You really either ride it out or be OK with the chance of missing out on a few more years of a hot market. I’ve been expecting a big (sustained) correction since 2018 and even COVID couldn’t get it done.

If you need money soon, put it in something fully insulated, like a CD or HYSA if you need it even more liquid. If you need wealth in 10+ years, just ride it out. Keep putting that piece of your paycheck in the infinite money glitch machine.

I live in California and am required to water a lawn as a renter with my drinking water. Turf grass may not need drinking water, but I’d guess the portion of water used for grass that is recycled is not particularly high.

You may also be surprised about what makes water “drinking water”. There’s a water project in San Diego that is aiming to close the water loop by purifying all wastewater using RO and UV, to the point that it is lab-quality pure water. It’s illegal to add minerals to it and pump it into the municipal water supply. They have to discharge it into a river first and let it have a certain “residence time” in an open air reservoir. The water we drink here isn’t much more than lake water, and far less clean than the water that can be made by recycling wastewater.

Opeth is a strange one and I don’t think it really counts. The band was still forming when the current leader of the band joined. Yeah if you’re super technical then the band that formed didn’t include him, but it seems like the “original” group hadn’t even played any showed before Akerfelt joined.

In a bio that Akerfelt wrote he says that basically the band died the day he showed up to a rehearsal and later he and the original founder “reformed” Opeth, so it’s debatable if it’s a ship of thesius situation or a new ship with the same name.

According to Wikipedia, the band formed in 69 and the earliest a current member joined was 70 (Ian Hill). Halfords didn’t join until 73.