Carmakazi @ Carmakazi @lemmy.world

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I feel like this should have been released closer to tax season? Now the big filers will have 10 months to strategize and try to sabotage the use of this service before it hits their bottom line.

And naturally it's a reverse-engineered BD Spot, likely even down to the software. Why put money into R&D when your adversaries do it for you?

Backwoods small town yee-yee crap.

I've often wondered how many bodies are buried out in the sticks that never get found because the locals, including the local sheriff's office, all cover for each other.

The product doesn't need to be viable, just needs enough plausibility to be able to sell it to your desperate rube customers.

Reminds me of those companies who sold literal divining rods to the government as high-tech explosive detectors post-9/11.

I'd settle for it being widely seen as the ignorant anachronism that it is and their power over secular government being completely wrested.

If an elected leader from my country said that we need to curry favor with Neptune to stop a dry season I'd want them thrown out as would many others probably. But every day we have leaders around the world making decisions based on their Iron Age faith and that's seen as okay...because they're part of the same club? Out of the spirit of acceptance? Personally my acceptance is wearing thin watching these nutjobs break whatever they can. They belong in communes in the woods, not leading nuclear-armed countries.

A lot of the pilgrims were the fundamentalist crazies that Europe didn't want, and the towns they founded had laws like this and more.

What are you going to do? Shoot at cops executing a lawful search warrant?

He's celebrating the murder of a "liberal" dissident, which cancels out any and all positive qualities in the MAGA fascist mind.

Moreover, he wants far right murderers and those who aspire to be far right murderers to know that he has their back, "when the time is right."

The GOP is both a criminal enterprise and a seditious terrorist organization, and they intend to seize the levers of power by force very soon.

AI's most successful accomplishment is going to be its ability to parse the astronomical amounts of personal data corporations and governments have been collecting for the last 20 years. Enshittification and the identification, surveillance, and targeting of dissidents.

To me, the wording of the Israeli statement implies it was them, though of course it's not 100% certain. If they had even the flimsiest proof to pin it on Hamas they would go public with it immediately.

A solar storm of that scale wouldn't just take down Facebook and Twitter for a while, it could destroy critical power infrastructure around the globe that would take months to repair. People would die.

I put that there to emphasize that it was a fairly even two-way exchange, "active," as opposed to something like him setting an ambush where the FBI got little or no shots off. Probably didn't serve that purpose but I tried.

In 1986 someone used the bottom to basically single-handedly kill 2 FBI agents and wound 4 others in an active gunfight. In most other countries, both weapons are heavily regulated if not prohibited for civilian ownership.

Assault weapon bans are both a product of ignorant perception and the lack of political will to ban all self-loading firearms or subgroups thereof.

Having mingled with the gun community for some time, there are a lot of level-headed people among gun owners but there are also a worrying amount of terminally fearful people with violent ideation. Many are likely one bad life event, one half-cocked response to an uncertain situation from being a mugshot on a news story like this prick.

It should be noted that, for better or worse, importing "parts kits" of firearms, even machine guns, is not illegal in and of itself. Once the receiver and barrel is torch-cut into pieces per ATF guidelines, it ceases to be a firearm in the eyes of the law and it can be sold like any generic hardware in the US, with some state exceptions.

This is usually done by a proper import-export outfit who is careful to follow the laws, though. It sounds more like this guy was on Telegram with Vadim trying to skirt sanctions and make a quick buck, and the kits were likely not properly demilled, given the machine gun possession charges.

Last I knew they called the Russia-Ukraine war the "NATO War in Ukraine" and claimed Russia killed over 10,000 "NATO mercenaries" mostly from Germany.

"Having the strength to do the dirty work" has been a euphemism for committing selfish, barbaric atrocities for...forever, basically. A lot of the people prosecuted for Abu Ghraib used similar justification, for example.

It's exactly the kind of ethics the GOP wants from their kingpins when they subvert democracy: the capacity to react murderously to disobedience.

The GOP decision-makers see the Russian oligarchy and how freely they leech their wealth from the public and say "I want that."

The MAGA followers see modern Russian society as a bastion of "western" (white) moral traditionalism holding out against progressive globalist degeneracy where none of this "woke" shit flies.

They have more in common with modern Russia than they do with modern America. They want the US to be more like Russia and many will be willing to spill American blood to get there.

My take is that it's a joke of "what anarchists think they do" as the top comic vs "what anarchists actually do" as the dilapidated trap house.

I'm not an anarchist but something tells me that going to Lemmy to shit on anarchists wouldn't be well-received.