By like 20 orders of magnitude or something

It’s an average, I’ve got some leeway… And this time it’s personal

I’ll fight God with you

China is escalating in their own way, what with the recent article about censoring satellite communication traffic

I just miss my corny dogs

Let’s tear them down anyway

I would trade every American gas station and convenience store for a single authentic Japanese 7-eleven corndog.

The best Indian food I had was at a place in St Petersburg Florida on the first floor of an otherwise empty office building. We could smell the curry from the parking lot while still inside the car

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It always struck me as both humble and proud and it only becomes more meaningful as I age.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses

I was just trying to remember this today, thank you!

If you want to support local book stores, you can use bookshop.org. not sure how that affiliate outside the US though

Reminds me of the GI Joe PSAs

https://youtu.be/Udw8n_9i0gk?feature=shared

Hbomberguy moment

We don’t go to Ravenholm

More please. Shitpost crusaders might be the only thing I miss about Reddit

I’m listening to the Hugos There podcast (only for the books I’ve read) and social commentary by the authors is central to several of their discussions

Two years ago I became a first time homeowner. I’m moving in 6 months and am going to keep this property and rent it out. I cannot afford to buy another house almost anywhere in the US. I will be renting. However, I closed on this place with 3% interest and pay $1500/mo for the mortgage, plus about $250 for utilities. Round up to $1800/mo. Anyone buying at today’s interest and value with 20% down is looking at a mortgage of about $2300/mo, before utilities.

I absolutely resent this market, but I refuse to let this place go into the hands of anyone like Blackrock. And since I don’t care about maximizing profit, I can keep the rate on the lower end and help someone live here for a few hundred a month less than they could with a new sale. I can rent it for $1700-1800/mo to cover incidentals and repair and still let a renter live here for less than a new mortgage.

I’ve been toying with the idea of counting every dollar the renter pays against the mortgage and selling to them at the difference when (if) rates come back down.

Certainly not ideal, and a little bit apologetic, but in this situation it’s about as close as I can get to a win-win. Or least lost-least lost.

Who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?