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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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.

SWR is Standing Wave Ratio?

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

https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/qhEKoZO6DM8?si=x2_ZULx95CrX-8YY

I just learned of this site today, all it does is youtube summaries.

In the YouTube video titled “Never Criticize The Linux Foundation Expenses,” the speaker discusses the controversy surrounding criticism of the Linux Foundation’s expenses, with some arguing that the foundation’s support for various initiatives beyond Linux development is essential for the project’s viability. The speaker shares their personal opinion that they would prefer to see more funding directed towards improving the Linux ecosystem, but acknowledges that they do not have the right to dictate how the foundation spends its money. They also defend the Linux Foundation’s expenses, emphasizing the importance of events, marketing, and legal fees for promoting and protecting the Linux operating system. The speaker encourages individuals to directly support underfunded Linux projects and expresses their desire for more foundation support for the Linux desktop.

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!

does your client of choice not have basic message box filtering? this has been a pretty basic feature of email for decades now.

What are you using? Someone familiar with it can probably point you at the filters menu.

ahh this is great they don’t make a chilton or haynes for my vehicles and both are represented here, thanks!

they have 5 voices to choose from and Sky was not the default she was #4 but she was the best voice by a long ways. the replacement is too chipper.

okay mate, you have a good one