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Somebody made a long driving poll and completely lowballed the numbers, so I'm gonna roll my own:

Up to how long can you drive in a single day before being miserable?

2h (US/Canadian)

4h (US/Can)

6h (US/Can)

9h (US/Can)

12h (US/Can)

longer (US/Can)

2h (other)

4h (other)

6h (other)

9h (other)

12h (other)

longer (other)

Edit: Every option except "longer" is meant as "less than this long", i.e. if any and all driving makes you miserable that's the 2h option for you.

ms-demeanor

See, here's the functional poll for USAmerican/Canadian drivers and folks from other places get to play along too.

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When I was twelve my family went on a month-long road trip around the US, we went to 32 states in 30 days. There were some days we didn’t drive at all (staying with family for multiple days, a week of seeing museums in DC) but barring those days the *shortest* day of travel was 300 miles (about 4 hours at highway speeds) and the longest was 500 miles (about 7 hours at highway speeds).

At twelve, in the car with my parents and my ten year old sister, seven hours felt like a bit much. The whole trip was about 10k miles and when we went to return the rental van, the lady at the counter looked at the mileage before and after and asked “So where didn’t y'all go?”

A few years ago I took a train from San Jose to Los Angeles (about 350 miles, a five-ish hour drive). It was an 11 hour train ride and an hour of that was stopped so that a freight train could pass.

Part of this is “country big” but another part of this is “infrastructure bad.”

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earnest-peer

Somebody made a long driving poll and completely lowballed the numbers, so I'm gonna roll my own:

Up to how long can you drive in a single day before being miserable?

2h (US/Canadian)

4h (US/Can)

6h (US/Can)

9h (US/Can)

12h (US/Can)

longer (US/Can)

2h (other)

4h (other)

6h (other)

9h (other)

12h (other)

longer (other)

Edit: Every option except "longer" is meant as "less than this long", i.e. if any and all driving makes you miserable that's the 2h option for you.

ms-demeanor

See, here's the functional poll for USAmerican/Canadian drivers and folks from other places get to play along too.

ms-demeanor

When I was twelve my family went on a month-long road trip around the US, we went to 32 states in 30 days. There were some days we didn't drive at all (staying with family for multiple days, a week of seeing museums in DC) but barring those days the *shortest* day of travel was 300 miles (about 4 hours at highway speeds) and the longest was 500 miles (about 7 hours at highway speeds).

At twelve, in the car with my parents and my ten year old sister, seven hours felt like a bit much. The whole trip was about 10k miles and when we went to return the rental van, the lady at the counter looked at the mileage before and after and asked "So where didn't y'all go?"

A few years ago I took a train from San Jose to Los Angeles (about 350 miles, a five-ish hour drive). It was an 11 hour train ride and an hour of that was stopped so that a freight train could pass.

Part of this is "country big" but another part of this is "infrastructure bad."

ms-demeanor

Just for shits and giggles I looked at the routes we took for our vacation this spring and

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this was about three and a half days of driving time for two people (broken up by a week in the middle with only a couple hours driving; large bastard went a hundred miles one day, and we did a sixty mile each way drive with my dad and sister one day; those were very casual not-far drives).

I listened to *so* many hours of the Knowledge Fight podcast while Large Bastard was sleeping through New Mexico twice.

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earnest-peer

Somebody made a long driving poll and completely lowballed the numbers, so I'm gonna roll my own:

Up to how long can you drive in a single day before being miserable?

2h (US/Canadian)

4h (US/Can)

6h (US/Can)

9h (US/Can)

12h (US/Can)

longer (US/Can)

2h (other)

4h (other)

6h (other)

9h (other)

12h (other)

longer (other)

Edit: Every option except "longer" is meant as "less than this long", i.e. if any and all driving makes you miserable that's the 2h option for you.

ms-demeanor

See, here’s the functional poll for USAmerican/Canadian drivers and folks from other places get to play along too.

ms-demeanor
ms-demeanor

I am really enjoying the driving polls because my dream vacation is to get into my tiny yaris by myself in los angeles and drive to Maine over the course of like three days then stay at a campsite for a week and drive back.

It is a very bad thing that living in the US basically requires a car to function, but also I just genuinely love driving and find it relaxing and am good at it.

There's scenery! There's stuff to explore! You find weird bugs at rest stops! You turn off the highway for a second to take photos! You see lots of fun people! Truck stops have neat stuff!

That's a huge part of why I do the whole "get myself lost on purpose and find my way home" thing. Huh! Fun restaurant! I never would have found that if I hadn't gotten lost in Long Beach. Huh! nifty roadside art! Glad I took a wrong turn and ended up in ridgecrest! Wow! This is a really pretty drive! I have no idea what road we're on but we're going south so we'll get home eventually, and until then check out the dirt devils chasing the power pylons! Look! Horses!

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I spent about twenty years commuting between forty and seventy miles a day. I don’t know if there is any single activity that I’ve done as much as driving.

Think of someone you know who spends seven to ten hours a week on a hobby - maybe they play piano an hour a day, or they spend three days a week painting for three hours a day. After twenty years you’d figure they’d probably be pretty good at it, right?

So, like, I get it when people who don’t drive a lot find driving stressful and exhausting and painful; if you never really have to drive for more than twenty minutes at a time it seems like a LOT of work to drive for three hours because driving is DEMANDING; it requires a lot of attention to a lot of specific things and it requires a very specific set of physical skills that can be exhausting.

I remember the first time I drove on the freeway - my dad taught me how to drive and my dad LOVES driving and is also very good at it and was determined that his kids would be good drivers too, so he had REALLY particular ways of doing things. So the first time I drove on the freeway wasn’t from one exit to another late at night when there was no traffic, it was a 30 mile drive home from school - it was the farthest I had ever driven at one time at that point. And I still remember how sore my forearms were after because I wasn’t used to making the minute adjustments to keep myself in my lane for that much time.

And then that commute became something that I was used to and my arms got used to holding the wheel and I learned how to sit in a car in a way that’s comfortable for me, but that all took a lot of practice.

Driving is legitimately hard and stressful and if you don’t like it that’s okay. But I love driving so much.

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Hmmm. Kitchen posting last night made me really focus on how much the gray annoys me.

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Let's go.

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I've already bought the paint, but what color do you think I'm going to paint?


ms-d's cabinets are going to be:

Orange-red

White

Mauve

Teal

Mustard

Avocado

Maroon

Cream

Black (regular)

Black (chalkboard)

Violently Pink

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There are TWENTY NINE cabinet fronts/drawers in this room.

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Finished!

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Is that photo in grayscale just to not spoil the answer to the poll until after the poll closes?

ms-demeanor

Pretty much! But also to photograph it on morning light because so far it's looking wrong on camera and I'm not sure why.

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Here are some of the paint chips I was considering.

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Cyber grape wasn't actually a color I was considering for this but I do want to paint *something* cyber grape in honor of my dot com crayolas as a kid.

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Are they all going to be one colour?

ms-demeanor

They are all the same color.

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You're not wrong and I'm apparently predictable

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I wonder why so many people guessed teal 😅

It's nearly an exact match for my hair, which is dyed the Arctic Fox color Aquamarine.

It's a lot more green (so, teal) in person, but my camera is only picking up blue.

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But it's definitely a close match for my hair, which is teal, instead of painter's-tape-blue, which is what's showing up on camera.

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Before & after

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Man, if not for the microwave and the door the original kitchen could pass for grayscale at a glance. I'm very pleased that I'm no longer going to be cooking in Pleasantville.

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This is the color I got, it looks like the promo color in person.

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Driving through Las Vegas, February 1965

(1-2) Fashion Square Shopping Center at Las Vegas Blvd & Convention Center Drive. (3-5) Driving north on the Strip past La Concha Motel and the Sahara. (6-7) Continuing north on downtown Las Vegas Blvd past Cupid Wedding Chapel (1519 LVBS) and Monterey Lodge Motel (1133 LVBS).

(8-10) On foot downtown at Carson & Casino Center, and Fremont & Casino Center. The Mint tower still under construction. (11) Driving east on Fremont St. On the left is Desert Moon Motel (1701) and Biddulph Rambler (1715). T&N Studebaker transmission shop on the right is 1600 Fremont, a former Findlay Oldsmobile.

Slide scans from Walgoods

So I got a new car this weekend and by “new” I mean “2010 Toyota Yaris with 120k miles on it” and I have a few thoughts:

  • After years of driving a giant truck this feels like driving a teacup; I’d forgotten what it felt like for the wind to push me on the freeway (scary, it feels scary)
  • This isn’t a real car, this is too small to be a real car, this is an egg.
  • THE HOOD. THE HOOD IS SO LITTLE. OMG WHAT, THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT, NO, IT’S TOO CUTE AND TINY.
  • But seriously looking down and just seeing the entire engine compartment and knowing that I can reach across the whole thing or bend over and reach any part of it is so weird, the oil filter is RIGHT THERE, I can just put a filter wrench right on it and twist there’s no climbing like there was on my truck or wrestling with the frame like there was on my saturn what is this
  • I can’t see around shit
  • Seriously the hood is like the size of a cafeteria tray, I want to throw it like a frisbee
  • Compact parking spaces are REAL.
  • We’ve got five, five gallon gascans at the house (living with survivalists is weird) and if I’d wanted to use those on the truck they would have ALMOST filled the tank. Just TWO of those could fill this tank. I’m going to save SO MUCH money on gas, thank fuck holy crap I needed that.
  • I am going to paint the top of this thing yellow and get a license plate that says OVR EZ because this is an egg.
  • Who are you fucking kidding with the fifth seatbelt in the back this car is a two and a half seater at best but I like your moxie
  • I CAN PUT THE SEATS DOWN AND FIT A DRUM KIT IN THE BACK.
  • Large bastard fits inside it and his head doesn’t even hit the ceiling and his head hits the ceiling in his Jeep, this is great.
  • I got very used to cornering like a dazed humpback and now I can take corners again and U-turns are a thing and it’s nice
  • It costs $95 to fill up the truck in LA county and I was only getting 18-20 mpg and even that is only because I’m a good driver because that fuckin’ whale is rated for 14-16mpg this is going to save me SO MUCH money on gas
  • Apparently a lot of my personality was based on being a Huge Truck Guy and now that I’m not a Huge Truck Guy I don’t know how to feel about my teacup vehicle but maybe instead of painting it like an egg I’ll get china pattern detailing
  • I am incapable of treating cars as anything but a shitpost actually
  • I hate that I don’t have a manual for this thing yet and that I haven’t torn it apart but it needs new brakes and that’s like the best possible way to get started working on a new car so huzzah
  • man the economy for economy cars is fucked up and it’s a real bummer that it’s significantly cheaper to get something newer that’ll cost more long-term (because of gas consumption) than it is to get an older economy car. One of the cars that I found when I was looking was a 2004 Honda Civic with 225K miles on it for four grand and that is bonkers in yonkers. It’s really hard to find anything that gets 25+ mpg with under a hundred thousand miles on it for under ten thousand dollars unless you are buying in cash from the owner which comes with its own set of challenges.
  • It is worth at least five hundred dollars to get a car that does NOT have bullshit plastic covers over every fucking part of the engine.
  • I can park this thing anywhere. I bet I could park this thing in a treehouse. It’s so freaking little, even my saturns were longer than this and they were tiny.
  • I feel like I could pick this car up by the bumper and curl it.
  • The hood is so little that when you drop it to close it there isn’t enough weight to engage the latch it feels like a joke.
  • I love car forums and car forum people because I thought I was going to have to replace the radiator fan (the radiator looks like you could fill it up from a big gulp cup, btw) but it turns out I probably just have to ziptie a cable and i love car nerds for telling me that.
  • I didn’t drive like an asshole in the big truck but I may have to drive like an asshole in the little car because people are not taking the little car seriously. The turn signal is still a warning, not a request. It’s rush hour and I’ve got fucking nothing to lose. You think I can’t do bodywork on this piece of shit? You think I can’t replace a bumper? Fuck you, try me.
  • I don’t know why this little car has so many secret compartments but I like it. What’s it got in its pockets, precious?
  • Buying cars fucking sucks.
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I am really enjoying the driving polls because my dream vacation is to get into my tiny yaris by myself in los angeles and drive to Maine over the course of like three days then stay at a campsite for a week and drive back.

It is a very bad thing that living in the US basically requires a car to function, but also I just genuinely love driving and find it relaxing and am good at it.

There’s scenery! There’s stuff to explore! You find weird bugs at rest stops! You turn off the highway for a second to take photos! You see lots of fun people! Truck stops have neat stuff!

That’s a huge part of why I do the whole “get myself lost on purpose and find my way home” thing. Huh! Fun restaurant! I never would have found that if I hadn’t gotten lost in Long Beach. Huh! nifty roadside art! Glad I took a wrong turn and ended up in ridgecrest! Wow! This is a really pretty drive! I have no idea what road we’re on but we’re going south so we’ll get home eventually, and until then check out the dirt devils chasing the power pylons! Look! Horses!

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ayo this pretty cool

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[id: active style manual wheelchair with frame made of rectangle wood planks screwed together. end id]

as we know active type wheelchair very expensive, & repair need buy from specific medical manufacturer n take very long time. someone (who wheelchair user themself of near 40 years) made open source active manual wheelchair where most (if not all?) material from commercial easy get materials! wood, plastic, pvc pipe, & those commercial aluminum square pipe things. n they put guide made them yourself in link for anyone want try make

this video from their instagram show their wood frame wheelchair actually pretty durable, include clip from everyday use & even drop wheelchair all over place (basically imagine what airline do to them…) - n wheelchair stay in tact! n even if some part break - it easy change because wood planks all screwed together so you just buy wood plank & unscrew & rescrew.

not great for people w advanced seating positioning needs probably (think if only problem is easy butt pressure sore, maybe can still use this + supportive cushion but think beyond that it get hard). but if like you don’t need those things then maybe fun project?

have not use for self so can’t actually talk about experience but it look pretty cool

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