What a great trip!! What were some of the highlights?
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ShiroKuro
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Word association threadLickety
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The six degrees of Kevin Bacon@DougG he was one of my first guesses too.
The other thing that this reminds you of is that in the end, acting is just a job and these people are all coworkers/colleagues and the ones with higher connectedness are just the ones that work more.
Also, the gender gap is real. Wow.
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Word association threadEgg roll
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The six degrees of Kevin BaconIf you’re home sick and poking around online, this website is kind of neat. They created visualizations to show which actors are among the top of the most connected. And actually, it’s not Kevin Bacon, he ranks at 175th.
Can you guess who’s in the number one spot? Check out the site and you can enter different actors’ names and see where they land.
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Guess the song@ShiroKuro Don’t be sorry; I didn’t like it either!
Does anyone know 9 or 15? We’re stumped over here.
Totally clueless!
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Guess the song@AdagioM doh! I knew I should have known that one!
Also, that is a horrible, horrible song and I’ve always hated it!
Sorry!
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Guess the song@AdagioM I have never heard this song (I’m listening now on YT).
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Guess the song***Answers to 12, 14, 16***
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Guess the song@wtg thanks! I couldn’t find it on my phone, but when I opened it on my iPad I saw it, and then I realized that to do it on the phone, you have to turn the phone sideways to see the option.
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Guess the song***answers***
click to showETA ok that was only a test
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Guess the song@wtg lemme try…
Test
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Guess the songI don’t think I can guess the rest, but I feel like I’ll groan in recognition when I hear the answers.
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Guess the songI think I got number 12 too. Pretty sure.
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Guess the songNope, it looks likethis forum doesn’t have spoiler bars. (I guess I got confused because Piano Tell does)
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Guess the songI got Number 14 and 16.
Maybe we should post them behind spoiler bars. This forum has those, right?
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Toxic home equity investment scheme? (Article)This article in the NYT (paywall free link below) is the first I’ve heard about this “home equity investment” but wow does it sound like a bad idea!!
Financial technology companies, including Hometap, Unlock, Unison and Point, give homeowners cash in a lump sum, based on percentage of the home’s current value, in exchange for a share of the home’s value at some point in the future. Homeowners agree to make a lump-sum payment at the end of the contract term — typically, 10 or 30 years — or earlier if the home is sold.
If homeowners can’t pay in full when the contract terminates, they can possibly take out another contract or mortgage to pay it off. If they can’t, they may be forced to sell their home.
Unlike traditional mortgages, the contracts don’t disclose an interest rate. Rather, homeowners are typically required to pay a percentage of the home’s value, or its increase in value, in a balloon payment at the end of the term. This is risky, consumer lawyers say, because it’s difficult to know what the home’s value will be and, therefore, how large a payment will be due.
In some cases, the terms entitle the provider to a payoff of double the percentage used to calculate the initial payout,
If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
And also, there’s nonsense thing as free money.
Good grief.