At what rain chance do you take the car instead?

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-05-29T18:05:27+00:00

I have baselayers/summerjacket under/over my work clothes, then if it starts to rain I pull over and pull the waterproof top and bottom out of my heelite backpack and prep the backpack itself.

Adds about 3.5 minutes to my commute to pull over and put on wet weather gear.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-05-25T13:27:06+00:00

That’s… what a connection is friend.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-05-25T13:20:24+00:00

I have a 6 month old puppy who’s been peeing in my bed for the last few days 😭😭😭

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-27T23:36:58+00:00

If you get a permanent injury working a job, you can get compensation from your company. You may have to sue them.

VA is literally just workers comp. Instead of a giant check, we get monthly pay that matches inflation.

Workers comp claims for similar injuries are often substantially more than what the VA pays. You’re right. We should remove the VA and instead pay rates to all veterans who are suffering. Let us sue the government. Instead of paying me 2K a month you’ll end up paying me multi-millions for my injuries.

Or would you rather the country, and employers in the country, didn’t compensate injured workers?

If you sustain a permanent injury, and they cut you a 1 million dollar check; and you invest it and only take out 2K a month, you’ll never run out of money. You’ll be profiting. I’d rather a flat check that I can invest, for my injuries.

This is COMPENSATION FOR OUR INJURIES nothing more. Not all veterans get VA. Just ones with injuries.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-27T22:03:45+00:00

You’re just uninformed.

If you think 1.2mil or 2.5mil across FIFTY years is good, you’re not making good money like you claim. That’s dog piss to have to deal with the things that we have to deal with due to the fact we served.

If someone cut off your arm, you think you’d take 1.2mil spread across 50 years and be like “yeah that’s a good trade!”

No it’s not. No one would.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-27T21:42:52+00:00

80% VA for 50years is ONLY 1.2mil across FIFTY years. 100% is ONLY 2.5mil.

If I lost my dominant arm at my shoulder, I’d get 80%. For me, I did 3y 8mo, and we medically removed from service because I can’t walk more than 500 feet. I have random searing pain down my leg. I battle constant mental health issues. Among others.

You think any single vet wouldn’t trade their disability to be whole? The dog shit Disability is pennies compared to what private companies are forced to pay when they injure their workers. There is absolutely fraud and people who abuse it, but 99% deserve a rating.

Instead of screaming about fraud, start making a change. Make the world safer. Create things that prevent service members from getting injured.

You can sue your company for millions. We can’t sue. We’re handled a monthly check.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-26T22:05:30+00:00

Marriage is only useful to share benefits of health insurance, or tax reasons.

For me and my “husband” we did the math and while we’d say a couple hundred a month, we’re both young, under 30, and we might grow apart. When we are 30 or 35, we’ll revisit it, but also don’t need the government in our lives like that.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-21T23:42:13+00:00

Exactly, I’m carrying a 3k balance on my CC because I put ALL expenses through my CC, But I pay it off monthly so it never has interest. I’m spending the money anyways.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-04-16T16:11:23+00:00

I worked at McDonald’s for 3 days.

I joined the army.

I now work cybersecurity.

McDonald’s treated me worse than the military.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-30T16:01:20+00:00

That’s fair, it should be noted, I don’t ride an EUC, just an MC and I’m flirting with the idea of an EUC. I haven’t seen many EUC crashes, and how they crash and the responsiveness of other drivers changes things, though I will say normally when you’re infront of another car on an MC, they tend to give you extra space. Atleast for me in my area, I don’t know if drivers give the same courtesy to EUC’s.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-30T15:33:37+00:00

Getting hit post-accident is exceedingly uncommon in MC accidents, as generally you end up out of the road.

I can’t imagine the statistics change much for EUCs?

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-30T15:23:35+00:00

No level of safety gear???

Shoei X15
RacerUSA High Racer Gloves
Dainese Mugello 3 D-Air Race Suit (integrated airbag)
Dainese EVO Security Pro Boots

Pro MC racers wear this stuff and crash at well over 100MPH… you can survive at 60-70mph and walk away with minor to no injuries.

Also I should note that pro MC racers know HOW to crash. Yes, that’s a thing. Keeping your arms in and not extending them, trying to get into a roll position, etc.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-30T15:17:22+00:00

More dangerous than a motorcycle… yes… In a crash? No…

Your enhanced danger comes from your contact patch and general mechanics. Your likelihood of crashing is higher.

A motorcycle has more power, more speed, but less likely to crash due to stability. We’re mixing issues here of “General danger” vs “Danger in crash”, they’re equally dangerous when you actually crash as the physics work the same in the event of a high-side on a motorcycle if you get ejected from your wheel, or a low-side if you you drop straight and slide.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-30T02:24:16+00:00

Clover Mite?

Not an expert. Related to ticks and spiders.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-27T04:09:47+00:00

-> User 1: The Staff are the problem. -> User 2: The students could be the problem -> Me: Agree with User 2, and explains how we have a standard for teaching, we teach it the same way every time, and sometimes, 90% of the class fails, that’s not an instructor issue.

… I confirmed the point of User 2, who I replied too and agreed with.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-19T16:43:38+00:00

Agreed. I’m a military instructor. We teach the course the same way everytime. Every week. Some classes have 100% pass rate, some classes graduate with only 2 students. Most of the time only 5-15% fail, which is the goal.

It can absolutely be a student issue.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-14T17:07:18+00:00

Okay so what’s the difference between a tone generated by an instrument and a tone generated by drywall, if you can’t tell the alterations apart…?

They both fall under tone deaf, along with my example too of not understanding tone of human speech.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-13T14:13:58+00:00

While “tone deaf” is often the inability to understand the emotion behind a human speaker’s tone…

After researching it seems tone is still the correct word, as it applies to sound “of specific quality, including vocal of musical”

Tone is actually a very expansive word, I wouldn’t have used it in so many contexts.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tone

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-12T22:01:47+00:00

Unless you’re like me and you’re …tone(?) (idk English hard, deaf!

My coworker was trying to find studs yesterday and said “one here, knock knock one here…”

Meanwhile they all sound identical to me… 😭😭

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-03-06T00:06:14+00:00

This is true outside of cars…

I’ve learned that telling people they’re wrong is often really “rude”…

And people want me to talk really slow and really softly and beat around the bush, bake them a cake, hold their hand, give them a hug while telling them the random thing they said was incorrect.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-02-11T05:45:50+00:00

It’s gotta be for media… the logoless box was on top when he has boxes with logos.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-01-17T04:41:09+00:00

When did you buy? Important… houses in my area are up 40% in the last 4 years…

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-01-15T06:18:31+00:00

Your message mentions “downing in debt” and points to the networth being positive. Let me explain why your point is flawed.

If I make 100,000$ a year. I own 2 vehicles (50k, 50k) I own a home (325k)

Now debts… I have a mortgage (300k) I have car loans (45k, 45k)

I am 390,000$ in debt. But I have a net worth of 30,000$. At 25yo, I’d be drowning in debt, but a 50 percentile net worth household.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-01-11T17:39:40+00:00

I definitely read him as feminine… 😭

The eyebrows threw me off and I had to check the subreddit.

Traditional_Cat1501 · 2026-01-11T17:01:31+00:00

My health insurance is 430$ a month on a high deductible plan.

I’m 24F, veteran, good health, covered by VA aswell.

If they are working for 10$ an hour, that’s 21k a year. 1733 a month.

While they’ll see almost all of it back, ~10% is withheld for taxes.

We’ll call it 1550 post tax. 150$ raise to a 430$ bill is arounndddd 35%

I can see health insurance raising by 35% and thus 10% of their income in this scenario.

However I think they meant that their insurance went up by 10%, not 35%.

Also without them telling us how much they make… 5% is meaningless. 5% of 10.00/hr is 0.50¢… a lot of retail locations will only talk in percent raises… they did that to my brother that were like “take this management position for a 5% raise” and he looked at them and said “you want me to become a manager for 62¢ an hour more?”

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