1.) Don’t buy a Samsung phone

Would be funnier if it didn’t say “used” and only “junk.”

I have no experience with setting up Windows after Linux. I’ve always done it the other way around.

However, what version of Windows was it running before? If you haven’t switched the components yet, you can use Windows to make a Windows boot flash drive or DVD officially using the “Windows Media creation Tool.” It’s a free download from an official Microsoft page. I don’t think you needed to buy Windows 11 at all. Both windows 10 and 11 will recognize that your hardware (motherboard mostly, I believe) is registered with a license, and it will simply activate your Windows online, no hassle. It’s like the one thing Microsoft got right.

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Whether or not to run over the pedestrian is a pretty complex situation.

If it’s anything like fried chicken or watermelon, I assume it’s because it tastes good.

We don’t … Record and broadcast election venues? This would be weird. If some people did do it, only people at their specific voting site would see it.

You’ve heard of the bird flu outbreak in cattle in the US that infected (at least) three humans, right? We are animals, and many animals can potentially give us diseases regardless of their domestication status.

If you’re thinking specifically about rabies, there is a vaccine for raccoons.

Depends on your definition of domesticated, but pet racoons already exist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FOebeobCmFg (“10,000 Spoons”)

Oh. In my defense, I just saw 3 pizza memes in a row and thought it was the next “Stör” Event.

Ich komme aus den USA. Was ist mit Pizza passiert? Ich sehe viele Pizza Mai Mais

Those are rookie numbers.

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This decades-long trend in home prices has been ‘flipped on its head’ amid a big shift in the housing market BYJason Ma toy house upside down “That shows the consumer adjusting to a smaller home, taking less space and trying to get back into that range of affordability.” Getty Images

The historically unaffordable housing market has been forcing builders to start making smaller homes, and that has now triggered a major milestone in prices.

Since the mid-1980s, new homes typically commanded a price premium over existing homes, Howard Hughes Holdings CEO David O’Reilly told CNBC on Wednesday, adding that it has been shrinking over the past several months. Now it’s gone.

“Today’s result said that that’s actually flipped on its head,” he said.

For the month of May, the median sales for a new home price fell 0.9% from a year earlier to $417,400, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

By contrast, the median sales price for an existing home jumped 5.8% from a year ago to a fresh record-high of $419,300 in May, the National Association of Realtors said earlier this month. The NAR said that reflected more sales of high-priced properties as well as multiple offers.

And since the start of the year, the price of existing homes has been even steeper, jumping 10.8% from $378,600 in January. For new homes, it was $430,400 in January.

That’s as the housing market’s lock-in effect has kept the supply of existing homes tight because homeowners with low mortgage rates are reluctant to give them up and are not selling. But demand has stayed elevated, adding upward pressure on prices.

Meanwhile, the latest quarterly reports from homebuilders showed that average selling prices are coming down, O’Reilly said, citing a shift in the product mix.

“That shows the consumer adjusting to a smaller home, taking less space and trying to get back into that range of affordability,” he said.

O’Reilly, whose heads real estate development and management company also works with builders, has been bullish on the sector, declaring in April that this is the “golden age of homebuilding.”

The reversal in home prices for new homes versus existing homes also comes as the $200,000 starter home is going extinct, making it tougher for first-time buyers to get into the housing market.

“Over the past several years, the number of homes under $200,000 has gone from around half of all sales to less than a quarter of sales in 2023,” Realtor.com said in a report earlier this month, calling the statistic, “stark proof of shrinking affordability across the country.”

I’d use Wayne’s ding system, AYOOO

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecomastia

I actually sleep better after reading about serial killers, but that’s probably because I stayed up late binging Wikipedia articles on them.

If it comes to the USA, it’s too late. The recent outbreak has cemented in the minds of Americans that this is a Gay™ disease, and it only affects those pesky Gays. Therefore, the vaccine will be refused in even higher amounts than other vaccines. “I’m not a Gay. I don’t have to worry about it.”

Interesting, robot faces made with living skin have quite the opposite effect on me.

I’m gonna add to this by saying phosphorus may be my favorite, but I think the most likely filter is just time, twice.

Do you know how unlikely it is that earth has been habitable for so long? Do you know how long life was single-celled? One of the theories for how advanced (eukaryotic) cells formed was the combination of at least three different branches of life into the same cell! Archaea (cell wall), bacteria (mitochondria/chloroplasts), and viruses (nucleus). Do you know how unlikely that sounds? Do you know how long it would take for that to happen randomly? Most planets probably aren’t even habitable for that long. Once we became eukaryotic, we started progressing much faster.

Then, keep in mind, the life has to continue to exist for billions of more years while it waits for the advanced life to happen again within the same section of the galaxy. So, time is two filters - both behind us and in front of us.