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What is the issue? If it’s unwanted (excessive) bacterial growth could it also be managed with acidification?

When the Sox played the Astros in the World Series, there was a rumor the Astros were going to close their dome to make the crowd louder or whatever. Ozzie Guillen was like, “They can put a second dome on top of the first dome, we’re still going to win.” Perfect response. (Sox swept the series.)

The Dutch really did a great job

It makes me angry that they did so many redesigns, the dime is the only coin that looks right anymore

It feels like the spiritual successor to “I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this”

I mean the ones around “trumps money,” but yeah, that can’t explain the others so I guess not

I am wondering if it is a formatting issue, if those were originally quotation marks

They pay me in woims! (That was the first Mags post I ever saw)

Ideally you would get rid of IRAs and 529s and all that shit. So a massive simplification, a smaller tax subsidy, fewer ways to game the system. And the icing on the cake is, people won’t gamble away the money on YOLO options or whatever because that is prohibited in this account.

This is giving me hives! I feel like there should be a Matt Levine type policy where you have to buy low cost target date index funds unless you go into an SEC regional office and swear out a declaration that you are a moron and you want to lose all your money

There’s a cohort that got like 5% fixed rate mortgages and then watched the 1970s/80s inflate the debt away. A high school teacher told us about people whose electricity bills were higher than their mortgage payments by the time they paid them off.

Not a terrible environment for investors though, at least the ones who have been following traditional advice on the mix of stocks and bonds

I think there’s a pretty big discontinuity between Millennials who got 2% mortgages and ones who didn’t… if you borrow $500,000 at 6.5% vs 2% that is so much extra money out the door

To me Agatha Christie is a good illustration. Undoubtedly racist and anti-Semitic, but not really preoccupied with that stuff. It just didn’t loom large to her. You can’t imagine her losing her shit the way Rowling et al have.

This is not my expertise but I remember when they added a pretty sizable fee to the tickets to fund airports, my understanding is that it generates a lot of cash for the airports

Leaving a 5-star review claiming I saw a young mouse

So did that district right?