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The more you explain your idea, the worse an idea it becomes. The rent progressively lowering means there will be a point where the mortgage is higher than the rent payments. The only way that system makes any sort of sense is if the government owns the house and rents it to you with payments based on a yearly appraised value. That would be a pretty sweet deal that would have high demand, which would require a lottery or que that would go about as well as section 8 vouchers(horrible).

You want a roundabout system where there is no incentive to rent out property, just ban renting property.

Paying such a small percentage would mean it takes a lifetime to be able to afford the house. If we take the median home value($360,681), $100 a month would take 300 years to own the house. That doesn’t even account for inflation and an increase in home value. You would just be pissing away money that could be better used otherwise. If you increased the payments, you would be better off saving or investing to buy a home than trying to buy the one you were renting.

How about we just ban companies from owning rental properties or homes longer than one year and nobody can rent out more than one home.

You know those machines that dispense stickers for quarters?

If you have a guy in your life that you are intimate with, try it out. Hang out on the couch cuddled up to him and give the boys a hand cuddle. You can also do him a favor and check for lumps while you are there.

Good thing he stopped using it a few weeks ago.

So all you see is Linux and a couple memes?

With a face like yours, I am more curious if you have a painting in your attic getting younger.

You ever see an old person with their mouth open, as if to silently scream with their mind unable to comprehend a fraction of their existence?

You asked if headlights emit IR because you didn’t think they do, they emit IR.

IR is heat, so headlights produce a a lot of IR. Laser headlights emit less IR with the visible light, but radiate heat.

Eggs are a typical foraging food. Our ancestors likely grabbed any eggs they could find when they could find them. Eventually we started farming in SE Asia and the ancestors of the chicken hung out near the plentiful feedstock of rice fields and made their nests nearby. Over time they got used to humans and we kept taking their eggs, as we had done when we found their eggs in the wild. Around 3,000 years ago we had the chicken, an easy to care for food pooping source of meat that we had bred to poop food regardless of time of year. The bird later spread all over the planet.

Fastfoward to more recent times and we have selectively bred and drugged up a bird that reliably poops food every day and can yield the maximum amount of meat possible.

If there was 100% adoption of self-driving vehicles with a inter-vehicle communication network, there is no reason why the left lane couldn’t go 100+ mph. There still would be lower speeds outside of the highway, but they could be substantially higher than today on most major roads.

Human drivers are why speed limits exist. People follow too close, people are impatient, people are aggressive, people are risky, people don’t know what the vehicles in front of them are going to do, people don’t use turn signals, people hit the brakes and cut across multiple lanes of traffic because they weren’t paying attention or missed their exit, etc.

Networked autonomous cars can communicate and collaborate, allowing for faster and safer travel. The left lane could have no speed limit because every car using it, leaving it, or entering it are all in agreement on what needs to be done and what to do and when to do it. Cars on major roads would slow down so another car can turn without causing the cars behind it to stop. Oncoming cars could slow to allow for an opening that a turning car can use instead of waiting for an opening in irregular traffic, or taking a risky turn that causes an accident.

Getting to that system will require laws against manual driving and mandating that all new vehicles have full autonomous driving. I hope I am dead before that happens because that future sounds awful to me.

30kg is pretty heavy. 20kg is reasonable for a 5 night IMO.

That being said, my pack is about 15kg for 5 nights with 10C nights and the luxury of a camp chair, 7kg dry. I don’t see the sanity available with 10kg wet, those people need help.

I think you are talking about wilderness backpacking, as opposed to regular backpacking.

Backpacking means you are generally on trails and bringing everything you need, including food. You don’t need survival skills to backpack, but some basic ability to navigate with a map and compass is really good to know.

Wilderness backpacking is like regular backpacking but is more survivalist and you generally don’t use established trails. This is more hardcore and can include having to get food while you are in the wilderness by fishing or hunting.

Start off hiking.

Gear is a big topic of debate. Understand whatever you buy will probably not be what you will need and you will probably replace or upgrade gear a lot as you find out. I don’t think anything I have in my pack now was with me for my first trip.

Bivy vs tent vs hammock comes down to what suits you and the environment you are going to, can’t hang a hammock if there aren’t enough trees.

Alcohol stove vs fuel stove vs cooking over fire all depends on your convenience desire and if there are fire restrictions. Hell, you can even go no-cook meals if you are indifferent to the comfort a hot meal on a cold day can bring.

Passive vs manual water filtration is a matter of personal preference. Water purification tabs are light as fuck, but the taste is not pleasant. If you have a good filtration system the source of the water need only be unpolluted, like a lake or stream. You can boil water, but that isn’t a perfect system and there is still a lot of junk and flavors that you probably don’t want. Pump filters are faster, but gravity filters require less energy and you can use them while on the move.

Shoes should be hiking shoes or boots, ones with ankle support can be really nice in topography where you will be changing elevations a lot.

Backpack should be an appropriately sized backpacking pack with a frame. You can go frameless if you are ultralight, but ultralight people are neurotic and derrainged. You want one that fits you and is big enough for the trip but not oversized.

Food is pretty personal. You really could only take highly perishable foods like unpreserved meat for a day if you are in temps above safe storage temps. So don’t think you can take a steak for day 4 when it is 25C out. If it doesn’t need refrigeration or is a preserved product, you can choose what you want. Some people will eat nothing but trail mix, some people will take nothing but dehydrated camping food, what you take will be up to you. If you are looking to cook whatever you want, then overlanding type camping or car camping is what you should be looking at.

Definitely understand that the temps that a sleeping bag are rated for are not accurate. Whatever the lowest temperature they say it is good for is almost barely survivable in reality. If A bag is rated for 7C, it probably is livable at 13C with layers on. Bags are case by case so you will have to try out a bag to know at what temperature you can comfortably sleep in them.

You should start with reading forums and communities to see what other people are doing. There are checklists you can reference to wrap your head around everything you might need and then you can figure out what you want. Definitely start with an overnight trip to work some kinks out of your setup and then go for more days as you gain confidence in your setup.

So long as you are alone, your realized value has the ability to provide for a hypothetical family, and your liver can tank a half a bottle of brown liquor a night without the spins.

There is only one football, and it is played by the country that has been to the Moon 6 times and won two world wars.

I think it is more of the mustache only crowd that really faces a stigma about being good with kids.

That’s the neat part, death is the retirement.

A “garage” means any space a man can claim as his own to self-isolate and cry quietly in. Be it a garage, basement, shed, or man-cave. As long as he can suffer silently and nobody knows, he is a strong man and every strong man needs his “garage”.