That's not an apt comparison, since bikes don't have an auto shifter. They don't even have a dry clutch like cars do - they have a wet clutch, which enables you to do things like ease or slam in and out of a gear while accelerating or deaccelerating, which is like 50% of the riding experience: it allows for launch, wheelies, better corner control, wheel-on-pavement control, and so on, depending on what you're trying to do.

Same reason why driving a shitbox honda civic with a manual is many times more fun than driving a newer vehicle with more HP and better handling, which is a smooth auto. It actually takes skill to do well, and that makes it fun.

And, to play devil's advocate, most cars nowadays also have the ability to pick a specific auto-clutched gear with the auto gearbox: you can go from first, to 2nd, or if you want, accelerate into 2nd from third and back to third for a bit of a launch. Not only is this more fun, it's extremely useful for controlling the vehicle on winding hill grades and bad weather driving: you use the gear ratio and the rolling resistance (while improving fuel economy) instead of the brakes on the downside of the hill - similar energetic effect as "reactive charging brakes", but less likely to send you to the ditch on an icy road.

Now if it could help me find the flash drive with $125 in 2012 bitcoin that sat on my truck's dashboard for a couple years before I lost it, that'd be great.

I said some kind words about Anthropic when they refused to do targeting foreign and domestic.

In retrospect that was myopic praise.

I resd a story about someone with Bitcoin keys on a laptop which they lost access to.

It was put on a shelf waiting for an exploit like this.

It will probably sell well to those who don't know better.

blacklist: esp4 esp6 rxrpc

If you already did it for dirtyfrag you're good.

I'm fairly certain it's highly related to our health and diet. Anecdotally, I've noticed a huge difference both with myself and others.

I've made a number of observations on this, personally, and over the years have figured out some things that help them avoid me (or prefer others):

* High vitamin D. You're either getting this from sunlight secondarily or foods (eggs, fish, etc.)
* Garlic. Lots of garlic. This one's the biggest, and for me one of the easiest to address since it tastes good with food.
* No perfumes or scented deodorants. They love that shit. Avoid it like the plague.
* Generally low-carb diet (no crap starches).
* Sulfur. This one surprised me, but it's something we naturally need and don't usually get enough of in our diets. I found it out on a lark during a particularly buggy camping trip when a woman I was with (who wasn't being bothered as much, contrary to my experience that women are bothered more often) swore by it.

My wife also noticed a marked decrease in skeeter interest in her when she stopped being vegan.

Also anecdotally and related, because i know this comes up a lot in outdoor talks lately: ticks. They hate oregano and garlic oil. And neem oil, topically, mixed with lotion. I've had them climb up my sock and then fall off (seemingly intentionally) repeatedly when trying to get onto my skin after a diet heavy in garlic and oregano. It's at least as effective as DEET and sticks around longer.

Sweat also seems to attract them, perhaps due to it causing the odors to be more airborne.

The trouble with Transhumanists is that they all imagine there will eventually be only one human per company with an army of AI's to do the work.

But they all think they'll be that one person.

Also, they're insane.

Boogergooks.

They've never met 7th Grade boys, have they?