Too fucking late you chode.

Just like Dum Dums.

There’s been some very minimal translation of the few that remain, having to do with numbers and counting. They most definitely contain information. They mean something.

This is also making me think - these words that I am typing now, are they not also mnemonic devices? The written words are not the spoken words, and neither of those are the concepts that we understand the words and phrases to represent. Words are only models of ideas, and models are by definition not as accurate as what they intend to model. Who are we to say that a series of marks on a clay tablet, or paper, or a computer screen are more accurate models of ideas than intricate series of knots in strings?

Stephen Miller is a failure and irregularity, throw him out.

Who do you think owns the real estate?

Fats

“Has arrived,” as though it hasn’t been churning just beneath the surface since the beginning, and succeeding in lifting its filthy maw above the water line many, many times.

Federal minimum wage is $7.25, your point is?

In the US:

When you pass away, your mortgage doesn’t suddenly disappear. Your mortgage lender still needs to be repaid and could foreclose on your home if that doesn’t happen. In most cases, the responsibility of the mortgage will be passed to the beneficiary of the home if there is a will.

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/what-happens-to-mortgage-when-you-die/

This partially depends on how much the house is worth now. If it’s somehow a million dollar house today, and the amount owed is $250K, then you could refinance that and make payments. This would be a reasonable transaction.

But if you have negative equity - if you owe more than the house is worth - the best thing to do right now is stop paying that mortgage. In the short term, you’re just throwing money away, because that mortgage is never going to be paid off. In the longer term, see the above. Stop paying the mortgage.

Yes, this will end in foreclosure. Yes, you’ll “lose the house,” but honestly, it was lost a long time ago, you just didn’t know it. Once the foreclosure has happened, your grandmother will be relieved of that debt, because the home was collateral. Foreclosure is highly likely to happen anyway after your grandmother passes, but then it becomes infintely more complicated, especially if there are multiple beneficiaries of the property.

My in-laws were in a similar situation long ago. They had gotten a now-illegal “reverse amoritization mortgage,” which basically guaranteed that their mortgage payments would always be less than the interest accrued. Same kind of result: they owed way more on the house than it was worth, way more than they had originally borrowed, and were essentially never going to get out from under it. The advice they took was exactly as above. Stop paying the mortgage.

That’s because it is entirely reasonable to want to watch the intro sometimes, while it is never reasonable to want to watch ads.

Index fund, most definitely. And find one that has low administrative fees, I know that Vanguard has at least a few that are super low.

Those are also good examples - but Europeans most definitely sought to destroy any quipu they found.

Maybe Threads doesn’t, what about Meta?

Nope, it makes you less safe, too, especially if the threat is closer than 25 feet. They have the opportunity to wrest the gun from your control and use it against you.

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… anything well-documented …

There would be a lot more well-documented ancient things if racists hadn’t actively destroyed ancient documents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu for example.

I’m still going to stand by my previous comment.

My point was that for small arms to be used as an effective protection against threat, they must be used before the threat is imminent, i.e., in a “first strike” offensive capacity.

While it’s possible that an open carried firearm might have a deterrent effect, its presence makes every situation into “one with a gun in it,” which is necessarily less safe than one without a gun in it.

Care to elaborate?

Eating salt and vinegar chips is the biological equivalent of scrubbing your digestive tract with a wire brush, and this is exactly what I deserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule