it makes the truck bed more inaccessible and hence makes loading difficult. it also reduces towing capacity. what’s the point of even having a truck then? from my perspective it actually feels like it makes more sense to lower a truck than to lift it.
just interested in what y'all are noticing
When my fiancé and I get married, he is going to take my (female) last name. We have a few different reasons for this, but it’s mostly because he has wanted to change his last name for a long time. When a woman gets married and takes her husband’s last name, her original last name is called her “maiden name”. Is there something equivalent for a male or is it the same?
Let's say you make 30k a year in south florida in an area without good public transportation. Which would be better, owning a car or just using Uber?
It's a legitimate question, as a nerd myself I don't really see much if any truth to the things there
My boyfriend and I had this conversation last night and of course it’s a good conversation to have—I feel like flirting is cheating and he doesn’t think it is exactly. We did not get into an argument or anything but it was interesting to hear his perspective. He said that cheating to him is a pretty narrowly defined term where emotional and/or physical boundaries are crossed. Flirting is kind of a grey area where it could or couldn’t be depending on the context and I guess I kind of agree but I don’t like grey areas so I just lump flirting in with a lesser degree of cheating. I gave him an example of if we were both out with our respective friend groups but coincidentally ended up at the same bar and I saw him with a girl at a bar and they were clearly flirting and there was tension, I would view that as extremely uncomfortable and a lesser degree of cheating. So my question to him was: is intent to cheat, cheating? Even if you don’t emotionally or physically cross a boundary, are you searching for validation outside your relationship? Is flirting with someone at a bar a betrayal? It’s so interesting how it could be so for one person and not so for the other.
I know friendships between men and friendships between women are completely different. But i always wondered why so many men do not even have the need for a best friend? I couldnt imagine having nobody to talk to random shit about or to ask for advice for the most random shit. But it seems to me that men really ever only do these things when they are REALLY in desperate need for advice for example. So many men are satisfied with more shallow friendships (which isnt particularily bad) than most women and i wondered why that is.
Not life expectancy I guess because death of a two year old cat/dog also hurts way more.
I've been seeing more and more videos online of local debates and community forums around AI data centers and I've been wondering why are these local leaders even bothering approving them? Are the tech companies paying them? If it was a governor or senator I could understand how tech companies could be paying for campaigning and how these politicians would do everything in their power to please them but is that really happening at the local level?
Like all they would have to do is have a basic community vote on the issue and all of these problems would be solved. But these council members for small towns and cities seem hell bent on destroying their towns for seemingly little to no personal benefit.
I can’t articulate why, but for some reason theres something self aggrandizing and annoying about people who write “this.” Not to mention it serves no purpose, no one cares if you, a random anonymous user on the internet, affirms something, so what’s even the point of doing it?
Genuine question and a bit of a vent, because this keeps happening.
We are planning a trip with a toddler, so everything is basically built around naps, meals, and avoiding a public meltdown. When family or friends say things like "Let's meet up sometime" or "We should do dinner while you're in town," I ask normal follow ups: what day, what time, how long, before or after nap?
Instead of a straight answer, people get weirdly offended, like I'm being intense or turning it into a transaction. Sometimes I get responses like "Why do you need to plan everything" or "Just play it by ear." But when I do play it by ear, we end up with a hungry, overtired kid and everyone is miserable.
I am not asking anyone to commit their firstborn. I just need a rough window so I can plan rides, snacks, and that one sacred nap.
So what gives socially? Do some people hear specific questions as pressure? Is "sometime" actually a polite no? Or is there an etiquette rule that I should wait before asking for details?
If you hate scheduling, what is the least annoying way for me to ask for a time without sounding like a project manager?
I honestly wouldn't have a clue if I got it, I'm not massively observant of my skin etc and what if I developed something on my back but I can't see it? Do people just go to the doctors and ask for full body checks?
I’m not a dog owner but almost everyone else in my life is and it seems like it’s fairly normal for dogs not to be able to be left alone for any significant amount of time anymore.
Has that always been the case and I wasn’t aware?
I have friends who balance an alternating work from home schedule with their partner so someone is always with the dog. And when that’s not possible, I have family members where their dog always has to go out with them everywhere or spend the day in doggy daycare or else the dogs are apparently miserable, barking and tearing up furniture all day.
I’ve obviously known people with dogs my entire life but I swear this wasn’t the case when I was a kid. I thought dogs used to be able to be left at home at least during the work day and doggy daycare was only when someone was going on a multi-day trip.
Was that not the case? What were people doing with their dogs when they had work and other social events 10, 15, 20 years ago?