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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • “The mortgage lock-in effect is also hurting housing inventory and sales, as many sellers are reluctant to list their home and give up a competitive mortgage rate. A staggering 72% of outstanding mortgage debt has interest rates below 5%, nearly two percentage points lower than the current level.”

    “And so that plus a bunch of sellers being locked into low mortgage rates and not wanting to trade up, creates a supply-demand imbalance. That’s why you’ve seen prices run up so much from the pandemic,” he continued. “And it’s why even with prices starting to ease in so many markets, you’re still seeing volume low”

    Imagine that, people having a house for 5 years and not selling it, oh the horror. Yes, the price of housing increased soo much cause no one wanted to “trade up” their house after 5 years. Def had nothing to do with investment firms scooping up houses for 200k plus over asking in cash. Right, that couldn’t be it. And it most certainly isn’t those same firms fault for buying up old affordable housing and transforming it into luxury a Airbnbs causing a domino effect of high costs and low inventory of affordable homes. No it’s the people who wanted to buy a house and live in it for like idk 20+ years. Zillow can eat a bag of dicks.






  • Maybe it’s cope, but something smells fishy. From the article :

    “The analysis, which examined data from 24 studies and was published in the journal Heart, also found that marijuana use was associated with a twofold increase in the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. While this data only shows a correlation and cannot prove that marijuana caused these effects, it is well-established that the drug can raise blood pressure and heart rate and alter the heart’s rhythm,”

    “The new analysis didn’t examine how frequently people used marijuana; it only compared people who had ever used marijuana with those who had never used it.

    Call me crazy but a study that qualifies one time use of a wee bit of jazz cabbage equating to a twofold likely hood of death from cardiac issues, (the most prevelant cause of death in the world mind you, NBD) makes my bullshit meter freak out like a drug dog at a Greatful Dead concert.

    This could be true, but it comes off as shitty science trying to push an agenda. Maybe the 24 studies that they analyzed were not funded by shady money trying to keep the sticky icky out of the hands of the people, but my gut is that isn’t the case.

    Man what’s that saying that scientist are always on about? Something about how correlation doesn’t imply causation…