seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I've done it both ways (bought land, built house versus buying land with house) and I have to agree that you generally get a better result building a house to your spec.

is that just land or is there a house on it?

Still, I think given the trouble you've talked about this property thing in the past, you might want to jump on it before someone else does.

@kdfrawg We came to the same place different ways,

@kdfrawg the reality is there are plenty of resources for all of us to live comfortable lives. The problem is: the wealth is not well distributed and the mechanisms for redistributing it can be bought and sold like anything else.

Thus, the current state of affairs.

@kdfrawg plenty of people live by the words of Gordon Gekko: "Greed is good. Greed works."

@kdfrawg sadly, we've collectively allowed this state of affairs to continue unabated for, well, since the dawn of civilization…

@kdfrawg pretty much.

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Here's a fine example of journalism about Intermittent Fasting [latimes.com].

The TL;DR: "It sounds uncomfortable" and a lot of anecdotal evidence to say it's insane. Meanwhile, we've been intermittently fasting as a species since time immemorial, yet we're still here. She doesn't even bother to interview someone actually intermittently fasting to see what the real scoop is, instead just dismisses it as a fad.

And the newspapers wonder why they are increasingly irrelevant. It's their own doing.