magic.wizards.com
Looks our first post-phyrexian palette cleanser leans into magical and the fairy tale. Not sure how I feel about this endless sleep threat, but we'll see how it plays out.
www.nytimes.com
This is an absolutely spectacular long form article from NYT that walks through small communities in mesopotamia, and how large political and economic changes have made them among the first to experience climate change as a life-threatening crisis. It also foreshadows water wars and how they could increasingly become a part of our political climate.
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Among the wealthy there will always be the search for the rare and exotic. I'm not surprised that this has become some kind of distorted 'destination"
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What could possibly be the value proposition here?
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Guinea is hard to find. Where in PA? That's where I'm at but I haven't heard of this place.
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I had hope that this would be a blip of an assault and a ceasefire would be brokered. Now, it feels almost certain that one of the most cursed regions in the world is going to be plunged into a civil war without a clear justification, and where everyone loses.
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Climate change has been particularly unsettling this summer because it has felt like a constant reminder that it can't be escaped. Even if you aren't in Florida or Arizona or Greenland, even if you feel like you're insulated up in Vermont or Canada -- bam, 11 inches of rain in 24 hours.
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I'm down! The more turn-based games the better. Final Fantasy tactics is one of the best games of all time
And if so, who is the play? James Robinson was just signed by the Giants. While I love him on a personal level, it's doubtful to me at this point that he's going to be a meaningful fantasy contributor.
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I'm not surprised at all. Even if I WANTED to move, we wouldn't be able to afford to buy our house back on the open market. We got lucky, and now we're stuck.
Building or buying up in this market feels like a dream, so we're slowly improving the house we have to fit our needs.
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My hill to die on: 343's bungling of the MCC was one of the biggest daggers to Microsoft trying to catch up to Sony. Halo has never been the same since.
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My wife got me a Fitbit, I think the Inspire 3, and it has more than enough functionality for me as a casual runner. I'm happy with it.
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Fascinating. This is way more buttoned up and controlled than I thought it would be.
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Great article. If Morocco's claim is rejected, what's stopping Algeria from trying to step into that power vacuum? Does Western Sahara have any sort of organized military that could resist against armed conflict over its resources?
I wouldn't be surprised if we just saw the region become a capitalism pseudo-country, with US/China coming in to buy off the resources.
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I like the concept of being able to talk openly about mens' issues. That liberation name is unfortunate; in my opinion, it definitely sounds at least apologetic towards misogyny. What do we have to be liberated from?
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First whole bean coffee? Oh man, welcome to the good stuff.
No matter what coffee purists tell you, the single best change to my daily coffee quality of life was simply going from ground to grinding fresh whole beans every morning. I will never go back.
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Regarding the question of whether it's stupid or not -- how much would you be kicking yourself if one of your neighbors purchased it from you instead?
In my mind, any chance you get to increase your land and you buffer zone is an absolute positive.
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What are your options? For example, I would rather daily an '89 Corolla over a '01 Kia.
What is your budget for maintenance? There will be nuisance items go like seals and gaskets due to age, even if the engine runs strong.
What is the price? For a car that's almost 35 years old, it better be low.
If you have a low budget, don't have a crazy commute, and can get a couple years out of this car for a couple grand, it could be exceptionally wise decision compared to a $600/mo car payment.
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Interesting. This feels like Howie Roseman-esque, signing someone to a big-time extension right on the cusp of stardom. Overpay now to bet on it being a steal in a few years.
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First, thanks for contributing. I credit r/personalfinance as one of the most important factors that allowed me to become financially literate. Still cleaning up the messes of my 20's, but things would be WAY worse if I wouldn't have been able to self-educate. I'm not going back to Reddit, so I'm thankful that you're contributing content here instead.
In regards to your question, relatively poorly.
I'm 31. My salary when I began work after grad school was 35k with only 2% going into retirement; now my salary is north of 100k with 15% going into retirement. I am at about 40% of my annual income, so definitely behind. I should be able to have some nice catch-up progress over the next five years, but I can't help but feel like a better starting job pre-COVID would have set me up way better.
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Hilariously, this fine is probably not even large enough for them to spin off a shell company and declare bankruptcy on the debts. They'll just shrug and move on. Toothless.
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Yep. And it worked all the way up to the Stanford presidency. Even now he is "only" a tenured professor.
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That's the best question. Clarence Thomas shouldn't have been able to openly flaunt his corruption for decades, but he has. Is this just going to be more firm hand-wringing by the Dems with no enforcement mechanism whatsoever? At that point, it would be better to just recognize the court as illegitimate in the public eye as opposed to giving the false sense that it is in anyway ethical.
For transparency, I only signed up for a Discover card recently because they had a 15 month 0% balance transfer promotion, which is what I've been looking for. In general it's seemed like their rewards were not outstanding and you had to deal with potentially not having the card accepted elsewhere. My receiving bank botched the transfer and the funds were missing for a bit. Discover was excellent -- every time I called there was a minimal wait for a U.S. based customer support agent that I could understand clearly and was knowledgeable about the situation. I was surprised. I get that you may go years without ever needing to contact support, but it definitely quickly made a difference for me.
jalopnik.com
The healthy supply of EVs may not seem as alarming considering that the industry average is a 70-day supply during “normal times,” per Axios, but ICE-equipped vehicles currently sit at a 54-day supply. And hybrids are having a particularly good year, with supply down to 44 days. Plug-in and traditional hybrids from Toyota are making the best of 2023, with current supply for the Prius and RAV4 sitting at under 30 days each. Axios claims that this reaffirms Toyota’s argument that car buyers need a “stepping stone” from ICE to EVs.
jalopnik.com
On average, AutoNews reports that 3.58 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds and 2.62 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds have been late on their auto loans by at least 90 days. For some context, just 2.13 percent of all borrowers are late. Keep in mind, these numbers are overall. In the first quarter of 2023, 4.55 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds were at least 90 days late. 3.66 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds were equally late. We haven’t seen numbers like these since The Great Recession.
Hi all, First, I understand that neither is the optimal solution. I live in an 1800's farmhouse with plaster-and-lathe walls on top of a three-feet-deep stone foundation. Additionally, the exterior walls are too thin for a traditional outlet and require special retrofitting. I can say all of this with certainty because we discovered all of this while renovating our kitchen and bringing items up to code. To install to-code outlets, we needed to temporarily remove baseboard heating systems, drill through 9" deep hardwood floors, and then angle 90' from the floor into the wall underneath the pex heating cable in order to access the wall, using shallow receptacles to fit. We simply don't have the funds to do this with all portions of this old house, at least not now. For our window-unit air conditioners (1 12,000 BTU Midea U inverter, 2 older 8000 BTU ACs), we do not have a modern grounded outlet within reach of our AC cable. *Recognizing that neither option is ideal*, what is safer: a) Use a 'heavy-duty' short extension cord to bridge the gap between grounded outlet and AC power cable, and then tie the cable to prevent physical tripping or loosening OR b) Use a legitimate higher-end surge protector like a Tripp-Lite to extend outlet reach and plug into the surge protector. Additionally, I would appreciate any general advice on the order of operations in the house as we slowly build towards an up-to-code century home. Our priorities are loosely in this order: New panel, upgrading to 200a with whole home surge protector and dedicated grounds - DONE Upgraded kitchen to modern code - IN PROGRESS Replace all loose 2-prong outlets with GFCI, using "no equipment ground" Re-order circuits that don't make sense Add additional outlets -- potentially using wire mold to avoid digging into lathe based on expense.
