aw, man. but i like rolling back and reminding people to not crowd my bumper 😂 (i wonder how many drivers even know what it means when you roll back a little?)
and yeah no to neutral at a light on a hill. brembos mean my brake jobs are more expensive, so i use the gears to help whenever i can.

aha, ok. ty :) between our 06 and 16, i'm very behind on what modern cars do.
sooo the brits don't see it as 'every day is Leg Day when you drive a stickshift' then

*blinks in 2006*
what's eco mode?
i will say one time i got a minivan out of a snow drift because it had 1st/2nd in addition to D 😂 can make do when needs must

minis are so tempting because god i'd love to have a turbo. but the no stick is a no go for me :( my MIL has a mini and its transmission does weird things i can't handle. also shudders in reverse when it's cold ? sigh.

these thoughts brought to you by my car struggling to start today because NJ waters down their gas and it gets me every fucking time 😂 7 years in NC and I've become That Person who doesn't even think about cold any more. I went north with no ice scraper in the car, no boots, even forgot my jacket

do y'all know how hard it is to find a stickshift now? and also any not-SUV. Ford's only CAR option, not suv or truck, is the mustang (and i have a 2016 GT, tee hee. but that car is with my buddy and not available to me atm). it's so sad, i hate these huge killer vehicles no one can drive or park

so basically my 20 year old car needs to live forever, because i'll be effed if i'm going to have a $600/month car payment 😂

despite how much i really would love to have a brand new galaxy purple pearl wrx tS and yeah i'd slap an urdnot wrex sticker on the back the day i drove it home.
damn it.

if they say something and you say that's not true, your response is still shaped like their frame

Your frame has to *contain and explain* their frame, not just contradict it.

You have to eat their frame. Like Kirby

maybe solidarity is the only way to message anything.. not starting from a position argument and then seeking consensus from a conclusion, but just a solidarity argument, and then once in solidarity, consensus on a position can be developed. ugh we have such a long way to go

we're well beyond the point of our jobs not being what we expected/wanted/signed up for, so what's the risk of flat out refusal? all that tenure means now is 1 yr notice when they want to dump you in the trash, and even then people are getting fired 0 notice for tweets. it's past time for spines

whatever it was that ailed me, sleeping 20 of the past 48 hours seems to have chased it off. weird health episode shit like this is scared straight for 40-somethings. time to go eat some vegetables and drink more water like I promised the gods I would 🫡