30 … shit 40 years ago when I was a kid … sex education came from kids who were one or two years older than you … hustler magazine and porn videos.

I think I was about 20 before I properly understood what sex was and I had to learn it all on my own.

I am Luigi

Lol … I thought you were asking to nudify the jury

If, according to Frank Zappa, … "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” … then corporate media is the “Propaganda division of the military industrial complex”

This is where the debate constantly diverges to extremes … either have sensible long lasting tires … or high performance racing tires … but nothing moderate in between.

Manufacturers are more than able to produce a reasonable motorcycle tire that would have enough performance and would last far longer. There just isn’t any incentive to do it. It makes them far more money to make tires that don’t last as long and at this point, I think everyone knows that, we are just not able to do anything about it.

Like my 1998 BMW … it’s an ancient machine at this point and it was originally a performance bike when it was new and would have benefited from a high performance tire … but its 26 years old and I really don’t trust it to go fast any more but I love the look of the bike and I enjoy riding it. I maintain and service it myself but there are far too many old parts on it that there will inevitably something that will fail and I really don’t want that to happen at speed. All I need is a good decent tire, not a tire that is meant for the race track for a modern newer bike.

A bit of gasoline on a raging dumpster fire

The whole traction debate only makes sense if you start getting into racing speeds and riding on a fast race track. For the average rider, we’re only riding at normal highway speed (at least we are supposed to) and guys like me like our riding lifestyle enough to never get into crazy speeds because we baby our bikes, we don’t want to create any more variables to put our lives at risk and we’re cheap and don’t want to wear out our tires.

If I knew of a manufacturer that produced a cheap $100 tire that could last four or five season of my light moderate riding … it would be the only tire I would buy. But there are so many manufacturers, types, subtypes, models, years, design, material of tires out there that’s it’s a constant science to try to figure out what is real and what isn’t. I usually don’t have the time to research it all nor do I have the resources that I just end up buying the same Metzeler tires because I don’t want to order the wrong tire and I definitely don’t want to install the wrong tire either.

The contact area compared to the weight ratio is not that different from any other vehicle … a bike weighs less so it has less contact … a car weighs more and so needs more contact with the road … a truck weighs a lot and needs even more contact with the road.

The end result is always the same … the technology is there to make a motorcycle tire last far longer and the same with car tires … the problem is is that there is no financial incentive to make a long lasting tire that would be better for the environment.

I ride motorcycles and tires have always been a major issue with riders because of cost. Bike tires wear out fast even though it’s a lighter vehicle and tends to put on less mileage.

The main culprit that most industry insiders have suggested is that motorcycle tires are purposely designed to not last as long because its so easy to market crappy tires to the vast majority of riders. All you need is have marketing campaign of racers and racing tires and then stamp the name on a tire and sell it to young guys who want to ride as fast as possible … they’ll pay hundreds year after year for tires that only last one season but supposedly give them great performance.

I ride moderately on a 1998 BMW K1200, a fast sport touring bike and I put on moderate mileage every summer … I’m not a long distance rider … yet I have to change my tires just about every year.

Fortnine, a Youtube channel dedicated to motorcycle riding did a great description of this …

https://youtu.be/hEZeR9E3JyY

The giveaway is that you could put a small car tire on a motorcycle and it would last ten times longer … whereas you place a motorcycle tire on a motorcycle tire and it will last for a far shorter time.

Motorcycle tires are designed to not last as long … fast riders can argue that better tires do not last as long and I agree with them … but for moderate riders or just Sunday riders with low mileage, there is no need to have motorcycle tires last for such a short period of time. It’s all meant to sell as many tires as possible for no reason other than to make someone money.

It would probably be easier to instead describe where all the arms are coming from and who makes them.

They were referring to improving access to care for share holders … not the medical care of clients

The longer it takes, the less likely they’ll find him no matter how much money they put up.

Good … wouldn’t want these idiots reproducing anyway

This is the thing I love about all this … billionaires don’t have a nationality and have no allegiance to any nation … in fact, they believe that nations should have allegiance to them.

I have a friend who likes to talk politics all the time and he keeps repeating like a mantra … the Americans did this, the Americans did that, America, America … and I keep correcting him, it’s not Americans, it’s just a bunch of billionaires directing the show to get what they want.

It’s really weird because it’s a well known conspiracy, an open secret, a true lie … it’s not an organized cabal or an evil mastermind … it’s just a bunch of billionaires that want to control everything and everyone so that they can keep making more money. And they really don’t care of they are American, British, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Indian, Brazilian, or whatever … all they care about is money and they get to the point in life and wealth that they have so much money that their nationality no longer matters.

Isn’t this the basis of how all cryptocurrency work?

When you think about it … isn’t this also how all money works?

When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

What the hell is a ‘Chief People Officer’ … I’m Indigenous Canadian and it sounds like a name my community would come up with

Simply put … we won’t … because the Climate Crisis will stop us.

We don’t do anything until we get to the point where we will be forced to act because our collective survival will be directly and immediately threatened.