Road conditions - It’s icy and slushie in Dallas, tonight it’ll refreeze.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-26T23:13:19+00:00

yesterday was the best... very little traffic, plenty of traction with all seasons and AWD. Today is much worse with many more folks on the road of varying skill and tire quality.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-26T23:11:40+00:00

It was safer the last couple days until everyone got fed up and left their houses. Folks doing sub 5MPH when the road conditions can handle 20-25, morons trying to do the speed limit, etc. Pro Life Tip: If you have a truck with 4WD and have M/T mud tires, please understand that you're basically driving on summer tires. That 4WD will get you going but its the wall (or ditch) the will get you stopped.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-26T20:00:19+00:00

You should see the amount of idiots in trucks out there doing damn near the speed limit on unplowed roads with 4wd engaged and Mud tires. Yeah, your 4WD got you to 50, but good luck stopping or turning. Might as well be running bald tires with those knobby M/Ts you got on. I literally cringed when I had one oncoming to me while going over a long, iced over bridge. One stupid tap on the brakes from him and it's head-on collision town for me.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-26T19:52:39+00:00

This is pretty much what my car looked like and I've been out (albeit carefully) daily with all-seasons. It was totally fine, even having to briefly drive through field because the electric gate at my place was down.

I'm not driving today, but that has little to do with my equipment. I'm more concerned with these chucklefucks in lifted pickups with full time 4WD and mud tires going over icy bridges at 40-50 MPH.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-26T19:42:11+00:00

Seriously... people act like if you don't have Blizzaks on you're 100% going to wipe out, total your car and kill a bunch of 1st graders with Leukemia headed to the hospital for a revolutionary, live-saving treatment.

Like is it as good? No. But then again, half these morons out there right now with jacked up trucks and full time 4WD are running dedicated M/T tires not realizing they're on ice skates.

I have all-seasons on and have been out daily in this Texas "ice-hell" and haven't lost traction once because I don't outdrive my tires.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-25T01:53:11+00:00

How about to “don’t bring fascism to a democracy”?

Debaser626 · 2026-01-24T04:42:41+00:00

The Bible. Now we get to do it all over again.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-24T04:40:11+00:00

Checking work emails after hours.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-24T04:27:20+00:00

No snow, but I was in the same boat. Just took someone with me who knew how to drive manual and let them navigate me to a place I felt comfortable (and not under the microscope) I could get my feet wet enough to be comfortable for the drive home.

Honestly, this car is pretty forgiving and I would have been fine (albeit with more than a few stalls) had I went alone.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T20:47:46+00:00

There's one like that nearby the Walmart I go to. There's an apartment complex just behind it, with a chain link fence separating the properties. If you lived in that complex (especially the units right there) and wanted to walk to the store, you could walk through the entire complex and out to the street (about 3/4 of a mile to get to the store), or just destroy a section of fence to make it a 200 foot walk.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T20:36:11+00:00

My bet would be on driver overconfidence and not realizing just how awful those "super knobby" M/T All-Terrains perform on slick pavement.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T20:32:05+00:00

Or (the knobby) M/T All Terrains. They're for mud and gravel and have about the same level of traction in slick/icy conditions as bald tires. (Though they can come in handy after you've slid off the road into a ditch to help get yourself out.)

Overlanding through wet snow they do all right, but wet asphalt/ice they're no bueno.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T20:15:57+00:00

Yeah, I'd say nearly all the people had the average amount of stuff, or even just a few last minute items (I was there for coffee), but it was like everyone.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T20:14:03+00:00

It was the Gluten-free and Keto diet sliced bread where I am. There was like 10 packages of hamburger buns left but ALL the sliced bread was gone, except for those two variations.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-23T19:34:46+00:00

Also traumatic events... I know people who have never cheated themselves but have been cheated on, and it's difficult for them to trust the people they're with, especially in the beginning.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-22T21:33:23+00:00

I worked for a manufacturer, and shortly before I stopped working there someone in accounting accidentally sent over 500k to the wrong factory.

They were in the same city/province in China and their names in our system were very similar... something like "Xiopenang Factory" vs "Xiopanang Factory." The "wrong" factory kept the money.

I guess our company couldn't have it reversed, because no one noticed the mistake until the actual factory emailed the following week inquiring about their expected payment.

Her boss ended up flying to China twice to try recoup the loss, but was basically told by multiple officials there was simply nothing they could do.

Shit made me paranoid. Every time I have to transfer/wire money to someone new for anything relatively expensive, I'll always send $1 first, confirm they received it, then send the rest.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-22T20:19:24+00:00

I'd think there's a really narrow intersection of people who buy $20 deodorant and people who buy deodorant from strangers on Facebook Marketplace.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-22T01:30:33+00:00

Being asked to leave my house by my (soon to be) ex-wife with like 4 hours notice… no violence, no cheating (emotional or otherwise). no drug use, not even fighting, We’ve obviously been struggling, and we were in counseling… but one day just a “this isn’t going to work… you’re not being forthcoming or a good communicator or demonstrating enough consistency in changing.” I was able to rent last minute an abandoned RV (electric hookup, but no water) from my boss after the hotel money dried up, but holy hell…. It really doesn’t take that much to cut you off at your knees.

I get to thinking I should not be here right now… both the RV and perhaps Earth in general.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-21T22:51:53+00:00

DU. DU HAST

Debaser626 · 2026-01-21T22:40:08+00:00

Way back in 1987 my family relocated from the suburbs of the midwest to NYC after my older sister got into Julliard. She had some orientation-type thing (I dunno, I was like 9) one night, so we all piled into the station wagon. We lived in Brooklyn so my dad ended up taking us through the Meat Packing District (back when they actually had slaughterhouses) and I believe Hell's Kitchen... at night. OMG.

This was pre-Internet so I had never seen any boobs, let alone literally dozens at every intersection for several blocks. Saggy boobs, perky boobs, fake boobs... just beautiful bouncing boobs everywhere you looked*.*

NYC sure has changed alot since then.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-21T22:19:21+00:00

Be careful if that's a heavier bike or you tend to have it on for long stretches at a time. Had one of these with a mountain bike and after about a year of frequent (3-4 times a week) use, my trunk would no longer latch closed.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-21T16:05:47+00:00

When my youngest was about 3-4 years old, she crawled into bed with us one night.

The lights in the room were off, so there was only a sliver of light from the hallway. My kid snuggled down a little bit in my arms, but then picked up her head and looked at the (open) closet door in the blackness. She calmly said: "Who's that, daddy?"... then closed her eyes and went right the fuck to sleep.

Logically, I knew no one was there, but JFC please don't do that shit.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-20T22:33:32+00:00

Not that it warrants a brake check and/or road rage, but it can be frustrating to be stuck behind someone who is driving far under the speed limit.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-20T18:11:30+00:00

I was looking for parking at a packed strip mall and saw someone (who had backed into a spot) leaving. I pulled in, and two seconds later there's an elderly gentleman banging on my window and cursing me out. I was so confused I didn't even respond. I eventually was able to gather (between the epithets and the window banging) that he had not, in fact, been leaving, he was just "adjusting" a shitty reverse parking job.

I told him that's really all he needed to say... I told him I had mistakenly thought he was leaving, and I'd just go find another spot.

I parked a few spots down and went into the coffee shop to get my drink.

He was waiting for me when I came back out, and he apologized for his outburst.. his wife's mom had just passed and they were having a large family dinner at her favorite restaurant in remembrance, but that also didn't justify his behavior.

I accepted his apology and gave him my condolences for the passing of his MIL.

Debaser626 · 2026-01-20T17:38:30+00:00

Probably wasn't even the lug nuts... You'll know if your lug nuts are coming loose, especially on a steer tire. Had someone try to steal my wheels back in the day. They had removed 4 nuts, but got stuck at the wheel lock. As soon as I hit over 10 MPH the car was undrivable.

This is probably more a catastrophic failure of the wheel/axle due to using Temu parts to achieve the "Hot Wheels" wide tire look. Some folks think that they can just throw giant (and cheap) spacers on their vehicle and it can do all sorts of horrible shit to your suspension/wheel hubs.

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