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May we NOT live in interesting times.

Jesus.

There's a political event horizon some people cross where they've so normalized government corruption in their mind they can't believe that not all governments have been so corrupt and would view suggestions otherwise as 'stupid'.

Like it or not the evidence points to Garland running a very tight ship, if anything he overcompensated after the norm-breaking of the first Trump administration.

@kluurs said in Mildly interesting:

If you do the simple arithmetic, 60% As and the rest Bs would give an average GPA of 3.6, not 3.8ish as per the graphs. So that other 40% probably contains a lot of A- and/or B+

My friend's reply:

We have to do that! DBA: Happy Holidaze

Im just wrapping my head around the idea that parts of broadway were unpaved when my grandfather arrived.

Wow. Stark indeed.

We had an over-40 birth in 2009. My niece gave birth to her second on Tuesday at 39, her first was 3 years ago. So she's in the rising trend.

207th and Broadway in Manhattan.

When you feel them in your own muscles this is exactly what you’d expect they look like.

More tragic than funny. From a friend in London.

Lol

His base might never learn about it.

I went to FoxNews to try to find the headline.

When I scrolled down to story 8, it was trying to implicate the media:

Story 28 - which is pages and pages of scrolling - gets you to prince andrew.

If you scroll many many more pages, past all the media gossip (any idea what Kathy Griffin paid for her third face lift? There’s a story on it) you get to number 41 which is Trump related, but doesn’t mention the hours he spent with the adolescent girl.

I just asked ChatGPT to run the numbers using typical rates today on a 500k house with 20% down. The difference in principal paid on payment 1 was substantial. $345 on the 30yr vs $1,349 on the 15.

@LuFins-Dad said in Subsidizing Homeborrowership:

The amount of principal being equal or lower than it was from 17-21 seems wrong, though, too. It would project that the median home value is lower than it was in 2021, and that’s certainly not the case.

I thought about that. It probably means that on average people were taking on longer term mortgages as rates rose - fewer 15yr and more 30 yr. That means less principal in the early payment.

And by the way if anyone here confuses a podium with a dais you’ll be hearing from me.

@89th said in My bad English rant of the day:

I could care less if it's a podium or lectern.

I see what you did there.

Thank you, Andy. I feel seen.