Minor things that bother you

[Max Rockatansky]

hot me hard

this isn't that type of website, gosh

I've often wondered why nobody on here has made a non-signage "road porn."   There seems to be niche porn for every other walk of life in the world. 

[kphoger]

with driving there is more of chance something could go wrong, like getting in a minor accident

You were all but guaranteed to flip your car at the first curve.

I've often wondered why nobody on here has made a non-signage "road porn."   There seems to be niche porn for every other walk of life in the world. 

In another niche forum I used to frequent, the term "porn" referred to pictures that hobby-enthusiasts would drool over.  With that in mind, button copy seems to be the "road porn" of this forum.

[MultiMillionMiler]

Gen Z angst wasn't for me, it was for other people in my age group who work endlessly, often simultaneously while in school, and are still bashed as selfish and lazy for no good reason. I have it better than alot of Gen Z, which is why I feel bad for those who have it worse. So you're saying I have no right to spend my own money occasionally just because it was given to me over the years? It would be gone in 2-3 years if I lived on my own, so it isn't "that much" in that respect. I never planned on investing it into owner-operator type careers, someone else may have suggested it earlier on in this thread but it wasn't me. One $1300 trip in 9 years, oh the horror! Prior generations also didn't have to deal with a pandemic alongside massive inflation, but again, I wasn't asking for sympathy for me, but for people who have it much worse than me, that was my whole point! $13,000 for one semester at an "elite college" that most companies aren't going to give a shit about seems alot less logical. It seems you think parental support into early adulthood is an extra, when it should be a default. If one wants to move out and work 2 jobs to barely get by paycheck to paycheck just for the "pride" of living alone, fine, but that doesn't appeal to me. I choose health over that, and my parents wouldn't want me to do that to myself just so they wouldn't have to support me as much. I am not waiting for the "perfect career opportunity" but I am also not going to get some shitty working condition type jobs just for the "experience" or just so I can say I got a job at 18 years old..etc. If I had say $10,000,000 in a bank account and I had 2 kids, I'd give them each a couple million so they'd never have to work a day in their life, and I don't see what's wrong with that. Working just for the principle of doing it isn't useful in itself. I'm not telling anyone how it is, you're the one claiming how $26,000 is so loaded, which is ridiculous in this day and age. People on here say people take road trips just for the sake of going on every route number or every county in a state, but spending $1300 on 1 trip is "blowing it"?

[Max Rockatansky]

See, when you go out of your way to delete your commentary on these topics it makes me think that you aren't exactly telling truth about a lot of things.  At minimum your deletions are awfully convenient with the narrative you are trying to spin now.  You opened the door on yourself for being critiqued by being a know it all in a hobby you hadn't established yourself in.  You aren't helping your case by telling a bunch of working adults you want a career but aren't willing to do the things to make it happen.  Do you not understand how all of this makes you sound conceited and arrogant?  Does not instill the slightest notion why none of us want to listen to your opinions regarding highway and infrastructure matters?

[Max Rockatansky]

with driving there is more of chance something could go wrong, like getting in a minor accident

You were all but guaranteed to flip your car at the first curve.

I've often wondered why nobody on here has made a non-signage "road porn."   There seems to be niche porn for every other walk of life in the world. 

In another niche forum I used to frequent, the term "porn" referred to pictures that hobby-enthusiasts would drool over.  With that in mind, button copy seems to be the "road porn" of this forum.

The term "road porn"  I've found typically was applied to unique and interesting signage in several road groups.  I've seen term applied less frequently to unique or scenic roadways.  The term is usually masked on Facebook road groups as "road pr0n."

[MultiMillionMiler]

What did I delete? The last posts I deleted were on highway topics that I changed my mind about several pages back on my list of posts. I was on a warning level prior to this so maybe some posts never got approved, or they were taking so long I gave up and removed them (even if they might have been approved). Now that the level has dropped below 35% I don't need "approval" anymore but am still on a watch list, which is why I don't want to continue this argument any longer as well. I will finish by saying I never told anyone what a "working adult" should mean, nor judged how people spend their money. You're the one who has been complaining about how I spent $1200, not me, while claiming that a 10 hour road trip would have been more responsible despite spending almost as much in gas in the process. I myself, would prefer working right now, but I can't just magically create a suitable job for myself. And finally, one thing related to this topic that bothers me, is how there is so much massive resistance to student loan forgiveness when rich corporations or agencies that constantly misuse their funds, get all the bailouts.

[Max Rockatansky]

Pages 220 and 221 in this very thread is where you deleted post gap can be found.  Your deleted posts were captured on reply quotes.

How much do you really think you're going to spend on gas on ten hour road trip?  It certainly isn't anywhere close to $1,200-$1,300. 

Doesn't the fact that you have had warnings and your posts restricted not say "maybe I'm not doing something right"  on this forum?

What makes you think that you need a four year degree to be a trucker or obtain a CDL?

[MultiMillionMiler]

I regret going to college, I wish I had just started a driving career sooner. The warning didn't have anything to do with this thread, it had to do with some fictional plan I posted in a New York State thread. That was the only warning I ever got on this forum. Also, me deleting a post isn't about trying to "conceal it". I am well aware they may have been quoted but I may still delete something if I felt it was low quality, or changed my mind after the fact. I wanted my 1000 posts to be accurate of my feelings and opinions. That's all. No agenda or OCD about posts ending on a round number before logging off..etc

[Max Rockatansky]

Wanting a specific post count and replying to me poking holes in your story at 1 AM when you could just ignore me isn't obsessive how?  Didn't you attend CUNY tuition free?  If so, that's seems like a pretty mild thing thing to regret or at least not much a gamble.  What's stopping you from your driving career now that was available earlier?

[1995hoo]

1-hour flights should be banned unless there is no good alternative. Boston to DC or any subset of that is easily doable by train. Even in places with no train, most pairs of cities are still drivable. Fuel consumption is the main concern here, as taking off and landing require more fuel than just staying in the air. Europe actually enforces this with a rule that if it's easily doable by train, you can't schedule a flight between those two cities (connecting flights are still allowed).

And just in case anyone gets confused and is wondering why New York to Charlotte should be banned: the story was for a 2h15m flight, not a 1-hour flight. I'm referring to shorter ones.

DC to Boston is about six hours 45 minutes on the Acela versus in the neighborhood of one hour on the air shuttles. Easy to see why a lot of people fly that route. Flying makes a day trip to Boston possible (which I have done), whereas on the train that's not really viable unless you want to leave extremely early and return extremely late. (And obviously for people who don't take the Acela it's an even longer train ride.)

There's not a lot of reason to fly between DC and New York because the Acela is faster to Manhattan once you factor in the airport's TSA line, waiting to board, taxiing, etc., plus the hassle of getting into the city from LaGuardia. But the niche operators, like the floatplane operator that runs a service from Dulles to the floatplane base on the East River at 23d Street, probably have a place.

[zachary_amaryllis]

The windows being misaligned with the seats is my main issue with them when flying. Do they do that deliberately for some reason? On my flight to Charlotte, the windows were almost exactly between the seat rows.

Windows do not pay fares. Asses in seats pay fares. More seats = more space for paying asses.

Your view is a secondary consideration. The primary consideration, is a receptacle for a paying ass.

[JoePCool14]

In a similar vein to the seatbelt sign, when flight attendants force all windows to be dimmed on modern aircraft like the B787 or upcoming Air Bus A350. I'm okay with giving passengers some sleep time, but it's unfair to have it locked down for the entire flight.

For the record, I haven't been on a 787 as of yet. But I've heard about it through trip reports on YouTube.

I experienced this flying from Seattle to Tokyo (JAL 787). The flight is entirely daylight, so the cabin crew will dim the windows midway through the flight for about four hours so that people can catch up on sleep. It's actually really important because flights like the one I was on results in some crazy long days...the last thing I need in a 32-hour day is more daylight lol (when I landed in Tokyo at 16:30, it would have been 02:30 back in Seattle ... time kind of stands still flying east to west).

Passengers were not locked out from un-dimming their windows, but it was insanely bright anytime someone did, and they usually dimmed it again right after.

Yes, I completely understand that. But if I'm on a 15-hour flight, hypothetically, it's unfair to lock down the windows for that entire time. If people need to sleep that desperately for that long, use eye shades.

That's not what happens. On my ten hour JAL flight from Seattle to Tokyo, the windows were dimmed about half the flight (4 to 5 hours), and no one was locked out from dimming control at all during the flight. On the other hand, you'd have to be a massive wanker to un-dim your window during the dimmed period. It's like opening the blinds in a room with darkening curtains.

It doesn't always happen, but I've watched trip reviews where the host said that they did lock the dimmers, and they were locked during almost the entire flight.

[JoePCool14]

Gen Z angst wasn't for me, it was for other people in my age group who work endlessly, often simultaneously while in school, and are still bashed as selfish and lazy for no good reason. I have it better than alot of Gen Z, which is why I feel bad for those who have it worse. So you're saying I have no right to spend my own money occasionally just because it was given to me over the years? It would be gone in 2-3 years if I lived on my own, so it isn't "that much" in that respect. I never planned on investing it into owner-operator type careers, someone else may have suggested it earlier on in this thread but it wasn't me. One $1300 trip in 9 years, oh the horror! Prior generations also didn't have to deal with a pandemic alongside massive inflation, but again, I wasn't asking for sympathy for me, but for people who have it much worse than me, that was my whole point! $13,000 for one semester at an "elite college" that most companies aren't going to give a shit about seems alot less logical. It seems you think parental support into early adulthood is an extra, when it should be a default. If one wants to move out and work 2 jobs to barely get by paycheck to paycheck just for the "pride" of living alone, fine, but that doesn't appeal to me. I choose health over that, and my parents wouldn't want me to do that to myself just so they wouldn't have to support me as much. I am not waiting for the "perfect career opportunity" but I am also not going to get some shitty working condition type jobs just for the "experience" or just so I can say I got a job at 18 years old..etc. If I had say $10,000,000 in a bank account and I had 2 kids, I'd give them each a couple million so they'd never have to work a day in their life, and I don't see what's wrong with that. Working just for the principle of doing it isn't useful in itself. I'm not telling anyone how it is, you're the one claiming how $26,000 is so loaded, which is ridiculous in this day and age. People on here say people take road trips just for the sake of going on every route number or every county in a state, but spending $1300 on 1 trip is "blowing it"?

For the love of language, please consider splitting posts of this length into multiple paragraphs. It's hard to read when it's one massive block of text.

[Max Rockatansky]

Wanting a specific post count and replying to me poking holes in your story at 1 AM when you could just ignore me isn't obsessive how?  Didn't you attend CUNY tuition free?  If so, that's seems like a pretty mild thing thing to regret or at least not much a gamble.  What's stopping you from your driving career now that was available earlier?

Some days I don't fall asleep until 3 am. Others I am tired early and wake up feeling fully rested by 5-6 am. Posting 18 times a day is nothing.

But on a vacation you spent a considerable amount of money on?  I'd figured your priorities would be elsewhere other than trying to debate me.

[abefroman329]

upcoming Air Bus[sic] A350

I just flew on an Airbus A350 and it had standard, manually-operated window shades.  We were asked to put them up 30-60 minutes into the flight and then were asked to put them down before landing.  I can assure that no one was trampling my individual right to be a massive wanker open my window shade as soon as the sun came back up.

[JoePCool14]

upcoming Air Bus[sic] A350

I just flew on an Airbus A350 and it had standard, manually-operated window shades.  We were asked to put them up 30-60 minutes into the flight and then were asked to put them down before landing.  I can assure that no one was trampling my individual right to be a massive wanker open my window shade as soon as the sun came back up.

There's an upcoming revision to the Airbus A350™ that will have 787-style dimmers.

[roadman65]

I think MMM is Autistic.

[1995hoo]

^^^^

The moderators have VERY SERIOUSLY discouraged that sort of post in the past, for what it's worth.

[formulanone]

upcoming Air Bus[sic] A350

I just flew on an Airbus A350 and it had standard, manually-operated window shades.  We were asked to put them up 30-60 minutes into the flight and then were asked to put them down before landing.  I can assure that no one was trampling my individual right to be a massive wanker open my window shade as soon as the sun came back up.

While there isn't a lot to look at over the ocean, and have had very little Very Long Flights (usually 5 hours, tops), I typically don't like being a darkened airplane in daylight. I like cracking in the shade and taking a peek if there's something interesting, especially flying over or west of the Rocky Mountain Front Range. If I'm working/playing on my laptop, I need just a little light to see the keyboard, and it's less obtrusive than the overhead light.

Some regional jets use an inverted window shade on the exit row, which means it rises up from the bottom to open, and that's kind of annoying unless I want to look out the window the whole time. You can't just crack the shade for a little light on your keyboard, it goes straight into your eyes.

[roadman65]

^^^^

The moderators have VERY SERIOUSLY discouraged that sort of post in the past, for what it's worth.

Cause of one of the other users on here who came out and admitted he was on the Spectrum is most likely why.

[formulanone]

1-hour flights should be banned unless there is no good alternative.

It's a four-hour drive from Huntsville to Atlanta, and the time zone change effectively adds a fifth hour to that. Granted, only once did I intentionally fly that route without a connecting flight (another time was a cancellation, ironically to a destination also less than an hour away).

The hassle to trying to get back to ATL from Macon on a rainy day plus (un)expected traffic fiascos, a massive security line, and everything involved with returning a rental car means I reserved that option just to be home at 4pm on a Friday, which isn't common for me. All it would take is one puzzle piece getting lost and my plans would have been ruined.

[thspfc]

I like having my window open on a plane unless the sun is beaming directly into it. I suppose I'm biased because I don't sleep on flights regardless of the time of day (a tendency that will probably hurt me if I ever have to fly overseas at the wrong hours). But the way I see it, an airliner is not anyone's personal bedroom. As long as I'm not being obnoxious, it's not my responsibility to ensure someone else sleeps nice, especially if it's the middle of the day. If I'm asked to close the window I will.

[abefroman329]

upcoming Air Bus[sic] A350

I just flew on an Airbus A350 and it had standard, manually-operated window shades.  We were asked to put them up 30-60 minutes into the flight and then were asked to put them down before landing.  I can assure that no one was trampling my individual right to be a massive wanker open my window shade as soon as the sun came back up.

While there isn't a lot to look at over the ocean, and have had very little Very Long Flights (usually 5 hours, tops), I typically don't like being a darkened airplane in daylight. I like cracking in the shade and taking a peek if there's something interesting, especially flying over or west of the Rocky Mountain Front Range. If I'm working/playing on my laptop, I need just a little light to see the keyboard, and it's less obtrusive than the overhead light.

Some regional jets use an inverted window shade on the exit row, which means it rises up from the bottom to open, and that's kind of annoying unless I want to look out the window the whole time. You can't just crack the shade for a little light on your keyboard, it goes straight into your eyes.

On the aforementioned DC-Tokyo flight, the window shades were closed for the entire 14-hour flight, but I believe that was because the flight was in daylight for most, if not all, of the flight.

[roadman65]

Never heard that flights would require you to close the window shades. All the flights I have flown gave it the option to the window seat passenger.

[abefroman329]

Never heard that flights would require you to close the window shades. All the flights I have flown gave it the option to the window seat passenger.

No one was "required" to do anything.  The FAs asked people to close their window shades, and closed the window shades if the passenger at the window was asleep or not at their seats.  No one was prevented from opening the shade, although, as 1995hoo pointed out, it would have been a colossal dick move to yell MUH FREEDOM! and open the window shade.