Bonus points if you work in the medical field!

While true, I would point out that the low mortgage rates that increased housing prices — low mortgage rates permit people to borrow more and tends to drive up prices — in the decade-and-a-half before 2022 was unusual for the US. Prior to about 2008, interest rates were at or higher than they are today.

Here’s a graph of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

Here’s the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. This measures same-home prices — that it, it attempts to factor out changes in types of home being built, so new homes being larger won’t drive it up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPISA

It’s not adjusted for inflation, though.

Here’s an inflation-adjusted graph:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-vs-inflation/

Between about 2011 and 2022, the real price of a given house rose rapidly in a low mortgage rate environment. In 2022, mortgage rates returned to something that’s more historically-normal.

I expect that to sell a house in this environment, a homeowner will probably have to cut what they’re asking.

I’m assuming that you’re guessing “female”?

https://sexualityandthecity.com/2016/11/26/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-than-men/

In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston. His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the Sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years.

Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.

IIRC, border agents do have some expanded authority within a certain distance of the border, and that might affect some of California, but not Los Angeles.

kagis

Ahhh. Apparently water borders count. Doesn’t need to be a land border.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-border-patrol-internal-arrests-3f37f3ad15a31f2f1b7c57def9f2c055

Agents are granted by federal law the ability to stop and question people within 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the border, including the coasts. They have heightened authority to board and search buses, trains and vessels without a warrant within the zone.

That encompasses vast swaths of the country that include about two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Los Angeles is well within 100 miles of the Pacific Ocean.

You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there’s some time delay until you’re no longer bound by the terms. You can’t just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn’t be very meaningful.

EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here’s the treaty text on withdrawal:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.44_convention antipersonnel mines.pdf

Article 20

Duration and withdrawal

1. This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.

2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.

3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.

4. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/18/puritans-and-sex-myth/

Debunking the Myth Surrounding Puritans and Sex

The Puritans weren’t prudish. In fact, they were passionate.

From the beginning, Puritans maintained sexual intercourse was necessary for procreation, but also asserted sex was an important way for couples to bond in a loving relationship.

“They talk about the duty to desire, that you’re supposed to engage in intercourse with your married partner and that this is good,” says Bremer. “There will actually be some people in early New England who are censured by the church because they have deprived their married partner of sex for three months or more and this is seen as bad.”

I don’t think the Puritans had any issue with pregnant people having sex.

How to look it up:

M-x org-mode RET

That’s “Meta-X” (Alt-X), then “org-mode” and Enter, switches the major mode of the current buffer to org-mode so that we have the org-mode keybindings active.

C-h k C-c C-x C-l

C-h, Control-H, is the “help” prefix. “C-h k” is describe-key, tells you what a given key sequence runs. C-h k C-c C-x C-l will say what C-c C-x C-l does. It gives the following output:

C-c C-x C-l runs the command org-latex-preview (found in
org-mode-map), which is an interactive native-comp-function in
‘org.el’.

It is bound to C-c C-x C-l.

(org-latex-preview &optional ARG)

Toggle preview of the LaTeX fragment at point.

If the cursor is on a LaTeX fragment, create the image and
overlay it over the source code, if there is none.  Remove it
otherwise.  If there is no fragment at point, display images for
all fragments in the current section.  With an active region,
display images for all fragments in the region.

With a ‘C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear images for all fragments
in the current section.

With a ‘C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, display image for all
fragments in the buffer.

With a ‘C-u C-u C-u’ prefix argument ARG, clear image for all
fragments in the buffer.

I mean there’s the EWMM, emacs based windows manager. So it can absolutely do anything.

Nobody’s made a Wayland compositor running in emacs yet, just an X11 window manager!

EDIT: Okay, apparently they have, ewx, but unlike EXWM, it’s not really in a usable state.

And edit videos.

https://www.nongnu.org/gneve/

This has a raven:

https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1c91nyu/a_raven_is_crowned_in_tictactoe/

The man had been previously arrested on wildlife crimes in Sri Lanka in 2024, and had in the past tried to move wolves, meerkats, black cockatoos, sugar gliders, porcupines, ball pythons, iguanas, frogs, salamanders and turtles, officials said.

After the difficulties that arose in the porcupine attempt, it was pretty clear that pythons were the way to go for underwear smuggling.

Veterans before refugees

I’m reasonably confident that the UK isn’t preventing British military veterans from entering the UK.

Do you want the router to also be 10" rack-mountable? That seems like it’d be a big input into the hardware you get.

That’s basically what I’d expect. The US isn’t going to aim to compete with China by putting more riflemen in trenches than China — China has lower wages and more people, not the battlefield you want — but by aiming to maintain a tech and hardware advantage and leveraging that. That’s going to involve spending on military systems procurement.

The phone system doesn’t have a way to identify people other than Caller ID, and that’s vulnerable to various forms of spoofing.

I guess Signal’s probably less-prone to letting attackers pose as other people than the phone system, but the phone system is abysmal.

Could probably benefit from some sort of trust system(s), like X.509 certs for organizations, or GPG keys for a distributed web of trust or something, and adoption of calling practices that aren’t vulnerable to this. Needs to be a few simple steps that people can be told to follow, not a constantly moving target that requires information security familiarity.

Acquiring F-35A jets is “part of NATO’s nuclear mission”;

By March 2026, the UK will add 27 more jets: 12 F-35A and 15 F-35B;

I hadn’t been following this closely recently, but if you go back far enough, the Royal Air Force had been planning to get F-35As and the Royal Navy F-35Bs. The A variant isn’t equipped for carrier operations, which makes it not really viable for the Royal Navy, but has longer range and more payload. Then there was some discussion at one point about maybe just having both use F-35Bs to help leverage commonality, which I imagine the Royal Air Force wasn’t too keen on. Sounds like they’re back to both the A and B model.

IPv4 has some other features too.

$ ping 0x8.02004010
PING 0x8.02004010 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=22.8 ms

That’ll be Google’s root DNS server, using hexadecimal and octal representations.

Maybe they don’t want to move to a cloud-based system.

I don’t want a cloud-based office package, and I can imagine that the same might apply to them.