I would rather be called an AI than deal with the confusion that results when I don’t link certain words and phrases as thoroughly as I can. The language’s propensity for and inconistency with hyphenated words isn’t my fault either.

The older I get, the more I think I should just switch to Chinese or some other such language and never look back.

Edit: I took the opportunity to remove as many hyphens as I felt comfortable with removing. I really can’t complain that you called me out for what amounts to lazy composition and editting on my part.

You realize light-timings are calibrated and coordinated based-on intended traffic speeds, right? Just because the speeders get stopped at the next light doesn’t mean a too-slow driver doesn’t get stopped by that same light after the speeder’s got their green and gone-on.

Apparently you’ve never been on one of the roads I mentioned long-enough to notice they tend to have 4-lanes and lights spaced over a mile-apart, but even on a regular road with room to pass, demanding no-one do-so while you putter-along at just-over-half the speed limit is asinine. Drivers can pass farm-equipment that takes up a lane-and-a-half, stopped emergency-vehicles/cops, mail-trucks, busses, street sweepers and dumptrucks, but not you?

So where’s the part about what your asking in any way resembles sharing the road again? The article doesn’t even mention bikes, golf carts, or glorified mobility-scooters, btw.

Oh, and it literally says the opposite of what OP claims, even between motor vehicles moving with normal traffic, not obstructing it:

That means, on average, the lead of one car over the other remains the same after the light as before.

The results suggest the idea the slower car will inevitably catch up at the lights is something of an illusion.

What’s the point in registering an “eBike” that can’t keep-up with traffic? They’re either lying that it can, or simply refusing to do so.

Oh noes! People are incapable of adapting their aesthetics to changing bodies, how cruel! Someone tell my wife of 18 years before she finally listens when I say she doesn’t need to lose weight for my sake!

Seriously, are you so far up your own ass that you don’t think old couples fuck? Or just convinced those that do couldn’t possibly have loved eachother as much when they were younger?

Where did I say shit about “don’t settle for anything but top-shelf?” If women are the ones better at staying attracted to their partners, then what’s up with all the lesbian dead-bedrooms?

If anything, my advice about not settling was aimed at women, and to men not to settle for being settled-for. Not my fault if you waste your time fretting over all of the lonely or soon-to-be-deservedly-lonely people who don’t even enjoy their own company.

Or do you prefer everyone treat companionship as a means to an end?

Yes, he had a problem with them being deferential in their stiff-ass performance as well.

He would have preferred if they were honest with him and funny, even at his expense, just like me and my queer friends would prefer most of the trans people in our community hadn’t fled to San-Francisco to then base their on-line personalities almost entirely around bashing not just our town, but its queer community specifically.

Say it to our faces so we can laugh at our own expense with you - its one of the favorite pass-times of our Mid-western, historically-gay town, and many minorities, like Dave Chapelle.

How can you watch someone who ribs on themselves and everything about where they come from like that, and be afraid of and deferential to him? Will Smith was in the audience; he wasn’t the one with the self-awareness to take the stage and say a bald woman looked like a badass. What did the comedian who could have beat Will’s ass five-ways-from-Sunday do after that punch?

They said “progressive”, not leftist.

NIMBY Chapelle is a new-one for me. Whatchu got?

Holy fuck, okay, that was easier and shittier than I anticipated by-far. Blocking multi-family housing? Wow

That’s not what he said. He said that friend told him he should use those jokes in his show, after laughing heartilly. You gonna tell him he needs not just more, but specifically better trans friends?

Assuming that the traffic light changes colour based on a set time cycle rather than a sensor, and that the cars are travelling on a single-lane road, the results reveal that, taking into account the probabilities of each of the four scenarios, on average the possible gains and losses in spacing between the cars balance exactly.

… that’s the opposite of most lights where I live. Even at midnight hours where many switch to timed-mode, there are many that won’t change at-all unless a heavy-enough vehicle is in certain lanes, and even many cars get stuck having to exercise the rules about such that were meant for motorcycles and bicycles.

You’re the reason so many roads have a minimum-speed of 40mph. You’re right that honking at you and trying to pass when there isn’t PLENTY of room to do so is pointless, but only those two things, and I doubt the article is about your specific brand of non-sense.

Yeah, he thought it was her and didn’t care if the breath was a little off, or more likely didn’t smell it, but either way, he’s the opposite of repulsed at the thought of her touch, no matter how out of the blue or overbearing … pay attention.

Let’s be real, few women are going to be happy about the skirt-pull either, so these two are particularly into eachother. That’s goals.

Your SO should be exceptional to you like that, on the order of you not minding if they accidentally got turned-on by the dog, no matter how viscerally repugnant the thought otherwise is.

This is literally it. If two healthy people can’t work-out their issues together like-so, or rather if the idea isn’t appealing to both, any intimate relationship is all-but-dead.

Your SO should look good, sound good, taste and smell good to you, or you’re gonna spend a lot of extra effort forcing things to work. Hardly anyone has that effort to spare for any long span of time, and they’ll often revisit a cost/benefit analysis that shames them and creates its own problems.

That’s the funny part about all the “soy” replies to me. There’s so many sauces this could work with, so in what universe would the Soy part be something I’m confused about? The gate and flowers in the comment I replied to are obviously NOT soy.

Sauce?

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It’s amazing how many “security conscious” people are allergic to doing their own homework. Kudos to you for meeting them at their prefered level of near-zero effort.

You’re regurgitating pro-corporate, pro-offshoring talking-points as if they justify lying-to and manipulating consumers. That’s not just saying “yes, and…”

You quoted someone-else’s yes-and, and picked a particularly-shitty someone to quote. You could have just taken the L, but wasted 5 paragraphs to wrap-up with “but oh btw, this is all meaningless”.

I prefer to buy local yes, but I’ll take Canadian, Mexican, or anything made in South America as close-enough to “Made in America”. As it is, there’s a great many (quality, price irrelavent)products that won’t reach me from those places, couldn’t tell you if quality versions are even still made in the Americas today, what with logic like yours deciding the supply-chain behind closed-doors, but I can get them from any number of SE Asian countries by way of my local Big-box.

If I’m going that route, I prefer to cut-out the middle-man -I’m no stranger to alibaba/ali-express, and all sorts of niche sellers around the globe, except:

As you say, I often don’t have the budget for quality, origin be damned. End-up having to modify or retrofit things I buy instead. If I’m lucky, they last long enough for me to obtain better versions, probably used. Local second-hand does just fine when Local-made is unobtainium, and has the virtue of not enriching the big-box stores that try to put everything smaller out of business.

Fair-enough. The difference between flirting and ribbing like you mention amounts to whether the parties are platonic, interested in eachother, or even then, aware of eachother’s feelings.

I’m not trying to sexualize what isn’t; From our vantage point its irrelavent and not our business until the artist & characters make it so. Odds are really good that my vocabulary just failed me, failed us all, on my earlier comment.

I’m probably older than you, or at least my adult children still answer the phone when I call and I’ll almost-certainly spend time with any grand-babies when that day comes.

“Out-of-touch” isn’t the flex you think it is either. Oh, and “flex” comes from workout-culture - its probably older than either of us.