You and me both… but I’m glad you’ve got a creative outlet! That makes it all so much more bearable I think.

Heck yes. Your brain still functions, despite the horrors. Keep exercising it!

I've always assumed that these would be great hack targets.

taylor swift: time traveler

I have a friend who got an electric motorcycle a few years ago. It was so weird to see him get on it and it silently pull away.

People I know who ride motorcycles don't want quiet exhaust because it makes them even less noticeable by other drivers. I am curious if the electric motorcycles have worse safety records than internal combustion.

People who drive by my house don't want a quiet exhaust because it's part of their identity to be loud, to disturb the surroundings, and to be noticed. Late-night packs of riders aren't worried about much of anything except cops and maybe not them. I estimate that in a few-mile strip near me, every time they ride, their clamor affects more than 20,000 people.

@grantbarrett I don't associate with people like that. I am curious to know if quiet motorcycles are more dangerous to ride. If not, I believe we should end the various exclusions motorcycles have from exhaust noise laws. I don't ride motorcycles and wouldn't object if they banned them outright for health and safety concerns.

@urlnotfound As s motorcycle rider of 20 some years, in my experience exhaust noise has zero bearing on safety. For one, exhaust noise only goes behind the rider, so it is only heard by people who can also see you. If you are concerned about safety on a motorcycle, you'll spend money on gear and skill classes, not pipes. People who say otherwise are lunatics with fragile egos.

Yea, "loud exhausts are necessary" was just the asshole crowd's justification for their annoying exhausts.

Note that these folks also tend to be the ones not wearing helmets and riding with a t-shirt.

Pam Dawber appears unimpressed.

"exhaust noise only goes behind the rider"

Are you riding faster than the speed of sound, perchance?

Modern cars (SUVs) are so well insulated against outside noises that emergency vehicles (ambulances) often ignored because they can’t be heard.

Sound is important though. I ride an electric cargo bike and I have a big chunky chain in the box that rattles, so I make noise and don’t have to ring my bell if I want to pass slower cyclists on bike paths. If they don’t wear headphones they are aware I’m behind them and don’t get startled too much when I pass (at reasonable speed, I don’t ride very fast).
Just like electric cars that also generate ‘engine noise’ at lower speed to warn cyclists and pedestrians. Some brands of cars have really annoying ones, despite hiring movie score composers.(Hans Zimmer for BMW.)

@rogrtheshrubber Fair point... swap "mainly" for "only" and I stand by the statement. Sound goes everywhere in an atmosphere... but when you build directional sound cannons, it has a primary vector.

Thanks for sharing this.

I'd like to find out more about my grandfather's WW1 service - my brother said that he was in the calvalry, but I don't know where he learned that from.

I'm old enough to have used one in a Greyhound station.

Would join.

love these calm weirdos. there is always one (1) hanging out on the artificial pond along my jogging route

But hello biofuel!

Boy, talk about out-dated!

@dreyfusslugado *Salah’s voice*
“Bad dates!”

this reminds me...need to clean out the fridge this weekend...

@homerj if there’s anything this old in it just leave it be, I think.

@wombatman70 ++

<3

@spingo ❤️

They sure did love lead!

Would join

Red Emma’s sounds like a biker bookstore. Or for literate pirates.

Somebody worked carefully to paint all that brick and used a fucking keyboard tickmark instead of a proper apostrophe. I am livid.

@Davezilla Sounds like a communist activist, the fun 1930s type that got involved in picket line battles and drinking contests rather than the annoying 1960s type that's too wrapped up in arguing doctrine to do anything besides write letters to magazines.

@ardgedee +++

@ardgedee it's Emma Goldman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Easiest ten I’ve spent in hours.

Used the US dollars I got in a class action suit from Zuckerberg for this. Seemed appropriate.

I think of what the guys who run CAH could have done instead of the card game they came up with, and the answer is probably they would have become executives at private equity firms. So while I have qualms about them I think things could have turned out much worse.

Title ++++

Jeff Easley, _Lurking Danger_, the cover art for the 1995 reissue of the AD&D 2e Dungeon Master’s Guide.

I like my women like I like my coffee, especially during a stroke.

Stock it next to the baby oil

reminds me of the "Lez Beans" coffee I got - Hawaiian kona hand picked by lesbians. I don't think they lasted very long as a coffee collective

I like my coffee like I like my coffee, recursive.

Grinders of women.

@MackReed ++++ superb

alt title: Commute

Gotta poop while downtown

Saw this (and the others on other Li’l islands nearby) in person! Very neat. Was told by a local that they’re basically man caves and the folks who own them will leave the island with a pack of groceries and some beer and live it up in the summertime. Also very near the world’s largest puffin colony, as it happens!

@wombatman70 sounds dreamy

Site of a rather ill fated exhibition cricket match back in the 70's.

@hertz +++
I had to google that hahaha

Admiring the sky.

real

The standard Windows experience.

"Select All, Delete"

Four while fried chickens.

...and a Coke.

Dry toast

I've seen this movie, but never in one sitting. I think we may all have movies like that

"The Blues Brothers? Shit. They still owe you money, fool."

Side note - All the performers in the movie lip-synced to a studio recording, except Aretha, because she sings her songs slightly differently every time, and couldn't match her own recording, so her vocals in the Think scene were recorded live on set!