User contributions for 2601:196:180:DC0:A8BF:33F3:DB5E:420C

18 July 2025

• 20:4120:41, 18 July 2025 diff hist 0 Hitchhiking Aggregate similar terms.
• 20:3920:39, 18 July 2025 diff hist +126 Hitchhiking →Legality: Better source needed: a source that can be both accessed and verified online, as well as kept up to date. The current one offers none of that, and is badly dated (2004).
• 20:3620:36, 18 July 2025 diff hist 0 Hitchhiking →Signaling methods: Relocate passage in appropriate place: display is scrambled in the current resolution.
• 20:3420:34, 18 July 2025 diff hist +160 Hitchhiking →Signaling methods: Clarity.
• 20:3120:31, 18 July 2025 diff hist −8 Hitchhiking →Signaling methods: A sign is a sign. It does not have to be "written". Self-adhesive lettering, painted signs, characters made out colored tape, even any combination of cut & paste of words or letters from any source large enough to be useful are employed.
• 20:2920:29, 18 July 2025 diff hist +638 Hitchhiking Dl - familiar term; clarification.
• 16:2316:23, 18 July 2025 diff hist 0 Hitchhiking →Public policy support: Fix autocorrect error.
• 16:2316:23, 18 July 2025 diff hist +6 Hitchhiking →Public policy support: The proper English translation: sex is not involved. From its website: "The Mobilitäterinnen is an initiative of Tyrolean people who want to make changes in their community." And, "Anyone can participate regardless of religion, gender, status or origin. Everyone can be a MobilitäterIn." Website here: https://www.mobilitaeterinnen.org/netzwerk/?lang=en
• 16:1516:15, 18 July 2025 diff hist 0 Hitchhiking →Legality: Uc.
• 16:1316:13, 18 July 2025 diff hist −7 Hitchhiking The statement "soliciting rides" stands on its merits, whether a driver is solicited directly, or a friend of theirs who interfaces - or whatever. The fact that a "ride" is being solicited presupposes a vehicle on the other side of the negotiation (even by hand signal), which presupposes a "driver" in the equation.
• 16:0916:09, 18 July 2025 diff hist −60 Hitchhiking →United States: Not supported by citation - which only covers a bill in the legislature, not any change in the law; above 2025 citation indicates it is illegal in Wyoming today.
• 16:0616:06, 18 July 2025 diff hist −3 Hitchhiking →Around the world: The actual term used (and provided in the text; "tramping" is not).
• 16:0416:04, 18 July 2025 diff hist +6 Hitchhiking →Public policy support: Link.
• 16:0416:04, 18 July 2025 diff hist +1 Hitchhiking →Decline: Relocate See to top of section.
• 16:0216:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist +303 Hitchhiking →Decline: Content, context, links.
• 15:4715:47, 18 July 2025 diff hist −14 Delinquent Daughters →Plot: Ce.
• 15:2915:29, 18 July 2025 diff hist −78 Delinquent Daughters →Plot: General cleanup.
• 15:2815:28, 18 July 2025 diff hist +101 The Hitch-Hiker Relocate mis-placed copy; create over-arching heading; group under it; add expand section template.
• 15:2515:25, 18 July 2025 diff hist −13 The Hitch-Hiker →Writing: Copyedit, punctuation.
• 15:2215:22, 18 July 2025 diff hist +31 The Hitch-Hiker Heading cleanup, condense, integrate.
• 15:2015:20, 18 July 2025 diff hist −12 The Hitch-Hiker Characterize and condense.
• 15:1715:17, 18 July 2025 diff hist −24 The Hitch-Hiker →Production: Already introduced and linked in this section.
• 15:1615:16, 18 July 2025 diff hist −10 The Hitch-Hiker Only instance of the reference.
• 15:1315:13, 18 July 2025 diff hist +33 The Hitch-Hiker Integrate ref in body.
• 15:1115:11, 18 July 2025 diff hist −50 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: Copyedit.
• 15:0615:06, 18 July 2025 diff hist −2 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: They're not so much "hunting" Myers as waiting to snare him in a *dragnet* they have set up, waiting for him to cross a checkpoint or show up carelessly at one of the very rare public venues (isolated general stores, gas stations, etc.) he can be further tracked from.
• 15:0215:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist −55 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: Correct multiple errors. The friends start out heading for the Chocolate Mountains NE of their home, then call an audible and head for San Felipe (having brought both guns to hunt and fishing gear). Collins falls asleep, and Bowen cannot wake him to relive fond old days partying in Mexicali. They drive through the night, and pick up Myers in the daylight the next day.
• 14:5914:59, 18 July 2025 diff hist +26 Mexicali →Geography: Caption cleanup.
• 14:5314:53, 18 July 2025 diff hist −6 Mexicali →20th century: Image syntax, punctuation.
• 14:5114:51, 18 July 2025 diff hist 0 Mexicali Fix typo.
• 14:5014:50, 18 July 2025 diff hist +37 Mexicali Copyedit to immediately clarify where Mexicali is, and Calexico in relation to it: they each straddle the border, and co-define the Calexico-Mexicali Metropolitan Area.
• 14:4314:43, 18 July 2025 diff hist −5 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: Per previous edit summary.
• 14:4214:42, 18 July 2025 diff hist −4 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: They're already in the desert; the road network is limited. They drive at night to avoid being seen. They go as directly towards Santa Rosalia as is practicable.
• 14:4014:40, 18 July 2025 diff hist −4 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: The story wasn't picked up from a press release, it is a "blare".
• 14:3814:38, 18 July 2025 diff hist +16 The Hitch-Hiker Clarity. It was independently produced on a shoestring budget, released by RKO as a "cheapie". The depiction is contentious.
• 14:3714:37, 18 July 2025 diff hist +6 The Hitch-Hiker Needs an authoritative source (with the rationale behind it), not just an ex cathedra assertion.
• 14:3614:36, 18 July 2025 diff hist −331 The Hitch-Hiker →Legacy: Expand section template: no period reviews. The genre of "film noir" did not exist at the time of filmmaking, it is a retronym. It was just an *exploitation* film. There are no "urban environments" in the desert, there is no heavy/creative use of shadows, nor Dutch angles, nor femme fatale. Calling it a "film noir" is a *projection*, not an accurate depiction of a cheap "crime thriller". One films a city in a city, when that is the locale, and a desert in a desert when it is..
• 14:2814:28, 18 July 2025 diff hist +91 The Hitch-Hiker →Legacy: Expand section template.
• 14:2714:27, 18 July 2025 diff hist +28 The Hitch-Hiker →Reception: Links.
• 14:2614:26, 18 July 2025 diff hist +19 The Hitch-Hiker →Background: Links, standard image size, right is default image alignment.
• 14:2414:24, 18 July 2025 diff hist −31 The Hitch-Hiker →Plot: Dl.
• 14:2214:22, 18 July 2025 diff hist +31 The Hitch-Hiker Clarity, links.
• 14:2114:21, 18 July 2025 diff hist +27 The Hitch-Hiker Clarity, link.
• 14:1814:18, 18 July 2025 diff hist −25 Hitchhiking Caption cleanup.
• 14:1714:17, 18 July 2025 diff hist +55 Hitchhiking Clarity.
• 14:1514:15, 18 July 2025 diff hist +1 Hitchhiking Punctuation.
• 14:1514:15, 18 July 2025 diff hist −4 Hitchhiking →Legal status: Simplify.
• 14:1414:14, 18 July 2025 diff hist −60 Hitchhiking →Signaling methods: General cleanup; reorder: one gesture is used on four *continents*, the other in "some" countries of one.
• 14:1114:11, 18 July 2025 diff hist −56 Hitchhiking Clarity. Sufficient. Rides are "solicited", most commonly by a recognized signal or informative sign (of one's destination) displayed on the roadside; they are also (much less often) verbally-arranged, which only stand as hitchhiking when the drivers are strangers. Otherwise it's just "bumming a ride" with friends, a different thing. As is paying for a ride, which is fee-for-service, even if it began as an intended hitchhike.
• 13:5213:52, 18 July 2025 diff hist −15 Delinquent Daughters →Plot: Clarity. Parker Gee (Nick) is 34; Fifi D'Orsay (Fifi) is 40. The kids are all supposed to be in high school (and are portrayed by actors mainly in their late teens and early 20s).