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3 days agoI’ve heard this story before, it’s not a new incident. It’s also getting a lot of coverage from lots of media.
Similar story, 2014: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-son-park/index.html
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9·8 days agoThat’s not a silly thing though. Pretty much all jobs are temporary.
I’m at an MSP that services quite a few school districts. We lose techs to them somewhat regularly.
431·11 days agoI’ve been tempted to create a bot that does nothing but search comments in code for misspelled words and create pull requests for them.
If it stays in comments, little chance in breaking a working codebase and I’d have an insane amount of commits and contributions to a wide variety of codebases for my resume.
I’ll never be a top tier coder. But I might make management.
13·13 days agoI would literally prefer a steaming pile of shit as president than Trump.
Not super scary unless your from the area. But there is a prison by me where back in the 80s, a man named Kevin Cooper escaped. He made his was over to a house a couple miles away and broke inside.
He killed the two parents there, one of their children, and another child that was there for a sleep over with an axe. He tried to kill another 9 year old child there as well, but they survived.
A true life actual axe murderer.
For me, it’s an expression of a particular set of my creativity. The decorations, the show element of it, engaging in various fantasy worlds and dressing up.
It’s just fun, and freedom to have fun doing whatever you like!
147·17 days agoPeople are crazy. Feeling threatened by telling someone “hey, you didn’t vote last time. Please make your voice heard by voting” is wearing your persecution complex on your sleeve.
Fragile fucks.
380k with a 30 year mortgage and something like $25k down. Amortization on 5.89% will show at the end of it, you’ll pay over 774k for it. Mortgage payment would be $2150. That’s after closing costs. Property insurance and property taxes about $700/mo. And I live in a high property tax area.
Utilities aren’t included, but I haven’t seen many rentals that include utilities either. The house may be bigger and use more utilities though.
The lowest rent in my area for 3 bedrooms is 2.2k/mo and that’s an outlier. Most are $2,700+/mo. If I were to pay the $2.7k for 30 years, that’s just shy of $1 million. And at $2200, it’s just shy of $800k in 30 years. That’s break even.
This isn’t even addressing the instability of rental prices. My mortgage payment is locked in, at a fixed interest rate. If I were to rent, there is no guarantee that the rent i am paying today is the rent I’ll be paying in 5 years.
Renters should be getting renters insurance too, so add that to the renters side.
Yea, I will have home repairs I’ll need to pay for. But I’ll also have equity that I can leverage for them if I need to. I’d have to put in $200k in the course of 30 years to match what a renter in my area would be spending. And that’s just repairs, if I were to spend on renovations and/or additions than it would raise the property value.
As for capital gains, that’s only when I sell, but if I have to pay taxes because I made money. Well, then I made money instead of… Only spent money?
If the house doesn’t appreciate and only holds it’s value, it’s an asset that protects against inflation.
Have an asset that likely with appreciate, paid off after 30 years. Or continue to pay for a place to live for 60 years?
Financially, if you can afford it, housing is a good way to solidify your worth and lay a foundation for your future and retirement. If you pay off your mortgage, by the time you retire hopefully your set income won’t have to pay for housing anymore. Only property tax and maintenance.
Get treated for ADHD and depression sooner.
A political first
It’s been open less than a year!
My city has a referendum to replace the middle school and add a wing to the elementary school. Oh and add fire suppression systems to both of them since they are so old they don’t have them.
It’ll cost me $700/year for like 25 years.
I’m voting yes. Let’s invest in our schools and education system. Let’s understand how incredibly useful the power of local taxes are.
Are you American?
That. Doesn’t. Work.
Full stop.
Let’s say for a moment that progressives and Democrats did that for whatever issue they personally felt strongly about.
First, we have to acknowledge that the Republicans ARE NOT doing that. So they’re vote count doesn’t change and they win
Second, people will disagree on the same issue. You can’t capture everyone on every issue. Refer to the first point, Republicans win.
Third, there will be huge factions each with their own issue. A candidate cannot sway all these single issues groups. See the first point, Republicans win.
What first past the post representative democracy means is to vote for the viable politician that MOST ALIGNS with your political position. Not the one that EXACTLY aligns. If you build the third parties at the local and representative and Senate level. Maybe you can get there, but for now, this is the political system we have to work in.
2·19 days agoFile an injunction. Put up every legal barrier to prevent this asshat from having an audience.
There is a big population of women who are past childbearing age that are voting for Trump. It’s fucked up, but just getting women to vote may not work. They need to get young women to vote.
So many elderly women are going to be voting who no longer have skin in the abortion game.
One article I read said that the representative race was much closer. It might not affect the president, but could affect other positions.
Voting doesn’t mean you support them.
You aren’t giving them money, you aren’t campaigning for them. You are saying that between these two, admittedly fucked up, parties this is the one you think that will be better.
So for the presidential election, vote to reduce harm - not to increase it.
If you want to do better, support, fund, campaign for third parties down line. Local elections and build the momentum until they become a viable presidential candidate. Work to reform the electoral system that can dismantle the two party system.
But don’t think voting for Harris is de facto supporting the Democratic party.
Which means that I have three options
I do not have three options, myself.
It is said that Americans have three options, the best of which only might improve the situation where one country is terrorising another country by killing innocent people, every day.
So are you American? It sounds like you aren’t and, if not, why are you advocating for people not to vote or vote third party?
Besides all that manual labor requires math. A ton requires geometry.
You think plumbing, framing, electrical or any trade is done without measuring and quite complicated math?