MHowell, 3 months ago to SanFrancisco

Is this an anomalous one-off, or just the beginning? San Franciscans have had enough with Waymo.

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San Francisco Mob Lights Driverless Waymo Car on Fire

"A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield..." reports the Verge, "generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire."

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/11/2313208/san-francisco-mob-lights-driverless-waymo-car-on-fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SJO3EbR-_w

#SanFrancisco #SanFran #Waymo #Jaguar #Fire #Mob #Slashdot

MHowell, 3 months ago to random

Matt Damon Stars In Super Bowl Commercial Promoting Paper Money

https://www.theonion.com/matt-damon-stars-in-super-bowl-commercial-promoting-pap-1851243412

eljefedsecurit, 3 months ago to random

MY NAME IS MAXIMUS DECIMUS MERIDIUS, COMMANDER OF THE ARMIES OF THE NORTH, GENERAL OF THE FELIX LEGIONS AND LOYAL SERVANT TO THE TRUE EMPEROR, MARCUS AURELIUS. FATHER TO A MURDERED SON, HUSBAND TO A MURDERED WIFE. AND I WILL HAVE MY VENGEANCE, IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT.

davidho, 3 months ago to random

STOP BUYING CARBON OFFSETS

ian, 3 months ago to random

I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM

jstatepost, 3 months ago to superbowl

🥥 Today is the day of the year when, if you're relatively healthy and regular, it's appropriate to give thanks to your superb bowel. 🥥
#SuperBowl, #SuperbBowel

Mikal, 4 months ago to colombia

Left my hotel room in Bogotá, walked a few blocks, saw a long line of motorcycle cops and, of course, followed them. Led me to a demonstration. I still haven't figured out exactly whom is protesting what. Anyone know details? It's pretty chill, but really loud.
#Colombia #protest

sidereal, 4 months ago to random

Overall I love Linux. One of my least favorite things about using it is when I'm looking up tutorials on how to do something new and it has a tutorial on how to accomplish it in Windows and OSX and then says something like "If you use Linux, you should be able to figure this out on your own."

Like thanks for the vote confidence but I'm actually deeply ignorant, that's why I came to your tutorial but whatever.

lowqualityfacts, 4 months ago to random

Seems like an odd choice but okay.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

heidilifeldman, 4 months ago to random

#ClarenceThomas asked the first question in oral argument, which reminds me of how inappropriate it is for him to be participating. #TrumpVAnderson

ai6yr, 4 months ago to cycling

Well, that explains a lot. Stripped pedal thread. Pretty sure this was old damage exacerbated by having to use a lot of force to remove 30 year old pedals. Already replaced it with a new one. #BikeTooter

ai6yr, 4 months ago to religion

LOL, just realized this morning how easy it is to create your own new religion on your computer nowadays with a laser engraver and the right LLM prompt. Anyone want to fund this, and have a spare farm we can bury these in a hillside for future discovery by a would-be-prophet? ("Dear ChatGPT, pretending you are a divine angel, please use this CNC engraver to write out a series of plates specifying the creation of a new religion, making sure to break the text into multiple books from made-up prophets of a lost civilization. Be sure to use the words "though" "hence", "commanded", et al), #religion #tablets #CNC #router #laserengraver #AI #LLM

Page of inventory for pre-cut slabs of granite, marble, and quartzite

Mikal, 4 months ago to random

Some developments with my business in NorCal means I have to be back from the desert by March 1 instead of May 1 as usual.

Which also means I'll be in the East Bay much more than I have been lately. I think it would be cool to meet some of my fedi mutuals if you're all into it.

Is there a practice yet of doing the fedi version of tweetups, like in the early days of birdsite? Seems like there should be!

ai6yr, 4 months ago to random

KTLA: Human remains found at Joshua Tree National Park #JoshuaTreeNationalPark #NPS https://ktla.com/news/local-news/human-remains-found-at-joshua-tree-national-park/

moira, 4 months ago to MountainBiking

huh 1700 miles and I just lost a pedal at the same time.

goddammit

#biking #seattle #burkeGilmanTrail

MHowell, 4 months ago to Women

Came across this well reasoned post about abortion: Why do people think that an abortion is about a woman's body?

Author: Feifei Wang (Lives in Seattle, WA (2021–present))
https://www.quora.com/profile/Feifei-Wang-6

I assume you are arguing that abortion is not about a woman’s body, but rather, it is about the “life” of the fetus.

OK.

I present to you a different scenario:

Say you have a brother. You are estranged at birth and you never meet him or talk to him.

One day, your brother, a person you never met, but share some DNA with, came to you and told you his kidney is failing and you are a match. He asked if you could donate a kidney to him.

Without your kidney, your brother will die.

But kidney transplant carries a lot of risk for the donor. The procedure itself is risky. You will suffer many complications even if the surgery is successful. You’ll never fully recover. You’ll always feel tired and your own kidney function will suffer.

Do you think this procedure is about YOUR body or is it about your brother’s life? Do you think it is YOUR choice to donate the kidney, or your brother is entitled to your organs simply because you share some DNA?

More importantly, do you think the state has the right to force you to donate your organ to save a life?

It’s a life! It’s your family, your blood!

If you think the state should not make laws that regulate your body even if your organ can save a life, you understand why the state should not make laws that regulate women’s bodies, even if you think a fetus is a person.

#abortion #abortionrights #abortionishealthcare #women #WomensRights #Womenshealth #law #laws

lowqualityfacts, 4 months ago to random

Someone criticized me for doing self-promotion. I'm sorry, but if I don't promote my Patreon then who will? George Takei? I don't think so. George seems like a great guy, but he is very busy saving democracy and verbally destroying wannabe fascists. It pains me to say it but George might not have time to promote my silly little facts.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

GretaGrizz, 4 months ago to random

Dood I just discovered kolectiva has SUPER COOL EMOJIIS!! :restinpowertorch: :prn: :weed: :blackcat: :anarchiststar: :solidarity: :squat: :vegananarchism: :ironfront: :txt_eff_the_cops: :heart_panafrican:

moira, 4 months ago to baking

let's go bakers let's goooooooooooo

#baking #bagels

TeaMug, 4 months ago to Seattle

PCC co-op workers having their strike vote today and the mood report from my partner is that the vote will be nearly unanimous.

PCC "co-op" has a ceo, they have executives whose goal is to make the company as corporate as possible, and they left the bargaining table this week without even reading the workers contract proposal!
Earlier this year they offered to move to a pay rate that's 3 dollars lower than Seattle minimum, and was just barely under state minimum - less than every retail employee was making in PCC and entirely illegal.
PCC workers aren't paid enough to afford to shop where they work, the execs won't let people work full-time or hire enough part time to keep stores running, while pulling ever greater profits the offices pay to themselves.

Expect to see picket lines starting tomorrow: do not cross
-Shop elsewhere! I know you're paying those prices for ethical and moral reasons: now is your time to show it!
-PCC is still at least theoretically a co-op: use those member votes
-Donate to your closest food pantry: the strike fund authorized by UFCW3000 is extremely small and many PCC retail employees are already food bank dependant.
-if unofficial strike funds take off, donate! Rent can't be paid in IOUs

#Seattle #washington #strike #union

DoomsdaysCW, 4 months ago to Israel

#USPolice Forces Are Trained by #Israel: The Knee-On-Neck Tactic that Was Used on #GeorgeFloyd Is the Same Tactic that Has Been Used on the #Palestinians

By Timothy Alexander Guzman
Global Research, June 04, 2020

"However, the tragic murder of George Floyd has the hallmark of an Israeli-trained tactic put to use to restrain suspects. Many U.S. states, cities and towns allow their police departments to be trained by the Israeli police, Israeli Defense Forces (#IDF) and by Israel’s internal security service’s known as #ShinBet who for decades has oppressed the #Palestinians with brutal policing tactics. The Israeli’s are experts in abuse and torture of the Palestinians which dates back to 1948, so now they train US police forces who use the same tactics to subdue protesters or to violently arrest people for some reason or another. An article by the Jewish Voice For Peace in 2018 titled ‘Deadly Exchange Report Reveals Extent of Massive Training Programs Between U.S. Law Enforcement and Israeli Police, Military and the Shin Bet’ begins its analysis with who is involved with Israeli training methods:

"From the acting Deputy Director of ICE to the current Chief of Police in Washington DC, from San Diego to Chicago to Atlanta, since 2002 thousands of American law enforcement officials have trained in Israel with Israeli police, military and the Shin Bet. And thousands more have participated in security conferences and workshops with Israeli military, law enforcement and security officials held in the U.S. But despite their branding as top-tier counter-terrorism experts, Israeli police and security agents regularly violate civil rights, and implement racist and deadly policies.

"The article describes one of the case studies of police officers spraying ‘Skunk’ a liquid that causes nausea when sprayed onto protesters during the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson as an example:

"Developed by Israeli police and manufactured by the Israeli company #Odortec, 'Skunk' is a foul-smelling liquid designed to cause nausea and linger for days when sprayed at high pressure onto protesters at demonstrations. Based on its proven effectiveness against Palestinian protests – particularly in West Bank village demonstrations against the Apartheid Wall – the American company Mistral Security began selling Skunk to U.S. police departments, including the #SaintLouisMetropolitanPolice, following the 2014 protests in #Ferguson, Missouri.

"According to the report produced by Researching the American-Israeli Alliance (#RAIA) in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace [#JVP] titled ‘Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel’ says that the Israeli military, police and those in intelligence agencies train US police forces under Israel’s counter-terrorism methods which also involves racial profiling:

"Israel is heralded as a nation that keeps its citizens safe in the face of perpetual threat, but Israel’s security regime is designed to subjugate Palestinians, and relies on systematic racial differentiation between Palestinians and Israeli Jews – that constitutes Apartheid. During trainings in Israel, US law enforcement delegations meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies to train in Israeli counterterrorism, which by definition necessitates refining methods of #RacialProfiling

"The report said that “Months after 9/11, American law enforcement representatives attended their first official training expedition to Israel to exchange 'best practices,” knowledge, and expertise in counter-terrorism.' Members from the #FBI, #CIA, chiefs and deputy chiefs from police departments across the US including #California, #NewYork, #Texas, #Maryland, #Florida and others who were 'schooled in Israeli military approaches to intelligence gathering, border security, checkpoints, and coordination with the media.' The report said that the “US law enforcement exchange programs with Israel have become standard, with hundreds of American law enforcement officials from across the country going to Israel for trainings, and thousands more participating in security conferences and workshops with Israeli personnel in the United States.' Allowing Israel’s tactics to be used on US citizens has been normalized establishing even closer ties between both countries:

"These exchange programs with Israel facilitate the sharing of practices and technologies between US law enforcement and the Israeli military, police and intelligence agencies; Instill militarized logics of security into the civilian sphere, normalizing practices of mass #surveillance, #criminalization, and the violent #repression of communities and movements the government defines as threatening; and deepen ties between US and Israeli officials to shore up support for a shared security model that justifies flagrant human and #CivilRights violations

"#AmnestyInternational (AI) published a report on August 2016 titled ‘With Whom Are Many U.S. Police Departments Training? With A Chronic Human Rights Violator-Israel’, the U.S. Department of Justice documented 'widespread constitutional violations, discriminatory enforcement, and culture of retaliation' within the #Baltimore Police department. The report rightly claimed that no attention was paid to who trained these officers 'But what hasn’t received as much attention is where Baltimore police received training on crowd control, use of force and surveillance: Israel’s national police, military and intelligence services.' AI said that that participants not only were from Baltimore, 'hundreds of others from Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, #Arizona, Connecticut, New York, #Massachusetts, #NorthCarolina, #Georgia, #WashingtonState as well as the #DC Capitol police have all traveled to Israel for training.' Thousands of more police officers receive their training methods from Israelis in the US as well. To add insult to injury, the training for US police forces and other government agencies are paid by US #taxpayers:

"Many of these trips are taxpayer funded while others are privately funded. Since 2002, the Anti-Defamation League [#ADL], the American Jewish Committee’s Project Interchange and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs have paid for police chiefs, assistant chiefs and captains to train in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

"This a reminder to the world that the police tactics used on George Floyd that got him killed was established in Israel, a #Zionist state that uses the same tactics to oppress the Palestinians on a daily level is now commonly being used by US police forces."

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-police-forces-trained-israel-knee-neck-tactic-used-george-floyd-same-tactic-used-palestinians/5714997

#SkunkSpray #IDF #ACAB #Gaza #FreePalestine #Protest #Protesters #CriminalizingDissent