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To give a little more nuanced answer, I don’t think these are really mutually separate at this moment. They may not always be allies in the future but I think given current mechanisms, they’re pretty intertwined with each other and will be for the foreseeable future.

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I mean I guess technically racing motorcycles. However it’s more of a circumstance thing, getting back into it would take, pretty easily, almost $10k. So I’m getting into MTB and BMX instead now. I absolutely will be back into it the second I’m able to though, up until very recently, I’d spent more years on a motorcycle than off of one. Age 4 to probably 23 I raced. 0-4 and 23-35 I haven’t. Miss it dearly every day, but I’m still very involved in it when I can watch it in-person.

Then yeah, that’s at least pretty weird. Is it like…HS logos on it, clearly a high school uniform? Or is it like…work casual clothes that just also happen to meet uniform requirements?

I guess it depends on the uniform. Plental of people wear college sports jerseys or other stuff displaying their Alma mater, but I guess thay isn’t strictly a “uniform”. If you’re wearing the designated, every day uniform if a high school or something as an adult well past the age, then I wonder what the motives for it are.

Concerning shock would be that you find it hard to let go; the current causes muscles to contract and your hand to close, and you actively have to make yourself let go. Appliances and household voltage can do so, but there is no mistaking it when it happens, and it’s not something you just brush off, especially if it happens repeatedly. And then why would you be the only one experiencing it?

I’d be having people recreate your conditions; if you open it early, length of time, close time proximity to when it occurs. What would you think the cause is, if not something similar to faulty appliance?

I don’t think that’s biology. Old CRT style TVs used to emit a really high pitch frequency, and from the ground floor, I could hear if the basement TV was on. With laptops, if it’s an older one or you have a bad power supply, you may be smelling ozone and that’d your queue, or if your room is small with little to no circulation, you may just be sensitive to the heat coming off it. As for the microwave, it may be faulty or ungrounded. If you were getting shocked by a running microwave, I do not think it would be like a static shock where you just get a little crack. They don’t deal with low power or voltage, it would be a concerning shock that you receive.

Is it just the slight vibration-type shock? I had a laundry dryer with a bad fuse be “live” one time, where if you touched it, you’d be getting shocked, but it was low voltage. But with the regular machine vibration and due to it not being a really powerful shock, it was hard to notice, plus like a microwave, when you pop the door, it largely turns off. The machine vibration coupled with the low power shock, I legitimately didn’t know it was shocking me for like…a few weeks. Because it was such a quick interaction with the machine, if you even touched it while it was on in the first place, it’d be hard to notice.

Without incarceration? I don’t think there is a massive anti-incarcerarion argument in the US, to a point. With the current iteration, sure, but other countries do incarceration correctly, where rehabilitation is the focus. But I don’t think there is an appropriate option for those crimes (jaywalking withheld lol) that isn’t some kind of separation from “polite society”. Obviously grey areas exist in some cases; self-defence, crimes of passion, etc where there are mitigating details, but just in general, I wouldn’t have any good options for those cut and dry convicted criminals that isn’t incarceration of some form. I guess the option would be round the clock services and supervision for redirection and rehabilitation? But that has a whole host of problems and you’d likely need a dozen or so people per convict? As well as housing facilities, and specialized workers for therapy/education, etc, and then it looks a lot like prison, just without the physical walls at that point.

I would agree the US version would not be helpful though, aside from attempting to give society some kind of satisfaction of “justice served”.

It’s crazy that the company won’t allow this. If it doesn’t effect your work, then the only reason to not approve it seems to be because the health and care for your wife should come second to the company. That’s pretty shit and it sucks that was a choice you had to make.

Lmao it was surreal. The next viewing was there early in the driveway waiting to go in, and they heard a like crashing noise, then the people inside quickly left, and made it a point to say “yeah the counter was already broken” and just dipped lmao. The 2nd groups realtor told ours, because obviously why wouldn’t they lol

Lol the shit hole state part was all the damning evidence I needed.

Yeah, it just isn’t worth it. Selling is, all things considered, pretty painless, especially if you have no work needed. Just sit and listen to offers, and try to determine which ones are real people vs private equity if you want. Although when I sold mine, we had people literally break our counter during a viewing? Lmao so that kinda sucked but it was a minor inconvenience.

I’m assuming your state based on the dubvee lol, but I wouldn’t trust a damn thing about them. You’d lose more money to them than you’d pay to a realtor after a successful sale. The market is weird rn, so idk if it’s still solidly a sellers market, but you’d still likely come out way ahead going through a realtor. It honestly is not a bad process, it just sucks because if your house won’t pass inspection or appraisal, it’s a headache to get stuff fixed.

It’s Fahrenheit lol. It was a weird day. It was nice in the sun, but the UV index was high, and the wind was gusting like 10-20 most the day, so it was cold in the shade. Hard to find anything that was comfortable.

Also, edit for conversions. It was about 10c out, with the RealFeel of about 4c with the wind

This was actually yesterday, and it was kinda miserable lol. It was like 50 and sunny, but the wind was crazy all day and it felt like it was 40. Today would have been much better, but we didn’t stay for the 3rd day, long drive back home. It was a good time though! This was actually my first one to watch and first time racing one, BMX at least.

BMX race I was at this weekend

For the vape pen, I’ve seen people stand it up and hit it with a hair dryer, or if it’s real bad, centrifuge it with your arm after heating. They just do that tho.

I don’t necessarily think they’re doomed, yeah it’s just the stability and direction. It seemed like something was working, and a change could disrupt it. Bright side being, it’s not like he was around for a long time, so maybe not much to disrupt at this point? Lol

Stroll is going to dump money into this team until it is dragged, kicking and screaming, into the top of the midfield.

Also sucks for Audi, who was looking pretty damn good all things considered. New-ish team, new PU. Looked like the best of the lower teams, imo. Williams isn’t killing it, Aston is Aston. Cadi is brand new. Alpine, Haas, and RaB look well ahead of those teams.