Posts by Doc&Ruby

  • Crazy videos from the web!

    Quote from Tripod

    To change the subject, I found this to be extremely interesting…


    Plastic of the future?


    Love this idea... let's save oil for fuel, not plastics!

    I wonder if the relatively slow speed of growing compared to forming products will be limiting.

    Plastic products spend seconds, perhaps a few minutes at the outside in the factory compared to a week or more to grow & heat treat fungi. The amount of product a given factory volume can produce is much less, but then, biodegradable packaging IS a big deal.

    Prolly the Big Government will mandate this product's use, then make it illegal for the individual to compost the stuff in the back yard. (Kinda like making rain barrels illegal.)

  • Crazy videos from the web!

    To be fair, these aren't your old-school patriotic liberals like JFK... these are straight up facist sturmtruppen. Blackshirts with face masks.

    the scary part is, we don't know who their Fuerher is yet.

  • Conservative Politics & Daily Events Discussion

    Quote from chad warren

    The lady across the street. Well she's 18 so the young lady across the street is a feminist, bernie loving, by sexual. Her parents have pretty much givin up trying to talk to her. And most of the neighbors and her own family try to avoid her. Well we were over there lastnight and she came into the room we were doing game night. She heard us talking about current events and the topic of the the women who put her back to the flag at qualifying came up and we all were like how disrectfull it was and how she should not represent the USA. Well she starts going off on BLM and how we have no right to talk about 1 a women 2 a women of color 3 that we were all white and have no idea what she was going through. Now mind you she is a pale white red head. And then goes off on how this country is a shithole racists country that impeads and the rights of individuals. So at this point people start getting uncomfortable and leaving her parents are like Rachel shut up go in your room. She gets even more mad yells I'm trying to educate you all. And she yells I hate this country I can't wait to go somewhere else. I just look at her and say. You know why I live this country because even though I disagree with everything you stand for and say. You have the right to say it and I may not like it but I love the fact that you can excercise your right that this shithole country as you call it gives you the right to say it. I tell her please go to another country and riot and protest and March for gay rights. Yea she's bi sexual one day gay the next and then loves men and then hates them. And see what happens you would be sent away and never seen again. She of course has no rebuttal and starts with insults about being a white cis male and I just laugh in her face. Her parents are always so embarrassed by her. I just don't get the mentality. Walks out of the house with barely nothing on. Her parents will be like put some clothes on. She will tell quit slut shaming me. I watched her walk out the house topless 2 weeks ago with her mom chasing her. Later I asked what that was about. And her mom said I asked her to put something a little more appropriate on to which she went off on her and said if I want to walk outside naked it's my right and no one should be looking at me and objectifying my body. Ad she proceeded to take off her shirt and walk out the house to prove a point. Her parents at this point just want her out shes 18 and can go live in everyone gets a trophy land at 1842 everything is equal lane. Rant over sorry so long.

    I'd be happy to chip in $5 for her ticket to the preferred socialist paradise of her choice.

    I here that Venezuela is nice this time of year...

  • Blue States' crusade against gas engines

    I'm fascinated by the electric car concept. The idea of a car I can plug in (particularly into an off-line solar setup), commute in, and never change the oil strikes me as a good thing.


    And yet, the way Tesla & others bully their "owners" by making their cars inoperable or unchargable if the owner refuses to submit to updates or data collection (that's surveillance, folks!) convinces me I'll probably never own one of these. Just this summer, California asked people to unplug their electric vehicles during peak demand. Just as they asked us to put in regulators on our home AC units so they could cut off your air conditioning by satellite command when they felt like it. The step from requesting voluntary compliance to mandatory submission with fines & jail time for non-compliance is all too short.


    I also understand, as an engineer, how inadequate our current power grid would be if we were to shift the entire portion of our energy consumption in petroleum fuels into electricity. If we had a robust nuclear power supply, maybe. With our current phobia about coal & nuclear - its a no go. Across the country and around the world, electric cars run on fossil fuels, they're just burned somewhere else.


    That said, I'm all for choice and the free market. If the electric vehicle industry creates a product that is cheaper, more efficient, less expensive to operate, the consumer will switch quickly enough. The switch from literal horsepower to internal combustion occurred within a couple decades. Right now electric vehicles are pretty much uber luxury cars for wealthy people. There are no available electric cars under 40K and the average price tag is closer to 75K, topping out well into Ferrari / Lamborghini price territory!


    The article below heralds states that are mandating an end to gasoline engine vehicles. Not requesting. Not offering incentives on purchase. Not offering special driving privileges (HOV lane access). Not offering tax breaks. They want to eliminate choice and mandate demand because they fundamentally do not believe in the value of the product or trust the consumer to chose products in their own best interest.


    Anyone surprised that the 14 states doing this are states with the deepest Blue governments? The highest taxes? The worst unemployment? The highest crime rates? I sure wasn't.


    You can read the article here: https://insideevs.com/news/516…es-targets-end-ice-sales/

  • Where Did You Take Your Slingshot Today?

    The Captain & I got up & took off about 6:30 am, headed toward Huntsville.

    Lovely morning out AR 74! We stopped at Granny's Kitchen for breakfast.

    The Captain says, what are you talking a picture for? I explained that many folks on the forum take pics when we're out riding with our best girls! 😉

    The Captain objects, "Your not even taking a picture of me!"

    Knowing that she is camera shy, I immediately fix this, and then refuse to delete it! 😁

    The rest of the ride is delightful, down AR 23 (north half of the Pig Trail), then home to Elkins on AR 16. About 65 miles round trip, then home before the day got too hot!

  • Traction Control light stays on

    Mine seems to be temperature dependent. If I'm riding below 30 F, the slightest bump sets off the T/C light - I have to pull over, shut down & restart to clear it.

    Never happens above 40 F or so. Haven't fixed it, just learned to tolerate it. Not sure what state the T/C & stability control nannies are in when the light goes off - but I drive very modestly in low temps because I know that even all-weather rubber loses grip in cold temps.

    I switched from Cooper Zeon RS3-R (summer tire) and mounted Pirelli P-Zero all-weather all round last fall. Happy with the changes.

    Last fall/winter didn't have any cold & clear riding weather, mostly cold & wet and snowy, so little sling time since last October.

  • BigDog’s Delusional Rants

    Quote from Edward Neal

    of course - - - you are correct - - - I am still feeding the troll


    I will try to do better :/


    as a side note, considering how incredibly slow in the comprehension department this particular troll has proven to be I just wanted to make it as clear as possible for him that I actually can not see the replies he seems intent on posting, but you are correct, even in this attempt it just incourages

    Take it from an old teacher, ignorance can easily be faked and slow comprehension can be deliberate - particularly when they know it pushes your buttons.


    The problem with teaching is that your job *requires* you to feed the trolls.

  • Some Funny Comics I recently received in emails

    Quote from Funinthesun

    Somehow I don't think this one was thought out properly





    I had a student who had a tattoo on his forearm . Ornate Old English letters almost 3 inches high.

    Looked amazing, except that his last name was spelled wrong.


    When I asked about it, he admitted he had done it himself (sewing needles & BIC pen ink) and misspelled his own name while quite drunk. 😉