That happened to me once! I was 15 and going to school, was riding a Lotus Eclair I’d fixed up. I entered the school zone and wanted to see if I could get over 25 mph. But there was a cop hiding and I got a ticket. I had to tell my parents, and I think they were impressed with my 31 in a 25 speeding ticket.

The best part was having to go to court, and the judge asking how I got a Lotus (she was thinking of a car) and then upon learning the truth, asking the officer why he was wasting his time stopping a kid on a bicycle.

I see all these silly rules being floated and part of me almost wishes I was back in high school so I could be really annoying.

If they can keep everyone distracted by The Gays™ or whatever other sexual deviancy the redhats can dream up, then maybe people won’t notice the roads falling apart or the useless police, or more importantly, which people are stealing all the money.

I wanted a model train setup when I was younger, had a Bachmann N-scale set. There was a model railway store and toy museum in Virginia when I was a kid called “Mike’s Trainland”, and I used to go there and look at their setups.

I just don’t have the space or time for it now. But there are a couple of video games that let me scratch the itch.

I was going to guess Rabul. Oops.

I’m a dirty slut for iced tea, but not the cloyingly sweet stuff that you’ll find in restaraunts. And you’re right it’s much cheaper. A box of 22 gallon-sized tea bags is like $5.

There is a great XKCD that shows comparisons for the amount of sugar in a soda, and it’s wild. A 20 oz coca-cola has as much sugar as three cadbury creme eggs.

Yours too? I swear I lost ten pounds just by drinking water and tea instead of soda.

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One of these is not like the other

This. I have a DJI mini 2, and while that isn’t a combat drone used by anyone’s military, it’s pretty much impossible for me to see it at it’s “maximum” altitude of 122 meters and at that height I can get pretty good real-time video. I’m pretty sure it will exceed that altitude limit if I wanted it to, and there’s no way I could see it or hear it at 200 meters. And it would still get me useful video.

I have to assume that the drones being used by the UA are better than my silly little camera drone.

Ooo, that’s good. Also try William Shatner.

I’ve always assumed he smelled like necrotic fat guy.

And then they will leave for a more idyllic life in the country because it’s so noisy.

I’m pretty sure the large open field behind my house, which used to be full of trees, is going to be turned into another gated neighborhood full of cookie cutter houses. And I just know someone is going to be close to my back yard, and they are going to whine about my wife’s chickens, especially since one of them is a rooster.

So they will piss and moan and try to make us get rid of the rooster. And then they will probably get a small dog that yaps all night.

I’ll also point out that there was an explicit understanding with the west.

Is “The West” the US only?

Oh noes, where will they get their vinegary gristle sandwiches now?

This. Stop begging the US for money and guns with one side of your mouths while telling us how terrible we are for everything with the other. We are facing some pretty significant issues of our own, and I know that when shit gets bad here, there won’t be a single country anywhere that will help us.

Technology Connections!

Did they forget that Finland created Simo Heyha?

My favorite episode is the one where they tried to turn a city bus at 50 mph to test a scene from a movie called “Speed”.

It didn’t matter how the passengers were arranged in the bus, the bus just wouldn’t turn over. In fact, the bus was more stable in a corner when ghe weight was evenly distrubuted, to the surprise of nobody with a mechanical engineering degree.

The most instructive part for me was what they did have to do to make the bus barely tip over. They had to fasten a big piece of steel plate to the roof, disable the air shocks on one side, and put all the “passengers” (barrels of water) on one side.

Thus reminding everyone that engineers know more about how to build a bus than movie writers do. Which shouldn’t be a surprise.

They’ll just expand the Chicken Tax to cover EV’s.

I remember clearly the first words out of my wife’s mouth as soon as she caught her breath after giving birth: “I’m never doing that again.”

And she hasn’t. That was ten years ago, and our kid is amazing, but I got that snip so she doesn’t have to do it again.