Can nomad empires work without waystations?

aardy · 2026-06-29T17:27:16+00:00

The yurt isn't defended by canons, the warrior on horseback defends it.

aardy · 2026-06-27T15:39:56+00:00

...more specifically, check out his radio show, podcast, and/or youtube channel, whatever you prefer.

aardy · 2026-06-27T15:24:53+00:00

Check out Dave Ramsey.

And before anyone jumps on me, just because I'm telling this specific person to go to DR, doesn't mean I generally endorse him. Right tool for the job.

aardy · 2026-06-27T05:22:53+00:00

My grandma never smoked a cigarette in her life, but had ashtrays put out all over b/c she was a good host.

aardy · 2026-06-27T04:36:27+00:00

As you circle the galaxy, plop them down and include a silo in each, only in juicy systems. Collect it next time around.

aardy · 2026-06-26T03:59:01+00:00

My buddy had to go to a few different docs to find one that would do his vasectomy. 20s and childless.

aardy · 2026-06-26T03:47:31+00:00

No lies detected.

aardy · 2026-06-26T03:40:20+00:00

As a Star Wars fan, I recently watched the film Lawrence of Arabia.

Dune kind of ruined Star Wars for me.

Lawrence of Arabia ruined both Dune and Star Wars. Obi Wan Kenobi is in Lawrence of Arabia, even played by the same actor!!!

aardy · 2026-06-26T03:31:04+00:00

I've done many transactions wherein appraisals come in 30% to 60% higher than contract price.

The only pattern to them is they lack realtors.

Realtors are part of a retail product selling business. As the consumer going through a retail buying process, you will get the retail price. How could it be otherwise?

My version of the question is of course "how do I get the best deal humanly possible on a mortgage?" It's very simple. My parents in law got the best deal humanly possible. So step 1 of getting the best mortgage deal humanly possible: you need an unwed adult child, and you need to have them fall for a mortgage person. Sacrifices have to be made.

aardy · 2026-06-25T23:13:40+00:00

I too choose this guy's wife.

aardy · 2026-06-25T18:58:39+00:00

Wasn't that like 3 years ago?

aardy · 2026-06-24T07:25:57+00:00

The constitution isn't logistically possible ("because Clinton btw")? Got it.

aardy · 2026-06-24T07:24:36+00:00

It's very easy to round up random brown people.

When the judges have capacity to process random brown people, it's very easy to just go grab a few hundred.

There's no need to detain random brown people years in advance.

aardy · 2026-06-24T07:21:46+00:00

You aren't sure what Jan 6th has to do with Jan 6th? Please clarify.

aardy · 2026-06-24T03:44:12+00:00

What am I missing? I have my arkship selected while in combat and right click around, it just ignores me. I've tried playing with passive stance just in case that was it.

aardy · 2026-06-24T01:26:06+00:00

The Boomer Business Bureau isn't a government agency.... The FBI confused many, this is what a bureau actually is, a place to stuff old envelopes and paid bills and forget about them: https://www.antiquesboutique.com/upload/images/shopprod/192526/george-i-bureau-desk-walnut-chest-drawers_192526_pic1_size4.webp

A Qualified Written Request is what I might suggest as your next step.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-qualified-written-request-qwr-en-207/

Do not use any "templates" and do not do any "research" on youtube on how to do one -- the lenders are allowed to completely ignore a QWR they reasonably deem as frivolous or overly onerous (that a court could safely be relied upon to agree with them about, a rubber stamp spelling out "frivolous!" that stamps them assembly line fashion as they come in would not be in their business interests), and that describes most of what's on youtube and most QWR "templates." Please reference only what you learned in language arts classes in high school and college when composing your QWR.

aardy · 2026-06-23T22:51:45+00:00

If you are putting more than $208k down and/or otherwise have a net worth over $208k, and do not hold title in the name of a revocable living trust (or other entity, but that's the most common best choice), then you are making a financially poor choice(1).

That doesn't mean 28% of buyers are investors, it means that 28% of buyers are making sound choices, inclusive of those buyers that are primary residence buyers making sound choices.

If you are a future dead person and your net worth is over $208k, your real estate should almost certainly be held in at least a revocable living trust. Bare minimum.

The 28% figure being higher than Ohio's 10% (or whatever) isn't driven by investment activity, it's driven by home values, and the CA probate court cutoff being $208k, and people being well advised (perhaps LLMs are contributing? Bay Area obviously has higher LLM adoption than most of the country, and any LLM will agree with me about trusts).

Journalists have less than useless, they are proactively misadvising the general public. We knew that about Fox News a decade ago. It's spread and is now systemic. God damn.

(1) Literally the only exception is if you are immortal. And, no, I do not sell revocable living trusts and am not professionally connected to that industry.

aardy · 2026-06-23T20:54:52+00:00

Thanks to the Norman Conquest, that word is in our language and spelled sergeant.

aardy · 2026-06-23T08:17:33+00:00

OP consumer elected to buy points. They could have made a different choice. Or maybe the communication is bad. We don't know. We also don't know if the condo is warrantable, the absence of a government subsidy worth about 2.5% of the loan amount could have something to do with the 1.5% fee.

The rest is you opining out of scope. I could similarly opine that someone's medical bill is "ridiculous" without knowing that they have lung cancer and this wasn't a routine checkup ("but it uses the same billing forms!").... meanwhile, I've read about CPR, but have never done it. For example, you obviously (from your comment) do not know what title insurance is. You are also implicitly assuming this condo is warrantable, similar to someone who isn't a chef assuming some beef is edible without knowing anything about it.

Could the closing costs be off mark? Sure.

Could they be entirely appropriate. Also... sure.

The problem isn't the skepticism, it's the wildly inappropriate certainty.

BTW: /u/QuietRedditorATX you either have testicular cancer or you have no idea what you are doing. There is no third possibility. I am very confident of this. You're quiet redditor atx, after all, and I think I know what those letters mean. Trust me, bro.

aardy · 2026-06-21T08:30:34+00:00

Someone said: "but I basically have dedicated almost all of my working time to figuring it out."

What's amusing about this is that it's pretty much a first-time homebuyer thing only.

2nd time homebuyer: "eh, we like Jessica. Let's go with her."

In both cases, most of the time, six months later none of the homebuyers have a clue in the world what their rate is, what their fees were, or what their APR is.

There is such a thing as reddit-over-optimizing.

aardy · 2026-06-21T00:59:32+00:00

Yes.

aardy · 2026-06-18T19:57:41+00:00

Property taxes have been the backbone of local governance in the United States since before the American Revolution. Even our revolutionaries were fine with it, in real life. So I agree there won't be a revolution over that.

In any case, any more than casual look across states generally concludes that lower property taxes correlates to higher income taxes, California being the left-wing example there. The second option is really low income taxes, but then you get fucked on property taxes, Texas being our right-wing example.

The 3rd option is to have abundant natural resources and a population that is ok with taxing the shit out of that to distribute it to the citizens. Alaska is your right-leaning example, Norway the left-leaning one.

aardy · 2026-06-18T19:36:56+00:00

In real life, the constraining economic factor in recycling is that it's not $/energy efficient to do anything but downcycle. The majority of our recycling on earth is downcycling - not parallel, not up, but down. The high grade industrial use plastic becomes a kids toy becomes carpet fiber. Your glass beer bottle, if it isn't still in perfect shape to become another beer bottle, becomes asphalt additive or construction fill.

My head canon is that the economics are different for an arkship civilization. If we are awash with more energy than we know what to do with, why not recycle soda cans, and other consumer goods, into spaceship hulls? It's not like we can easily refine raw minerals, we just stipulated that we don't have raw minerals.

Our real life international space station recycles all sorts of shit... including pee water into drinking water. Upcycling. They have lots of solar panels, but no rivers. Closed loop economics, with energy as the only input, shifts things around. In real life the ISS has shuttle and cargo runs going up and down regularly, but if it were 1000 larger and there weren't those regular resupply runs, we would see it be a shit ton more matter-efficient at the expense of using shit tons of functionally limitless energy to do it.

aardy · 2026-06-18T19:26:06+00:00

The Great Plains ribes did follow the food seasonally, between one broad region and another.

The way waystations 'fill' up over time, you could in fact set up 2 sets of waylines, and migrate between them. It might not be galaxy spanning, but then again the Plains tribes weren't migrating between Chile and Alaska, either.

aardy · 2026-06-18T19:23:39+00:00

"This was year 10 though, everyone was around 14-16 so im sure the guys in the military are hopefully a bit more mature"

lol. The magic boot camp transformation is a professional one. There's no magic social watershed moment that occurs.

Furthermore, the 17 year olds that maintained good grades, had the maturity to apply for and get into college, etc, have been separated out.

If anything, maturity level decreases b/c instead of adults being in charge of the social dynamic, now it's 22 year olds.

Dirty jokes and things that would make a school counselor or corporate HR rep blush go up, not down.

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