Right now there are a total of 5 houses or townhouses under $2.5M listed for sale in Palo Alto with the cheapest being a cute 1200 sq ft 3BD/2BA house for the low price of $1.68M.
The Palo Alto/Los Altos/West Menlo Park areas have fought hard to prevent housing development (NIMBY!). Recently a small number of luxury homes were built in the Barron Park part of Palo Alto. The homes sold quickly for $4.5M and up. Meanwhile, on the same small street in Barron Park, there are currently five homeless people living out of their cars and three trailer homes. They use the adjacent park's open public bathroom.
I don't think the departure of Tesla HQ will have much of an impact on the town, which is a shame. Something bad is festering beneath the pristine surface here.
I think the case has been made quite convincingly that humans have dramatically increased atmospheric CO2. I don't personally know anyone who questions this either (but I don't know any oil lobbyists, to be fair). In fact, as someone who worked in climate advocacy for many years, I think that we proved this link quite well, almost to a fault. I say a fault, because so many resources have gone into proving that humans have caused the increase in atmospheric CO2 that we paid less attention to making a convincing case that the rise in global temperatures can only be explained by the reflected heat caused by that atmospheric CO2. (Just consider your knee-jerk reaction to my comment where you automatically assumed that this was a question about atmospheric CO2 without considering the possibility that it might be something/anything else).
When you look at the graphs for atmospheric CO2 and man-made carbon emissions laid on top of each other, it looks perfect. This is the money shot. But, when you lay the 150 year temperature data on top of it, it suddenly doesn't look so good (ignoring the normal 11 year solar fluctuations, just looking at the general trend line). There's a 70 year stretch when temperatures are flat to declining as atmospheric CO2 climbs by almost 20% (in advocacy training we'd be encouraged to skip past this: zoom out and highlight that they are _directionally_ similar and definitely never chart in percent change, of course).
Personally, I still ride with Team Atmospheric Carbon. But I also don't think there's anything unhealthy with good-faith questioning of the new dogma. The Earth's magnetic field has weakened by about 5% over the past 100 years. Global temperatures have risen by about 5.5% over the past 100 years. The magnetosphere protects the Earth's atmosphere from charged solar particles which would otherwise strip off parts of the upper atmosphere, allowing more UV radiation to hit Earth. Is that a coincidence? Maybe. Is increased UV-B penetration just as likely to cause warming as increased reflected infrared radiation? Yeah? So I keep an open mind.
I don't personally know any reasonably intelligent people who question the existence of global warming.
I do, however, know several highly intelligent people who have looked at the atmospheric carbon and temperature data and wonder (quietly, for obvious reasons) if we might have got the causal mechanism story wrong.
Love this. Moving to CM4 will make the form factor even better. If you're interested, here's an AI camera paired with a steerable hyperdirectional speaker that uses the Raspberry Pi and Google Coral: https://www.toutaudio.com/
Apple Fitness+ (specifically the 20 and 30 minute HIIT workouts) have completely changed my life. I started in January and I've lost 15 pounds so far. I sleep so much better at night (also tracked by Apple Watch). I fall asleep within 10 minutes of getting in bed and I (usually) sleep all the way through the night now. The effects on my anxiety levels and sleep patterns have caused it to become a personal obsession. I'm honestly a little scared of missing a HIIT workout. I've tried to get friends and family to do it, but there's still a lot of resistance for some reason. But I think that Apple is tapping into something huge. The iPhone is a toxic obsession. Fitness+ is a healthy obsession. This is the version of Apple I want to support and believe in.
The Palo Alto/Los Altos/West Menlo Park areas have fought hard to prevent housing development (NIMBY!). Recently a small number of luxury homes were built in the Barron Park part of Palo Alto. The homes sold quickly for $4.5M and up. Meanwhile, on the same small street in Barron Park, there are currently five homeless people living out of their cars and three trailer homes. They use the adjacent park's open public bathroom.
I don't think the departure of Tesla HQ will have much of an impact on the town, which is a shame. Something bad is festering beneath the pristine surface here.