Yep, 99% of the time that’s the case around here. Live next to a well trafficked road and have heard enough to identify a modded exhaust. It’s very rare that the loud assholes have stock exhausts, they usually put money into buying loud shit or just slice their old one off for good measure.

Also, even the modded exhausts wouldn’t be so bad if the drivers didn’t intentionally gun it just to make noise.

Then come the motorcycle groups, they’re the absolute worst. Even one is bad, but when a group of 50 travel through here on a quiet day it’s just… sad, enraging etc.

They’re the loudest we get around where I live, if ANYONE is breaking a noise ordinance it’s them, 50× over but I’ve never seen them pulled over or ticketed.

I don’t care if they’re loud, go do that on a “back road” where the houses are an acre away, don’t do it on a small street where babies are sleeping barely 20 feet away from you. At that volume, being that close they’d might as well knock on your door and scream in your face.

Last comment stated international women’s cricket should be renamed international cis women’s cricket 🤔 because women who experienced testosterone puberty are excluded

Whereas a group of TW playing football can 100% use “Women’s football league” Even if the league is 100 trans women and cis women are excluded

That’s all I’m saying, how’s that not taking a title? Not saying this with any malice, hope that’s clear I’ve no dog in this race other than supporting everyone but that’s weird to me

This is interesting 🤔 admittedly I haven’t read the article yet but the excerpt seems to be stating that they have shared traits, but doesn’t say they’re exactly the same.

Basketballs share commonalities with footballs but it’s still a different story, just not sure I’d claim to have experienced both without having 100% experienced both.

Not insulting you or coming off with any malice that’s just my take, but I can see exactly where you’re coming from. TW orgasms are probably much, much more like CW orgasms than they are cis-man orgasms so I see where you’re coming from.

It’s not that their history makes them less of a woman, just that going through puberty with testosterone leads to advantages that those that went through non-testosterone puberty didn’t have.

Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as taking testosterone blockers or whatever, they still don’t reverse some of the advantages that going through testosterone puberty provides.

Someone smarter than me may come along but if not just googling or ducking some knowledge about testosterone puberty will shine some light on why they’ve made this change in the sport…

Seriously?

I agree with much of what you said but have to nit-pick a part that I found confusing.

trans women are women

And cis women are cis women?

Comes off as if an afab person, who has always referred to herself as simply “woman” now has to refer to herself as “cis woman” to be exact, whereas trans women have now adopted “woman”

I’m a guy, and I’d be pretty irritated if people suddenly started insisting that I not refer to myself as “guy” anymore, because trans guys are now “guys” so they get my old title but now I have to specifically state that I’m a “cis guy” everywhere…

Like why would I have to give up my title? It’s one thing for them to adopt it as well, not like I mind, more the merrier! But why am I having to change my title when I’ve been the same all along?

It’s like if people began changing cats into dogs, and claiming the name “cat” for the former dogs. Cool, do what you will, but then they tell me that my “cats” aren’t “cats” anymore, they’re cis-cats and I must refer to them as such. Why? They’ve always been cats to everyone? How you gonna tell me that you get the name “cats” but my lifelong “cats” are now something else?

How do you know how they differ with such detail?

Hey, you and everyone reading this need to take something from me, work on yourself, get to know yourself, don’t put so much energy into others and eventually you won’t even want a relationship you’ll be too in love with yourself to let another into that dynamic and risk it.

Decades of relationships and this is a summary of what I’ve learned, don’t learn the hard way! Put yourself first asap, requiring another person for happiness is codependency at its finest, trust me I’ve been there.

Don’t fret, much of the population is codependent, they just haven’t realized it. It’s super duper common. Society has taught us that relationships are a necessity in life so when we’re not in one we feel inadequate. That’s not true. You have you, and you are valuable.

Wait what’s this about a free selection? Why would you have to be quick and sneaky if it’s free?

Sort of sounds like… shoplifting with extra steps

I’m imagining there being some trees and whatnot, which may be in err but also being on a blank football field doesn’t seem very fair

Like in my mind I assumed you’d be in a sort of jungle atmosphere or something but admit that’s probably just from watching Jurassic park a few too many times.

Nevertheless the prompt doesn’t really elaborate on the exact environment it would be, just the size so I feel sort of justified with assuming it would be an “in theme” environment and not just… you vs. T-Rex on a random football field because that just seems idk, wrong… like you have a T-Rex, we’ve watched Jurassic park and everyone knows this is supposed to happen in a jungle /s

Edit: island with jungle-like trees and foliage…

Oh I’m super happy to share if you’d like me to dm or comment, just cautious mainly bc I was banned or suspended from reddit subs for “sourcing” or something like that

Netflix and Hulu, etc. Have left a bad taste in my mouth as well. Was a member when Netflix began and was only a DVD rental service.

They had so much good content and if it wasn’t available for streaming you could almost always just rent the DVD, they had a pretty decent DVD rental program for a while.

Wow, that all changed rapidly. Took a hiatus from streaming and only came back a couple years ago. Subscribed to Netflix again like “yeah! Gonna be 100× more shit than before!”

No, much of the best content was gone. The entirety of Netflix only provided less than a handful of shows I was even “meh” about. No more DVD rental either.

I watched squid games and that was pretty much it. Let that trial expire and began to explore different services.

Sheesh, wtf. Just to catch up on some old stuff and watch a few new things I’d been hyped about I realized required me to basically subscribe to damned near everything. AMC+ for TWD, Hulu for iirc workaholics, Netflix again for don’t remember, Amazon prime solely for The Boys and Omniman or whatever it’s called HBO max for iirc mortal Kombat Paramount for old south park And I’m positive I got at least two more.

That’s 8 subscription services a MONTH I’d have to pay, just to watch the equivalent of what I used to get on cable.

Of every single one of those trials, I don’t think I watched any more than the one show/movie I’d initially signed up for. Forgot I even had a few just because they didn’t have anything else I liked anytime I checked.

Then discovered a great site that I’m not sure if I can name here. This isn’t an ad for it because I don’t want to see it shut down.

Was everything that those services should be. Just have EVERYTHING I can think of to watch including older movies. Anytime I remember a show I used to like I just type it in and it’s always there, never had a search that didn’t yield results.

All that and the interface is even better. No ads with a blocker ofc, no subscription reminder Bs, no promoting their own originals, no promoting what companies have paid them to… they just show the most watched stuff in the feed but you can easily find whatever you want.

Even Netflix last I checked couldn’t keep up with that. They have a search function but 99% of the time what you’re looking for isn’t available. Their categories are also just… horrible. It’s just a hodgepodge of stuff they want you to watch, they aren’t really categorized well.

I really wish that we could rewind 20 or so years to back when Netflix first became successful and instead of just creating umpteen streaming companies competing against each other maybe… just maybe we had one single streaming platform with everything people actually want to watch…

But that would likely mean $100+ monthly subscription fees… worse than the cable we ran from, and then ofc they’d just have ads anyway like Hulu unless you pay even more… it’s ridiculous. If they’d just consolidate and ask a reasonable price pirating wouldn’t be so prevalent at all. Problem is, it’s now so much easier to pirate and in my case I get even better service that way.

It’d be a monopoly ofc, but isn’t it basically just a big Monopoly anyway? A select few companies basically run the entire industry in the U.S. sure they’re technically different companies but they have made it almost impossible for smaller companies to start up. How can you compete with Disney, for example?

Can dig them right next to my indestructible hut think I’d have time to run back in before the rex gets me, read somewhere they might not be much faster than humans anyway

I’ve watched Jurassic Park 1 at least 23 times I have this

This is a fun idea

1: Keister some fentanyl in, poison the food with fentanyl, set food outside hut.

Depending on the dosage it will either die or be very weak for a while.

2: refuse knife, demand shovel. Dig giant holes to trap it. Possibly fill holes with sharp sticks so it’s impaled or at least fucks up a foot or two. Bonus points for digging smaller holes all around the Hut then piss it off and watch it break it’s legs.

3: depending on how intelligent it really is, you could possibly get it to do it’s self great bodily harm. I caught an angry squirrel in a cage once. The squirrel just headbutted the cage over, and over and over. By the time I’d gotten to it it’d already busted it’s head open pretty horribly, like it hurt to watch. Didn’t stop it though, just kept headbutting that cage in a… rage? Not even “normal” headbutts, these were full body jumps from one side of the cage to the other. It was trying to use it’s head as a battering ram I guess. So maybe provoke the rex and run to your indestructible hut. Maybe it knocks itself senseless trying to get to you. Personally I wouldn’t bet my life on that but eh, you do you.

4: just… traps. Summon your inner Hunter. "What would kill this thing and how to I make that happen? Deep hole strategy again, collect some vines, scale a tree, hoist down with the vines above the hole and now you’re bait.

Idk

As was pointed out I guess I’d have to dig the holes close® to the indestructible hut.

Tie the knife to a long stick then wait for sleepy time… still idk how you’d go about getting away

If you could craft a shovel you could dig a deep hole and trap it maybe, then stick-knife it’s eyes out. Or a bunch of relatively small holes so it breaks a leg, maybe sprains an ankle and is weakened…

Oh this is actually a pretty decent idea!

Just dig deep a deep enough hole that it won’t be able to escape then lure it in.

Bonus points if you dig the hole down path from a creek then drown it, it’d have to be a pretty big hole though.

Once it’s stuck in the hole just tie the knife to a long stick and poke away.

Maybe sharpen a bunch of sticks and have them at the bottom of the hole so when it falls in it at least fucks it’s feet up or possibly is impaled depending on the size of stick.

Idk I’m starting to think fuck the knife, just give me a shovel, a month may be steep for such a big hole but I’ve done enough digging for a living to know it’s possible, if you’re motivated enough.

bonus: alternatively, dig relatively small holes everywhere so it breaks it’s legs

Exactly! It’s ridiculous. My father is disabled and on a fixed income. He has insurance but his treatment still costs him thousands a year, even though he only receives a few thousand to live on.

Exactly, and tbh if we stopped making vehicles today people would still be driving many years from now, feel like we should really… stop mining the earth for resources to then use making things people don’t even need so we can be richer… just make vehicles repairable again and focus on that.

Maybe, instead of everyone buying brand new cars we can just upgrade our old ones, like a PC.

So you want the latest Dodge body to look cool? Okay, we’ll just pop that onto you’re already existing frame, no need in buying a new engine/chassis etc if you’re only seeking an aesthetic change anyway

Speaking of that… all this $ people pay for faster cars when they’ll only really drive them between 30-70mph is ridiculous. Why even make commercial cars faster than the speed limit? Just so dummies can drive drunk at 120mph and hit a family head on? Until we get an Autobahn there’s just no need for it.

No need for 16 year olds, anyone really to have a V8 with 900 horsepower just give them something that will go the speed limit and save the fucking resources

When I buy a vehicle, I touch it, if it’s solid metal hey awesome, if it’s plastic or fiber whatever I just nope out because I’ve seen what happens when they’re in the smallest of accident.

I can pull a ding out of metal, or even just stop by pull apart and pop a replacement door or whatever off something similar. Can’t do that when half the frame shatters in impact, might as well buy another car which is exactly what they want us to do

I feel like it would make a huge difference. They’re planning obsolescence for vehicles and equipment now too. I have a tractor from the 70’s that’s still running fine, why? Because they used to make them with the idea that the consumer can and should be able to perform their own maintenance and repair, for a farmer back then a tractor was a huge purchase and was expected to last many years. I

Meanwhile, the new ones require being brought to the shop for all kinds of things, many can only be fixed with software that most people don’t have, if available at all.

Instead of repairing what they have, companies want people to just buy new stuff every couple of years if not sooner.

It’s just sad when stuff from 50 years ago will still last longer than something you purchase today.

Regarding automotives and equipment, old machinery could last forever really, with the right replacement parts, but those are getting extremely hard to find as well with everyone just buying new instead of repairing what they have. It’s something else…