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I'm sorry to hear about the tachycardia, I imagine it could be disturbing. It brought to mind what you mentioned about way we return to interstellar dust (long ago). But older I get more I doubt the redemptive value of anything (am caring for mother in law who's dying from motor neuron disease)...

That is very true, but once one has driven an ev its difficult to go back to stirring a gearbox to keep an antideluvian airpump happy

It is a compromise too far (say it having wormed chiropractically in and out of a Berkeley b65 lots to become an organic crumple zone). But worming into small spaces keeps one supple. And lack of crash safety alert. And sitting in aesthetic boogers like a kona or mg in a traffic jam a compelling...

Yes, same here, somehow something minimalist, quirky (but with more protection than an Ami) appeals more than a three tonne pimpmobile edit - there's the silence s04 (10kwh, 52mph,airconditioning), but it's £16k, which makes a used mg or kona look good value...

speaking of getting things right (this is the nothings off topic thread), does anyone know more about the new ami plus? Cant find anything online (and am carless) https://www.electrive.com/2023/07/27/citroen-to-upgrade-the-ami-small-bev/

Yes I was sufficiently stupid to drive a vintage tr2 when young (doors opened round corners from chassis bend). If I were in that medical students would be quizing a pathologist about what's left of my entrails at this point. The thing that really irks me in my fifties is a change of posture I...

Many thanks, it's curious, my generation didn't really believe in ptsd, but one experience hypervigilance, anxiety after an mva. Sadly it was a good Kona 64kwh I traded tesla on (before impact I thought I really don't trust Korean side impact protection, but it worked). Now waiting for copart to...

Apologies for delay (had MVA, bloke chatting to wife on phone t- boned, totalled my car at speed). Funny how dose of ptsd put things in perspective, happy not to be injured, less worried about weight). Retirement may well trigger weight loss (much of my eating neurotic, work stress related, look...

I've kind of accepted the weight, it would take all the angst of adolescence to lose the extra 10kg gained since (won't happen). Were here for a short time, which makes the good bit challenging. I would try an elliptical machine in a gym (now that everyone infected with everything), zero impact...

Yes, would give anything for Reynolds knocking out a copy in cromoly (have weakness for reynolds tubing). The autoclave made me think about Henry bickerton shoving bickerton classics into a domestic oven (would doing that to a welded frame help? What could possibly go wrong?). The birdy sits on...

Anything to stop us thinking about sewage discharge, tax creep, nett immigration before an election..

A few hundred squid. Apparently the main thing with birdy mk1's is cracks (around seat base and rear swing arms) which cannot be repaired (because 7005 alu is tempered and loose this with welding). I've never been on a birdy before and immediately noticed three major advantages over a brompton...

It's what sociologists call anomie I think, the all consuming desire to make more than the neighbours, earn as much as Elon or one can't possibly be happy at all (as finding any meaning become difficult). Picked up a very cheap birdy mk1 folder yesterday with a Brooks 17 and rerealised it's zen...

Mears group won't like that https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/news/2023/04/28/mears-posts-record-results-amid-asylum-criticism/ nor will the cons and neocons, blaming the **** state were in on immigrants is an election winner

4090s are 1kw space heaters, wtf happened to frugal 1070s, nvidia caring about climate?

Well no, I am (as the gladiator in asterix said as he wheeled himself around on a trolley) in reduced circumstance, quite poor. But it doesn't stop the wanting things.

Size is the snag, walked into curry's and saw 85 inch 8k (with images of smaller sizes inside, makes 65 inch look tiny). Anyway, wanted it, badly. Perhaps it's like gaming about distracting from escaping reality. Which may not be healthy, but defo good on a typical rainy English evening.

Conversely, out of the eu, were about to have another unelected pm courtesy of some lobbying https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/penny-mordaunt-replace-sunak-tory-leadership-b2513677.html

Misogynists are modernists https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/past-catches-postmodernism "Seth is walking around Brooklyn one day, recording street sounds for his audio library, when he inadvertently records a busker performing a blues song. Seth can’t remember hearing the song, but there it is...

Same here tbh, if one were younger it would be a red pill moment. But matrix is bs and everything's ****, so on balance probably best not to own the disturbance too much, to stay in denial (just not of what sukak or maggie's up to)