Will be the passport stamps all over the glass.

I have a friend who recently sold their house and the agent staged it by having them take out about 80% of the furniture (and into storage) to make the house look even bigger. What remained wasn't really practical for actual living, but I guess it offered enough for the imagination. I had never seen the house look so bare.

That's not bad advice, but it's a bit simplistic, especially if you already have a mortgage. A better answer is: it depends. Mainly on the mortgage interest rate, remaining balance and how long you're planning on living there. Paying it off early saves on the interest allows investing what would be future mortgage P&I payments elsewhere. You're also free to control the insurance parameters, rather then what the lender requires. If you're planning on staying in the house, paying it off early reduces your sunk cost and increases your potential equity as real estate prices rise. If you have a high(er) interest rate you could refinance instead, but again that depends.

The real upside of owning over renting is that the property is yours and you can pretty much do what you want with it.

Agreed, seems better suited for a smartphone. :-)

(I do have an HP 27e for my monitor and it's great, but it would be too small as my TV, which is a 40" Sony Bravia from 2006.)

Betting it will be while rage-tweeting on the toilet.
I'll feel bad for the Secret Service agents on duty...

I'm sure they will in no way resent that and remember it forever.

After all, forced bedtime always goes smoothly with kids.

/s

Got any proof he isn't already? Remember, Trump and Kim Jong-un are pen-pals who "get along very well".

Someone else used to think that: Donald Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam against the dollar', but now... Trump pardons convicted Binance founder 'CZ' Zhao who plead guilty, btw, while retaining his stake in Binance, the company that supports Trump family's World Liberty Finance crypto venture, through which they make $$$.

According to TFS, the cops on the scene had a copy of the photo, so this should already be the case.

Hopefully, they had already surmised this was a false alarm, but guessing they had to cover their asses and check it out and follow through as though it was a real situation, since it was flagged by the system. Not defending this, but can see why it happened. Had the video simply been originally viewed by a person, who would have realized it was a finger, it would have ended there. On the downside, people seem hesitant to dismiss/ignore obviously errant AI assessments.

Agreed.

Perhaps because reality treats everything and everyone equally and that doesn't sit well with "Conservatives" and those on the Right, especially those, like Trump, who believe everything is a zero-sum game and there must be winners and losers.

The belief, especially on the Right, and Trump specifically, that everything is a zero-sum game and there must be winners and losers doesn't help. More people having equal rights and opportunities or being able to be married doesn't take anything away from others

MAGA seems to operate this way - an ever smaller circle of who's "MAGA enough".

Judging by the current state of the White House East Wing, I'd say you got it.

Can you run NetBSD on the satellite?

(I'm guessing probably - after all, it can run on a Cylon. :-) )

Trump doesn't seem to consider "white collar crime" crime or supporters doing "bad things" a bad thing - especially if either group has $$$. Basically anything he (or family members) might do, or has done, is okay or, at least, shouldn't be punished too hard. He also seems to believe in the "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" thing, w/o the asking for forgiveness as nothing he ever does is wrong in his thinking. The rest of the GOP just looks the other way when it come to Trump so as not to rile him or his blindly loyal ~35% base they need -- many of whom are about to get priced out of their healthcare, or lose a rural hospital due to Medicaid cuts, or lose their farms due to tariffs or lack of cheap labor ... /$0.02

Or related -- cartoon ovum and sperm ...