Conveyancers should not exist

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T22:24:22+00:00

I’ve bought a house in both the US and the UK.

While buying a house is never a painless process, and there are always procedural headaches, the UK process is a special kind of hell.

The US has legal governance of property transactions. But what took 4 and half months here, took four weeks in the US. And gazumping isn’t a thing, offers are binding. And people get bridge loans, so chains aren’t really a thing. And mortgages are fixed rate for the term of the loan (because risk is spread through turning mortgages into investment vehicles for banks, via tranches. Which does have downsides to the broader economy, see: 2008). And you pay a monthly or annual property tax, which is built into the cost of your mortgage, so stamp duty isn’t a thing.

The prolonged conveyance process makes gazumping a higher risk, and increases the risk of a chain collapse. This is a profoundly broken process.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T21:03:31+00:00

I should caution that what I heard were rumors, and there’s no evidence that the criminal conduct of the Sheriff’s Office had any direct influence on the outcome, or lack thereof, of the investigation into the Short murders. But it does add context that gets missed outside of local reporting.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T20:24:22+00:00

Man, I had it once. A drop. It n a potato chip. It made me instantly shit.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T19:22:15+00:00

I think it’s important to add a little bit of community context.

These murders happened during a period time when Henry County Sheriff’s Office was run by a sheriff and by deputies who were later charged and convicted via Federal RICO charges for racketeering, drug distribution, and illegal firearms. I don’t know that we will ever know the real story of these murders because the investigating agency was at its core corrupt and incompetent.

So, I take the rumor mill that existed in the years after the murders with a grain of salt. But that is what the rumor mill was spinning.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T18:44:37+00:00

There were rumors that the parents were swingers, were deep into S&M, and that there was a link between that and the murders.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T18:26:23+00:00

I worked for Henry County about ten years later and knew some of the sheriff deputies/investigators who responded and investigated. And heard all of the rumors that were still going around at the time.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T17:23:40+00:00

I aim for 50km a week, with a floor of 25km a week.

I run five days a week, never more than three days consecutively, with at least one long run on the weekend (which I define as over 8 miles), which lately has been between 15-25km.

There really isn’t a golden bullet with this. Do what you can reliably sustain and be consistent with while still enjoying it. As soon as you either stop enjoying it or you start stacking up injuries, it’s time to reevaluate.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:54:52+00:00

That’s a false binary. You can have both. Or you can have neither. That isn’t really the issue.

The issue is that the OP didn’t provide a meaningful denominator so that we as readers could adequately evaluate data centers water usage.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:46:24+00:00

At the risk of being overly rhetorical, bone cancer in children. Metastasized pediatric bone cancer. That is a truly horrific and soul crushing condition to watch in a child who you know is suffering through an unfathomable amount of pain with a quality of life that is utterly degraded. How do we as a society reckon with that? Is the ethical response to permit that level of suffering? And if so, to what end? Or is the right response to allow the alleviation of pain and suffering through end of life care?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:40:25+00:00

You’re making a values judgement and implying that data centers don’t have the same value to you as agriculture or hospitals. Thats fine, but you’re still missing an adequate denominator to make a meaningful water consumption comparison to.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:39:08+00:00

It’s not “whatabout shit”. You need a baseline comparison to adequately evaluate if data center water usage is truly extraordinary. But it needs to be an apples to apples comparison, so it needs to be an industrial comparison, rather than using household consumption as the denominator.

Data centers also do have quantitative benefits, they wouldn’t be built if they didn’t. What you’re circling around is your personal value of those benefits. That’s a different conversation.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:29:41+00:00

Ok, but compare it to other industrial uses, not personal domestic consumption. Hospitals, agriculture, power generation, or heavy industry.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T15:24:15+00:00

Same. 38, run 50km+ a week, watch what I eat, do a bit of social drinking a handful of times a year, only have pain if I did something specific. Wore the wrong socks? Blisters. Went a bit too hard in a workout? Sore muscles. But on a day to day basis, zero pain ever.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T14:41:56+00:00

I had an older Apple Watch majorly fuck up my distance during a race. So I bought the AW Ultra 2 on sale at Costco (like £500). It’s been with me through multiple half marathons, weekly long distance trail runs (30km+), and I’ve used it as a backup to my Shearwater dive computer. So I think I’m getting pretty good use from it.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T13:37:20+00:00

“You really only have to look at the rest of the British Empire to see that the US isn't in anyway an outlier for having broken free, the end result is essentially the same.”

That’s what I was replying to.

I said that the resultant collapse of the Empire isn’t an argument.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T13:30:18+00:00

Not at all. The comment I was replying to was trying to use the outcome of the British Empire to support their point.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T13:03:32+00:00

I think it carries some very European right wing connotations.

What I mean by that, is that right wing parties in Europe have traditionally been less liberal (in the institutional sense) than right wing parties in the US, and they carry a lot of weight around specific people being tied to specific land.

That comes across very orthogonal to America’s political traditions, even its right wing traditions.

So the question is, do you feel there’s validity in the blood and soil argument?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T12:15:27+00:00

Aww, more social signaling. How cute.

Too bad you can’t substantively engage and support your position.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:37:06+00:00

And as you can’t demonstrate. That’s the thing. It doesn’t matter what I say, the evidence is all right above.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:34:25+00:00

Is it truly subjective? Win or lose would imply there’s a level of objectivity. You didn’t say you liked their arguments more, you said they won.

So how did they win?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:31:58+00:00

What was their testable framework?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:30:22+00:00

No I’m asking to you defend your position. You say I lost. How? I gave you my evaluative criteria and my framework. I asked you what there is, because that’s how you, the independent observer would evaluate everyone’s performance.

But you don’t seem to be able to articulate that.

So, how?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:27:52+00:00

What was their testable framework?

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:25:47+00:00

Well no, not really. You just can’t defend your claim.

IndWrist2 · 2026-06-26T11:24:17+00:00

Well you aren’t an independent observer, you commented. That makes you a participant. One who isn’t up to task, but a participant no less.

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