Dumb controversy for today

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Aug 032022
 

Disney slammed for ‘Andor’ trailer featuring an AK-47: ‘Pissed me off’

“5 seconds into the trailer and you’ve already pissed me off,” one fan raged. “The guy has got a f–king AK-47! IN A STAR WARS SHOW! YOU’RE SO LAZY! You couldn’t be bothered to design a space gun. I’m so tired. So very tired.”

Oy. The guns in Star Wars were almost entirely based on real-life firearms, dressed up to one degree or another with added details to make them look like “space guns.” Han Solo carried a modified Mauser C96 “Broomhandle” pistol. The Stormtroopers were armed with Sterling submachine guns and MG34 machine guns and Lewis machine guns, all with minor to modest cosmetic alterations. That there would be something that looks a whole lot like an AK-47 in that universe – a galaxy with billions of inhabited worlds – should hardly be surprising.

 Posted by at 9:20 am

Why isn’t this a bigger news story?

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Jul 312022
 

I’m sure we *all* can think of a lot of incidents that sure seem like they’d get more media traction. But here’s one that seems like it aught to be like catnip for the press… on July 29th, more than fifty shots were fired at a party in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With today’s media freakouts over Evil Guns, this should be a no-brainer. So… why the radio silence?

Possibilities:

1) It sounds like there are multiple guns going off. Possibly a substantial number of people blazing away. This of course means it’s far more likely “gang related” than “lone mass shooter.”

2) Reportedly, with all those bullets flying, only one person killed and two injured (if THIS is the same incident… one dead, four injured). That’s *terrible* marksmanship. Again indicating more like gangs than a lone shooter.

3) Fully automatic weapons are fired. Legally owned Class Three automatic weapons are vanishingly rarely used in crimes. Far more likely, this was an illegally modified Glock. Hard to argue that you need more gun laws to ban something that’s already banned (but they’ll try, of course).

Can’t see diddly on the videos below, other than people panicking in the dark. Can’t see any of the shooters. So it might well be that the shooters are, somehow, in some way, inconvenient to report on.

If this is gang related, then the viewer at home will wonder something like “gosh, why don’t they do something about the gangs.” And we can’t have that.

 

 

 Posted by at 9:18 pm

It CAN happen here

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Jul 312022
 

It’s common enough to point and laugh at crazy furriners carrying out government sponsored acts of terrorism against their own people based on arbitrary and generally insane rules and “laws.” Recently a lot of this laughter has been direction Britainland way, and rightly so. But we should remain vigilant lest the more fascistic of Americans, such as the Democrats, get it into their heads to do the same sort of nonsense here. Because, as we’ve seen from the House recently voting to pass a blatantly and admittedly unConstitutional bill banning the transfer of items in common use, they are more than happy to abuse power.

Moment army veteran is arrested ‘for causing anxiety’ after retweeting meme of swastika made out of Pride flags as force is condemned by its own crime commissioner for the ‘proportionality and necessity’ of its response

I do wonder how many of those police officers actually believe they’re doing the right thing, how many don’t care, and how many are actively opposed to this nonsense. This situation is, of course, monumentally stupid. The dude posted this image:

 

Which somehow caused someone “anxiety.” Why the police should give a rat’s ass that someone has anxiety, I’ve no idea. How they determine that the anxiety caused by a meme is worse/more legally actionable than the anxiety caused by, say, foreign rape gangs or BLM riots or historic statues being torn down or lockdowns or unsolved burglaries, assaults and murders while the police chase down people who post memes, I’ve no idea.

 Posted by at 6:44 pm

Now this story is just *weird*

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Jul 312022
 

I *really* hope the pilot can shed some light on this:

Co-pilot falls from plane, dies before emergency landing in North Carolina

A small cargo plane lost a wheel during a hard landing, then continued on to fly for a while before finally doing an emergency landing that seemed to go about as well as you might hope for a cargo plane with a third of its landing gear gone. But the co-pilot *seems* to have decided to chuck himself out of the plane well before then, crashing in a yard some thirty miles from the final airport. Friggen’ *WHY*?

Was he stressed out? Was he on something? Was the initial hard landing his fault, and he knew that it would go bad for his career?

 Posted by at 2:15 pm

Monkeypox is an STD

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Jul 292022
 

In this case, a Stupidity Transmitted Disease.

First, a news video:

The guy with the pox here is said have likely gotten it from going to a bar and “kissing another person.” That’s… a little vague. Fortunately, he’s one of those attention-seekers who goes out looking for clout and ends up being a cautionary tale. Behold:

Gay Houston Man Battling Monkeypox Raises Awareness

“I knew what it was, I knew I was at risk,” he says. “I tried to get the vaccine, but I couldn’t. I thought I was being careful. Clearly, I wasn’t being vigilant enough.” 

Over the July Fourth weekend he went to several bars and, while he was shirtless, hugged and kissed a few men. The following weekend, he started seeing little white bumps under his chin. 

That’s… that’s just *stupid.* But wait! There’s more!

Wallace is going on a month of prescribed quarantine, but he thinks his lesions will be healed in a week and he will at least be able to leave his house again.

FFS.

So, yeah. Another case of someone going out and actually *working* at catching the latest fashionable disease, then acting shocked. And if it stayed strictly within people who have no sense of self control – men, women, gay, straight, whatever – then… who cares, that’s on them. But these yahoos could well come into contact with, say, children. And children come into contact with *other* children. And viruses mutate, and the more people who have a virus, the more opportunities for mutation.

People this frikken’ dumb could doom us all.

 Posted by at 8:54 pm

Jetliners *used* to be classier than buses

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Jul 292022
 

This incident appears to have occurred while the plane was still on the ground (what looks like ground crew dealing with it). Some sources say Spirit Airlines, some Allegiant. It seems to me that this sort of thing used to be a lot rarer.

 

 

 Posted by at 8:38 pm

House Dems pass unconstitutional bill

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Jul 292022
 

House passes assault-style weapons ban

It bans the sale and transfer of standard capacity magazines and weapons that are in common use. It’s chances in the Senate are slim, though not nonexistent; Biden will of course sign it. If it gets that far hopefully the Supreme Court will tear it apart before it can foment a civil war.

There were a few Dems who had some sense:

Democrats Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Ron Kind of Wisconsin, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas and Kurt Schrader of Oregon voted against the ban.

And there were sadly some backstabbers:

Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Chris Jacobs of New York voted for the bill.

 Posted by at 7:48 pm

This guy *barely* avoided a beatdown

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Jul 292022
 

So this guy decided to go gambling at a Las Vegas casino. Normal enough. Parked his vehicle on top of the parking garage. Normal enough. But he left his puppy in the car on a day when it reached 113 degrees. Not normal, not good. Spent two hours inside. *And* he taped the dogs mouth shut, probably to keep the famously noisy Husky from alerting people to its plight..

Fortunately the casino security found (or was alerted to) the situation and rescued the dog through the sun roof and called the local police. Police body camera footage shows the moment the owner walked up and the cops response to him. The police officer maintained discipline and professionalism…  but you can tell … just barely. The officer was PO’ed, and rightly so. You can imagine that everyone involved here might well have been hoping that the owner would do something stupid (well, additionally stupid) so as to merit a few love taps from a billyclub. The police officers tone and actions just scream “contempt.” As well they should: I imagine cops dealing with brutalized children and animals must be about the hardest parts of their jobs (after getting shot and stabbed, obviously).

Looks like the casino staff put in a good effort… there are multiple uniformed security guys, a woman caring for the pup, and a guy in a suit who looks… ummm… a bit like A Casino Guy in A Suit You Don’t Want Coming For You. Also a guy with a bicycle who might have been just a bystander, or might have been the guy who found the dog. Shrug.

Some commenters at the twitter thread note that the dogs owner was not read Miranda rights before being arrested. But… Miranda is used to make sure the suspect is aware of their rights before being interrogated. I’m not sure that that directly applies here. It will before he is questioned at the station, but “Is this your car?” doesn’t really seem like that big of a deal.

Who would do this? WHY would anyone do this? Assuming the dog pulls through, I have little doubt that the line of people wanting to adopt it will wrap around the block.

Feh.

Here’s some brain-bleach:

 Posted by at 5:32 pm

“It’s time to move to Russia”

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Jul 292022
 

This video is *claimed* to be some sort of official bit of Russian governmental propaganda, extolling the supposed virtues of Russia to get westerners to move there. But it comes off more like satire. When it says “beautiful women,” if shows two pre-adolescent girls. It claims “no cancel culture,” for the same country that’ll throw your ass in jail if you call the current war a “war.” It claims a “rich history,” but fails to mention that that richness is soaked in blood. It’s just *weird.*

 Posted by at 8:11 am
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