atrielienz @ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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The point is that while there are definitely downsides, there are also fairly painless ways to use fingerprint blocking on reputable browsers, and that it doesn't "break half the internet" it just might have a slight learning curve. Just because something isn't just plug it in and forget doesn't mean it doesn't work or isn't accessible.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/block-fingerprinting/

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections

Didn't know this was a thing. Can't remember the last time I bought anything from Starbucks. But it's dumb and wasteful of people's time, including baristas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-uYf622J4

Just about everyone I know who has the latest gen Xbox had trouble acquiring one. The pandemic messed up the launch of both games and the manufacture/availability of the consoles and unlike the switch and PS5 (which have worldwide popularity), the Xbox just never seems to have recovered because Americans went from a point in time where they had a lot more free time and potentially money (with the stimulus), right back to the grind with stagnant wages and housing crisis etc. Can't say I'm surprised that it's not selling well these days.

I'm still curious to see the actual proposal and other documentation, but I can't really refute this so, I concede the point for now.

There are not mere allegations. He is screaming it on every social media he has. He is literally labeling himself as a Nazi and screaming (all caps) racist nonsense every chance he gets online and in interviews. This same guy was trying to buy Parler.

Everyone keeps saying lots of people don't know, but I don't even follow West and long ago purged his music from my library and I see it all the time on the internet.

The problem I have is he does not divorce who he was from who he is now in this way. The memes (and literally any post written about him or that mentions him) inflate his ego and feed his sense of self worth. That's the problem with meming him.

More recent posts show him in a bad light and obviously hurt his feelings. But posts like this feed his ego and I don't agree with that.

It looks like the wealthy friend flew instead of driving down or taking the bus down with their friends. They're upset because it's just more useless pollution and a loss of time that the friend group could have spent together having a good experience.

Oh, I believe it. I just don't want to stop.

I am positive that the government does want armored vehicles. But like I said before and like it says in the article, this was a call out out to all automakers by the federal government during the Biden administration. This isn't something Trump started when he got into office. Further, it's important to note that the article claimed that Tesla was the only car manufacturer that showed an interest.

I'd like to see the document because it's not clear from the article if this was a proposal or an order. And all of my reasoning for it not being a thing from before this article was posted still apply.

Did you read this article?

"Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million 'armored Tesla' contract" - thats the headline.

And it doesn't specify which kinda of vehicles, nor does it give anything other than a general timeline of interest.

Basically sounds like the government put out feelers to see which automakers were interested in potentially making armored vehicles for the government that were electric and only Tesla responded. And further, it doesn't say why that plan was scrapped, but it literally also started in the Biden administration, not the Trump administration. There's a lot of supposition in that article. I wouldn't call this conclusive.

Of course I am. Fuck ICE.

Those companies so far aren't in conflict with Tesla. Bear that in mind because it's important to the conversation and the topic at hand. I doubt Facebook gives a damn if Tesla can skirt recalls. Ford or GMC or Dodge would absolutely care, especially if it's preferential treatment which it invariably would be because of Musk's "position" in the government. He's got a conflict of interest that stacks things against other automakers and they would be stupid not to counter that any way they can.

At this point, my dude I feel like you're just looking for a reason to be offended. If that's the way you're going to take what I said, I'm definitely done with this conversation.

I was in the military from 2010 to 2022. If all you've known is living on post then you weren't trying to be a member of the community and that's at least part of the problem here. When you live "on post" you're isolated and that's at least partially about control (and damage control).

I've served both active duty and as a reservist and I gotta tell ya, the shortest I ever lived in one place was about 6 months during C-school. You don't make a whole lot of connections in 6 months, but you absolutely can in 4 years and my first duty station was literally a 4 year stint. It is what you make of it, but it's also down to what kind of person you are, where you're from, hundreds of other things besides.

The people I have known (deployed and from my home town) who were Guard rather than military seem to have had similar experiences to me. Not all of them are even stationed in their home towns. Plenty of the ones I've known have been deployed.

I was also stationed in CA. I hate the state, but the community where I lived and worked wasn't the worst. I had neighbors and friends, people who gave a damn. That's perhaps rare in the military, but for the purposes of the conversation about the differences between the Guard and the Military branches, I can't say that I would consider the National Guard to be a Civil Service, even if on paper it might technically qualify. The National Guard has more in common with military than it does with just about any other civil service and bonds to the community don't do much to protect you from living in a hut in Djibouti or a tent in the sandbox.

I wouldn't be so quiet to discredit sacrifices those people have made just to make a random claim online.

Joining the military, you would expect to be living separate and apart from the local communities.<<

As someone who joined the military, that's not really how that works and if you're getting your information from memes and content creators, perhaps it might be a better idea not to continue this conversation because I really don't want to have to go into detail about how flawed that first sentence is, let alone the rest of it.

At least part of the money he's invested in things like Twitter etc he borrowed from other companies he owns that are overvalued (Tesla).

I think we can count on the corruption and legal rights of other companies more than you think apparently. Tesla's not the only car company. They certainly don't have the same pull in the government as Ford and GMC and Dodge. Tesla is a brand new player who cannot be trusted to follow the rules and deactivate or unequip any sensors and components for tracking that the government would require (on trucks they have already manufactured for the civilian market - which would be the case because Tesla already has significant stock it can't sell). The government don't have the qualified personnel to upkeep these vehicles, and that's assuming they even have a place to store a fleet of them that's covered parking.

A government software load out is not going to be enough. When the government buys vehicles they specifically have them manufactured to a spec and that spec would have to involve the removal and or lack of installation of most of the sensors and capabilities the vehicle comes with stock. So they either have to buy them as is and modify them (which requires personnel with a specific set of training and qualifications), or they have to be manufactured to that spec at the Tesla factory (or retrofitted to remove the unwanted components).

DHS's armored and unarmored fleets can be washed, can be parked in an uncovered lot, can be maintenanced by the personnel they already have. There's way more to buying a fleet of vehicles than just the price tag for individual units.

I work on planes for a living including government planes when we get the contract for those and let me tell you, they differ quite a lot from conventional civilian planes even when the base plane is the same. Tesla doesn't already have a contract, and even if they get one that money isn't allocated to them in the budget. There's plenty of other reasons why I think this is a BS take, but man even corruption has a shelf life. Trump may be out of office in a couple of years but the entire government won't just up and retire with him. Their corruption will definitely conflict with his because these are career politicians and Trump is liable to die in office.

The skin is literally handgun resistant not anything more than that. And the windows aren't bullet proof. They'd have to modify each door to take bulletproof glass. It's prohibitively expensive on a vehicle that wasn't engineered for that.

It's the kind of thing I'll believe when I see it and not a moment before.

You'd be surprised at how little it's changed. Oligarchs are still oligarchs. You think the Ford and GMC CEOs are just gonna let Musk come in and eat their lunch when they have a whole swathe of legal teams just waiting for the government to breach a contract?