The social implications of this would not be pretty. Without young people in society, the purpose of tomorrow would slowly fade. No point trying to build a future if there isn’t someone to take helm of it. Children of men did an excellent dramatization of this
True, but you can already see some effect in greying democratic states in Europe.
A lot of the political attention is focused on the interests of the most numerous voter class - the pensioners - and much less on the interests of the young. Carbon emissions are the only major exception I can think of.
The bike is 2K for the one without a motorized resistance knob and I bought one despite this feature because it takes me 1 second to turn the knob to the dynamically adjusted value on the display.
Not necessarily. The people who were there for money / work are leaving in droves. I can only hope that a crash similar to the tech bust in the late 90s / early 00s accelerates the process. Those who are staying tend to genuinely like and appreciate the area, and they tend to be better citizens who contribute to a sense of community.
The issue here is ecosystem. Googles advantage is everything syncs together across there platform seamlessly. Going the no google routes fragments my ability to share photos, share docs and sheets, access easily across platforms.The trade off is being locked out and tracking (which you can limit in privacy settings).
Edit: also want to add that there is also a risk with using smaller platforms as they have a high chance of going bust. I employ a strategy of keeping files on both google, iCloud and a personal drive to have redundancy in case of issues. Of course this does make sense if you want to be absolutely invisible
We need open ecosystems then. When I started using a Sandstorm server, it became a method I could share access to things from all sorts of applications through a single interface... but all of the apps and the platform itself are open source.
But the problem with locking yourself into a proprietary platform, be it Apple, Google, or Microsoft, is that in order to use service A, that you like, you may also have to put up with services B, C, or D, which suck. For example, you might love Google Photos, but if alongside sharing Google Photos with your friends, you have to deal with Google's endless stream of terrible short-lived chat services, that seamless ecosystem platform isn't really doing you any favors.
I use Google Workplace, less friction for getting things done.
Just my opinion, but if you want a one-stop-shop for a Google replacement, probably Fastmail is your best bet: email+calendar+notes. ProtonMail is less well integrated, but in a year I would bet their email+calendar+vpn+secure data storage will have a better workflow. In addition to Google Workplace, I am also a paying customer of ProtonMail and Fastmail - I just don't use these alternatives right now.
Install SolidExplorer or similar, share the photo, select SolidExplorer (or any other file explorer) and it's downloaded. From there you can share it anywhere else. It's one more step in the middle though - and it's the reason why I have migrated all of my photos away from Google and to a RPi4 with NextCloud and 7 TB hd.
Limiting tracking with google is performative, as they still retain and use all of your data within their system to continue to 'improve our results' (generate revenue).
There are enough self-hosted options and third-party paid alternatives that the Google ecosystem lock-in isn't as useful as it once was to me.
My community has dropped prices 10% and is offering 1 month free (4 year old complex in north san jose). However they are not offering this to current renters whose renewals are coming up. They offered me a 0% increase and when I cited that the 5 other identical apartments are currently available for essentially 20% off (10% discount over 12 months plus one month free), they began been pushing the narrative that the rent will increase by the end of June and that I should sign now before they change the offer. So now its a waiting game.
You're actually in a pretty strong position. Normally to leave a lease you need to give notice, usually 30 days. But there is one time you don't have to do that -- when the lease ends.
If you lease ends on July 1, you can turn in your keys on June 30 and walk away. Your landlord knows this.
Rents won't go back up in July. Even if the economy recovers 100% in the next two weeks, most tech employers in the area are doing WFH until at least the fall if not next year or forever.
If your lease ends on July 1, start looking for a new place now, but don't sign anything. As soon as you find something tell your current landlord that you are about to sign a new lease but you'd much rather not go through the hassle of moving. If they say yes, great, and if they say no, at least you have a new place lined up.
Just make sure you take lots of pictures when you move out because your landlord sounds like the type that will nickel-and-dime you on your deposit.
>Normally to leave a lease you need to give notice, usually 30 days. But there is one time you don't have to do that -- when the lease ends.
Every lease I've ever signed required 30 days notice from either party to end the lease when the lease term ends, otherwise it proceeds on a month to month basis with no further action required.
Edit: Technically not required in California but confirmed that it was in fact required for a previous state I lived in.
This is not really an option in California in my experience. There is no automatic month-to-month conversion, and it's pretty rare as far as I can tell.
> Normally to leave a lease you need to give notice, usually 30 days. But there is one time you don't have to do that -- when the lease ends.
This isn't guaranteed. In my case (renter in North Carolina), even at the end of my lease I have to give a 60 day notice prior to the lease-end or else my lease switches to month-to-month automatically.
Check your lease, but at least on my leases, it says that it only goes month to month if you pay the rent and the landlord accepts. If you don't pay the rent, the lease just ends.
It's certainly a nice courtesy to let them know if you're leaving, but at least in California, it isn't required by law.
> This Lease Contract will automatically renew month-to-month unless either party gives at least 60 days written notice
of termination or intent to move-out as required by paragraph 35 (Move-Out Notice).
Mine is pretty clear that it's an automatic rollover, but fair -- every state (and lease!) is different.
> If you don't pay the rent, the lease just ends.
Oof, sounds like a nice way to end up with a bad mark against you nonetheless.
Good note, you are correct, my California lease says the same thing. Previous leases in other states were specific about giving notice but this one does not. In my opinion, this is worse for the renter than the landlord as the landlord can choose not to accept your month-to-month rent offer at the last minute leaving you stranded. I prefer the notice from either party route.
> In my opinion, this is worse for the renter than the landlord as the landlord can choose not to accept your month-to-month rent offer at the last minute leaving you stranded.
This is definitely a possibility. In practice it doesn't happen because it's a pain to find new renters, especially if you don't list and show the property ahead of time. Unless you're trying to get rid of a tenant it's unlikely to happen.
Also the tenant has other protections. If they won't renew your lease, they would have to evict you. A process that takes 30 days at least, and requires a visit to a judge. The judge would most likely side with the tenant on this one.
>If they won't renew your lease, they would have to evict you. A process that takes 30 days at least, and requires a visit to a judge. The judge would most likely side with the tenant on this one.
Why would the judge side with someone that is no longer in a contractual relationship with the landlord? I would certainly not risk the mark against my renting record.
Because judges are human and at least in the California cities tend to be more liberal and anti-landlord.
Also there are so many tenant protection laws, it may not be possible to just not accept rent. I've honestly never looked into it because I wouldn't do that to someone.
Same is happening in NYC. Renewals are either no change or seeing an increase while move ins are seeing discounts. My advice is to move out. You will either get a nice discount somewhere else or force your current landlord to actually compete. When you straight renew you have very little negotiating leverage and landlords know this.
Just let them know you are looking at other units with competitors, and that you expect them to price match. You have the power. Act like it, and they'll lower the rent for you. They don't want to carry that empty unit.
The integrity of all new sources have been challenged to such a degree that the real loser here is the average person. There is no way for many of us to assess who to trust and we are being mired in confusion and smokescreens created by the powers that be. There is no denying that it is being done intentionally and its just sad.
It's partially the fault of the sources, but I also feel like there are unrealistic expectations. Most people I've seen discuss it online expect a lot more details with a lot more certainty than could possibly be available.
There are numerous Tier 1s (Bosch, Continental, ZF) working on providing autopilot like tech to auto manufacturers. Additionally companies have there own efforts (GM super Cruise for example which btw has nothing to do with Cruise and is developed separately). Comma has open sourced all there code, so good chance the OEMs have someone looking at it.
Apart from GM's supercruise which is only avaialable on a top end Cadillac CT6, there is nothing that rivals OP or AP. Telluride/Pallisade are good but not close to either of above products. Not sure whats holding manufacturers back
Google biggest advantage (and its the same thing Apple and Microsoft are doing) is integration of services that ultimately make the users life easier. Personally I use a Mac and iPhone and all my data is stored in iCloud. I do a lot of my personal work with MS Office and my email is Gmail. But over time I have found that choosing an ecosystem does benefit you. Recently I switched my work tasks to Google suite products and dropped my Apple TV for an android based solution. The main advantage is now my TV, browser (chrome), gmail, youtube are all synced together. I can watch videos on my tv and save others to pick up on my phone later. I can edit my docs anywhere and link them into my emails easily. I have debated moving from Apples Photos to Google Photos so that my images are all centrally located for my own ease of use and cross platform integration. I still back up all files to a secondary drive and forward copies of important emails to my outlook account in case I ever get locked out of my google account, but the integration is really nice.
