All the Williams titles are pretty terrific. Pinball FX (Zen) has done a good job with these.

This really has very little to do with consumers and everything to do with a tug of war between processors, banks and businesses.

Sounds right. It’s not like there is some lobby of consumers out there writing legislation like this. And the last ones to ever write legislation are legislators.

Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

I (age 60) remember buying my condo in 1991 or so, interest rates about 7% with a VA-guaranteed loan. My parent’s first mortgage was 2% or 3% but my mom, a Realtor, said those days were permanently gone. (They weren’t. I had that in the house I bought in 2010.) But it felt forever at the time, and she thought it would be forever.

Nothing is forever. It may crash, but something else we can’t imagine might happen too. I think we all agree the present situation is unsustainable.

I use a credit card because our laws in the USA protect credit-card purchases better than they do debit-card and other electronic purchases.

Although I use a credit card with revolving credit, I always pay the full balance each month. In this way, it acts as a debit card, but I get the benefits of a credit card. I have to remember to pay it on time, but I can set up autopay even for that.

My credit union (a kind of non-profit bank owned by its members) is the issuer of the card, and it gives a 2% cash award for credit-card usage.

I see your point. Perhaps so, we can also see that she has now used that experience and is distributing her experience for free and publicly on a video like this.

She weighed 300 pounds, and is exposing that fact publicly. It is a fact that most people would be embarrassed about. She disclosed that she was an over-eater, a fact that some people might judge negatively.

With data that is freely available and tools that are free for us to use, most of us can mimic her methods and achieve the same success.

Working out with weights

All of this resonates with me.

It didn’t dawn on me right away that living like I was already at goal weight would result in goal weight in 2-3 years; that realization came later.

Like her, I had diabetes type 2 and was losing from a weight of 300 lb. The diabetes has gone away and I’ve been free of it for 8 years. I weighed in this morning at 172.

Unfortunately, I’m finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

One of Roddenberry’s first series was called The Lieutenant which aired on NBC for a season – until it was canceled due to a falling out between the Marines and the network over a race-based episode that nobody wanted but Roddenberry forced through (too preachy they worried). Episodes of this are available on YouTube and you will see some of the Trek stars that appeared in Where No Man has Gone Before.