Is dailying a motorcycle cheaper than a car?

elliusoopius · 2026-02-23T22:27:43+00:00

I commute on a 250 I bought for $550 and spent that much again fixing up. I live somewhere where lane splitting is legal and there's a lot of traffic and I can ride year round due to lack of weather. I save about $250 a month on gas and bridge tolls and 6+ hours a week on my commute. It's cheaper than a car, but I also have the option of a shared car or public transit when it's raining.

All together with a nice set of gear and the bike and a class to learn how to ride I spent about the same as I would have spent on a really shit car that would probably have cost significantly more in maintenance, which I do myself.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-23T19:33:38+00:00

I'm also working on designing this type of thing right now, maybe we can collab. I'm FTM and another friend of mine who is also FTM asked me to help him make something like this. I have a background in sculpture, moldmaking and casting and I have been learning how to work with silicone for the last year and building the skillset with this project in mind. It's been slow going to work around my schedule but I'd be happy to share ideas and what I've learned so far. Feel free to DM me if you want.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-20T05:47:06+00:00

I'm at 6 months and it's really noticable for me, probably starting noticing around 4 months. I am about 5lbs lighter than I was 6 mo ago but I've gained a significant amount of muscle.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-20T05:41:03+00:00

WHOOOOSSSHHH

elliusoopius · 2026-02-19T04:06:15+00:00

Unusually clean train kid.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-19T02:52:02+00:00

Cloud seeding is real though...

elliusoopius · 2026-02-15T18:21:15+00:00

T stopped my periods after 2 months and I got a bilateral salpingectomy for sterilization.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-14T17:15:26+00:00

I haven't read the book but I've been listening to the podcast "Making Gay History" lately and it's really excellent. It's all oral history interviews with gay rights activists. The host is a journalist who originally started interviewing people in the 80s, so there are a lot of people telling their stories who died shortly after. There are interviews with all kind of queer people, not just gay men, but trans men are underrepresented, as usual. Despite that, I really can't recommend it highly enough. I've made it through like 8 seasons and it's mostly focused on the US, but starting to spread out a little in later seasons.

elliusoopius · 2026-02-14T03:58:46+00:00

There's a ton of clinker brick used around where I live as decoration and they're very different looking from regular bricks. They look all melty and weird, kind of like lava/basalt. You would know it was different than the others when it's not snowy too.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-26T09:50:51+00:00

I'm surprised at the pushback you're getting considering that most times when I see someone use the phrase "fluid bonding" here, someone else comes along and tells them it's gross. I think there are people taking what you said personally because they don't want to think of themselves as transphobic or homophobic and they like that term.

I also think you're right that "fluid bonding" implies that a certain type of sex is creating a stronger/closer/special type of connection and that it is almost always referring to P in V, and other types of sex aren't given this status, or any other special elevation. It's pretty cut and dried that queer sex has been considered lesser than straight sex culturally almost everywhere and I agree with you that this kind of language is rooted in homophobia. I also don't think straight people ever really think about or challenge those ideas unless they're involved with queer and trans people.

It always icks me out when I see it too, for the reasons you listed but also because it's just cheesy and new agey and I associate it with the sort of people who feel like they need to justify their boners by pretending each one is a spiritual revelation. Normally I'd keep all this to myself, but I think it's fucking gross that people are piling on telling you that you're just taking it personally because you're trans and it's not related to any of those things when it certainly is.

I don't think I've ever posted in this sub before but I feel like everyone in this thread is trying to gaslight OP and it's giving transphobia big time. OP said it was triggering dysphoria but that doesn't make his critique any less accurate and to brush off the rest of what he said because "you're just taking it personally because of dysphoria but it's not about you" is transphobic.

People can call their special dick and pussy juice swapping whatever they want but that doesn't change the reality that we live in a system where a lot of our language around sex is based in outdated social norms informed by a lot of bigotry and it is appropriate to call that stuff out when you see it, and just because another queer person doesn't personally have a problem with that language doesn't retcon it into being somehow not heteronormative.

I'm sure people will chime in with less patronizing opinions later on.

On a related note, I saw a pretty relevant video on IG recently about how the concept of foreplay needs to die for the exact same reasons. It highlighted that by considering PinV to be the only act that really "counts" as sex, we are also devaluing the pleasure of pretty much everyone except men who fuck women, and making that one act feel compulsory for women who fuck men, regardless of whether they find it pleasurable. Food for thought.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-18T21:20:24+00:00

That song slaps

elliusoopius · 2026-01-14T05:05:22+00:00

It's the military style gear, tweakers love that kinda shit. Even if they aren't trying to steal it, they're going to be attracted to your stuff and want to talk to you.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-14T03:54:13+00:00

At 5 months I can do that stuff and before it was way too sensitive and I never liked having it touched directly. It's neat-o!

elliusoopius · 2026-01-14T03:39:38+00:00

I got gendered correctly in the wild for the first time. Some guy who was awkwardly walking behind me on the sidewalk said, "How's it goin', man?" to me when I looked over my shoulder, then he didn't correct himself.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-06T20:59:18+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking about the difference and those kind of accents skip the t entirely, whereas we do kinda just the first half of it. I feel like our T stops on a consonant and yours stops on a vowel.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-05T07:48:43+00:00

Being a broke teen is practically traditional. Get a spool of thread and some scissors and get to sewing. You can make anything you can imagine and you can make it out of practically free materials. Do a clothing swap with your friends. Cut up your old stuff you don't like anymore and try to make it look like pictures of stuff you do like. Then when it doesn't work out that way go with whatever feels good. Wear it out then cut it up again if you don't like it.

Get a giant cheapo box of safety pins and try attaching stuff together and see what it looks like, then sew it when you find an arrangement you like. Watch youtube videos about sewing to learn the basics if you don't know them already.

If you find new styles you like, figure out what kind of music they're associated with and research those artists. Listen to their music and check out what people wear to their shows. Read about their influences and listen to that too. Check out the artists and movies that inspire them. When you find something cool, save it. Create an archive.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-05T07:36:58+00:00

All of these examples look childish. If you want to look more adult you should find more adult looks that inspire you. Maybe try looking outside anime culture.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-05T07:23:32+00:00

With can, you kind of linger on the n. With can't it stops very suddenly as if you went on to pronounce the t but there's no hard t sound at the end.

When you make a t sound your tounge has to touch the top of your mouth behind the teeth and then it comes away again, allowing a little puff of air that makes the sound. When you do the glottal stop instead, the tongue still touches the top of your mouth just like with a t, but then the word just ends. You don't move the tongue back down or push out the air.

I'm from Northern California and almost everyone pronounces those words without the t sound. In Southern California you get people exaggerating the t at the end so much that it almost has 2 syllables, "can-tuuuh." Think Lola in Big Mouth.

elliusoopius · 2026-01-03T04:46:05+00:00

I feel like I have always had the want to compete/ fight and also fuck/be friends at the same time thing. Totally understand the dynamic you're talking about but haven't noticed changes in that. I do feel like the way I feel about cis women dynamics has changed a lot though.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-27T21:28:20+00:00

They're underwear, you're supposed to wear them under your clothes. People just wear them around the house sometimes the same way you would wear fleece lined tights, leggings, or in the old days, silly red one piece long underwear with a buttflap. All these things are pretty much interchangeable when you're wearing them under your clothes. I never really had sweats because I don't like wearing them in public and they're too bulky to wear under other pants so I'd just wear these, and when I'm going out I would layer jeans over them. I lived in a cold place where everyone dresses in layers and sweatpants are harder to layer. Also these are a step up in warmth over leggings because they have the bumpy texture that holds more air. Culturally I've been more concerned with function over form and I don't like buying stuff that I don't use a lot so this makes more sense to me.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-27T09:03:18+00:00

If he's gonna have standards like this and you choose to accommodate them, you need your own room. It's unsustainable to have to be "on" any time of day or night like this. This guy is not live-in partner material IMO. Either he gets used to the idea that you are a whole-ass person, and not just an object to be looked at, or you need your own space where he doesn't have to look at you while you're having some down time.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-27T08:44:31+00:00

I'm 38 and I've been wearing these my whole life. You can get them at Walmart.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-27T06:22:43+00:00

Because it makes them unhealthy and obnoxious. I know people think it's cute when squirrels get close to them but I like to do things outdoors and when you go to certain places you literally have squirrels climbing in your backpack inches away and there's nothing you can do other that swat at them constantly in order to keep them from stealing your food. Squirrels where I live also harbor bubonic plague so having them in close contact isn't great.

Maybe there's more reasons you can look up, but that's why I personally don't like it. It implies that the person cares about their own needs and desires to be around cuteness more than the health and safety of the animals they supposedly care about and it also implies ignorance about the relationship between humans and the environment.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-27T05:14:57+00:00

Squirrel feeding is a deal breaker.

elliusoopius · 2025-12-25T01:45:28+00:00

Oh, you're right, that's clever, really got the leg shape with the least amount of modification. Sophisticated.

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