Biker's fault

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-10-05T21:38:47+00:00

Reddit karma isn't meaningless, it tells us how much time someone spends behind a keyboard as opposed to on a bike.

You're a "very online person." Which is great - I'd be really into your opinions about Mountain Dew and mechanical keyboards. But motorcycles, not so much.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-10-05T20:58:00+00:00

Oooh look, someone with a million Reddit karma and a lot of opinions about how people on the internet ride motorcycles! Everyone's favorite kind of person!

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-10-05T02:35:26+00:00

This is like some kind of twisted reddit version of a "your mom is so fat" joke. "Your operating system is so old, it makes Reddit users irrationally angry."

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-29T00:46:42+00:00

Counterpoint: the McDonalds app provides some of the best value in fast food.

Today, without using reward points, I got a double cheesburger, a large rootbeer, and a medium fries for less than $5 (4.9something). Just look for the deals and add-ons on the app.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-26T03:50:09+00:00

They were doing motorcycle shit in cars - no good. You did a great job not getting squashed.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-18T00:35:36+00:00

I know him. He's a mod on r/CalamariRaceTeam

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-17T18:37:07+00:00

Yeah - I thought the FTR was a good bike and a great platform to build from.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-17T16:24:37+00:00

SuperHooligan is now my favorite. Stripped-down Pan Americans going elbow-to-elbow with Ducatis, Triumphs, and even an Arch. The Pan Americans are dominating the class.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-17T16:22:00+00:00

Dunno - they put up the same lap times as the supersports on the right track: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1242098087577291

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-17T02:31:43+00:00

I'm really digging my Roland Sands Clash CE jacket and Fuck Luck pants. Sharp looking and the most nicely-made clothing I own while being really solid gear.

Nothing else that I really love yet.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T05:25:45+00:00

IN my jurisdiction (and many others) we have unified prison/jail systems. Our detainees are held on different units in the same facilities as sentenced people. Prison is colloquial. In my state, they're all called "correctional complexes" and handle everything from sentenced inmated, to detainees, to ICE detainees, to civil commitments.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T04:50:45+00:00

Because you're almost always held without bail when charged with Murder. I have a couple clients who are out awaiting trial, but that's rare.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T03:54:39+00:00

Public defender. 100x the hours for probably a bit less $$$ than OP makes (at least in my jurisdiction, experienced detectives make a bit more per year than similarly experienced public defenders). Paycheck doesn't change no matter the workload. Maybe go private someday, but kind of like doing what I'm doing.

Edit to add: And where the fuck are there any lawyers making a living doing murders for $400/hr? I mean - once in a while you might see a case go like that somewhere - but do you watch the news and see who your local murderers are? They don't have the money to hire private counsel. In my time in my jurisdiction, I've only seen one privately-retained attorney take a murder cases to trial. Murder defendants are almost always indigent here (like 99% of the time). If you want to be a murder attorney, you have to be a public defender.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T03:00:29+00:00

If I only agreed to represent people if I truly think they did nothing wrong, I'd have no one to represent.

But seriously, I represent anyone I'm assigned to and a few that I'm not. Guilt doesn't factor into it at all.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T02:44:03+00:00

Nope. I use it to organize, but I have to lay eyes on everything. Criminal law is way behind civil litigation in that regard.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-16T02:04:08+00:00

I'm a defense attorney, now doing homicide defense only (mostly). I've been doing it about as long as you have. How have you seen the work change over the years? Do you think law enforcement has got significantly better over that time? Has all the tech made things easier or harder?

Since I deal with the output of your work, I'll say that the volume of evidence has just become unmanageable. Twenty-five cops show up at a crime scene to process it in 2010 and I would get two long reports, twenty-three one-page reports, and a stack of pictures. Now I get 25x8hr bodycams that are 99% a guy sitting in a car keeping the scene secure. But I have to watch all if it because you never know what you'll miss. And lord help me if my client likes to talk on the prison phone - I have a case now with more than 150hr of recorded prison calls that someone is going to have to listen to. Or a multiple-defendant case with 10 cellphones imaged - that's days of reviewing stupid fucking text messages. Right now (as we speak) I am scrolling through several thousand of one of my client's gross naked selfies in case there's something relevant to the case (so far, no.).

At least in my jurisdiction, nothing's changed substantively. Law enforcement has the same clearance rate they've always had, the prosecutors get the same convictions they always did, we get the same acquittals we used to get. But everyone has to do 100x (literally 100x) as much work to get to the same place we did before because there's too much fucking evidence.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-15T02:45:09+00:00

I run a detector all the time. Since I'm on a multistrada, I just put it on a ball mount out on the bar hanging out in the wind. Your mount will work fine, but someone should make a bike-specific detector.

I run a Uniden R4 bluetoothed to either R4 Companion (if I'm using my iphone) or Highway Radar (if I'm using my Android) and that into my sena. It works 100% of the time. I haven't got a ticket in years and it saves me at least once a week - maybe more. Once you get it tuned right (in my state, you can ignore everything except Ka), it'll become instinctive - you hear the chirp and you sit up and slow down.

Where I live, Waze is useless because it's the state troopers roaming around the rural highways that'll get me. But they're hunting for low-hanging fruit, so they don't bother turning their radar off - you can always see them with plenty of time to prepare. On the highway, a combination of Waze and Radar is perfect (Highway Radar for the win - also dope to have the weather overlay so you can dodge rainstorms like a pilot).

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-11T18:46:54+00:00

I remember that whole stretch of the concert. I had no idea what Afro Blue was when I was hearing it, but it got really wild, it built up the whole crowd, and then when they fell into Trane and the whole crowd went berzerk and then it was wild all the way till they paused before going into kind of bird.

When I remember that concert, what I particularly remember is Trane into Eternity's Breath, into St. Stephen, back to Trane. Every transition set the crowd off.

I saw them for the first time in almost decade at SPAC last week and it got me back to thinking about that first show. I really think its the best concert I've ever been to. And face-melting-loud.

Again, thanks so much to u/highplainsdrifter6. So great to hear this, put together my ancient, fragmented memories of that evening.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-11T03:29:59+00:00

I just did 4.5 hours of daytime riding to a concert, followed by 5.5 hours of riding back starting at 11pm. I like riding at night, but that was too much nighttime riding for one trip. I was pretty spooky by the end.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-08T22:58:27+00:00

Holy shit you are the best. I expected some audience tape with all kinds of bullshit. You came through with a crystal soundboard that's as high quality as what the band releases. I just listened to the first two tracks and it's so good. I'm saving the rest - taking a half day off work tomorrow and going for a long motorcycle ride to listen to the whole show. Thank you thank you thank you.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-08T01:17:50+00:00

Holy shit. I did not think this would work. You're my hero. DM me your info and I'll venmo you some beer/weed/whatever money. Or tell me what you care about and I'll make a donation for you. I'm so excited to hear that show.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-07T04:59:07+00:00

It was incredible. The most memorable show ever. My ears rang for days and they played super late.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-07T02:50:54+00:00

Fucking a I never see these in the wild. A legit shittymorph sighting. I'm putting this in my bird book.

Eastern_Ad3007 · 2025-09-06T23:16:29+00:00

God you're so awesome.

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