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  1. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t have taken advantage of a refi when rates were below 3%. Obviously if you only had a few years left, I could see why not.

    Imagine if you had done a cash out and invested the proceeds in the market.

  2. 1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    Looking to do something different the summer of my freshman year (and make some money) I agreed to work with a buddy of mine selling books door-to-door. Which proves I’m an idiot, but let’s move on.

    We wound up getting sent to North Carolina and I was in a rural area knocking on doors to sell a Webster’s dictionary that I had an addendum with basic math, science social studies, history, etc.     It was geared toward parents with school age children… you know, to help with the “new math”.    Anyway, rather than drive to the next farmhouse I decided to stretch my legs and take a walk because it was a nice day.   I walked down the dirt road toward the other house, and the cicadas noise was rising and falling as I neared a large oak tree with a white cat sitting in front of it.   

    As I walked by the cat looked at me and made a meow. Now this was not the meow sound that cats make. It sounded exactly like a calm, clearly human voice going slowly “meow… meow” as its eyes tracked me moving past

    It freaked me out enough that I sort of jogged toward the other house to get away from the cat.   I went to the porch and knocked on the door, but no one was home. As I walked toward the bend in the dirt road where the oak tree stood, the cicada noise suddenly stopped completely.   Ten seconds later I saw the white cat -  laying on its side with its eyes open, dead.    Not sleeping, I’m talking not breathing dead. And I really can’t explain it.  The hair on my neck stood up and everything in my gut and soul said danger, get away from there fast.   I literally ran all the way to my car and drove away.

    I completely understand intellectually that the cicadas have to stop at some point. And I completely understand intellectually that a cat can drop dead at any given moment.  But all I can tell you is at that exact moment I was completely overwhelmed by a tidal wave of fear and uncertainty of a dangerous unknown threat

    i’m not frightened at the possibility that energy or souls or a negative of our being somehow lasts after our death.  My late mother told me that my late father had appeared to her a couple months after he died and told her everything was going to be fine.  She asked him why he waited a couple months, and he told her that she needed to move past her grief before he delivered the news. To her dying day she insisted it was real. But none of that “scares” me.   I’ve been to the Myrtle’s plantation and spent nights without being scared.  

    That goddamn cat was the one thing that has terrified me most in 70 years

    Undefeated

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  3. 3 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    I'm beginning to think that Ukraine is getting reliable intelligence on when Air Defense Systems are being moved. The attacks seem random in location, but overall strategic. Like they have a list of 10 of targets each day, and know which ones have air defense and which ones have a Toyota with a machine gun in the back. 

    Might be causing some of those defense system to be in constant movement rather than actually defending anything. 

    They're definitely getting the good stuff from us now.

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  4. Betty's story arc at the end was fine.  Not as good as many others, but still.  Ms. Jones is a decent actress and played Betty as a generally bad person.

    Not sure why all the hate.  Glen, otoh...  I hope he died in Vietnam.

     

     

  5. 12 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Started watching it at the suggestion of my BIL. I’m 20 minutes in to episode one and I just don’t get it at all. And I feel terrible because I see all the great reactions here and the high ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Why aren’t I getting it? 

    Why are you so awkward, Bud?

    Iirc it took much of Season 1 to find its footing. (The Fartbook episode was especially bad.)

    Give it a go into Season 2.  Maybe even skip Season 1.

  6. 45 minutes ago, futureman said:

    funny too but more holy shit if it’s not AI.

    actually watching it again I think it’s AI.  what a terrible era we’ve entered. 

     

    22 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

     

    no way!

     

     

    /s

    7 oz of carbon and 1 pint of groundwater were used to make that vid.

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