I’ll keep that in mind. I live at a high enough altitude that I’m literally in the clouds pretty often (e.g., when it’s overcast everywhere else, I’m in pea-soup fog), so cedar is one of the prime choices for anything that’s going to be outside, just to keep it from rotting.

Sadly: no attic. I need try making an attractive bat roost for them. I wonder how bats feel about cedar, since cedar is rot resistant?

I love seeing the bats coming out at night in the summer; I can see them in the front clearing, swooping around after moths. I’ve got a bat house, but I think that it’s been vacant for years; I need to find a better way to attract them to my home.

I’m very surprised that you haven’t heard of Ghost of Tsushima; it has been a highly successful game.

But maybe I am mistaken? I would swear that I had to accept EA terms and conditions to play, but it’s by Sony and Sucker Punch. I dunno.

In my experience–and I’m very solidly middle aged, so take that with a double handful of salt–the young women in the deep south trend fairly centrist/liberal, while the young men trend hard right. The women that tend to be Trump supporters appear to be middle aged and older, and usually don’t have any significant college education.

Eh, I dunno, I’m currently really enjoying Ghosts of Tsushima, although strictly in off-line mode. And I enjoyed the first Jedi: Fallen Order, again, solely off-line.

Well. technically he was an ape rather than a monkey.

Example: roids. Used appropriately, they can help improve your body.

Correction: they can improve aspects of your body, at a very, very steep cost. Pretty much all oral anabolic steroids are C17α-alkylated, and they’re hepatotoxic (i.e., cause liver damage). All steroids will fuck up your lipid profile to one degree or another, and all of them can cause heart disease, specifically hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. While most AASs will increase red blood cell count, Boldenone in particular will sharply increase RBC production, which in turn increases blood pressure and can cause strokes. All of them will shut down the hypothalmus-pituitary-testicular axis (HPTA) feedback loop in men, leading to testicular atrophy. Most AASs will cause hair loss in men that are sensitive to DHT. AASs can fuck up your hormones enough that men can start lactating (!!!). High doses of testosterone can cause gynecomastia, because testosterone aromatizes into estradiol. In women, all AAS will cause some degree of virilization.

There are not very many IFBB pros that make it to 80; if you want your candle to burn brightly, it’s going to burn out fast.

To my original claim - finding something that’s reasonable mileage, and in good mechanical condition, for under $10k, is quite a challenge at this point. I sold a 2008 Honda Civic Si with >200,000 miles last year that was not running, had rust, and generally needed a fair amount of work, and had an asking price of $4k. I got fifty offers in under 12 hours. It was crazy.

That’s just one of the many fun things about living in the mountains.

So, um, 400M rockets.

Yeah, that ain’t happenin’.

If I took my bike to town, it would take me about an hour, give or take. To get home would be about four hours. It’s 15 miles, one way, with about 2200’ of elevation change.

Average price of a used car in the US, right now, is $29,000. Which means that for a $554 payment, it’s going to be 5.4 years rather than 1.5. From there, you need to figure out how many miles you put on a car in a year, make some rough guesses about how many miles the average car has left before the cost to repair exceeds the cost of replacing, etc. Obvs. a high mileage used car is going to require significantly more maintenance than a new car will (…in most cases, as long as you aren’t buying a new Land Rover or Jaguar), so you’ll need to figure that in as well. You’ll probably want good insurance, even if you’re only required to carry minimal liability insurance, because any accident could be catastrophic for your finances if you can’t afford to repair your car.

It’s a bit of a death spiral; wages are still too low, car prices are too high.

Dave Ramsey hasn’t tried to buy a reliable used car in the last decade, at least. You aren’t going to find anything under about $10k that’s actually reliable where I am. A mid-90s Toyota with 300,000 miles maybe, but not anything under 150,000.

I think you wildly underestimate the amount of trash we’re be talking about here. This wouldn’t be a rocket, this would be thousands, or hundreds of thousands of rockets. And that’s just the start.

They say the short range of 100 miles, lack of charging infrastructure, and lack of an engine rumble make the E-bikes

If the range estimates were accurate, this would not be a significant problem; my motorcycle gets about 140 miles out of 3.5 gallon tank. However, that range estimate assumes that you’re going at city speeds. Once you get to highway speeds, your range drops sharply, because of wind resistance. (This is a problem with cars also, but less of a problem; the rider is the least aerodynamic part of a motorcycle, meaning cars can be much more efficient with wind resistance.) At 80mph, which is roughly normal interstate speeds near me, you’d get more like 50 miles; that would be enough for me to go to work and get home, assuming that I took the most direct route. If you want to ride for pleasure in the mountains, then you not only have the reduced range to contend with, but also the total lack of charging.

And, unfortunately, adding batteries to increase the range also increases weight. That increased weight may not be as apparent in a car, but you will feel every pound of it on a motorcycle, and not in a good way. A sport bike that has the weight of a Honda Goldwing is not desirable.

FWIW, even if it only caused a four hour long erection, that is not what your partner is going to want.

Trust me on this.

After an hour–usually less than half an hour, IME–it’s not going to matter how much lube you have, they’re going to be hurting. You’ll be frustrated, they’ll be frustrated and in pain, and no one is going to be happy. Maybe there are a very, very few women that like getting pounded for over an hour straight, but I haven’t dated one yet.

They’re not trying to get rid of regulation though; they’re trying to make sure that the regulation is in their favor. That’s what regulatory capture is. They’re going to be fine with regulations that help cement their place in society.

Probably not, TBH. It’s probably about social order; they likely believe that there should be a specific order and set of rules in society, and that somehow billionaires ‘deserve’ what they have, and that it’s ‘right’. “The way it is is the way it should be.” They likely also have regressive views about the position women should hold in society, LGBTQ+ rights, etc., for the same reasons. It’s a fundamentally conservative thought process.

Lots of home internet does have a data cap, but you might not realize it. Typically what will happen is that, once you hit your cap, you’ll be rate throttled. That throttle might not affect most video streaming since Netflix is really good at video compression, but you’ll see the hit if you are, for instance, downloading large games from PSN, Steam, etc.