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ButteryMonkey

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  • I now have a car with that system after having an old dumb car for the preceding 20+ yrs of driving, and I keep it off by default, and turn it on only when I know I’ll be slightly distracted for a few minutes.

    It was just too difficult to get used to, and frankly it was so sensitive to where it was that just being near the edge of the road, where I like to ride to give other drivers as much space as possible because I don't trust them, set it off and it fought against me constantly, causing far more swerving than I’d otherwise do.. it’s also a giant asshole about country driving, where lane markers only apply when theres other cars around.

    I could see it being useful for new drivers who never had to learn to do fully manual driving, though, the same way power steering was a useful change that was difficult to adjust to for those who learned without it.

  • When apps just get it...

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  • When apps just get it...

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  • My Country music collection

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  • My favorite part of that set is how he adopts the accent in the lead-up to the jokes. Im big on language, always have been a mimic, and I notice the code switch. I assume he does it unconsciously to put himself in the mindset for the rest of the jokes.

    But yea thats how I feel about it, always have.

  • My Country music collection

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  • Listen to your average unknown random song and tell me where the people who sing it came from. Thats what I mean by no accent. It doesn't exist in language, but it VERY MUCH exists in music. A-accent is the default for singing.

    Hip hop I question that, but rap i could see because I’ve heard rap in other languages and being spoken poetry that does pick up a bit, but it isn't characteristic of the music, and you still usually cant tell unless you understand the specific language.. so id give that as a maybe at best.

  • 877-CASH-NOW

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  • What would actually happen if you did that? Im sure people have..

  • My Country music collection

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  • Country is a weird genre.

    In NO OTHER genre do you hear an accent by default, and it’s more or less required for country. That twang, the drawl. Its playing in the background of the dive bar I'm at right now.

    If you get someone from the deep south to sing alongside someone from the Netherlands, alongside a french person, maybe a Russian for kicks, the only genre you'll notice they aren't from the same country in country music will you hear where they are from. But not really because like any music its an affectation.

    Conclusion: country music is fake bullshit made to pander to fucking stupid people who think their redneck culture exists, rather than being just profitable. 😁

  • Sexual abuse takes many forms

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  • Its so good to see people wake up to casual sexism. Lucky 10,000 I guess, just a different format. And also assumes sexism is something “everyone knows about” for the math, which isn't at all reality, but whatever!

  • 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

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  • I have a similar relationship with my neurologist. I’ve been seeing him for over 15 years for stabby appointments. That is to say I get something like 60-80 injections every time I see him. He isn't in a position to give me tests, but he does use the things I say to help his other patients.

    Its botox injections for migraine, and he’s one of the first people to pick up doing it, so he's seen some shit. Nothing I say surprises him at all, unless its FUN. So early on when my skin was still reacting to it big time, i told him i sort of liked that I looked like a klingon after my appointments, and thats what I always told people because I needed to go to a brewery after to make the pain suck less.

    Im also almost always on board to be a training pin cushion for residents. So much that if the resident doesn't understand what I’m offering them (a willing participant to their education; a unicorn), he just says “if you are ready to practice injections, she’s offering, and she doesn’t flinch”.

    Because I’m used to it. I try not to flinch because that’s worse. I’m pretty upbeat about the whole thing. And I recently found out he has patients who scream about it every single spot. Holy fuck. I can’t imagine being that sensitive. So now i understand why he admitted to his existential crisis to me. (“I feel like I’m going to hell for causing people such pain as part of my job” he’s retirement age or older, so understandable thought)

  • When apps just get it...

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  • Deathbulge #281

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  • I’m a quite short woman (two standard deviations from average!💪🏻) and met this guy who was like considerably shorter than I am, had to have qualified as a little person, since I’m only a couple inches too tall to qualify myself, and he was quite attractive. I don’t generally find men aesthetically pleasing.

    You mean to tell me it’s just because I finally got a good angle???

    (Jk, he was an objectively attractive tiny king, with a personality to match)

  • There is another.

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  • I’d heard of that one and somehow ended up with whiskerwood instead, which is mice ruled by cats. Its still pretty early early access, but very cute :)

    Thanks for the reminder!

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  • What you need is a whole bramble! Ive never seen a blackberry bush as such, but an entire wall of plants? Yes. They'll continue to produce steadily for weeks/months.

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    Used EVs break records while sales of new EVs plummet

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  • Same thing except a ‘23 EUV model with 100k miles for 11k. I don't care about the miles, I’m not likely to put all that many on in the next decade, so averages out. My little coupe was dying a death of a thousand small but expensive problems, I need space to move project supplies (let me tell you, I'm amazing at tinycar Tetris, but I’ve started doing farming-adjacent things so genuinely need more room) and they gave me 4k for trade. Done and done.

    Everyone is just fascinated by whats under the hood (liquids, mostly). And how quiet it is. But man I will not be using climate control on longer trips if I can avoid it. It just chews through the battery. Thats potentially a problem here in the midwest, but not a problem for today me to deal with! And today me is already looking into making a portable solar charger (with used equipment because fuck buying new when used is so damn cheap) with a roof mount panel, big beefy battery pack, and good wiring for level 2 charging. Going to be expensive up front? Don't care! I want to be able to meet my needs without ever using fast chargers (ill give myself the first year while I get used to the very different planning), and being portable means I can use it at home just as easily, and only pack it up when I'm going on a long drive, so only one expensive setup needed! Mmmmmm eventually-free transportation.

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  • As a woman with a short vaginal tract, we have mostly developed ways to try to avoid the discomfort that sort of helps, usually, if our partners pay attention.

    For example, if she always has her hands on your hips or thighs in certain positions that limit your thrusts, don't push past that. That’s protective, not seductive.

    But a conversation can clear it all right up before it’s an issue. She might have plenty of length to accommodate yours, or she might like the feeling of hitting her cervix. Many women do. Idk why, but they do.

    Just like men are all different sizes, women are too :)

  • No little kid ever pointed excitedly and said "A rideshare!"

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  • They sort of already do that with the rail crossing dingy bells and lights, but both usually happen if the crossing apparatus is present. I think its required here?

    On a side note, I had to take a weird back way home the other day, due to highway closure, and found a house that has its own small scale private rail crossing with the drop bars and dingy bells and lights and everything, due to the rail hugging the road on the wrong side for them. It was very cute.

  • No little kid ever pointed excitedly and said "A rideshare!"

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  • I live a couple blocks from train tracks that are used for freight, they pass every 2 hours most of the time, and run 24/7. They shake my building when they pass, and I can hear them blast their horn for road crossings with the windows closed. All this to say trains themselves are nothing special to me as a thing that exists.

    I got to ride a subway (in Boston) for the first time back on like 2018-2019 or so, as a very much mid 30s woman, and even I got super excited for it. Like visibly, kid-seeing-train-for-first-time excited. My partner took a pic and titled it excitement. Dick.

    Then last year I took a train to Chicago and wouldn't you know, exactly as excited the entire time. Only half of that was because I didn't have to drive in a big city.

    I want trains!!! I want them to be fast and plentiful. I want to see trains all over the place, stopping in every single town. And I want them to do more than freight! Freight is good, don't get me wrong, but we could do so much more, we used to do so much more!! The freight lines still have all the old passenger stops along them, most of them are still in decent shape but have been converted to storage or businesses, but that could be fixed pretty damn easily.

    I’m sad that we used to have trains but now I have to drive everywhere because rich people fucking suck.

  • The implication of that

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  • Usually both, at least in my region.

  • "bird watching" goes both ways

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  • Super fair and was mostly and idk situation o just know what we see as motion they typically don't and so was a bit confused.

    All good think we are on the same page :)

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Inbox message of mention in a comment I wasn't mentioned in

  • Casual Conversation @piefed.social
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    Have any advice on dealing with difficult things?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What valuable resources are out there for men to learn about themselves?

  • Casual Conversation @piefed.social
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    Talk about incomplete progress

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Bazzite install not working (black screen when accessing bootable media)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How long did it take you to get used to glasses?

  • linux4noobs @programming.dev
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    Going to test bazzite - what should I know?

  • Rimworld @lemmy.world
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    Min requirements to run well