I love cars because they’re part art and expression, and part joy/relaxation. They’re as unique as an individual’s personality, and can be customized to suit. Driving on the open road is this synchronized dance of metal and flesh that propels you far faster than nature ever intended (less so if you drive an automatic). It’s a testament to human progress. As someone who loves engineering in every specialty, cars blend mechanical, electrical, electronics, robotics, design…every engineering specialty there is, into 1 complete package that utilizes them all. Every inch of a car is meticulously crafted and lovingly sculpted by engineers, and its one of mankind’s crowning achievements of modern society. It is singlehandedly the most complex, and most beautiful thing many of us will ever own.

Racing in and of itself has just as many forms, each pushing the limits of this engineering to new heights, and is a wonderful test bed for people to wring the most out of the world around us.

And each year, I marvel at the concept cars and the art of cars to come. It just tickles so many of my fancies.

This doesn’t even begin to touch on the wide range that it’s given me and others to travel and experience new places.

They kinda do. Aren’t memories typically depicted with a kind of hazy camera filter over them?

The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.

Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?

That’s why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.

The problem with the term “non-violent communication”, is that we don’t preface things that we describe based on their lack of something.

You might as well call it “non-love communication”…get it?

We don’t call driving to work “non-violent driving”, we just call it driving.

We don’t call our jobs “non-slavery labor”. You’re practicing absurdity in order to proclaim some higher order of thinking, but you’re just being silly.

Nobody is “dunking” on LGBT folks. The presented scenario is literally of a completely straight person invading those spaces. You really have a problem with reading comprehension, you know that? I’m even, quite literally, presenting them in a positive, helpful light in this scenario, as they’re being inclusive and presenting labels for this completely straight person to present with. So what’s your damn problem?

How is this bigoted? And who said I disagree with non-violent communication? You know what we call that? – Just communication.

You might want to re-read what I wrote. You either seem to have missed a key portion of it, or because you saw the letters “LGBT” you’ve somehow immediately primed yourself for confrontation…

It reminds me of people on LGBT forums and seeing shit like: “I’m a man, and I like women, but I don’t feel sexual attraction towards all of them, only the ones I feel a connection with; what are my labels?”…and wanting to scream “NORMAL! NORMAL IS YOUR LABEL! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!”.

Meanwhile everyone is like “Oh, you’re ace+/romantic”…/sigh…

You’re a victim of your own failure to advocate. Ads aren’t just an annoyance, they are a security failure. Even “trusted” ad networks have been infiltrated and dispersed malware. If you are allowed the browse the internet at all at work, I would not ALLOW you to browse the web without an adblocker at minimum.

What you sound like is…

NORMAL

There are a whole slew of ways people think about sex and romance – stop trying to apply labels to yourself. You don’t need them. Nothing good comes from trying to inject yourself into the alphabet crowd unless you’re feeling a sense of longing and you’re looking for a place to be or something.

My (American) kids love this song. :D

Just think through the logistics of how you would use a sewing machine to reinforce the knee of some pants or to reinforce/repair a well loved stuffy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO6VezZSfus

Like this – Doing knee patches, or small stuffies isn’t difficult with a proper sewing machine. You just bunch up the material to get around it.

Machine sewing isn’t that much more expensive, and it’s a VAST improvement over hand sewing unless you’ve got plenty of time, and lots of boredom.

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You didn’t ask why. With all due respect. You said you didn’t get it. Maybe next time be more descriptive of what you’re looking for.

In the 1960s, you could buy a candy bar for 25c. Today, the same candy bar is like $5.

That $5 has the same buying power as 25c in the 60s. It means the money is worth less over time.

That’s called observation of factual history, fascist.

Nobody that has said they are trying to reduce governments role, has ever actually been attempting to do so (in the long run). That has always been a front to reduce checks and balances which keep fascists from having the freedom to be fascists.

History books suggest we’re not special in that regard. Around 250 years is the average if I recall correctly. It looks like we’re right on schedule…

No. There do not exist controls that will not be bypassed through human ingenuity.

No, humanity leads to fascism without the correct controls in place. It’s an unfortunate side effect of our “survival of the fittest” driving our evolution as a species. Since greed usually wins out, it was selected for in our species, and the only thing stopping it is our civility, which is rather new to our species as a whole.