This is true, but - if you buy with a lower price + higher interest rate, you can potentially refinance to a lower interest rate down the road. Nothing you can do after the fact about a high purchase price though.

Nothing's guaranteed of course, but I'd rather buy a home now than a year ago, even if the same monthly payment gets me the same house

Exactly this. Every boomer who whines about 15% interest rates in the 1980s - rates which existed only briefly - is leaving out the fact that they got low prices and continuous opportunities to refinance at lower rates for the rest of their lives.

I mean super high rates lasted more than a decade, so if you add up all the interest paid, it was a horrible deal.

Super-high rates coincided with a low in the price-to-income ratio in the post-war era. It was > 6x in the 1950s, < 5x through the 80s, and now stands at > 8x. So why should I care if the bank took a higher share of a lower price? It was still a lower price.

You’d care because interest payments disappear while principle payments don’t.

Back when interest rate were >6%, 80%+ of your first 5 years of payments went entirely to interest.

> The Okta service has not been breached and remains fully operational. There are no corrective actions that need to be taken by our customers.

> Support engineers are also able to facilitate the resetting of passwords and multi-factor authentication factors for users, but are unable to obtain those passwords.

Those two things are at odds with each other, no?

I'm not sure David Petraeus is an impartial source regarding the Iraq war, but even in that interview he avoids the claim that the majority of the Iraqi population supported the US invasion. Instead, he says that supporters of the insurgency are in the minority (you can dislike the invasion and occupation of your country by the US without supporting the Sunni insurgency or the Shia militia) and that "many millions" supported the coalition (how many?).

I'm not just posting this to be pedantic - there are strong comparisons between the US attitude that we would be welcomed as liberators in Iraq and the Russian attitude about Ukraine.

Going into Iraq was probably a bad call from the perspective of US interests, and the cause was definitely bullshit.

But Saddam Hussein's popularity doesn't even compare to Zelensky's.

You aren't citing anything that refutes the claim.

Do you have a source for "most supported the US"? This was your original claim and you also haven't posted a source for it.

I always think of number theory when the idea of uselessly abstract knowledge comes up - it was the purest of pure math for centuries and it was absurd to suggest that things like the nature of prime numbers and the divisibility of integers would somehow be applied in industry. Then computers and cryptography came around and now there's a 2 trillion dollar ecommerce industry that depends on prime factorization being hard so people don't steal your bank information.