Matisyahu's Blog

Oh the wailing and gnashing of teeth by ‘Tik Tokers’, the crying, the lamentations, the over the top histrionics when users of the Tik Tok app find that US users have been blocked and behaving as if it came out of nowhere (it has since come back online in the US resulting in another round of videos being uploaded as if a loved one who died had come back to life). Where on earth have these people been? the bill was passed on 24 April 2024 and there were people talking about how they bought a new car days before ban came into effect? people complaining about how their lavish lifestyle of $10,000 per month (as one TIk Tok user talked about on a recent video) even though they had 8-9 months to prepare for this day – to pay down debt, downsize ones lifestyle and basically prepare for a future without Tik Tok. I’m sorry but I have very limited bandwidth at the moment to sympathise for those who didn’t plan ahead, who thought their ‘influencer’ (or as I say ‘efluencer’) gravy train would keep going on forever. As others have said on YouTube, stardom on the internet is fickle, one minute you’re the talk of the internet and the next minute people are wondering who you are.

I am looking at scooters, internal combustion engine as well as electric, but what I want to lose the weight first which then opens up more options due to many scooters having a limit on the amount of weight that can be carried. I’m also in no hurry because within six months when winter starts I’ll prefer taking the train to avoid the horrible whether not to mention the crazies on the road and during that time a greater of variety of scooters will make an appearance. There are a few that I am interested in, I am also interested in seeing whether I have to sit my learners again if I go for a learners motorcycle licence or whether it is just a matter of getting the safe handling certificate and they treat the learners drivers licence as the equivilent. The benefit of moving to a learners motorcycle licence is the ability to get a 100-150cc scooter (the limit on a learners motorcycle licence is 250cc).