I almost fucking died while riding yesterday, and it was all my fault! :blobfoxscared: #motorcycle
I was passing a truck on SR-20 right as oncoming traffic—hidden by trees when I started my pass—was almost right in front of me. I only had a few feet to slip between both oncoming traffic and that truck. Never passing with such little margin again!
@Rocc@tk@Ariri@izaya@shibao for every story like that, remember this story:
some souped up rumble rumble Dodge Charger asks me for a race. in turn, i ask if he wants to get beaten by a single cylinder. he laughs, we line up, i win.
consumer marketing: :blobcatsuit: you need this optical connection the light makes the home cinema more chad
production staff: :comfystoner: so anyway i dunno man we just used a 2$ XLR cable found lying by the side of the road and jammed that shit in to my pocket recorder
@icedquinn tricks nobody tells you: use a regular TRS cable to connect the "SPDIF" ports on your sound card and your home stereo together. and it will just magically work, no analog line between source and amp 😌
@tk folks can't afford to take care of them. also they may not be capable of doing the labor, have the tools, have the time to learn how to do it, and so on. i consider myself fucking privileged to have that. most folks have to pay 3x the cost of the consumables to have someone do it for them.
my time aint that valuable, yet. cars are a goddamn hole in the road in to which america pours money.
for that, i blame our dogshit licensing standards, laws that cause distraction by requiring too many (redundant/useless) road signs but don't limit advertising or commercial signage, and our propensity to double-down on fucking awful infrastructure instead of implementing known fixes (ye olde american exceptionalism)
i also blame judges that let repeat offenders continue to have driving privileges.
as an aside to american road design itself: a fuckton of our roads, especially in the midwest & frontier states, don't exactly "go anywhere". we can blame how lot parceling was experimented with back then on this.
@tk@Ariri@Rocc@dokuja@izaya@shibao with as much riding as this group does, i advocate for running with a catalytic converter. we don't do "the occasional track session", we use the fuuck out of our bikes. each of us puts down 1000's of miles each year.
i switched from a cat-less aftermarket to a stock exhaust when i bought my used CBR250R.
@tk@Ariri@Rocc@dokuja@izaya@shibao there is something very human about modifying & repairing the very tools we use to bring us to within an inch of death 💜