Rubber begins to degrade after 3-7 years depending on the compounds. Even if stored in ideal conditions to slow the degrading, you’re only going to give it marginally more life.

Degraded tires risk side-wall blow outs and let will easily let through sharp debris (sticks, thorns, glass, sharp rocks) causing far more maintenance needs.

That’s not to say bikes aren’t beneficial and there’s ways to get around this (stuff the tire with leaves, foam core [also has limited life span], etc), but it is something to be aware of.

This all reminds me… I need to replace the tires on my good weather bike.

Han has died.

Just your garden variety bigots and assholes then?

Also, I think you should read up on what facisim is and why it’s being so widely used right now as highly oppressive rhetoric is being pushed from many far-right leaders throughout the world.

Public humiliation. Letting them know their behavior is atrocious and it’s alienating them from their communities.

Free speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want without social ramifications.

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

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Resources (gold, zinc, iron, uranium, and oil) and large amounts of unused land for pet projects (think another super prison bigger than gitmo).

Good!

I was getting tired of going to corporate marketing parades disguised as Pride Parades.

I wish this was the reason they were backing out though.

In this case, since the slurs were a aimed at a white UK reporter by an unhinged white woman, it was jingoism.

Hey now, there’s no need to be redundant.

It would be hilarious if Greenland intercepted them and deported them.

I was ewwing a Tesla as an Uber btw. Not you.

Ewww.

Also, have you ever tried to get into the back seat of a Tesla? It’s like they didn’t even think about adults getting into the back seat of that thing.

Daaaammmnnnn. A closed, and bankrupt toy company makes better cars.

I see you’ve met my mother.

They’re the same picture.

Do they feel good though? Or are they in a perpetual state of fear and believe that there is nothing else out there but a zero sum game where everybody is out there to win at their loss?

The entire state smells like balls too.

Yet. There is a ton of models coming out, some more shown army CES, and the SteamOS news shows the direction of what low end gaming laptops are going to become over the next 2-5 years.

As an indsutry insider, I there is lots of people discussing this and more studios and publishers starting to look into the cost/benefit analysis of getting Steamdeck Verified.

The Switch 2 is very likely to struggle, but this consultant’s reasoning is dumb as fuck, and belittlies average gamers as ‘normies’. His analysis of why it will struggle, and why the WiiU failed is off base. The average person doesn’t look at the PS5 and PS4 and go “but why, they look the same.”, they understand that its the updated version with imrpovements.

Nintendo is going to struggle due to:

• Handheld PC alternatives that outperform and have much larger game libraries for similar cost.
• Pissing off the emulation crowd
• Pissing off fans for fan project shutdowns
• Pissing off fans of Smash Bros Melee
• Joycon drift denial
• Stealing fan art.
• Failing to adapt to a rapidly changing gaming market.
• 500 other things.

If I were Nintendo, I’d be working quickly as possible to getting their virtual store available for Windows/Linux/Mac and developing a brand for the platform to feature games that reflected their consoles.

Somebody was so triggered by the graphic being off center they just had to break that window.