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I'm assuming your state based on the dubvee lol
lol, yeah.
I went through inspection and appraisal 5 years ago when I refinanced, so that's all fine. But I would lose my insanely good mortgage (15 year at 2.2% APR) and have to start again with whatever current rates are though I could likely put down a very large down payment.
I wasn't seriously considering the offer so much as wondering how legit it was in preparation to sit down and think about thinking about considering the offer lol. But the replies here have cleared up how predatory these offers are, so, yeah, it's going in the trash with the rest of the similar offers.
Nothing wrong with a realtor, but I'd have to have somewhere to move to while it's on the market which could be any length of time. I only skimmed the offer, but it mentioned something about transition period for moving, etc.
I was mostly hoping this would let me short-circuit the usual process of selling and moving, letting me get the money for it, and find somewhere temporary while I look for something permanent.
Other than just wanting out of this awful state, I really don't want to move/sell. I'd worry about finding another job later as I work remotely now but am expected to go in on occasionally so couldn't work from another state for too long.
But as the replies have made clear, this entire industry is more of a scam than I assumed it already was, so I'm just gonna keep buying lotto tickets and hoping for the best.
That makes sense, and is most likely what the offer is. House isn't a slum, and I'm not facing foreclosure, so I guess they think they can make a profit on it.
I wasn't seriously considering it, but I was at least looking into it because, yeah, I want out of here.
I'd have to look, but I'm going with ignorance of its toxicity like with other things such as radium being used frivolously .
We painted our kids' rooms with it, painted pencils yellow with it, used it for water lines, put it in gasoline where we then breathed the leaded fumes for decades, and more.
As for finally getting around to replacing lead water lines, well, infrastructure isn't sexy and no one wants to pay for it.
The toxic material/element lead (Pb). A lot of old water mains and service lines were made out of lead or had lead in them which leaches into the drinking water.
I don't really understand what's going on in the above picture, but maybe they're changing old pipes for new ones?
Possibly replacing old, lead pipes. They're doing a lot of that in my area because of federal funding from a couple years ago.
Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments over birthright citizenship went very poorly for Donald Trump.
The phrase "went very poorly for Donald Trump" can pretty much universally be translated as "Went well for literally everyone else".
The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the "Blocks" tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.
Ah, nice. I recommend that one to OP then since it's 1st party and not an alpha version haha.
Not sure if sh.itjust.works offers Tesseract as a UI option, but you can direct ban/unban users and bulk-mod comments among other improvements to mod tooling and report actions.
If not, then I'd normally point you to the unlocked hosted instance (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/) but the VPS provider it uses is having issues right now, and my 3 hour old ticket has not yet been acknowledged.
Edit: Oh, they answered my ticket and I was able to start it back up, so the hosted instance should be working if you'd want to try it.
Bombadil was referred to as "The Hermit" before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.
Note: The post image is relevant and will be explained further below.
New Features
LemVotes + Tesseract = A New Matchmaking Service ❤️
We've partnered with the fine folks over at lemvotes.org to create a new feature to help build lasting friendships in the Fediverse.
When you downvote something, it will poll LemVotes to see who else downvotes that same item. Over time, it will build up a list of profiles who hate the same things you hate and will show you a list of potential new best friends based on your shared dislikes.
Figure 1: A modal window showing a list of potential best friends based on shared downvote history
Now More Privacy Conscious Than Ever
Are you tired of people recognizing you? Tired of people being like "Hey, I recognize that account! They're good people, and I enjoy their posts" ? Boy am I sick of that.
Well, problem solved. In this and future releases, all accounts are ephemeral. Every time you vote, make a post, or reply with a comment, it will create a new disposable account while deleting the old one. Say goodbye to meaningful social interactions and get your troll on!
Figure 2: A test user's post history showing each post made from a unique and deleted account.
Rendering Images is Hard - Now They're All Samuel L Jackson
For a long time now, Tesseract has jumped through hoops to try to determine the best image to display from the data in the post objects (thumbnail, full-res image, embed_video_url that's actually the GIF you're trying to post, etc).
In this release, we've simplified that process greatly. All image posts are just Samuel L Jackson staring motherfuckerly at you. Not only did this change massively streamline the codebase, but it also is much more efficient due to being able to cache a single image and re-use it indefinitely.
Figure 3: A cute cat trying to help its human type on the computer.
Sending Nudes to Admins is Now Much Easier
This is actually two new features:
- There's a "Send Nudez" button tacked onto the bottom of the site info in the sidebar where you can upload a nude and it will send a DM to each of the instance admins.
- The signup application response has been replaced with an image upload button to send a nude in lieu of responding to the questionnaire.
Figure 4: A not-at-all tasteful nude of me, Admiral Patrick, illustrating the "Send Nudez" button in action.
Upgrade Instructions
Upgrading is automatic and mandatory. No action is required on your part.
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PSA: If you're using the hosted instance, there's a bug with one of the April Fool's Day gags breaking some links
(dubvee.org)
You can turn the April Fool's Day gags off under Settings -> General -> Enable April Fool's Day Jokes
I thought it would be funny to replace all the t hs with þ but forgot to account for links. So links to, say, https://t/ hebutton.lemmy.zip are turning into broken https://xn--ebutton-22a.lemmy.zip/.
This gag was a last-minute addition that wasn't thought out fully, so my bad. Good thing this version is still an alpha 😜
Post Image: Depicts the new search scoping using the inline keywords to set the search options without having to use the search form manually.
I'm slowly wrapping up the feature list (very slowly) but alpha 6 is up and live now.
Hosted Instance: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/
Still no ETA on official release as I've got lots more to wrap up and many irons in the fire, but it's stable for what's working.
Alpha 6 Changelog
Since alpha 5, I've made the following changes:
- Change Github icon to Codeberg
- Add missing field in admin area to set the site's content warning
- Make the content warning a one-time acknowledge and show it before rendering any of the main UI
- Add a "show source" / toggle markdown button on posts/comments to be able to view the raw markdown without having to go into debug tools.
- Add some April Fool's Day fun stuff even though I likely won't have this officially released by then. At least people using the hosted instance will get a laugh.
Search Scoping
Added the ability to scope the search to "Local", "All", or "Subscribed".
Added keywords to set those inline and expand the other search keyword filters.
@all: Searches all (unscoped) and is the default if omitted. I'm not sure why I added this since it's not very useful.@me: If the query contains@meit will scope the search to only items you've posted/commented@local: If the query contains@localit will scope the search to only local items (works for users/communities as well as posts/comments)@subscribed: If the query contains@subscribedit will scope the search to only items to which you are subscribed to the communities (including the communities themselves).
These can also be combined with the existing search term keywords!
Search prefixes to set the search type. You can now prefix the search query to set the search scope from the search box:
user: {query}: Searches only for users with the given query stringusers: {query: Alias foruser:community: {query}: Searches only for communities with the given query stringcommunities: {query]: Alias forcommunity:post: {query}: Searches only for posts with the given query stringposts: {query}: Alias forpost:comment: {query}: Searches only for comments with the given query stringcomments: {query}: Alias forcomment:url: {query}: Searches only for posts which have the provided URL as the post link
Examples:
@me @local comment: Captain Picardwill only search for comments you've made to local communities containing the text "Captain Picard"@local comment: Captain Picardwill search for any comment containing "Captain Picard" only on local communities@local users: Picardwill search for any local users that have "Picard" in their username or display name@subscribed posts: Picardwill search only communities to which you are subscribed and return only posts containing "Picard"posts: picard @subscribed @local @mewill search for any posts containing "Picard" and scope it to only posts you've made to local communities to which you are subscribed.@local communities: Star Trekwill search for any local communities that contain "Star Trek" in their names.communities: Star Trek @subscribedwill search for any subscribed communities that contain "Star Trek" in their names.communities: Star Trek @subscribed @localwill search for any local subscribed communities that contain "Star Trek" in their names.@local url: https://example.com/foo/bar.htmlwill search only local posts with the given URL.
You can set all of these in the search form, but it's very convenient to be able to type them into the search at the top and set them all inline.
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