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IT BURNS posted:Since I'm going through situation #2 you described, I can attest that neither off those situations are realistic for most people. The only way for a house to appreciate that much is for you to be the original owner of a home built in Vancouver or Austin in the 80s or 90s, and taking out a HELOC even if you were the original owner means rapacious rates. If you're still paying off a loan at the time of death, then you're hosed because selling it will barely cover the note in most situations, not to mention repairs if the house wasn't maintained in your waning years and dealing with buyers who want to get the price as low as possible. Or, just hear me out - live in any desirable metro area in the last 15 years. Friend moves to DC in 2008 and buys a house in a Virginia exurb that was built a couple years earlier for $250k. Same house sold in 2019, years after he left DC, for $950k. It doesn’t take 30-40 years for irrational exuberance to increase home values.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:Weren't Millennials getting shat on in the 2000s for destroying everything because they weren't buying houses? Also, WTF with this whole 20-24 year old thing. I guess "Millennial" really means "anybody younger than a boomer, with the exception of Gen-X who is simply ignored." Back a few years ago, when I was still on Facebook a few lefty friends of mine and I were commenting on some article and one dude’s right winger dad pops in to start talking down to us about being dumb kids and whatnot and we had to calmly explain that we were variously doctors, lawyers, professionals, homeowners, parents, etc. in our 30’s. Like this dude’s son was a married 33 year old lawyer and he was shouting him down like he was a teenager. They just can’t let go of the spotlight.
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Hopefully the government passes some bills to make up for the damage and help the people who really need it: The nursing home companies that need to be shielded from (correct) accusations of malpractice and abuse.zoux posted:Oh you can do everything right and then, bam, right in the home the second you become inconvenient. No, I'll spend my money on drugs and video games and you can roll my corpse off into a ditch when I go, I won't care I'll be dead. I can't really predict anything about mass shootings, but man, this seems to be the most you could do to bait one in.
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Jiro posted:Truly a portent of things to come for the entire state. This is the kind of poo poo I'm talking about re: housing affordability, ugh. The Valley used to be the LAST part of Texas where you could have most city amenities (plus a beautiful beach) but with an affordable housing market.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I can't really predict anything about mass shootings, but man, this seems to be the most you could do to bait one in. Police won't have to wait for a minority driver to say "I have a CDL" before getting 'scared' and unloading a clip into them for the crime of expired registration.
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This is mostly a proxy debate so the state level pols can get a taste of that sweet "are guns good or bad" debate. The effect will be minimal, as I said before the number of people who want to carry and are prohibited from doing so is minute. But the Republicans have already almost maximally deregged guns and the Dems can't pass a gun control bill so we do this and all the debate is generally about guns and gun violence
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Badger of Basra posted:now we need California to pass a boycott of boycott boycotters So loving petty.
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Badger of Basra posted:now we need California to pass a boycott of boycott boycotters Is this actually happening or is this a fake problem https://twitter.com/madlinbmek/status/1382772985379971074 Getting there. Given the CDC report today that of the 66m vaccinated people in the US so far, only .008% got a post-vax infection I'm less concerned about vaccine resisters since vaccinated people, such as me, will be protected.
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Badger of Basra posted:now we need California to pass a boycott of boycott boycotters cancel culture gone awry again party of small government and liberty
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That vote means it passed with significant democratic support.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:howdy doody rear end looking motherfucker 
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Or, just hear me out - live in any desirable metro area in the last 15 years. Ok did that. Wait what do you mean I don't have any equity
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zoux posted:Is this actually happening or is this a fake problem i would guess it is almost certainly a fake problem, though i haven't seen the bill language so i don't know if selling an investment you currently hold in an oil and gas company would count as "boycotting"
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Badger of Basra posted:i would guess it is almost certainly a fake problem, though i haven't seen the bill language so i don't know if selling an investment you currently hold in an oil and gas company would count as "boycotting" Yeah it's gotta be symbolic. There's a similar law about doing business with any company that boycotts israel and as far as I know there's like one company in the world that still does that. When I had to take the Israel loyalty pledge as a state employee I took a solemn oath never to do business with that one norwegian holding company
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Badger of Basra posted:now we need California to pass a boycott of boycott boycotters I look forward to the coming "We just outlawed marriage by accident" situation when something like no state properties can use wind energy anymore so the power grid implodes. Or it would be if laws were enacted and enforced in good faith, etc. etc.
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https://twitter.com/TannerLLong/status/1382721002841411586 more like Dade FAILIN amirite
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IT BURNS posted:This is the kind of poo poo I'm talking about re: housing affordability, ugh. The Valley used to be the LAST part of Texas where you could have most city amenities (plus a beautiful beach) but with an affordable housing market. Rio Grande City gonna be the last town that's going to have affordable housing.
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No Safe Word posted:https://twitter.com/TannerLLong/status/1382721002841411586 Gah that means six more weeks of session. https://twitter.com/erinmdouglas23/status/1382781855573811203 quote:A bill filed in the Texas Senate Thursday would direct the state’s massive investment funds to divest from any companies that “boycott” fossil fuels. So this is in response to a letter from a PE CEO, seems like a good way to make state policy. Roumba posted:I look forward to the coming "We just outlawed marriage by accident" situation when something like no state properties can use wind energy anymore so the power grid implodes. Yeah seems like it gives the state unlimited discretion to ignore the law, so total message bill. Now to carry the GOP's water by writing a whole bunch of stories about what is essentially a press release via legislation.
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The Israel boycott boycott had a clause in it that it could be ignored if the state boycott would violate fiduciary duty or something like that, if I remember right. Basically a paper tiger bill. I'm sure this was written to be as equally toothless.
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https://twitter.com/James_Barragan/status/1382786127292035073 Hmmm sounds bad https://twitter.com/James_Barragan/status/1382788673855320065 Yeah write your reps so reporters can get that hot goss by eavesdropping on legislative scrums
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Dameius posted:The Israel boycott boycott had a clause in it that it could be ignored if the state boycott would violate fiduciary duty or something like that, if I remember right. Basically a paper tiger bill. Last I checked, the Texas state pension bill is just as toothless and for the same functional reason, pension funds can't be forced to violate fiduciary duty. They just have to ask for a waiver. Edit: And I forgot, the total combined value of the pension funds affected is a non-issue to Black Rock. State pension fund exposure is something like $16 billion out of $200B in total state pension funds, whereas BlackRock alone manages something like $6 trillion, probably more. They do not give a poo poo. Shooting Blanks fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Apr 15, 2021 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1382827776479137793 Welp
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At least they have a terrible sense of style: https://twitter.com/jen_rice_/status/1382829245014036480
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Hyundai is endorsing Ted Cruz:FBS posted:https://twitter.com/roadshow/status/1382725464687534080?s=20
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It actually looks like a neat, and small (holy gently caress its about time), truck!
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Dude I would love one of those old Nissan trucks that would run for 200k miles But yeah that hyundai....
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Hiluxes can be imported. I saw a right hand driver on the highway a few weeks ago.
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Right, basically the old Ford Ranger. If I can't comfortably haul a load of 2x4s or uncut plywood, it can't be a truck.
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My first car was my grandpas old 1988 s15 with "extended cab" which were those pullout jumpseats that faced inward and only had lap belts.
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My first vehicle was a 96 Tacoma extra cab and it had the back bench fit for tools or groceries kept out of the rain.
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I inherited my grandpa’s totally stock ‘91 Chevy 1500 and it’s basically the perfect size and height for a truck. Small cab with a tiny rear bench and a bed that’s functional enough to haul stuff. It should be the official Texas state truck instead of all those giant overpriced babydick monster trucks that cut you off on 45.
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Badger of Basra posted:now we need California to pass a boycott of boycott boycotters What constitutes a "boycott"? Does Tesla count? What if a major player like Chevron or Exxon pledges to go 100% renewable, is it "boycotting" itself? So loving stupid. Number_6 fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Apr 16, 2021 |
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Kunabomber posted:Right, basically the old Ford Ranger. This. That Hyundai thing is a gimmicky SUV with a lovely open storage area. It would be better if they just enclosed it so I could store poo poo out of the weather, instead of giving me some lovely 4'x4' bed that can't hold anything of significance.
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