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  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • Oh that's an awesome idea!

    We've been discussing the need to get some of our yarn to a new home. There's so much, and it's just never going to be used as there's just literally too much.

  • Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?

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  • Depending on the context, I could see myself actually using this. Lol.

  • Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?

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  • Something tells me that wouldn't fly here. I kind of like it, but it might be get me punched. Lol.

  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • Ouch... Yeah. As a general rule of thumb, if I'm buying someone something craft related it's either because I know enough about the craft to get them something truly nice, or I get them a gift card to their favorite craft related place. Outside of that, I'll just ask them what they want. Lol. I enjoy a bunch of different crafts, including wood working. A friend once got me a set of chisels when they found out I liked wood working. ... They were plastic with just the very ends being metal, and would break if you looked at the harshly. Lol. The thought behind it was sweet, but they had no idea what they were doing. Lol.

  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • Thank you for noticing!

  • A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

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  • I mean, it's true. Ask an American to visualize an ounce of anything other than drugs, and they probably won't be able to. Ask how many ounces in a gallon, and they'll Google it. Even cups aren't well understood. We can eyeball a mile on the interstate, or tell you how tall someone is, or lift a box and guess it's weight to within 5 pounds. But honestly, that's about it. We just aren't really taught to visualize our weights and measures, it's why newscasters keep saying shit like "8 Olympic swimming pools!" Or "the size of three football fields" because we just don't have a coherent system ingrained in us. That's also, I think, why we're so against metrification. Because weights and measures feel hard, because we're basically only semi-literate in our own mother tongue, so a "foreign language" feels like it'd be this huge undertaking.

  • What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?

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  • I really, really love knitting. I'm not good, and I have a hard time finishing projects (tragic case of batterscain. I jump from thing to thing.), but the actual knitting itself? OMG, I love having something to do with my hands, and that something actual makes a real, tangible thing? Somehow magically out of a ball of string? What‽ It's lovely.

    It's insane, though, how people who don't knit/crochet will just treat a knitted or crocheted item like it's a cheap Walmart graphic tee. They do not respect the work put into it.

  • Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?

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  • I like thank you kindly! Haha

    And no, I don't work at a drive through, I just use them occasionally. Lol. And yeah, miss has always felt weird to me. I know in other parts of the country ma'am has an age connotation, so maybe miss is more appropriate there? But to me, it always felt sort of... Disparaging. Like you're specifically saying "you there, child-like-female-being!" Lol. Just doesn't sit right.

    And I'd so much rather be yelled at for using new fangled honorifics. Haha. If I accidentally misgender someone, I know I've potentially ruined a day, or at the very least added to a certain level of frustration. If I get yelled at for some new fangled honorific then what I've done is outted a jerk, and pissed them off, and pissing off jerks makes me happy. Haha.

  • Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?

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  • I like misser! It reminds me of Messer, and that feels quaint!

  • Is there a title (Mr/Ms/Mrs) that is gender neutral?

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  • Do you have any suggestions on sir/ma'am? I'm from the south, and genuinely don't know how to stop saying sir/ma'am. I always try to go with whatever the person is presenting, and I have tried not to say it at all. But that southernism is deeply ingrained. Like at a drive through or something, where you only have a voice to go off of it's especially bad. I do try to avoid it, but I wish there were a gender neutral version, because language just feels rude without it to someone who grew up with that instilled in them. All adult people must be addressed as ma'am or sir, regardless of age in any kind of setting that isn't close friends. If I forego it, I feel rude as fuck, and most of the time whoever you're talking to also acts offended. But the last thing I want to do is misgender someone, especially with words like sir/ma'am, that are such... Strict terms. Halp?

  • I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION

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  • Actually the dump truck did do that. Haha. I could do in the raider, too, but it was much more finicky about stalling out.

  • I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION

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  • WTF is that 3rd picture of a shifter? I've never seen anything like that.

  • I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION

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  • Drove two vehicles like that. One was a big ass dump truck that didn't have reverse or 1st gear, and had to roll started. Popping a clutch in second was... A unique experience.

    The other was a little dodge raider that didn't have first gear and had to be roll started. I had to pop the clutch in reverse every day. Lol. I was so happy when we got the clutch repaired. I loved that car so much. A month later it jumped time and we had to sell it. :(

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  • Meant to mention in my first comment, I haven't met many other people who like to randomly imagine the ways major structural changes would take place. Lol.

    I like to pick a huge project. Like, say, single payer healthcare, or the nationalization of an industry, and then imagine the individual steps that would need to be taken to get there. Doesn't necessarily have to be a project I'd support, I just have fun imagining the ways it would need to happen.

  • NSFW: I am a trans girl who is drunk and high at the same time, AMA!

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  • I'm glad you have a good relationship with your son. :) I'm one of those weirdos that's super close with my mom, and it's an absolutely awesome relationship to have a parent that you're close with. Not enough people get that.

  • NSFW: I am a trans girl who is drunk and high at the same time, AMA!

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  • That sounds terrible. I'm sorry you go through that. internet hugs

  • NSFW: I am a trans girl who is drunk and high at the same time, AMA!

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  • What's the hardest part of being out as trans, other than the obvious transphobes? The subtle stuff most people don't think about, I mean.

  • A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

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  • Yes. Jesus, why can't Europeans educate themselves on real measurements! We measure in feet and bald eagles for distance. We measure in shotgun shells, elbows and pounds for weight. We measure in ATNT for temperature. That's Ambient Truck Nut Temperature, which is the temperature of a pair of truck nuts after driving for 80 bald eagles at 40 bald eagles per Active Shooter Warning, at sea level on a Wednesday. It's not complicated.

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  • I honestly hate that argument. "it would cost so much to change all those signs" is just negative talk for "it would employee a shit ton of people, create a lot of jobs, and be a major infrastructure project that could help our economy.". Honestly, the economic benefit of major infrastructure works is rarely talked about as much as it should be. Mainly, I think, because the people it benefits are the ones actually doing the work. And that's scary to a certain segment of society that would like very much that not to be the case.