hovercat

Ayy, samesies. I love my name, and like you said, it's a very common female name. There's also a certain sense of power that comes from being un-deadnameable.

I'll take a bit of iron/aluminum over starving to death.

Obviously it's a joke for the comic, but if you're ever in a situation like this, you can sand down the lip of the can lid on a rough surface (like a concrete floor) and it will open up.

Considering how dependent he is of government, it's weird he is so much against it

It's called "Pulling up the ladder behind you". He doesn't want anyone else to succeed but him.

I love the fact that solely from your comments ending in ":3", that I was sure to find a Blåhaj in your history.

Big "How much could a banana cost? $10?" moment

Sadly, this probably concerns the average voter more than all the Nazi shit...

It’s not really as comforting as it sounds to say that there are people who care about trans rights when an even larger group wants us dead and gone.

You need to stop yourself for a second and realize that it's not a larger group. It's a louder group. Absolutely no one who mattered gave a fuck about trans people until we were turned into culture war fodder to distract people from the Right's shitty policies. The vast majority of people do not care about trans people whatsoever, and that's not a bad thing, because at that point we're just like everyone else.

Sure, there are a lot of people who have been convinced they think trans people are bad, but the reality is that it's a totally manufactured POV. They had nothing else meaningful to complain about, so they pick up on the easiest punching bags they can. But the moment they're faced with a real issue, they will forget about you in a heartbeat.

I have family members who posted some absolutely vile anti-trans rhetoric during the election, and when they were shamed for their vote, they went on and on about how Trump was "protecting their daughters from trans people in bathrooms". Now that their jobs are in jeopardy due to the tariffs and they've lost a significant number of benefits from all the DOGE cuts? Absolute silence on the anti-trans front.

I don't mean to justify their actions or behaviors in any way, but I solely mean it as a way to protect yourself mentally from the shittiness going on in the world. It makes things just a tiny bit easier when you realize that it's not that they hate trans people, it's just that they are weak people looking for an easy punching bag, and unfortunately we're the minority du jour they've chosen to latch onto for the time being.

That being said, it's still a very real threat to us for the time being, and ensuring we're all supporting each other and pushing back however we can is extremely important.

Both my partner and parents said that, it's quite common.

It absolutely does. Typically, all 4 wheel speed sensors are polled and averaged, so unless you're doing lots of extended 4 wheel burnouts, you're talking an incredibly small margin of additional error.

At a minimum they went along with it. "I was just following orders" is never an acceptable answer.

Never underestimate Tesla's ability to cost-cut a key component that results in a fatal (sometimes literally) flaw.