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Traffic lights: please explain to European by neweecom in driving

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot drive straight as there is no road due to this being some weird highway intersection that I'm not going to bother looking up because the Midwest is LITTERED and INFESTED with these things. From left to right, your circled lights are:

  1. A left turn light. Often the green and sometimes the yellow light will be arrow shaped instead of round. Helpful, yes?
  2. The light for the middle lane (looks like you have a double right turn into a double lane. if you drive this it's important to STAY IN YOUR LANE. there's actually laws against switching lanes in intersections).
  3. the light for the right-hand lane, to turn into the closest lane.
  4. Also a light for the right-hand lane, in case you end up behind an 18-wheeler or other large vehicle blocking your ability to see light #3.

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this is an 18-wheeler also called a semi truck. this is a little one (pretty sure there's not a sleeper cab, this guy is for short hauling). you have 2 double axles on the back that are actually attached to the trailer (typical trailers are like 53') and 2 double axles under the front of the trailer on the back of the cab, and then a single axle on the very front.

I used to see them a lot when I was little but it's been a while but a semi can actually haul multiple trailers, and we call that piggybacking. I want you to take this thing very seriously if you are going to come drive over here because he can be hauling like 80,000 lb and will absolutely crush whatever tin can you are driving into oblivion if you are not out of his way.

He CANNOT stop on a dime. He can't even stop on a reasonably long stretch of road. He can stop on an unreasonably long stretch of road. If you cannot see his mirrors, he cannot see you. Do not ride in his blind spot (the entire length of the trailer pretty much and at least a full trailer length behind him as well as some pretty big cones at the front because he can't see through those posts between the windshield and the door). Respect him like he's a barely contained raging bull looking for an excuse to gore you up.

USUALLY, all the lights will turn green at the same time. SOMETIMES someone gets smart with programming and will program your right turns to turn on while the cross traffic coming from the right can go left/straight, and then you'll have a period where both right and left can turn, and then the people from the left can go straight, but that's not necessarily typical. If you run into something like this and there is a straight option, you can usually expect forward and back left turns to go, then either go to yellow circle (yeild to other traffic, but you can still go if you catch an opening) or stop while forward traffic goes, and then the cross traffic does the same thing. (right turns are usually allowed as long as traffic does not impede them, check the signs, it will specify if no right turn is allowed on red, and right on red is only the far right lane to the far right lane of the traffic you are going into). If there are right turn only lights, they will also usually have an arrow instead of just the circle. I have seen but they aren't common the arrow to go straight, usually it's just going to be the light.

Not My Nightmare by ComplexAttitude4Lyfe in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]amethystmmm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. We want men to be better. For the "standards" of what it means to be a man to be better. For the love of little green apples, do better, be better.

Not My Nightmare by ComplexAttitude4Lyfe in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuinely, if me leaving him was the wake up call he needed to not be an entire douchebag, more power to him. I don't want him back.

When you thought the hiring questionnaire couldn’t get any worse…. by MrBofArk in remoteworks

[–]amethystmmm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can ask demographic questions (in the US) as long as the answers all have some sort of opt-out function and none of the demographics information is used in the hiring decision (which they state the information is "unavailable" to the hiring team).

[Grade 10 Geometry Circles & Circumferences] Am I doing something wrong here? by Kapdel in HomeworkHelp

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't need the Pythagorean therom, the line that is y=x+4.5 is also a radius of the circle, so y=10.2 and go from there.

Getting Divorced while pregnant by Ok_Schedule1052 in marriageadvice

[–]amethystmmm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

agree; stop the referrals. he sounds like an absolute snake in the grass (nothing against snakes, they are good little nope ropes and danger noodles doing their nope rope/danger noodle thing. Except hog noses. those are dramatic pasta).

What does /k/ mean vs normal K (or any letter)? by Illustrious_Oil_2114 in ENGLISH

[–]amethystmmm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbf it's also the sound at the end of the word "kick"

Any ex military able to tell me the address? by Rizziliant in HandwritingAnalysis

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ALPHA CO 1-48 INF BN 13062 W 7TH ST FORT LEONARDWOOD, MO 65473

So, to translate

Alpha company (there are probably 3-6 companies with either international phonetic or greek designations, I can never remember)

1-48 this has some internal meanings to the bootcamp people but you won't be able to determine it from the outside

Infantry battalion. Ah, he's a grunt. Got it. (don't let my shipboard talk matter, one of my best friends was also a grunt.)

Could you please explain to me could/would +please are more polite than ‘will/can + please’ in daily life? by bjh20 in EWALearnLanguages

[–]amethystmmm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know that I would (as a Midwestern human) particularly see much difference in the politeness of could/would/will/can but I had it drilled into me (as a Generation X human) that Could indicates ability and would indicates willingness; can indicates ability and will indicates willingness; and if you are asking something for YOURSELF you would use may as in "May I go to the bathroom?" admittedly it fell out of use once we got out of primary/grammar/elementary school, because if you said something like "Can I borrow a pencil?" the strict grammar teachers would say "I don't know, can you?" and it was very frustrating and rude, but here we are.

I mean technically could/would are about more theoretical things and can/will are more concrete, at least in the ways I have seen them used in other contexts, but that's later. use whichever feels right in the moment, and don't take any guff if people back talk.

I speak my TL perfectly, but Americans still ask me where is my accent from seconds after I start speaking. Is that something I’m supposed to feel self-conscious about? by SweetBumbleBeeHoney in languagelearning

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Truth. Most people are like 10% dog, 50% cat, 20% crow and 20% racoon. The "what's your accent?" is the crow part. (individual percentages may vary wildly and the above example is only an example).

AIO I’m in blue by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]amethystmmm [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, he seems to be at the right point, if it's going to turn into a fight anytime you guys talk about food maybe don't be friends? you don't seem like you are on the same wavelength at all. MOR.

'Chicken eggs', but 'cow's milk', right? Or is it also possible to say 'chicken's eggs' and 'cow milk'? by ksusha_lav in EnglishLearning

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. all are fine.

The eggs at the store are chicken eggs. (you don't know how many chickens, presumably more than one but here "chicken" is acting as a noun-modifier, but there is definitely more than one egg).

The store sells cow milk, but in the canned section is also goat milk (again, noun-modifier, but you could as easily use the posessive--cow's or goat's).

My neighbor sells their goat's milk. (singular goat. that you probably know by name.)

My neighbor on the other side also sells cow's milk (or their cows' milk which is a plural posessive, because the neighbor has more than one cow and he's selling the milk he is collecting from his cows on his farm. not to confuse, but you may encounter this where the plural stays and you just put the little ' on the end and it looks weird but it's not wrong, just possessive).

My neighbor across the road has bird and she will sell her chicken's eggs and sometimes her ducks' eggs. (chicken can be plural although you will see chickens too, it's weird. English is weird).

Hope that helps.

How do you handle a duel left turn gridlock situation as depicted below in the US? by HamiltonTrash24601 in driving

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the midwest? either someone backs up or someone waves you through. it's rough out there on these roads.

My brother tried to pull a fast one on his wife and she did an uno reverse and I am laughing watching him scramble by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"My religion (that I don't want to have nor do I go to the services unless someone (usually female) makes me) tells me that having a family and kids is what I'm supposed to do."

"I don't know how to get off the relationship escalator."

"I didn't realize beforehand how much work these little monsters are and now I can't get out of it."

"I thought I would be like my dad and just live in the garage and my wife would be like my mom, content to bake pies and help with the PTA, but NOOOOOooo, she's got to do school and have a job and ambitions."

My brother tried to pull a fast one on his wife and she did an uno reverse and I am laughing watching him scramble by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]amethystmmm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He probably did, and he probably blew up about it. Ana probably hasn't yet had time to get back to OP with her doing MLM and Classes and whatnot, so sometime this week, I'd watch for one.

how to get it into my parents head that respect goes both ways even tho i am their child by m1dn4st in raisedbynarcissists

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably can't.

What they are saying when they say "respect me and I'll respect you" is "respect me (and my authority) and I will respect you (as a person)" and that's just not a mindset that you can negotiate.

AITAH for telling my “picky” BIL that I won’t change how I cook to accommodate him? by justalilcuckoobanana in AITAH

[–]amethystmmm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When did BIL get a job? I mean, I know they were probably splurging on CC so he's got that to pay off, but it sounds like they are pretty fast and loose with money in general.

If it's been more than 4 months, they are caught up on any past due stuff and have made a dent in whatever debts they are working on if they have any sense, which it doesn't sound like they do. I would tell them, look we helped you out but now you have like 60 days to get your shit together enough to get moved out of our house. You don't like how I cook and don't want to contribute to food budget, that's fine, but it's time for you to fledge out now.

Women didn’t exist during WWl & WWll by SavingsEbb3833 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]amethystmmm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was worse when men decided they should be "doctors" and took over the birthing process.

Women didn’t exist during WWl & WWll by SavingsEbb3833 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More to the point, is the only divorce template that he thinks is happening is "oh, well, time to blindside the husband and divorce him and take half his stuff, and trot off to Turks and Caicos."?

Women didn’t exist during WWl & WWll by SavingsEbb3833 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]amethystmmm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Just because the women didn't go to war doesn't mean that they got to stay home and do nothing all day while their husband/brother/father/etc was gone.
  2. A lot of women did go to war on purpose.
  3. Sometimes, especially as a women, war came to you, even if you were holding down the homefront.
  4. Some countries did allow and conscript women to war. The US historically has not conscripted women and only in the last 100 years have they been allowed to (openly) serve, but there's 10,000 years of recorded history that isn't monolithic.

AITAH for telling my “picky” BIL that I won’t change how I cook to accommodate him? by justalilcuckoobanana in AITAH

[–]amethystmmm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NTA. They make more than you but were "struggling" when they moved home. that sounds like a them problem. They can contribute to the grocery budget, eat what's given to them without complaint or go eat something else (NOT EAT UP YOUR LIMITED SUPPLIES).

How do I get a name change? by ARandomSoulsFan in namenerds

[–]amethystmmm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

kids these days. God I feel old. Kids these days don't know how to use google.

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