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The local post office branch has been closed at least since Wednesday, but I now have the key to a tracking website I can check to see if it ever reopens.
ALT Post office branch door with a “Sorry we missed you” sticker from an unsuccessful UPS delivery attempt.
i refuse to believe it’s only 9:30—i’m going to spring forward an hour and a half, to hell with the rest of you.
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Interest rates directly affect the cost of housing, and shelter makes up almost a third of CPI, so it’s hard to see how raising interest could lower inflation except by immiserating the populace by an almost unfathomable degree.
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Per the Case-Schiller index, housing prices are 40% higher than at the start of the pandemic. So at today’s interest rates, prices would need to fall **40–50%** to get back to 2019-era affordability.
That’s about 3x as much as they fell in 2008–09 😳.
Uh, that sounds bad.
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Democrats holding the senate and losing the house would be the clearest possible rebuke of daylight savings time.
A generation’s bravest explorers set out to chart every inch of the uncanny valley. Many did not return, or were… changed. No question they committed many atrocities against the people of that land—but one must ask where we’d be today had they not brought back Cocomelon to us?
Just fucking realized I’m halfway to this again.
I’ve spent a very respectable ten minutes trying to find the downloadable version of TurboTax 2021, because my first wish on the genie will be for Intuit to go out of business but when that happens, any personal info in the cloud TurboTax will be sold to car warranty scammers.
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The U.S. military has an annual budget of $780B, more than enough to deploy a soldier, logistics personnel, or at least a drone, to any American asked to select the images containing fire hydrants or matching teacups.
They don’t warn you in health class that if you have a kid then one day it’ll have teeth and it’ll hate brushing teeth just as much as you did and one way or another that’ll be your problem.