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I wish we'd stop using the term "homeless". The homelessness is a byproduct of substance abuse and mental health issues for 90+% of these people. I know, putting responsibility on them instead of the evil system that make living sheltered unaffordable seems cruel, but addressing the real...

I know San Francisco well enough. I was a cab driver there during my college summer breaks, a million years ago. I had a terrible feeling about the city when I was last there visiting in 2021. I expect it will be worse still when a visit in July, but we shall see ..

I think these are all shortcut assumptions, but I'm not in the US now. Here in Singapore business is booming again, flights and hotels are full, restaurants are struggling a bit, but notoriously high rents have gone up 50-100% in the last couple of years and being blamed for lower attendance...

And I won't deny the impact of COVID and remote work. But remote workers don't stay at the Hilton and covid is almost long gone. I would expect eateries in downtown to have shut down, but Westgate has been the anchor of SF suburban shopping... Perhaps the suburban upscale shopping malls are...

And petty crime with impunity, vagrants and drug dealing has nothing to do with keeping customers away. Isn't this a chicken or egg issue? Hotels, shopping centers... SF is being drained of its suburban and out of town consumers, that's a fact. I'll be in San Francisco next month. I'll make...

Some call it a recovery.

At this point in time, GM has no choice but to hang on to their profit centers as long as possible since they've done so poorly with their EV transformation and are unlikely to become competitive anytime soon. They aren't the only one, Japanese brands (Toyota in particular) are very slow...

I get your stretched reasoning for Westfield to close in San Francisco because unable to compete with Amazon (but find it far-fetched) but what about Hilton?!? Is Amazon also to blame for its abandonment by corporate? Or maybe SF commercial property property values have sunk so low that these...

Lol, I had to stop and think why shareholders had anything to do with this... you sure stretch this one long! And the Hilton, it's.... What?

So are you saying petty criminality and lack of police action have nothing to do with this?

When did the war in Ukraine begin? What a coincidence!

Why day trade when TSLA has its longest run in its history? It may not last through the week.. Lots of pressure from options for Friday at 250. Options people can probably confirm.

After Hilton walking away from one of SFs most prestigious downtown hotel, now Westfield says it will not renew its lease ... this is now becoming a catastrophe. Market street hasn't been in a long time the swanky street it was meant to be in the early 1900s. But now it's similar to skid row in...

I see that combined, China and the US burn more coal than the rest of the world combined... Wonder if that's the privilege of military dominant nations.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/11/crossover-solar-wind-power-producing-more-electricity-than-fossil-fuels-in-eu/ Crossover — Solar & Wind Power Now Producing More Electricity Than Fossil Fuels In EU! ByZachary Shahan ‌ The European Union (EU) has hit a crossover point. For the first time in...

I certainly won't speculate as to why Tesla would or wouldn't reintroduce radar to its vehicles. They had them, they removed them, they may add them again... Could be technical, cost or whatever. But there's no question that their system is far more advanced than anything else out there.

I used the quotation marks as an emphasis to question the validity of a statement about the discontinued use of radars as less safe. My point being that until data is provided to confirm the assumption, I won't believe it.

I'm taking this article with suspicion; reads like a typical hit piece. Regardless if it's a Tesla or another brand, I'd want to see a comparison based on total brand/model on the road to accidents and fatalities. Maybe Tesla stands out, maybe not. The next question is, what % of accidents are...

They can ask, you don't have to answer. They may dump you or you may dump them.

I'm going to start outright by saying that I'm no fan of the military in general, I wasn't as a teen and today at 60 I'm still not. But why? My ancestors fought in wars, my father spent over a decade in the Navy during Vietnam, stationed on Guam. I'm not so distanced from it, even if I never...