What makes it so good? I don’t know a lot about cameras.

Rivendell Atlantis? Is that a real brand/product name? That’s like calling your company Legolas and one of your products Chewbacca.

Check out my Legolas Chewbacca everyone!

In fact a 100 year old house likely has some choice lumber in its stair treads. A century ago we were still tearing through old growth forests and the lumber in old houses is tighter grained than anything you even CAN buy today. There’s a reason why recovered lumber is so prized, and it’s not because it looks all “old timey.”

If OP does replace all the treads, I hope the old ones go to a woodworker somewhere. Shit I’d be happy to have them.

I was reading Little House on the Prairie to my kid and we got to the chapter where one of their horses births a colt. I thought “wow, and in our age we just run cars until they stop working and then have to buy another - what a shit deal.”

Just don’t pressure wash. Use a scrub brush and appropriate herbicide/fungicide. Pressure washers will tear right into old wood. A lot of decks have been ruined this way. It looks like they’re cleaning AMAZINGLY while you’re pressure washing, but that’s because it’s blasting layers away right down to bare wood.

People think pressure washers are literally magic and will quickly and easily strip away only what they consider to be dirt while having zero impact on the wood or other material underneath.

A lot more people use cars than kerosene heaters.

“Gubamint reglumations? On my damn tractor, now? Get a rope!”

“No, no, grandpa these are good regulations!”

“Humph. You ain’t one of them wokes now, is ya?”

Yeah how many people here already work somewhere that block tiktok on the company firewall so you don’t view it at your desk? I’ll bet quite a few.

Um. My dude. No, I didn’t just forget about my down payment (which immediately becomes equity anyway - you knew that, right?).

The rest of this we tracked continuously and at tax time. If you’ve never owned, maybe it seems hopelessly complex and expensive to you. I can’t tell if that’s it or you just tried so hard to puff up that list that it became ridiculous. Furniture!

Anyway keep renting since you find it morally superior to be exploited than exploit. I won’t take that away from you, just the illusion that you’re somehow not involved.

Yeah maybe that metaphor is pretty obtuse.

What I mean is that speculation bubbles don’t always have much basis in real value. Housing in particular is highly leveraged. People buy a house without having all the money for it. Banks lend them the money but they’re not entirely liquid either. The mortgage gets sold and resold, bundled into investment vehicles and derivatives. Families count on their house to be some kind of “investment” and rely on the bubble to fund their retirement. It’s a big network of over-leveraged actors. It stumbles onward largely on its own momentum, but it can be totally hollow, a bubble, a “zombie.”

Renters on the other hand pay cash in hand everywhere they go. Nothing they do is permitted to be a loan or leverage. Whenever renters appear in the diagram, actual cash is flowing in. “Blood infusion.”

Maybe I meant vampire, not zombie.

To offer an example: I bought my first home in 2006, right before the big crash. I got a loan with very little down during the subprime lending spree. Then the crash happened and I wound up upside down on the mortgage. Shortly after I also needed that freedom to “vote with my feet” and move that you speak of. Know what I did? I rented the place out. I paid the mortgage, taxes, and repairs with the rent cash while the market recovered. Even pocketed some monthly profit. And once the market roared back, I sold the place at a big profit.

I was the person over-leveraged, actually at negative value, the zombie, but by feeding on renters, I was eventually made whole.

So when you say you rent because you l’re disgusted by the whole speculation market, I don’t see how that’s a solution. The buyers/sellers are still feeding on you as a renter. You’re maybe the only party in the entire picture who is always there with ready cash in hand, while everyone else is engaged in a gang-bang of credit leverage.

The difference is you can buy houses on credit, leverage. In a hot market, borrowing is cheap and speculation drives speculation. Rent, meanwhile, is always paid in cash. Rent is the transfusion of actual blood into what is otherwise a zombie of speculation and credit. It props up the rat race. And renters are getting squeezed hard as the balloon grows.

Sure renting has advantages. Easier to move. Predictable costs. But now we’re on a different subject. We started on rent being some kind of way out of the housing market shit show, and unfortunately it totally isn’t.

Sure, you’re paying rent for something but your rent is often paying the entire mortgage of someone else who is just sitting back gaining equity. It’s hard to say you’re throwing money away but impossible to say you’re winning or not part of the game.

How is renting a solution though? Rents are skyrocketing everywhere as well. Who do you think is bringing cash to this table and pouring it into speculators’ pockets? Renters.

Yay migrate out to those red states and flip em people. God knows that cheap housing prices are just about the only reason to move there.

I’m about to buy one of these. I’ve run two cheapshit big box budget brands into the ground in ten years.

Yes the only way the gas gets into your lungs is if you let the liquid sit in your mouth while you inhale. This is a great way to choke on the liquid, and will barely get any gas into your lungs anyway.

Curious: if atomic bomb is a subset of nuclear bomb, then some nuclear bombs are not atomic bombs. Which are those?

The same answer goes all the way down really. There’s not a single chemical process or pathway anywhere in your entire metabolism that wasn’t invented in bacteria before multicellular life came about. Even photosynthesis originated in bacteria, long before there were plants.

You know what's really depressing? DeBeers recently contracted Lupita Nyong'o to be their Brand Ambassador. You might remember her from the Black Panther movies - films about a sovereign African nation with a very valuable resource which they protect from exploitation by the outside world. I can't fathom how Lupita thought this was a good idea. I'm sure DeBeers will say that all of their businesses are "conflict free" NOW, but this company should be boycotted forever any anyone with a conscience.

Yes whether you are using humans to mine or machines to synthesize, you can set up work in parallel, so duration to produce 1 diamond seems like a useless metric to me. Cost per karat would be more interesting.

I guess this is because ice fishing involves leaving your line in for a while and you need somewhere warm to be while you wait?

I thought five thermoses was extravagant but he’s got a whole house just for fishing! ;)

You could say the presence of atoms is a promising indicator that life could have been there. After all, life isn’t possible without atoms! And we know that on earth, living things leave many atoms behind!

See how silly this sounds? It’s the same with “organic compounds.” No, it doesn’t mean anything on its own unless the types and concentrations of them are unlikely to occur naturally. Which we did not get any indication of from this video.

> Organic molecules can also be made by chemical reactions that do not involve life.

This is the part people often confuse. Organic compounds are not always left behind by life. Some of them form spontaneously in dirty water when exposed to sunlight.

Especially a short video that cuts off before saying anything interesting.