Spoken like someone who has never had a surprise maintenance issue pop up unexpectedly that costs multiple times your monthly mortgage.

To get a townhome in the bay at ~2k a month is a complete outlier with respect to rent. I live in a similar COL area and the cheapest you could rent that kind of space is for ~3.5k monthly in the present market.

The car argument is not good. Anyone can buy and operate a car immediately on private property without any interference from government in the US.

Did you actually read your “source”? The article claims a lot but offers no substantiation to many of the claims.

Charity.

I think I should have said “optic” in place of “lens”. The crystal is the portion that is being oscillated to divert the beam. It could be that this is exactly the same principle being used by the referenced experiment but with much higher powered acoustic equipment.

Doesn’t an AOM typically have a lens?

Revit is a pretty commonly used architectural tool now.