u/adamvanderb

I’ve been watching the listings in my area for a few weeks now, and it feels like we’re in a strange stalemate. Even with the Bank of Canada holding rates steady at 2.25% recently, it doesn't seem like the "floodgates" have opened like everyone predicted. Sellers still seem to be holding out for 2022 prices, while most buyers I know are just sitting on the sidelines waiting for a "proper" correction or more inventory that isn't just overpriced condos.

It’s exhausting trying to timing this market when the sentiment changes every other week. Are you guys seeing any actual movement on the ground in your cities, or is everything just sitting? Also, for those who finally bought recently, did you feel like you got a fair deal, or are you already worried about where things are heading by the end of the year?

I've been thinking about how dark matter interacts gravitationally but not electromagnetically. Suppose a hypothetical car with a powerful engine could accelerate to 0.9999c through a region of space with typical dark matter density. Would the dark matter impart any noticeable drag or gravitational perturbation on the car's trajectory? Since dark matter doesn't interact via the electromagnetic force, the car's atoms would pass right through it, but gravity would still act between the car and each dark matter particle. Over a long travel distance, could these tiny gravitational tugs accumulate into something measurable? Alternatively, would the car's high speed cause dark matter to effectively appear as a sort of weak wind due to relativistic effects?

I'm curious if there's any theoretical framework that describes how a massive object moving at relativistic speeds through a dark matter halo would behave differently than it would through ordinary matter. Thank you.

iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 17.6. I have a photo I want to use as my home screen wallpaper. When I set it from the Photos app, it looks fine in the preview. But after I set it, the actual wallpaper is zoomed in way too close. I have tried pinch to zoom out while positioning it but the second I hit done, it snaps back to a weird crop. I have also tried turning off perspective zoom in the settings. That did nothing. This does not happen with every photo, just some of them. I even tried setting the same image as my lock screen and that one stays normal. Is there a trick to force the home screen to keep the actual size of the image? I do not want to have to edit the photo outside of the phone just to make this work.