Many people seem to forget credit scores didn't exist before 1989. Decades ago a wife would have to get permission from the husband to open a line of credit with a department store.
Credit scores were built to help the banks, not the average person.
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How are you checking your credit score? Frequent hard-pulls of your actual credit score would show up on your credit report and actually lower your credit score on it's own.
I'll bet you're using a service like credit karma which pinky-promises it is properly calculating your credit score. But is it really?
Nah their scoring model weighs different things differently. And over the past decade, I get a sense that they put more value on your open lines of credit themselves over closed credit in order to encourage people to open more credit cards (which is good business for banks, but not the customer).
https://www.cnbc.com/select/credit-karma-vs-fico-credit-scores/
Don't put too much faith in those services to give you an accurate credit score, and personally I wouldn't allow them access to my personal information - that's just another avenue of attack by a hacker if they compromise the CreditKarma mainframes and steal your info.
About ten years ago while visiting the Canadian side of Niagra Falls, my other half wanted a pizza and to stay in at our beautiful room overlooking the falls. So we got a fancy pizza with pretzel crust from Little Caesars and holy hell it was good - soon as we got back to America I tried to order the exact same pizza a week later and it was completely different. Different crust, cheese, etc - I was so disappointed lol
Go to a supermarket, look around at how many candies and sodas now use artificial sweetener instead of plain sugar. It's certainly on the increase over the past 20 years if you look back historically at it's usage, and it seems to be increasing annually.
Look at how Pepsi phased out Sierra Mist in favor of the new "Starry" soda which is made with more artificial sweetener. This lets them advertise lower calories on the label, while selling a sweeter beverage people will buy.
I used to love buying malted beverages and energy drinks occasionally because I enjoy trying new flavors. However over the past five+ years, I've noticed a lot more brands sneaking in artificial sweeteners. Look at Mountain Dew - they recently started a line of alcohol-infused beverages which interested me. But go figure they were absolutely terrible - they tasted nothing like classic mountain dew with al that fake sugar. I threw them out lol.
Meanwhile, sugar has increased in just about everything else we eat.
I think you mean FAKE sugar. Holy hell is it everywhere. And it's so damn sweet.
I actually enjoy having a sodastream just so I can still buy the occasional energy drink or soda, and add some extra carbonated water to tone down the sweetness.
You know how much I'd love to see a coca-cola with "low cane sugar" as an option? Just give me cane sugar....... but less of it!!
I really wish instead of switching from real sugar to artificial sweetener, companies would simply use less sugar. But no, artificial sweetener is CHEAPER than real sugar, and makes the item taste sweeter, so it's a win-win, right?
I was one of the first streaming customers in 2007. I was a long term customer for many years. Eventually I transitioned down to the 1-member plan for 8.99 with 1080p resolution which was fine for my 1080p television. Eventually they jacked the price to $9.99 and I noticed they had secretly downgraded the streaming rate down to 720p without telling me.
So I cancelled my Netflix after fifteen years. Honestly I haven't missed it once. I look forward to cancelling more streaming services as well since the content really is going stale - I'm losing interest in most of it.
You're fine. You have a special variety of Monstera called Thai Constellation. They are beautiful plants. They are not the most picky about watering (my bananas are much bigger babies if they don't get enough water lol). But they do like LOTS of sunlight. Put it near a window (preferably older glass window without UV coatings). Do you have a cheap UV/soil meter? During the middle of the day, walk around your house and find the spot with the most light according to that meter and put your plant there (add extra light of course).
But don't be afraid to give it more light - it'll love it. Maybe even consider moving it to a back patio or porch in the summer months so it grows faster.
Fun fact - Monstera deliciosa is not just some random latin name. It comes from the large beautiful broad leaves, and the fact that it actually bears a unique DELICIOUS fruit if given optimal conditions. It has a juicy sweet unique tropical flavor which is hard to describe. Although I honestly don't know if your special variegated thai constellation variety bears the same delicious edible fruit (probably still does, albeit smaller or less tasty)
Still that's a fun plant to grow, any houseplant owner would love to have one of those in their collection - be sure to thank whoever gifted you a cutting!
Just my $0.02 as someone growing several Monsteras (hopefully for the fruit some day).
Correct, they have a variegated Monstera (Thai Constellation specifically). If it were the more rare/prized Albo variety it would be worth hundreds of dollars lol.
I always laugh when I see people with this more common Thai Constellation variety trying to sell them for $200+ because they're totally not worth that. Still they are a beautiful plant which could produce a delicious edible fruit in optimal conditions (usually outdoor growing in a humid Zone 9/10 climate)
EVERY media outlet skews their content left, right, center, etc. Remember - someone is paying for that news to be generated, so they're going to want to have at least some sort of say in what does or doesn't get mentioned.
The secret is to not rely on any one single news outlet. RSS technology for example allows you to subscribe and monitor literally countless news sites and other content all sorted by folder or collections (for example I have current events, politics, general technology, 3D printing, space, etc - and each has dozens of feeds from big and small blogs, and news sites). When I view ALL news feeds, I get all content sorted by timestamp. No algorithm is sorting the data for me, just raw feeds of data.
Whenever a major event happens in the world, I see literally dozens of different spins on the same topic. Usually 90% of the time the headlines are close enough that you can really see the reality. Sometimes it's fun to see "extreme" spins from some extreme left or right sites or what content they choose to ignore. I don't subscribe to just the news sites that align with my views, I like to subscribe to everything so I do get every side of the equation. It also helps prepare me for when my father starts to spew clearly BS from certain media outlets known to embellish the truth with "alternative facts".
Every time I find a website with a well written article that I am currently not monitoring, I'll immediately check to see if there's an RSS feed available for me to add to my collection of curated feeds.
Sometimes I even get to see test posts from the news sites or articles with original headlines before they get rewritten lol.
My advice would be to research RSS feeds and learn how to use them. So you can educate yourself.
Pro tip - you can even use RSS feeds to watch and lurk on the fediverse!
They were not referencing some random physical attribute. Trump's supposedly tiny hands is literally a funny meme - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/donald-trumps-small-hands
You're on the internet. Where everything is mocked by faceless trolls on every side of the equation. People who mock Biden for his age seem to forget that Trump is only three years younger. Not exactly a young spry chicken either lol. Still that doesn't make the jokes any less funny when people laugh at either old cuck for stumbling. Just retire grandpa - let the next generation take over for Christ's sake.
Learn to lighten up and laugh. To quote Elbert Hubbard "Do not take life too seriously - you will never get out of it alive"
Pretty sure this has quietly gone on for a long time among circles - questioning if one is truly "jewish" enough (sighs)
The difference is they've been emboldened to these claims loudly, when previously it was considered poor taste to air that dirty laundry in public. It really speaks to the class of the person making the claims if nothing else.
Oh no, I totally know it - there's a reason why I'm starting a micro-homestead to raise my own meat and fruits/vegetables - because I want to heat good healthy food, not all that other junk.
I was just so shocked at the difference in taste between the two pizzas which is not something I regularly eat anyway