BalooWasWahoo

I used to have problems with clumps. I still do, but I used to as well.

For the most part I now make things in batches. Hot chocolate, tea, whatever. With big batches I can use the mixing bowl and use the immersion blender. Nothing stays clumpy when you have a blade whizzing around at 3000+ rpm.

In most places, a property owner must ask law enforcement to trespass the person off of the property before someone is considered legally or criminally trespassing.

This is decided by and highly specific to the local court/prosecutors, so check local practices. I've lived in an area where three adjacent counties had three different ways to handle trespassing. One had law enforcement only trespassing, one had owner/manager only trespassing (as in, a random employee can't do it, only the owner of the property or the person who is on the lease for the land/building), and the last was so loose a patron of a business telling someone to get lost was almost enough for the person trespassing to be arrested.

I'm mostly joshing ya. My scooter weighs all of 150 wet, but I have a sport tourer that's somewhere around 700. It sucks to maneuver that thing. I wish the feds would do something about lane splitting. Once upon a time they were able to get us on HOV lanes.

I remember some of the incident you were describing. It was a 'training' about hands-on tactics, and he somehow ended up in the group with three or four of the officers he was investigating.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/1127580159/houston-tipping-lapd-death-lawsuit

Equations. When we model things with equations, sometimes they don't have a 'solution' at a particular place, unless we use the formal math rules of 'imaginary' numbers like i. Someone else in the comments mentioned electric conductance/resistance in circuits as an example.

Get a lighter bike, mate. Scooter goes brrrr! But also, yes. Please god, the misery of traffic jams must stop. Let me lane split!

Turning a motorcycle or bike is falling with purpose! The faster you are falling (leaning over more), the faster you turn!

Look for platinum cure or medical grade silicone, glass, or stainless steel. Avoid TPE and PVC at all costs.

And shop online. Your local sex store worker likely doesn't know very much about the individual products, and will tell you whatever you want to hear. Any product listing on a website will absolutely divulge every secret there is to know about it, and beg me for the privilege of my purchase. If you absolutely want to buy in person, go after you've looked up the product online.

That's why you get the receipt, just like you normally do when paying in cash.

They are warships, so perhaps strafe through.

I thought the story there was the sauce producer wanted to diversify who he was buying from so if his friend the pepper grower had a bad harvest, he could still produce some sauce. Said pepper grower became quite irate that his former friend didn't trust him enough to rely on his harvest alone. Is that not what happened?

You don't necessarily need more money, just more flow. Imagine 20 people sitting in a circle, each with a colored stone in their left hand, and $20 in their right. Everyone gives the $20 to the person on the right, and takes the colored stone. Everyone gets the stone they wanted, and everyone paid with $20. Now imagine only one person has a $20... the same exchange happens, but it goes sequentially.

Now, and I'm not advocating the removal of all fat-cats and big-wigs and promoting a cookbook here, but where things get really fucked up is you have businesses and governments inserting themselves as the intermediary in every one of those exchanges, and siphoning a little for themselves. If, in our example, the stone costs $10, and a business siphons $0.55 from each exchange, it ends up with $11, and everyone else is now at $19.45. Repeat until the business has $209, and everyone else is at $9.55... It gets even worse if the exchange is sequential, where only $20 exists to begin with. Ideally you would have a wise government who controls the money taxing and managing the overall picture, but complicated doesn't begin to describe it. We've made everyone start equal in our example, and all have the exact same exchange. You can expand with different skills and services and products as you want, like imagining a coal miner and a farmer trying to be in the same circle with an oil worker and shrimp fisher.

I'm just bullshitting here, but I'd bet the US is sitting somewhere around the $11-12 mark right now. More and more people are feeling the squeeze as the companies get closer to having all the power simply by having the resources to get what they want while the people can't afford it.