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Seattle home prices dropping fast: In fact, they’re dropping faster than anywhere in the country, but that doesn’t mean they’re affordable. Homeowners in Seattle’s metro area make about 40 percent higher income than the regional median income of $82,000. According to the Seattle Times, adjusting for inflation, the median income of new homeowners has jumped $35,000 in just the last five years. So I’m on track to buy a house when I’m 80. Great.

Seattleites like me love working from home: I like working from bed with a space heater blasting the side of my face. My theory is we pay so much for housing that we’re trying to spend as much time at home as possible to make it worth it. It’s unscientific but not meritless. Working from home became popular even before the Seattle Squeeze. About 125,000 people worked from home in 2017, which is more than a 50 percent jump over the last decade.

Apple knew about the FaceTime bug a week before we did: You remember how people could hear what the person they were calling was saying before they even answered the call? Well Apple knew at least a week before they notified the public and disabled group FaceTime. I wonder if any friendships were ruined by this bug.

The Midwest is a frozen hellscape: Temperatures in some parts of Minnesota and North Dakota are down as low as -55 degrees fahrenheit. Yes, this still means climate change is happening. If you’re younger than 25 and have never been to Alaska, chances are you have no idea what that feels like. People are staying home from work, the mail isn’t being delivered, and school is being canceled, leading kids to (probably) put on every layer of clothing they own to make the three block walk over to their friend’s house. Been there, done that. Let’s see what it looks like:

Thats my sister!
That’s my sister!

Let’s enjoy the polar vortex some more from afar:

Seattle’s weather is a bit more balmy: I was walking around in shorts yesterday feeling like summer while listening to Childish Gambino’s “Feels Like Summer.” But we’ve got rain on the way. Nathalie is going to be stoked!

Everyone needs to read this! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence, click this link right here. Two journalists at the Washington Post worked their asses off to bring you one of the most concise, beautiful, and devastating multimedia projects on climate change. Did you click it? Here, I’ll hyperlink it again just to show you I’m not messing around.

Venezuelan courts go after self-declared president: The country’s current president/quasi-dictator Nicolás Maduro is using the full power of his military and supreme court to go after Juan Guaido, the leader of National Assembly and self-declared interim president. Their opposition has some powerful backers in the United States, but Maduro has brutally quelled protests before and seems poised to do it again.

Be careful what you wish for with genetic tests: With the rise of at home genetic tests like 23andMe, people are getting some results they did not expect. Representatives for the company have to go through months of training to learn how to deal with someone who just learned that the people who they thought were their parents aren’t actually related to them. It happens more often than you might think.

FBI finds no motive in Las Vegas mass shooting: It’s been over a year since Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 1,000 others from his hotel window in Las Vegas, but the FBI is closing the case without finding any motive. They said Paddock was an intensely private person and that extended to his preparations for the shooting. It is still the single deadliest mass shooting in modern history.

Tonight’s best Seattle entertainment options include: Michael Valeri’s talk “Swipeless in Seattle: How to Live Without a Smartphone,” the Seagull Project’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, and a concert with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt.

Timothy Kenney is a former Slog AM intern. He's written for multiple Seattle outlets, helped CNN cover a mudslide in Sierra Leone, and almost threw up on James Franco once.