I think it depends on your legal system. Appointed judges that can overturn legislation are a problem, but if the judges don’t have that power and all they’re doing is running a courtroom then a judge representative of the community would be an asset.

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New record format just dropped.

The solution is obvious. Install urinals in women’s bathrooms, and issue every person without a penis one of these.

Motorcycles have a maximum volume

They already do, at least where I live. The problem is that they sell aftermarket exhausts that bring the volume to an illegal level, and cops don’t care.

When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.

See: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea…

Actually sanctions don’t work at all, what’s happening here is the result of a war of attrition.

Music from 2004-2010 is the best and all other music is for old people or stupid kids.

the world record

Nobody needed to be a world class athlete in order to sustain themselves through hunting, that’s what the spears were for. Human sexual dimorphism is a lot more minor than what most people assume.

Blow a fat cloud on someone else’s desk so their name pops up, bonus points if your teachers suck and blindly punish anyone whose name gets triggered.

we hope this will reduce vaping through social pressure

The social pressure of all of your friends knowing that you’re cool and break the rules?

The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like a commodity, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.

The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.

It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or use the same messaging protocol, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.

Your best option for a sidecar is to find something used that’s already set up. Before I bought my current bike I test rode a Triumph that had an Indian-made sidecar (the country, not the motorcycle brand) attached to it, and that bike was pretty nice but I couldn’t afford it at the time.

But if you’re in Europe, then Chang Jiang has new bikes in the EU. It’s got a modern engine too, not just an updated old engine like Ural has. It’s a Taiwanese company AFAIK, so it’s separate from the Chang Jiangs that come out of mainland China, which I believe are all still refurbished military bikes from the 60s. Dunno if they’re in your country or not, but I was really disappointed to learn that they don’t sell them in America because it would have been my preferred choice.

It’s actually a brand new Kazakhstan-made 2024. Its got the 2WD gear, but you only engage that when off roading because it makes turning even harder than it already is.

I’ve always been attracted to “third options”. Cars are boring, sidecars are interesting. I prefer to ride my regular motorcycle when it’s just me, but I go with the sidecar when I need to take my dog or carry a bunch of stuff and my regular car when I need A/C or heat.

Bought a Ural motorcycle. Planned to sell my car to afford it - but then nobody bought my car, but then I managed to increase my income and afford it anyway.

It’s the most dangerous thing I’ve ever ridden. It’s great.

The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.

amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of

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Actually all of the TOS films are great.

Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.