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Which isn’t what happened at all. Intel is going down the tubes and can’t afford new infrastructure projects in such an unstable country. BDS did next to nothing here. Most of the blame can be put on Intel itself for being such a poorly run company, the instability of the war + Hezbollah and Ansar Allah wrecking Israel’s economy. BDS is important and good for putting pressure on Israel, but it has not reached such a critical mass to start affecting non-consumer facing products. Most of want Intel sells is to other businesses who, I guarantee you are not factoring BDS into their calculations at all. They are factoring in the fact that Intel chips suck.

Intel didn’t scuttle their new Israeli fab because of BDS. Intel does not give a single shit about BDS!

Buddy, then investors in health care companies would have to realize some of that “risk” they keep blabbering about. It would make them sad!

WWI was the defining moment of assimilation. External and internal social pressure forced a lot of german americans to stop speaking german and integrate with wider american culture. By WWII they had pretty much completely integrated into american society.

Yeah, the new US plaything is ISIS-K

Aren’t the Chinese right here? Their property market is operating under capitalism, and if you bail out capitalists it does create a moral hazard for them to keep re-creating the conditions for more bail-outs. It would also send the signal that capital is actually in charge, and not the CPC.

My understanding is that the CPC wants to use this opportunity to increase the share of social housing, but as you said is attempting a controlled demolition of the market; trying to thread the needle between saving “regular” people who invested in real-estate and allowing the whole thing to collapse. It seems like a daunting task, but China might be the only country that could pull it off. Plus there’s the added benefit of greatly reducing the power of any real-estate ghouls left in government after the anti-corruption campaigns.

Because Boston is the biggest, shittiest, college town in the country.

Is this how he sees himself? At least Bezos actually got jacked when he took PEDs. Elon still looks like a schlub.

If it vines by wrapping around stuff (and thus needs a trellis like structure to grow on), it should be fine. The other posters are having problems with English Ivy which adheres by digging aerial rootlets into structures (ie masonry, wood) to gain a foothold, and Virginia Creeper which adheres by having aerial rootlets with little pads that produce an adhesive cement like substance. The adhesive has to be continuously renewed by the plant and will eventually fall off the building after being killed. Manually removing Virginia Creeper before the adhesive has worn out will probably damage the siding or wall.

English Ivy can be quite bad for a building where Virginia creeper is mostly annoying. That depends on the siding of course. Solid masonry or stucco, as long as its well pointed or in good shape is going to be fine. Vinyl, shingle, or anything with an air cavity (masonry vaneers tied to a wood wall) is a real gamble. You dont want little spaces that the vining plant grow up into. That’s any kind of vining plant.

There are some very positive upsides to vining plants if the wall is appropriate and the plant isn’t English Ivy. A fully covered wall can considerably cooler on a hot day. Instead of the sun pounding into a solid brick wall, storing all that heat in the wall like a battery, a covered wall will have the plant both reflecting sunlight and cooling themselves down via transpiration. I remember reading a paper where the author compared the temperature of wall covered in ivy vs bare walls and the ivy walls were 15F cooler.

Nuclear exchange. Confirmed contact with extraterrestrials. McRib is back.