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dreday, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?

The Feds are raising interest rates to combat inflation. Now is not the time to borrow.

Hyacathusarullistad, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Here in Canada my wife and I got 2.19% at the end of 2021.

Unfortunately the 1100 square foot condo we bought cost us 550k.

Awwab,
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Ooof

Hyacathusarullistad,
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Frankly it was a steal compared to what some of the places we missed out on went for. One place we looked at was listed at 419, we offered 610, and it sold for 731. It was a ~1000 square foot bungalow with a half finished basement.

Monola19, in What drives you as a person?
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New video games and books lol. Also, my husband and close family members--I like seeing people I love happy and look forward to the time I have with them since life is short.

chaos_rat,
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Sounds very wholesome :) best of luck!

moxkobold, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?

There's a citrus based cleaning spray that usually does the trick for me, or isopropyl alcohol could work as well

fsniper, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?

Isopropyl alcohol works. I used IPA for cleaning car windows from sticker residue.

cloudless, in Is Grammarly premium worth it?
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I use ChatGPT (Bing Chat) to rewrite my crappy English. I can ask ChatGPT to change the style, the tone, and length, wordings etc until I get exactly the results I want.

zebus,
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Nice, I might just do that plus the Grammarly free, just want to do some technical writing for my community wiki and wanted it to sound good lol

stephfinitely, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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I think post need to be renamed and to keep with the magazines motif we should call them "Inserts".

Nepenthe, (edited )
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Inserts are those junk ads that always fall out everywhere when you pick a magazine up, right? How about Editorial, since posts/microblogs tend heavily towards being longish personal commentary?

Although Ernest said a few days ago he was thinking of changing the terminology. I don't remember if he said to what, just that he should. Kinda mixed about that. It makes talking about them more confusing both for cross-platform and for new users, but I got used to it now and I fear change

weremacaque,
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I've already started calling magazines "mags" in my head. I think it's fine the way it is, though if they were renamed to "zines" that would be fine too.

billothekid2, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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I agree that the naming scheme is a bit weird and confusing. In most people's terminology, when you leave any kind of a comment on the internet it's considered a "post". You "post" a comment. I'm kinda hoping this gets changed, but I suppose I might just get used to it. It's all still quite new after all.

RoboRay, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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It's trying to be one-stop shopping for decentralized social media. There are future plans for integration with Pixelfed and other federated services.

Haus, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I've seen "kbin is confusing" a few times, and frankly can't imagine any aspect of it that is confusing at all.

livus,
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Neither. One of the reasons I'm here is it's less confusing.

nevernevermore, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?

aesthetics, mostly. and honestly it's just the first place i've put my roots down, I don't think I have any specific loyalty to one instance or another.

jkmooney, in So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
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I'm currently trying both out, still deciding.....

SamXavia,
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Same here, so far Lemmy seems to be the better option for me.

jkmooney,
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I'm kind of agreeing with you....but nothing bad against kbin though.

Girlparts, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

I attended a school board meeting recently and they asked everyone stand and recite before the meeting would begin. I got so many dirty looks for refusing.

To watch a room full of adults look and pledge to a flag was comical and disturbing

justlookingfordragon, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
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As a German, this entire things feels always so bizarre to me. If a teacher “over here” would try and make their students do something similar for the German flag, said teacher would get kicked out of the faculty pretty quickly.

The same goes for religion by the way. While we did have classes about religion for a while (Katholischer / Evangelischer Religionsunterricht), the teachers were more or less just explaining what certain passages of the Bible meant, how they had been misinterpreted in the past, what is similar or different between certain religions etc. but not even they were allowed to make their students actually pray.

PS: and those were optional classes by the way. If your parents didn’t want you to attend, you didn’t attend. No discussion.

Sorchist, in did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?

We did that in class, but only when I was a very little kid, like in elementary school in the 70s.

In retrospect, it's creepy, but by the time I was old enough that I might have questioned it, we weren't doing it anymore.

This Whitest Kids You Know video about it sums it up pretty well. (Although the dig at Ritalin at the end is kinda weird)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCaqA0ngRc

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