Pedro Sanchez called a November 29 election after Spain's right-wing opposition killed two emergency decrees against evictions and property speculation. For owners of Spanish rental housing, the vote is a contest between the government that wrote those measures and the parties that voted them down.
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- Builder
- Builder 14%
- Operator
- Operator 37%
- Investor
- Investor 49%
Reality
- Evidence74
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives30
- Confidence72
Iron broke the Bronze Age empires because farmers could smelt it at home
A Works in Progress essay argues the Bronze Age powers never returned because iron, unlike the tin they imported, could be made anywhere, and it leaves the comparison to drones today as an open question.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives30
- Confidence48
A 1976 industrial chemicals law has cleared one engineered microbe in thirty-one years
White House staff settled the question in the 1980s by reasoning that genomes are made of chemicals, a stopgap that has outlasted every product category it captured. Biotech operators building risk models tend to leave that durability out of the calculation.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption4
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives56
- Confidence43
A cotton tote needs 173 uses before it beats the bag it replaced
Works in Progress argues that landfill beats the recycling bin for much of what we discard. The evidence it supplies is mostly reuse breakeven arithmetic, and that is the half a procurement team can check.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption20
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives55
- Confidence38
A serving officer argues plate readers intrude less than the stops they replace
Flock sells a camera for $3,000 a year against a typical $1 million department budget, which means money no longer decides adoption. The claim that it displaces pretextual stops rests on one officer's account.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives70
- Confidence40
Transit's cost disease is a goals problem: $20m of bike path for 13 people at a meeting
Every worthy secondary goal bolted onto a transit system gets billed to the riders it exists to serve, and most of those riders have no car to fall back on.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives44
- Confidence52
Daycare Does Not Break Children's Brains, And It Does Not Fix Economies Either
The claim that daycare traumatises children rests on cortisol readings and speculation about the amygdala. The official claims on the other side are barely sturdier.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+52
- Incentives66
- Confidence44