Free market climate change works both on the cause and effect side.

The rate on our house in the Houston Metroplex has more than doubled within the last year despite no historical damage or flooding since 1980.

The broader market in this region is not in good shape though since developers keep building homes in riskier areas and taking away natural grasslands and forests that can accept water.

We were shopping for insurance on some houses we were looking at and got quoted $16k/year on an average size/cost house out in Missouri City. This area is rapidly going the way of Florida/California with insurers pulling out or dramatically rasing rates. Our insurance broker specifically said companies have pulled out of Fort Bend County citing the risk.

Around here (houston metroplex) there is not a bidding war but sellers are acting like there is or should be one. There are several houses we liked that have been on the market for upwards of half a year and the sellers are unwilling to negotiate on prices that are significantly higher than market value or prices of comps. We had an offer on a house that we walked away from recently where the seller outright refused to negotiate on price after the inspection found it needed a new roof and 2 new ac units despite being priced higher than it should have been already.

Yeah that’s where we are at, sellers still think they are worth covid prices and the broader market is in complete chaos. If we weren’t out of room from having a smaller house with 2 kids, I would be more receptive to sticking it out but the chaos has become less manageable so we are looking for more room despite not really wanting to make any decisions right now.

8 years ago, I bought a house at 3.25% interest on a 30 year loan. We are currently looking to move and interest rates are damn near 7% because of all the fuckery going on and it is probably going to keep going up since no one trusts anything in the economy right now.

Preventable too, if these old ghouls would release their skeletal grip on power and let younger candidates in…

Hey, sometimes it’s Texas too don’t you forget that. I hate it here.

Texas also is creating a report on the cost that undocumented immigrants have on the Texas economy while being specifically ordered to NOT include the money they generate for the economy (you know, like the last time this study was conducted) Texas Senate Bill 825

The shart of the deal

That is bugged, I guarantee it.

It’s like they learned the wrong lessons from the US gymnastics team incidents.

Surely mortgage interest rates will follow right? Right? Yeah, right…

Yeah I keep trying to move to the woods but my wife wants to be around people for some reason lol

My tolerance of noise and light pollution has gone way the hell down as I have gotten older. I want to live in the woods at this point.

Fedora Silverblue was VERY easy to install. I opted to go the GNOME route but its been great so far as a former windows user. I rebased from Fedora to Bazzite and it was dead simple. Been on Bazzite for a couple months now and have had no major issues. Figuring out my printer drivers was a bit tedious but it worked the first time once I got the process figured out.

Yeah, I get that. Standard operating procedure for something as valuable as an aircraft carrier should still be to schedule transit so that it can sit in a position protected by escorts until it is it’s turn to go.

Realistically, the carrier should probably have half it’s escorts go first and form a protective envelope on the destination side before it enters, then the remaining escorts follow providing rear cover.

A ship getting there by accident means someone also could have done it on purpose without the crew knowing it was an attack (this time)

Its sloppy at best, neglegent at worst and not a good look either way.

How/why was a merchant ship allowed to be anywhere near an aircraft carrier? Did the US learn nothing from the USS Cole?