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In fact, flies prefer spoiled to sweet, it appears. Put out a glass of fruit juice, and put out a glass of wine. The flies go for the wine over the juice every time. Add a drop of detergent to the wine, and you have the perfect fruit fly trap. (I live in a house surrounded by grape vines. There's a time of year in my house when fruit flies are epidemic.)
 
My son has to renew his mortgage. A broker recommended a variable rate, saying it is unlikely to go beyond the 5. Something % the fixed rates are right now. With climate change and inflation and war in Ukraine- what do you think- is that too high a risk?
 
Good morning! As we continue to talk of covid, its symptoms, its longevity, and steps against it; of bikes of many kinds and bike lanes and paths; of the preferences of flies, and mortgages, let us gather round the coffee cart and imbibe hot beverages. All is ready.

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We are shifting to a place where we have not been in centuries in terms of approaching the end of the capitalist empire. If current fixed mortgages are about 5%, variable rates should not go much beyond 6 and are likely to go down as the demand for mortgages goes down, and it probably will. But we never know. We saved thousands of dollars with a variable rate mortgage in 2008. Our current mortgage is fixed at a bit above 2% and our son's is less than that.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
My son has to renew his mortgage. A broker recommended a variable rate, saying it is unlikely to go beyond the 5. Something % the fixed rates are right now. With climate change and inflation and war in Ukraine- what do you think- is that too high a risk?
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We went variable and did better with that. Over the long term, variable almost always wins. You go fixed as insurance against rising rates, but that insurance usually costs more in the long term. Note that people who went fixed before rates went up recently are laughing, but that's rare.

The only way I'd go fixed if we were just starting out again, is if we could not possibly swallow higher rates.

Also, shop rates. Brokers can often do better. And also shop prepayment terms. If you come into money somehow, you want to be able to use that without penalty against your mortgage.
 
Just when capitulation is in sight recapitulation comes in as a world incomprehensible to capitalists that have no room for understanding the alien ... and thus the alien is out there ... somewhere distant from both wings!

That has to be a middle point as a tall thin stranger as medium that looks at both sides with balance ... a point not often realized by those on either wing clapping all alone.

We just never know how we are related when hell bent for isolation and autonomy ... leading to autistic behaviour by absorption ...

In the medium this is just a line, no 2 ways about it if you only look one way ... step off the line and you've created alien space of 3D and perhaps time to ponder ... a depth process ... not something easy to imagine and thus thin abstracts ... that capitalists wouldn't buy into ... the ultimate restriction of extensive thought!

The word is don't go there ... according to the book ... knowledge is evil it could alter the perspective from that unknown point (seen to be isolated). As abstract it is darkly complex ... thus the poorly known ...

Then can one work with the variable if they see beyond the fixed? Thus dark formless focus ... de void as the power insists on denial of the support system ... the descent of the lone thing ... a fallacy?

What if all things are connected ... causing unseen wrinkles in space ... that focus in a book would be prone to censor by those that would wish it remain unknown! So naivete rages ... as a point where the great unknown puts such desires creating a zone of great affiliation of the stew PID! Some say a pit hard to escape unless assemblage of the unknown gains something previously unseen ... due to intent contrary to sentient nature ... a con? It is the nature of things ... reflection ... Black Body Theory! Frequently rejected, etc. in the all around ... may we get thro' ide?
 
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BetteTheRed said:
In fact, flies prefer spoiled to sweet, it appears. Put out a glass of fruit juice, and put out a glass of wine. The flies go for the wine over the juice every time. Add a drop of detergent to the wine, and you have the perfect fruit fly trap. (I live in a house surrounded by grape vines. There's a time of year in my house when fruit flies are epidemic.)
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Note to self - exercise caution if accepting a glass of wine while visiting Bette! :ROFLMAO:
 
Whines fly out of the pines as whispers approaching silence ... silence being a Magic thing without the racketeers ...

Some don Juan a du it ... thus nothing appears as the un dude!

Makes no sense? Have you examined life in general other than the 1 - 2%? Foundations are eroding ... because of Eros in!

Insecurity creeps ... they insist on anger and fear is best in moving those to be driven ... Onyx 'd or nailed ...
 
Good morning. There are heat warnings in the area again today. We left our car at my sister's for the summer and the battery went completely dead. They put it on a charger. The drive to Nanaimo got it back up to full steam. We stopped at the Toyota dealer to get it checked and it was declared good still. Yay. We did a few other errands in town and I got my infusion that protects my bones. Today will be a relaxed day around home. I'm working on an embroidery/sewing project to make a cover for the TV in our bedroom. I should be able to get it done soon.


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Northwind said:
Good morning. There are heat warnings in the area again today. We left our car at my sister's for the summer and the battery went completely dead. They put it on a charger. The drive to Nanaimo got it back up to full steam. We stopped at the Toyota dealer to get it checked and it was declared good still. Yay. We did a few other errands in town and I got my infusion that protects my bones. Today will be a relaxed day around home. I'm working on an embroidery/sewing project to make a cover for the TV in our bedroom. I should be able to get it done soon.


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Looks like a fabrication of a pool and thus how the whet leaks through ... fabrics are porous! Un like dense woven kin by theis kin of the bite ... der mis or epidermis ... some find themselves bitten by the curiosity ... the vast unknown? Sometimes known as Talia ... as water falls ...
 
ChemGal said:
Masking still helps though. I have to take my mask off during phototherapy, so it certain does help if those in the waiting room are masked. There's also been a few waves of Omicron.

The same applies to many situations, ie. someone sitting somewhere needs a drink, others masking near them helps.
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Masking is totally awesome
It is not thanks to WHO etc that I like them but rather Nassim Taleb who waaay back when there was so much confused words on masks (contradiction with some official Authorities saying Yes and some saying No etc), he knew they worked and how well they worked. They work better the more masked people are around :3

And sorry if I came across as mind reedy or telling you how to think. Not my intention.
 
I was actually pleasantly surprised with the real life results we saw with masking. Early on many people would post things about 'proof' that masks would work, which really wasn't all that relevant to infection control. Where we did see it was how COVID spread in masked vs non-masked settings.
 
ChemGal said:
I was actually pleasantly surprised with the real life results we saw with masking. Early on many people would post things about 'proof' that masks would work, which really wasn't all that relevant to infection control. Where we did see it was how COVID spread in masked vs non-masked settings.
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One thing I adored is that people in USA 2 weeks before the Official Annoucement came oot they started with thr isolating, distancing and such themselves :3

We human beings can be awesome

(And I also still have kudoes to all the health care professionals who were pulling combat medic to try to figure out very early on in the pandemic why people with this strange pnemonia were dying in hospital...they found oot that it the official procedures the air pressure from the breathing machines was too high so people were dying so they had to BREAK THE LAW violating contracts and trademark/copyright law to find oot for themselves...even trying to hack into these machines to find oot how they worked even trying to build their own devices...which i can see under the frame as ordinary human beings fighting White Supremacy lol)
 
chansen said:
Covid is now endemic. We have done okay with flattening the curve. We could have done better.

I have a neighbour complaining on Facebook that we've traded freedom for safety, and how that's bad. I'm struggling to see how more sick people is "freedom". I'm struggling to see how a simple act of wearing a mask is an absence of freedom.

Freedom had come to mean "no inconveniences and no responsibilities". I don't subscribe to that definition.
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Yes, "we" could have done better. Like the Vaxx companies could have let their trademarks go lax so the Global South could be more vaccinated? The messaging by State Authorities could have been more consistent? Certain countries could have been totally cut off in the very beginning? There is so much that could have been done better.


Now we all have to live with the world we are living in. Not the one that we wish would be or could have been. Or scapgoating entire groups, whoever they are (wether they be African-Americans attacking Asians or a nurse losing her job from a health care system that cant afford to lose ANYONE etc)
We are past that. There is no rational reason to. Anyone can get this plague. It will continue to mutate. We can all get it merely by taking a sip at a restaurant now. It is in some animal populations.
The world is insanely complex. No one person or frame can understand it all. We arent all the same. We dont all have the same experiences or tolerances. We all suffer and have feelings and pain, but how we feel, even how we experience pain and loss and suffering is subjective. Loss is loss. Pain is pain. So in this world of sorrow, what to do? That is the rub. We each have different ways of handling this. I see it as grieving. We are globally in a state of grieving. Remember Kubler Ross and her stages?
(Scapegoating is an ancient practice...we are so afraid of it that what was that the WHO wants to change what they call Monkeypox???)

And if someone complains aboot Freedom, I ask them Freedom from What? :3
Scratch beneath the surface, listen with open ears and heart, past expectations or what the latest fashions tell us What the True and Proper Answer is...
Empathy and compassion
Mercy and grace
And maybe a lot of sex, too lol

Here, one of my fav Youtube lefties. Who recently achieved what she wanted...to be able to be who she was meant to be--a Woman.
She worked with the Royal Institution to find oot for herself what people thought. No she isn't against vaccines or masks or whatnot. She is a philosopher and a curious human being so she wanted to find oot for herself.




The bible does have its applications. Like we see through the glass dorkly. And for those with ears to hear.

We get in the way of what is really happening, which is complicated and always changing.

That is one of the reasons why I advocate some measure of meditation. Our "monkey mind" gets in the way. So we stick to one frame. Or already Know what that person is or does. Or that race. Or that sex. Or (insert group).

Eyes that see. But no claws that catch, unless you are into that thing.
 
Folx,

I think I have noticed a particular Belief System/Frame/Reality Tunnel/Semantic Gloss/Perspectacle

It seems to group everyone as "Bad" or "Others" various people who:

Express negative opinions on Trudeau
Express non positive opinions on CSJ, Antiracism
Express nonnegative opinions on Freedom Convoy
Express nuance on Covid, while even accepting masking, etc...like people also concerned aboot social effects or side effects (while still rare)

I find this fascinating. See the creation of a new out group in the past lil while. Maybe even being affected by it myself?


Seeing how powerful mere beliefs are. How sticking to a frame can affect a world.


I dont know, taking of course all this as true, if what if any of it was intentionally created and how much is just human beings being human beings?


Interesting thoughts on this day.


I am thankful for BetteTheRed for unintentionaly helping me grok this more


Stay cool, everyone


Hold those you care for, close


We are in for a rough ride

Find what is important in your lives
And do it
 
Delightful Life said:
Yes, "we" could have done better. Like the Vaxx companies could have let their trademarks go lax so the Global South could be more vaccinated? The messaging by State Authorities could have been more consistent? Certain countries could have been totally cut off in the very beginning? There is so much that could have been done better.


Now we all have to live with the world we are living in. Not the one that we wish would be or could have been. Or scapgoating entire groups, whoever they are (wether they be African-Americans attacking Asians or a nurse losing her job from a health care system that cant afford to lose ANYONE etc)
We are past that. There is no rational reason to. Anyone can get this plague. It will continue to mutate. We can all get it merely by taking a sip at a restaurant now. It is in some animal populations.
The world is insanely complex. No one person or frame can understand it all. We arent all the same. We dont all have the same experiences or tolerances. We all suffer and have feelings and pain, but how we feel, even how we experience pain and loss and suffering is subjective. Loss is loss. Pain is pain. So in this world of sorrow, what to do? That is the rub. We each have different ways of handling this. I see it as grieving. We are globally in a state of grieving. Remember Kubler Ross and her stages?
(Scapegoating is an ancient practice...we are so afraid of it that what was that the WHO wants to change what they call Monkeypox???)

And if someone complains aboot Freedom, I ask them Freedom from What? :3
Scratch beneath the surface, listen with open ears and heart, past expectations or what the latest fashions tell us What the True and Proper Answer is...
Empathy and compassion
Mercy and grace
And maybe a lot of sex, too lol

Here, one of my fav Youtube lefties. Who recently achieved what she wanted...to be able to be who she was meant to be--a Woman.
She worked with the Royal Institution to find oot for herself what people thought. No she isn't against vaccines or masks or whatnot. She is a philosopher and a curious human being so she wanted to find oot for herself.




The bible does have its applications. Like we see through the glass dorkly. And for those with ears to hear.

We get in the way of what is really happening, which is complicated and always changing.

That is one of the reasons why I advocate some measure of meditation. Our "monkey mind" gets in the way. So we stick to one frame. Or already Know what that person is or does. Or that race. Or that sex. Or (insert group).

Eyes that see. But no claws that catch, unless you are into that thing.
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Yet things must be told as simple just so we see how complex the simple are about what used to be referred to as a lizard brain in medicine the term for the pituitary complex as source of unconscious emotions! It happens ... without a thought!

It is on the bottom end of the cerebellum as cerebral ... to the base thing ... that's somewhat up there ...
 
Delightful Life said:
Folx,

I think I have noticed a particular Belief System/Frame/Reality Tunnel/Semantic Gloss/Perspectacle

It seems to group everyone as "Bad" or "Others" various people who:

Express negative opinions on Trudeau
Express non positive opinions on CSJ, Antiracism
Express nonnegative opinions on Freedom Convoy
Express nuance on Covid, while even accepting masking, etc...like people also concerned aboot social effects or side effects (while still rare)

I find this fascinating. See the creation of a new out group in the past lil while. Maybe even being affected by it myself?


Seeing how powerful mere beliefs are. How sticking to a frame can affect a world.


I dont know, taking of course all this as true, if what if any of it was intentionally created and how much is just human beings being human beings?


Interesting thoughts on this day.


I am thankful for BetteTheRed for unintentionaly helping me grok this more


Stay cool, everyone


Hold those you care for, close


We are in for a rough ride

Find what is important in your lives
And do it
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Thus frustrating if not chaotic as to keep something going around or thus stirred! Like the notorious 3 witches ... or f orc 'd ... dive into seduction? It went down ... flush and flat out! Ass cooked ...
 
Luce NDs said:
Thus frustrating if not chaotic as to keep something going around or thus stirred! Like the notorious 3 witches ... or f orc 'd ... dive into seduction? It went down ... flush and flat out! Ass cooked ...
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Which I'm sure you have encountered many times in your past...I remember your many concerns with people othering you or thinking you wrong or even "crazy"...it is very unfortunate :(

I am glad to have met you and have been able to riff with you
 
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