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the progenitor of the truck nuts

also, wasn't static causing fires at gas station pumps, esp. in cold weather?


"the car didn't malfunction and crash, you should have been able to predict the vapor lock situation yourself!"

"it's not a poorly designed trigger, you just had poor gun handling and discipline"


> The average consumer is completely infatuated with the idea of their car being a doom scrolling device, so we get dragged further into hell.

bollocks. all available research suggests the average person strongly prefers manual controls and buttons and is not into touchscreens and the like.

and none of those discussions precludes auto manufacturers from just putting mics in the car -- even with 95% old school buttons they could just wire it up to listen to you and pipe it out to a tiny LTE transmitter.


The research is wrong because people are buying the iPad on dash cars. The data collection, sampling, or methodology of the research presents a different result than the market reality of what people actually bought with their money.

its almost like Google, a marketing company with a serious requirement for data mining, could be talking shit about Mozilla...

> "RMS style curl works for me unless I can have Hatsune Miku"

the implication of the "don't be acquired" and "don't be penetrated" is some sort of anti-air or anti-tank missile.

"killed" in this case would be equivalent to having something penetrate and hit sensitive systems. at that point it's basically just a function of what the penetrator is trying to do -- if they just want $$$ they ransomware. if they want exfil or DoS or making critical systems do naughty things that is also a kill.


> the implication of the "don't be acquired" and "don't be penetrated" is some sort of anti-air or anti-tank missile

not necessarily - this model is also taught for army/marines type ground combat operations, in how to effectively camouflage, how to manoeuvre.

the "don't be penetrated" is more of an equipment choice and engineering decision specific to armor and active kinetic counter-munitions systems, like anti-drone shotguns, tanks with active protection systems, chobham armor, etc.

If a munition has been fired by you, first try to not get penetrated by it at all, and if that fails, try to prevent something catastrophic like a bolus of explosive formed penetrator molten copper from spraying into the inside of your armored personnel carrier.


they're ninja-fantasy stories with Tom Clancy future-war trappings

everything about them makes sense when you think of them as Naruto or Onimusha but with a gun fetish.


the security controls for a bike on a high mountain are not obscurity, they're the lack of oxygen (that kills), the cold (that kills), the height (that kills), and the literal sheer difficulty of getting there.

you could put the bike right on the side of the mountain without any obfuscation and it won't get got because ain't no one gonna die for a bike.

its like how we know where dead people are on Everest but we can't get them down; they serve as landmarks.


you can hold them responsible on election day.

you can hold them responsible by taking time out of your day to knock on doors, protest, hold up signs, or get involved.

you can hold them responsible by donating to parties, movements, and organizations that back consequences for passing bad laws.


palantir got all of the social security numbers in the US and now want to correlate all traffic against them.

yalls gonna have "social credit" scores real soon


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