While no fan whatsoever of EVs making arbitrary noise, I absolutely love these sounds:

I care. It’s dumb, inauthentic and irritating. Additionally I’m sure that bad actors will find a way to make their EVs as catastrophically loud as the current crop of ICE shit-cans with no mufflers tuned to make everyone’s ears bleed by backfiring at any lift of the throttle.

In short: no.

Your 10th star is my gift to you.

I joked with my wife that it was only a matter of time before Gen-Z began mounting their flat screen televisions on the wall in portrait orientation. Then a few days later, almost as if I’d willed it into existence, we saw a short clip of some nonsense “influencer” living room ... with a TV mounted in exactly that…

I guess on Nov. 5th we’ll know whether we’ve become a mirror image of Russia or not.

You read my mind: my last two Samsung phones had weird defects like purple lines on the screen or cameras that stopped working. That + their crappy UI made me finally embrace the cult of Apple. 

It irritates me that I don’t have a non-Chinese option for my $800 phone.

It’s ethically problematic to buy Chinese goods, though it’s nigh impossible in 2024 to find tech items that aren’t partly or wholly assembled there. While I can’t not buy an iPhone for these reasons, I can absolutely boycott a tens of thousands of $’s automobile made in an autocratic country with a garbage human…

If you’re in my ‘hood, I’m headed over there with my toolkit as soon as you’re out of surgical rehab. Also: you’re right, I don’t have any real excuse for my TR6 being on jackstands for years now.

Thanks!

The acronym seems obvious to me - as obvious as a bowling ball.

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

Exactly the comment I came here to make: make the fat, lazy bas-tids walk their beat or ride mountain bikes. Taking a truck on the beach invites catastrophes like this while preventing them from truly doing their jobs.

Thanks! I’ll give it a go.

MyRadar got deleted from my iPhone in about the same time as it took me to type this comment.

Seriously, if anyone at MyRadar reads this comment: go F yourself.

Arguably the best music video ever made ... by anyone. Then again, I’m a rabid Flat Eric fan.
Also: cars!

Some politicians are technically not worms either.

A few years ago I posted my 220hp K20a swapped Honda Insight for sale and added a short video of its astonishing acceleration on a rural road. Then I realized if you freeze-framed one spot there’s a legible 45mph speed limit sign, so I had to delete it and repost with an edit. What I didn’t know was this:

My Abarth is loud-ish, but it’s factory stock. It’s probably 1% as loud as some of the straight piped losers in the Tampa metroplex.

Yep, my comment was nine years ago. They may have finally moved up from their mom’s basement to somewhere adults like me live.

A long time ago here on the Jalops I weighed in on straight-piped BS noise from microphallus infantiles making life unbearable in my neighborhood. I got more than a few replies along the lines of ...