I wish. When I tell people I've been exclusively using Linux for more than 10 years they give me a blank look then repeat the question.
I haven't spent any real time on scooters, but been riding with all kinds of PEVs. I think you're right that scooters are deceptively safe looking. EUCs these days are pretty safe within their designed operating range. But I'm very biased because they're my favourite device.
Weirdly now, handlebars feel like a superfluous crutch - but I still don't risk riding a bike without a good grip on them. Risk assessment is a funny thing, and ultimately comes down to lived experience.
If you're open to a small learning curve, there are electric unicycles that would tick all your boxes, especially for compact portability.
Good call. I have some good memories of hanging with keas when I visited NZ.
It would be a dream if CANZUK happened, then it was joined by California and Cascadia. We could call it CACACANZUK.
That said, you would already be a powerful nation without joining anyone else. Don't wait for us to get organised.
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Given that one of those arms is a reproductive organ, you're not wrong.
I'd be a cockatoo. Pretty long lifespans, intelligent, they can fly, and spend most of their time just fucking shit up for fun.
It really is a mental illness, but it's normalised and celebrated.
I think she's just a bit cold, and wondering if she should put on a tshirt because he looks pretty comfortable.
Lots of technology has reached a good-enough plateau, so I think we'll start to see some left-field ideas. I'm just going to say realistic robot pets.
Two movies that usually appear on lists like this, but I don't see them: The Fountain, and The Fall.
That sounds like my mum's cat. She was a feral, left on the doorstep of the pub.
She'll hiss and growl at everything, but you just distract her with a toy, then it's all purrs and snuggles.She has a weird obsession with licking faces, which evolved from biting faces.
This would actually be a pretty funny premise for a heist movie. Have them stealing Lambos from a crypto conference or something.
That's why they all consider themselves to be alphas. Because they aren't functional or stable enough to be release candidates.
Ah, Summernats. I used to work at a servo in Canberra. That time of year was nuts.
Usually I was the only staff on site, but we'd have four staff on for nats. One would basically be handling the car wash exclusively. Two would be constantly restocking food and drinks. We'd get a shipping container of extra stock dropped off to keep up.
The bus home would have to go through a cloud of tyre smoke, and half the passengers would get off at the north side brothels and strip joints.
I never actually went to the festival itself, but I feel like I got most of the experience.
Car theft is more likely to be acted on than any other kind of theft, in my experience, but it still has to be convenient for them.
One time my car was stolen, I knew it had only just happened so they were certainly still driving it near my home, and the police just said sorry, we'll let you know if it turns up somewhere. I called back a few minutes later when I remembered that it's on a car share program so I can track the location via GPS - that got them interested, and I stayed on the phone giving updates while it took them only 20 minutes to make an arrest.
The same car got stolen a couple of years later, when I wasn't able to track it live. I located it myself, and they just turned up to do a few minutes of forensics then left.
They're definitely understaffed. When I went to the station to do a report there was only one constable in the building, even though it was a time of day/week when they're extra busy.
