RoadToad

@drinkonsaturday She has one of the worst personalities you can have. Any man with a brain doesn’t wanna deal with that

She seems calm, cool, and collected—**that's often the mask**. Many such women aren't "hiding drama"; they're fiercely independent, with non-negotiable standards forged from past chaos. They refuse to settle for unequal effort, drama, or a "project" partner who drains their peace. Dating history? Frequently a mix of chasing excitement (bad boys who bring thrill but zero stability) then pivoting to self-protection after burnout. High-value women learn: better alone than mismatched. Financial independence + emotional maturity means they spot red flags early and won't trade serenity for mediocre company. No mystery why she's single—she's choosing it. Plenty of men approach, few measure up. It's not "something else"; it's discernment. Wondering her history reveals patterns, but the real tell is her unapologetic self-flagellation.

@ronsterd89 Done it a dozen times and never had issues

Tires with 11,000 miles and a nail. Firestone told me they are not repairable. Firestone said this is not repairable because of the location and that I would need a new tire. It's a slow leak, about 1-2 psi a day. I am in disbelief that this is not repairable.. Can I not just get a fix kit? 🤧

@Owen0to1 Man I would love to do that kind of work. Could do it all day and never get tired of it

Just hit $77,380 for March. Biggest month ever. Doesn’t feel real. Hiring again and pushing for a $100k month. LET’S GET IT

@RomKoppel @GreenTextRepost @ShadyIndividu4l @dkDeezNutz Yeah I’ve always wanted to do the bike thing but hills are more difficult then you’d think.

@GreenTextRepost @ShadyIndividu4l What if you live in the moutains like my buddy @dkDeezNutz you gotta be Jacked-i Chan to ride up them shits

Submission by @shadyindividu4l

@HlautBolli @JTAlexander_ @scout84436 Just too dangerous for me personally. Would love to have a horse and cart to take short distances tho

@JTAlexander_ @scout84436 I really want to ride again. Freedom on horseback has no peer. It calls to the blood.

>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses

@smonter42 @holemolyy @Song_of_the_Sun @JessePeltan It obviously matters what part of the country you’re in. Where I am nothing less than 9k gets you a mostly reliable vehicle

@holemolyy @Song_of_the_Sun @JessePeltan You have no idea what you’re talking about. If that happens you didn’t do your homework when you purchased a vehicle.

I don’t think people realize how affordable Teslas have gotten. A new Model Y is $530/month. (72 months)

@MarioMu89037242 @aephlex @ToasstCrypto @JessePeltan A reliable car is worth so much more than its price tag. You lose a lot of opportunities in life when you have to deal with a POS that raises your blood pressure every time you look at it let alone drive the thing more than 10 minutes

@juniorkingpp Life feeds on life

Imagine seeing this and immediately thinking about shooting it. Hunters are insane.

@shagbark_hick I’m honestly not sure what you could even do to bring a town to life unless you have millions and millions of dollars What could Middle class people do? I guess you could try and run for local offices

This is a bleak read, but I can't argue with it. He's basically correct. More or less every small Upstate NY town I have any connection to is like this. The residents do seem to want to "fade away in peaceful stagnation." They like to bulldoze things, tear down buildings, prevent newcomers from ever coming, obstruct every conceivable advancement, and so on. Then -- at Town Board meetings, they dutifully and unironically opine the "lack of young families around here" as if they themselves did not actively and enthusiastically cause that problem. These rituals can be quite the display to witness when you know the town business and who's ever behind it. Quite the same for those institutions within small towns: the Churches are in a state of managed decline (which they defend rabidly), the fraternal orgs, the Historical Societies, even many restaurants, bars, gas stations, hotels, etc too. They have a way of dumping hot oil on their feet and then complaining bitterly about they can't walk, so to speak. Perhaps, then, the death of small town America is not at all what we tend to think it is -- perhaps what's really behind it are whatever forces have caused the raw number of high-agency, risk-tolerant, footloose, enterprising, and rurally-inclined people to decline. Without go-getters who arrive, roll up their sleeves, and say to hell with the dysfunctional locals, it's a sure shot that these towns will rot and die. This system only works, by the way, if those go-getters are benevolent patriots and Christians with an earnest hope of impressing the locals by building something great. But when for lack of such people, corporate developers, private equity firms, "Airbnb people," and so on fill that same void, the result is universally awful. And because of that awful result, rural yokels become (justifiably) EVEN MORE mistrusting of the much-needed outside influence, money, and energy that it'd take to fix their towns. I myself have been guilty of this at times. This makes for a kind of death-loop. I don't want to be talking this way, but this is essentially how it is. I'd love to see the people I grew up around spontaneously self-organize their towns into something excellent -- but they're simply never going to do it, even as they cry out about how bad things have gotten here.

@shagbark_hick I’d imagine it’s because most of x is monetized. A lot of it is unnatural and maybe gets stale like a tv show that’s aired too long until they’re forced to change or make new It’d be like streamers being at bars, not fun Just an idea

I'm somewhat surprised that after taking nearly a 3-month break from this place, I can log in and it is as if I never left. You just pick right back up where you started, nobody skips a beat. Whereas IRL, if you stopped going to your daily pub for 3 months, then came back -- there's a solid chance the vibe would've shifted quite substantially. I've even found this to be true at very old bars with a cast of lifelong locals: new bartender, someone dies, new set of guys starts coming, etc. Seems like as compared with the offline world, "internet culture" is abnormally constant. The white noise is loud enough that none of the particulars tend to have anything quite like the ripple effect they'd have IRL. Makes me wonder what a 5-year break would feel like.

@RenoirMike24130 @FinancialPhys People would definitely starve

@FinancialPhys It's not a new theory. Slaves often asked, "how will I eat, where will I sleep?"

Most Americans still want to maintain the scam because they like the scraps

@SlumRNA_Dog @abeetleinJune Idk with that lifestyle you do have a lot of free time to be on the internet still. It’s also likely a source of income so it makes sense to do what he’s doing

@abeetleinJune Dozens of those types here lmao like brother who are you fooling

Well too bad this entire side of Twitter hasn’t been telling you for years that your eclectic sensibilities won’t be appreciated by the noble ruralites you lionize, you might have had some foresight were that the case.

@RealCalebKitson My garden has pigs in it right now… I am being lazy but at least producing pork

Most of you will NOT plant as many potatoes as you possibly can because A) you do not believe life could ever get *that* hard for you because you lack perspective and B) you actually want to starve so you have something to cry around about.

@shagbark_hick It’s kind of communistic how much people hate when others dress nice or different I understand not wanting to see furries dressed up and that etc. but you should be societally acceptable to dress up in nice clothes. Ppl are envious

I think it's profoundly funny that in an era where slovenly dress predominates -- and at a time when few would make mention of even the most ugly, garrish outfits -- it's VERBOTEN to dress "weirdly." You're "drawing attention to yourself" if you don't wear the polyester uniform sold by Aeropostale at the mall. Absolute uniformity is required, even though the "uniform" was invented by a gang of corporate knuckleheads more or less yesterday. God forbid a woman wear a nice linen skirt instead of skin-tight leggings made of fertility-killing plastic. Heaven help us if a man wears any hat other than a little-league-style "baseball cap." Yet while those who dress that way are hassled for looking "weird," the streets are teeming with people ambling about in their pajamas, women exposing their finer cracks and crevasses in surgical detail, and men wearing garb that was formerly reserved only for homosexuals in Key West. It seems to me that those calling us "weird" for dressing as we do have no real alternative to propose. If the message is: "wear the expensive corporate polyester crap at the mall or else," I'm not interested.

@shagbark_hick @gynepareidolia Apparently they must be magic pants

@gynepareidolia any specific color? any specific type of pants? let's define the realm of acceptable clothing with as much precision as possible here, so that I don't get confused.

@0xleegenz I think its cause when you don't have some people micromanaging you, then you realize you know what to do, at least if your not new. But when someone's always over your shoulder, you start doubting yourself or making things more complicated than they need to be.

@sventvkg @CultLaser @wayofftheres Of what happens when you try to get one on the biggest gang in the planet I understand what you mean but we shouldn’t tell people that might actually try it and lose everything. They really do audit people and ruin lives

@Gov_Intolerance @CultLaser @wayofftheres Fear

You think you hate the government? Become a small business owner in the US a then get back to me. You don't hate them enough. Tell me why, as a person running a small business owner with 1 part time employee has a 5 digit tax bill. Are we winning yet?!? When I worked a w2 job, we would get pretty nice refunds, but even after having children with the "child tax credit", all the money that gets saved throughout the year gets sent to the federal government to pay the Taliban millions per month, to give Israel unlimited funds to fight their wars, to give Ukraine BILLIONS of dollars. I am at my limit to say the least. Why do I work so fucking hard to give the government all my money when they do absolutely jack shit for me? I am gonna become a fucking pirate.

@sventvkg @CultLaser @wayofftheres Till you get audited. Not enough businesses and workers not paying taxes

@CultLaser @wayofftheres You are paying them out of fear. Lose the fear. Stop paying, After Covid I was DONE!

@WalterLassy1 @Hispeedlowdrug I never have but we really should be wearing steel toe boots and tough pants when we do this. Many close calls as a kid

@Hispeedlowdrug Grandkid is 13, splits wood with a wedge and hammer in his pj's.

It's a good thing I'm on Twitter to hear from big brain wood splitting experts, who have patiently explained to me that the one on the left is WEDGE which is GOOD, whereas the one on the right is NOT WEDGE and NO GOOD for splitting wood.

@rc51_nono_sp2 Colter wall, Tyler Childers, Doc Watson

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