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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.
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 thr 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! Your welcome, by the way. I never did see a thank you card.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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).
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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.
And Jr high school girls locker rooms.... hmm, nope. Nope. Grossed myself out.
"Charisma is about sex appeal" is funny, but that's not really entirely accurate. It's about motivating others towards your goals whatever that may be, having a presence that commands attention and being a good communicator. That's why charisma helps disparate skills like lying, persuading, intimidating, and performing. Sex appeal may superficially help some of those things, but so does a half-giant that makes you piss yourself with their mere presence, or an old fat guy who speaks with clarity of conviction and intelligence. Ain't nobody want to fuck Winston Churchill, and he was an asshole as well. But he was a very charismatic figure, still.
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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.