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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 8h

good to know that Facebook thinks I need to be friends with my wife

Reposted by Hunter Owens

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 10h

Construction begins this week on a new, upgraded AirTrain at Newark Liberty Airport. The 2.5 mile system is "expected" to cost $3.5 billion and complete in... 2030! 🤦‍♂️https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/outdated-newark-airport-build-3-214920061.html

5 years for 2.5 miles. Just amazing work America.😕

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 13h

fun fact: ficuses are responsible for so many of the sidewalks in LA that are completely insane looking since their roots grow and spread so wide

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 14h

as a current bolt (co-)owner this thing is going to do numbers

Zac Estrada @zacestrada.com · 14h

Pretty much everything we've already heard about the 2027 Chevy Bolt is now official by GM: under $30k, ~150kW charging speed, NACS, V2H capability, optional SuperCruise, Angry Birds and HBO Max capable

THEY estimate 255 miles of range and on sale Q1 2026 news.gm.com/home.detail....

It’s back: Introducing the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt

news.gm.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d

I’m gonna go with interference operation by a foreign power by December

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d

all these SFH homeowners cashed out for 4 million plus in 2022 on Zillow estimates of around 1.5M

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 1d

man, the Expo TNP upzoning around Expo Bundy is really resulting in huge results - was at the station yesterday and saw 4 buildings under construction, and now this

la.urbanize.city/post/eight-s...

Eight-story, 42-unit development planned at 2219 S. Wellsely Avenue

In a familiar tale, single-family homes located just south of Metro's Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle are set to give way to apartments, according to a recent application to the Los Angeles Department ...

la.urbanize.city

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d

lifelong CA / IL voter: I suspect I voted in ~2 elections that actually mattered at a national level (first election 2012). 2016 + 2020 Dem primaries.

And frankly the CA 2020 Dem primary "mattering" is a reach

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 2d

this is what living in a swing state must feel like

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

the dodgers bullpen experience

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

completely predictable

www.dispatch.com/story/busine...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says

The modernization of the Army's battlefield communications network is rife with "fundamental security" problems, according to an internal Army memo.

www.dispatch.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

Oh yeah especially for the international gates. Part of my LAX is good actually hot take

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

The landline is real and cannot hurt you www.aa.com/i18n/travel-...

www.aa.com

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

read theory

(WATCH FALLING DOWN)

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 3d

it's indescribable to outsiders how much the West Coast has been shaped by the postwar aerospace/missiles industry

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Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net · 3d

At least in the socal sub market feels like the various Hyundai and Kia EVs are doing this

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

American cars are very much stuck in a similar dynamic to the post-war boom, where they keep getting bigger and flashier and more expensive without really delivering much more in utility, and seem to just be waiting for a new VW Beetle to land like a comet amidst dinosaurs all over again.

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