The North Atlantic has baked in record daily warmth every day since early March. The average sea surface temperature is as hot as it’s ever been.
Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation that would immediately cut interest rates to 0 percent for all 44 million student loan borrowers in the U.S. While the Student Loan …
The tale of Eldraine continues with Wilds of Eldraine. Join us for the start of a new story!
Looks our first post-phyrexian palette cleanser leans into magical and the fairy tale. Not sure how I feel about this endless sleep threat, but we'll see how it plays out.
Instead, Mazda plans to focus on hybrid and PHEV vehicle people might actually buy.
How extreme temperatures and dwindling water are pushing the Fertile Crescent toward the brink.
This is an absolutely spectacular long form article from NYT that walks through small communities in mesopotamia, and how large political and economic changes have made them among the first to experience climate change as a life-threatening crisis. It also foreshadows water wars and how they could increasingly become a part of our political climate.
Among the wealthy there will always be the search for the rare and exotic. I'm not surprised that this has become some kind of distorted 'destination"
Guinea is hard to find. Where in PA? That's where I'm at but I haven't heard of this place.
I had hope that this would be a blip of an assault and a ceasefire would be brokered. Now, it feels almost certain that one of the most cursed regions in the world is going to be plunged into a civil war without a clear justification, and where everyone loses.
Climate change has been particularly unsettling this summer because it has felt like a constant reminder that it can't be escaped. Even if you aren't in Florida or Arizona or Greenland, even if you feel like you're insulated up in Vermont or Canada -- bam, 11 inches of rain in 24 hours.
Still need to vote. Cockroaches are resilient so it doesn't do any good to write him off prematurely
From muscle cars like the Dodge Charger to popular sedans like the Nissan Maxima, a handful of models will be out of production before 2024.
I'm down! The more turn-based games the better. Final Fantasy tactics is one of the best games of all time
In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
With NFL training camps set to kick off, we assess each team's biggest question (rankings are selected by a panel of theScore's football editors).1. Kansas City Chiefs Gregory Shamus / Getty Images Sport / GettyPost-draft rank: 1How does the WR pecking order shake out? Luckily for the Chiefs, all th...
Activision Blizzard admits in its recent earnings report that the engagement and player investment in Overwatch 2 is declining.
I'm not surprised at all. Even if I WANTED to move, we wouldn't be able to afford to buy our house back on the open market. We got lucky, and now we're stuck.
Building or buying up in this market feels like a dream, so we're slowly improving the house we have to fit our needs.
My hill to die on: 343's bungling of the MCC was one of the biggest daggers to Microsoft trying to catch up to Sony. Halo has never been the same since.
Fascinating. This is way more buttoned up and controlled than I thought it would be.
Great article. If Morocco's claim is rejected, what's stopping Algeria from trying to step into that power vacuum? Does Western Sahara have any sort of organized military that could resist against armed conflict over its resources?
I wouldn't be surprised if we just saw the region become a capitalism pseudo-country, with US/China coming in to buy off the resources.
I like the concept of being able to talk openly about mens' issues. That liberation name is unfortunate; in my opinion, it definitely sounds at least apologetic towards misogyny. What do we have to be liberated from?
First whole bean coffee? Oh man, welcome to the good stuff.
No matter what coffee purists tell you, the single best change to my daily coffee quality of life was simply going from ground to grinding fresh whole beans every morning. I will never go back.
Regarding the question of whether it's stupid or not -- how much would you be kicking yourself if one of your neighbors purchased it from you instead?
In my mind, any chance you get to increase your land and you buffer zone is an absolute positive.
Interesting. This feels like Howie Roseman-esque, signing someone to a big-time extension right on the cusp of stardom. Overpay now to bet on it being a steal in a few years.
First, thanks for contributing. I credit r/personalfinance as one of the most important factors that allowed me to become financially literate. Still cleaning up the messes of my 20's, but things would be WAY worse if I wouldn't have been able to self-educate. I'm not going back to Reddit, so I'm thankful that you're contributing content here instead.
In regards to your question, relatively poorly.
I'm 31. My salary when I began work after grad school was 35k with only 2% going into retirement; now my salary is north of 100k with 15% going into retirement. I am at about 40% of my annual income, so definitely behind. I should be able to have some nice catch-up progress over the next five years, but I can't help but feel like a better starting job pre-COVID would have set me up way better.
Hilariously, this fine is probably not even large enough for them to spin off a shell company and declare bankruptcy on the debts. They'll just shrug and move on. Toothless.
Yep. And it worked all the way up to the Stanford presidency. Even now he is "only" a tenured professor.
That's the best question. Clarence Thomas shouldn't have been able to openly flaunt his corruption for decades, but he has. Is this just going to be more firm hand-wringing by the Dems with no enforcement mechanism whatsoever? At that point, it would be better to just recognize the court as illegitimate in the public eye as opposed to giving the false sense that it is in anyway ethical.
They can't even do bullshit PR correctly. You do the listening tour before the steady stream of unpopular decisions that go against the feedback you just collected.
In the spirit of building out this community, I'm creating a playlist of the songs released in a past few months that I found most compelling.
Note that not all of these are pop punk, but the genre is relatively nebulous anyway. Also note that while I have a very diverse musical palette, my strong preference is for music with great lyricism.
Let me know your thoughts! Tracklist:
- What Hurts the Most - Trophy Eyes
- Clean-Up Crew - Spanish Love Songs
- Outlook - The Front Bottoms
- Gans Media Retro Games - Hot Mulligan
- JOBBO - WSTR
- LIKED U BETTER - Jeff Rosenstock
- We Didn't Start the Fire (Re-Imagined) - Fall Out Boy
- Fail You - Movements
- GODDAMNITALL - The Wonder Years
- Sean - Trophy Eyes
- NYE - Local Natives
- Cast Iron Skillet - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
For transparency, I only signed up for a Discover card recently because they had a 15 month 0% balance transfer promotion, which is what I've been looking for. In general it's seemed like their rewards were not outstanding and you had to deal with potentially not having the card accepted elsewhere.
My receiving bank botched the transfer and the funds were missing for a bit. Discover was excellent -- every time I called there was a minimal wait for a U.S. based customer support agent that I could understand clearly and was knowledgeable about the situation. I was surprised.
I get that you may go years without ever needing to contact support, but it definitely quickly made a difference for me.
EVs from Toyota, Ford, Audi and Genesis are just sitting on dealer lots as supply outgrows demand.
The healthy supply of EVs may not seem as alarming considering that the industry average is a 70-day supply during “normal times,” per Axios, but ICE-equipped vehicles currently sit at a 54-day supply. And hybrids are having a particularly good year, with supply down to 44 days. Plug-in and traditional hybrids from Toyota are making the best of 2023, with current supply for the Prius and RAV4 sitting at under 30 days each. Axios claims that this reaffirms Toyota’s argument that car buyers need a “stepping stone” from ICE to EVs.
Young Americans are up to their ears in auto debt, and the problem isn't going away.
On average, AutoNews reports that 3.58 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds and 2.62 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds have been late on their auto loans by at least 90 days. For some context, just 2.13 percent of all borrowers are late. Keep in mind, these numbers are overall. In the first quarter of 2023, 4.55 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds were at least 90 days late. 3.66 percent of 30- to 39-year-olds were equally late. We haven’t seen numbers like these since The Great Recession.
Check out all of the new cards coming to Explorer on MTG Arena!
Thoughts? Do you think these will allow some new decks to rise in viability?
Some lucky person just became a millionaire by opening a pack of cards. That’s because it has been revealed that the rarest, most sought-after card in the entire new Lord of the Rings expansion of Magic: The Gathering has been found.
Honestly a little surprised that WoTC didn't intentionally delay printing this card for longer. I'm not sure everyone even has their full inventory yet.
I am using a Savor One as my daily driver. It's an excellent card and the 3% in groceries and dining covers two of my largest spend categories so it's a great fit.
However, I still feel as though I'm leaving a lot on the table for everything else that only gets 1%. I am currently using a secondary Venmo Visa -- mainly because I needed VISA exposure for costco. It's an aesthetically pretty card but the lack of authorized users and only being able to manage the account inside the app are pretty big hindrances for me. I don't think I'm going to stick with it.
Any recommendations for a complementary daily driver? I know I should just consider the WF Autograph but I REALLY hesitate to work with them just on principle.