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Jodie Whittaker got a raw deal with Chibnall. I was so-so on RTD, but this is a welcome return to form, if you ask me.

Yeah, I love Bond and all that, but coming out of the pandemic (that's STILL HAPPENING) means I don't want to be in public for long, and I certainly don't want to sit in a theater for three and a half hours. That's an ENTIRE afternoon essentially. Gonna catch this one at home.

@Ominous @Joe I've tinkered around with some amortization tables on what I currently owe, vs. what a potential 15 year would be vs. what I could invest in the difference (yay Vanguard ETFs). The mortgage brokers I've spoken to have also offered 20 year loans. I've not heard of those. But I've gotten a quote or two. I don't know if 20 years are weird refinancing scams or if they're just splitting the difference between 15 and 30 year. I'm being pretty conservative with estimated return rates, so it looks like the "invest the difference" would work out well on a 20 year. If the market beats 3% over the next 15 years, then I'm even better off.

Oh? I got snookered by the whole life insurance thing a while back. (I got out quick though) Tell me more about this.

All these are fair considerations. And I'm still not decided on what to do just yet. I'll think it over through the weekend, look at my brokerage accounts and savings, then see what next week brings. Maybe the Chinese markets will fall and bring our interest rates lower

I'm interested in why here. I'm not going anywhere any time soon, and I figure the 15 year at the lower rate is going to let me pay off sooner and save more.

That's Canada percentages. That's like 2.5% in real percentages.

I've been quoted low 2's for a 15 yr on my remaining principal. Might get on that next week. Paying my house off by age 50 would be pretty rad.

I'm hoping this doesn't affect the US markets, because I'm about to refinance my house.

Why are they afraid of The Coin?

"Praises out Joe Manchin" is confusing, but that seems like a Jason-ism.

I guess THAT... is why THIS happened. Biden quietly moves to start closing Guantánamo ahead of 20th anniversary of 9/11 WWW.NBCNEWS.COM The Biden team wants to avoid what it sees as mistakes made by Obama. "They don't want it to become a lightning rod," said a former senior official.

I've seen this first hand. Churches don't even have to be militantly anti-vaccine to do harm... They can just not say anything about it or treat this whole thing as temporary and still do just as much harm. By not speaking out, it allows this space for all the other anti-vax stuff to grow.

Figure 49 in the report.

That is rad as hell.

The videos I've seen of the shooter in the act (which are really bad) show him wearing a Nazi WW2 helmet.

Just call me Miss Cleo.

Well this is a lot more interesting now. EDIT: Cops are saying the two cases are unrelated. I remain disinterested.

They made a movie about it in 1983 starring Merryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher (of all people). But yeah, this sort of shit is more pervasive around whistleblower complaints than you think.

This isn't really a national story. Crying white girl on video and a husband unwilling to talk about it means big media firestorm. They had a fight, he threw her out of the van and drove off. She either went back to the commune they had left and is just unable to be contacted, or went into the desert and died. He's either laying low now to avoid more firestorm, or he's retracing his steps. Or he went off and killed himself in a swamp.

That is the biggest French victory over England since I don't know when.

Also, more context is that this is a big L for Macron, who is about to head into an election. So it's really bad timing for him, politically.

CANNOT. BE. FOUND. IT'S OURS, DAMMIT

And a quality one won't be found outside of Nashville.

The more I think about how rickety of a deal this is, the more I believe that it's a push by US intelligence to pressure the Australian government to buff their defense capabilities and allow for US basing as a hedge against China. I don't mean to be all "The CIA is behind it" but the US intel/defense sector being a primary force behind this turnabout kinda makes sense. It directly serves US interests in strengthening western (non-French, who really haven't cared about Chinese moves in the Pacific) power in the Pacific, and it benefits US defense contracts. Plus... it wouldn't be the most blatant meddling in Australian politics we've ever done! 1975 Australian constitutional crisis - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG