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Housing director confirms administration ‘working on’ 50-year mortgage after Trump hint [ [link removed] ]
Yeah, I’m going to pass on that. It’s hard to imagine any lower monthly payment being worth the downright Biblical amount of interest you’d end up paying. Not to mention the fact that all of a sudden age would be a factor and you’d quite literally be signing your entire life away, maybe even your kids. It doesn’t do anything to deal with the price of homes, it just makes it a multi-generational project. Not good
The true story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years after a tragic shipwreck [ [link removed] ]
Brace yourselves, you’re going to hear a lot of Gordon Lightfoot. That song’s a bone to be chewed
I’m trying something a little different, sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”
The Last Four Years Ch. 4: World Waits for Answers on Comet Heidemann [ [link removed] ]
In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together
The Last Four Years Ch. 3 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 2 [ [link removed] ] | The Last Four Years Ch. 1 [ [link removed] ]
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Delta Passenger Trapped by ‘Human Biohazard’ Seatmate Who Pooped His Pants [ [link removed] ] - Well that’s basically the nightmare to end all nightmares. Luckily everybody’s flight is getting cancelled these days
What to do if your flight gets canceled because of the government shutdown [ [link removed] ] - Might just want to go ahead and rent a car
Coffee may protect against irregular heartbeats [ [link removed] ] - Is there anything it can’t do?
Tech billionaires back startup probing gene-edited ‘designer babies’ despite US ban: report [ [link removed] ] - Worked out so well for Khan Noonien Singh
If we’re being truthful, people are saying ‘honestly’ all the time [ [link removed] ] - They really are. Frankly, I’ve had it
Fire at Turkey perfume warehouse kills six [ [link removed] ] - I didn’t even know turkeys wore perfume
Hospital Nurse Secretely Sedates Sick Patients to Make His Nightshifts Easier [ [link removed] ] - I certainly don’t condone it… but I understand
Stonehenge staff on high alert for rock robbers inspired by Louvre heist [ [link removed] ] - I’m sure people probably said the same thing about the jewels at the Louvre, but I don’t think anybody’s going to be able to come up with a way to steal one of those without getting caught
Saturn Moon Enceladus May Harbor Stable Ocean for Life [ [link removed] ] - I, for one, welcome our new Space Whale overlords
‘Very credible’ Bigfoot sighting in Central Pennsylvania [ [link removed] ] - Who had “‘Very Credible’ Bigfoot sighting” on their Bingo card for November?
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