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You mention "investing if renting" but one of the key points is that in many cases the cost of home ownership, even with maintenance, taxes, and the rest, ends up lower than renting if you're looking at a window more than a couple years. As rent inflation goes up by inflation, but also...

This would apply if you were investing in multiple houses. But in terms of owning a home... You're going to be sinking money every month into either rent or a mortgage, so you have a sunk cost either way. With one of those you build equity and stand to make some money on selling it, with the...

You don't need 20 years around the same location. The rate at which my house has accrued value over time made it such that I could have sold for a profit within the first 5 years of owning it, probably less. It's more along the lines of "Can you commit to living in an area for 2-5 years?"...

Even with taxes, I'm still below an average 1 bedroom apt in Dallas right now.

Even without appreciation.... When you buy a house with a mortgage you're buying it in "today dollars", which then inflate, but your mortgage payment doesn't (unless you are an idiot and sign an ARM) outside insurance and tax increases. When I bought my house my mortgage payment wasn't that...

But somehow the Eagles will still win the division, forcing them to go in on the wild card.... But that game tonight...

So I was pretty happy with the HD Homerun box. Here in Dallas, getting around 75 channels. But I was getting artifacts and issues on a couple. Upgraded to this antenna over the weekend, now 93 channels.... Only drawback was the app not working with my phone.... Now watching SNF and...

PRE-WARNING : There are TWO versions of the anime. The American released version which was modified a good bit (called the 4Kidz release), and the OG Japanese release (where you'd have to be into subtitles to follow it, and will probably end up following the One Piece core theme in how you...

Which they can do just as well with it about 5-6' towards the camera in that shot and let the person using the kitchen not get pissed at them. ;)

Looking at this I will admit that at first glance I thought 'Hey, that dude left his rolling workbench/toolbox in the kitchen"... But upon further thought, that's NOT a large kitchen. I'll be willing to bet at some point the counter with the sink in it had a peninsula extending out from the...

Maybe not, but every year as I eat the peaches I prefer I take the pits from them and have been throwing them in dirt. Each year this seems to result in around 6-10 peach saplings. I've been accumulating them in planting containers in my back yard right now. So at some point this year I need...

A note should be that unless they changed it Moen are lifetime gaurantee, so you can sometimes contact them for a warranty replacement cartridge for it. I've actually done that for my wife's shower before.

What boggles my mind is how many will buy homes in much more expensive areas close in to town, and then work jobs which are predominantly remote. Hell, my current plan is buying somewhere an hour plus outside any notable city and moving there because I can do my job now remote for the most part...

I'm in a similar situation. Mother lives alone in the house my grandparents purchased in the 50's. She's getting to the point where she might have to move in with us soon which I want to put off, not because I don't love her, but because I know it will drive the woman who makes my dinner...

I've had RSU's vesting over the last 3 years... Seeing that "We sold this percentage of your vesting RSU's to cover taxes" will never cease rustling my jimmies most violently..... At least they're selling to cover based on the price of the stock the day it was granted, and not the price of the...

You answered your question before you asked it.. I bolded the answer for you. ;)

I don't think it is. They want SWIFT reconnected so they can continue to do easily business with the west because they know whatever alternative they're cooking up is not rolling yet. Simultaneous to this we're seeing multiple BRICS countries negotiating for native currency trading...

The Flash would have been better if he had played Barry too...

I thought 15 year old twins counted as a 30 year old?

Bean and Sugar lounging as they interpreted today's holiday as "Lazy Dog Day".... And yes Sugar pulled the pillow from the far end of the couch so she'd have something to lay her head on....

Don't know which is worse.... That they're obviously starting a history repeats itself cycle here.... Or that with current house prices AND only needed 1% down, it would STILL take someone a YEAR to save up that down payment.

Rest Well sweet prince...

Yeah, I play in a single FF league. I picked up a random magazine on the way to the draft that said "fantasy football" and "cheatsheet" on it. Ran my whole draft off that. People sneering and laughing at how I was the only one there without a laptop, just scratching names off a list, and...

I just had an old friend of mine who has never had ANY exposure to One Piece watch the first episode of this and describe it as... "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World.... WITH PIRATES!" And I can't disagree with that as a synopsis of all of One Piece.

I think you're overestimating how much in movies and TV I consume.... But OK, some people will notice in around a year. Assuming digitally generated actors and scripts aren't rolling out by then.

So... am I the only one who really hasn't noticed a single significant change to their existence with all of them on strike for what? Better part of a year now?

That fact made for what I though was one of the funniest moments in the JL animated run.... Lex Luthor manages to pull a body swap with Wally West so you have the guy who played Lex on TV playing the flash, acting like Lex..... Sorry for lowres..

This is a fresh win11 install (or well.. whatever the factory image install was). I noticed that most of those threads are 2 years old. Wonder if I'm going to need to revert to 2 year old drivers. heh

Not yet, That's starting to look like an option, but I will go last resort on that. Tonight I'm going to cook up a nice fresh linux thumb drive, boot it off that and see how it negotiates as to isolate if it's a windows 11 OS issue. If linux also only goes to 100mbps, then I might box it...

OK. Had a nice windfall (read, big commission check) at work and decided @Mrs. Haus needed a new gaming rig (Keeping the woman who makes your dinner happy is a key to life folks...) So I picked her up this one : https://www.microcenter.com/product/665134/powerspec-g443-gaming-pc Runs like a...

For me, I went the "poop in a box" option which doesn't involve prep. But also I don't have any history of colon cancer in my family....

As I am getting ready to buy land out away from town and start building I am in need of a truck and I'm at the "looking for something built 20-30 years ago that simply refuses to die" end of the spectrum. heh

One reason I'm looking for partially wooded land is that in Texas if you have wooded land and it's known that deer/boar/turkey/whatever feed and cross the land during hunting seasons you can get an agricultural tax exemption for "wildlife habitat preservation" so long as you can show that you...

TBH, A lot of the land I'm seeing that meets my goal profile (20+acres, partially wooded (for hunting), with electric at the road/accessible, preferably water at the road (bonus if it ALSO has a well), bonus points for a pond) Seem to have some type of "hunting cabin/barndominium/single wide" on...

Even the crappy version of Flashpoint they did on the CW show was better than this steaming heap. And Grant Gustin was also a far more likable Barry. (who honestly acted more like the Wally West Flash, but that's a comic nerd nit pick) As for why he was better... I will credit to a 50/50...

Again, you seem to think I want to go "back to those days".... For me it's more of a semi-blackpilled factor of knowing we're heading into a dystopian future, and just trying to figure out which dystopian variant we're gonna land on. My current bet is somewhere between Shadowrun and Brazil...

Make no mistake, I don't have any given level of erectile desire for such an outcome. I just see it as very probable in the long term. We're seeing the first of corporations getting big enough to start pushing back on governments, and unfortunately they will only get bigger over time since...