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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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    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.


  • 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.