Looks like part of the tension system on a rope tow style ski lift.

One gets the impression that you’ve found a great way to knock out your car’s rear end, too.

Well I’m also one of the people who’d never thought of such a thing until they brought it up. Shame our local springs aren’t nearly hot enough for that kind of nonsense.

They don’t even really try to do anything, it’s more that’s just what happens when they bump into stuff.

A lot of people blamed Asians conceptually for Covid, everything from saying it came from eating dogs to the idea of the Chinese government making it on purpose.

Remember how ok conservatives were about the parts of covid you could be racist about? Yeah they’re more or less going to do that but just those parts and probably unrelated to a virus.