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There's so much construction constantly happening in Madison it's insane.

That's taken with a Nikon D60 DSLR and the 18-55 kit lens. Cost about $500ish back in 2009 iirc.



That's taken with a Nikon Z6iii and 24-70 f4 S lens. Cost me around $3k total for the gear.

Mostly just posting these because you can take good landscapes with most anything. At your budget new you should be able to afford a Nikon Z50ii with the 16-50 kit lens which is a pretty great place to start out. If you're willing to shop used (from a reputable used store like KEH, MPB, Adorama, or B&H used) you can get more camera for your budget but that's up to your comfort and research level.

Like someone else posted, I would definitely find a way to handle the major camera brands (Nikon, Canon, Sony) in person. Ergonomics is a huge part of how much you're going to enjoy and use the camera, from how much it weighs, feel in the hand, button placement etc. Go to Best Buy and ask the employee to detach the camera from the anti theft rig so you can hold it and get a feel for it. Or if you're lucky enough to have a local camera store, go there. Or find a friend who shoots. Or find a local camera club where people will let you hold their gear. You can learn everything about the different specs and price points for every major camera on YouTube, but none of those videos can tell you how the camera is gonna feel to you in your hand.

Also don't get too caught up on the different brands. $1k on any of the major camera brands is gonna buy you essentially the same level of tech and capability from all 3. Everyone is a fan of their brand, but unless you have a super specific must have feature that only one brand offers (and just starting out you don't lol) you'll be fine with any of the big three in terms of capability.

The Falklands task force involved more Royal Navy ships than the current Royal Navy can deploy in its entirety.

They've had near misses with this in the past at La Guardia, I was on a flight in 2021 that had to do a go around because of a vehicle on the runway. Was some maximum pucker factor when we're just about to touch down and the engines rev all the way up and the nose of the plane suddenly tilts way way up.

Our house has a his and hers set of sinks. Her sink has about 4x the available counter space and cabinet as mine and yet my sink has 10x the actual clear usable space because she leaves every skin care, makeup, pill bottle and Lord knows what else out on the counter.

Gotta remember, the people who write these rules (similar to a bank saying you can afford $X amount of house) are working for entities that have a set % of write offs baked into their calculation. They anticipate some % of these loans to fail. Just because the other % doesn't fail doesn't mean they're not 1 struggling or 2 going to fail the next year or the one after etc.

For you as an individual, you should not be anywhere near the mortgage lenders max estimate, as that puts you right up near the edge of failure where if anything goes wrong you could be set back significantly, and even if nothing goes wrong your only investment ends up being your house.

My wife and I are paying just under 20% of our gross into a mortgage, and I'm not super thrilled with that as is. Every 1% less from that 30 or 20 or whatever "magical" % is another % you could be saving or investing into something else.

Damn I didn't get one.

How TF is this thing up on a red as hell day :lol:

I'm up 405% on this since buying in, absolutely crazy!

God bless I am a small fry in this, wish I had had more "for fun" funds around when I first bought at 41c. I only got myself to 1700 shares but I'm still up almost $1200 today, this thing is nuts but I'm happy to be here for it.

The thing that began 1000 years ago and ended 700 years ago? That happened as a direct result of Muslims invading and conquering Christian territories? That thing?

I know we joke about Muslims being stuck in the stone age but if something that happened a millennia ago as a result of your own kind fricking around and finding out is your excuse for your actions in 2026 then maybe many Muslims aren't emotionally or intellectually mature enough to interact with modern civilization.

shite the Mongols seized, looted, burned, and put the city of Baghdad to the sword around the time that the crusades were winding down but Muslims aren't frothing at the mouth to commit jihad in Mongolia.