I agree with your post in general and it’s amazing how doing manual labor keeps you focused on the goal and makes all the outside noise, to use the cool kids’ word, irrelevant. A simple, “I fucked up,” goes a long way. Then you just bust the guy’s balls the rest of the day which he understands is a way of showing no hard feelings.
You also take the approach of fix it before you look to place blame and even that is about teaching someone how to not do it again.
There is something Orwellian about your posting. I see you learned something from Goebbels.
Save the drama for your mama
@Njord but the problem with Outlaws are the trouble these guys bring, may not be all members but there are bad apples.
I personally am not into the club/gang type thing, especially a club that seems to want its members to devote to the club/colors first.
BUT, I assume the original HA MC way back in the 1960s had to really stick together and have some type of power because back in those days the small town sheriffs were scum criminals and usually in the Klan so riding through towns was a very dangerous thing…………
Motor cycle culture is well excepted these days, in fact my favorite time to travel to the beach is bike week, safest time to go, no riff raff, but also not a big Outlaw presence at all.
Here’s a good film adaptation of how zecarlo’s keyboard rhetoric would be responded to in a Lewiston powerlifting gym.
Not by you. And you know this is true.
But I admire the tenacity of your deflection. I ask for proof and you do everything you can to avoid providing it.
Yeah. Especially with tree work where things happen so fast, and can cause irrevocable harm. If your head isn’t in the right place and you aren’t on your toes, yours and others lives can be changed or ended in the blink of an eye. No number of my bads or quantity of sorrow is going to put Humpty together again.
I highly recommend this book, written by the man in my avatar, if you are interested in learning about the Hells Angels in the 1960’s.
You and I have butted heads at times, but at least you lift, bro. Respect.
Out of any suspected criminals operating in Maine, the HA and their local affiliate are pretty low on my priority list. Whatever those guys are doing, it isn’t gunning people down in front of children getting off the bus.
The Hells Angels definitely aren’t subverting the very concept of citizenship by importing as many state dependents as possible and empowering them to vote in Maine elections, where US citizenship is still technically required to participate.
They need to work a lot harder for their money than simply gaming the political process to enable vast amounts of grifting.
So, this is just ignored?
Of course. I’m apparently a woke socialist and sjw. You don’t want something as silly as evidence to stand in the way of a dementia fueled narrative.
I don’t have a dog in the fight but I’ve never had trouble from OMGs, including 1% specifically. Whatever they’re up to territorially generally stays between them. They don’t care about some unaffiliated guy who isn’t worth legal trouble and scrutiny. Just don’t be a dumbass, they’ll check you. And don’t poke around in things that aren’t your business. But that’s not abnormal for the motorcycle world in general, as I’m sure you know. Still a very machismo place. Club or not.
The clubs are extensions of racing teams. Not unlike bowling clubs or whatever else, just more horsepower. This is where patches come from. They were racing team logos, team titles, events participated in/won et cetera.
This morphed in to teammates/friends riding around together. Post ww2, veterans came back and brought a bit of an adrenaline junkie edge with them. Keep in mind there was zero understanding of ptsd and whatever else back then, so they came back rough. They fit in with what amounted to a counter culture and brought more of a militant structure given history. Patches changed to seargent at arms and whatever else, and structure was rolled in. Not all clubs, but for some who embraced it. They still generally played nice though.
Then Vietnam brought veterans back even more disenfranchised and addicted to drugs, especially amphetamines. This ushered in the biker stereotype people held. It was also the era that kicked off 1% clubs. They broke away from American Motorcyclist Association rules of conduct, hence the name “outlaw” which is a misnomer, and a few took things further. They self-identified as the 1%, which still holds today. And you still have essentially 3 “levels” of clubs today. AMA, family friendly affiliated groups who typically denote with an RC vs an MC, “outlaw” clubs who like playing a little rough, dont fit AMA culture, and do follow a hang around/prospecting/3 patch protocol that is generally respected by all clubs - including 1%, then 1%, and these are the guys you’re mentioning and others like them. So it really had nothing to do with need. Racing teams to military vets maintaining the structure they knew with other roughneck types.
I don’t know if I would call joy riding for fun motorcycle culture, it’s more of an activity. It’s where I fit in too. Culture would be the clubs, and the encapsulated history of things. But I suppose that’s neither here nor there.
I’m surprised they’re giving you problems, unless your approach in real life is opposition-ally confrontational just for the sake of it. Probably the wrong crowd for that. Still old school enough to call you out, but nothing out of the ordinary pre GenZ really.
Just because the huge money outfits are not in office - does not mean they are not controlling things.
If this concerns you, I have some massive news for you lol.
This I agree with.
“We’re going back to plastic,” says President Trump as he makes history yet again with another executive order.
I haven’t ordered a cocktail in quite a while, but it is hard to describe how disappointed I was when my neighborhood hipster bartender whipped me up a top shelf mixed drink and served it with a rapidly-dissolving cardboard straw.
One of the things I am eagerly awaiting information on is all of the green new deal scams. There’s a lot of them in Maine with wind and solar, which explains our already high and rising cost of energy here. It is a local/state issue I haven’t spent much time diving into, but reeks of the same corruption that is evident everywhere else you look.
#MAGA
I do not disagree, but now he is directly participating.
Musk is not setting any policies. I think he’s being accurate with what he calls himself now. “White House Tech Support”
I see Musk’s role as somewhat similar to Business Systems Analyst roles I had, just on a MUCH bigger scale. It necessitates a great deal of trust and all publicly-traded companies in the USA have what are called “compensating controls” to ensure that fraud can’t be perpetrated though software manipulation.
I had complete read-access to every table in a multi-billion dollar organization’s SAP environment, including the books, sensitive HR data, engineering prints, manufacturing instructions and everything else about the business recorded in that system, including tables that log all changes to the database. I couldn’t touch a thing in the live production environment, except changing the configuration of the software and/or modifying the code, which has it’s own well-controlled process.
I also had to sign an NDA that would impose some pretty stiff penalties if I ever was caught violating the trust placed in me.
A non-publicly traded company of about $50M per year where I held the same role in gave me complete access, including back-end access to modify records through SQL, bypassing the ERP software’s change log.
I could have easily created difficult-to-detect vendor records, purchasing records and goods movements that were entirely fictional, as I had complete access when every other employee had a very limited set of both read and write access.
The only thing I couldn’t have done on my own is physically sign the fraudulent checks during the weekly check run. As long as all of the fake transactions were the kind of thing that gets instantly approved and paid with no scrutiny, the chances of getting caught at that business would have been quite low.
I’m not a crook, so I didn’t do any of that. Everything I can observe indicates to me that Musk has people FAR more capable than me using tools and methods FAR more sophisticated than mine.
I’m not a fancy drink drinker. I do like the reusable stainless straws I’ve seen but never used though.
It’s another one of those perspective things I guess. People were upset over plastic straws. That one baffles me. In my quest for inner peace, that has simply never come up. I’m looking inward, trying to understand why my demons are so fucking angry and want to destroy everything, and you know what?
Not one mention, ever, of plastic straws. There’s violence at the hands of people I was supposed to trust, feelings of powerlessness and ineptitude, memories of things that are beyond description.
Not a single thing about plastic straws. Like, if you handed one of my inner demons a drink with a cardboard straw, he’d knock that sucker back and trach the dimwit that thought he was saving the planet with it.
I just realy don’t understand the lives and day to day concerns of people who think about those kinds of things. 
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They only cross my mind when I take a drink with one, then the texture can be absolutely infuriating. Especially if I’m not expecting it. Like, deport all the trees infuriating.
Oh no, I can tell from a mile away that paper straws are idiotic.
I mean people who come up with zingers like “We need to get rid of plastic straws”.
Thats my- wtf? .
The plastic straw ban in Maine was clearly an easy way for Maine Dems to get some woke performance politics accomplished. Someone somewhere was probably making money from it somehow.
I think it is already out of effect or has a ton of exemptions, as I recall a plastic straw at Longhorn Steakhouse last week.
Cue Raph Wiggum “I’m helping” meme.
It’s difficult to say you care about plastic waste in the environment when we are simultaneously taxed to put hundreds of thousands of syringes into the hands of Lewiston’s addicts.
It is supposed to be a 1:1 exchange but it isn’t, not even close. They just end up all over the place. My buddies son picked one up and my buddy ended up getting stuck trying to get it out of his kids hand. A few grand in cautionary medical bills later and he’s fine.
I can think of two other people I know who’ve been stuck.
We had a 40 year flood event a couple years ago and the needle waste downstream is still a problem and probably will be getting found for years to come.
Only when Negative Nancies demand you qualify that statement and back it with effective action.
I just say the following things(but add “Care about plastic waste”):
…of course, I show my concern by wearing the same cloth face mask I’ve been wearing since I found out Covid-19 was a cause about which I could virtue signal back in 2020.
#dontgiveupthefight
#dontstopbelieving
#neverforgetthedreadvirus
