That’s kind of what I was saying. Recreational cannabis would be appropriately handled just like that, while preserving the right of all Americans to receive certain kinds of medical care (Roe) should be federally guaranteed, regardless of what state you live in.

Oh I didn’t say it made sense, especially in comparison to other legally produced intoxicants. If things made sense, we wouldn’t have gestures widely.

But in the nonsensical paradigm, relegating the legal status of a recreational drug to the state level would be appropriate, and most certainly a step in the right direction. More to the point, I don’t see it being possible for the federal government to command nationwide legality of recreational cannabis. This is why I made a separate statement about medical use.

For amber waves of … chicken tenders.

… the officer used his department-issued phone …

They’re not sending their best and brightest.

TBF, “Leave it up to the states” in the context of recreational use is appropriate here. Extending that concept would necessarily include having extremely limited federal regulation, if any at all.

Medical use, in my opinion, should be federally protected, such that you can acquire medical use cannabis for a uniform set of medical purposes in all states.

Minors as young as nine at the time of the alleged abuse.

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“Her actions.”

I’m afraid this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Any time someone passes and leaves an estate, there’s a strong opportunity for beneficiaries and interested parties to get into some serious conflicts. Your grandmother hasn’t passed, and there’s already conflict starting.

If your grandmother does not want to (or “isn’t allowed to”) walk away from the house and its mortgage (while living literally rent free until the foreclosure process goes through), you are going to need to protect yourself. You should start planning that now. Speak to an estate attorney now, and figure out what you need to do to make sure that you personally are able to reject being a beneficiary of the house, hopefully without also having to turn down beneficiary status on anything else. Maybe there’s a way that you can have your “share” of the property divided equally among the other beneficiaries as a gift?

No matter what happens, you’re going to have to personally “let go” of some proceeds of the estate, and you’ll need to do it without holding a grudge against your siblings.

Not the headgaskets again!

I was trying to do a “it’s not supposed to leak, that’s probably an STI” joke.

… leaked …

Well, there’s your problem.

Just like Dum Dums.

Stephen Miller is a failure and irregularity, throw him out.

Who do you think owns the real estate?

Federal minimum wage is $7.25, your point is?

In the US:

When you pass away, your mortgage doesn’t suddenly disappear. Your mortgage lender still needs to be repaid and could foreclose on your home if that doesn’t happen. In most cases, the responsibility of the mortgage will be passed to the beneficiary of the home if there is a will.

https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/what-happens-to-mortgage-when-you-die/

This partially depends on how much the house is worth now. If it’s somehow a million dollar house today, and the amount owed is $250K, then you could refinance that and make payments. This would be a reasonable transaction.

But if you have negative equity - if you owe more than the house is worth - the best thing to do right now is stop paying that mortgage. In the short term, you’re just throwing money away, because that mortgage is never going to be paid off. In the longer term, see the above. Stop paying the mortgage.

Yes, this will end in foreclosure. Yes, you’ll “lose the house,” but honestly, it was lost a long time ago, you just didn’t know it. Once the foreclosure has happened, your grandmother will be relieved of that debt, because the home was collateral. Foreclosure is highly likely to happen anyway after your grandmother passes, but then it becomes infintely more complicated, especially if there are multiple beneficiaries of the property.

My in-laws were in a similar situation long ago. They had gotten a now-illegal “reverse amoritization mortgage,” which basically guaranteed that their mortgage payments would always be less than the interest accrued. Same kind of result: they owed way more on the house than it was worth, way more than they had originally borrowed, and were essentially never going to get out from under it. The advice they took was exactly as above. Stop paying the mortgage.

That’s because it is entirely reasonable to want to watch the intro sometimes, while it is never reasonable to want to watch ads.

Index fund, most definitely. And find one that has low administrative fees, I know that Vanguard has at least a few that are super low.