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If anyone has Microsoft 365 Personal or Family, there are some 50% off deals to extend your subscription on New Egg. You can stack them and extend it for years if you want. The Personal deals are better than the Family, as each Personal bundle will give you 9 months towards an existing Family...

Grain of salt, as my current info is third-hand. When I last used them, 2018-2019, you would see a bot (for lack of a better term) on occasion and they were usually pretty easy to pick out. I'm told that now the apps are proliferated with bots, often trying to direct men to OnlyFans. On the...

I'm wondering if we have the cause and affect all wrong on some of this. That is, maybe the decline of "third places" isn't a cause of social issues, maybe it's the necessity of working a second job, overtime, or a side gig that has caused a decline in third place attendance (due to lack of time)?

Wow, in less than a year. My understanding was that process for Portugal takes 3 years for residency, plus another 3-5 for citizenship.

Along with the Miami Hurricanes. In both cases, the glory days of Frank Reich.

I'm interested in real, credible evidence. I've gone looking for it dozens of times. Each time I've been massively disappointed with grainy videos that could literally be anything. For example, I don't consider the so-called Tic Tac video proof of anything.

For one, Mick West and others can say things that US government and military officials can't or won't. For instance, you won't see a US government official say publicly "China has better drone tech than we do" or similar. Remember that these are the same government and military officials that...

$155K at 3% inflation for 22 years = ~$288K now In the right location, with the right zoning, I would think builders could do $300K homes.

A fair criticism and 100% agreed. A big problem is obviously contained within the larger point that for many of those claiming to want to address the "young male crisis", their incentive and goal is not to solve it but to exacerbate it. Separately, the notes re: dating apps are interesting to...

Yeah, that too. So many promises of "real info" and "hard evidence", yet every time it turns out to be eyewitness accounts (useless) or grainy video of something that could easily be explained as any one of a dozen different things. I can't even count the number of grainy videos purporting to...

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

Haven't watched it, but my take is the same as previous big news on this stuff. Is there any concrete evidence or is this just more eyewitness stuff? To be clear, I count "I saw aliens" and "I saw the files" and "I saw the evidence" all as eyewitness stuff. Personally, I don't lend any...

I wonder if this could make sense for empty nesters looking to downsize. In theory, if they are buying in cash (using profits from larger home sale), that could also solve the problem of people not wanting to let go of ultra-low mortgage rates. I know at least a few people who have already...

Makes sense. Who got rich off the 2008 housing crisis? Why wouldn't those same people want to repeat the process?

If you had a bunch of medians, you could average them. Maybe, the median MLB batting average from 2010, 2011, 2012, and so on through 2019, and then take the average of those medians to get the average median for the decade.