I wont judge a whole movie just from three still images. I’ll reserve my true judgement for later. But I will say that the costume design looks suitable. And the actors, physically, arent far off from what I would expect for their characters, so I’m at least pleased with that. The tone invoked by the imagery feels a bit off, but, again, without context, that’s basically no information at all.
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.
That and the “without the Bible, how do you know what’s right or wrong” crowd. They have become so externally reliant on direction that they dont even have an independent sense of morality anymore. Also, they must think, in turn, that that non-Christian cultures and people are inherently amoral or immoral. The irony.
Some people just genuinely don’t have those kinds of dark impulses and actually are repulsed to take such actions even in a simulated environment. But I’ll grant you, non-destructive, safe outlets for those impulses and frustrations is, indeed, healthier than the alternative.
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.
Look at the pot calling the kettle black, over here.
Ah yeah, those eggs would be moist. They didn’t have cinnamon and vanilla in them, did they? 😝
Also, I’ve never air fried sausage links before. I can see how that would probably get the whole sausage cooked through before much browning on the casing happens that way. When pan-searing, the casing gets much darker from direct contact with the pan, and it taken longer for that heat to conduct in the meat in the middle. I usually sear them and get them nice and brown, tossing them around to get even browning all over, and pull them at the first sign that casing is about to split.
Man, I use headphones around my own house when I’m listening to something while cooking or cleaning or something like that in a shared space.
Like not if I’m watching the TV or gaming on the TV as I’m in the designated space to make some noise, so long as it’s not carrying across the house. If you don’t care to listen to my show or whatever, go to another room. Or if I’m home alone, I’ll play my music, video, podcast or whatever openly on my phone because it isn’t annoying anyone.
But as soon as I’m just trying to do my own thing in a shared space with others around trying to do their own thing, even at home, I ALWAYS put headphones in out of respect. I don’t often get the same courtesy… but then, I can just drown out their bullshit with headphones if I want to, so not worth the argument. My wireless earbuds case is in my pocket at all times for this reason.
I also always have headphones in while shopping. It’s a polite attempt to project “Fuck off” to everyone in line of sight. I’m not trying to have small talk with every stranger or acquaintance. I’m trying to do a chore while enjoying listening to Dungeons and Daddies or a YouTube/Dropout video or something. If we’re friends I’ll pause and pop out a bud. Otherwise, you’ll get a nod and a polite smile and you’ll be grateful for it. Now fuck off.
Edit: I just realized that I may have given the impression that I’m a teenager living with parents and siblings or something. I’m not. I’m a 36 year old man in my own home with my wife, daughter and a house guest. And despite it being my house, I still give others this courtesy. Just to be clear.
Personally I’d brown the sausage a bit more and get a softer scramble on the eggs, bit it looks good. Well done
Had to do a double take and zoom in to see that they were just painted. I was confused and concerned for a second there.
And it’s required. I genuinely have neither. Am I not welcome to apply?
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.
Weird quirk of English… why do we say “6 o’clock in the morning”, “2 o’clock in the afternoon”, and “6 o’clock in the evening”, but then we say “9 o’clock at night”? It doesnt sound right to say “at morning”, “at afternoon”, or “at evening”. You can say something happened “in the night”, but only in a non-specific way, like “she passed in the night”. But “I go to work at 11 o’clock in the night” just doesnt work.
Wouldn’t surprise me if, after the inevitable bailout, it comes out that OpenAI actually helped China out behind the scenes to fuel the arms race. Why wouldn’t they? The competition, patticularly losing the competition, is to their direct benefit when their end goal is a federal bailout. The more competition, the bigger the ballot they can justify. They can extend themselves further, they can entrench themselves deeper into more companies, and when these inevitable collapse begins, they can take more government money, lest the Chinese “win”.
Frankly, the moment it became apparent that their intent was to use the American tax pay as the backstop to their private deals, let alone when they actually fucking said as much out loud for everyone to hear, the company should have been done. Period. It should have had all assets frozen and all deals legally voided immediately. It should have been dissolved as an entity entirely, and all of its executives should have been charged with tax fraud and likely other charges. That goes for the executives at these other companies making deals for multiple times their current revenue, which still leaves them net negative in the first place, on the unfounded promise of unprecedented future revenue streams. And that is top of dozens of other companies getting similar deals. They have to have known that the intent was to use the federal government to stopgap the deals, making them directly complicit in this fraud. Charge them too.