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Yeah my original comment here was a lot more breathy than it should have been. I'm not critical of the article it's definitely uplifting and accurate. But I think new battery tech on the grid would see usefulness even if renewables weren't inconsistent, but that's a whole different topic I suppose.

The funny thing about bikes is they're all so fun. I put over 300 highway miles on my klx300 over this past weekend and that hardened my nerves way more than the capabilities of my z900 did!

The great thing about higher performance bikes is that, while they can certainly go way faster than we should ever ask them to, they can also maneuver way better than we should ever ask them to.

They all bring me so much joy in so many different ways. I absolutely appreciate my sport bike like an engineering marvel (I'm pretty simple), and getting slightly naughty on it when no one is around is definitely thrilling, but honestly the bike rides so nice that even low speeds feels so good, and high speeds don't actually feel so high. The little bike is kind of the opposite in a way that's also fun anyway. It feels naughty even when it's not haha.

Anyway I hope you're staying safe out there. It's the best way to have fun for longer!

What a wimp

I still think of myself as a beginner but I am obsessed with doing everything I can to be as safe as possible, thankfully I also think learning safety is fun!

In October 2022 I bought a 2001 Kawasaki w650, that was my first bike since I briefly tinkered with dirt bikes about 10 years prior. I sold that this spring.

That same year in November I picked up an 82 Kawasaki ke100 and a 2004 KLR650.

This spring I picked up a 2019 Kawasaki z900rs and a 2017 KTM 125 SX.

A few weeks ago I picked up a KLX300, which is the first new thing I ever purchased, and I just finished putting the 650-ish break-in miles on it yesterday, so I'm really excited to take that on the trails now.

I think what I'm finding is riding very different bikes in different ways teaches you all kinds of different skills that are transferrable to all of them in subtle ways.

What are you riding on now?

I guess my point is that I don't think batteries necessarily compete with natural gas, but they do help make renewables slightly more competitive with natural gas.

Batteries and gas aren't really comparable so I'm guessing this means batteries are expanded at a rate 10x higher than natural gas is being expanded, which makes sense because natural gas is such a mature staple that it doesn't have that much opportunity growth.

Batteries are also not an energy source, but storage.

(Yeah I guess that's technically true of all energy sources, but batteries are more like a tank than a consumable...)

Of course adding batteries to store energy from off peak renewables to ready them for the peak is the point of this, but I would point out I don't think anything prevents charging batteries from fossil-fuel generated electricity. I wouldn't be surprised if an economic equilibrium dictates this to be the case, even.

I think batteries will be highly valued equipment as a smoothing function to help reduce heavy load wear on any kind of generating equipment to help with peak loads, regardless of what's charging them... possibly allowing fossil burning plants to run closer to a base load level at all times.

To be clear, I am happy to see a pedo contained and isolated from society.

At the same time, this direction of law is something that I don't feel I have the sophistication to truly weigh in on, even though it invokes so many thoughts for me.

I hope we as a society get this one right.

Off topic: How do you prefer to pronounce sauna?

After selling one and borrowing a dirt bike for my kid, 6 are in my possession, but the one I'm borrowing is grown out of now.

I have an 82 Kawasaki that needs minor engine work, and to get sold, a newer retro sport bike and an older klr650.

I'm thinking next year I'll sell the sport bike and klr and consolidate on a larger adventure bike, taking my fleet down to 3.

One mx bike, one klx300 that is capable on dirt and road, and one sportier adventure bike. That way my kid and I can ride trails anywhere and I can do some nice trips too. We can kinda trade off depending on how we feel like riding.

Everything is temporary

Six motorcycles in 2 years

I'm pretty sure they undeleted mine and my whole account

I think this extends to "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".

Mentally, maybe, if you're the right crop for the circumstance. But, generally, no. It's such an off target idea.

When a cop is completely out of line, no colleagues step in and government prosecutors do nothing, that system is implicated.

When a cop does intervene and are harassed and fired for it, that system is implicated.

"it's time to drain the lizard"

I don't understand this experience. I've been using Linux for 20+ years and I don't have this problem.

Maybe I'm just a really boring user.

Edit, on further thought, I know I am a boring user, so ignore this I guess.

Further/Farther... Just because everyone I know knows the difference, but still mixes it up (myself included) and having it pointed out is like a fun game. Maybe not if someone is really laying out their feelings though, then that's tacky.

There's always been a sort of background radiation of this. Decades ago Rush Limbaugh was prolific in inspiring a weird new direction of fashy talk radio shows and Fox capitalized on it like no other. Trump didn't do it, he just rode the surf.

Sshhh don't tell them about helmets