Or at least go full fucking Orwell with it and let me see the benefits.

Every fucking night someones shithead kids are out breaking into and stealing cars in my neighbourhood and every fucking day I have to dodge unregistered dirt bikes and unrestricted E-bikes on the roads just trying to go to work and do groceries like a regular boring asshole who has to obey all the fucking rules because if I beat the fuck out of the cunt in my driveway trying to get into my car and possibly steal it I’ll catch charges and if I dont pay all the registration costs, insurances and drive exactly as I’m told the government will destroy my livelihood.

Do something about the brainless fucks that cant live in a society FIRST and maybe I’ll complain less about the surveillance state.

Thats the one thing I do like about Tesla. They were well styled. No pointless vents or wank. They just looked good.

I know its a bit off topic but at least in Australia all the free to air channels have their own app and if you have them all its a not insignificant selection.

In all seriousness, good reversing cameras and parking sensors.

The last honest to god thing that just made cars better.

Theres always someone who does the math for me and I appreciate you.

I was thinking “90,000 tons is a LOT, But swiming pools are also a massive volume and nuclear material is very dense… hmmmm”

This one doesnt rate for me.

You can throw a loosely packed snowball in a fun way and you can throw a compressed af snowball with intent to cause harm.

Show me the video because without evidence this could be anywhere from “stupid cop with stupid hurt feefees” to “Bruh you nailed a cop with a 88mph fastball for funsies, the fuck did you think was gonna happen?”

Its like when I talk about cars.

I dont speak in make and model, I speak in chassis and engine codes. Replacing an engine is a 1 weekend job that I could do half drunk back when I was drinking. Unless you’re swapping the engine for something not meant for that car I would describe that job as big but easy.

And then I remember a lot of people know make and model and thats it.

You’re not far off correct. Supercars average 3000 to 5000km a year, the average car averages 15k (very much ballbark numbers)and while they are an amazing toy and a hell of an experience to even ride in they are absolutely terrible “cars”.

Thats just it.

Lambo sold 10,700 cars in 2025. An all time sales record. Toyota sold 10.3 million. Ferarri sold 13k, Vw/Audi sold 8.9 million, Aston Martin sold just under 6k, Ford sold 4.4 Million, Bugatti sold 136 cars, Stellantis sold 5.5 million cars, Koenigsegg sold 60 cars, GM sold 2.8 million. I know Lemmy hates flashy rich assholes and their toys but the really high end brands not leading the EV charge is seriously drop in the bucket territory.

Add all of those “prestige” brands together and they are barely 1% of what GM Alone put on the road.

As a grown man the subject of getting smacked with a thong/flip flop came up and well… we tested it. Grown men spanking each others bare arses with a flip flop. We all agreed that while the activity was slightly gay, it was also hilarious and incredibly painful.

In short, it sucks as much as it did when you were a kid.

Its so prevalent that I had an idea for a movie of a bunch of recently retired dudes being bored with getting old and deciding to re-enact a bunch of their favorite pranks from old movies only to get in JUST far enough to be in deep shit and then realise they are committing felonies and their antics trying to extract themselves.

Taking off a pair of big heavy steel toed workboots after a long day in the sun is pretty fucking good.

It also makes healthy shit taste better.

You can absolutely fuck up a bag of baby carrots and cucumber sticks and a tub of hummus too.

Also I claim the doctors visit as a work expense because in order to get paid I need one :) its a condition of my employment.

In all seriousness its not exactly the most simple thing for a layman.

I speak petrolhead, so when you tell me something has a 2000W motor (Light bulbs and plug in heaters are measured in Watts. I honestly believe they do that on purpose to confuse the issue) I immediately do the conversion to 2kw, which is 2.6 hp on an e-bike that weighs 50kg. A 50cc Vespa makes 3.1hp and weighs 100kg. Now you throw a 50kg rider on there and you have a better power to weight ratio on the E-Bike, and shitloads more torque.

The sheer ego in that statement.

Even Americans who are wholeheartedly opposed to whats happening cant stop condescending to everyone else like “If it could happen to the greatest nation on earth it could happen to you”

We know, we have always known. We’re no better than the Germans, the Italians or any other nation that slid into authoritarianism or facism. America believed it couldnt happen to them because they are just so exceptional, which is why it worked so god damn well.

Especially when it comes to things like Tvs.

“Would you like the extended warranty out to 5 years for an extra $200”

No because that would have made my $600 tv an $800 tv which will be made to look like a piece of crap by a $400 tv in 5 years.

As an Australian the problem is largely what you imagine.

An unregulated industry brought in bikes that were closer to motorbikes than pushbikes and parents didnt do their due diligence on it. The same industry also brought in a huge amount of bikes that were perfectly sane when stock but were literally childs play to turn into something closer to a motorbike. Now the vast majority of kids went out and did kid shit and they were slightly annoying, a not insignificant number of them got hurt, but there was no real outcry.

The govt as governments are want to do reacted way too fucking slowly in putting sane limitations on what could and couldnt be sold and hold manufacturers and importers accountable. In their defence partly because 90% of them are coming out of china and the govt arent idiots in that they know how easy it would be for an importer to find a new frontman and the Chinese manufacturer to rebrand and force them to play whackamole and partly because they are very popular among adults and people who arent riding them like dickheads AND they didnt want to look anti-green by discouraging people to find car alternatives.

But Here come the fuckwits like takeovers are to “legitimate” street racing on quiet backroads, kids started doing wheelies through shopping centers while filming it for the gram, deciding it would be funny to absolutely destroy the grass and surfacing on local sporting fields and swerving in and out of traffic in 80 zones.

Its not that the cops dont care, the cops know what the reality is that if they start trying to catch them, the kids will run and eventually someones “good boy who never hurt anyone and loved to laugh” is going “to be chased to his death over a modified E-bike and the police are the reason for his death” regardless of what prompted them to chase him in the first place.

All in all its a 3 layer shit sandwich.

Does “people who live in glass houses shouldnt throw stones” translate into American? Half of the rest of the world wakes up every day wondering if your leader has started WW3 over a twitter beef.

But no, you have fun.