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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Just the same, smashing cars probably won’t endear the generally-docile public to the cause. I would say most people (i.e. the support force necessary for widespread change) don’t want to be associated with violence.

Which is why we should be considering the real possibility that these are false flag attacks. Want to turn the general populace against peaceful protesters? Engineer false flag attacks that make the protesters appear violent. Now you can arrest peaceful protesters and the general populace will turn and look the other way.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

There have also been an uptick in incidents of arson, vandalism, and violence against Tesla showrooms that, while unrelated to the protests, have led to Musk and President Donald Trump labeling them “domestic terrorism.”

Keep in mind that it's completely reasonable to suspect that at least some of these are false flag opperations orchestrated by the Trump administration to justify arresting innocent protesters or eventually declaring martial law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

"So, you're saying we get one free claim for as many cars as we can burn in one night without loosing our insurance?" - Them, probably.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

People would be vandalizing Starlink satellites if they could reach them.

Hold my beer. *picks up rock

[–] [email protected] 62 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (14 children)

There have also been an uptick in incidents of arson, vandalism, and violence against Tesla showrooms that, while unrelated to the protests, have led to Musk and President Donald Trump labeling them “domestic terrorism."

It's perfectly reasonable to think that at least some of these could be false flag opperations orchestrated by the Trump administration to give them cover to arrest innocent people and eventually declare martial law. The more that possibility is part of the mainstream conversation, the more wind it takes out of their sails towards accomplishing those goals.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

There are lots of Tesla protests going on every weekend. See https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown to find one near you.

Also see https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/ for even more (not necessarily Tesla specific) protests going on all over the place all the time.

Participate in what you can.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago (6 children)

"Maybe rich people should build weird fountains, again."

https://youtu.be/cz231Zi8Z7g

"The Wasserspiele of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe are 300 years old, powered entirely by gravity, and entertaining tourists. As legacies for rich people go, there are far worse ones."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Problem being, the DNC will ensure no other viable Democrats run against them in the primary, so come the general election, we'll once again be stuck choosing between shit and radioactive shit.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

It can respond to users’ verbal expressions — such as “I am feeling cold” — by automatically adjusting temperature

LOL. Who in hell wants to talk to appliances like that? If I wanted to talk to an appliances at all (not really) it would be to give very explicit instructions, not some vague complaint.

and can “chat and gossip"

Translation: "We couldn't figure out how to get an LLM to not do this, so we're just going to call it a feature."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are.

See, that doesn't need a /s. Sometimes sarcasm is obvious in written form. Sometimes it's not.

 

You don't have to "sign up". You can just scroll down a bit to the "Find A Protest Now" button, or click the direct link I provided above.

ETA, you don't even need a clever sign to hold up. Just being present is good enough.

 

If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:

Steve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. …

All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to —

Michael Kirk: What was the word?

Bannon: Muzzle velocity.

Muzzle velocity. Bannon’s insight here is real. Focus is the fundamental substance of democracy. It is particularly the substance of opposition. People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently.

Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over.

Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him.

Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true. Trump clawed his way back to great wealth by playing a fearsome billionaire on TV; he remade himself as a winner by refusing to admit he had ever lost. The American presidency is a limited office. But Trump has never wanted to be president, at least not as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to first play king on TV. If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king.

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I recently started using AutoBackup and every now and then, after it runs, zigbee2mqtt isn't running anymore and needs to be manually restarted. "Start on boot" and "Watchdog" are both enabled for z2m. Has anyone else experienced this?

I suppose I could add a step on to the backup automation to explicitly restart z2m, but I feel like that would just be a bandaid for a problem better fixed somewhere else. I just don't know where that might be.

 
 

Michael Saylor, co-founder and chairman of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, has unveiled a comprehensive crypto framework aimed at further integrating Bitcoin and other digital assets into the US economy.

https://www.michael.com/digital-assets-framework

 

Once widely derided as a speculative asset with no intrinsic value, Bitcoin is being taken increasingly seriously by governments, financial institutions and investors alike.

 

A computer scientist has been found to have committed contempt of court for falsely and persistently claiming to be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

In March, the High Court ruled Craig Wright was not Satoshi, and ordered him to stop claiming he was.

However, he continued to launch legal cases asserting he had intellectual property rights to Bitcoin, including a claim he was owed $1.2 trillion (£911 billion).

A judge said that amounted to a "flagrant breach" of the original court order and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.

 

A computer scientist has been found to have committed contempt of court for falsely and persistently claiming to be the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

In March, the High Court ruled Craig Wright was not Satoshi, and ordered him to stop claiming he was.

However, he continued to launch legal cases asserting he had intellectual property rights to Bitcoin, including a claim he was owed $1.2 trillion (£911 billion).

A judge said that amounted to a "flagrant breach" of the original court order and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years.

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