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They've had near misses with this in the past at La Guardia, I was on a flight in 2021 that had to do a go around because of a vehicle on the runway. Was some maximum pucker factor when we're just about to touch down and the engines rev all the way up and the nose of the plane suddenly tilts way way up.

Our house has a his and hers set of sinks. Her sink has about 4x the available counter space and cabinet as mine and yet my sink has 10x the actual clear usable space because she leaves every skin care, makeup, pill bottle and Lord knows what else out on the counter.

Gotta remember, the people who write these rules (similar to a bank saying you can afford $X amount of house) are working for entities that have a set % of write offs baked into their calculation. They anticipate some % of these loans to fail. Just because the other % doesn't fail doesn't mean they're not 1 struggling or 2 going to fail the next year or the one after etc.

For you as an individual, you should not be anywhere near the mortgage lenders max estimate, as that puts you right up near the edge of failure where if anything goes wrong you could be set back significantly, and even if nothing goes wrong your only investment ends up being your house.

My wife and I are paying just under 20% of our gross into a mortgage, and I'm not super thrilled with that as is. Every 1% less from that 30 or 20 or whatever "magical" % is another % you could be saving or investing into something else.

Damn I didn't get one.

How TF is this thing up on a red as hell day :lol:

I'm up 405% on this since buying in, absolutely crazy!

God bless I am a small fry in this, wish I had had more "for fun" funds around when I first bought at 41c. I only got myself to 1700 shares but I'm still up almost $1200 today, this thing is nuts but I'm happy to be here for it.

The thing that began 1000 years ago and ended 700 years ago? That happened as a direct result of Muslims invading and conquering Christian territories? That thing?

I know we joke about Muslims being stuck in the stone age but if something that happened a millennia ago as a result of your own kind fricking around and finding out is your excuse for your actions in 2026 then maybe many Muslims aren't emotionally or intellectually mature enough to interact with modern civilization.

shite the Mongols seized, looted, burned, and put the city of Baghdad to the sword around the time that the crusades were winding down but Muslims aren't frothing at the mouth to commit jihad in Mongolia.

This probably ends up "washing out" in the long run. What the gov didn't spend Q4 during shutdown it will end up spending Q1 this year, so we probably end up seeing a big swing from Q4 25 to Q1 26.

In college my macro econ professor told us that when he was in school, interest on the federal debt was a rounding error, something you could safely ignore in a lot of calculations. By the time I was in college it was one of the most important factors.

fricking shite Chaplin could account for an easy 15% of that on his own.