[barnaby33]

Scaredy did you stop taking your meds?
Josh

[barnaby33]

I can’t decide whether, “testify, or, “bless yer heart,” is the appropriate response.
Josh

[barnaby33]

Sellers digging in deeper and staying put locally

Wake me when we get to capitulation!

[barnaby33]

So when’s the house warming party? SDRealtor can bring wine!
Josh

[barnaby33]

Mormons love dental school. Dentists earn good money and have lots of time for big families.
Josh

[barnaby33]

If it’s an investment I’d optimize for predictable profitability. If it’s a home to live in, options 3 all day every day.
Josh

[barnaby33]

It wasn’t the first Costco however, it was a Price Club that is older than any other existing Costco.

Price Club bought Costco, but retained the name Costco. The store on Morena is the original Price Club!
Josh

[barnaby33]

It depends, 1% of what?
Josh

[barnaby33]

My god you have too much free time.
Josh

[barnaby33]

Yesterdays river bed is tomorrows flood plain!
Josh

[barnaby33]

Any real water shortage would result in residential users who are a large majority of the population outbidding agricultural users. But we actually won’t have any water shortages, this is just Chicken Little propaganda by major water users eager for even more state subsidies.

In a free market for water, Western state residential water bills would decrease substantially. The “cost” would be, e.g., on Chinese consumers who wouldn’t get our almond exports quite so cheaply, and the ultrarich owners of farms that get water subsidies.

We have a real water shortage. California grows 50% of Americas fruit and veg. So what you are really stating is that in a free market, we’d all have plenty of residential water (more expensive than now but not horribly so) at the expense of fresh fruits and veg a lot of the year. That’s cutting off your nose to spite your face. Yes the Chinese should pay more for almonds, and agricultural water should be more expensive with the explicit social goal of moving us towards perma culture, but be careful what you wish for.
Josh

[barnaby33]

The Fed matters because it can control the supply of the worlds reserve currency, full stop. It has several tools, not just interest rates but: bond purchases, repos, etc.

The Fed is the village by the river. It can take water out of the river or put it in, but it doesn’t control downstream use of the river. It’s goal would seem to be a stable flow, though it doesn’t always accomplish that. Whether it is reactive, or proscriptive it is very powerful in its actions.

One could make the argument that without the Fed Congress couldn’t function. People love services, but hate taxes.

Josh

[barnaby33]

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[barnaby33]

and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation.”

Weirdly I agree with scaredy and phaster (mostly weird that I’m agreeing with scaredy)

AN specifically for you, I’m linking my favorite essay. I know it’s a bit of a read, maybe 30 minutes, but I re-read it every few years. This nails it!

Phaster, I make no sure and certain claim when fusion, or if fusion is our energy future. I just see no viable path forward without it. You and I seem to agree on water, it’s just that water is a subset of energy availability. Currently oil still has the best EROEI, but has nasty long tail costs. In fact all current energy sources except geothermal have those costs, especially nuclear. My biggest fear about nuclear power is that it dovetails so cleanly with human capacity for short term thinking at the cost of long term environmental health.

Back to water. My preference would be a combination of restrictions on usage, raising of prices and outright banning of growing certain crops. Almonds for export are the poster child, but in CA rice and cotton should never be grown either. Market forces by themselves will not stabilize or assure food availability or the survival of civilization in a desert.
Josh

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Clearly more than you think. Poser. If you actually listened to it you’d never use it the way you are. Now put on your headdress and start whining about stolen Indian lands

Careful there deadzone. A none-to-subtle homage to Anthrax not-withstanding you’ll want to keep each online persona separate.
Josh

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