Meta fail.

 

I was up in "The City" last week. And I only saw ONE case of public nudity. So.. I think technically SF is getting a little better. Anyway.

Meta was telling people they were going to have a hologram display. Holograms are my jam.  

They set up a glass box with a remote speaker. Why? I'm not sure. The "hologram" was just three of those 3D hologram fans. You can clearly see where the camera can see the object is spinning. AND THOSE AREN'T EVEN NEW! I've been seeing them for almost a decade.

Lamest hologram ever. For a fan they are amazing. But.... this is 2022.

The death of autonomous cars is greatly over-exaggerated.

They are loading them with even more gear than before.

Everyone gets it but the American public.

Long Covid Disables Millions Worldwide, Even as Rates Ease, Study Shows. 

"The study, published Monday in the journal JAMA, helps explain why as many as 4 million Americans have dropped out of the workforce in the wake of the pandemic and why long Covid may cost $3.7 trillion in the US alone. More than 94 million cases and 1 million Covid deaths have been reported in the US, where the coronavirus infected almost 42,000 people a day on average in September. " 

The article goes on to say....

"The research is based on data from 1.2 million Covid patients in 22 countries gathered from 54 studies and two medical record databases, including from the US Veterans Affairs health system. More than 200 ailments have been linked to long Covid, but the study in JAMA collated information on three common clusters of symptoms. "

"It found that three months after a coronavirus infection, 3.7% of patients had ongoing respiratory problems, 3.2% had persistent fatigue with bodily pain or mood swings and 2.2% had cognitive problems, after adjusting for their health status before Covid."

“The pandemic will raise the baseline risk of disease and disability to a new level,” said co-author Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research and development at the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

Even further down the article.

Long haul symptoms aren’t the only health threat to Covid survivors. Diabetes and life-threatening conditions including heart attacks, stroke and kidney damage are more common in Covid patients than those who avoided the pandemic disease. 

The Fed is raising rates for things they can not fix. Most of this inflation is from labor shortages and energy. But, raising rates is the only tool the FED has - so.. that's what they will do.

People think the Great Resignation is because people don't want to work. It's REALLY because the public treated workers like garbage and expendable. People ground them to the nubs. Why would they ever work in a public forward facing job again? In short - Why would they put their lives on the line for you?

No. Herd immunity in any form - was always a lie.

Pfizer Exec Admits Under Oath: 'We Never Tested COVID Vaccine Against Transmission'.

Huh. I was called a fear monger for even suggesting you could get SARS2 over and over. I was a cult member. A covidian and all sorts of other shit. And YES - I'M STILL MAD. The way people treated businesses for just trying to protect their workers! I can't even.

The funny thing is that everyone was calling this an Orwellian dystopia. Yet they kept insisting that 2+2='s 5. Not only that - they let out their rage on people like me instead of the incompetent government. "There is nothing we can do. We're all just gonna have to die." They said.

Every single day, I wonder if the trajectory of the pandemic might have been different if the government had simply set up tents to show people how to wear masks properly and why it's important. To this day I see elderly people wearing chin diapers when there is no mask mandate in place. But.... I bet they tell everyone they mask all the time. Why even bother?

I genuinely don't understand how some people can look at themselves in the mirror. They screamed the government was wrong,  but followed in lockstep anyway. Even to the point of taking away peoples livelihood.

When I think of the incredible toll this has taken on our country, and our workforce - I feel like the coming pain is sort of deserved by most. Most everyone treated others as disposable. And I will never forget that. It sort of offsets my sadness about the whole thing. Maybe they deserve what they get. Sadly.

I mean, I never even talked about Long SARS, because you couldn't get people to understand the basics. This country is medically illiterate as fuck. Just wait till you see. This is going to be a plot twist no one saw coming. 

THREE YEARS have been wasted! And I'm here to tell you - we are in a worse spot. The hell people have chosen for themselves. I just don't get it.

I think we can get out of this with testing, but people can't be bothered. So this is the world they get. Their rules not mine. 

It's a long way down from here.

Homeowner Equity Reached Record Level in Early 2022.

Increasing home prices have pushed equity extraction and driven a remodeling boom.

"Since 2012, home prices have risen continuously, providing borrowers with large amounts of home equity. At the end of the first quarter of 2022, the average borrower had $280,000 in home equity — this is a gain of $64,000 over the past year and $125,000 over the past five years.

High amounts of home equity can not only cushion borrowers from defaulting on their mortgages, but increased equity also provides homeowners with the opportunity to extract equity for debt consolidation and other expenses.

When mortgage rates hit record lows in 2021, many homeowners who wanted to extract equity from their properties opted to refinance their entire mortgage and take the cash out. As a result, cash-out refinance dollar amounts increased by 35% from 2020 to 2021.

Borrowers also increased their use of home equity loans starting in 2021. After decreasing from 2018 through 2020, in 2021, the dollar amount of approved lines of credit reached its highest level since 2007 when it increased by 23%1.     <--------

Mortgage rates began increasing in April of this year, and with that increase came a shift in equity extraction. Higher mortgage rates can make cash-out refinances less attractive and make lines of credit more attractive, especially if borrowers hold a mortgage with a very low interest rate. The use of cash-out refinancing increased by just 3% in Q1 2022 compared to a year earlier. However, the use of home equity lines of credit increased by 29%.

A low supply of available homes for sale put upward pressure on home prices and kept many homeowners in their current homes, which, in turn, fueled a remodeling boom. Remodeling expenditures rose to $391 billion in Q1 2022, the largest figure in over 25 years2.

While we forecast continued home price increases, those increases are predicted to slow to 5% by May 2023. This will similarly slow the rate of home equity gains.

Furthermore, the increases in mortgage rates to the highest levels in more than 13 years will make borrowing more expensive and could slow the rate of home equity extraction. However, the already-high amounts of home equity and low supply of homes on the market means that remodeling activity should remain strong through the next year.

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Banks say the funniest things.

A couple of months ago I accidentally underpaid my mortgage by a penny. Yes. A PENNY. Obvi I had to call the bank to figure out why they were warning me I was going to be late. 

After I had them do a bank draw of one cent, they said.....we have a lot of options for you to help you make your mortgage payments easier. I told them I didn't need any money from my house. Obviously a one cent underpayment is an accident. But they sent me over to "where-ever". 

This is where the bank told me that - you know... home prices have gone up a LOT in the past few months. Wouldn't you like to do a cash out refi before that goes away? It was at that moment that I realized that every notice they have sent me in months has been about tapping my equity. 

If you think negative equity is just for people who bought in the last year.... I'm gonna say you are wrong.

Negative equity is back.

This weekend, I was driving down my street and noticed that one of the two houses that turned over this year, was back on the market. Self I said - that was a flip. And they have had it a while. I couldn't wait till it hit the MLS so I could see what they'd done to it an how much they were selling it for.

Both houses were time capsule houses. Which is my term for a house that is original to the year it was built. This means it basically needs a gut. It literally needs everything because it's never been updated in any way. 

The flip house is about 10 houses down. The other one is right across the street from me. They paid 400k OVER asking. I can't even believe it honestly. But it's true. Both of these houses sold within a month of each other so they are a good gauge of the market. The flip house is about 500 square feet bigger. Both are one stories.

If the flip house sells for that they are asking, my neighbor across the street will be 100 grand in negative equity. That's not even accounting for all the money they have put in to bring it back to life. And that flip house is not going to get asking. Not in this market.

I've gutted a house before, and have an idea how much that costs. That flipper might get out flat if he gets asking. Otherwise...... not so much. 

I haven't really talked about the housing market in a while because I don't really understand why no one cared that houses went up 20-40% in TWO years....... and literally no one cared. Especially in markets like Vegas that depend so much on tourism. No one was sounding the alarm. On the contrary, everyone was saying how this time was different than the Great Finical Crisis. Is it NOT.

It doesn't matter who your Presidential candidate is - printing the kind of money they did during the pandemic was wrong. Trump built this enormous fire and everyone co-signed apparently. Biden only poured a small amount of gas on it. Trump made it so the banks could not foreclose or evict people. Distorting the market and causing people to pay insane prices just to get into a house. People went out with their pandemic loans (helicopter money) and bought houses and cars and boats and literally everything!

Hell, if my neighbor across the street had waited SIX months, they could have gotten a house that was 500 square feet bigger. Which is completely updated now, for 100 grand less!

Now innocent people are going to pay.

Who wore it better?

 

House  number 1? 

I was like - oh, I've never seen that one before. The cat was also a nice touch. Super friendly and wanted love. 

 

Or house number 2? Which is litterally 6 houses down. Be honest. Would that make you crazy? House number 1 was unique for like a second.

Topical

The US was committing suicide....

And  everyone was patting themselves on the back. They all wanted to burn it down. Now you get your wish.

There were zero fiscal conservatives during the pandemic.  I was the only one saying Trump was printing an obscene amount of money. Which probably labeled me as anti Trump. Everyone else was like -no... this is our new normal. 

I was yelling into the wind - it's not normal for housing prices to go up 20-40% in a pandemic. This was not caused by anything other than money printing. Nothing new was created during the pandemic, an obvi there were no production increases. People went out with that free PPP money and bought cars and houses and fixed up their places.

I want to say this is well played by Trump. Biden will get all the blame, and I'm fine with that. But people have been living a complete illusion for three years. Now....... everyone will pay.

And China can't save us this time. I still think they might collapse. Europe is having a few problems of their own. And the US is completely clueless again. They are in "back to normal vibes" and they don't even realize there is nothing but air under their feet.

Maybe I will unroll some camera stuff.

It was the plot twist no one expected.

They thought they were clearing out the "dead wood", but are in fact just creating a new dead forest to burn. I couldn't talk about this months ago because I was a "fear monger". You haven't seen fear mongering yet. And they wouldn't listen to anyone. 

The only reazson I care at this point is because we are going to have to take care of all these people. It's just somehow sweet irony that a lot of people will have to live with the choices they forced onto others. Like having to stay home if you aren't medically perfect. I don't even have really anything wrong with me. I have a burnt out thyroid and a little high blood pressure. My family had EVERYTHING. Which is why I have been extraordinarily cautious. My body is likely an asshole. I have shit genetics, but because I've taken care of this old truck I'm in good health.

I know I will never trust people the same way again. I used to think 75% of people were good. And about 25% not so much but we can work around them. Now I believe 75% of people would step over your dead body for a bottle of catsup. And I'm bitter. It's just weird how they were all wrong, and I was right.

‘I’m Dropping My COVID Hubris,’ Vows a Top Immunologist.

“Maybe it would be better to catch the ’rona and get it over with, now that I’m fully vaccinated?” he remembers speculating.

“After all, isn’t it just a cold in fully immunized people? And once I’ve had it, won’t I have acquired immunity that will mean I won’t get sick at all if I get it again?”

But Omicron made a mockery of these popular assumptions.

On May 26, Goodnow came down with a scratchy throat. Twelve days later his immune system had not cleared the virus. Then he got hit by congestive heart failure. He developed a chest cough and was breathless. His ankles swelled up.

Goodnow was lucky. His acute myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) was on the mild end of the spectrum but severe enough to reduce his mobility and working life.

As a consequence of the infection, last July Goodnow resigned his directorship of the Immunogenomics Lab at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, “for health reasons.”

In a remarkably blunt interview with an Australian radio station, and later a personal column, Goodnow admitted that COVID had not behaved as widely expected.   <----------------- You fucking think? (emphasis mine)

“That is the thing that really stunned me and I’m sure has stunned most immunologists,” he said in the radio interview.

Like many scientists Goodnow assumed that any infection after vaccination would be mild; that reinfections would largely be asymptomatic; that COVID would behave like a cold after vaccination; and that variant-specific vaccines would deliver us from the pandemic.

But Goodnow now considers these assumptions wrong and has set about debunking myths that “many of us, myself included, have entertained more than we should have,” he writes. He now joins a growing cadre of scientific experts sounding new alarms about COVID, the “so many others” he says, who “are working hard to stop endless waves of reinfection.”

Not a cold or flu

The first myth that Goodnow wants debunked is probably the most common, that COVID is just a cold.

But colds don’t behave the way COVID does in the body.

Colds, for example, don’t leave 2.3 per cent of athletes with inflamed hearts after infection, as tests found at 10 U.S. universities.   <---------------

Nor do colds worsen outcomes with each subsequent infection, as Goodnow and others worry may be the case with COVID. He points with concern to a study, yet to be peer reviewed, from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, led by Ziyad Al-Aly at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Al-Aly and two other researchers looked at the health records of 250,000 veterans who had been infected once with COVID; 36,000 who had been infected twice, and 2,000 who had been infected three times.

Using a “hazard ratio” — a measure of how often bad things happen to one group compared to another — the researchers found that the risk of heart, brain, kidney and blood complications all increased with each subsequent infection.

As Goodnow has noted about the findings, “The risk of cardiovascular disease, for example, increased after one infection, but doubled in people who had two infections, and tripled in those who had been infected thrice.”   <-----------------

Similar risks were found for heart disease, blood clotting problems, brain decline and diabetes. Nor did vaccines seem to help in preventing these problems, which most frequently occur up to six months after infection.  <----------------- (Oh... just hearing about the diabetes thing? Yeah. The virus gives a lot of people diabetes apparently) Google it.

“Every time you dip your bucket in that COVID well, you’ve got the same chance of a whole lot of bad things happening,” explained Goodnow, who considers the veterans study “really important real-world data.”

LOL

Everything above that line should have never happened. Now we will all pay.

I have NOT moved on.

And honestly, I don't understand how anyone can pretend that everything is back to normal when SARS2 is the second or third cause of death in the US depending on the day. You know what is NOT the second or third cause of death and never has been outside of the 1918 pandemic? The Flu. If you believe otherwise you are lying to yourself and everyone.

People can go directly to google and see the the previous number of flu deaths per year were.What's happening is a complete tragedy, and I'm affected every single say when I go out and see people who will die if they get this disease. Super old people. People with obvious health problems from the outside.. People who have been convinced by others who are only interested in their own comfort, or for political reasons - not  to be cautious.

I have a girlfriend who was in a terrible marriage. Just awful. But she decided to have a baby to fix it. And then went about trying to convince ME that I needed to have a baby too. It took me a while to figure out, but I realized she started doing it because misery loves company. Now when I see people doing stupid stuff and trying to get their friends to join in, I know it's because that person doesn't feel like they made bad choices, if you make those choices too. If everyone does it - it's not a bad choice. Right?

 

Why do I bring this up? Because I think this is happening with SARS2.I mean... why did no one compare SARS2 with it's ACTUAL closest relative SARS1 ?! Instead of a virus like the flu which it has NO resemblance to? For Christ sake it did some of the same things to people, and they treated it the same way with steroids. Source.

 

" Apart from the cortisol involvement, the role of disaster in mediating fatigue via immunological dysfunctions, including cytokine disturbances, has been suggested.20,21 During acute SARS infection, cytokine storm had been demonstrated,20 and cytokine disturbance was closely associated with somatic and painful conditions.22 More research is needed to delineate the long-term association of endocrine status and cytokine dysfunctions with psychiatric disorders and chronic fatigue in the cohort of SARS survivors." 

 

Some people have life long problems from the treatments they got during THAT outbreak. Yet people are lapping up all these new treatments without any care of what they may do to their bodies in the future.

 

“What if we were all disabled? Who will take care of us?" said patient Li Chaodong, 51, whose wife, Bao Baoqin, also suffers post-SARS side effects. "Nobody told me anything about the side effects to the hormone treatment but I don't blame anyone. The treatment saved my life. Now I must continue to survive after SARS." Last year, Fang fell down in his 11th-floor apartment in Beijing and was unable to get back up, his arms and legs too weak to support his frame. At that moment, he contemplated ending his life - but even that, he found, was a futile desire. "I wanted to jump out the window but how could I? I couldn't even get up. I thought SARS was a nightmare but I was wrong. The real pain came after SARS.”Source.

 

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that people would co-sign onto the complete incompetency of the US government and infect themselves with a disease that causes clotting. Maybe it Forbes tells you, - you will finally believe it. Read - More Danger Ahead With BA.5: Covid-19 Reinfection Doubles The Risk For Death, Blood Clots, And Lung Damage  And even worse, it causes cumulative damage. At least Australia is finally being honest with their people.

"But international evidence suggests changes to our immune cells after SARS-CoV-2 infection may have other impacts. It may affect our ability to fight other viruses, as well as other pathogens, such as bacteria or fungi.”"

 

This is something I have been saying for at least the better part of a year, but I was a crank. Your immune system becomes exhausted from repeated infections. I have literally had the flu 3 times in my entire life and people are getting SARS2 4/5/6 times in TWO years! It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out.

 

Basically what happens is - your body produces an overreaction to the spike protein in SARS2, and your immune system goes wild and tries to kill you. The spike protein causes an an inflammatory response. A "cytokin storm". I'm sure everyone has seen those weird string-ey blood clots from the autopsies? Well.. those are called Myloid Fibrin Clots. I looked at those pictures for months trying to figure out if they were real or not because because it was so weird and abnormal. Some even say SARS2 causes "sticky blood". These clots, and micro clots cut off oxygen to your lungs and organs which is why everyone thinks this is a respiratory disease. It is NOT. It's a vascular disease for which I have been saying for maybe two years.

This is why people were collapsing in the street in China. It was from silent hypoxia. Oxygen could not get to wherever it needed to go. And if people don't have one of those finger oxygen meters in their house, I think they are nuts. They are literally less than 20 bucks. I have one because if you get super sick - you NEED to watch your OXY levels.

Now before everyone goes off saying - oh mew mew mew the vaccine does that!

Well.. you are right! The spike protein is in the vaccine too, but affects people to a lesser degree. I have also been saying this for AT LEAST a year.

So why am I not posting as much? Because I'm having a super hard time adjusting to a world that is rife with Eugenics. A world that thinks its okay to exclude people from society because they are not perfectly healthy. Or because they are not vaccinated. Like me. Or maybe they think you should lose your job, like almost my husband. It was a very dicey time in the Snarkolepsy household for a few months for sure. A world that refuses to acknowledge what is really happening and for which we have literally known since the fucking summer of 2020.

I mean, Johns Hopkins literally wrote an article outlining ALL these things in June 2020. But people just didn't give a fuck. And lastly - A WORLD THAT DOESN'T WANT TO MAKE THINGS BETTER. Just because something can not be eradicated DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULDN'T TRY!

So yeah... I'm having a super hard time adjusting. These things don't make me happy. They don't make me feel like sharing. And it's just a really fucking unbelievable place in the world. But here we are.

Tagger wisdom.

Looook. Things get hard don't give up.

Defund the CDC!

I just find it so strange that no one is calling for this. The CDC are incompetent frauds. What are we paying them for!

Ferrari Daytona SP3.

2022 De Lorean.

 

I only got three shots because I was mostly thinking - did you see that Maybach?!

Maybach concept. It's a BEAST.

 

I usually find Maybach's pretty boring. But this was my favorite car of the show.

 

 

I asked this guy if he would stand next to the wheel so you can see how enormous this thing is. It has to be the size of two Maybach sedans.

 

Maserati took over an entire house on 17 mile. 

Far away Future lives.

 

Of course I'm going to be cagey with this car since I have basically spent years shitting on this company. It's why I run a hole in the wall blog that hopefully no one knows about. 

Saw them at CES in 2016 with their crazy concept car.  Soon after Mr S. started calling them Far Away Future. Then they declared bankruptcy.

But, I got to ride in one today. So.. yeah them.  In general I'm not excited about the SUV trend. I find them bland and forgettable. Like boring sedans. Which is why you don't get as many cars right now. 

The zero gravity (barco lounger)seats don't make much sense for a car without self driving.