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Why is the South lagging so much?
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May 2, 2022 02:56
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Crab Dad posted:If she’s still holding any debt while making that much per year then I can see why she’s with you. There was a disagreement about living in the city, thus last. Its literally carrying a mortgage, deferment saved her >$30k in interest. She doesn't see the need to pay down any of her loans early, even the high interest ones. Her job security is rock solid and she can afford a second or third mortgage at city prices with that pay.
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May 2, 2022 03:22
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A.o.D. posted:Why is the South lagging so much? I think this question could apply to most statistics. The original variant also spread through the northeast first. Could be weather keeping people indoors. It could be international travel, among other things.
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May 2, 2022 03:23
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Sacrist65 posted:I think this question could apply to most statistics. Not teen pregnancy or infant mortality!
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May 2, 2022 03:27
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There's a bunch of factors in play but in general the Northeast is above the average in reporting PCR test results, and of course at-home test results are reported in case numbers. It could be that people elsewhere aren't bothering to get PCRs since they're not coming down with symptoms, or they may just not feel the need to. Some states have also limited when and what test results they report out, although that's not limited to just the South.
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May 2, 2022 03:50
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The Northeast is also pretty densely populated so when a new variant causes a surge, it’ll tend to show up there first.
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May 2, 2022 03:52
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The South didn't lead in previous waves when PCR tests weren't readily available, and weather has been mostly mild in the South this past winter. Now, if any of you had said "Southern states are under reporting for political reasons" I'd have probably bought that.
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May 2, 2022 03:54
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A.o.D. posted:The South didn't lead in previous waves when PCR tests weren't readily available, and weather has been mostly mild in the South this past winter. Now, if any of you had said "Southern states are under reporting for political reasons" I'd have probably bought that. quote:Georgia is joining a growing number of states scaling back on the daily public reports of COVID-19 cases. The move comes just as widely used home test kits have made it harder to follow rising cases and questions have been raised about the best way to track the spread of new variants. Also might be relevant that this a gubernatorial election year in Georgia and keeping COVID out of headlines works to the incumbent's advantage. Here's a map of states by their reporting frequency: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-reporting-frequencies
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May 2, 2022 05:48
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AtraMorS posted:I can only speak to Georgia, but the state quietly did this earlier this month: https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/georgia-scales-back-on-reporting-of-covid-19-data/HPBH5YFG4NHGVPR3WFXNDFVAJE/ ....huh. I'm not sure what to make of that.
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May 2, 2022 10:52
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I closed the day before Election Day 2016 and had a 3.5% interest rate and now I feel like I’m never going to be able to leave my home between the overheated housing market, corporation cash buyers sparking insane bidding wars and increasing interest rates. It’s not a good feeling. I am in a similar situation. Our home value has nearly doubled in the past few years. It's nice to have a "golden parachute" available to us in the event of an emergency. If we even have to use it though, I don't know where we would go to restart. At that point everything will be out of our reach again.
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May 2, 2022 13:48
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ASAPI posted:I am in a similar situation. Our home value has nearly doubled in the past few years. It's nice to have a "golden parachute" available to us in the event of an emergency. If we even have to use it though, I don't know where we would go to restart. At that point everything will be out of our reach again. Same. Our house doubled in value, but even if we sold it, we'd have to really stretch to find a similar house, even with $100k in our pockets after paying off the mortgage.
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May 2, 2022 14:12
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CommieGIR posted:Same. Our house doubled in value, but even if we sold it, we'd have to really stretch to find a similar house, even with $100k in our pockets after paying off the mortgage. We refinanced in 21 for 2.0%. Selling would be a pretty big mistake.
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May 2, 2022 15:19
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Yeah there are other ways to access the equity of your home without selling it. Its probably worth talking to your bank / accountant / financial advisor whether they would make sense for you
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May 2, 2022 15:45
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1521090763295272963?s=20&t=D1FoGQnEpuc9vxbgKDY6LQ Our political elites really did great work during the Trump years just concealing all the terrible things he wanted to do until now so they can sell books. Way to look after the public good you bunch of tremendous asses. Also, who is buying these books?
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May 2, 2022 15:47
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1521090763295272963?s=20&t=D1FoGQnEpuc9vxbgKDY6LQ Campaign contributors. It's an unregulated way to generate income.
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May 2, 2022 15:51
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There’s a whole genre of Trump admin memoirs now, poo poo’s wild.
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May 2, 2022 15:53
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bulletsponge13 posted:Probably all the alleged rapes. Oh I know. Hence the I’m kidding, apologies for not being clearer.
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May 2, 2022 16:09
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So apparently the entire western half of the US is in a drought now. California is just in a 'mega drought' for the last two decades. Don't have the article on my phone but welp. When does it officially go from 'mega drought' to 'new normal, this isn't changing'? Kinda thinking we're already there, just curious how the book keeping works at this point.
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May 2, 2022 17:42
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There really aren’t any rules, and there are states making laws prohibiting the adoption of any “new normal” so…
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May 2, 2022 17:44
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Zamujasa posted:april showers bring may flowers Mayflowers bring smallpox, among other things
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May 2, 2022 18:38
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Not all of the western US, only eastern Washington is in drought here. Western Washington is still a very wet place. I can't imagine a better place to avoid the brunt of climate change in the US than the Pacific Northwest though we might not have any glaciers left in the Olympic Mountains by the end of the century.
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May 2, 2022 18:42
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Every state needs to mandate grey water filters and recyclers
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May 2, 2022 19:10
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Mustang posted:Not all of the western US, only eastern Washington is in drought here. Western Washington is still a very wet place. I can't imagine a better place to avoid the brunt of climate change in the US than the Pacific Northwest though we might not have any glaciers left in the Olympic Mountains by the end of the century. The fire skies are damned unnerving though. The environment here is starting to change in subtle ways. In 20 years I'm afraid this place will all look like Palo Alto. Californians are terraforming it.
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May 2, 2022 20:00
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Mustang posted:Not all of the western US, only eastern Washington is in drought here. Western Washington is still a very wet place. I can't imagine a better place to avoid the brunt of climate change in the US than the Pacific Northwest though we might not have any glaciers left in the Olympic Mountains by the end of the century. Hush don’t make a big deal of it. >.> <.<
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May 2, 2022 22:48
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Well if other places are anything to go by, parts that are too wet to burn will probably get catastrophic rainfall & flooding and everything that goes with it. So don't feel left out 
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May 2, 2022 23:03
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Immensely stupid current event: https://twitter.com/KT_So_It_Goes/status/1521167028756828160
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May 2, 2022 23:07
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Stultus Maximus posted:Immensely stupid current event: Oh, it gets better:
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May 2, 2022 23:10
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bird food bathtub posted:So apparently the entire western half of the US is in a drought now. California is just in a 'mega drought' for the last two decades. Don't have the article on my phone but welp. When does it officially go from 'mega drought' to 'new normal, this isn't changing'? Kinda thinking we're already there, just curious how the book keeping works at this point. Just apply a factor of twenty on the threshold like they did with the rate of COVID cases per capita that qualifies as “low”.
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May 2, 2022 23:33
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1521090763295272963?s=20&t=D1FoGQnEpuc9vxbgKDY6LQ Hillary liberals and never trumpers are still eating that poo poo up
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May 3, 2022 00:47
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Show offs https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/128510112/rocket-lab-successfully-catch-falling-rocket-booster-with-a-helicopter
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May 3, 2022 01:38
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Bye. https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1521289548927545357 Been in pain for ~8 months, it's not getting better, and I wouldn't change a loving thing. Country more or less decided that buttery mails were worse than banning abortion access and here we are. And they're not going to stop at abortion limits.
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May 3, 2022 01:48
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facialimpediment posted:Bye. I would characterize it more that they decided buttery males were a convenient fig leaf over their desire to enact bigotry and enforce control over those they feel hatred towards. The Cruelty Is The Point etc.
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May 3, 2022 01:53
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facialimpediment posted:Bye. I hope I'm reading this correctly and you are planning on expatriating yourself and not something significantly direr. Where ya headed?
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May 3, 2022 02:04
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facialimpediment posted:Bye. time to work out real hard and join the french foreign legion!
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May 3, 2022 02:05
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Soul Dentist posted:I hope I'm reading this correctly and you are planning on expatriating yourself and not something significantly direr. Where ya headed? Nah I was saying goodbye to a fundamental legal right that a lot of people are going to lose because religious conservatives believe that women have no agency and a clump of cells is more of a human form than them. Not leaving anywhere. And that conservatives lately are way more willing to just openly admit that all law is fake and all that matters is that you have a majority of votes to keep it that way. https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1521295280414543872?t=SUGgn0ZPeGEf1uvV6vW7xg&s=19
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May 3, 2022 02:07
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facialimpediment posted:Nah I was saying goodbye to a fundamental legal right that a lot of people are going to lose because religious conservatives believe that women have no agency and a clump of cells is more of a human form than them. Not leaving anywhere. This is also going to hyper-charge the ultra-rabid religious right come Election Day. Time for Women's March Part Deux.
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May 3, 2022 02:09
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BIG HEADLINE posted:This is also going to hyper-charge the ultra-rabid religious right come Election Day. I'm not quite a doomer, but I'm not seeing the way here. Law is fake. If you magically get 50 (with filibuster override) + House + presidency and pass a pro-abortion law, the Supreme Court just Law Is Fake-s its way to loving you on a 10th amendment argument. It's hosed and it's over, unless somehow this opinion went too far for the other four conservative fucks / religious zealots on the court. They can do what they want. And in more states than people would want to admit - that's what they want too! And the opposition kinda sucks, as we've all noticed  And apparently on early reads of that opinion, next probably comes sodomy laws, gay marriage, birth control, and bounties against women crossing state lines to get abortions. The time to stop this poo poo was 2016.
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May 3, 2022 02:30
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I wouldn't worry Diamond Joe PROMISED to codify Roe v Wade actual response gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress
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May 3, 2022 02:34
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it would be nice if everything wasn't terrible all the time
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facialimpediment posted:The time to stop this poo poo was 2016. yeah but unfortunately the really smart political people decided it was more important to get Bill Clinton's wife a career achievement award. these are the same really smart people who've spent the last 40 years earnestly debating and trying to bargain with Republicans who made it repeatedly and patently clear that they don't give a poo poo about anything other than the raw exercise of power. oh well can't wait for some thrilling takes from our resident political science experts on how this isn't that bad and the Democrats will now be motivated to the polls and boy that fundraising!
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