If you actually do still love America, you have to ask yourself what the fuck these red and blue retards are doing to it.

Putin Balks At West Imposing Oil Price Cap

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Perhaps I should have said that I am one of them, the poor people again, and that it is partly, even mostly, by choice. I do own that part of it.

To clarify further, I’ve never hurt a dog, except in my imagination, and I don’t think I ever will. I came a lot closer to it when I was thirty and forty and had a job that I needed to get my sleep for.

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I’m skipping over a lot to say this, but I’ve done the calculations, and I think I need about 300 square feet minimum to live properly, in a house at least.

Four would be better and eight better still. But price per square foot is a very important factor too.

An arched cabin is still sixty-something dollars per square foot best I can tell, and a very basic doublewide would be about the same, though that’s based on the fact that the smallest doublewides are much more than I need. A fancy tiny home is around three times as much, 200/sq.ft., and that is probably a dealbreaker, alas. Even the tiny homes that are too tiny for me come in at about twice the cost per square foot of the arched, or a medium-old trailer.

I need 100 square feet for a kitchen, and 50 or 60 for a bathroom-with-tub. Everything else is somewhat flexible. But a wood stove is twenty square feet, and so is a minimal closet, and so on. An office is another 100 at the extreme low end. I’m assuming the bed will be lofted off and thus not count as square footage, but the stairs do. (I could put a washer, closets, and cabinets beneath those stairs, a trick I learned at Tinyfest.)

Basically I’m back where I started, with the Arched being the best deal overall, unless and until I could find a full 400 of a tiny for way less than they were asking for new ones at the show. One for twenty-five thousand would pull it even, apples to apples, with building up from the foundation.

My head circles back to the sheds at Lowe’s, which may or may not be palatable to the zoning goons.

Circles within circles.

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Catching-up companion piece posted under 24 Nov if you care to.