It just has real heavy JPEG.

Here’s a Reddit post for the Toyota cybertruck, which looks pretty legit to me. I also really love it - I can’t tell if it’s the fact that it’s an incredibly unconvincing camouflage, or that it looks like it’s trying to ruin Toyota’s good name by signing it on this piece of junk.

There’s also a picture of a Tesla with an Audi sticker going around, but that one was posted to Reddit two years ago so before Elon Musk went full nazi. I like that one because if I saw it in traffic I would have genuinely believed it was an Audi - I don’t give enough of a shit about modern car design to notice. Maybe until it starts making fart sounds or crashes into something because the driver is occupied with the gigantic dashboard iPad. But I digress.

Not everything on the internet is fake. There’s a bunch of Tesla owners out there, and a lot of them are looking for ways to communicate that driving their car is not an endorsement of fascism.

I’ve been considering buying some nice stickers that can achieve similar effects without destroying the car, and leaving them under the windshield wipers of parked Teslas around town with alongside a friendly note. I’m sure some people would be happy to use them.

Well, yeah, there are political or ideological aims, which are believed to be achievable through fear. The violence itself is not meant to achieve much directly, but it spreads fear in the population that works towards some goal or another.

Violence + politics is just war.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, and vice versa.

Terrorism is violence in order to spread fear. The poor CEOs are shitting themselves right now.

Problem is, generally it’s defined as violence against civilians. I’m not sure billionaires fit that category.

I don’t think independent forums exist in the eyes of many legislators. The internet equals big tech.

If they accidentally kill off the independent web they won’t even notice. They’re probably still on X, thinking it’s still hip and unaware alternatives even exist. Never mind trying to explain them about independent forums.

This comment was brought to my attention as it was reported for being too dumb to exist.

As I’m not a moderator of this community, I’ll leave that judgment to others.

However, I will point out that the Online Safety Act was passed in 2023, towards the end of well over a decade of British politics being dominated by the Tories. Labour only won the election in 2024.

So, despite popular belief, the liberals are not the ones taking your rights away. Unless you consider Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak to be liberals, of course. Which you might, as nobody using the word “liberal” seems to have even the faintest idea what it means any more.

The Online Safety Act is not about regulating TikTok, it’s about surveillance underneath a thin veil of protecting children. And it is very much a Tory piece of work.

Sounds like you’ve had too much internet.

Either that, or you have a fascination for human suffering. Which you might want to see a therapist about if you can afford it.

In either case, signing off and doing something you enjoy offline might be a good idea. I’d take to the mountains, but that’s just me.

Amazing - I read skimmed through the Wikipedia site for Swatting and tried to search online for it happening other places, but I couldn’t watch a video while commenting so I didnt watch the source.

Fantastic case in point.

Still I struggle to understand how it’s possible.

How the fuck can Swatting be such a common thing in America. I have never heard about it in any other country.

(This is, of course, a rhetorical question. I know the answer is that American police is beyond incompetent.)

Edit: Oops, read comments below

The left didn’t get a majority, so it’s just parliamentary politics. It’s a bit unusual for France where the biggest party tends to form a government, but that’s a political norm we would have been happy to see broken had the Rassemblement national done as well as everyone expected it to.

What is more problematic is that the Cabinet is not allowed to vote in parliamentary matters, which Macron needed in order to marginalize the left. So he fired his Cabinet, so that they formally returned to parliament and could vote. The problem is, of course, that they don’t have any replacements, and their roles need to be filled. So now they’re voting in parlament while continuing their duties, giving the sleezebag Gabriel Attal the title “Outgoing Prime Minister Gabriel Attal”, but not changing anything of substance.

It’s not constitutional, but the courts let it slide, because they’re as terrified of the French left as Hindenburg was of the Social Democrats.

Fucking Macron.

He thinks he’s a stronghold against polarization. Well, this shit is why people flee to the far right and to the far left.

And treating the French left as a huge threat is plain bullshit. There are two groups who could legitimately feel threatened by the French left - billionaires, who would have to pay taxes to fund the public sector, and the French left itself, which is too incompetent to ever cooperate and would shoot itself in the foot within weeks.

Meanwhile, Macron keeps destroying the country while promoting himself as the second coming of centrist Christ. A conservative by any other name.

I think it’s a good sign - people are on here because they like it, not just because they are free software fanatics.

If nobody here had any Meta accounts I would be more worried, as it would mean we’re completely detached from whatever normal people are up to.

Gosh. I was referring to the Zionist dude in your post, not to you.

But thanks for the reality check.

I mean, fuck Zionism and all that, but I would be very surprised if this account was anything else than another Russian seeking to destabilize western democracies by sowing division.

Remember that time Russian intelligence services drew stars of David all over Paris? That was fun.

That’s incredibly fascinating - I had never heard of Christian Zionism before (though I’m obviously familiar with evangelical Christians in the US and their ideas about a Jewish state). It appears the term Chirstian Zionism first appeared in the mid-20th century, though the idea is older than that:

The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, in place of Christian restorationism, as proponents of the ideology rallied behind Zionists in support of a Jewish national homeland.

Advocacy on the part of Christians for a Jewish restoration grew after the Protestant Reformation, and is rooted in 17th-century English Puritanism. Contemporary Israeli historian Anita Shapira suggests that England’s Zionist Evangelical Protestants “passed this notion on to Jewish circles” around the 1840s, while Jewish nationalism in the early 19th century was largely met with hostility from British Jews. (Wikipedia)

I like the idea that Zion i wherever Jews live/are at home. As far as I’m concerned, fighting anti-semitism and fighting Israel’s version of Zionism is two sides of the same battle.

Obviously an international protectorate would be incompatible with a zionist state. It might be more of a no state solution than a one state solution.

A tricky part of zionism might be that, except for the fact that it’s an inherently evil contemporary ideology, a longing for Zion is somewhat inherit in Judaism. If a version of zionism is to be salvaged I think it requires a rethinking of what Zion is - peaceful coexistence during the Ottoman Empire might be as close as one could ever get to its meaning in a religious sense.

As it appears today, zionism is a longing for a pure state of a single people, based on romanticized ideas of a hypothetical past that we know literally nothing about. That’s pretty much exactly the same as any other totalitarian ideology.

I do, however, believe that we have to accept that ancient history matters. Not necessarily because it actually does, but because it creates powerful narratives that are incredibly hard to fight.

I have to admit I’m beginning to lose faith in a two-state solution. Part of me is beginning to think an international protectorate with only limited self-governance in a single Palestinian-Israeli state would be the only acceptable way out of this mess.

There has been shorter moments of calm, but Palestine has been fought over since pretty much forever. Samson’s fighting the Philistines over it already in the old testament. Nothing got better when the Christians started getting involved with their fucking crusades.

Maybe the only way we’ll manage to put an end to it is by global warming rendering the region uninhabitable. Hopefully a few bedouins will still manage to get by in the desert. They’re hardier than most.

I guess they would want some cybersecurity software like Crowdstrike in either case? If so, this could probably have happened on any system, as it’s a bug in third party software that crashes the computer.

Not that I know much about this, but if this leads to a push towards Linux it would be if companies already wanted to make the switch, but were unwilling because they thought they needed Crowdstrike specifically. This might lead them to consider alternative cybersecurity software.

All of the US political establishment is strongly pro Israel. I think it’s fair to say they have gotten a lot of blood in their hands in the process.

Even so, before the October 7 attacks, relations between the US and Israel were pretty much at an all-time low. Netanyahu is Trump’s man. Since the attack however, Biden has pretty much given Netanyahu a carte blanche. At least that’s how it appears to the public.

Of course Israel is and always has been problematic in its own right. It is however still important to keep a distinction between Israel and the dangerous extremists that run the country. Netanyahu is closer to Yigal Amir than he is to Yitzhak Rabin, and there are a lot of Israelites who recognize him as the genocidal extremist that he is.

I expect nothing other than support for the state of Israel from an US president. That’s a given at this point. Support for Netanyahu, however, I expect only from his fellow fascists.

Thanks grad, very enlightening

His age is not a real problem. His lack of guts to stand up against Netanyahu is.

If we could ignore his mismanagement of Palestine/Israel, he would have been one of the best presidents of modern times.

Hell, considering what gigantic fuck-ups most US presidents are in their foreign policy, he might still be.