There’s only one problem: Financial literacy doesn’t work. One recent study published in the journal Management Science found that studying financial literacy has a “negligible” impact on future behavior and that within 20 months almost everyone who has taken a financial literacy class has forgotten what they learned.…

It’s easy to say he was a dumbass BUT, having bought a car once with a somewhat subprime loan ( I was young, had a good job but lousy credit because I’d never had credit), when you get a loan like this they do an amazing job of not telling you how much your interest rate is (mine was 12%) or how much you will be…

There are plenty of reasons to buy rather than rent than just being able to benefit from increases in value. First and foremost is stability, both in terms of payments, and also for things like raising a family and having stability in location for job, school, etc.

‘The book was published in 1935, two years before Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated plane took off’

The thing is, “dead for 80 years on an island in the Pacific” is still the best-case scenario. She could have gone down in open water almost anywhere and we’d never have even the slightest clue what happened to her. It’s pretty optimistic to think that she made it to an island.

Really, the first warning sign is that it is from The History Channel.

Jezebel’s story actually explicitly cast doubt on the whole thing.

“. . . I find it strange that the documentary makers didn’t confirm the date of the photograph or the publication in which it originally appeared. That’s the first thing they should have done.” 

id be shocked if it gets “fixed” because i’d guess it was done on purpose to drive traffic back to the already read articles

Our favorite HGTV joke is the now-old saw:

Hahahahaha. Fences are so easy to add that this is perhaps the least believable plot line I’ve ever heard.

Character does not mean run down or old and dingy. It had a classic Craftsman porch. It WAS old and dingy and it could have been updated and improved while keeping the Craftsman bungalow porch characteristics. IE:

The original porch was authentic to the Craftsman style of the rest of the house, the new one is something of a vernacular look with vaguely Colonial details. If you didn’t want a classic, Arts & Crafts bungalow, then don’t buy one. Those original details are difficult to recreate in this day and age, versus the…

My fiancé looked into one of these shows a while back and you must already have the place (or under contract) before filming. It makes sense from a production perspective, because they wouldn’t want to do a whole episode and then the person not get the house.

...it’s people having shitty demands while looking for places... 

I don’t know what it is about HGTV but pretty much any show on there makes me angry anymore. If it’s not people having shitty taste during renos it’s people having shitty demands while looking for places (especially the ones who go to places I want to move to and reject great apartments I would totally live in) or…

The Lumbee are very much a real tribe. They are recognized as such by state law. They do not have federal recognition due to a whole lot of institutional racism.

The next group of colonists found the word “croatoan” carved on a tree. It may have been a reference to a nearby tribe or a nearby island. The prevailing theory is that the original colonists assimilated with a local tribe, and the prevalence of blue eyes among Lumbee Indians is held up of evidence.

Of course she’s not dead.