We can’t, but the instance admins can. I was directly solicited by an admin to mod one community, and I was made a mod of another simply by dint of being basically the only poster there (go on, guess which one) so it’s possible if we message the admins.

Outright clone is right.

Here is my A2’s nib stuck in my Vanishing point’s forward section, with the A2 tail section screwed onto it. And vise versa. Parts between these are mechanically completely interchangeable, if not quite aesthetically so.

I do own a Curidas and I yammered about it at some length previously. The summation: The Curidas is thicker than the A2 or Vanishing Point, certainly made of nicer plastic than the A2, not as tapered, and more mechanically intense. The Curidas I have has a broader nib than my A2 did as stock, which I prefer. The writing feel of the Curidas was also superior out of the box.

It does. I have a pack of them lying around.

They are a bit thinner than steel blades so they audibly rattle a bit. Otherwise, they work great.

Ah, the good old SV-001. Rad.

2010 is “vintage” now? Sheesh.

Wild camping away from official sites — which isn’t allowed in the Netherlands … You might not be able to replicate my multiday e-bikepacking experience where you live, but you will eventually, especially in Europe with its shorter distances and fast rate of e-bike adoption. It’ll take a bit longer in the US with its massive scale and dominating car culture.

The author has, not unexpectedly, failed to make a crucial connection between these two points.

I can, and regularly do, skive off into the woods in such remote and otherwise inaccessible locations that I will see no one throughout my entire camping experience. This is possible in US. Despite our rigid NIMBY and private property philosophy, there are still available swathes of acreage where you can – gasp, horror – still legally wild camp completely away and isolated from any form of utilities whatsoever be they charging outlets, plumbing, or anything else. (In US National Forests, this is called “dispersed camping.” State lands may have different terminology and state-by-state regulations are less consistent.)

These are needless to say the best places left to go, because they’re the only ones not clogged with idiots in lifted Jeeps, yuppies with shrieking children in tow, teenagers blasting hip-hop out of Bluetooth speakers and smashing beer bottles on every available rock and stump, and overweight octogenarians loudly and perpetually complaining. Only dedicated backpackers and outdoors people will make it out there, and they don’t make a ruckus.

Postscript:

I’m not entirely sure how to feel about this. Is it a “we did it, lemmy” moment, or should be so alarmed that info about this “brand” so scant that this is the best possible case scenario despite its absurdity?

If you just search for “HUAAO” on Google, now five of the first results within the images are from this very post.

Only two of them are from the other place. Get fucked, Spez.

aligning the racists and capital with the previously-apolitical evangelicals, which delivered a ‘winning coalition’ to a previously-struggling Republican Party

This was Nixon, and the “Southern Strategy.”. This moment marked the final demographic realignment of the Republican party and is probably Nixon’s true legacy since we’re still stuck with it to this very day. To be a little more nuanced, I suppose, the Southern Strategy probably ultimately originated with Barry Goldwater’s campaign. But Goldwater never actually made it to the presidency – to put it mildly. (Goldwater was positively obliterated by Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 election.)

But Nixon did.

With that doofy long bullet nose on the end of the cap, it definitely looks like a Parker I/M. The current variants have a shorter nose, but the ones circa 2009 had exactly that type of cap.

This pen was/is also available in a rollerball variant.

Projection, projection, projection.

Anyway, right back at ya, chief.