Thursday, December 10, 2020
Clairvoyant!
I always read Wolfstreet for a well-measured and well-baselined view of economics. Wolf always puts current developments into full historical context, with the best graphs in the world. His commenters include real landlords and business owners who know what's really happening behind the trends.
Today Wolf discusses a superfancy skyscraper in SF, across the street from Twitter headquarters. (Why in the FUCK would anyone live in a skyscraper ANYWHERE, let alone an active earthquake zone? I can't begin to comprehend.) Since the lockdowns and work-from-home orders and riots, the tenants are leaving and the owners are having trouble with their equally stacked-up multistory $274 million mortgage.
One commenter brings out the initial promotion for this skyscraper back in 2013:
NEMA, “an array of lifestyle enhancing packages that fit the new normal.” Residents can choose between the “remote worker,” which includes 12 months of a cable/internet credit up to $200 per month, an Amazon Echo Dot, and Tile™ Mate Tracker, the “mind-body mover,” which includes 12 personal training session, six 60-minute massage sessions, a fitness cooling towel, fit tracker, and NEMA-branded yoga mat and glass water bottle; the “do-gooder,” which includes a $2,000 donation to the local charity of your choice; or the “move maker,” which includes a credit toward movers or a relocation expert up to $1,000, bedroom blackout shades, a Dyson air purifying fan and a bottle of wine and NEMA-branded wine glasses to celebrate.”Remarkably prophetic, isn't it? Advertising for Karens and OCD types to live the NEW NORMAL in 2013. Deepstate is never clairvoyant. Deepstate knows what's going to happen because Deepstate MAKES IT HAPPEN. The demons know this "suddenly" "emerging" "surprising" "unprecedented" "virus" is a fucking hoax because they CREATED the fucking hoax. = = = = = Language footnote: Other Wolf commenters, belonging to the day-trader species, dismiss real info from real landlords as "anecdotal". Day-traders are accustomed to seeing the world through their simulations and models. "ANECDOTAL DATA" IS A RETRONYM. "Anecdotal data" used to be called data. A direct personal observation in one particular place was formerly the definition of data. Now only the models and simulations are data, and real observations are DENIER TROLL ANECDOTAL.
Labels: Language update, Metrology
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