Nice! I had one of those ubiquitous Japanese sport tourers back in the 80s and did almost everything on it. I regret selling it.

Keep an eye on the bottom bracket. When I did track racing back in the 80s, it seemed like it was usually a Benotto that started a kilo with a loud crack when the BB shell broke away from the seat tube, forcing the rider to have to find another bike in a hurry. Maybe that was just their track bikes, but it tended to put people off Benotto bikes in general.

Oh, he was involved with the Russians long before that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book

I for one am thankful that the creator of Spiderman did not make him too spider-like.

Some spiders still don’t spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

On a similar note, when the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021, Facebook was full of people loudly proclaiming that there was no RNA in their bodies and never would be, because they weren’t gonna be “jabbed”.

It’s never crawled out of the fridge and come to wake you up for feeding at 5:00 a.m.?

So I no longer have to hire a sourdough sitter and give them a house key?

Is this dishware made of bone china?

Oh no, our Prime Minister can’t join their sooper sekret club! No girls allowed either! It’s their treehouse and you can’t come in. /s

I don’t think electricity stops working in the cold.

A trebuchet, but made with modern materials.

“Now with extra cancer!”

The “good businessman” part is especially baffling.

I used to do track racing years ago. You always knew who was about to buy a new track frame by the loud cracking noise their bottom bracket shell made as it broke away from the seat tube when they started a kilo (1000m time trial). It was always some sprinter with enormous quadriceps muscles.

That white one looks like a cone coffee filter.

Ideally you want to be out in a rural area, far from city lights.

Same in Saskatoon. We seem to miss all the good night sky experiences.

My best aurora experience took place in August, oddly enough. It was a warm night, so I went out on the deck and laid on the chaise lounge, my big cat of the time flopped out on my chest. The moon was about 3/4 full and for some reason a small prop plane was circling overhead (there’s a flight school out at the airport, probably it was from there). Then I saw the ghostly curtain of an aurora to the north. Very poetic experience.

A lot of die hard right wingers view life as a zero sum game. It’s why they want to dismantle universal health care.