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“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

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y'all HAVE to watch this...interview??? with the inmates of the prison where luigi mangione is being held.

the reporter is standing outside the prison walls, while the inmates are inside watching newsmax, and collectively screaming out one-word answers to questions loud enough to be heard by the reporter.

I've never seen anything like it

People are talking about how this interview is some of the best journalism they’ve ever seen, and how it’s probably the most humanizing, fair coverage inmates have EVER had. How it’s giving a voice to the voiceless, how it’s going to legit change people’s views towards prison.

And they’re RIGHT

Just want to clarify for anyone who was hesitant like me about the source, this is NOT newsmax, the far right propaganda channel that thinks Fox News is too liberal — it is actually NewsNation, aka WGN, a legitimate news source

yeah sorry not sure why I wrote that lol, got mixed up

please reblog this version i can't be seen with an unreliable source

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“... I'm a nobody. I can't even remember anything. Nothing. Not even my name.”

i had the tragic realization that ive never really drawn Avengers Assemble Stevetony so heres that fixed

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Ten and Donna end up on a fucked up deadly space newlyweds show despite uh. Not being newlyweds but they get almost all the questions right. They start to sweat when the final question is "what's one secret desire you have involving the other?" And Donna writes "sometimes I wish I could occasionally shrink down the doctor real small so I could carry him around in my pocket and make sure he doesn't get lost' while Ten writes "sometimes I wish I was small enough that Donna could carry me around in like a cat backpack or maybe a shirt pocket" and they look at each other like AYYYYYY because not only are they deeply drift compatible they're also fuckin weird about it 💖

imagination (1963) - harold ordway rugg

"chekhovs cat / schrödingers razor / occams gun"

Chekov's Cat: if you see a cat in the first act, it will probably be relevant later. (example: Alien)

Shrodinger's razor: an unopened box may or may not contain the solution to the story; there's no way to know without opening it. (example: Monk)

Occam's gun: the simplest way to kill off a character is to shoot them. (example: Bambi)

i have been cracking up at this for the past 3 minutes

Chekov's Box: If there is a container introduced in the opening act, it will be opened later.

Schrodinger's Gun: Treat every gun as if it's loaded unless you've checked it yourself.

Occam's Cat: If you hear strange noises at night, it's probably a cat.

We all know Eliot doesn't like guns, but he actually gets pretty excited when Hardison shows off his stigmata paintball gun.

He hates deadly force, but I firmly believe that's a man who won't hesitate to absolutely destroy you in a paintball or laser tag arena.

OOPS I did it.

Disclaimer: I have never personally played paintball so this is all based on the general context i could find on google in under ten minutes. anyhoo blurb under the cut for anyone interested.

hardison realizes this in some convoluted way after one of their cons and he goes out of his way to schedule occasional 'team bonding exercises' at local laser tag arenas. it has the dual benefit of the team having fun but also letting eliot slowly associate good aim of 'weapons' with something other than hurting and killing

over the years they visit some of the best arenas all over the world. wherever they go they almost always establish the business high scores and sometimes if there are screens where people can watch, literal crowds gather at the game center as they hear just how intense the game is getting (but all of them are still laughing?)

even after nate and sophie leave, they still go. team bonding nights turn into date nights and the loser has to do the dishes for a week. (parker and hardison have gotten exponentially better over time and it's often a tossup of who is going to perform better between them. eliot usually ends up doing the dishes anyway because he's a gentleman and a softie like that)

breanna joins the team and is THRILLED to finally be involved in Team Laser Tag Nights. she has been practicing and preparing for this her whole life. to the surprise of everyone, she scores the closest to eliot (harry scores the lowest, to no one's surprise). there is a moment where sophie desitates to pick up the hardware as she is remembering all the times she did this as a team with them and nate, but still ends up playing and has a great time

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