CADmonkey

I'm going to download the uber app when I'm not on some miserably slow internet connection and do the math, because I'm curious if it's cheaper or not.

Right now, worst case scenario is if I have to drive my Samurai to work. It gets ~20 mpg. With insurance and gas and maintainence put together I'm spending about $4.13 to drive to work for one day.

$1300 for 6 months of car insurance

Yikes. I pay $1400 for six months of car insurance on two cars, both of which have comp, collision, and uninsured motorist coverage.

I have plenty. And I'm not lonely. But when I try to defend lonely fellas online, you say things like "get a hobby".

Nope, I removed that option last January.

I used to have a motorcycle that would give a couple of pops out of the exhaust if I closed the throttle too fast. I wonder how many Nextdoor conversations it started?

Doesn't that list also include Iran?

I don't have to like it, but it's sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

I'm reminded of Bender:

"This isn't even about you"

"That's impossible!"

I thought that was called sealioning?

I'm afraid I don't have a wall of links to support my argument.

The thing I keep thinking about, and I feel like I've never been able to properly communicate, is that the machines our society runs on are built to run in a certain temperature range.

The 2021 texas winter fiasco was a perfect demonstration of what happens when we try to run a society's machinery outside of it's expected temperature range. Yes, the ERCOT goofballs were trying to save money by narrowing that expected operating range because "It never gets that cold" and "It never gets that hot", but my badly articulated point still stands - a system was made to operate in a temperature range outside of it's capability, and it started to fail. They were minutes away from losing very expensive and hard to replace equipment. What we don't want is for one of the more competently-run power grids in the world to start to buckle due to temperatures, because the same thing that happened in texas could happen on a larger scale.

And that's just talking about the power grid. Anything with a heat exchanger in it, including your car and air conditioner and all the refrigeration that is needed to keep everyone fed, is designed to run in a certain temperature range, and will stop working if you run it outside of that range for too long.

But wait, we can just design stuff to run in a wider temperature range! We certainly can. But we would have to redesign everything that moves heat around.

See? You are doing it. Be sure to dismiss this response as something coming from an incel, my other half thinks it's funny.

Like drop the macho act and ask for help, buddy. It's ok.

And watch the people who said they cared suddenly get real scarce.

I wish it wasn't that way, and I'm happy it's no longer that way for me. But there are people around you right now who know of they speak up, loved ones and friends will tell them "it's no big deal" or "It's all in your head" or my favorite, "man up".