electromagnets or crazy lasers? You gtfo with that absolute crap comparison. 70 years, lol, yeah 70 years of tangentially related technological development. It was a very cute attempt at using my own example against me.

Then you really broke down the carbon capture and storage bit into its itty bitty steps to make it sound soooooo big and impossible. You’re a master of disingenuous rhetoric. Here’s a source with the opinions of several scientists discussing the topic. They make it sound hard, but not impossible to do.

You’ve ended two comments on “transform society of go extinct” or something to that effect. You seem very invested in the other side of this supposedly impossible problem we have. Perhaps you should open up to the possibility of compromise, cuz I wager we’re going to get a bit of societal transformation and a bit of CO2 capture. It’s not going to be all one or the other.

Lastly, you’ll get a lot further with people when you use honey instead of vinegar.

You’re making your own misconceptions and possibly desires the enemy of reality.

The technology doesn’t yet exist at the scale necessary to offset even modest levels of residual emissions.

Let me repeat the important part:

at the scale necessary

You’re making it sound like we need to figure out a problem like nuclear fusion from scratch. Scaling up something that already exists is a lot easier. It’s still difficult, but definitely possible, although it seems kind of dumb to remove the CO2 instead of preventing its release in the first place.

I love the realtor’s pitch:

Situated in a nice Renton, WA neighborhood this unique parcel stretches behind six homes and is accessed through the public right of way. Imagine the things you could do? Parking of vehicles and “toys” comes to mind immediately … or storage? How could you put a piece of property like this to use for yourself? Gardening? A place to hang out? It’s right next to a big green belt so you’ve got all that privacy at your feet. Recreation? Camping? And just strictly as an investment … can you think of any Real Estate in King County Washington that gone down in value over time? “A rising tide lifts all boats”! Tax ID# 7708201190. NE 4th St to N on Jericho Ave NE. Stop just before Road Curves left. Parcel is behind the houses straight ahead.