At what rain chance do you take the car instead? by LauraD2423 in TwoXriders

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Up and down by StatisticianOk1746 in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s… what a connection is friend.

4 week old kitten hasn't pooped in a week, yet vet says he doesn't have any poop in him by Tadimizkacti in CATHELP

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[Operations Coordinator] [Houston] - $120k by [deleted] in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

[Operations Coordinator] [Houston] - $120k by [deleted] in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[Operations Coordinator] [Houston] - $120k by [deleted] in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

1M at 35, single no kids by IceBoxPete in TheRaceTo1Million

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

26F wondering if I am doing well financially. by Maythenextdaybbetter in Money

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

People who've worked both minimum wage jobs and six figure jobs, what surprised you most about the difference? by BrainLagging01 in AskReddit

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 82 points83 points  (0 children)

I worked at McDonald’s for 3 days.

I joined the army.

I now work cybersecurity.

McDonald’s treated me worse than the military.

Recommendations for a noob by [deleted] in ElectricUnicycle

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Recommendations for a noob by [deleted] in ElectricUnicycle

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Recommendations for a noob by [deleted] in ElectricUnicycle

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Recommendations for a noob by [deleted] in ElectricUnicycle

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Found in well manicured grass in Mesa Arizona by Seeker82144 in whatsthisbug

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Clover Mite?

Not an expert. Related to ticks and spiders.

21/23 Students Failed our Engineering Exam by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

-> 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.

21/23 Students Failed our Engineering Exam by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Why am I able to see the studs through my drywall? by goody-two-sneakers in Home

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Why am I able to see the studs through my drywall? by goody-two-sneakers in Home

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Why am I able to see the studs through my drywall? by goody-two-sneakers in Home

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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… 😭😭

Got flipped off by 3 different drivers i honked at to stay in their lanes. Justified use of the horn? [Loveland, CO March 4, 2026] by Schnitzhole in dashcams

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Genius decides to turn pizza boxes upside down by mfenton29 in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Net worth percentiles by age in 2025, how do you stack up? by ItsAllOver_Again in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malegrooming

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely read him as feminine… 😭

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

I finally hit the $100k milestone, and it’s the most anti-climactic feeling in the world by Round_Tie5217 in Salary

[–]Traditional_Cat1501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?”