You'll hear people say "all the gear all the time" (ATGATT), but I feel like equating things like helmets and airbags with gloves and jackets and pants is misleading. I mention the earplugs because while they won't do anything in a crash, you will fuck up your ears without them.
You'll also hear people say (mainly about helmets), "Get the most expensive helmet you can afford. Is your head only worth $150?" This is also misleading. Look for ECE rated helmets. DOT-only rated is "ehhh." Snell rating is out there, too, but helmets with those tend to be really expensive, and their ratings are comparable to ECE. (ECE is arguably a better standard, anyway.)
The most important thing about a helmet is fit. It should be snug, should pull your face around when you move it, without slipping. It should be comfortable for you to wear for long periods of time. Different manufacturers make different shell sizes and shapes for different helmets and their size designations. If you buy an expensive helmet that doesn't fit you well, you won't want to wear it. Retail price is not the way to decide what helmet to buy. Sure, you can spend $1000 on a Shoei helmet, and they're good helmets, but you're also paying for the branding, and you're still going to need to replace it in three to five years.
Personally, I ride with an HJC modular helmet. Quite comfortable for me, HJC is a known brand (not some weird Amazon/China fake DOT sticker thing), and it was ... wait for it ... $150. I have a jacket and gloves, but I don't wear them very often. If future me slides, he probably won't die, but he'll suffer immensely. I don't like that guy anyway.
Helmets keep you alive. If you're not wearing a helmet with a chin bar (full or modular), you don't care about your face. On such a helmet, the face shield keeps shit out of your eyes and noise out of your ears. If your helmet does not mitigate wind noise very well, you should be wearing earplugs. Tinnitus is no joke. I like the ones with the little plastic filter in them, but even cheap disposable foam ones are better than nothing, and yes, you will still be able to hear traffic noises just fine.
You'll want to replace your helmet every three to five years, because the foam inside degrades and loses its ability to absorb impact. If you accidentally drop your empty helmet on the ground, it's fine; if the helmet hits the ground with your head in it, it's time for a new one.
Airbag vests are great and offer protection from organ damage due to impact. You like your organs. I believe there are also helmets that have neck airbags in them to keep your head from snapping around and breaking your neck.
The rest of the gear is to reduce injury. You won't die without it, but you will hurt. Maybe a lot.
Gloves, pants, jacket all prevent abrasions. Tall boots with proper stiffening also keep your ankles from getting broken. The armor pads are designed to protect the areas of your body that are most likely to skid against the ground: knuckles, palms, knees, butt, elbows, back. All of this gear doesn't have to be replaced on any time schedule, or if you slide in it, but you can easily determine whether it's damaged enough to need replacing. Armor pads are normally removable in jackets and pants.
"[The administration] can’t, on their own, denaturalize people, they still have to go to a federal district court,” said Chisthi. “Denaturalization finally does belong to federal district courts – but they are obviously keen on finding every way they can to denaturalize people they think did not deserve to be naturalized.”
But what the administration can do is drag anyone and everyone they want into the courts, where they'll either have to pay for their own attorney or go it alone, jump through hoops, miss work, incur travel expenses, and of course all the fucking stress that goes along with "this is the beginning of my being disappeared to a foreign gulag."
They don't care whether any specific individual is denaturalized. Some percentage will be, for good or bad "reasons." Some will just give up and leave the country. Some will go on the run. Many will succeed in court, retaining their citizenship, as well as a whole lot of paranoia for the rest of their lives.
All of them will suffer from the process. The suffering is the point.
I mean, I see that you did, but he also didn't "extend sanctions," The Treasury Department extended sanction exclusions, very likely just as a matter of course to keep whatever agreements had previously been made in order.
What would please me more would be not posting false titles in the first place, because people are easily misled, whether that happens accidentally or purposefully. Facts matter.
(d) Effective June 27, 2025, General License No. 115A, dated January 10, 2025, is replaced and superseded in its entirety by this General License No. 115B.
115A is found here. That one does the exact same thing, and supersedes "General License No. 115, dated December 18, 2024" - which does the exact same thing, except only for GazPromBank.
All 115B does is extend the existing sanction exclusions - which were implemented during Biden's term - to December 19, 2025.
There's more to grocery stores than just prices. Careful placement can mitigate the problem of food deserts, where people just don't have reliable access to groceries, especially fresh foods. To my mind, it would be fine if such public groceries ran in the red, because robust public services should rank higher than profit when government is involved.
Thank you, and you're more than welcome to do so.