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Frodolas has seen things with his Frodolas eyes

Golgolas has seen things with his Googles

Very cool … neat work and very imaginative … I keep collecting scrap copper wire all the time from my work renovating and fixing things and often imagined doing stuff like this.

“Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes”

• Frank Drebin, aka Enrico Pallazzo

Whistleblowers always seem to conveniently commit suicide at the right moment.

The whole traction debate only makes sense if you start getting into racing speeds and riding on a fast race track. For the average rider, we’re only riding at normal highway speed (at least we are supposed to) and guys like me like our riding lifestyle enough to never get into crazy speeds because we baby our bikes, we don’t want to create any more variables to put our lives at risk and we’re cheap and don’t want to wear out our tires.

If I knew of a manufacturer that produced a cheap $100 tire that could last four or five season of my light moderate riding … it would be the only tire I would buy. But there are so many manufacturers, types, subtypes, models, years, design, material of tires out there that’s it’s a constant science to try to figure out what is real and what isn’t. I usually don’t have the time to research it all nor do I have the resources that I just end up buying the same Metzeler tires because I don’t want to order the wrong tire and I definitely don’t want to install the wrong tire either.

The contact area compared to the weight ratio is not that different from any other vehicle … a bike weighs less so it has less contact … a car weighs more and so needs more contact with the road … a truck weighs a lot and needs even more contact with the road.

The end result is always the same … the technology is there to make a motorcycle tire last far longer and the same with car tires … the problem is is that there is no financial incentive to make a long lasting tire that would be better for the environment.

I ride motorcycles and tires have always been a major issue with riders because of cost. Bike tires wear out fast even though it’s a lighter vehicle and tends to put on less mileage.

The main culprit that most industry insiders have suggested is that motorcycle tires are purposely designed to not last as long because its so easy to market crappy tires to the vast majority of riders. All you need is have marketing campaign of racers and racing tires and then stamp the name on a tire and sell it to young guys who want to ride as fast as possible … they’ll pay hundreds year after year for tires that only last one season but supposedly give them great performance.

I ride moderately on a 1998 BMW K1200, a fast sport touring bike and I put on moderate mileage every summer … I’m not a long distance rider … yet I have to change my tires just about every year.

Fortnine, a Youtube channel dedicated to motorcycle riding did a great description of this …

https://youtu.be/hEZeR9E3JyY

The giveaway is that you could put a small car tire on a motorcycle and it would last ten times longer … whereas you place a motorcycle tire on a motorcycle tire and it will last for a far shorter time.

Motorcycle tires are designed to not last as long … fast riders can argue that better tires do not last as long and I agree with them … but for moderate riders or just Sunday riders with low mileage, there is no need to have motorcycle tires last for such a short period of time. It’s all meant to sell as many tires as possible for no reason other than to make someone money.

The GARBA-BLAH-GAR-BAH-GLUB-GLUB Lands!

And that’s just the north sea. I’d like to see what the rest of the map looked like in the Mediterranean, the Spanish peninsula and most likely … the many islands that would have dotted the Atlantic.

Anatomically correct Cock … somebody’s gonna have a mouthful

Barry Keoghan, portraying just an average unassuming Joe in the real world but working as a spy. No glamor, no suits, no fancy parties, and not even gorgeous models. Everything is dressed down until the moment of action … like Jack Reacher but less killing machine and more just a clever spy that is more relatable as an average Joe.

I guess it’s better than … “On your knees meatbag”

6% of six states. Because of the Electoral College, any majority wins all of a states votes (for most states), regardless of 51% or 75%.

… and America is supposed to represent the standard for the rest of the world’s democracies?

In that system, people have absolutely no power other than to feel good about themselves while having a confused look on their face.

If your electoral system is so complicated and convoluted to the point where elections representing 300 million people are decided by only 6% of the population who will more than likely be influenced by those with 99% of the wealth … why bother referring to it as a democracy?

Don’t be stupid, God has good lawyers that can get around any NDA

Thou shall not kill

… makes you wonder about a few things in American culture …

• gun ownership, which causes deaths by people in the thousands every year (intentional and accidental and self inflicted), basically most personal firearms are meant for one thing … to kill people.
• military industrial complex which is the vehicle and cause of mass human death around the world
• death penalty, if your Bible says do not kill, why do you have laws that say you should kill

Don’t tell, share, give or allow access to anything personal to corporations

AI are children of corporations … so don’t give anything to the children of corporations