Which one of you asked for a cyberpunk dystopia? It was Nephilium wasn’t it? Sounds like something he would do.
This is my review of Bone Haus Brewery Legend of the Red Ghost:
Remember when we used to poke fun at China for their dystopian surveillance state? That was fun back then, technically it still is but then they started doing it in Europe. Yeah..about that. They’re putting them in cars now.
From July 7, 2026, all new cars sold in the European Union (EU) will be required to be equipped with driver monitoring cameras that point towards the driver’s face. The purpose of the system is to reduce traffic accidents caused by distracted driving, but there is little regulatory description as to how the collected video and data will be handled afterward, and privacy concerns have been raised.
This driver monitoring camera system is called the ‘Advanced Driver Distraction Warning System (ADDW),’ and it uses small infrared cameras mounted near the steering wheel and on the dashboard to track the driver’s gaze. If the driver looks at their smartphone, a child in the back seat, or the radio for an extended period while driving, the system alerts the driver with a warning light, sound, and vibration.
Now anyone that has driven in Germany, or at least owned a German built car is familiar with their distracted driver laws. There was a time they didn’t have cup holders because it’s distracting you from paying attention to driving 115 on zhe autobahn. A social concern one can no longer choose to violate at their own risk.
Don’t worry, they going to do it here too. (TW: TOS)
But you can just drive a older car, or maybe not at all to get around this Orwellian system, until you realize there are cameras everywhere. Now I view Flock the same way I view a company like Axon or LockMart. Are they evil for building these systems? Not necessarily, because the demand was created by evil people in your government; somebody was going to build them but there is certainly a loose sense of morality building a business model around it.* There all over the place, pretending you don’t notice.
Its like raptors. It doesn’t freeze when you look at it. You stare at Flock it stares right back at you.
But this is America! We would never stand for this! Sure we won’t. Someone will show up with a paintball gun or a Skillsaw, take up a new hobby in falconry, or maybe even figure out where the control box is and light the electronics on fire. All of which sounds much more interesting than the ideas coming from the EU to fight this.
Legend of the Red Ghost? You may be wondering what is this? Well its an old fable people from Arizona tell their kids to scare them into never wanting to walk around the desert at night. Unlike some of the other ones you may be familiar with, like La Llorona, or the guy with a hook, this is not just a hallucination brought on by extreme dehydration and peyote. It actually did start as yet another downstream effect of government decision making. The red ghost you see, is a skeletal figure riding a camel covered with fiery red hair. Camels in Arizona? You bet. The Army tested camel’s ability as a beast of burden for their purposes in desert operations at Ft. Huachuca. They found them to be proficient physically but less than ideal temperamentally so they mothballed the program and released them into the desert. When Arizona became a state, the legislature recognized the feral camels as property of the federal government, and outlawed camel hunting. I’ve never seen one in the wild but supposedly they’re out there. What does this have to do with beer? Nothing really other than this one being a red Altbier. Its nice, I can’t find this classic style very often aside from the occasional Alaskan Amber…even Fat Tire isn’t on the shelves anymore. So I was happy I found it. It is true to style and I ended up drinking all four on the spot while watching football. This was back in February so I mean actual football. Bone Haus Brewery Legend of the Red Ghost: 3.8/5
*See that? That’s how you use a semicolon!
There was a time they didn’t have cup holders because it’s distracting you from paying attention to driving 115 on zhe autobahn.
Having a cup of coffee perched on the edge of your seat between your legs is so much safer.
I can think of more dangerous things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPqG5ZHXS-A
I like the masks. Retrofuturey.
I’m not saying a fella could (or should) paint his license plates with Rust-Oleum 214944 reflective transparent coating…
Do they make something like that for IR?
What about IR reflective films?
Note from legal: we don’t recommend doing this.
It’s not like we’re going to live forever if we don’t get in a car crash. This ridiculous safetyism uber alles has gotten completely out of control and it’s going to make driving a far more miserable experience than it already is.
FOR THE CHILDRENZ!!!!
Absolutely. I’m looking forward to the statistics on how many crashes were caused by this new system scaring or distracting the driver.
…or the car shutting down at highway speed due to a programming error.
Get the Flock out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
Nothing really other than this one being a red Altbier.
I don’t remember any Altbiers I drank in Düsseldorf being red.
They say Killians is an alt-style, and that ones pretty red. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Who released a Killian’s they’re calling alt? The mass market one I recall always being labeled as an Irish Red. But I am spoiled by nearly every brewery here doing an alt beer.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN
*cuts brake lines*
Feral camels in Oz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel
Truman was brutally oppressed to ‘live’ a fake life. In fact, we’re ALL oppressed. Often faceless, our oppressors:
AP: “Dangerous heat wave is building, will bring oppressive temperatures to much of the United States”
So buck up, fellas. (Heat looks far more oppressive in metric.)
Metric or SI?
SI is just knockoff Metric.
Don’t wimp out. Use Kelvin!
Excuse me, that’s LORD Kelvin to you!
No love for ºRankine ?
Use it in our calculations all the time.
What does any of that have to do with collective responsibility to dropping the atom bomb on Japan?
This ridiculous safetyism uber alles has gotten completely out of control and it’s going to make driving a far more miserable experience than it already is.
This libertine obsession with pleasure and enjoyment is why nobody takes libertarians seriously. That, and constantly yammering about “freedom” without responsibility.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
Like your freedom from threading?
👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏
None of this is about safety and it’s one of those reasons I despise hearing political creatures talk about safety so much. It’s almost always a canard masking the true motives.
When I hear safety, I reach for my gun.
Yes, but shooting your car isn’t going to help.
For the people writing the legislation it’s not about safety but for the idiots who buy into it it is and it doesn’t help that cameras being fucking everywhere has been normalized. Welcome to the Brave New World.
I get amused at the little folk who just second all the time feeling watched and objectified by flock cameras. As The First Of All Firster being observed is just the normal state of things. People stop and stare and ask for autographs and First samples from me everywhere I go.
Never First sample crazy.
If no one first samples crazy how will the crazies end up with triple digit body counts and evolve into their Mega-Evolution form of AWFL?
Simple, really
Democratic socialists and academic experts say the ideology isn’t communism, but rather a belief that the economy should be run for the public’s benefit through democratic decision-making. The government should have an active role in expanding public services to address certain basic needs such as housing or health care, they say.
“The information’s all in the title,” Susan Kang, an associate professor of political science at City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, told USA TODAY. “We want things that challenge the way capitalism distributes things. It’s never done by force. It’s never done by violence. It’s never done through tricks. It’s always done because we’ve gained majoritarian support.”
“Nuthin up muh sleeve”
Associate Professor Susan Kang is dangerously ignorant.
@PutridMeat and anyone who didn’t get my reference (altho Shpip stepped on the joke with his joke and TedS practically sang the thing): https://youtu.be/Ix3WVxFzW_M
Shpip’s original joke was You’ll Never walk Alone