Yeah, I heard about this and completely ignored it. Until someone pulls me aside and tells me I’m flashing a hate symbol, I’m giving the okay. And even then, I’d only change my behavior for that one person. No way am I changing a 25±year habit for some fascist culturally appropriating fucks.

Oh, these pies? They were made in a factory… A bomb factory. They’re bombs.

That is officially comfortably worth more than my car ☠️

Would anyone believe a guy like Jon Arbuckle though?

As someone with far less and fully satisfied, there is truly no standard. The idea of always wanting or needing more is something that is pushed upon us at a massive societal level. If you have the things you truly need, you can work towards things you want, and if you have the things you want, congrats. You’re there. It is an option to feel like you need more than what you have once your essentials are met. No one other than yourself actually cares if you’re ambitious and if you don’t get satisfaction from the ambition to pursue more, then don’t.

I’d imagine the other option is ‘hurting’

I just reread it last month and it holds up quite well. The sense of panic in the opening chapters is palpable.

Don’t speak me or my son or my son’s son ever again.

I really struggle with books that sound like a narration and much prefer them when I feel like they’re in the room telling me the story. I’ve found it much easier to find this in young adult fiction compared to adult novels.

Some examples of books that hooked me right away as a kid and I read in a month or less:

• Holes
• Hatchet
• The Call of the Wild
• My Side of the Mountain
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Artemis Fowl

Take a look at this and it gives some room for flexibility (from a movie called Waking Life): https://youtu.be/4arOKZvuZK4

Don’t make mistakes! This is for my really important lawyer job and I could get in trouble!

Being gay is the manliest thing you can do

Honestly a great game for letting off steam. My favorite move is the meat skateboard into the kickflip.

These are known as Direct to Film or DTF (lol). They are quite literally a printed plastic sheet that’s melted to the shirt. Easiest way to check for this is to crease the shirt on the design. Screenprinted will reveal the shirt color underneath where DTF will be a solid sheet.

If I had to guess, this avoids the classic case of staring at someone a little too long to read their shirt. The shirt design isn’t so much for the wearer, it’s a billboard to others. Also, printing on the front has much more noticeable texture than printing on the back which would make the surface a bit uncomfortable across the entire front as opposed to the back where you’ll hardly notice the feel.

Even the best screen printing techniques have at least a bit of feel to them.

It just dawned on me that no matter what, we have a wasted seat on self-driving taxis because we still put a wheel and pedals that are expected to go unused in the vehicle. I think this would help highlight just how unsafe this concept really is. With the wheel and pedals there, maybe it’s giving people more of an illusion of control or something, because I feel like having nothing there would make people a lot less comfortable, even though that’s the reality of the situation.

Edit: people keep bringing up ways this could be used, and that we do it for cost-cutting, but this still doesn’t detract from the reality of how they were actually deployed before these concerns were addressed. They’re not even commenting on it and letting the consumer fill in their PR’s gaps for them.

https://xkcd.com/1688/

Does the screeching chill your blood and herald death? If yes, banshee. If no, seagull.

Just take their license. Driving is a privilege not a right. You are putting others in danger when you drive dangerously and just because you don’t like the laws and can afford it doesn’t mean you should be allowed to ignore them.

Of course, taking a license won’t stop them from getting in a car and driving it, but it will dramatically increase consequences for getting caught ignoring it.

I mentioned in a previous thread about this that car suspension behaves weird when you’re accelerating and it unexpectedly lets off. I believe it’s referred to as off-throttle oversteer. You also remove headroom for reacting to other drivers, even if you are a shitty one. This will only make those pushing the limits of these things even more dangerous.

I love this at the bottom of the page

If you can’t do a wahh wahh after a week, you’re probably just not meant for the trumpet.