Jeevmon

Hide the Infinity Stones from this man.

“For the ages.”

Well someone shows up at city council and planning board meetings to complain about how denser housing will destroy the “neighborhood character.” Someone files lawsuits to prevent rezoning. Who are the someones?

Fuck Grok. Fuck this whole technology. I am so sorry this happened to you.

S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index S&P Cotality Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index

There was supposed to be a URL link. Trying again but maybe it's getting stripped out.

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Many of the routine indulgences like "fancy" coffee, avocado toast, etc. were not nearly as much a part of 1980s culture as they are now. Starbucks, for example, was much less pervasive then than it is now.
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They criticized the indulgence of consumer purchases, but the tie to the ability to afford a house was not nearly as pronounced. This graph shows that the slope of the housing price curve was not nearly as steep in the 1980s.

OK, more like 180th birthday. Still, point stands.

Look, if young people would just give up their $5/ week rotisserie chicken habit, they'd be able to save for a 10% down payment for a median price home in about 8400 weeks. So if they start at 18, they can afford a house by their 170th birthday, more or less. What's the problem?

The answer usually given is "well, I have all of those things so there must be something wrong with you if you don't."

I'm by no means an expert on this aspect and would love to read up more if someone has some good histories to recommend. But it is notable that the attitude towards the much more pigmented Mariel refugees was harsher than the attitude in the late 1950s and 1960s.

There's some fascinating history around racial segregation in Cuba and how the exodus of people around the time of Castro's rise was, in part, white flight from a society that was moving from racial segregation to integration.

I was one of those people in 2004-07 who thought Barack Obama should wait and build up his Senate time instead of going for it in 2008. He was right and I was wrong.

Cocaine isn't cheap and the toilet seat is a good place to lose it. It says he's bad at efficient drug use.

Trump threatened to run the government like one of his businesses and that's exactly what he's done. No real org chart, no defined roles, just a bunch of sycophants and functionaries running around and bullying people knowing the boss doesn't care.

Help! I Can’t Believe My Son’s Friend Fed Him Indian Food Without Calling Me First. “My wife says to drop it because any conversation will look racial in nature.”

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Area Grandmother Tries Indian Food BLOOMINGTON, MN—Characterizing the experience as "different," local grandmother Eileen Rutherford, 78, ate Indian food for the first time Saturday.

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Area Mother Doesn’t See Why Thai People Need To Make Food So Spicy BLOOMINGTON, IN—Insisting that inhabitants of the Southeast Asian country “can’t possibly eat like this every day,” local mother Courtney Meisner confirmed Tuesday that she does not understand why Tha...

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Yes, but to harass brown people traveling with wires. Somewhere along the line, TSA occasionally stopped white people traveling with loaded firearms and you know this could not stand.

Gosh, who could have forseen that the woman who allegedly threw out a case against the man who gave her a $25K donation might behave as though that man is her client?

Another shitty Desi who doesn't get that MAGA doesn't want them here either.

Tell me Markwayne is from a place where people drive everywhere without telling me Markwayne is from a place where people drive everywhere.

I mean, they shouldn't, but as a matter of reality, people are stopped all the time because they "fit the description" of some alleged suspect. Strangely, these people usually have some pigmentation in their skin. Weird how that works.

"That they cribbed from the Jim Crow South."

Are they saying it’s bad? I’m not a subscriber but usually the WSJ is for returns to capital over returns to labor.

"Hey Grok, are there any books or movies about how hard it is to get to, come back from, and live on Mars?"

I am cautiously optimistic about the dietary preferences of the face-eating leopards.

And the hunting. Scalia died on a hunting trip, remember.