MrVilliam

Excellent. Idk if you have deer or similar stuff in your area, but be very vigilant. If you lock up your rear tires and fishtail, just keep your tire locked. If you let off the brake while not perfectly straight, your bike will violently realign and you'll get bucked off.

Overall, I recommend these motorcycle safety courses to all drivers. It pushed me to be much more actively aware while driving.

I find it helpful to try to quantify the time I'll enjoy with a thing before I buy it. Or maybe there will be some amount of cost savings if it's a tool. You could do both with a motorcycle.

Unless you get a shitty Harley, it will almost certainly be more fuel efficient than an ICE car/truck, so if you plan to commute by motorcycle at all, there is some cost savings there. That will probably offset the cost of registration and insurance, and maybe regular maintenance, so not really a net gain, but at least pays for itself to some degree.

So after approximating the cost after those savings, then you can approximate how many hours per year and how many years you expect to enjoy the thing for. Divide the cost by that number of hours. Would you pay that hourly rate for the enjoyment you expect to get from it? If so, buy. If not, don't buy.

There are obviously some abstract things to factor in too, though. Would you make friends through your motorcycle? Do you enjoy working on stuff so in addition to the riding do you plan on doing aftermarket work on it? Is there a bucket list aspect to this?

I can tell you that, as a former motorcycle owner, I would probably not get one again. They're super fucking dangerous, almost entirely because other drivers are fucking morons. It's impossible for me to ride without being on edge with the assumption that every other driver is actively trying to kill me. At this point, I would only get one as a fun time to ride once in a while, and the upkeep isn't worth it for that. Even an electric one would be hard for me to justify for myself because of insurance, registration, and ride gear.

That all being said, there are considerations that you and you alone will need to apply to this decision. I just strongly urge that if you do buy a bike, you wear all recommended gear. Never shorts. Never sandals. Never without a helmet and jacket. Dress for the slide, not the ride.

If you kill him, you make a martyr of him. That also leads to president couch-fucker. Of course the world would be better off if he'd never been born, but we can't do anything about that.

I'd rather he be painfully humiliated. Mutilate his genitals with garden shears in one of his oval office press conference tirades, live on TV. Added benefit of him never raping a child or writer or wife again.

Thankfully, Thomas Jefferson only ever had his female slaves do housework like laundry and dishes and cooking. I'm not even sure what else he could've possibly made them do for him.

On Par With Ezra
Approximately Ezra
Ostensibly Ezra

She's not his press secretary. It's not your fault for thinking that though, given how much fucking time she spends in front of cameras defending trump. But that just helps you point even more. Why is half of this cabinet in the news dealing with scandals 24/7?

For the life of me, I can't remember any cabinet member from this time last year except AG Garland and DOT secretary Buttigieg off the top of my head. I just looked it up and thought "oh yeah" when I saw Blinken and Yellen. I recognized Austin's picture, but never would've been able to guess his name. I recognized nobody else.

Holy fuck, I miss having rational people in control. I was able to just deal with my own shit without worrying about total collapse. Fuck Biden and Harris for not taking the Israel concerns seriously enough, and fuck the people who withheld their vote over that to pave the way for what we have now. The options now seem to be basically either 1941 Germany or 476 Rome.

They also do "I identify as [blank]". But I haven't heard that one as much lately. Maybe they figured out that it was never actually funny and other conservatives were laughing just to be polite.

But we don't get guaranteed sick days or vacation, so our time off is generally too short for that and possibly unpaid! AND we don't have healthcare, so how are we supposed to get vaccinated! It's like you value your own lives and well-being above my right to visit your country, and I don't think you understand that you're speaking to an American right now. You people should be worshipping the ground I walk on because the money I spend there as a tourist is singlehandedly keeping your way of life afloat!

/s if that wasn't clear.

Didn't he go on fox news and whine about how he and Patel have to work all day and they miss their families?

Or just run around the board, tracking your laps. Every lap, shit gets more expensive. The first player to go around the board 5 times without going bankrupt or drawing a "you died" chance card wins.

Other chance cards could include "you survived the round of layoffs, but productivity goals remain the same. Lose $50 buying coffee to keep up." Or "Take a mental health day. Gain $20 since you didn't spend it commuting." Or "Sunday brunch with friends. Lose $30 on avocado toast and mimosas."

Community chest cards can all be like $5 of help and specifically point out that social safety nets have been all but dismantled. Some can be dropping like $100 on you, but at the cost of your next turn because you spent all day on the phone and/or doing tedious paperwork to maximize assistance.

Somebody take these ideas and just make a new board game called Peasants or Surviving Capitalism or Proletarians or something. If you make a ton of money off of it, just throw me 1%. If you only make a little money, just throw me a free copy.

That's fine. I'm worried about getting kidnapped by ice at customs on my way back in, so I'm not visiting anywhere for a bit. White US citizen born in NY btw, but that will hardly matter when they go after leftists or non trump voters or anybody who seems a little too "woke" for their liking.

"First they came for..." famously has several stanzas. None of us is safe from them.

They would do mental gymnastics to wave off dear leader fucking little girls, yes.

Would they forgive him for fucking little boys though?