U could also take it as “use your visible signifiers as a protected class to grift the powers that be, right up until the point where you utterly fuck them over, while using what access you have to power to the betterment of everyone around you”

Idk, I like the movie, I do think you’re being cynical, but I’m just one person on the internet

Edit: I also feel like there’s an obvious theme of “our justice system is utterly fucked and does not care about reintroducing people into society, only about breaking their humanity.” Only then does Red get paroled. I don’t think there’s anything unique about Shawshank where they’re like “this is the one spooky, evil jail,” it’s just like, prison is an utterly fucked institution upheld only by the sadism of those who run it, and real justice is a bullet through the warden’s skull

GOOD post

Dog owners in my area are irresponsible and leave dog poop all over my neighborhood

If I can’t smoke and swear, I’m fucked!

You should be able to tell from the tread how new the tires are. If you just got them in February I would not expect a significant amount of tread wear from new. (Give or take based on your mileage, local road conditions, care, and climate.) A professional will easily be able to eyeball this for you. If there is significant tread wear, they are “balding”, or the wear bars are showing through the tread, yes you got fucked.

A new tire should not be “leaky”, but yes, driving on underinflated tires causes stress and wear on them in a way that optimal inflation does not. Six months seems fast, but again it depends on what we’re calling “underinflated” (i.e. 25psi or 5psi).

If I was you, I’d gather as much context from the roadside mechanic as possible, try to remember how often you’ve reinflated and by how much, and then take that to the shop that sold you the tire and try to get them to repair it for free. It could just have a bad valve stem that only revealed itself through continuous driving.

But yeah, in the future, it’s simpler just to report a leak immediately, it could be a simple fix and save future damage.

Idk how car savvy you are but beware them explaining shit in the most complicated way possible to try to upsell you. If they want you to understand they will, if they want you not to understand, they will. Being somewhat knowledgeable myself I can tell when they’re intentionally talking over my head, it’s like if instead of saying “taking a piss” you said “I filled up on a dihydrogen monoxide cylinder and now I have to give the system a flush.” But don’t be a dick either lol, it’s a fucking dance with these guys to get them to not rip you off sometimes. Not always tho

Thankfully for me it is not as serious as I have heard of in other cases. But my ability to concentrate for long periods of time, hold a train of thought, remember how to complete a sentence I started, etc. have definitely been severely affected. Doofy airheadedness is way up

U can count me in there!!!

why is it spread out on a big tarp?