[Arschloch]

Sounds like a great idea, will be like Sweden where everyone is a criminal suspect and everyone gets a social worker to monitor everyone. Heaven on Earth.

[Arschloch]

Sounds like a great idea, will be like Sweden where everyone is a criminal suspect and everyone gets a social worker to monitor everyone. Heaven on Earth.

..well anyway since the Swedish police is useless and suffer Stockholm syndrom, they targeting the victims of crime, so can as well be defunded compleatly.

[Richard230]

Today is the U.S. Fourth of July holiday. To celebrate in today's sports contest news, San Jose's Joey Chestnut, the world's hotdog eating champion, broke his own record by eating 76 full size hotdogs and buns within just 10 minutes. The winner of the woman's event was only able to down 31 hotdogs. Now that is what we do for fun and to celebrate our independence from England. 

[AzCal Retred]

Looks like we are also celebrating by selling fireworks to morons and pretending to be surprised later when our fields & forests are set ablaze.

The USA - not too tuned into rational behavior. I'm OK with taping a check for $100K on the terminally stoopid and giving them 90 days to find another country to be stoopid in, just don't come back. Somalia/Argentina/et al might develop a new industry overnight...and it'd be worth it.

Le génie humain a des bornes, Mais la sottise n’en a pas.

The total amount of intelligence is finite, thus the more it's divided up, the dumber we get.

[zimmemr]

Looks like we are also celebrating by selling fireworks to morons and pretending to be surprised later when our fields & forests are set ablaze.

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The town I live in was almost burnt to the ground by the British in 1777 -  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-attack-danbury-connecticut

Tonight it sounds like they're back and ready to finish the job. 

[Richard230]

Most types of fireworks are illegal in all towns in the SF Bay Area. While my town is one of the few that does allow "safe and sane" fireworks to be sold by nonprofit charities, there will be a public vote later this year that would outlaw their sale in the future.

But what has always been illegal are fireworks that shoot up in the air and explode - or just explode and leave holes in the asphalt and shake the neighborhood.  There were illuminated signs on all of the major highways, as well as constant TV and radio announcements advising the public that if you were caught using illegal fireworks you would be subject to a minimum $1000 fine and a possible year in jail.

Last night down the street from me there were explosions and exploding rockets shooting a hundred feet in the air that went on for hours. And right across the street is a hillside with very dry vegetation. Even though you could see these fireworks from a couple of miles away, not a single cop passed by and put a stop to the action. You can have all the laws and penalties that you want, but if no one will enforce the laws, why bother. 

Fortunately, no fires were started that I saw last night. So we got lucky in that regard. 

[AzCal Retred]

+1 to #424, #425....dodged the bullet for now. Come on November!

[Bilgemaster]

For the historically-minded here's a letter from Founding Father and 2nd President John Adams to his wife Abigail about the first annual "Independency" celebrations in Philadelphia in 1777 (see page 3), which, oddly enough, were celebrated on July 2nd: www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760703jasecond

[NVDucati]

For the historically-minded here's a letter from Founding Father and 2nd President John Adams to his wife Abigail about the first annual "Independency" celebrations in Philadelphia in 1777 (see page 3), which, oddly enough, were celebrated on July 2nd: www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760703jasecond

GOOD STUFF thanks

[zimmemr]

For the historically-minded here's a letter from Founding Father and 2nd President John Adams to his wife Abigail about the first annual "Independency" celebrations in Philadelphia in 1777 (see page 3), which, oddly enough, were celebrated on July 2nd: www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760703jasecond

FWIW July 2nd was proposed as the initial holiday, because that was the day the Continental Congress declared independance from England. The Declaration was edited over the next two days, and accepted on the 4th.  But I suspect you already knew that. 

[Bilgemaster]

Scotty Kilmer just dropped a video titled, "BMW Just Got Fined Billions of Dollars and May Go Bust", wherein he explains how the EU is severely punishing BMW (and VW as well, it seems) for somehow colluding not to make cleaner vehicles than the law stipulated. I don't know the ins and outs of the case, but I thought it might be appropriate in this thread, which dances that fine line between railing at tyrannical government overreach and having one's pharmacist screw up that decimal point again: https://youtu.be/ShxBmzQO8Jk

Enjoy! Thy Nørdic Øverlørds will it so!

[Arschloch]

It's probably a rebranded bribe or a donation for a noble course.

Anyone still wants to go to work?

[Richard230]

Scotty Kilmer just dropped a video titled, "BMW Just Got Fined Billions of Dollars and May Go Bust", wherein he explains how the EU is severely punishing BMW (and VW as well, it seems) for somehow colluding not to make cleaner vehicles than the law stipulated. I don't know the ins and outs of the case, but I thought it might be appropriate in this thread, which dances that fine line between railing at tyrannical government overreach and having one's pharmacist screw up that decimal point again: https://youtu.be/ShxBmzQO8Jk

Enjoy! Thy Nørdic Øverlørds will it so!

One thing about Scotty is that he likes to keep the air moving around him while he rants. 

[Arschloch]

One thing about Scotty is that he likes to keep the air moving around him while he rants. 

 ...probably the last thing i might have noticed. 

[Richard230]

Here we go again. The latest news from California this week is that we may not be able to buy bacon (or any other pig parts, feet included) next year when a new law goes into effect that says that any pig parts sold in California must come from happy pigs raised sustainably and with all of the comforts of home, including being served nothing but the best 5-star restaurant slop, having high-speed internet connections and soothing MTV music. Apparently, only 4% of the country's pigs get that kind of attention. Since California's residents eat 15% of the pigs in the U.S. each year, next year there are going to be a lot of bacon lovers who are going to be really pissed when they can't get bacon with their free-range eggs and non-GMO hashed brown potatoes.     If the state's regulators don't find a way around this law, we might be having another recall next year. Or worse yet, more riots in the malls and butcher shops. 

On the other hand, we might start growing bacon in our labs using the leftover petro-chemicals that have been replaced by ethanol in gasoline, to make everyone happy. And we can call it Soylant Green.