Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies
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    Sure you do. Think back to your school classes. Senators are elected for 6-year terms. Fetterman is basically brand new so that means his election was the last cycle, or 2022. 2022 + 6 years equals 2028 reelection.

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  • Federal judge blocks Biden administration rule requiring dealers at gun shows to run background checks
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    Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk

    Every time with this guy. Venue shopping needs to stop. Everyone with an agenda is trying to file in his district for one reason, and it's not fair and balanced justice.

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  • What was your first experience using the Internet?
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    AOL Keywords.

    Anyone remember brands putting their keyword in all their advertisements, like they do for a hashtags and @ signs today?

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  • You can’t afford to buy a house. Biden knows that.
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    I don't think we disagree here.

    Rates are higher than the current market can bear, a result of the artificially extended period of historically low rates. The pandemic can only be blamed for some of this. The prior administration juicing the economy against sound economical principals telling us rates should have continued the rise that started around 2016/2017 contributed at least as much and hamstrung our tools to respond.

    Housing stock shortages have long list of causes, as you line out. With so many things contributing to the problem it's hard to cope with, both at a policy level and for us regular folk. An average person needs an explanation that's easy and memorable, and thereby actionable in terms of throwing their support behind. That's not easy when there's not enough fingers to point, solutions to each aren't clear, and there's only so much political bandwidth that can be put towards making change.

    It's going to be slow, and not everything will work, but I'm glad there is finally attention on it and it looks like the people who can do things are doing them instead of just talking.

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  • You can’t afford to buy a house. Biden knows that.
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    You'd have to go back to around 2000 to find rates on a 30 year fixed comparable to today's. https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms

    Historically we're still in a period of pretty good rates. However, the reality is who cares about what things were like more than 25 years ago. The new normal is 6ish percent, and we're over that right now. I don't think we're ever going to see rates below 5% again, not counting for some extraneous circumstance nobody can predict. But at this point any relief is going to be meaningful to a lot of people.

    On the other hand, home prices are not coming down, and they probably will not come down even if there's plenty of overinflated valuations out there.

    Therefore the only thing to give on affordability is increased supply to keep home values from continuing to grow in a pace that outruns incomes, and lower rates so more people can afford what's out there today.

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  • Biden's latest campaign strategy: Get under Trump's skin
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    Last time around part of Trump's strategy was to dominate the news cycle with a never ending torrent of outlandish statements and behavior. Free advertising. And of course he's going to do it again because his fundraising is much less than Biden's at this point. And he probably can't help himself as that's all he knows how to do and it works on his base.

    One could argue that it's a wise idea to co-opt that free campaign exposure by joining in instead of fighting back or fact checking or correcting the record like they had in the past.

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  • What is going on with golf courses being shit down?
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    That's not really a possibility either. He's not suffering from lawsuits in the state of Florida. New York, where that bond is owed, doesn't have jurisdiction over Florida to affect his properties there.

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  • Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons
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    Get WinAero Tweaker. It's a tool that applies dozens of registry and group policy settings to kill stuff like this. I ran it once ages ago and never have had to deal with stuff like your screenshot.

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  • What is your favorite alcoholic cocktail?
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    I have both of these, dry, in jars next to each other. If they weren't labeled I'd have to smell and maybe even taste to tell them apart. Fresh they look similar with smallish deeply textured leaves.

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    Anyone going to Central Oregon for the eclipse Saturday morning at 9 AM? [https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-comes-to-the-americas-on-october-14th/](https://skyandte

    Anyone going to Central Oregon for the eclipse Saturday morning at 9 AM? [https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-comes-to-the-americas-on-october-14th/](https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-comes-to-the-americas-on-october-14th/) [#pnw](https://kbin.social/tag/pnw) [#oregon](https://kbin.social/tag/oregon) [#pdx](https://kbin.social/tag/pdx) [#portland](https://kbin.social/tag/portland)

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    skyandtelescope.org

    A solar eclipse will soon grace the skies over the Americas. On Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Moon will cross in front of the Sun, covering at most 90% of it — the remaining 10% will appear as a blazing “ring of fire” around the Moon’s black silhouette.

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    Next Saturday morning, around 9 AM, a "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse passes through central and southern Oregon
    skyandtelescope.org

    A solar eclipse will soon grace the skies over the Americas. On Saturday, October 14, 2023, the Moon will cross in front of the Sun, covering at most 90% of it — the remaining 10% will appear as a blazing “ring of fire” around the Moon’s black silhouette.

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    www.anandtech.com

    Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand. Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company's gaming products...

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    Sennheiser Exits Gaming Headphone Business
    www.anandtech.com

    Technically the successor owner of their gaming brand. Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company's gaming products...

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    100% of sampled MAX trains test positive for low levels of meth
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    According to a study by the University of Washington, 100% of sampled surfaces on TriMet light rails tested positive for low levels of meth.

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    According to a study by the University of Washington, 100% of sampled surfaces on TriMet light rails tested positive for low levels of meth.

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    doc

    doc@ kbin.social

    I can't believe this name wasn't already taken.