It could be a way of hedging. They want all games released everywhere at once, but aren’t willing to commit to that.

1. Land is scarce where people want to live, it’s always going to get more expensive as more people want to live there.
2. Low interest rates caused large investment firms to seek higher rates by being rental owners instead of mortgage owners. This forced up rent to make returns on investment. As the realities of being a landlord are realized this might get better.
3. New building nationally wasn’t keeping pace pre covid, but it was by a negligible amount. Post covid, new building is years behind where it needs to be.
4. High interest rates now has effectively got people stuck in existing homes, because a new mortgage would be double the payment.
5. Inflation happened, 20% of the increase since 2020 is just inflation.
6. Short term rentals have devasted the residential market in popular tourist areas, forcing them to charge hotel taxes and follow those regulations is hopefully going to start correcting this.

Comcast has a monopoly though, it’s not like satellite or 5g is a serious competitor to cable/fiber.

Here’s an article from 2016 when it was more important.

This sounds nice in theory, but there’s a county in my state which hasn’t had a good count in my lifetime. All the collected ballots still get counted, and because the count doesn’t match a recount can’t be conducted by rule. Once ballots are in the box it’s functionallly impossible to determine illegitimate ones. There’s definitely legitimate mistakes that can cause that, but it’s essentially impossible to prove it was fraud and not losing a few stubs, a missing spoiled ballot, or someone just keeping a ballot that were merely accidental.

It’s cold, but generally not consistently well below freezing unless there’s a significant cold front which is semi-random as to when it happens, but periods of 1-5 days of extreme cold happen a few times per year. Snow is similar, over the course of a few weeks, there’s a possibility 1-2 days of a significant snowfall, but more likely several days of light to moderate snow that makes cities a mess.

Pay attention to the weather forecast before leaving, if there’s a winter storm coming, expect 1-2 days of not doing much/delays. If it happens to fall on a travel day, you may need to adjust plans earlier or later. You probably won’t have to worry, but being prepared is important.

The MS store is the primary reason I don’t have game pass for PC anymore.

Id probably slide the TV stand closer to that outlet. You can at least attempt to hide wires.

Largest double flop incoming?

There’s a huge range, but the anime that gets popular tends to have vastly better writing than most western cartoons. There’s still a stigma against animation as a legitimate adult art form, so it’s rare that even good western animation gets properly recognized.

That said DC does have a good animation team, but they don’t really advertise their releases much or make them easy to see outside Max. Netflix has probably been the best for western animation in the last decade, but they generally go very raunchy and it’s a turn off for some.

There are about 600 stores they want to divest where there was actual competition between them. The two control about 5000 stores between them.

Kroger and Albertsons don’t actually compete in any markets in the US, that takes collusion.

Artificial apple flavor is awful and that is what most companies would use.

If you are capable of driving yourself, it’s 90% of the time not worth going to the ER. If it’s actually during working hours and you have a primary care doctor call them first.

It’s coming to PC, so probably with a mod you can.

Skyrim was a defining game of a generation, the next one is going to be a let down no matter what. If they at least put the effort in that they have with the mainline elder scrolls and fallout games it has a chance to be.

Clearing out stock for a true 2.0 model likely.

Mortgages are as far from usury as you can get in the US. Rates are kept artificially low by Fannie and Freddie, especially offering 30 year fixed rates.

Shitty doctors can make a ton of money because there’s a massive shortage of doctors.

Race doesn’t really factor into a cop being shitty.