…does actually work wonders. I just had to be forced to do it consistently.
Except I completely missed another factor:
Christmas Eve rolled around, my dad picked me up from the train station. It was just a ten minute drive home, but of course, some asshat had to tailgate us. My dad pretty much just routinely became angry.
Which I get. That shit used to stress me out, too.
But well, used to. I had not experienced that level of stress for multiple months. I felt like some monk, checking in on what the normal people were dealing with.
I used to do that, but then my mom was in the ER and I kinda wanted to get there quickly and someone decided to play that game with me. I just get out of the way now.
Just go around… Tailgaters are trash, if anyone is creating a dangerous situation by following that close, i couldn’t care if their entire family is in the ER. Putting other people in danger is not okay.
Sure, lemme just pass you on the right and then cut you off to get back over while you delude yourself into thinking you’re not creating the unsafe situation by refusing to follow the god damned law and fucking yield. Asshole.
Yes we never really know what someone else is up to. Often they can be straight up A-holes, but there are those in emergency situations.
When driving especially my truck and camper many were confused why I pulled over so often to let vehicles by on 2 lane roads. I slowed down in passing sections to manage traffic behind me safely to pass. They were expecting people to hold them up as it is everyone else for themselves especially when passing lanes come and the slow pokes only speed up for those. The worst are those that ride in the passing lane without moving over and get into the I’m going to show them and block them in.
I loved driving down in the states with several lanes to the highway with lanes for every speed. I could pick a lane and not hold up people that wanted to go faster than the 80 miles/hr in Texas. 80 m/hr is pretty fast for a loaded truck and camper so I was relieved I didn’t need to hold up people in these situations especially people like me in my Volvo 850 T5 that have places to go!
I mean, I’ve also done that at times, but it just happens so often around here. You basically can’t drive more than a few minutes on a road without having someone tailgating you…
That’s awesome! I wish I could do that. I quit a fairly well paying job because I can’t stand driving in this overpopulated shit hole I live in adding 3+hours to my day and now I’m a factory schmuck so I have to drive some distance just to get to work anyway.
Tried learning some forms of development so I could try to work remotely as that seems to be the only way to really dump your car, but my dumbass brain finds no interest in anything development related… I’m not sure if I hate my brain or driving more lol
Love this, great job! The lower stress level since I take the train for longer journeys and the bike for shorter ones is increasing the quality of life so much.
And then I have to drive a car every three weeks… Insane what some people habe to deal with every day. I feel so sorry for them.
Absolutely. If you can bike, it’s amazing. We went mostly car free for our last 6 months in the US. It was both wonderful and horrible. There are so many places it’s just not safe to go on a bike, but not being in a car reduces your stress levels so much it’s hard to imagine.
i live in finland, we have bike lanes everywhere. it’s often shorter and faster to use an e-bike if you own one, especially during rush hour. but the new problem is that dumb people have bikes too! i get even angrier on a bike than behind a wheel.
We are trying to add more bike lanes to city centers in places in Canada at the cost of existing car lanes.
I use to bike everywhere as a young teen in my rural area but once I had access to a car those days were left behind me.
The issue is many people commute daily in from the suburbs over a hour away (up to 120kms or like up to the distance of Hanko to Helsinki) by highway, other roads, and biking these long distances isn’t as feasible for those that live outside the city cores which so many do. In the East many drive up to 2 hours each way due to traffic conditions.
It’s a huge challenge to rework the suburbian sprawl to the affordable housing in the outlying areas.
In North America we don’t think anything of driving 4 hours for a road trip on a weekend. I think that could mean going through a few countries in Europe and often we haven’t even left a state or province after 8 hours of driving.
In the west the transit system has vast distances its trying to cover for a lot less people than in the east. It’s overloaded often and there’s not enough of it in many places. It’s a tricky issue with not enough population condensed into a smaller area.
The suggestion of 15 minute cities is viewed as evil oversight by government by some of the car culture people in the rural areas. While it would make more sense to have people living closer to their higher paying jobs many just can’t get use to this type of thinking outside of the city cores which many left decades ago for the promise of safety in suburbia.
During covid it was proven working from home is a pretty good option for many so that is a partial solution, however many companies have called these workers back to the offices and the congestion has returned.
Then there is the issue of the homeless in many of the city cores and the rampant bike theft.
For me I do wonder coming from a wet most of the time in winter Vancouver how those that commute by bike in the rain stay dry?
i value my time so much i could never accept a job from 120 km away, or really anything over 20 km or 20 mins by car. and biking in the rain ain’t that bad, you can get all kinds of waterproof clothing. personally i find it easier to just get wet and let it dry off in school or work. it’s a horrible thought but you get used to it pretty easily, though i wouldn’t do that if i had to commute for longer than 15 mins.
Too many people treat drinking like it's some kind of contest imho - like, if you don't enjoy the flavor, then why drink it, and if you do, then why ... ah... quaff it?
On a hot day with a light beer? Because if you’ve been working in the heat, it is really nice and cold and cools you off, and when you drink it fast, you get a little buzz that makes the heat less obnoxious.
It’s not a competition, but sometimes you just sit one down in ya, then you sit down in it, and you enjoy the second one more slowly for different reasons, ya cunt.
Replying to myself to add, you can also continue to fuck up on random weekends in August, October, November and December as well as a handful of weekdays but not too many and still make this your year!
And sometimes the harbor frieght is a direct clone of the name brand but for inferior plastic parts where the name brand would have metal. You can often upgrade the knockoff to be a near equivalent.
I’m in that fifth house that no-one ever seems to talk about: BOSCH.
J/K, I’m mostly Bosch, but I look towards whichever manufacturer makes the best version of a tool I currently need. For example, my chainsaws and yard/orchard power tools are Stihl, my lawnmower is Husqvarna, my circular saw, worm drive saw and abrasion/steel cutoff saw are all Skilsaw (not Skil!), and my oscillating multi tool is Fein.
Plus, many of the domestics are vintage, from before production was outsourced out of America, which makes them much more reliable and robust than modern tools. Even some of the other tools are vintage – my Stihl 076 Super can cut through a 60cm log like a hot knife through butter. And I have both 36″ and 72″ bars to go with it.
I always lean towards Bosch where possible, mainly because of their charitable work. The founder set things up so that it’s perpetually funded from the company profits. That just appeals to me as the tiebreaker when deciding between a bunch of similarly priced tools that will otherwise do the job well enough.
That said, I tend to go for corded options where practical. I have some corded tools that I’ve owned for over thirty years now that still get occasional use. Battery tools are convenient for their portability, but they do have a limit to their useful life.
That would put me in the Sixth House (seems like we’ve jumped ship from the Potterverse to the Locked Tomb series now?) as a Metabo HPT user – at least for battery-operated tools. I’ve got no allegiances when it comes to corded power tools, though – got everything from Harbor Freight only-need-it-for-one-job specials to DeWalt saws and routers, and a big ol’ Craftsman drill press I inherited from my grandfather.
Corded can be great! I have corded Bosch for anything in my workshop - why would I need batteries for a location with dozens of sockets? - and use batteries mainly in the field or where cords would start to get impractical. Plus, where the manufacturer only makes a battery version of the tool. The Bosch PROFACTOR GDS18V-740N, for example, only comes in a battery version. No corded version exists.
But when it comes to battery power tools, you have to pick a brand and stick with it, unless you’re John D Rockefeller with 6 types of charger and a billion battery packs.
Even within a brand, you usually contend with at least two different battery packs - 12v and higher - and even more if you keep your tools in good condition and their connection types are obsoleted before you buy more tools.
My brother and I used Ego for lawn work. I’m not sure if these brands have lawn/garden stuff (I think I remember Ryobi does), but it’s the same concept. I love battery powered tools, but I hate how the brands tie you in.
They absolutely saw how the AA and C and D and even the 18650 cells that every vape shop carries meant that a single supply of batteries could power any device you need them to and said absolutely the fuck not.
Never mind the terror that the CEO must feel as he contemplates tools that plug into any wall socket and need no batteries, ever.
Considering the market for the batteries, handy people with power tools, it’s kind of a shock that we’ve gone down without much fight. No, we won’t make some sort of viral battery carrier that you can 3D print at home, load up with 18650s, and use with an adapter for any tool. Yeah, we’ll just go ahead and buy DeWalt everything now that we bought that one battery pack for $75. Darn, if only I had the kind of tools that were good for grinding off little plastic nubs and shit that gets in the way. Oh well, time for my daily beating, it is what it is.
The big manufacturers (specifically, the ones listed by OP) change their battery connectors and voltages every 10 or so years in order to re-patent the shapes to make them the sole suppliers of usable batteries. People that work on job sites need batteries that are intrinsically safe and robust enough to get thrown around or smashed by other heavy tools. So those packs have to be really overbuilt.
Luckily the major design patents are about to run out and a third party will swoop in and free us from the tool manufacturer battery tyranny.
You typed this on a device that would allow you to learn anything, including tool use, and instead you chose to use that time to publicly claim your own ineptitude. This statement does not come from a place of disdain, but from a lack of understanding of why people often choose not to use the collective human consciousness as a tool to better their situation by learning skills and applying them. The dude who fixed your toilet isn’t any different than you, except he knows how to do something you don’t. With internet you can change that with a few Google searches.
It would be way too much cucumber for me, but this is right up some people’s alley. My husband will eat an entire cucumber whereas I can only enjoy a few slices at a time.
I have celiac, and I’ll sometimes use iceberg lettuce leaves as sandwich material. I prefer that because it’s got a much milder flavor.
I must detect a flavor that others don’t because there’s a pretty strong flavor for me that can’t be ignored.
They sometimes make me burp, too. Maybe it’s one of those genetic things because my dad has the same experience.
Don’t get me wrong – I really like cucumbers, especially ones fresh from the garden, but I’d never eat a big chunk in one sitting, unless it were a pickle.
Amazon. I can have anything. Even if restaurants count as stores, I can cook. I can also sell my free cars to buy drugs or whatever from places that aren’t stores. Heck, I can trade or pay individuals to do whatever.
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