This was the picture my girlfriend got a few minutes ago of the guy, she said he had straight up broken the mirror off it and was rolling it through the bike lane. This is in the vicinity of W97th and Amsterdam avenue. She tried to file a report with the 24th precinct but they just didnt pick up the phone lmao.
Im in a pretty sticky spot at the moment. I desperately need to somehow force myself to study for two very large very important tests coming up next week. I was diagnosed years ago with ADHD or ADD Combined type or whatever it is called today, and I am currently struggling with both getting myself to sit still and do something I abhore doing, and getting myself to focus on doing it and not something else when I am sitting still.
This is a complicated situation so Im gonna break it down the best I can in semi-bullet points:
These two tests are multi choice with questions pulled, at random, from two different sources of a few hundred questions each. One test is 100 questions, the other is 60 questions, and both these tests source from two distinct pools of questions, both of which are a few hundred questions, so together it totals over a thousand.
I have 3 retakes for each test, all being the day after. These tests unfortunately do stack ontop of each other when doing retakes as they are both next week, and all retakes are to be done in the same week. So if i need to retake test 1, it could also be on the day Im taking test 2 for the first time for example.
I am and have always been unmedicated. Ive been able to skate by in life just fine on sheer intuition with these kinds of things, never really studied anything a day in my life. Suddenly Im 25 and am confronting a situation that none of the tools in my "Get my brain to behave" toolbox can fix.
For reference, I am studying to be an aviation maintenance technician (plane mechanic) so while a good chunk of these questions I can common-sense my way through as Ive been in this program for 2 years, theres plenty here that I just dont know.
This is the kicker, my minimum for passing for these tests is a 90%. I need to be damn near perfect in my answers or im just gonna fail.
Studying for this is pretty simple atleast, we use one app for each test. These apps are on my phone, and contain all questions from both pools of questions for both tests. The only way Ive ever seen people study for these tests is just by sitting there and taking practice tests on the app repeatedly until they can consistently get the desired grade. Ive done this once before successfully as well with the same kind of test on a different topic. But Im sure you can imagine that this form of studying is like teetering on apocolyptic for me as this kind of reptitive monotony and staring at a screen is just about the worst thing you could torture me with.
On previous attempts at this, with no studying, I can squeak out a 50-60%. So Im not starting from scratch, I just need to make up about 40% through studying.
Before you say its flat impossible, Ive done this successfully once before through sheer grit and determination, with actually worse deadlines. But for some reason this time it iust really feels impossible, and a combination of that and the general "inability" to do these kinds of things is trying to convince to give up and just go again next semester, but jesus going next semester for this would be pretty disastrous.
Im in desperate need of tools, tips, ideas, anything that can maybe help me just sit still and do what needs doing. Please, internet, I need your help.
Just bought the purple vmax off my uncle this year for 500$. Tbh, its a pretty shitty bike at just about everything but I love every second of it. The XSR is basically my dream bike. I think the only bike (thats actually attainable) that I still want is a Goldwing but thats just for all the random gizmos and uneccessary bits it comes with.
Abouta buy this guy off my uncle soon, a 1990 Yamaha Vmax 1200. Im looking for a decent shop I can take this guy too if I ever need work done that I can't or dont want to do myself. I figure the dealer wont take it because of its age (because of stories ive heard) so Id really appreciate some advice on where I can take relatively old bikes that are reliable.
For reference Im located in Astoria, Queens but Im not afraid to travel a little if need be.
So I've been watching a lot of youtube docs in my free time recently on the american-vietnam war, and started noticing something interesting, the South Vietnamese military is generally spoken of very highly by both the documentaries hosts and also the commenters on the videos. Then I started thinking about how another american war recently had a similar dynamic where the United States heavily supported and propped up an indigenous government and military to combat another indigenous threat, this referring to the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and that in that war, the general consensus on the Afghan National Army in most online circles is that they were largely a corrupt, incompetent fighting force that all but collapsed once the Americans completed their pull-out.
So it got me thinking, what exactly created this massive split in opinions. Was the South Vietnamese military just that much more competent against their enemy when compared to the ANA against the Taliban? Are most people just more cynical than they should be towards the ANA? And also, what were the contemporary opinions of the American soldiers and public of the South Vietnamese military while the war was happening, and do they differ from then to now?
I'm no expert on either of these topics for sure, but I do know a fair bit about both conflicts. And generally from the knowledge I do have, Id probably agree that the South Vietnamese were likely more effective against the NVA and Viet-cong, but I also just do not know a lot about how the ANA actually performed outside of the propaganda and the online opinions.