Gave up on the world project now I just reblog cool art. Check #The-Scared-Child or #Speculis or even just #art for what the blog was about. Also, RP sideblogs: @Legoflash && @Dr-Monster
Make time to scrape off your car before you go. Scrape off all of your car. This means the roof and the rear windshield as well.
If the road looks wet but you’re not sure if there’s black ice, look at the wheels of the car in front of you. If you can see droplets flinging up, the water on the road is not frozen.
Your stopping distance will increase exponentially with how bad the weather is. Give yourself at least twice as much room to stop as you normally would.
If your car is going out of control and you HAVE to hit something, aim for something soft (snowbanks are softer than trees) and hit that thing at an angle.
Never get in the car without a coat, hat, and gloves.
If your car is out of control, look and steer where you want your car to go.
Take your car to an empty parking lot with snow in it and purposefully lose control. This will teach you how to handle your car.
If your car is real wheel drive, put something heavy in the trunk to give you better traction.
Take 5mph off the speed limit for bad weather, 10mph off for really bad weather.
For automatic transmission cars, the N in PRNDL stands for Neutral. This is the gear that your car should be in if you are trying to push it.
If you need to use your windshield wipers, your headlights also need to be on.
This button is your defroster:
Please use your defroster if your windows are fogging up.
Ultimately, please just stay safe. Do these things not only for yourself, but to protect others on the road.
-Reid
Reblogging this with:
If you are storing your car outdoors during the winter and it is cold, you need to drive your car regularly to preserve the battery.
Open spaces are the most dangerous because the wind will blow snow onto the road. Beware of farm fields, etc.
Don’t use your high beams when it’s snowing. The falling snow will reflect the headlights back into your eyes.
If you need to go down an icy hill, put your car in neutral. That way your brakes will not be fighting the power of the engine. If you forget to put it back into drive at the bottom of the hill, your car will tell you.
When braking, you should not only allow much more distance for braking (as above) but also lightly, rapidly, and repeatedly tap the brake pedal with your foot. This is called feathering the brakes. Even if you have anti-lock brakes, feather them. Source: Personal experience.
DO. NOT. GO. FAST.
If your car begins to swerve and/or spin, do not use either the accelerator or the brakes. Doing either will put more energy into the situation and you will swerve and/or spin more. Which way is the butt of the car going? Turn your wheel in that direction a little bit at a time. Let the car slow down on its own. Unless it is headed toward your doom, do not get out. You are safest inside its crash protection. (Not applicable to Tesla vehicles, antique cars, or anything that is on fire. Do not drive any of those three in icy winter conditions.)
When you can feel that the car is once again on Not Ice, assess the situation. If it is safe to drive away, accelerate very gradually and turn gently. Pretend you are transporting an assembled wedding cake.
Even if the rest of the highway is not icy, the bridge or overpass will be icy. Drive accordingly.
Do you absolutely have to go out when you may need the above tips? Always ask yourself this question.
Also, and this is the key one from my dad that I never hear on these kinds of posts, if you live somewhere with hhills - and I mean real hills not vague inclines - you are not getting up those unless you are going a minimum of 30. You’ll stall at best and spin at worst because you’re not building enough momentum to defeat the slide. This is the wisdom of the Cascades ski driver.
Co-signed, grew up in hilly af Northern U.S. Practice because it isn’t intuitive, and feather those brakes.
discord collecting data on your private messages for a yearly recap isn’t good.
turn all this off immediately.
your private conversations are not truly private on discord and you should assume that any and all messages you send can be monitored or turned over to any police or government force. use signal if you need to for protected chats.
ohhh THIS is why my wrapped thing didn’t work.
Yeah, fun fact: if you already have this shit turned off, the wrapped thing just fails XD
Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.
Pretentious asshole is OUT! Pretentious Sweetheart is IN! Wearing dapper clothes and holding the door open for others makes you feel COOL AS H*CK! Glance up from your hefty books to give a stranger a smile!! Quote literature to inspire others! Be presumptuous in the way that you presume that everyone needs their day to be a little brighter!!!
Administration showed us this tweet on day one of grad school and boy did it hit home
“distinguished yourself by being kind” is my literal life motto at work, holy shit
contrary to popular belief i think calvin’s adhd is, funnily enough, medicated. he takes extended release ritalin every morning alongside his chocolate frosted sugar bombs. this is because he appreciates being more easily able to focus on his various Schemes, Projects, and Machinations while more effectively ignoring schoolwork
calvin’s dad pulling up to the house and seeing the whole driveway covered in a (completed) snowman recreation of the entire terracotta army and he takes a deep breath and greets calvin’s mom with “i see calvin remembered his methylphenidate today”
Batgirl 2000 is very good and i could point out the obvious things like the Shiva plotline or just how compelling batgirl is written, but I really want to mention something I don’t see people talk about is how well this book sells how powerful batgirl is. Every fight she’s in you have a glorious panel of her taking on at least 8 people at a time and the way people talk about her she might as well be inhuman.
And its really neat. Considering how much of the book was about the price that being the best costs. You see her push herself constantly, you see her giving up the idea of a life outside the mask time and time again. Most comic books focus on the super heroing but also focus on the heros personal life as down time from the action. Batgirl 2000 doesn’t have that because batgirl doesn’t have a life outside of being batgirl. She doesn’t even really go by a name at this point.
She was groomed to be the perfect killing machine, she ran away and reinvented herself as the perfect weapon for the batman cause. She is still not allowed to be a person, but instead of Cain making her, she is the one to withhold personhood from herself. Everytime she sees the light of the sun (that is a symbol for normal life here) she is blinded. The streets of Gotham at daytime are this beautiful gold while she is wearing black, removed from it.
My point is that it was amazing and I can talk about it forever. Definetly my favorite dc run so far.
