Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.
Of all the people in the world that need or should have it mandatory to have round the clock public surveillance … it should be our political leaders
They claim to be working for the people … yet the people never really know what the fuck these leaders are doing
Both cats have the same plan
Kill Doug … kill the other cat … kill the two legged beast that invades this space during the day.
This is just another daily reminder of this quote …
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”
I remember reading years ago as well that there is more than enough food and water to make every living human comfortable and fed … Africa alone could be able to self sustain itself by producing its own food and providing clean water for every person the continent if all its resources and services were organized in the most efficient way - instead the finances of African nations is organized in such a way that they spend more on paying for debts and selling all their resources to first world nations.
In this day in age, with the amount of knowledge, technology and ability we have on the planet … every living human should have proper drinking water and they should have all the food they need … there should be no excuse for anyone any where to be starving or lacking water.
The fact that there are starving people in the world means that we all accept a world where thousands and even millions go without.
We did a little tour on our own into Germany one spring, about 20 years ago. It was only a few days, we didn’t have much money and we absolutely didn’t know what we were doing. We rented a car and just started wandering. It was just at the point of technology where GPS was still new. We didn’t have any so we just started driving with a shitty map and no clue.
We had done some traveling in other countries before and we had met several famously obnoxious German tourists. We had partly expected to meet equally arrogant Germans in their home country.
Instead we met the most open, kind hearted, brilliant people ever. Everywhere we stopped, we’d meet three or four locals who were more than happy to give directions, recommend restaurants, bars, tea shops and sites to see.
At one point we met a truck driver who gave us a ton of information and showed us a driving route on a big format ringed binder map book. When he was done talking, he left the book. We told him he was forgetting his book and he said we could have it as it had detailed updated map info of the entire country. It was an expensive book and I knew it, so I told him not to give it away. He insisted and said he didn’t mind.
I still have that map book on my shelf and whenever I see it, I think of that trip and all those people we met.
Totally loved Germany after that.
People like me between the ages of about 40 - 55 are at a great period for riding motorcycles. There are a lot of people selling amazing old bikes that young people either don’t or can’t buy. We’re at a good age for insurance (if we have years of experience). I love biking and I’ve accumulated 6 old motorcycles with 3 on the road and 3 as project bikes. I don’t think this period will last tho … as those old bikes will start to become too expensive to maintain and mechanics no longer want to service old bikes. And everyone will be switching to powerful electric bikes that will look like full sized motorcycles.
What all this means in terms of your noisy neighbour is that there is a 50/50 chance that he won’t be riding for very long.
Sometimes these old guys just enjoy riding and continue riding for a long time.
Or they give up on it because they end up scaring themselves with a near accident or their bike breaks down because they don’t know all the ways of taking care of a bike (it’s all dependent on the make, model, age, type and little details of the bike) … they often end up with a mechanical problem and they either don’t want to fix it, it’s too expensive or they just don’t know how and just give up on the bike and biking.
There’s a big change happening in motorcycling these days. A lot of older people (50+) are buying motorcycles because they always wanted to ride but they couldn’t afford it when they were younger. Mix in the fact that many old riders are now giving up their bikes and selling them … but young riders are not buying them because a young new rider can’t afford the insurance for the bike. Younger riders will go for new smaller engine bikes and many of them are now migrating towards electric bikes … it’s getting to the point where small engine bikes are as powerful, fast and economical as a good sized electric bike. Plus its easier for a young new rider to insure an electric bike than a gas powered one.
The danger with all those old riders is that many of them didn’t grow up riding a motorcycle … they always wanted to but never had the chance. But now that they’re older, have a bit money and have a bit of time, they want to ride but they’re old now … which means, they don’t have the reflexes, they don’t have the strength and they don’t have the awareness of what it feels like to get hurt on a bike. Most riders like myself learned to ride as kids on dirt bikes and ATVs … it’s a great training ground because you ride fast and do all sorts of stupid things … and most importantly, you fall and hurt yourself … so you learn from a young age what it feels like to fall on a bike a low speed and that it hurts a lot … you realize that if you go faster on a paved highway, you’re really going to get hurt.
Being an older rider you don’t get that experience and those guys usually only have one accident … and it either severely hurts them for life and they give up riding … or it kills them.
Slowing down and avoid high traffic areas … and don’t ride during peak hours.
Riding a motorcycle was fun up until about 20 years ago. There were a lot fewer vehicles and the driving was slower. Now you have many more vehicles, modern designed wide lane straightened highways and modern vehicles with more acceleration and speed to the point that everyone thinks it’s normal to drive 20kph faster than the posted speed limit (I’m in Canada so we measure in kilometers)
I ride motorcycle and I always love that argument. I have stock pipes on my bike and I prefer them to be as quiet as possible so that I hear as much of the road as possible, as well as other vehicles.
Yes loud motorcycles do make others aware of your presence … especially if they are very loud pipes.
What no one ever wants to admit is that you usually hear the loud pipes AFTER the bike/vehicle has passed you or is moving away. You seldom hear a loud motorcycle coming at you, especially if you are in a car with sound proofing or sound dampening. You definitely hear the big loud motorcycle pipes as the idiot is driving away from you.
The other thing I love about morons that enjoy big loud motorcycle pipes is that they are the same idiots that want an open air sound system for their motorcycle. So they get the loud pipes and then get a really powerful sound system so that they can listen to their muffled music over the sound of loud pipes, the highway and the buffeting winds as they drive down the highway. Usually, these are the same idiots that lose their hearing by the time they’re 50.
Guy in the bathroom stall: … I use Mac!
Guys and gals pissing in the hallway, lobby, parking lot, bushes, behind the building and inside the office: … we use windows 11!
If I ever run into that scenario … that would be a great reason to raise the Jolly Roger
As a brown Indigenous Canadian … I’d like to agree with you but you’re wrong.
The greatest threat to life and prosperity to the world is billionaires no matter their gender, skin colour, race, nationality or religion.
When Yoda takes his regular centennial shower on Degobah, it’s definitely a very deep thought
and it also depends on your family, personal wealth, inheritance and income bracket … because even with these credentials, it can lead you to higher political office
A wise new saying I heard on a Youtube mechanic’s short reels a while ago …
“If you don’t fuck around … you’ll never find out”
https://youtube.com/shorts/GKPU8lNEAZ4
… and that without knowing it has been the motto of my life when it comes to working on things. I learn on my own (mostly because I was never able to afford higher education) and I just tinker with things and often, I will break things but it serves to help me in the future to figure out what not to do. And other times, it saves a lot of work because it made me realize that some problems aren’t so terrible and that they only needed a simple solution.
What is the deal with this orange orangutan? The rightwing conservative movement can throw him under the bus and get a new idiot to lead their movement … so why hang the fate of your movement on this moron? Seriously … they could find a younger, stronger more charismatic individual to lead them that would be ten times more dangerous than this aging orange deformed sea lion.
The origin story of why that genie got stuck in that bottle for 2,000 years
Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.
Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.
The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.
When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.
How many languages do you speak?
Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language
or it was purposeful to feed the public another thread of distraction that we can all entangle ourselves with for the next few months.
At this point, the controversy is not Trump … the controversy is the American government, the American media and the American public just rolling over another chapter of this absolute stupidity.