Very cool … neat work and very imaginative … I keep collecting scrap copper wire all the time from my work renovating and fixing things and often imagined doing stuff like this.

Or just take the leash and take the dog home.

\s … sarcasm, I would never do that to a dog

This is definitely not American … not a gun in sight

Walks in: … (sniffs the air) … hmmmmm … smells like ass

Whatever amount you take … just make sure its an even amount, not an odd amount

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This is what happens when governments rely on a private corporate service for public announcements

Every government should just adopt a fediverse instance of some sort, maintain it and push that to everyone to use as a public announcement service. That way it would not be controlled, manipulated, lost or disconnected if they had full control over it all the time.

Music … learn music … learn the piano … or learn the guitar … or whatever instrument you might have used before. Music really occupies your mind because it needs a lot of mental training. You have to coordinate your body to do things, your brain has to train to follow patterns, your listening has to coordinate with what you are doing and what you produce … it’s a full brain experience and once you get accustomed to it, time seems to change … you play for an hour and it felt like you were there for five minutes but it also felt like hours passed by, it’s amazing. I’m not a great musician, I know my basics but it’s fun every time I do it.

To make it easier … leave the instrument in your living space and make it easy to pick up … park the piano in your living room where you see it every day … or a guitar on a stand next to your seat … etc

If you are not musical or want to learn music … then try visual art … drawing, painting

Just a simple pencil and paper to start with … doodling and learning forms and human anatomy … I used to do that for years when I was a teen and learned a lot but life got in the way and I got too busy to keep it up. But I have a few friends who kept it going and now produce beautiful artwork.

And it’s all about training and time. If you play music or learn to draw in a month … it probably won’t sound great or look great … give yourself a year and you’ll be producing great things … give yourself a few years and you’ll be a musician or an artist recognized by others

Great idea … just get them to export all the women, then when they want children, ship their semen over, artificially inseminate the women, keep female children, send male children after a few years old to live in Afghanistan with their all male family. Just ban women completely from the country.

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I knew that Yamaha was familiar. One of my friends who is an old time Yamaha / Honda employee and is retired had one. His son became a great motorcycle mechanic and when he was a teenager in the early 2000s, he used to ride his father’s FZ6 all the time. I’d go visit them and find his name written with melted tire rubber on the pavement on the backroads leading to their house. He did that for a summer before he realized it was easy to pin stuff like that on him if the neighbours started to complain to the police … lol.

I also thought that was a Shadow … when I bought my Vulcan two years ago, the guy I bought it from was also selling a Shadow and it was a toss up for me between the Vulcan and Shadow … only reason I took the Vulcan was that he had tried to customize the Shadow so much that he wanted it to look like a Harley complete with the logo (I’m not a big Harley guy but I do know that other die-hard Harley riders don’t like it when people do that to their bikes)

Really curious about the Orion and Raven … aren’t those Chinese or Asian bikes? … I’m not against them because I think of them as being the same quality as what bikes would have been 20/30 years ago. I also suspect that they are probably just copies of 20/30 year old Honda and Yamaha technology … which means that they are probably pretty good.

Love that Suzuki Vanvan … looks like a classic old bike (which I love) but with those big fat tires, you could take it anywhere. A weird bike for sure because it looks like some sort of weird trials bike

And the Harley Sportster is probably the only Harley I would ever buy. I love the look of Harleys, I would just never buy them. I had an old motorcycle mechanic who owned several Harleys and his first piece of advice was to tell me - never buy a Harley, as they are a mechanics nightmare. They’re good if you can work on them yourself but a pain and expensive if you ask someone else to do the work. The Sportster is one of the least problematic of the Harleys.

Wow … what a line up … thanks for sharing … ride safe and good luck to you out there … the roads are a lot more dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, just from the shear number of vehicles out there the problems are just multiplied, so it puts all us riders in danger everywhere. But whatever happens, as long as you got an engine and two tires under you, you’re doing good.

Here’s the 2001 BMW R1100R

lol … that’s amazing … I store all my old bikes in a cramped little shed and garage with not enough room … I sometimes wonder why I have all these bikes but I love them. I’m sure you feel the same about your stable.

Love that KLR 650 … a friend of mine has one and is really enjoying it. Neat to have that scooter mixed in with those offroads. What’s the Suzuki? Beautiful Yamaha at the start. What are the two cruisers at the end? Nice Yamaha dualsport too! Wow what a collection! I really like the variety and types of bikes you keep. You must really love riding.

Mine are:

• 1998 BMW K1200RS
• 2001 BMW R1100R
• 1978 Honda Goldwing
• 1976 Honda CB750
• 2002 Kawasaki Vulcan

Here is my main ride - 1998 BMW K1200RS - a beast of a machine but I seldom get her going fast because she is 26 years old and although I have faith in her, I don’t have enough faith to test to see how well the parts will hold out. When everything is tuned, she cruises without effort at 120 km/h and I’ve brought her up to over 240 a few times but scared myself so badly that I won’t do that often. The bike is rock solid at speed, it feels like the faster it goes, the more stable it becomes, its amazing … but she’s showing her age and I have to take everything apart to service her again in the spring.

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Wow … what a setup … it’s something I’ve dreamed of building myself but I have far too many other projects on the go and my own collections I have to maintain … my other passion is motorcycles and I have five of them on the go and need constant maintenance, parts, service and repairs … not to mention a bunch of other work I have to do to make a living and work on my own house and garage.

I envy you and wish I could just sit down to have a break with an NES, switch to an Xbox, then a Sega Genesis and on and on … I love all those old units as they remind me of being a kid and being around all my old friends and younger times. I’m taking out my NES tonight just to make myself feel better … lol

Thanks for the images … I’m actually very happy for you … nice one!

I just thought it was funny that for a Roman historian such as yourself, the comic highlighted thinkers from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries … jumps over to a Greek and completely skipped over the entire Roman era.

Lol … a probe or sample device gets picked up on Mars, sent back to earth carrying an exotic extra terrestrial virus that is indestructible. It infects our planet killing every biological organism on earth.

The Martians end up invading and conquering us … just not in the way we imagined.

Said the astronomer from his observatory in Uruguay

My eight year old self back in the 80s would have seen you as a god among men. I would have been happy to just watch you play on that console.

Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris … two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn’t played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they’ll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I’ll live that long … lol)

I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8

For the patron or the waitress?