Cheapest place to get sema right now? Price keeps going up — need advice

DebRD_ATL said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.

Moderator note: a couple of off-topic posts removed. Carry on.

hank_denver said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.

hank_denver said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.