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@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

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I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

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Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

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Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

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@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

I commute most days via train. The main suffering point of the train is the lack of local connectors, so I also use my bike and rental scooters (company provided) for legs of my journey. I commute sometimes via car if I need more flexibility due to a partial day or after work obligations.

I have a fairly long commute, ~35 miles via car each way. Yes, it's a long commute, yes I'm working on changing my housing situation at some point, that's not the point here.

I'm going to be as unfair as possible to the train here.

In total, my train commute usually takes ~an hour: 40 minutes plus 10 at each end form biking and scooting. The 40 minutes on the train can be used for starting my day, looking at emails, previewing my lab protocols, etc etc.

My car commute usually takes 40 minutes to an hour, inconsistently due to traffic. I can't do anything else with this time.

A monthly unlimited transit pass for that train is $150/month. Divided by 28 days (which is even an underestimate, bc I also get value out of the pass beyond my commute and a month is slightly longer than that) gives an approximate cost of $5.30. I sometimes use a rental bike locker, so let's bump that up to $6 for the commute per day to be as uncharitable as possible.

My Subaru outback gets ALMOST 30mpg in perfect highway conditions. Let's be as charitable as possible and call that 30mpg guaranteed, even though it's usually closer to 25mpg with traffic and city streets.

70 miles round trip per day at 30mpg is 2.33 gallons of gas.

Gas is anywhere from 5 to 7 dollars per gallon where I am, generally holding in the 6.00-6.50 range. But there's one gas station I know of that keeps their gas around 5.50. I'm going to be EXTREMELY generous and call this $5 gas.

So that works out to a daily car cost of $11 in gas alone per day.

I could start talking up maintenance vs the cost of my bike, but that gets very intangible.

The only unfortunate part is the local connectors. This is a main artery train line, but there's basically 0 options to get to and from the actual stations except driving, biking, or company shuttles. This is why, unfortunately, if I need any flexibility in stopping places for appointments or errands during that same day, I do usually take my car.

Going to such extremes isn't out of the ordinary for her, but I just remembered something else about her: Eva Stratt in the book is dutch.

The consequences of this action won't just take it's toll out of the whole of humanity eventually, Eva's home country and any loved ones that might still live there will be amongst the first impacted.

she can read the menu PERFECTLY btw, she's just getting closer to the words for....... fun......... of course!!!!!!

they should make a drive through menu with words and pictures instead of blurry blobs saturday thinks