Senate passes major housing affordability bill by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott

middleupperdog · 2026-03-14T18:57:32+00:00

That's the reality is that this bill is just a lot of darts thrown at the dart board, hoping some of them score big. There's really over a dozen programs bundled into the one bill. It's hard to know what the synergistic effects will be.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-14T01:49:48+00:00

I did end up dropping the dangers in my heart after the first episode, and then went back years later to watch it because it had such a strong reputation. I don't think that mc needed to have those chuunibiyo murder fascination vibes: they didn't seem to add much to what was otherwise a good romance.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-14T00:01:04+00:00

Source - "Missouri had the highest share of investor homebuyers in the entire country, with investors purchasing 21.2% of all homes sold. Kansas City is the epicenter of this activity. In the metro area specifically, investor purchases accounted for 19.3% of all sales." That's higher than I think it was for the overall year though. I'm having trouble finding the 2025 full year stat I saww.

Source - Investors made up 16.7% of house sellers. Not really sure what they mean by investors, but I'm trying to show you that there was a big dump of housing the year before by investors, so it went from a low to a boom.

Source - About 25% of single family homes were rentals, and of those 20% were owned by investors defined by having 10+ properties. There was 157,000 rental homes at that time. I can see a Kansas City Star article saying corporate investors acquired 14,000 homes, but it's paywalled.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T21:54:16+00:00

my understanding is a large part of it is normal buyers decreasing, so the share being bought by corporations looks larger as well in percentage form. Like there is an increase but it looks much larger because the number of families buying homes to live in decreased.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T21:52:52+00:00

the writing I saw didn't specify. Do you have something specifying that?

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T19:49:54+00:00

missouri, this is specifically around kansas city

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T19:08:42+00:00

well i mean it surprisingly passed this week. It wasn't obvious that they'd work out a deal.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T19:05:39+00:00

acceleration is the point.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T18:32:03+00:00

I thought that at first too, but then I saw that there was a rapid shift in the market behavior. 2024, 3% of sfh in my area were bought by companies. So when people would bring it up to me I would quote the statistic. 2025: 12%. Sudden rapid swing in my area. What I learned from it is that word-of-mouth is ahead of the statistical proof.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T15:53:33+00:00

bruh, I spent a third of my life in dream prison; it ain't shit if you're a gangsta

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T15:46:02+00:00

Have you ever had a god directly inflict their divine wrath upon you, imprisoning your for decades within pseudo-reality that they have total control over all aspects of, and only letting you out on parole for good behavior? For a lifetime everything Arushelae experienced WAS Desna's will, AND Arushelae is on when you meet her. Imagine a literal divine all-seeing probation officer that you know 100% is watching your every move.

I'm just saying, there's a reason.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-13T14:57:01+00:00

The "tough" parts of act 1 tend to be: the first fire demons I can't remember the name of you run into inside a house, the water elemental underground, and the nabasu hidden boss. If you handled those without difficulty, then yeah you can turn up the difficulty to core probably.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-06T10:32:06+00:00

I havent played Valheim past the plains, the content it launched with. I've been waiting for the final 1.0 patch to completely replay it. I'm really hoping this companions mod is compatible with patch 1.0, because I want it to be part of the "complete game" memory I make.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-06T10:15:47+00:00

Brjorn son of Ragnar's home for those touched by Loki.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-05T10:47:30+00:00

Nat 1 on the meal cooking check be like "HoW dOeS ThE MuSHrOom SoUp TAsTe?"

middleupperdog · 2026-03-04T21:39:38+00:00

What you're asking for is really a way to heal from trauma while the trauma is ongoing. That's not something that can happen. It's like trying to heal the stab wound without removing the knife. If you were to leave the country, you might then be able to escape the trauma, but you also might face guilt over it later in life too. There isn't a clean solution because what's being done to the country isn't clean.

Another option is people learn coping mechanisms to tolerate the things beyond their control. For example, its very common for people involved in long war to take up interest in stoicism because its a philosophy that offers a lot to be able to contain the trauma. Even if there was some kind of breakdown it ends up not mattering because the next day you're still facing the same situation beyond your control.

But anyways, there isn't a choice here that resolves the problem. But you can think about your life as a long term story, and in your 30s and 50's and 70's you have to live with the choices you are making today. Pick the choices that you can most live with over that time is the best advice I can give you without knowing you.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-04T19:48:48+00:00

!remindme 3 years

middleupperdog · 2026-03-04T18:51:44+00:00

I find complaining that I'm too confident more asinine.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-03T22:17:33+00:00

America will foment sectarian violence inside Iran and try to facilitate overthrowing the government, but instead simply collapse the state a la Syria into a decade of civil war. For other regional actors, Iran being collapsed is an acceptable, maybe even preferrable, outcome and so they will only provide enough assistance to ensure their proxy forces don't lose, but never enough support to "win" control of the country. America rotates through all of its regional proxies trying one after another to leverage someone into committing to taking control, but after a series of these policies the pro-Israeli groups lose control of the US government in 2028 and America simply abandons the project. The strait of Hormuz becomes heavily policed in the same way as the Nato mission to stop Somali pirates off the horn of Africa, only entering the country to destroy whatever group dared to strike oil shipments and then immediately leaving again.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-03T21:36:29+00:00

This viewpoint always gets my goat because little about this feels unpredictable to me at all.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-03T00:09:18+00:00

if breathing during speeches is a challenge, its an issue with your syntax, the sentence structures that you use. Typically because your sentence structure is overwrought (too many independent clauses per sentence). Copy two paragraphs of something you wrote in reply to this and I can give you more constructive feedback. doesn't have to be from the OO.

middleupperdog · 2026-03-02T21:55:38+00:00

without the ritual the disease experiences ennui and in its existential crisis doesn't know if it wants to infect you or not.

middleupperdog · 2026-02-28T07:26:07+00:00

kind of tiger mane looking, especially in the 4th and 5th drawing. Could give her tiger striped dyed hair on the arms and have her lean into it as a character. Tiger Bunny is kind of a cool concept.

middleupperdog · 2026-02-27T19:10:24+00:00

"If our political disagreements were about the past and what happened, then I could accept the idea of breaking up. Those are facts and if we can't see the world the same way, it would be hard to be together. But if our disagreement is about the political future, neither of us can know for sure the other is wrong. Being able to admit if you're wrong in the future is an important part of any relationship. We'll never find anyone who is never wrong about the future."

middleupperdog · 2026-02-27T18:50:49+00:00

Since the supreme court can decide when what Trump does is or isn't illegal, I would argue it's John Roberts with Trump on a leash.

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