~15k/4/365 comes out to like 11$ per person per day, which is probably on the high side [most of my meals come to like 2$/serving] but not insane

No, but she dI’d have many of Robert’s bastar children murdered at the start of the war

Steelmanning, Trump will look bad refusing to do it, or will say something outrageous because he’s a melted brain geriatric who’s sweating the Epstein stuff hard

took me a second to retrace my steps, but Ault in Open Field Farming in Medieval England, has this to say:

also the gies in Medieval Village have a line that even within a single noble's estate the size of an acre would vary, which they cite to raftis, estates of ramsay abbey

One thing that tripped me up is that the Medieval English acre was afaik significantly smaller than the modern one used to express eg classical farm sizes, making the difference appear much more extreme

Battle of Lechfeld , where Otto the Great smoked the hungarians

election of hugh capet to the french throne, beginning the dynasty that would rule nearly a thousand years

i blame the bone-stealing witch

people are convinced their votes don’t matter; the bigger this shitshow is and the more thoroughly it’s identified with the gop, the stronger the backlash to them will be, and then we’ll be able to legislate without the filibuster in the way

The time to prevent republicans from republican-ing was in November 24; ever since they got their majority, the filibuster only exists as long as they want it to. Dems don’t get credit for restraining republicans, so might as well let the electorate feel the stove

Force them to nuke the filibuster to make it happen so no democrat has to sully their hands with the ensuing shitshow

this is very black and white thinking for a very granular subject; when markets do decline, you're gonna want a robust emergency fund saved up so you don't have to take on additional debt or lock in your losses to make ends meet. sorry for not absolving you of responsibility to invest in your future

bunch of shit no one said

point is just that you /can/ save a meaningful amount by reining in discretionary spending even a small amount; i very much doubt the median wage-earner zoomer is limiting themself to the 10$/week postulated above, so they can still have a lot of treats while saving

Granting arguendo it is a bubble, that 11% is based on the last 50 years, so it includes several big market downturns

buying little treats at huge markups [going rate for restaurant is about 3x iirc] beyond what your budget can support is in fact still playing the rigged game , just worse

should take care of your actual needs first, then sock away some amount, then enjoy yourself with what's left over

i would wager they spent less on dining out than on groceries, which is not the case for some of the people in the article

i've seen it formulated as 'the more the audience understands the magic, the more satisfying it is as a problem solving tool' or something along those lines. lotr makes this work by not having magic solve big plot problems [much], so it can get away with being a bit more vibes-based

i think it's pretty soft in terms of 'how much the average reader understands it' ; maybe tolkien pickling in mythology for 50 years was a different story, but most people aren't going to have much of a clue as to the extent/limits of e.g. gandalf's powers, or what the ring can Do

these are national median numbers

www2.census.gov/programs-sur...

www.bankrate.com/real-estate/...

www.thezebra.com/resources/ho....

www.huduser.gov/periodicals/...

www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/mortgage-rat...

i forget where i saw the exact nominal individual income numbers