lemillionsocks @ lemillionsocks @beehaw.org

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Its not even firms where Im from. A good chunk of the homes Im looking at were individual owned or occupied, I just think the realtors in the area have a nonaggression treaty to make as much money as possible. Obviously the supply cant be that big to start with if theyre doing this but the way these houses come and go is definitely convenient.

Thanks for the kind words and advice! My wife is pregnant as well which was part of why we started later in the season. Our old apartment rent used to be super favorable, but a change in policy caused our landlords to start upping rent to make yet more monies.

We have been setting a firm ceiling for ourselves based on budget as well and going through things. We've got an expected hopeful ceiling of 230ish(give or take depending on home) for what we hope to spend and a cap of $250k if the house is super updated(in a tasteful welldone way) and we can expect few repairs in the near future. I can only hope that as august pushes on that we weed out the people desperate to throw too much money down before school starts and that as the season slows sellers will be more willing to give to sell quickly.

Unfortunately the way things are I suspect people are more likely to just wait until next year unless they really gotta move.

Thankfully my rusty area isnt on their radar just yet. There are a lot of investment companies and of course absentee wannabee landlords from NYC/long island who buy up properties around here though.

Unfortunately it's no bubble. My area popped 60 years ago and it's only just recently started very slowly turning around. Climate change combined with good old bones are making the area a lot more appealing over time and for the first time in a long time we've started gaining population again. I can see the market slowing and the bidding wars stopping if the economy slows up, but it would take an absolute catastrophe to get prices to go down again.

At the end of the day Florida is guaranteed 2 seats in the senate and due to their size it will be a long while before momentum moves to the point where their house numbers are low.

Republicans want this. They want people of opposing political beliefs to leave their state en mass. Lets not forget that up until recent conservative craziness florida was known as being the most infamous swingstate.

I dont blame people for leaving from an area where their kids will be more poorly educated, where local infrastructure is decentralized highway centric HOA built community hell, and where they may be actively persecuted. It's what the republicans want though.

I was planning on doing this and waiting to see what next year brings, but with my rent increasing and then increasing again it felt like a good time to get out. If Im going to be paying this much I'd rather it go to my own mortgage. Plus those higher interest rates would impact me too, and since my area was historically undervalued the places I want to live are only going to go up in price, even if it is less competitive.

It's true but my area was historically undervalued and behind when it came to pricing. The most frustrating thing in the world is looking at houses in a desirable neighborhood that would have been my first choice to live in that I know went for like $150k in 2016 going for $300+ today.

Unfortunately covid taught the real estate industry in my historically undervalued area how to game the system. Its hard to complain because even "overpaying" these houses are less than some other regions in the sate, but they definitely know how to make it a frantic process that takes away all power from the people buying.

Im certain theyre drip feeding the supply too in order to make the supply even more limited.

Thankfully no HOAs where I'm looking . Just good old fashioned taxes to the local government.

I didnt even know this show existed, which means I'm not able to speak for specifics of the show, but lack of recognition may imply a marketing problem and a lack of buzz from the fanbase.

On one hand I will be down the D line in the next election because I do understand that the alternative is things getting worse with the republican party and we can only hope two definitive losses can snap the party out of their current strategy and ease up.

On the OTHER hand I'll be honest I dont see the changes in the republican party happening anytime soon especially since it's been this way since reagan. Sure neolibs will clutch their pearls and talk about better days but while the rhetoric may be a little more transparent in some cases, the republicans havent changed all that much. Election fraud fear mongering was a bush era dog whistle, and theyve been chomping away at abortion, appointing conservative leaning judges, and trying to limit public education and programs for decades.

Meanwhile what has the status quo democratic party done about it? They pushed further right in the 90s in order to try to win away Reagan voters and then spent the next few decades as wimpy pro capitalist centrists. Gaining an inch while the right takes a foot and then wagging their finger over how they would never play so dirty. Just look at the last Obama era judge appointee.

They could have fought to make sure their neutral judge would make the bench. But oh no the norms we couldnt do that. Deep down they were so SURE that Clinton could never lose so they wanted to look like they were the grownups who upheld political norms and then get it done anyway. What wound up happening? The republicans repealed that block privilege once in power and pushed their appointments in without issue.

I cant blame people for becoming exhausted and feeling like "not being the republicans" is not enough to keep rewarding the Democrats for being weak. They abandoned the working class and unions in the 90s, they continued to push right and attack their progressive wing while trying to continue to court center right voters. Now that they let the republicans go wild the last 40 years theyre telling us "you better vote for us or DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE! and our policy is the continue doing more of the same"

It's like if an owner of a dog spent years training it poorly and smacking it around is holding the leash tight as the dog starts barking and jumping towards you. You suggest maybe changing the owner of the dog, but they reply "well if Im not their owner anymore then Im going to let go of the leash and who knows what the dog will do while you wait for the dog catcher to come and get it"

The acting and set design and visuals were super well done and I liked how irreverent and tongue and cheek it could be. That said yeah it definitely gives this vibe of "wow heehee look how progressive we are" and the story is kind of all over the place. Overall it was alright and kinda fun but it also had a lot of mixed messages and while it had lines criticizing consumerism and such it is still very blatantly a big multimedia joint venture to sell a ton of stuff.

At the same time I understand that as a child growing up in the US that a lot of our nostalgia and childhood memories are intrinsically intertwined with marketing, IP, and big business. I'm a guy so my barbie experiences were only when I was playing with at the house of a friend who was a girl or a cousin or something, but I know how ingrained in my youth my old gi joe toys, transformers, powerrangers, superhero stuff, and etc is.

I think one of the things that changed the game for me regarding a BLT and bacon in general was when it hit me that a BLT was just a tomato sandwich and the bacon is more a salty seasoning to help the mayo and tomato stand shine.

So round and smooth

Of course not. If this were the case marathoners would run barefoot. Also I would suggest if youre trying barefoot outdoors you not start by running a mile as it will probably mess up your usually shoed feet.

It was a great episode overall. I love that we got to deal with the medical side of mental trauma and that we've been getting a more expanded klingon war.

One of the most disappointing things about discovery is that it takes place during the klingon war, but it really doesnt do enough with the actual war aspect of it. We get a few skirmishes and some internal klingon struggles and we hear about how bad the war is going, but we dont really see most of it since it's not the main focus of discovery. Seeing the war be better addressed in Strange new worlds has been great.

The set designs are incredible. I do love how the series doesnt try to run away from the old colors and designs. Like it looks like the old 60s enterprise but with a budget and as a result the shapes and mid century style remain but its like a good midcentury style.

Hmmmm. Im generally not a fan of ai generated content, but I am tickled by the thought of dressing a baby in a fart whale onesie

Yeah I understand how friday itus can definitely be an issue, and I am pro 4 day work week, but I find that there is never enough freetime. Come back from a long weekend and a short week? Still cant wait till punch out time friday.

I used to work fast food and have done call center work and my current job is by comparison stress free and super easy. I am aware of how good I have it but it doesnt make me excited to be here instead of actually off.

The more "reasonable" right wing pro fossil fuel narrative is the idea that earth goes through "cycles" and that we've been hotter before in the past, we're coming out of an ice age, and this might be the result of solar activity and earth's adjusting orbit and blablabla.

This theory of course ignores the historical climate record showing that this warming is happening at a faster rate than the usual cycles, as well as the fact that the kind of co2 that is released from burning fossil fuels is traceable and unique compared to the isotope that is released from like respiration decomposition, and etc. So we also do have a general idea that a large chunk of green house gas in the atompshere is all us.

It also denies just the simple logic of how burning fossil fuels works. It was a lot hotter and there were more greenhouse gases at one point the atmosphere was unbreathable. Over time that carbon was sequestered and buried deep under ground and kept that way. For millions of years that carbon was removed from the natural hot and cold cycle our planet goes through. Unrelated to carbonate erosion and deposition, and unrelated to volcanic activity, or continents closing up major oceanic currents, or shifts in salinity altering ocean conveyance, or solar activity, or axis tilts, or orbit shifts, and etc. These cycles happened while greenhouse gases were safely underground.