Awesome read, thanks!

Nah. We label stuff good or bad for a reason, to say it’s all ‘a human thing’ is just meaningless reductionism. Of course we are capable of it. Humanity is capable of what every human has ever done, got it. He’s not me, speak for your fucking self.

Horrific… I know he killed himself already. I know there is no real justice in this world. I can’t stop my primal brain from wishing stringing him up by his feet and torturing him to death would bring those girls back or prevent others from doing the same.

Sign me THE FUCK up, have been looking at 90s danger rangers to sate my small truck fix but so many of them have a car-looking front end.

Some of the gotchas I’ve encountered:

• Land is very hard to finance, I ended up saving until I could buy cash
• Building ‘on-grid’ would have saved a lot in permitting and setup (luckily I had electric service at the road). If you are going off-grid, I would check the permitting requirements for sewage/water and the average depth of wells near your spot, this can get expensive quick if you have to drill deep.
• I’m working with an architect atm but we’ve pivoted to using ICF blocks for wall construction as they are made in the USA and tariffs would have killed me otherwise.

I would expect the cost of the building, using the highest quality materials (not luxury) to still beat (by like 100k) the cost of buying an equivalant old home in the area I purchased; however, if we are talking pre-housing-price-explosion of the last few years, I would say building would be more expensive.

I’ll let you know when it’s all done lol - it’s a long and expensive process!

Yup - had the ability (and even tried last downturn) to buy but was consistantly outbid by overseas (and domestic) cash, after 10+ years of trying I finally decided to buy land and go through all the red-tape and expense of buiding something new. Turning houses into financial instruments was a real mistake.

yeah, but for my personal bookmarks a hallucination is not a big deal, not exactly mission-critical lol

<insert outdated xzibit meme here> Agreed, the wildest of wests.

Summary stuff works really well too - I like to be able to bookmark a page and have tags/brief summary auto-gen’d

I miss macromedia flash so bad, actionscript for life