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My first home loan in 1990 was over 9% and I didn't see an interest rate below 7% until 1998.

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Homes were also around 120k back then, not the hyper inflated 400k starter homes you'll find in most metro areas.

We bought a house during covid for 270k at 3% interest rate (could have waited and done a 15 year and gotten below 2% in hindsight) Its now estimated around 450k.

I love where I live, but there is no way in this world my home should be worth 450k

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what a pathetic response. Only a fricking loser would respond so aggressively

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The only pathetic thing is making an account on a random team's forum. Glad we are living rent free in your daily online activities.

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What is? Several companies sell LPR cameras to state and local govts including Motorola but they aren't based in Atlanta.

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Flock HQ is in Atlanta.

Almost certainly a flock camera that uses ai to read and catalog various identifying features on your car like license plate, bumper stickers, dents etc

Its all stored in a database that is used (so were told) by law enforcement and the city entities who are paying/subscribing to the service.

Problem is there is almost no oversight or real choice in the matter for every day citizens. We just get to be tracked everywhere we go.

Its a slippery slope and not a fun one. Who needs civil liberties anyway.


Biggest concern i have is how much money and growth they have raised in such a short time. Someone really wants this to be happening and its not the people just living their lives.

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Obama and the dems didn’t think so when they passed the law, which is why you only benefited from subsidies starting in 2021 and not 2013-2021

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Technically true 13 years later, but i wasnt making what I make now at that point. Specific to my situation that isnt factoring in career/financial growth. Through out 2013-2021 we were just barely under the limit of still getting subsidies, it was usually very minimal 1000-1200 a year in assistance. Insurance costs also have not stayed at the levels they were in 2013 subsidies or not.

Subsidies took effect up to 400% of the federal poverty limit, which is still over 100k for a family of 4.

There are plenty of people in my situation that got left staring down a $15,000 immediate increase to their health insurance and decided to just hope for the best and save the $30,000 in subscription based premiums.

Obamacare is horrendous and should be gutted and thrown out. But there is more to the 3 million drop in enrollment than just fraud.

Yea I did not enroll this year. Self employed so its my only real option.

My monthly premium for the family went from $1200 a month to $2500 a month when congress let the subsidies expire.

Obamacare has been a disaster. But it sure would have been nice if they could have done something to fix it (ideally just get rid of it) or at least put something in place to give people better options in the interim.

Your 3 choices are omitting a real outcome for a lot of the middle class.

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Better video. Looks like someone pushes him after he gets out of the vehicle

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This is 2nd video is Ai, watch the shoes closely. One of the shoes just teleports away and then back mid way through the fall.

Gotta love this new world we live in where we have to over analyze everything to see if its real or not.

Wait so not only is he doing a job based on national intelligence which he doesn't seem very experienced in he is also keeping his other role?

So our national intelligence is being run by a person moonlighting as a national intelligence director?

We really thought this one through huh

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Gonna be hard because he got exactly what he wanted

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He wanted Oman and Iran to be able to charge a toll on a strait used for majority of the regions oil, that was previously considered international water and free to use?

So the Strait that was open is now open with the added bonus of passage has to be coordinated with the Iranian military?

We sure showed them