I’m a Satanist. I would be fine dating an atheist, depending on their morals and ethics. I would probably be okay dating someone that was agnostic, since technically most atheists are agnostics. I could date most reform Jews, since for most of them it’s a cultural religion, rather than a literal one.

I would not be able to date anyone that sincerely believed in a supernatural deity, because I would not be able to respect them, or trust any of their conclusions.

Nah, they’re cool. Anyone that tells the manosphere to fuck all the way off is cool by me.

Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don’t think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.

Honestly, my advice, unpopular as it might be, is that unless you plan on riding a motorcycle you should probably get an automatic transmission car instead of learning on a manual transmission. Manual transmissions–in the US, anyways–are largely relegated to performance vehicles where people want them. But the hard truth is that automatic transmissions do a better job at driving efficiently and keeping the engine at a safe and ideal load than any driver with a manual. And it’s a lot less hassle for most of the driving that people tend to actually do. For instance, it’s uncommon to have a cruise control on a manual transmission car, which makes long drives more tiring, and stop-and-go traffic puts less wear on an automatic transmission.

If you plan on riding a motorcycle though, you must learn to use a clutch, because all non-electric motorcycles use a clutch (usually a wet clutch, but Ducati uses a dry clutch); manual transmissions are lighter and more compact, and weight matters a lot on a motorcycle.

I say this as someone that learned to drive on manual transmissions, and exclusively had cars with manual transmissions up through about 2022.

Learn to shift based off the sound of the engine, dont stare at the tachometer.

Do not do this.

Every engine has a different redline. The redline is based mostly on piston mass, which doesn’t necessarily correlate directly to engine displacement, given that it’s common to have 4, 6, or 8 cylinders in a car. If you’re shifting primarily based on engine sound, you can be shifting too low in one car, and then too high in another. The tachometer is a much more reliable way of learning where you should shift in any given vehicle.

Also, constantly running your car in the maximum power band–which tends to be close to the redline–probably isn’t great for it.

I’m guess that you don’t live in the US? Almost all cars in the US–whether training vehicles or not–are gasoline, and it’s mostly larger pickup trucks that are diesel. VW is one of the few companies that sells consumer cars that are diesel, and I’m not sure that they do anymore, not after there was that huge scandal about intentionally cheating EPA emissions standards with their diesel cars a decade back.

Thought I could/should work through discomfort and then pain at the gym, supersetting overhead push-presses and triceps dips. LOL, nope, gave myself a labral tear and tore my supraspinatus. My shoulder now has an unpleasant popping feeling + significantly less strength when I’m doing anything like a bench press with my elbows properly tucked; I’ll likely never be able to do narrow grip bench press or triceps dips again.

Why was this dumb? Because I was a personal trainer, and I fucking know better than to try and push through pain. But I was trying to get back into lifting seriously after losing a lot of time to the pandemic.

Okay, people in the US generally didn’t though. How is the information going to get to them, when mail took months, phone calls were not realistically possible, and telegraphs were incredibly expensive? Unless it’s getting reported by the major news outlets, the majority of people in the US simply didn’t have access to that information. Given the propaganda that was coming from both sides at the time, reports might not have even been very believable to the average citizen.

I’m more of an ð-head.

Average people simply didn’t have access to information at the scale we now enjoy at that time. Leaders of countries and militaries might know, but unless it was being reported by wire services and in local newspapers, the average person would have had no rational way of finding out about it.

Not where I am; DOT 5.1 costs 2-3 times as much as DOT 5 locally.

DOT 4, $.375/oz.

DOT 5.1, $1.42/oz.

It’s 3.8x more expensive to buy DOT 5.1 locally.

I’ve had a car with where the oil pressure sensor failed; combine that with an oil leak, and you quickly have a major problem. So, what happens when the sensor telling you the oil level fails? A dipstick is extremely unlikely to ever fail to work correctly, so…?

You can use DOT 5.1 to significantly increase that wet boiling point, but it’s expensive for normal car use. I usually use it in my motorcycle, since I’ve experienced brake fade on that before, and it’s… Not fun.

Depends on how much you drive, and what the recommended interval is. If the interval is 7k miles, and you drive 18k in a year, yeah, you need to change the oil 3x/year.

It seems to me that counting the number of cycles each makes, and basing your intervals off that would make more sense than mileage. If I’m constantly running at high RPM, that should require more frequent oil changes in terms of mileage.

It’s been a long time since I worked on that case, and I only did a very small part working on the discovery documents, so I’ve forgotten a lot, and had a lot of details a little confused. :)

It sounds like it was probably one of the seminal patent troll cases.

SCO crashed and burned in part because they tried to sue multiple Linux providers claiming that they owned all the rights to certain pieces of code that they’d contractually leased from IBM, and that IBM giving code to Linux distributors violated the terms of their agreement with IBM. It was a lawsuit that dragged on for over a decade and a half–I think that it’s still going–and it’s bled SCO of tens of millions of dollars ,esp. since they’ve lost nearly every single claim they’ve made.

I misspelled it; it should be galdrastafir. It literally translates as ‘magic staves’, but it’s understood to mean symbols that are a part of a magical spell. …Or ‘magickal’ if you want to draw a distinction between parlor tricks and ‘real magick’. The books that contained them were sometimes called galdrabók, although that’s also the name of a specific grimoire. It’s complicated because, while galdrastafir are currently believed to be explicitly magical, in some cases they appear in books alongside herbology, which would seem to indicate that either they weren’t contemporarily perceived as ‘magic’ per se, or that herbology was.

Anyway. It’s a form of folk magic. The general idea is that you draw or scribe a specific symbol on a certain kind of object, perhaps with particular tool, and use the object in a specific way, and it will produce some kind of effect that would not otherwise happen. The most well known ones are ægishjálmur (the helm of terror; said to protect you in battle, make other people fear you), and vegvísir (a compass to help you find your way home in bad weather; supposedly used by sailors). But there are a lot of others as well. Draumstafir was a symbol scribed in silver on wood (linden, maybe?, I don’t remember anymore) that was supposed to let you dream at night of what you most desired.

Supposedly–and there’s not a ton of really solid, scholarly writing about this–the Catholics were pretty forgiving of the people practicing folk magic, as long as the people were still paying their tithes. Supposedly a Catholic bishop (?) in charge of the area was also a practitioner of black magic, and had a grimoire called the rauðskinna full of exceptionally powerful spells. When Denmark became Lutheran, they also supplanted the Catholic heirarchy in Iceland with Lutherans. The Lutherans were quite a bit less accepting of folk magic; they burned ever grimoire that they came across. So there are only a handful of examples that still survive, and they all date to late 1700s to late 1800s. Keep in mind that Iceland was very backwards relative to Europe until fairly recently, so it’s entirely conceivable that there are people currently alive that had grandparents that were galdr practitioners.

/autistic monologue

Go ahead, don’t follow laws.

Hope you have a good attorney already, and a few hundred thousand to fight the charges. If you’re American, you might try seeing if you can get Ken White; he does a lot of 1A stuff, plus criminal defense. He’s probably only about $500/billable hour.

Good luck, you’ll need it.

I don’t have that kind of cash, so I don’t very, very publicly break laws and dare cops to come get me.

So you are intentionally being obtuse.

Got it.

???

They both obligate moderators and administrators to remove illegal content, and failure to do so can result in criminal penalties for the people running the site.

Are you intentionally pretending that you don’t understand that both types of content–regardless of any morality–can land the admins in jail?