My stepdad had a hauling business. Huge stakebody diesel truck he called Big Blue, you’d call him and he’d bring us kids over and we would load the truck. He’d take it to the dump or wherever they wanted.

Usually us kids rode in the open back of the truck with whatever we were hauling, which was usually old furniture and trash.

One day we were moving a TON of furniture and the whole truck was packed. So packed that there wasn’t much room for us but there was like a littke pocket in the middle.

Being stupid kids, we decided to start clambering around on top of the furniture, never mind that the truck is barreling down the state highway.

Well i was climbing up on some dressers towards the back of the truck, but they had been covered with moving blanket.

When all of my weight got up on top of the dresser, the wind pressure started sliding me and the goddamn moving blanket backwards, and since the dressers were taller than the stake walls of the truck that meant me and the moving pad were headed directly off the back of the truck, going 60+mph

I of course tried to scramble back to safety but all my effort just pulled the damn furniture pad towards me and I kept sliding.

My feet went off the back of the dressers, dangling over the highway, when one of the kids with me heard my terror screams over the wind, realized what was happening and jumped and caught the edge of the moving blanket ending my rearward progress.

We kept riding in the back on hauling jobs but I learned to be more careful.

bonus: That same stepdad, one of his own natural kids was real wild. He stowed away on the roof of their Winnebago before the mom drove it over the Maryland Bay Bridge. She said she couldn’t figure out why everyone was honking and pointing but it’s not like she could pull over on the bridge!

The 80’s was wild.

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that old ‘you don’t change a horses mid stream’ energy

whoa i just looked it up and my state has mandatory unit pricing laws that my kroger breaks in every aisle!

you’re right, I meant 4 years as aboundary even if that’s actually high.

Since it’s a hypothetical material we don’t know what max speed information can travel through it and the actual answer would be related to that, so a lower boundary at 4 years anyway.

If the material was truly somehow magically incompressible then I expect we would see some kind of time dilation so that the information could move at the right speed without deforming the rod. It would still take at minimum 4 years.

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fatherless biped that can’t lay eggs

4 light years, the universe won’t allow anything else.

goddamn clown show.

While it can be used for dating, that doesn’t seem to be the main focus (I have only been there 2 days though).

You use checkboxes to filter the content you’re interested in so you can ignore all the dating stuff, that’s what i’m doing as I too have a partner and am not looking either.

I have joined 3 groups (a local chat, a local MTF support room and a ‘platonic friends’ group that seems to be national.

heres most of the content tags in search:

I was literally just thinking today that it’s wild that t-mobile has been honoring my simple choice plan prices from 2010. I jinxed us! If they could raise the price at any time i’m amazed it hasn’t happened before tbh.

Lex is pretty nice it’s like queer nextdoor

for my part, I have been absolutely up the asses of my state senators and reps, contacting them at least once a week. We just had local elections and I made sure to vote for the politicians who said they care about i the issues that I do.

The democrats are on the wrong side of this one, no doubt. It’s still the reality that we live in that Trump and the republican party are way worse at the federal level than biden and the democrats.

I get your rage, I really do. But again, i’m a realist. i don’t think we are going to see eye to eye so i’m out but I wish you a good day and I appreciate your fire.

Reductio ad absurdum at its finest

we live in the real world, where we are going to get one of these assholes. You can either try to nudge it towards the better asshole or you can whine about it or whatever but the reality is that bar the grim reaper intervening one of them is going to be president and your ability to influence that is very smol.

I’m not a democrat, but I am a realist and you have to interact with the situation you’re in somehow.

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wow that’s handy! I fucking hate videos and I love this!

ugh when you’re just wondering if there’s a ticking bomb in your body.

I removed the rear mastic padding from a girlfriends car with an angle grinder. It had asbestos in it and my PPE was like a dust mask and a shower after each of the many sessions it took. I’m probably fine. Still hear that tick tick tick whenever a cough lingers though.

the best was either parachute day or when they got the little knuckle crusher dolly’s for us to ride around on.

least favorite was jogwalking the mile

hated those presidential physical fitness tests so much.

I volunteered to do recycling at my school so I could spy.

One of my best scores was a stack of blank physical fitness award achievement documents and sold them to other kids for $1 each so they could put their name on 'em and take 'em home!

this also works if you lose your glasses and need to see a clock or something.

like you can be past 20/800 myopic and it works!