Because HOAs are not bad if ran correctly.

The problem is when someone’s freedom infringes on another’s.

Can a neighbor resurrect a 15ft tall obscene statue in their yard?

Land of the free says yes. But every neighbor is going to hate it.

With an HOA you don’t have to worry about it because the HOA will not allow it. You are protected from your neighbor’s choices that could make your property less appealing.

I have a s25+ and I almost always type with one hand. I am faster typing with two thumbs, but it’s not easier, just faster.

But if the whole weight of the bottom run is flat/supported it should not matter that much.

I see your point though, they shouldn’t have done it.

I have never seen anyone put the cleat in the middle of the bottom step run.

I don’t see a reason why it would be bad though

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They start high and then get cheaper. You are basically paying to reserve the seat. The price will fall until it hits someone’s price range.

It you wanted to wait until the game starts you can buy significantly cheaper tickets. But if you want a certain designated seat and to get there early then you have to pay for that.

Not saying it’s a good way to do it. But this does give the person that’s willing to pay more the rights to the seat vs something like a first come first serve system. In those, the scalpers buy them up and resale. Harder to scalp the overpriced tickets because the scalpers have to continuously follow the price and gamble, not just buy them for their “lowest price” at a certain time.

It’s your brain saying “You are going to do this” rather than saying “I am going to do this”

Most stories aren’t written in 2nd person because the author doesn’t really know you. But when you know yourself you can be the best author of your story.

I believe that a lot of the way aphants and non-aphants think are similar but when it comes to imagines it’s completely different. I haven’t met someone that only thinks in pure images.

Like remembering past personal events. I have SDAM, Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory, that comes probably from my aphantasia. When I think of my last birthday party for example I can remember who was there, what kind of cake, where it was celebrated, anything out of the ordinary happen. But I cannot replay the visual memory in my head. I have to factually recall things about it. Now go back another birthday party and I might be able to remember something out of the ordinary if it stuck with me. But when “looking” back at my like it is all facts. I use to play baseball, 3rd base/outfield, batted 4th. I remember our team being good, I remember I got in trouble a bunch because after I hit I would just release the bat and it would go flying. But I couldn’t tell you about a specific game or anything, I don’t remember a good hit or catch. Just facts.

You do sound like the opposite. Do you have hyperphantasia?

I’d definitely take just audio over reading any day.

Reading just requires me to play the audio in my inner voice. If someone else read and said it then it’s less brain power for me.

Another example from my girlfriend that is an imager.

She pictures a blank memo pad when she tries to fall asleep and focuses on keeping it blank.

I assume this is her version of counting sheep. Trying to keep images from popping into your mind to distract you from falling asleep.

For me I put myself in a scenario and imagine it. Like I walk up to the city of Qarth from Game of Thrones and they won’t open up the gates. I usually give myself superpower. I just “run” with it until I fall asleep. But imagining my body moving is one of the keys, I enjoy lightsaber battles.

I am not watching it, I am experiencing it. It’s not the same as watching it in 1st or 3rd person. It is like experiencing it in 2nd person if your brain was the narrator.

I find other people with aphantasia to be very similar to me.

Imager seem to be very different from one another probably depending on how good image generation is.

One example is I don’t go into a movie with visual expectations. I’ve read Harry Potter, I knew he was a small kid with messy black hair and taped glasses. But when I saw the movie I didn’t care if Dainel Radcliffe fit the role because I had no image of Harry Potter in my mind. Just the details.

Do you get images popping into your head at random times ever?

From my understanding imagers have a lot of that going on from PTSD to counting sheep because they need other images to stop.

I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to

I would say this is true for me with aphantasia. My sister is about to turn 40 and I just convinced her the other day that she has aphantasia. She’s an avid reader and would swear that she could picture things in her mind while reading

My mental “picture” isn’t an image but a mental collection of details that I know exists because I built it in my mind.

I know phantasia is a spectrum, aphantasia to hyperphantasia, in detail. But I don’t know much about how often imagers use their images, always assumed the better you are at, more hyperphantasic, the more you used it.

Hmm.

I feel like I’m very logical and I don’t like speculating on things that I don’t have all the information on.

I can imagine things of course but only in like a practical reality sense

I’m confused of what you mean. Do you think you could give an example?

I take in information. If I take it in visually or by reading it, it’s basically the same. I’ll remember what I can as facts and details.

Lol I will stay blissfully unaware. Thanks for the heads up!

I don’t normally dream

But when I do they are very vivid like it feels real

I cannot determine if I am actually seeing visuals in them because after I wake up I cannot recall the images, but I feel like I can remember some details I saw visually rather than just making up the details.

Yes it extends to reading.

I do not have an image in my head of what Harry Potter is supposed to look like after reading the book. As long as the character in the movie didn’t have completely wrong details I wouldn’t think anything of it.

I’m the opposite. I will read a paragraph and then realize that I was thinking about something else and even though I read the paragraph I didn’t absorb any of the knowledge.

I couldn’t imagine reading outloud and thinking about what I need to do for work tomorrow. I have to 100% focus on reading words.

Reading text outloud for me does take more brain power. I’m reading it in my inner voice and now I have to translate that to spoken words.

I see “Elephant”, I say “Elephant” in my inner voice, I speak “Elephant” in voice. It’s an extra step.

I’d be like you and not really comprehending what I am reading if I just saw the word and verbally said it. I wouldn’t really comprehend the meaning as much.

If I wanted to get the best experience it would be following along in a book with audio.

I say every word basically with my inner voice while reading, so having someone else do that for me is brain power I do not have to use.

I took a lot of art classes, I can draw with a reference photo.

It is difficult for me to recall faces for example but if i reduce a face to geometric shapes and proportions and do a lot of trial and error so i can approximate a face I’ve seen.

Same I cannot see a person’s face in my mind but I can think of their face in proportions. I would have to do a ton of sketches to get basically sketch a reference photo, then I could work on making it better from there.