Herc and Megara went through college with me, moved back into my mom’s with me, through a couple apartments and into my first home before they finally split in half in the dishwasher.

9, but we had some saucers with 8, I think.

She’ll never have my vote for any number of reasons, but to see anyone as deep in the maga cult as her demonstrate any amount of growth… even if she falls back into old patterns at some point… it says something hopeful about steering this ship away from our current course if even she can gain the self awareness and humility to regret participating in these vitriolic forms of politics. Maybe, then, our parents and neighbors can see enough of the light to realize what this is bringing about, where we’re headed, and have the humility to admit that they need to stop and to do better. It’s only the smallest glimmer of hope, but it’s more than my increasingly cynical ass has had in a minute. Keep working on yourself Marge, but glad to see the baby steps being taken.

Hello, Native people living on the small pockets of land we forced you upon and begrudgingly gave you sovereignty over after invading and claiming all your lands for ourselves. Will you you hold all these people prisoner for us? They are invading our lands that used to be your lands. And that’s just not OK. You get it, right?

They won’t even assimilate with the local culture properly. Some don’t even speak the local language. And as soon as they have kids born here, they act like they have a right to be here. It’s really frustrating, know what I mean? There skin isn’t even the same color as mine! And I can’t tell if they are Christian or not because every 4th one is named Jesus, so who knows who they are worshipping.

Anyway, do me a solid will you? You owe me a favor since we agreed to stop stealing your kids and beating their culture out of them! You’re welcome, by the way. I never did see a thank you card.

home is nominal tax. Second home is double that. Third is quadruple. That’d fix housing and rent prices overnight.

I dont think that would fix rents necessarily unless the taxes were particularly prohibitively. They’d just be incentivized and have an excuse to raise taxes more, seems like.

Put simply, it decreases your monthly payments but extends how long you will make those payments. So compared to a 30 year mortgage, you’ll pay something like 85% as much per month on your mortgage (15% less), but for 167% as long (20 years longer)

0.85 × 1.67 = 1.42, meaning you will end up paying 42% more for the same house in the end. That means you will just about double, give or take, the interest paid to your loaner. And the house wont be yours until 50 years is up, meaning you paid 42% more for a 20 year older house, by the time you could sell it for full equity (i.e. didnt have to pay anything to the loaner). And that is IF you even live for the full 50 year, which most people wont. The average first time home buyer now is already in their 30s, meaning they will be in their 80s by the end of their mortgage. 71-72 is average life expectancy. So instead of inheriting your home, you kids will more than likely inherit an ongoing mortgage, or lose the house to foreclosure.

The simple fact of that matter is that homes are too fucking expensive. Yes, a 50 year mortgage will drop your monthly payments by a significant margin (maybe 15ish percent) increasing affordability for the long term. However, this will only serve to prop up already inflated housing prices. The problems with that should be readily apparent.

A) if your house is twice as expensive as it should be, your payments will be twice as expensive at it should be. Thanks for the extra 15% off a month, but that still doesn’t get payments to anywhere near as affordable as it would be if housing was more available and, thus, cheaper. It would be better to forgo that 15% monthly payment decrease by extending your mortgage (and massively increasing interest), and instead see a 10% market price decrease and keep your 30 year mortgage and end up still paying less overall.

B) The biggest hurdle for any prospective home buyer is the initial hurdle, the down payment. You have to be able to pay for your current housing (be it mortgage or rent or whatever) and other necessities while also setting aside money on the order of tens of thousands to afford just the down payment on a house to even qualify for the loan. For even a modest home in my area, the lowest on market currently is asking ~175,000 for under 900 sq ft. 20% down for that would be 35k that you need to have saved before even considering buying the cheapest home in town. Extending the mortgage not only doesnt help you on this, it actually makes this hurdle worse. It makes mortgages easier to get for current home owner, in turn proping up the housing prices making it prohibitively expensive for renters and first time home buyers that dont have the equity in property to sell off to cover this down payment. And as the housing prices continue to inflate that 35k goal post just keeps moving further away every year while your money is sunk into your landlord’s pocket, who also increases rent as the market increases.

Prices needed to come down. Rents need to stop rising. And corporate real-estate investors need to be outlawed, or at least heavily regulated to prevent this absurd inflation. First time home buyers should be the first priority in real-estate and housing policies, not the last. We used to actively support them, but now we are more worried about boomers’ resale value and squeezing renters for every dime. It has to stop. Build more housing, more homes, more dense housing. Make competition for the landlords and give first time home buyers every advantage over investment buyers, particularly corporate investment buyers. Fund it with the American tax dollar and see the middle class rise back up. It’s really that easy, but they just wont do it becuase Daddy Warbucks wouldn’t like it.

I want instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people, where the people buy their own health insurance.

I… uh… what? So is he saying that people will get a cash balance from the government to use exclusively on Healthcare, kind of like HSA/FSA, and can use it to pay their private insurance premiums? Like a universal basic income but just for Healthcare? Or only some people, like those without employer insurance, are getting money? Why is this better in any way, like even playing devils advocate, I can’t come up with a good reason for it.

Headline: Save 200 dollars a month with a 50 year mortgage over a 30 year!

Subtext: … and end up paying double the interest to us for the benefit, and die before your loan is paid off so we get to take the house back from your corpse, sell it on the cheap to a corporate real-estate investment firm (that we have stock in) for just enough to cover the remaining mortgage balance. They’ll turn your multi-generational family home into a shitty rental property or leave it empty to keep the rest of their rents high and your children get nothing cuz fuck em!

Skinny arms, skinny torso… neck thicker than his head. By anatomical proportionality, he might be the most redneck to ever exist.

No, the science and engineering is well understood and can be calculated entirely in models that use this knowledge to precisely predict thinks like lift and drag. There is no guess work or mystery about it.

However the common “facts” that we are often taught as explanation to children and the layperson for lift are wrong and/or incomplete. The Equal Transit Theory, i.e. the idea that when a wing splits the air, the air above and below must meet at the same time on the back of the wing causing the air on top to have to move faster due to the greater distance to travel, is just not true.

However that lower pressure above the wing that doesnt actually result from the Equal Transit Theory, that part is true. It is caused by the deflection of air on the underside of the wing causing the higher pressure underneath and lower pressure over the top. Lower pressure over the wing does in fact cause a component of lift due to Bernoulli’s Principle. But it is also not the entirety of the source of lift. Other components include the Coanda Effect from the curvature of the wing redirecting air downward, as well as the just simple propulsion caused by the propeller(s)or jet(s) and downward deflection of air hitting the underside of the wing, which is basic Newtonian motion (3rd law).

CPU temp will be my break statement.

There was a British comedian I remember from a while back… Matt something… that talked about meeting a Texan couple on a plane once and the wife expressed her amazement at the marvel of flight, which is fair because flight is pretty amazing. But instead of just being amazed, she then said something like, “we’ll never know how it all works”. Like a collective we, like everyone. Like she thinks that aerospace engineers are just guessing, trying out throwing shapes into the sky until something doesn’t drop to the ground. “Nope. Sphere didnt do it. Probably shouldn’t have filled that one with people, either. Let’s try the cube next!”

Some people are so stupid they don’t realize that they are stupid and that plenty of people, MOST people, in fact, are smarter than them and understand a lot of stuff they don’t. Like it’s not even Dunning-Kreuger because they dont know the first thing about the subject at all, and they will even admit that often times. Just unadulterated hubris to assume their ignorance is universal.

Never used honey mustard, but classic yellow mustard in a chili cheese dog is always great.

The Nazi rise was supported by a group of Jewish Germans called Verband nationaldeutscher Juden (Association of German National Jews). They initially believed that the Nazi Party’s extreme antisemitism was merely rhetorical hyperbole or a tactic used to “stir up the masses,” which would be discarded once the party achieved power. They thought their loyalty and service in World War I would protect them from Nazi persecution. They were banned by the Gestapo in November 1935, and its founder, Max Naumann, was imprisoned. Members of the group eventually faced the same persecution and fate as other German Jews, with many perishing in the Holocaust.

Some people just think that their shared beliefs will unite them with otherwise like- minded people that also hate some facet of their identity. They’re usually woefully wrong. It’s why we keep seeing conservative women surprised that their political allies are misogynistic and rapey toward them, conservative gay legislators face homophobic attacks from colleagues, and conservative trans people are constantly dead named, misgendered, and called pedophiles by their MAGA associates. They don’t see their identity as important, because it’s normal to them, so they misjudge how important it is to the bigots they support. And a lot of people, generally, have a “can’t happen to me” mindset about such things, until it does. I’m still a bit shocked by the amount that still support them, but not that any do.

Nay, matey, there be another option. It be the P. Because without the P, a pirate would be irate.

The former sentencing for participating in the Jan. 6th riots should have compounded the sentence and prevented early release

Probably actually helped him in this case if the Trump judge believes his previous time served from being a J6er was unjust.

Fuck I really don’t want to see her face or hear her talk more. Her ads will be maddening.

I mean… if you want to clean up a bunch of salts you’re creating.

Yes, I know. And to maintain homeostasis, it has means to make adjustments to changes, like pH. Which means you can change the pH of some fluid in the body within reason, and it will correct this change. We are not saying anything different.