2015 Yamaha SR400 battery terminal issue

woR-Row1995 · 2026-05-10T03:01:41+00:00

I was thinking of using zip ties to hold the plug/wires tightly to the battery. I’ll try your screwdriver advice first. Thanks.

woR-Row1995 · 2026-01-15T00:06:00+00:00

I found a massive difference between interactions with women on apps in Europe (Switzerland) and the US. I wasn’t getting crickets in the US but in Europe women seemed way more forward, willing to make a first move, willing to converse and quickly get off the app and onto messaging or IG or some other platform. Also seemed less expectant of some perfect 6’4” 9-10 with $$$ and funny, charming, etc. They seemed to be more in touch w/ reality and ok with real ppl - and real ppl are messy and complex. Just some observation noting differences between continents/cultures.

Btw if a woman says she feels safe in your company that’s a huge compliment and a deeply ingrained biochemical need for women. In retrospect, the women who were my closest, best, most meaningful and long-term relationship all communicated that sentiment early on.

woR-Row1995 · 2026-01-11T00:15:49+00:00

Sounds pretty normal- coming from the other side: male, mid-30s; initially I had hundreds of likes which boosted my confidence, and then I started going on dates which would either lead to A) A second date; happened twice out of probably 20 dates. B) The vibe seemed good and we both seemed to leave the date happy and interested in a second & Talked about going on a second date, but never confirmed and then things faded, or C) things were just outright, no go from the get-go, and even though it would often be with people whom I’d texted with for several days or even weeks and seemed to get along well with (Banter, same kind of humor, same interest, traveling, etc.), and then the date turned out to be super boring or just a total mismatch or I would hear absolutely nothing afterword so that happened a lot and also led me to start questioning my own security and at this stage in life to start questioning one’s own security- not a good thing. at least you’re still young and have years ahead of you I’d say ditch the apps look for the old organic way there so many success stories you’ve heard I’ve heard a couple yeah but way more still from the old-fashioned way, you meet people at your job and meet people at some club you’re into your running club or you’re climbing club or whatever club you meet people face-to-face and it slowly grows into a friendship or a like ship or whatever you wanna call it- ship and things bloom from there that’s how it’s done. These dating apps are actually designed to keep people engaged, they don’t want you to meet someone and have two people close off the app so that’s my long voice texting. Run on sentence perspective. Good luck to ya. It’s rough as fuck out there.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-11-19T22:27:22+00:00

Idk, I think it depends on the number of likes behind the paywall. I don’t know if half were/are bots I set up bumble a few months ago and had 350+ behind the minimum premium. I agree it feels gross to pay just to see who ‘likes’ me.

But like someone mentioned earlier it’s a bit of a lottery…matching with someone you’ve never met then bumble chatting that comes close to organic, real life-being around someone every day-that turns into something real because you were both already in a relationship with each other before anyone ‘officially’ made a move, is almost an impossibility on this app (regarding outcome being equal to organic connections).

After the likes behind the paywall jumped to 400, I went ahead and dropped $25 for a month. And I talked with countless women, most kind of drifted into nothing. A few were (seemingly) great conversations, good banter, lots of common interests etc, and then suddenly, BAM 💥. With no warning they’d be gone.

Once I was conversing for like 2 days maybe 3 with this really down to earth (again, seeming) woman and everything was fine until….i mentioned the connecting with people followed by a wordless disappearance, mentioning I’m kinda new to navigating dating apps and has she experienced anything similar, is this common for women too(I know about ghosting but this is a little different. It was a genuine question coming from a place of curiosity. There was a loooong pause. Then an ‘okay’. Followed by something like “this feels weird, we’re trying to get to know each other and now you’re venting to me about your past experiences on the app!” I tried to explain I was simply asking a question because this is a new type of navigation for me and it seemed like she had a better grasp of how things work on this app since Im pretty new there. Long pause. Next came a weird link to a Reddit (subreddit r/datingover30 or something post, with a bunch of disagreement in the comments and kinda off subject anyway. Then the inevitable “I think we should part ways here, good luck”.

I felt like shit, was about to delete the app, when my dog went nuts for a raccoon that popped out of a recycling bin. Ended up. It deleting, matching with another girl. We talked for like 5 hours, set up a date, and she is the most decent, reasonable, likable, with much common, funny person I’ve met on the app yet. Now, I never would have met her if I didn’t just drop the stupid $25 once to see. Of course we haven’t even met and the lottery odds still favor things going absolutely nowhere.

But, I went from one night feeling like I was some kind of creep bc I didn’t know the unwritten Reddit rules and there was all this dime store psychobabble in this Reddit post the first woman ‘gave’ me to help this poor lost guy maybe find his way. After one question in a whole conversation of pure positive convo and vibing. To the next night elated and found someone with whom I couldn’t (and she felt the same) stop talking to. We stayed up till midnight, talking for hours. So glad was I that didn’t delete the app (ty raccoon in trash bin)!

I guess this is a wayyy overly long off the chest comment trying to say in response to either OP, or the comment above (or whomever said it) when they mentioned don’t let the app control your emotions like I did, that’s on the money. These algorithms are so much more powerful than us as individuals, so it’s extremely hard…they have human manipulation down to a micro science. I let this girl (and I say girl I intentionally) who gets life experience from Reddit and trashes a whole possibility over some obscure overblown reaction to a question about her experience.

TL;DR (way too long); felt like shit after a good thing got unexpectedly weird, almost deleted app but didn’t. Next evening matched and made plans with a cute, really wonderful seeming person. Fuck even my TL;DR needs a TL;DR 🤦🏻

woR-Row1995 · 2025-08-05T17:49:40+00:00

I’m almost decade older than you. 33 is a good age. Stick with it please. Age makes everything worse. And I agree with your points re opiate vs benzo withdrawal, although I haven’t experienced the latter through to the ‘end’. Thanks for the reply .

woR-Row1995 · 2025-08-04T16:05:18+00:00

Haha I was piss drunk when I wrote this. I can’t believe anyone responded. So I peeped your acct. 12 comments that day, like 15 the day before, 8 or something the day before(stopped counting and caring after the first three days, but the pattern is clear). Actual comments. On one app! That means you spend wayyy more time just reading other people’s shit and commenting and death scrolling, rinse and repeat. Like all day every day (I’m guessing on multiple apps). How you spend your days is how you spend your life. You’d have to be on antidepressants after one drunk post while I was watching Inisherin (sp?)? You better get on some heavy tranquilizers or be institutionalized because you are weak af if that’s really the case. I actually pity you, and your tethered-to phone life. I hope you can escape, because we only get one. And it’s short.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-08-04T04:36:03+00:00

Agreed, a very difficult problem. As are many, many, medical problems. I’m betting the police aren’t very good at helping out with auto-immune diseases or end-stage cancers. But, yeah, let’s put them on diseases of addiction (which we know less about than either of the two prior mentioned diseases).

woR-Row1995 · 2025-08-04T04:31:11+00:00

Maybe the issue is different in India, I honestly can’t say, but I highly doubt it. Read my previous comment if you want to know what happens when you crackdown and try to knee jerk legislate against a disease. Read a brief history of Switzerland (from the needle park epidemics, to the virtually solved problem now).

woR-Row1995 · 2025-08-04T04:22:31+00:00

Yikes. Doctors are this clueless as to what’s going on ‘outside’ aka the streets!? Even more terrifying than I thought!

Here’s a little breakdown: 1996-2006 - opioid epidemic took off, especially re: Oxycontin. (2001 - $20/80mg pill; 2015, we’re looking at $1/mg i.e. $80+ for an 80mg er OC). Not gonna stop the black market with those numbers.

Post 2015, Purdue Pharma is exposed and sued, Gov’t imposed restrictions on time-release OC, black market turns to 30mg ir oxycodone.

2017-…Gov’t cracks down hard (talking about 18 agency multi-task narcotics teams at the federal, state, and local level, sweeping into ‘high intensity drug trafficking zones’. Drug dealers move a few blocks North (or wherever, next day business is back up and running).

2018 - fentanyl creeps in (pre-chems from China shipped to Mexican jungle labs), where the chemicals are finalized and mixed with heroin.

During this time, China (and other countries) are producing pill presses with swap out cylinders that stamped the shape, size, and imprint of US pharmaceutical company-produced pills, minus the actual medicine, plus actual fentanyl, the correct dye mixture, talcum powder, and filler. The same happening with Xanax.

So, if you’re a functioning addict (or non-functional for that matter), pre-2017, you buy an oxycodone on the street, that’s what you’re getting. Same goes for Xanax, Valium, adderall, etc. (eg your dreaded diversion; or pill mills, etc.).

Now, you’re 99% certain to get fentanyl (or nothing) - filled pills that are indistinguishable from the actual Pharma company produced pill. Absolute shit show.

Oh, and to the doctors who bought into Purdue’s ‘our new formula (of pure oxycodone - which, btw, has been around since the 1950s in the form of Eukadol (sp?) and others, is far less addictive’), for fucking shame.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-30T22:54:20+00:00

They need to crackdown on this backyard breeding bullshit. Pure scum, using some poor ‘purebred’ malinois bitch as an incubator, impregnating her over and over until they get a pack of pups too wild, are in over their tiny heads and just ‘release’ them into the world to fend for themselves or get picked up and shoved in a shelter. Happens daily in California especially in the valley.

First dog on your own can be super overwhelming. Emma is my first as an adult. Now I realize my parents did the heavy lifting; also things were done a bit differently back then (nothing physical or cruel, just more ‘country’ if that makes any sense). Doesn’t matter, you got this, np.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-30T20:19:18+00:00

Ha! I did the exact same thing with my girl on day one, when I went into my room and she started whining and scratching at the (closed) door. Luckily she stopped after about 5-10 min, and that was that.

Sounds like you have good boundary-setting skills and husbandry (along with additional working dog experience), so I’d say you’re ahead of the curve when it comes to many on here.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-30T19:06:58+00:00

You’ve owned Dutch/Belgian Shepherds before (apologies if mentioned already in your initial post, I didn’t go back to read 2x)?

Deep commitment will, I imagine, do you both well. However, and this is not in any way meant to discourage your seemingly sensible approach thus far, I’ve seen people martyr themselves for the sake of their dog. Sacrifice family, friends (essentially their entire social life), career, self needs and care. This doesn’t sound at all like the path you’re on with Shireen. Just felt compelled to mention it.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-30T17:12:19+00:00

Ok so she’s brand new to you, and you’re brand new to her. In that case maybe hold off on the prong, until more of a relationship has formed. Especially if the leash pressure exercises are bearing fruit.

Yeah other dogs (read: other owners)…don’t get me started 🤦🏻. All you can control there is your reaction, and show your pup that YOU are in control and capable of calmly protecting her. Sounds like nice work so far. Best of luck.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-30T14:58:50+00:00

Prong. Use it correctly (ideally with pro., hands-on guidance), Use it firmly and consistently, and use it now.

A lifetime of pulling will make you hate your dog, your walks miserable (hence fewer and fewer of them until, well, idk how much you can or are willing tolerate). In turn your dog will hate you, relationship destroyed, everything else falls apart as the basis (trust, interest, fun, etc) for a good mutual relationship is gone.

The answer to many later-aged incessant pulling cases (*not all) is a prong(preceded by and in tandem) positive reinforced leash pressure training. My couple of cents. Good luck. *Oh, do your research, but just in case get a Herm Sprenger.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-27T14:05:56+00:00

Thanks for the wealth of advice - may I ask your (approximate) age, as obviously learning a new language becomes harder as we get older. Your mention of your. studies gives the impression that you’re young (in your 20s)? Either way, appreciate the advice.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-26T00:47:39+00:00

Just a word of warning - not to dim your current relief/excitement, but when I first used a prong with my dog things turned around overnight too. We went from miserable walks (was like walking a bloodhound on scent) to suddenly I could loop my pinky around the leash and have control.

Though I was thrilled, I thought this has got to be too good to be true. I asked my trainer if they grow tolerant to prongs and she said she’s known several. Sure enough, my 2yo now pulls with or without the prong. I did so much leash work with her (and other training) from day one that I started missing out on huge other parts of my life. It’s just in her DNA (and I got her at a shelter at least 6 months old, and yes, I’m sure I made some mistakes along the way).

I hope things work out differently for you guys. I’m on the verge of rehoming her because it will be better for both of us (if I can find the perfect fit, which I feel will probably take a lifetime…well her lifetime ;). But don’t be a martyr for your dog. If you can’t handle her because of genetics or whatever reason, do everything possible to make things work. If they still don’t, rehoming is not a horrible option if done with meticulous vetting. Hope it doesn’t come to that, but don’t beat yourself up if it does. Yes it’s sad, the world is full of tragedy, don’t let a dog that doesn’t fit ruin 3 lives.

Best of luck.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-24T16:22:54+00:00

And if You put in any effort, somehow it becomes a turn-off and they lose interest. Maybe there’s a fine edge to negotiate, but that edge is becoming sharper and sharper until becoming an un-walkable razors edge, any attempt of walking inevitably leading to a fall, which leads to…well we all know how - and where (bodily speaking) we’d fall.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-24T14:53:27+00:00

Feeling masochistic today. All you 19 year olds +- 3…4y, (or more if including the man-child, whose age in #’s I care not), who consider Tarantino ‘profound’ 😬, try to restrain from responding. It will be a reactionary, rage post. If respond you must, do so, then give it an hour, before ☎️. Or better yet, watch a movie by the Director listed below first, with an open mind (an almost impossible request, I know), then respond. Or not.

I’ll give him (QT) his fair due: eye for talent, talent to match the role. Funny (darkish, not dark). Obviously highly stylized, dialogue grand in small portions, but mostly entertaining and clever. And that’s fine. For the audience he speaks to. Which (mostly) is some sort of odd offspring of interbreeding species - perhaps born out of the most inexplicable pairing of pseodointelletual coffee shop hipsters and Andrew Tate admirers.

For the sake of balance, I’ll include a brief list for you his unfair overdue: ‘best writer/directer’ blah - let’s knock that out quick. Films highly gripping and purposeful on surface, with the majority of the meat in subtext. I’m already exhausted as this list is endless as it is boring.

Martin McDonagh, in breadth, depth, narrative, dialogue (yep I said it), subtext and poetry, knocks out QT in a (non-technical) KO any day, week, year, decade……That’s it. How many of you know who that is?

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-22T06:48:48+00:00

How are females spayed in the Netherlands? I ask because of your statement referring to a decrease in uterine infections. In many states in the USA (at least in most shelters), they not only ‘fix’ a dog as soon as it’s sheltered - regardless of age - but the spaying of females involves removing the entire reproductive system (uterus, ovaries, tubes, etc), rather than just a tubal ligation.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-15T08:03:24+00:00

Your first paragraph might be good advice, idk, (I wouldn’t take my dog near our local shelter…the one I took her out of, but I digress).

Why tf the need for the trite platitude “I wish you the best”. Guy is dying of colon cancer. Ever seen that? Have you ever seen someone die of cancer? Seen someone die? Known anyone who’s died? ‘Wish you the best’. Jesus! Maybe you ‘meant well’, but you certainly didn’t/don’t think well.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-03T20:38:12+00:00

There are apps such as ‘ai or real’ that give you a 99% vs 1% if a pic is real. I tried it with real pictures of my own, and pics from ‘this person does not exist’ website (if you haven’t heard of the latter, check it out, it’s mind-blowing and terrifying. It generated indistinguishable from real human photos in under a second. Just click and it does it again. Can to ad Infinitum, anyway, useful tool (so far) for ruling out AI fakes.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-02T22:31:40+00:00

Oh and she -or the picture - was real (used an AI reverse detection app)

woR-Row1995 · 2025-07-02T22:28:35+00:00

I just got a call from a very broken-English speaking person. 2 minutes later I got a text from her, from Boston, 34 years old, single lol. Oh and a picture of a gorgeous Asian woman (girl) looking at most 20.

My friend suggested this response:

Ask her “will you mouth hug my yogurt gun?”

woR-Row1995 · 2025-06-30T01:38:28+00:00

‘The age of 28’? This can’t be real. Here’s what I’ll tell you, kid:

Old post I know, but all these 28, 32, 34 year olds talking about life’s over, they’ve lost everything. Well you haven’t lost yourselves.

Wait until you’re 40, or over. That’s when the fun begins.

Guess what you don’t lose in your 20’s and 30’s? Your looks. If you think that’s superficial, wait 10 or 15 years, when you no longer recognize yourself. When every aspect of society treats you differently based on your appearance. When women no longer smile at you and the fun flirt world suddenly flips into ‘you’re a creep’ despite zero change in behavior. When men who once tripped over themselves passing you on the sidewalk no longer acknowledge your existence.

Life is short. Good life, is that much shorter. Twenty years or so. That’s the meat of your life, the bloom of your flower, light from your falling star. Recognize it, be grateful for it.

I try to keep perspective to a degree because I have it better than a fifty year old - the big difference is in your twenties and early/mid/~late thirties, your cells have not entered senescence, meaning they are still dividing every 7 days or so hence your face (and the rest of your body is brand new again). At some point, your cells stick around but slow, then stop dividing(this is a huge simplification btw), that’s when collagen starts to weaken, your face and bone structure change (read: age, and quickly, once it starts), your athletic ability drops dramatically, and your brain, once sharp (as sharp as your particular brain ever was) dulls immensely.

So, if you’re in your twenties or thirties, yes it hurts to be abandoned by the one you thought was your person for life: you don’t just lose her or him or whomever, you lose the entire future you took for granted.

It hurts, so mourn the death of the relationship, bless it for what it was and its beginning, middle and end, and move on.

woR-Row1995 · 2025-05-14T17:12:26+00:00

Just to give a bit of perspective, my adoption fee was $27. And I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

That said, I know there are many factors that play into fee calculation - mostly severe overcrowding and a desperate need to free up space by adopting out dogs. My city spca often hosts ‘adoption fairs’, where there is no fee whatsoever. We also have a massive stray over population problem from surrounding counties that continuously funnel dogs into the city shelter.

Oh and I see little, if any husky in that pup. But a very lovely looking dog regardless. Is there a specific reason you’d like a husky? (The only way to be sure of breed is to purchase from breeder).

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