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And in my 30 years of mountain biking, I've had the opposite experience!

Okay, so first ... thank you from the bottom of my heart for correctly calling it Daylight SAVING Time, not savingS time!  It's not a fxxxing bank account!

I may be in the minority, but I actually like the DST system.  The worst thing, imo, is having to endure the endless bitching and moaning about DST twice/year.  All this silliness about "increased accidents" and so on are just a diversion that appeals to people that are so resistant to change that they can't handle an hour of time change.  People fly across time zones every single day and adjust to 1, 2, 3 and more hours of time change and nobody whinges about that!

Rant over, the sun is coming out for what's shaping up to be a gorgeous Monday, can't wait to finish off my work cause Imma hit some trails this afternoon!

That's gorgeous! I have a pic from when we rode that trail, but much later in the season so no wildflowers in bloom.

Kn.

Did he crash or was he ordered to do pushups for being a "bad boy"?

:scream:

Nice helmet.

For a real challenge, ride the line between the two wood ramps.

Kn.

> Gerbil Cage! I saw them pulling a British guy out of this stunt on a stretcher.

Not the gerbil cage. This pic is the Zipper.

Kn.

Merge from Dollarton onto the bridge southbound is so dangerous, I'm surprised there aren't more accidents. That super short merge zone and poor angle fails all current highway design codes.

Posted by: niels@nsmb.com

I find it's mostly avoidable if you design your life so that you don't have to depend on a car and if you do want to drive, can avoid when & where everyone else is going.

Uh yah ... that's just the easiest thing to do, because nobody has circumstances that make such changes virtually impossible.

Pretty easy to learn this stuff, since it is a provincial government project.

General project info --> https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/highway-1-lower-lynn-improvements

Project schedule --> https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation-projects/highway-1-lower-lynn-improvements/project-overview

Synopsis: Project is on schedule for completion before end of this year. Generally, the project design is based on traffic surveys, which showed that much of the traffic congestion was caused by traffic travelling within North Van, but having to use the highway. The overarching concept is to allow free movement within N Van without using the highway. There are other sub-projects that spun off of this.

Posted by: tungsten

Posted by: KenN

Posted by: tungsten

Any industrial installation, including solar and wind farms, profoundly disrupts the landscape on which it sits. If it were possible to fully satisfy the bloated energy appetites of affluent nation by covering hundreds of millions or billions of acres of the Earth’s surface with power-harvesting hardware, the result would be irreparable ecological damage.

Meanwhile, the manufacturing booms to supply such a sprawling proliferation of solar arrays, wind power plants, battery-backed electric grids, electric-vehicle fleets, and other hardware would require outrageously large inputs of metals such as lithium, cobalt, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, iron, and a host of exotic rare earth elements.

It would take 74 million acres of solar only to supply 100% of the earth's power needs. Nope not "billions" nor "hundreds of millions". 

https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/

Author is full of shit.

Still, that would a tragedy unless the majority of those panels were placed on privately and publicly owned sturctures to minimize the impact on the environment. 

And the cost. Moving to green must be done in a way that breaks up the big power companies.

How much space is available on existing roofs that could be used for solar? Even better than solar farms, because the generation would be at point of use - zero/minimal transmission losses.

Posted by: tungsten

Any industrial installation, including solar and wind farms, profoundly disrupts the landscape on which it sits. If it were possible to fully satisfy the bloated energy appetites of affluent nation by covering hundreds of millions or billions of acres of the Earth’s surface with power-harvesting hardware, the result would be irreparable ecological damage.

Meanwhile, the manufacturing booms to supply such a sprawling proliferation of solar arrays, wind power plants, battery-backed electric grids, electric-vehicle fleets, and other hardware would require outrageously large inputs of metals such as lithium, cobalt, silver, copper, aluminum, nickel, iron, and a host of exotic rare earth elements.

It would take 74 million acres of solar only to supply 100% of the earth's power needs. Nope not "billions" nor "hundreds of millions". 

https://www.axionpower.com/knowledge/power-world-with-solar/

Author is full of shit.

Look at the photos of any of those big "anti-mask, anti-vax" protests. I mean, look closely. Do you see any of those attending who appear to be a member of the "marginalized social groups whose trust in government has been eroded"?

Nope, they're all white as fuck, entitled as fuck, and stupid as fuck, and I'm at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to any amount of patience with their stupid asses.

That there is a big-ass graph!!

(thus, clearly important)

Posted by: bux-bux

FB , Insta both down. Influencers must be having a hissy fit. Hopefully it's for a while, world needs a break.

Twitter traffic has sure picked up today!!

"Being understanding" hasn't worked thus far, soooooo ....