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Beautiful fall weather here in NE Ohio this weekend...lots of color. Took a drive out in nearby Geauga County--lots of rolling hills, lakes, rivers..beautiful part of the state. Saw a brown Ferrari F488 Pisa spyder, a bright blue Lotus Emira, and a bright blue C8 Corvette convertible on the same hilly stretch of road, out enjoying the fall sun. Also saw a ghastly Pepto-Bismol Pink Cybertruck. A couple pics of the lake at Punderson State Park and a pic of my back yard.

Socrates and Plato said something similar about democracy and voting and allowing uneducated and untrained people to decide what is for the good of the polisfor everybody. Also, one of the two mentioned how easy it is for corrupt politicians to fool and to manipulate the dumb populace on what the corrupt politicians would want to influence. Also both mentioned that perverse democracy leads to tyranny. And to know what really is mind blowing is that what is happening in the US and Canada right now and for the past 40 years with its stupid populace voting and especially voting for blatant corrupt leaders that dont even hide their agendas is that this very thing happened in Athens 2500 years ago and Socrates not only called it but he witnessed it with his own death... Plato preached the faults of democracy and despised idiots voting. Democracy is not a bad thing per se, its a very good thing. But its severely flawed when the general populace is dumb as phoque and dont realize how they get played by the ruling class they keep on voting in. In North America is quite evident that EVERYBODY including us...yes us right here posting right now, are just stupid pawns. At least in France, Greece, Spain, Italy and maybe a couple of other European countries, the populace riots when their governments get out of hand. Us here in North America, we wait in line like a bunch of jack asses for thext iPhone, or we cause a ruckus when Taylor Swift tickets are too expensive for us to attend her concerts or we cant get FM radio on our Teslas (yeah a while back there was a slight backlash) or when GM decides that they dont want to offer Apple car play in their cars etc... We listen to Youtubers and podcasters that make money on the monetized internet for clicks but we crucify legit scientists. We are blinded by and worship corrupt politicians but we question the legit ones. We idolize monetized Joe Rogans and Alex Jones and basterds like that... And for the last 40 phoquing years North America has been on the decline.

Interesting old video.

This is a cool Video. The PRR T1 is one of Drews favorite locomotives, and at the 7:50 mark one is being used in freight rather than passenger use. Not a car, but cool...

Good morning ... ... happy birthday, Kamala Harris

We allow snake oilsalesmen and dirty CEOs to become billionnaires and we are against helping our societies grow... We believe in these snake oilsalesmen's shytty dreams and we make them demigods. All tech related products like Apple products or Paypal or Amazon is great, but all these billionnaires OWN us. We worship them but we allow them to control us even further... Bezos, Musk, Steve Jobs and others... All these folks are a detriment to our FREEDOMS alongside shytty politicians... But this is what we ultimately wanted... We made our beds. We shall now sleep in them...

interesting model railroad video, neat model railroad. Bit of history.

Good morning ... ... my morning pretty much IRL and, no, not SF, but about halfway around the world from there.

side quest success! I got this top case from a guy in Philly for $200. Similar online run $399 plus shipping. The downside was that I had to drive out and get it. This one has a padded back rest for Albert to feel more comfortable. I recoded the lock core to match the other bags and the ignition, so now one key opens it all. I have new key blanks coming so I can have a spare, but I’m going to have to find an oldschool locksmith who can cut it because they are odd shaped keys. The local bmw dealer is way too new and won’t have key equipment for a 25 year old bike.

Saw a 1995 Buick Road Master Special Edition Station Wagon with fake wood siding and all the trimmings, seen better days, driven by a boomer and even had the crazy bumper sticker of "Trump is My President" ?