Buelldozer @ Buelldozer @lemmy.today

The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters

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The game may be old but that doesn't mean a particular person has played it before.

I have absolutely no issues with the boycott. Elon the Idiot is learning the same lesson that the Ultra Wealthy of the 1920s did; getting publicly involved with politics can cost you a LOT of money. Bezos and Zuckerburg are learning it too. All of these Billionaires are getting a very expensive lesson in why they need to stay out of the limelight.

Because this is definitely a response against the insanity of fascism.

I don't think this has much to do with "fascism". If this was only happening to Cybertrucks (which are a pretty new model) or only happening at dealerships and so impacting Tesla itself that would be one thing but WTF does someone who bought a Tesla 3 years ago have to do with "fascism"?

This is a knee jerk reaction to what Elon is doing with DOGE and one group of people is lashing out at another group of people, many of whom having nothing to do with Tesla or it's front man aside from having bought a product.

don’t think the MAGA crowd retains significant reservations about engaging in vandalism themselves

The MAGA crowd is supposedly the most heavily armed and violent group of fascist thugs in existence and yet somehow they simply haven't bothered to ever do anything like this.

...it’s just that so far they haven’t spotted a target where it would serve their cause to do so

The coal rolling good ol' boys with an AR-15 in their back window could have started doing burning down EVs a decade ago when Elon was a Liberal darling...but they didn't. They could start doing it now but they haven't.

Should Republicans be voted out of power eventually, there will most certainly be vandalism from the right, conceivably even widespread violence against people...

I've been hearing this same argument for over a decade and yet its never really happened. Again, somehow the most highly armed group of violent fascist thugs in existence hasn't ever bothered to this en masse. Not even when they weren't in power, like just 2 years ago when they were all POd at EVs and Immigration.

Again, and I can't stress this enough, fuck Trump and his MAGA idiots. I despise them and I'm not defending them. I'm simply trying to force some reality and introspection into this mess.

This is happening all over the United States sometimes multiple times per day and being publicly celebrated in various places. I honestly can't think of a conservative oriented example of private property destruction on this scale to this much cheering.

If you truly have an "MS" then it should be trivial for you to do the math and calculate the power requirements of even a dozen cars being charged at the rate of 1 Megawatt each.

A bare 12 chargers, the equivalent of a single small gas station, would certainly collapse the grid its attached to. These kinds of charging rates aren't possible outside the parking lot of a power plant.

The hurdle to this kind of fast charging isn't the tech in the car nor is it the tech in the charger. It's powering the fucking things.

A charging station the size of a small gas station that can handle a dozen cars at once, basically 6 islands with a pump / charger on each side, would require a nuclear reactor sitting out back to supply the required 1.2 Megawatts of power!

So we're either going to have to get comfy with having an SMR sitting next to every charging station or we're going to have to get over this idea of charging an EV pack in 5 minutes.

'Member when everyone was convinced that SCOTUS was going to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss?

Trump and his MAGAts can go fuck themselves but pretending that SCOTUS has never bucked them is denying reality.

I'm struggling to come up with any examples that parallel what's happening with Teslas.

They know they’d better not disagree.

They just did. Publicly.

I wish more people knew that information.

It’s debatable whether this is fair, but clearly it achieves a political goal.

I'd be real careful cheering vandalism / destruction of private property because you believe it achieves a political goal you agree with; eventually others will start doing do the same thing to further political goals that they agree with.

No one does collaboration as easy as Microsoft and that’s not changing anytime soon.

Anything in M365 works reasonably well in Linux, even when accessed via Firefox. I do it all the time.

Elections are pretty much over.

Insert Thomas Jefferson quote here.

He has no intention of allowing that to happen.

The Grip Reaper comes for all. He's an obese 80 year old; modern medicine is only going to prop him up for so long.

You can already rip 360 games.

Using a PC you just need to make a .iso of the disk using whatever method or software you prefer.

You can also do it with an umodded 360 console.

The trick isn't ripping the games, it's playing them. That's what the hacks like RGH and now this software are for. There's also emulation like Xenia and XenonRecomp.

I wish that there was a browser plug-in for Lemmy that would replicate the "Mass Tagger" that was available for Reddit.

We actually don't need an entire Open Source Printer, just an open source controller. So you can buy $printer and then replace it's control board with an Open Source version. We're doing this already with things that weigh hundreds of pounds, spin at thousands of RPM, and literally contain explosions!

Gear heads (car people) are very familiar with this. There's at least three major, and many minor, Electronic Fuel Injection / Engine Management Systems out there that will allow you to strip the factory "brains" out of a car and replace them with stuff you can control / program yourself.

A printer is just an assembly of mechanical parts and there's no reason that an Open Source controller couldn't command them.

"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." - C. H. Spurgeon (1859)

Rossman is a modern day Ralph Nader; he lives on outrage and the money it generates. He's generally correct but when he swings and misses, like he did in this case, it hurts his reputation.

In a few years AI-generated content will be as common as photoshopped images and no one will bat an eye because it’ll “just be normal”.

We're already there you just aren't noticing them because they've progressed beyond the Six Fingers / Halo Ring in the eyes level of believability.