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Yes, my best friend in high school drove a red Trans Am and her mother had a pearl pink Cadillac, because they both worked for the family roller rink business. OTOH, you can take standard mileage depreciation on a very inexpensive car, like I did for my business with the Mazda Protege I bought for $...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think she has come to the conclusion that buying a very basic cabin on the edge of the forest, rather than camping, might be best option given her particular highly renumerated job's need for very good, stable internet connection.

However, "entertaining yourself on your own" is very much something that is not encouraged by pretty much any culture. Hmmm...I can't speak for every culture in general, but it has been my experience that "entertaining myself on my own with small projects" has been very much enc...

@jennypenny: Wow, that's impressive. Do you still have kids at home? Beyond the fact that I theoretically (may have to repossess a property) don't currently own any land, living alone for the first time in my life has seriously collapsed my food production cycle/practice. I think maybe my flavor of ...

Well, I live near the plant where they make them, and I haven't observed that the autoworkers( or the folks who work at the secondary factories supporting the auto industry or the folks who work at The Dollar Tree where they shop. etc.)themselves are driving new cars. So, more likely a sign that you...

Thanks very much for the recommendations. I will pass them along, although I think she is going to ultimately decide that driving out of the woods and "renting" a table at local cafe or nearest McDonalds will be her best option. IME, typing in the woods is not so much fun.

I'm trying to help somebody figure out what would currently be the best, least expensive, option for mobile internet connection in very rural location with very poor cellular signal strength? Basically, they will be camping in the middle of a deep forest, but attempting full-time WFH.

and even as a Lord, you now have obligations to your estate. But not as a passive investor. You can be like the plantation owner who lives in Richmond and leaves slave management up to hired overseer, who can blame his behavior on all the primary and tertiary consumers who want cheap cotton. "...

However, much as 99% prefer to be natural slaves and much as 1% prefer to be natural masters, that is no excuse for abuse. Surely, the latter should be somehow compensated monetarily or otherwise for the burden of responsibility of “taking care” of the slaves by creating jobs, taking risks, etc. I'...

Sometimes it's nice to just relax into the mediocrity of going along with someone else's plan/vision for a bit, but nobody really acknowledges this. I totally acknowledge it. Exactly what I do almost every time I go on a date. However, I would note that "strong" practice of submission or ...

being a live-in-girlfriend may be new to the forum, but they're not new to the world Not wanting to quibble over exact level of insignificance, but the novelty would be making use of such a relationship for the purpose(s) of achieving FI and/or conserving natural resources. Also, a LentilBaby would...

@jacob: I am saddened that you do not consider my LentilBaby concept to be a creative contribution to the forum. I am surprised that you do not, for example, consider basuragomi's experiments with LenTofu to be a creative contribution to the forum. Seriously, I think there is a relationship between ...

The next phase of the plan is to build back up to about 170-175 by carefully adding lean mass. Whew! You had me worried there for a minute before I read this bit. On the basis of my fairly long career of dating men approximately your height, weighing in from approximately 135 lbs to 255 lbs., with ...

Thus, if you know what we'll all be doing in 2050, check out what the nerds are currently paying out the nose to be doing. The technology of the future is in some way already here except it's clunky, very very expensive, and quite rare. See @7wb5's pics for an example. Yes, but where would you have...

@thefOx: Thanks for the kind words, but I think it is pretty clear that I haven't yet achieved acceptance if I am fantasizing about "curing" myself with nature immersion, like I am Heidi's sickly cousin Clara*, who only needed some fresh mountain air and goat's milk to free her from her wh...

@Henry: Although I agree with your general take on the truism, I have to note that I am actually happy that my practice of solo polyamory allows for my partners to seek/interact with other partners while I am feeling too irky to be sexual myself. I was reading a piece in the NYT this morning about h...

@jacob: 1906 Vacuum Advertisement https://preview.redd.it/first-vacuum-cleaners-1906-v0-jzuibttgsg7a1.jpg?auto=webp&s=7ef02ded0ae3b638b07ae01dfe9988da33133061 1965 Toy Vacuum Advertisement (I owned a toy set very much like this as a child): https://www.girlmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A...

Would you say things have changed more in the N years of your lifetime or the N years preceeding your birth. This depends on perspective or how you might roughly identify. I think it's possible that the lifestyle of an urban/suburban middle-class, middle-aged, female in the U.S. changed more from 1...

In Victorian times they kept human bodies from decomposing in the morgue by running cold water over the slabs. You could hook up a hose with a timer so that it sprayed cold water over the van on an intermittent basis and/or refilled your mini-water-bed with cold water. This could even be accomplishe...

the self-deception that they are in control. It's probably required for survival. It's definitely required for anxiety. I agree that it almost certainly helps with survival. I strongly disagree that it is required for anxiety. The whole point of self-aware engaging in extreme trust exercises is tha...