Reader John C. sent me this, as featured at Cold Fury a few days back:
Okay, you can all stop laughing, and go back to prepping for your next range trip…
Tag: Stupid people
Pathetic
I thought this nonsense was more the provenance of the Japanese and Koreans:
Even when they switch to battery power, Ferrari supercars would continue to make a booming sound if a patent filed by the Italian firm is used in its electric vehicles of the future.
The Maranello-based car maker’s plans have been exposed by design drawings filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which were first spotted by CarBuzz.
They suggest the iconic brand wants to take the authentic sounds created by the powerful electric motors driving its plug-in models, then enhance them and pump the noise out via external speakers.
JHC, can anything be more pathetic?
Interesting Factoid
You may recall a viral video showing a 16-year-old “gentleman” named Kristopher Baca as he rammed a mother trying to protect her child. Baca, a teen with a history of troublemaking, was driving the wrong way down a one-way street — in a stolen car — when he plowed into a woman named Rachel and her toddler. Fortunately, neither was seriously injured. Another motorist rammed his pick-up into Baca’s vehicle to stop him. Baca did not have a license and was on probation for “spiking a girl’s drink.”
He was shot to death in a driveway this weekend.
And there, you might think, is a reason to cheer — and indeed it is. The mommy, understandably enough, is outraged:
Los Angeles’ legendary communist District Attorney (DA) George Gascón, known for his limp-on-crime approach, sentenced Baca to partake in a “diversionary program” with a juvenile probationary camp for five months, a sentence that Rachel found upsetting.
“George Gascón doesn’t value my life or the life of my child, or any other victim out there, and would rather reward the monsters like [underage suspect] by demonstrating to them that their actions have no consequences,” Rachel wrote in a victim impact statement.
And she set up a GoFuckMe account to help her through this time of trouble. Here’s Kevin’s comment on that:
Most of the comments left by donors are kind. Most…
Why only “most”?
You see, Mommy Rachel actually voted for George Gascón in the last contentious recall ballot.
So just as the little teenage thug got fucked by karma, so too did the liberal asshole mommy.
Karma, you see, is even-handed.
And Speaking Of Forbidden Pleasures
…we have this new development:
Forget traditional porn, Gen Z are doing things differently nowadays, including listening to porn, rather than watching it. The trend of audio porn started during lockdown and has now been embraced by young women, providing a full body experience that allows their imaginations to ‘run wild’ while tuning into physical pleasure.
Of course it’s mostly women. Men are simple, visual creatures requiring only something like this to get going:
Women, on the other hand, are somewhat more complex:
So this new audio thing is probably one of the control knobs in the middle.
No, I don’t understand them either.
Why Not $50 Million?
More insanity from San Francisco:
A San Francisco reparations committee proposed a plan to city officials last month that would pay longtime black residents of the Northern California metropolitan city $5 million each while granting total debt forgiveness for facing decades of “systematic repression.”
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted the report to the Board of Supervisors just before the New Year, which addresses public policies created to “subjugate” black residents in the Bay Area city and includes a list of financial compensation, such as the lump-sum reparations payment of $5 million to each eligible individual.
“Centuries of harm and destruction of Black lives, Black bodies, and Black communities should be met with centuries of repair,” Eric McDonnell, committee chair, told The San Francisco Chronicle. “If you look at San Francisco, it’s very much a tale of two cities.”
Unfortunately, unlike in the Dickens novel, there will be no guillotines.
As for who qualifies for this oh-so generous handout: well, pretty much everyone.
Such residents who qualify for the payment must meet at least two criteria from a list of requirements, which include applicants to be at least 18 years old at the time the city enacts the committee’s proposal, have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least ten years, and prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996.
Other requirements from the report include residents that have lived in San Francisco for at least 13 years or personally been incarcerated — or the direct descendant of someone imprisoned — during the War on Drugs, which U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon declared in 1971.
And how are they going to fund this virtue-signaling generosity?
[thunderous crickets, with scattered murmurs of “higher taxes”…]
Never an errant 12.5 Richter-scale earthquake when you need one, is there?
Scratch That One
From the Daily Mail:
In the United Arab Emirates, if you are caught swearing, you could face a fine, jail or deportation. The country’s penal code states that ‘swearing disgraces the honour or the modesty of a person’. The law does not just include a spoken word, it extends to text messages and social media, including ‘indecent’ emojis.
I wouldn’t just be fucked, I’d be FUBAR.
And unlike the Florida law (banning farting in public after 6pm) which, I would guess, is never enforced, the Muzzies would definitely go after you just for calling someone a dumb motherfucker.
Not that the UAE (nor any of the Arab/Muzzy states) would be on my travel list anyway.
All the other laws in the article are just good examples of government overreach, except this one:
In Norway, Sunday is a day of rest and by law, you are not allowed to carry out any activity that makes a lot of noise – and that includes mowing your lawn. If your neighbours do call the police after they catch you mowing your lawn on a Sunday, officers could tell you stop. And if you don’t they could visit your home and hand out a fine.
Having lived in a house where one neighbor thought it was just peachy to mow his lawn at 6.30am (“to avoid the heat”), I could support this law — but instead of getting the fuzz involved, I’d be happy to apply a little corrective action on my own behalf, with a defense to prosecution requirement.
And no, I wouldn’t shoot the inconsiderate asshole (I’m not a complete barbarian); but he would need to get a new lawnmower afterwards.
