I did my endorsement test on a little 1975 Honda cb125s that weighed 200lbs (90kg) and had a very short wheelbase and a top speed of about 50mph (80kph) before floating the valves in top gear.

Barring that kind of cheat code, I like to stay in gear and idle/use a small amount of throttle to maintain balance (this will help the bike try to stand up in the corner). You can drag the rear brake and/or slip the clutch if you need to control speed. If you can easily raise your idle, this can help if you don’t have a steady throttle hand.

The most important part is to commit to the corner when you tip in.

Practice making continuous circles in an open lot and reducing the radius and speed. Get a feel for the bike in the middle of the turn, then make the path elliptical to get a feel for tipping in.

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The number of people that would break when they couldn’t access their email when they opened their phone… You could measure it with public health statistics.

I think you will enjoy this recent episode of the This Machine Kills podcast.

We discuss Quinn’s analysis of “new fusionism” or a mutant strain of neoliberalism that crystallized in the 1990s, which sought to ground and defend neoliberal policies through their own bastardization of biological sciences — cognitive, behavioral, evolutionary, genetic, and so on. They then used scientism to justify and propagate political ideas and economic models based on hardwired human nature and hierarchical differences between races, cultures, and intelligence. The fringes of the 1990s have now become the mainstream of the 2020s.

Proportional representation would go a long way toward fixing many of this country’s issues.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington–Hill_method

I sincerely appreciate this. You have further proven that I don’t know anything at all about other countries.

And an additional thanks for the thorough explanation in the linked comment. As a layperson, I knew different options existed, but I didn’t know what they were, or why.

I thought it was 10 gauge for a 30amp dryer outlet (NEMA 14-30).

And surely they used properly grounded 4 wire.

Unless it’s a heat pump unit, in which case I don’t know anything (some are 120?).

Or it’s in a civilized country with 240V, in which case I know nothing at all.

Mac and cheese with chopped hotdogs was a staple of my childhood. Used to drown it in ketchup to make people squirm.

I was also a weird kid mixing jam and cheese (even grape jelly and American cheese) on sandwiches to the abject horror of parents and kids alike.

I’ve taken it to adulthood with cream cheese and Peruvian pepper jam (just a light spread) on a savory bagel.

Nowadays, if you “pair” jam and cheese on a cracker instead of bread, you can avoid the weird looks entirely and even seem sophisticated.

a “California sober” lifestyle, alcohol-free, drug-friendly event. The term emphasizes moderation and mindful use, a middle path between abstinence and poly-drug recreational use,

I think we have a fundamental misunderstanding of “sober” and “drug-free.”

What exactly are we calling alcohol in this special new world if it isn’t a drug? Why is it not a drug? How is it different? Can I be “California sober” if I use alcohol in moderation?

Ok, knee-jerk aside, whatever, you do you. One of my favorite highs ever was a microdose of shrooms after a few drinks. And if you don’t love mixing herbal liqueurs and syrups to make a magical cocktail, you’re really missing out. Alcohol is more than keg stands with frat boys and shots at clubs.

And Minnesota is the place for THC drinks. They’re everywhere! This is arguably their thing.

Another way to mitigate the force of inductive skepticism is to restrict its scope. Karl Popper, for instance, regarded the problem of induction as insurmountable, but he argued that science is not in fact based on inductive inferences at all (Popper 1935 [1959]). Rather he presented a deductivist view of science, according to which it proceeds by making bold conjectures, and then attempting to falsify those conjectures. In the simplest version of this account, when a hypothesis makes a prediction which is found to be false in an experiment, the hypothesis is rejected as falsified. The logic of this procedure is fully deductive. The hypothesis entails the prediction, and the falsity of the prediction refutes the hypothesis by modus tollens. Thus, Popper claimed that science was not based on the extrapolative inferences considered by Hume. The consequence then is that it is not so important, at least for science, if those inferences would lack a rational foundation.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

I just knew my philosophy degree would come in handy one day.

69420 views.

Nice.

Kill a bunch of people? Better raise your rates.

I’d love to know if there’s an easy way to set this up for mobile. Lemmy is one of the things still on my list.

Hah, I’ve been looking at gruvbox in a terminal and theming everything else with it for 7 or 8 years.

Randomly coming across gruvbox is one of my favorite things.

Just enough for a batch of toum.

Who was it that also recently used that “my heart goes out to you” phrase again?

Oh right.

I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

I’ve been giving cockpit a try for the last couple weeks.

So far it has been pretty great, especially with the podman plugin.

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/195/feature-virtualmachines.html

“Catholics aren’t Christians” was a common phrase evangelicals used throughout my childhood.

Yeah…

Where I’m at, the Allen’s hummingbird is not uncommon. They make a crazy loud buzzing noise in flight, but it’s just their wings! It can be heard in most of the clips here.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Allens_Hummingbird/sounds