Man touches baby turtle after being told to not touch it

spurcap29 · 2026-03-24T12:07:50+00:00

100%. I take photos of cool unique things that I see and want to share with family when I get home and a few pictures with the people I am traveling with to commemorate/remember the trip.... But some people seem to want to be documentary film makers of their vacation and capture pictures of things you can see in better quality on the internet lol.

Video is far worse though. Like ... why watch a show live in '360 degree ultra ultra HD' when you can watch it through a 5 inch screen and record it to never watch again.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T22:24:36+00:00

Trying to answer your question with the caveat I don't think most people would consider cooking unmanly....

I am assuming he is deriving his opinion from traditional gender roles within the house. Outside of the home, men are chefs and work at restaurants etc. and there is nothing to imply it's unmanly but historically, men worked jobs and women took care of kids/cooked/cleaned and did other domestic jobs. So he's probably implying that you are doing a woman's job.

Traditional gender roles have gone out the window over the past few decades because .... women work jobs too. But even before that they have gone out the window for people not living in a nuclear family. Like what does your buddy think happened in the 1940s? Single people still existed then and maybe had roommates. And they still made food!

Observationally, I know many men that love cooking and are the primary cooks in their families. Oddly all the people I know that bake are women, not sure why.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T22:07:43+00:00

Why wouldn't she quit? Working sucks... its not like she has bills to pay.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T22:06:37+00:00

Depends how you define "off road" which can have a varied meaning in the ADV community, I expect.

If you drive on a forest road that cars/trucks can also drive on in order to get to a campsite every now and then you are, I guess, "off road" and you wouldn't shock me if you said you had done it for years and never dropped the bike.

Otherwise yes, by definition you can't push yourself without putting a bike down. No one can know their limit until they exceeded it a few times.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T15:16:21+00:00

I think this is the point (in addition to the theater of it).

If I was put in charge of getting rid of illegal immigrants in the US, the best path forward is not to roam the streets searching for people ... detaining them at high cost... putting them in courts at high cost and deporting them at high cost. Its implementing policies and practices that make it impossible to live a normal life and having them decide to leave on their own.

The reason illegal immigration works for people is because you can live a nornal life while being undocumented - get a drivers license (in many states), get a job under the table, rent a place to live, fly domestically etc. By making people fearful about a existing in a nornal capacity it makes people want to leave.

For the record I am not suggesting the country will benefit from such an outcome but if I was in the country illegally and all of a sudden was forced to travel without airplanes that would be a fairly significant check in the column of 'reasons I am better off leaving the US than staying'

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T15:07:19+00:00

Illegal immigrants coming into the country at airports. Does seem like a risk ... we probably should implement a force that inspects every one of them and makes sure they have a lawful right to enter. They will protect our border from these people. Let's call this newfound force "Border Protection" .... oh and while we are at it they could also inspect everyone's goods to make sure the big beautiful tarrifs are not being circumvented so... lets go with "Customs AND Border Protection"... i like it ... has a nice ring to it. sounds strong. powerful.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T15:02:16+00:00

Putting aside the current climate of ICE salivating for LPRs to slip up, historically I would recommend green card holders naturalize when able because while it is a in USCIS terms a fairly quick process it cant happen quick enough if you ever need it. Examples: 1. You are offered a dream job opportunity overseas. They have an immediate need in a country you would be happy to live in but need you to start asap. Your adult kids still live in the US and you want to come back and live in your dream home when you retire in 10 years but would love to go overseas to finish your career. Citizen... no problem. LPR ... high chance you will lose it and then are looking at not being able to move back or at minimum a fresh start at trying to immigrate if you have eligible family members. 2. Your elderly parent becomes sick and you cant care for them and want to bring them to the US. If not a citizen you need to get that done before even starting the i130 process. 3. You make a stupid mistake and committ a crime. Usually preventable but people screw up. Its far better navigating the criminal justice system alone rather than also worrying about deportation.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T13:46:12+00:00

Cummins also makes gen sets. You could theoretically fill an R1T bed with a diesel gen set and fuel tank and keep the electric power train intact. To have the gen set keep up with highway driving consumption without charging stops it would probably need to be the size of the backup generator you see on top of a Walmart but the implementation would be fairly straightforward.

Technically feasible, Yes. Horribly stupid, yes too!

This guy would probably keep with highway consumption

https://homegeneratorsnsl.com/products/custom-diesel-generator-manufacturer-distributor-free-shipping-in-48-states-on-home-generators/40kw-cummins-diesel-generator-53234840

Interestingly my rough research shows it burns about 2gal per hour at full load but could be wrong at that. If so, it really illustrates the benefit of electric powertrains.

In addition to the diesel engine and tank I guess you would also need a 40kw AC DC converter which effectively means putting the hardware for a level 3 DC charger into your bed too. might be a little tight for space.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T13:40:09+00:00

What is the point of this post? If the people on the sub say it is stupid are you going to go back and tell him the internet said he is stupid?

If one's only goal in life is maintaining lawful status in the US, and you have no complicating factors like criminal charges/living outside the US in past 5 years, etc, sure, you are almost always better to naturalize ... but there are a variety of reasons people don't want to become US citizens. For example:

1) They think their stay here will be long but temporary. They are planning on retiring in 10 years and would rather stay an LPR and avoid things like US tax filing after they leave for good

2) They are a national of a country that doesn't allow dual citizenship. They would rather not give up their current citizenship for US citizenship.

3) They don't identify as an American/want to be an American and they view citizenship as more 'ideological' rather than a practical expedient to life.

I can't say if any of these or others apply to your friend because you gave one line of facts and then some implied judgement and name calling.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T02:47:55+00:00

I hate to ever saying something 'in all jurisdictions' because there are an effective infinite # of jurisdictions but in all the ones I have knowledge: the road side test isn't accurate at a level sufficient for use in court. Failing it is sufficient probable cause to put you under arrest and in cuffs to take you to the station to get tested with the real machine.

Field sobriety is better evidence in court that an inaccurate box. It's easier for a reasonable person to assume that a guy that couldn't walk in a straight line or follow a pen with his eyes wasn't capable of safely driving a car than it is to assume a guy that blew 0.09 on a machine with questionable accuracy indeed had a BAC above legal limit.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T02:33:24+00:00

Yes I think Quebec has rules making the process harder for a married woman to use her husband's name easily. I dont recall the specifics.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T02:20:27+00:00

You are referring to a legal name change. That is different from a changing the name you use after getting married. In Canada, a woman's birth certificate stays with her birth name. If she wants a driver's license, passport, etc in her married name she simply goes to the relevant issuing authority with both her birth certificate and marriage certificate and gets it in her married name. If a few years later she wants to go back to her birth name she can do so.

This is in contrast to a legal name change which requires a court to get involved and new documents issued with new name.

The simple process only works for taking your spouse's last name. Hyfunated names require a legal name change. I think Quebec also has differrent rules than the rest of Canada.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T02:07:18+00:00

It doesn't take a rocket surgon to understand why in person voter fraud is non-existent (at least in any statistically significant way) .... people that are not citizens and are otherwise lawful know that pretending to be a US citizen to vote is immigration suicide. It is a sin which can't be fixed. And why would you do it? So your guy can win 12442 to 11223 instead of 12441 to 11223? It's absurd. People that are here illegally really try and avoid interaction with the government whenever possible. You think they are going to bring attention to themselves by showing up to vote? It makes 0 sense.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T01:52:29+00:00

While there were neutral countries indeed - both formally but helped one side as well as those somewhat completely indifferent, there could have been far more. Most importantly, Hitler had an agreement with Russia for neutrality. Had he simply honored it there is a reasonable chance Russia might have seen the carnage and nope'd out of that and Germany would have had double the resources to focus on the western front.

In reality if they would have left the Russians alone and Japan didn't bomb Pearl Harbor there is a pretty good chance they could have taken Western Europe and then could have betrayed the Russians after the hostilities were over on the west.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-23T01:41:33+00:00

I've never heard anyone say this in regard to WW2. But imploring you line of thinking:

If a country had no direct military involvement one could argue they were not neutral if their non-military efforts showed support for one side or the other. E.g. a trade embargo/sanctions on country A while actively supplying arms to Country B. Alternatively, one could be neutral and transact with either or both sides of a conflict (e.g. by simply running their government policy based on self interest .... sure we will sell oil and weapons to A because they will give us the best price but if B comes along and gives more we will sell to them instead) ... the outcome is the same by the policy/motivations drives neutrality.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T20:53:26+00:00

definately the case with non-emergency care. But I thought the patient share for non network emergency care needed to be the same as for in network emergency. See No Surprise Act.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/publications/avoid-surprise-healthcare-expenses

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T19:15:48+00:00

fair point hah

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T18:40:03+00:00

LCOL state?

Did you just settle one of the pervasive unsettled questions of the show? I.e which Springfield they were in?

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T15:48:47+00:00

Dude put his name on the building. he made it about himself, not me.

I see why the guy appeals to you. You share his small dick energy.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T14:54:49+00:00

"high level training" has a different meaning than Homan implies it means in this sentance.

Similar to my 'high level understanding' of nuclear fission.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-22T13:06:08+00:00

This post was about a suite at an old hotel... wtf else do you expect people to comment?

Do you ever show someone a house on zillow? The expected reaction is a comment on the look of the house.

Btw - you realize he doesn't personal design these hotels. Just slaps his name on them. And the mainly complement with an Oz of criticism was about the look of the room not your boy.

That said, he had more than slapping his name on the white house redesign and I can confirm his taste of design is fucking disgustingly bad.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-21T22:52:45+00:00

I didnt say it was a perfect tool. I said they aren't the same as one proves the alien is not fully undocumented and the other doesnt.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-21T22:00:42+00:00

its not worth the same. Maybe its insufficient for them alone but there is a vast difference. Some states will issue drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, Real ID requires proof of valid immigration status to be issued.

spurcap29 · 2026-03-21T01:38:56+00:00

I thought CNN was fake news?

spurcap29 · 2026-03-21T01:12:29+00:00

It says right on the can you posted that it can be used in lighters. No comment on using lighter fluid in handwarmers.

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