So your idea is to seriously compromise pipelines, gasas lines, waterlines, roads, environmental impacts, maybe create a sinkhole... brilliant 👏👏👏

On the “Fireworks vs IEDs” discussion— There is some arbitrary point at which a device transitions from “Firework” to “bomb”, even if its builder intends it to be used for entertainment rather than destruction. Seeing as these devices were homemade, “Improvised Explosive Device” seems like a reasonable descriptor.

LAPD said “IED” because they know that sounds scarier. These were still fireworks.

The fact that the Kawasaki H2R exists is mind blowing. I can’t even begin to imagine riding a bike with over 300hp.

Maybe in a rural area, sure, but in a suburban or urban area with lots of infrastructure underground (water, sewage & gas lines, building foundations, sometimes electric service etc), this would likely make the damage much worse

10ft of earth would not have contained this based on what we see here.

Our short-sightedness started 50 years ago when manufacturer’s started selling themselves down the river to the CCP in the name of raw profit, but that’s several books worth of issues.

Kinja’d link, but Grassroots Motorsports covered this a looong time ago...

Well, you see, his username is...oh never mind, I gotcha. ;)

Mine wasn’t a car, it was when I replaced a Suzuki SV650 with a Triumph Street Triple. That bike made me want to do bad things. I also owned a Mazdaspeed3, so well versed in torque steer.

For me, it’s the recent (maybe decade-old) revelation that the Toyota Camry now has more horsepower than most of the cars in the muscle car era. I drive a 1968 Cutlass and a 1989 Firebird. I can’t tell you how many people like to point out you can get a Camry with more horsepower.

My e39 M5 wasn’t that fast by todays standards, but was fast enough that the power became frustrating. I’m a firm believer that to really get a thrill out of a sports car you need to be pushing it a bit, and pushing the M5 meant I was in go-to-jail territory pretty quickly, which also meant I didn’t get to push it…

“ Trump let it slip that it exists for other nations to protect America”

The NATO myth was busted when Trump let it slip that it exists for other nations to protect America, not the other way around. England and France, the other big hitters in it, both have similar thoughts just with their nation penciled in instead of America [England especially, right now because of Brexit]. The only…

the EU doesn’t have the necessary capabilities or resources to fend off China right now. And we can’t get involved, because it is too close to Russia

The Communist playbook is to send proxy troops, mercenaries, “blue ships”, shit like that. Just shy enough of real armies. Worked for Crimea. It’s going to work in the China Sea.

Sure. But, geopolitics aside, there comes a point when revolutions happen independently of US or EU involvement. The Med is like the wellspring of revolution. Is China going to be willing to underwrite a major military force to hold parts of that world? Are they going to spend the vast sums, life and treasure,…

“ is the CCP going to send in troops to enforce their new colonies?”

Slight problem though, thanks to us destablizing North Africa and the Middle East last decade, and also funneling a shit ton of cash into Brexit and other EU-hostile parties in the last five years, in order to keep the EU from becoming a unified power that could be a global equal to America, the EU doesn’t have the…

Stupid CCP. They are going to be in big trouble when their overseas investments turn out to be duds. When the local populace gets up in arms about how bad their situation is , is the CCP going to send in troops to enforce their new colonies? The Montenegrans have the option in the West to default, do the CCP have a…