“Decreased reaction time, age-related vision decline, the side effects of medications, and the tendency of older riders to buy large, heavy motorcycles all contribute to the disproportionate injury and death rates.”

Well, the positive side is that if Elizabeth can keep her lines straight she’ll positively obliterate these guys.   That puts her on a psychological par with whoever comes out winning the Sanders/Biden debate and in a way that her responses won’t be diluted by having Sanders or Biden challenge them directly. 

Good advice in this article. I was 27 when I parked my regular daily ride motorcycle (a GL1000) in the garage for roughly the next 17 years owing to the 1-2 punch of having kids and neither money or time to devote to the needed upkeep. When I picked back up on two wheels again (semi) regularly in my mid-40s I noticed…

Staying physically active and fit is important for general health. Having kids is a copout for letting one’s body get rusty in my opinion.

I got back into bikes after a 20 year absence (I’m in my late 40's now), and what I found out real quickly is that kick starting a bike is a mf’ing chore now! My SR500 started to have a failing stator last year, and I ended up having to re-kick start the bike at every stop. That was not fun.

More options along the lines of the Bonneville-the Honda CB1100

I’d go further - set a base rate, and then a COLA rate based on locality. The federal government already does this for its own workers.

Set the minimum wage to scale with the mean cost of living in the US. As of 2017 that was $15.84. That’s probably a little higher in 2019. So the Fight for $15 campaign should change its slogan to “Secure us $16".

It really doesn’t.

Well your name fits I’ll give you that.

This is not serfdom.  They are not beholden to any master.  They chose to be freelance drivers.  They chose to use their own cars.  They didn't sign any contracts requiring 9-5 service. 

That’s the whole point. They think the only legitimate use of state violence is doing whatever it is they want done. If state violence is used to help someone else then it's apparently a violation of natural law or some other stupid bullshit. 

Ok Dr. Humblebrag.

I never “got” my Ph.D. diploma because Florida State University said I owed them $60 after I’d paid them tens of thousands, and I said I’d see them in hell.

Hands? kinda like this?

Man I think I have another breakthrough on top of that... imagine the trucks didn’t have rubber wheels, but steel conical ones that would run on tracks! That way they don’t even have to turn! Paths can be “programmed” in by building the tracks to go in specific directions - obfuscated behind a neural network of…

What would be cool is if we could give the trucks their own road. Except it wouldn’t be made of asphalt or concrete. It would be much stronger, built to bear the weight of shipping. Maybe steel. And then you could put the trucks on grooved wheels with no tires to reduce friction.

The same people who were renting them before, just now forced to devote virtually all of their income just to having a basic place to live - public transit is a joke in this area so paying an extra 20% of your income to stay close to work is actually more logical than the cost of transportation otherwise for many of…

At this point, we have two major political parties in the US- The far-left of the Democratic Party, and the centrists of the Democratic Party. Functionally, they’re about as different as the Dems and GOP in the 1980s.