Ned Harr

It's not quite parasitism, not quite symbiosis, but the lending institutions have an interest in you both being reliably in debt and reliably able to pay your debt back.

Many of the questions I'd like to ask here cover different specific aspects of the same expansive long-term project. I'm trying to decide if I should continue to ask each question in the particular area of the forums where it is most relevant, or if I should just start one big general thread that keeps everything together.

I can think of pros and cons for the "big epic thread" idea:

Pros:
- I could provide a better sense of continuity in terms of where I'm at in my project, without having to keep reminding people
- I wouldn't have to keep repeating myself as much when it comes to relevant details & particulars
- Most of the knowledge shared here comes from a relatively small set of "regulars" anyway
- The thread itself would become a kind of document that tells the story of my journey

Cons:
- Might disturb the website's organization schema
- Would be harder for random people with the knowledge I'm seeking to find my thread and share their knowledge
- "Regulars" would still have to be directed to the thread somehow

I see a few "big epic threads" on the site already, similar to what I envision, so I know at least they are allowed, but that doesn't tell me whether they are preferred, nor whether they are generally effective in terms of helping people share and receive information.

Having written this, I think I've pushed myself from "probably will start a big epic thread" to "probably will not start a big epic thread", but I'm still open to hearing your thoughts, plus maybe someone else is experiencing this dilemma and will be helped by my thinking through it out loud.

Mike Haasl wrote:And who has 7 laptops?

If she has one or two siblings, in a school district that equips students with laptops, in a household with parents (or grandparents, ugh*) who are giving their kids laptops, if one or two of those laptops have been replaced/upgraded before the old one became defunct, a house could easily end up with 7 working laptops in it. And it's not surprising that a teenager who's painstakingly choreographing and posting viral videos to the internet has ready access to all 7 of them.

*Both parents might be on the same page about screens for kids, but it only takes one grandparent one birthday to disturb the equilibrium.

Mark Mittner wrote:both the video claims and the thread comments can be true, but I think they represent different scenarios.

The guy in the video claims that listing prices are inflated not because sellers are distressed, but because they commonly do not know the value of their land and just throw a hopeful number out there.

I would not expect most Permies users who've sold land to be clueless like that, but it wouldn't surprise me if many land sellers were.

To be clear, I am not currently in negotiations or even actively shopping for land. I am strategizing on how I'm saving for land and trying to see what I might realistically be able to afford.

Mainly I'm trying to get other perspectives on the points made in the video I linked in the OP. It's made by a guy who has a company that (it seems?) helps people buy land. He makes a lot of points in the video I like (about the mindset and behaviors that will help buyers be successful) but he also states some facts that seemed too good to be true, such as that land often sells for 60-70% lower than the asking price.

The research I've done since watching that video has updated that "common discount" number closer to 5%-25%, but I wanted to also get perspectives directly from people who've gone through the process themselves.

I enjoyed this video (https://youtu.be/nV7G9_6hwF8?si=f5ChxPDTg4aFza4I) but it included a claim I fear is too good to be true, that raw land is frequently overpriced by 25%, 50%, even 70%.

Was that your experience? Did you ultimately pay less than the asking price for your land, and if so how much less?

For those who have watched the video, what else did you find resonated with you as true or as especially untrue?

I had always thought having to get up to pee at night was correlated with enlarged prostate (that organ being in the vicinity of the bladder, it takes up space the bladder otherwise would use, decreasing the bladder's capacity).

Elanor Gardner wrote:One thing that happens when you exercise is that all the toxins in your tissues that were stagnantly living in you, were stirred up to be released through your sweat or others means. Once you exercise regularly, this happens less and less as your body will expel all the stagnant yuck.
This also happens when you get a massage sometimes.

Also when you fast between mittents.

Next time instead of dragging the machine, try rolling it end over end. This should, due to the sausage-grinder effect, make grated ghost out of your household spirits. (Grated ghost can be sprinkled liberally over paranormal pizza, afterlife appetizers, spectre spaghetti, haunted huevos rancheros, and poltergeist potatoes.)

I believe repulsion or revulsion is a studied thing ("disgust response" would probably be the term to search on), with both genetic and learned components. Relatedly, psychologists, and in particular those who study personality, have studied the degree to which people are driven by seeking purity, and how this spills over from feelings about food etc. and into feelings about society and other people. I believe it's one of the Big 5 Personality factors or something like that.