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My kid just texted to tell me that my name in the Epstein Files. Apparently, Epstein was on the Quora Weekly Digest mailing list, and my answers showed up there during the years that I was a regular Quora contributor
I suppose it's to my credit that it never even occurred to me to search my own name (or any other Scheinberg for that matter)
Still, if I weren't nursing my hairline fractured knee, I'd be scrubbing down in the shower
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Horoscope for Thursday, February 05, 2026
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I'm thinking of declaring RSS bankruptcy, and starting again with a new list of blogs.
Do you have an RSS feed? Please let me know :).
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I'm using Thunderbird again for now, but I'll export the OPML and publish again like I used to.
It's had a few... moments of late, but still worth a shot:
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Portland upsets No. 6 Gonzaga 87-80 to snap Bulldogs' 15-game winning streak
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Absolutely the biggest scam ever.
My parents bought their house for $159,000 in the late 90s.
They are still in that house. Guess how much is left on their mortgage balance? $350,000.
Why? Because of cash out refinances and HELOCs.
They should be retiring soon but they're not, because people like you said these equity loans are good.
They're not. These are terrible ideas. Do not EVER take out the equity of your home.
Don't get me started on luxury inflation.
Look at things like the prices for live sporting events and concerts.
Back when The Beetles were the hottest band in the world, teenagers were buying their own tickets.
Middle class folks used to be able to splurge once in a while and get the best of the best. Now that stuff is beyond the reach of mere mortals
ICE records show Biden admin plans could give Trump a head start on deportations
President Biden Signs Anti-Immigrant Spending Bill Reaching Trump-Era Highs
Biden’s Emergency Funding Proposal Seeks $14 Billion for Immigration System From Congress
Tom Homan - Border Czar was originally appointed by Obama
Keep in mind, these democrat moves to bolster ICE were happening while the right was blatantly telegraphing their moves to immediately weaponize ICE once they took power. Project 2025 came out and promised to use ICE to plunder and abuse Americans. Biden and team then spent the next 4 years not only failing to prepare for Trump, but preemptively strengthening the mechanisms Trump would eventually use to carry out project 2025. The democrats are controlled opposition.
Sure, maybe we wouldnt be seeing this intense of immigration enforcement if Kamala were in charge, but if she were, she'd be working behind the scenes to ensure the right had all the tools they needed when the time was right.
The democrats are controlled opposition and the American electoral system is kabuki theater. The fascist descent is the only logical conclusion to the American political experiment- which was predicated on the wholesale genocide of Native American Indians and quickly pivoted to enslaving an entire continent.
You realize what the only logical conclusion to your "pragmatic liberal utilitarianism" is, right? I give it 4 years before youre chiding leftists for not voting for dem candidate Ted Cruz as he campaigns against republican candidate Mecha Hitler. Youll still see nothing wrong with that. You will sell out the victims of American Imperialism to buy yourself 4 more years of political waffling - just as you did with Palestinians.
After President Biden signed a 2024 spending bill that provides $3.4 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to jail 41,500 immigrants per day, 200 NGOs delivered a letter to the White House today opposing this unprecedented expansion of…National Immigrant Justice Center
Woof, that sucks. I’m sorry to hear that.
I’ve never bothered myself. Not enough equity gained in my house and still too much mortgage to pay off. But I know my neighbors have had success with the process, as have my parents.
Yes, not inspiring and entirely unproductive. Demonizing and pushing those who didn’t vote blue further to the right isn’t helpful, and I’m not saying “both sides are bad” or that we have to compromise with Republicans (I voted for Kamala too).
As fucked as things are, we can either whine about not getting our way until the end of time, or we can do something about it. Comments like OPs push the needle in the wrong direction.
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Ah yes waste time blaming people who were actually trying to move the needle back to the left but were roundly ignored by a bunch of geriatric genociders who would rather pander to racists and ignoramuses who would never vote for them in the first place than just idk maybe stop committing genocide.
This will totally get those people to vote for the other milque toast white racist that the dems put up as a candidate without any sort of election and just expect everyone to vote for because "at least theyre not trump" without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.
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Voting for Kamala was the only sane move. That’s all we were asking for.
We all want Bernie, but the nation is what it is and we’d have been streets ahead with Kamala even. Hopefully AOC someday.
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I've been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.
I've never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we're at.
We're living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we'd be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we've found ourselves in right now? I'm glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven't benefitted from the current administration. This is a level of bad I never expected to see in my life, and I think there are a lot of terminally online people who are seeing this in a romanticized way that obscures the severity of the situation we find ourselves in.
We likely would have had more ability to push things to the left without the levels of harm, destruction, and violence that we're seeing now under just about anyone but Trump and Project 2025. Instead of activism and outreach, now we have to play defense and protect our neighbors and communities. Not to mention the roll acks of rights to the health and safety of women and queer people are more passively costing lives and creating suffering.
Yes, the status quo was terrible. Democrats offer pretty words and little action. They aren't going to save us or give us the futures we deserve. I'd give just about anything for us to be out of this, though. Humiliation and disgust on an international scale, the daily violence, and reading new horrors every damn day is absolutely the greater of two evils, though. I can't see a scenario where anything is worth what's in store.
Non voters aren't the sole reason we're here, but I'm sick of pretending that those people's choices didn't play a large role in our current situation. These times demand we all do some soul searching, take accountability, and work together to get out of this in one piece. Because, again, we have to live in the reality of where we're at.
So, who else to blame for voters that think Taco and Kamala are the same and that Taco would be "better for 'conomy"? That's the fault of the Democratic Party?
People keep blaming them for anything and everything and how they have to "message better", but the Democrats don't really have any kind of media to get that message out on.
Do you honestly think that if Harris won there would be armed agents on the street murdering citizens, driving your economy to historic lows, alienating your closest allies, tanking trade routes, invading Venezuela, kidnapping anyone with a skin colour darker than snow white....
I could go on.
He is setting USA up for the worst economic crisis in history.
The biggest, the best, the most beautiful financial downfall the world has ever seen.
It will take a bit more time. Enough time that when the next president steps in, the aftermath will really show. Then this egotistic maniac will point at that president and blame them. Never him fault, according to him.
But that's narcissism for you.
What hes aiming for is destabilization.
He's already talking civil war.
Which I think is his ultimate goal. and the goal of his masters.
Civil War 2 on a horrific scale, that knocks America out of any meaningful global position for years, if not decades afterwards.
Which only works until you tank the country by pissing of your customers (aka other countries) enough and tank your currency.
Everything en route!
I hate him.
My dream is to be a homeowner and it's slipping away faster than I can chase after it.
I fucking hate him so much.
Voting left: 1
Not voting: 0
Voting MAGA: -1
Exactly.
Our home has doubled in value in the last 7 years, but life would be better if it had've stayed at the same price.
We're lucky enough to have somewhere to live but as a community it really sucks that its so hard for so many people - the rental market is just awful, inhumane even.
God forbid we want to buy a bigger home with some more room for the kids - upgrading just cost twice as much.
My parents are boomers and have been beneficiaries of the eternal increase in property values throughout their lives. They're in their 80s and really need to retire, but can't really afford to. Increasing property prices aren't really good for anyone.
I'd bet on stagflation actually:
Stagflation is an economic condition characterized by the simultaneous occurrence of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment.
without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.
For all that the dems really do seem to do their best to alienate the left, I'm fairly sure their policy did not include having barely trained, masked, goons running around American cites executing people at will, kidnapping others, and facing no concequences, and yet, trump was clear that it was what he wanted. I'd call that a meaningful difference.
Hahahahaha! This is so unbelievably fucking ridiculous.
All while they're crying about the falling birth rates.
I worked my ass off. Now I can pay for a place to live and keep paying it off no matter what for 30 years. No matter what? Yeah anything happens to me, that means my family looses their house for life because they are too young to work now but not having a house will make it harder for them to ever get one.
I'm basically a slave.
Now if I were to sale my home, then I could probably afford to buy a smaller house and keep paying even more! Yey! That's how math works right? You get 10 dollars for your house so that you can buy half that house for 11 dollars! Yey!
I’m basically a slave.
That's the goal. Whatever keeps workers working is what the ruling class will force upon us.
It's why we never invested in fusion energy. Expensive fossil fuels keeps people working.
Get rich you filthy plebiscite!
-Trump, effectively.
Plebiscite is, specifically, the common term for popular vote.
I think I get what you’re going for though.
vote MAGA in the midterms
You're not in US platform here bud. Most people here already hate the orange turd and his cronies to the max.
Fix your damned shit, where it matters, not on an international forum who's tired of your shit.
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Japan lets Americans come, visa on arrival. If you want to stay longer than 90 days, you can start a business, you have a lot of leeway here, and loans are pretty cheap, like 8% for foreigners, <4% if you've been here awhile. Huge foreign community can guide you when you get here.
If you're in your 20s, you can get a working holiday visa and work for any company that will hire you.
You can't just step out for an hour and reenter like with China, Japan doesn't like visa-runs.
With China, you can get an L(tourist) visa and make a visa-run every 90 days (60 if you applied outside USA), or M visa if you plan to start a business.
The China visa process kinda sucks, dm me if you need help.
For vietnam, you can go there on a 90 day evisa, and if you're white, a fake college degree can have you working as a fake English teacher at a fake English school, for real dong.
Honestly curious to see how this pans out. Trump's polling still seems higher than it should be given the shit show he's presiding over.
Here in the UK, we appear desperate to touch the Reform stove. I despair.
I have come to also realise that there are a lot of people with below surface level understanding of who or what they are voting for. I assume going through their lives blissfully unaware of the current shit show.
Otherwise intelligent people (in my orbit UK based) think Trump is doing okay because he's tough on China and China is not our friend. Seemingly absolutely no awareness of how fucked up America has become in under a year and what that means for the UK I side eye them still, as I wonder if there is more going on there views wise.
Just leaves me thinking those fuckers from Reform will get in because Farage likes a pint down the local Wetherspoons.
If the $550k this place is worth on paper buys us something that would have cost $245k in 2010, we haven’t gained anything.
Mmm, no.
300 fucking thousand dollars is still 300 fucking thousand dollars.
You could buy a shitshack and still have a place to live. Hell, you could even get scammed renting like a moron and you still would have made money.
Why stop there?
Guarantee housing with a housing stipend and impose massive taxes on additional properties
Neat, and totally irrelevant because we have no idea if our examples are geographically proximate. In the area I'm living in now, at the same grocery store, the price of a honeycrisp apple has more than quadrupled in the last 5 years. Averaged out that's 60% YoY inflation.
And there is a reason:
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Per usual, read the article and not just the headline.
Sounds like he's talking about banning investor purchases of single family homes. Which is a good thing.
I fucking hate Trump and he's wrong about pushing housing prices higher, but banning investor purchases of homes is the right call, so he's kinda right.
Also, crashing housing value would destroy anybody who has invested in their home as equity. What needs to happen is a leveling off and investment in cheaper starter home builds, as well as a push for first time homebuyer loans that are low interest and up front down payment.
I bought my first home on a HomePath mortgage. No PMI, 5% down, and reasonable interest rate that was only a bit higher than a traditional mortgage.
Getting people into their FIRST homes and making sure they aren't beat out by cash offers from investors it's the correct way forward.
Why should I care about someone's equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?
My car doesn't become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It's a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.
To strike a balance, home values should go up at the same rate as general inflation and/or wages (ideally the latter, really), or at least stay the same over time.
You really don't want to find yourself in a situation where you need to sell and you're underwater. At the same time, they obviously shouldn't be the investment vehicles they are now.
Also some people use the equity from home appreciation to take out an extra mortgage for improvements. I don't personally think it's a great idea (as it can put you under water if the market takes a wild swing), but it's something people can use to get a cash injection for potentially expensive home improvement work.
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Can we each be given the kind of head start of millions he did? :3
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