You're right about Amazons leverage.

In Santa Clara county we have our local behemoths trying to get their property valuations dropped. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2024/11/08/tech-goo...

The way commercial real estate lending is tied to lease rates usually means its almost impossible for them to go down unless you operate at these scales.

Most commercial landlords around me would rather have prime main street spots stay empty than refinance because of lower lease rates.

Weird. I just bumped into this paper when I was trying to learn why Charlotte has such a confusing layout. I've never felt more lost.

A quick look in a mapping app shows pretty much a rectangular grid.

Charlotte is specifically called out as one of the worst offenders in this article mate.

Same one about the combo here. Almost every person I ask has some variation on that one. Crazy how universal it is in my world, especially since it's usually about something that would have happened 20 or 30 years ago, but never really happened.

Four Lions puffin party. Parody of incompetent jihadis using a kids game to communicate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fd4yjFto0A

Looks like DROWN is still out there.

https://opennav.com/waypoint/US/DROWN

Seeing a lot of similar stories here. We used to do a game of hide and seek on our massive dead end street. Wed use peoples bushes and cars to hide. I still remember the sound of crotchety old mr peabody chambering a round in his shotgun behind us one night. Pitch black. Never saw his face, just heard him let us know we were about to die if we didn't leave. Pretty sure he knew it was 2 little kids

So a pretty good seeker

I have a 2018 Chevy, and cancelled onstar immediately, which was intentionally an exercise in annoyance and confusion. But I still got metrics emailed to me.

I found a way to detach the wireless dongler tucked up behind my glove box. The only side effect was my little digi-compass not telling me which direction I was pointing anymore.

I don't think they let you do that anymore.

I just had a flight with JSX cancelled because of this, it's sad.

Regulations are written in blood, but this one just looks like it's written in green.

Are you sure this is related? JSX is selling tickets like normal, and the article says nothing about any actions taken, only that the TSA hasn't made public it's plans yet.

So far they've had to pull out of a few airports when FBOs stop hosting them, mostly without explanation. The same FBOs that allow part 135 operators, some owned by the majors, to run. Seems related.

We live in fame or go down in flame, hey! Nothing'll stop the U.S. Air Force!

Who knows what they've been grabbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5qYH-Y3tQ4