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  • A bit of a scary thought, not predominantly due to finger biting over those cars specifically. I’m just imagining the kind of violence we might inflict on each other in the coming years.

    For instance, pretend tomorrow’s headline is… oh , say:

    One third of 1% of all Teslas have been vandalized each day every day for the past week, and activists promised to maintain the strict schedule.

    How long would it take before we saw some significant White House action? And what might a social response look like in the streets? Would any Priuseses be safe?!

    overall?

    In the grand scheme, yet another darn distraction?

    499 other companies in the S&P 500 to worry about as well, and… other stuff :)







  • Why?!

    Le epic 14 y/o troll mAStEr mOvE was doing the worst nonverbal political thing one can do and getting away with it without apologizing.

    The centrists accept it might have been inadvertent. He’d never have the lefties anyway and the far right will, of course, absolutely love it. It’s the kind of thing a kid in shoes of power might dream up and run by the team and all have fits of laughter: “they can’t prove anything if you don’t say anything!”

    /fiction /conspiracytheory

    Nice way to commemorate the Jan 6ers’ prison release. And great distraction, as it must be.










  • parody@lemmings.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI'm just trying to buy a hoodie
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    5 months ago

    Let’s say everyone used an identity verification service to signup, like had to send photos of their ID and their SSN (national identity number) to be vetted by a third party.

    How long after the service got popular would it take for the most aggressive marketers to pay rings of fraudsters to lend their identities and/or make fake reviews?

    I think it would definitely start out great until it got big enough to be super useful and then the fraud would ramp up. I think an organization like Consumer Reports has a chance at successfully maintaining a low-bias product database, but the paywall is a big obstacle, as is the fact they’ll only review the largest product catalogs.