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Not saying it was the case here, almost certainly not, but…I wouldn’t be surprised to see Tesla dealerships doing this to themselves in the coming months, committing insurance fraud because they expect the payout to be better than the resale value — and/or just because they’re trying to flee the sinking ship.
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Teslas Spray-Painted With Swastikas At Dealership In Encinitas, California
Several windows of the dealership were also spray-painted with swastikas and profanity, officials said.
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Reports this morning out of Kansas indicate two Cybertrucks also caught fire. Late monday night a Tesla in a dealership lot was seen on fire.
Given that all these dealerships are apparently company-owned, not franchises, I wonder how quickly this impacts the company’s overall insurance costs if it keeps up.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that people will be way more willing to torch #Tesla cars and building if they know they are company owned and not by individuals.
"Given that all these [Tesla] dealerships are apparently company-owned, not franchises, I wonder how quickly this impacts the company’s overall insurance costs if it keeps up."
yeah, Tesla caused a lot of commotion in states due to not working through franchise dealerships, with some states for a while trying to ban that practice.
In general I’m not opposed to the company ownership model, since I’ve almost universally found franchise dealerships scammy and sleazy on their own. But yeah, certainly seems like it might bite Tesla in some ways here.
@JessTheUnstill I continue to be terrified that some malicious actor would actually do this to all the Teslas in the country or the world, which would cause just extra extraordinary death and environmental damage. And I really hope that somebody instead executes some less life-threatening hack first (like say rendering them all undrivable and immobile), which would both tank the company and raise the alarm bell. Because the practical consequences of what somebody could do right now are simply terrifying.
I don't think tesla dealerships are like regular dealerships, ie, an independent company that sells products from another company and is left holding the bag if the supplier does something stupid.
I believe (but could be wrong) that they are are all owned by Tesla itself. And Tesla appears to already have committed fraud in clean car rebates in Canada, so I would expect insurance fraud here.
The early trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho above describes the film as 'the picture you MUST see from the beginning... or not at all!' That's good advice, given how early in the film its first big twist arrives. But it was also a policy:
Contempt much?
Via Katie Phang:
-The DOJ tells Judge Boasberg that it does not need to provide the Court with any additional info (despite being ordered to do so) b/c "there was no violation of the Court's written order (since the relevant flights …
The only explanation for the government's egregious stances in today's hearing regarding its compliance with judicial order in the Venezuelan deportation case, J.G.G. v. Trump, is that Trump likes his chances in the U.S. Supreme Court.
With respect, this is more true in this case and Perkins Coie v. Trump than the rest, because Trump has cloaked himself in these two cases with claims of acting to serve national security, an interest the Roberts Court is especially protective of. 1/ @inthehands
Roberts will drag his feet to the bitter end, but like you, I’d bet on him ultimately trying to restrain the admin, however weakly. Does that get us to 5 in case after case after case? Not so sure about that.
Let us all welcome the honorable chief of the American Leopard Breeders Association and founding member of the Leopards Can Do Whatever They Want Society as the newest member of the Getting Your Face Eaten By Leopards Club.
@michelestrider Did they decorate a vehicle that looks like a cheap toy for a 3-year-old so that it looks like it’s for a 7-year-old instead? Yes, yes they did. Our little fascist is growing up!
@michelestrider Their trademark stainless image is impossible to keep free from stains so people are putting wraps on them because you can wash vinyl. But yeah, this pattern sucks 🫠
The image depicts a scene from an animated series featuring a group of characters standing in front of a group of large, menacing dragons. The dragons are diverse in color and design, with a blue dragon on the left, a red dragon in the center, a black dragon with a long neck, a yellow dragon, and a green dragon on the right. The characters are dressed in various outfits, including armor and robes, and appear to be in a battle-ready stance. The background is dark, emphasizing the figures in the foreground. At the bottom of the image, there is text that reads, "Lemme tell you kids what it was like to fight Tiamat back in my day." The overall composition suggests a dramatic confrontation between the characters and the dragons.
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I’ve posted a detailed explanation of why the claimed ESP32 Bluetooth chip “backdoor” is not a backdoor. It’s just a poor security practice, which is found in other Bluetooth chips by vendors like Broadcom, Cypress, and Texas Instruments too. darkmentor.com/blog/esp32_non-…
This post refutes the claim that researchers found a "backdoor" in ESP32 Bluetooth chips. What the researchers highlight (vendor-specific HCI commands to read & write controller memory) is a common design pattern found in other Bluetooth chips from o…
I don't think your hypothetical "compromised userspace" scenario applies to the ESP32 in any practical usage. These are integrated chips (think "Bluetooth+WiFi+Arduino-on-a-chip") where the the user host code runs on the same chip, I think even in the same address space. So if that is compromised, the Bluetooth side is compromised regardless of the existence of the vendor commands.
In principle you could use an ESP32 as an external Bluetooth controller exposing HCI of course, and then the concern would apply, but I don't know why anyone would do that when dedicated Bluetooth chips designed to be used as HCI dongles exist. And then most of those have the same issues anyway...
“Chief Justice John Roberts said the impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings.
The extraordinary statement from the leader of #SCOTUS comes hours after #Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who tried to pause the deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members” 🧵 1/... bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Mmm, it finally looks like an electric van with the potential of a camper! Not much practical information here, but another article promises 400 km range, which is something. I doubt it's getting AWD though, and the price is still unknown.
Entdecken Sie das Kia PV5 Passenger – eine umfassende Mobilitätslösung, die perfekt an Ihre geschäftlichen und privaten Bedürfnisse angepasst werden kann.
New PebbleOS watches with more battery and familiar looks are up for preorder Shipping in July and December, with far more battery life and newer chips. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
I'm so happy to see this, I absolutely loved my Pebble Time Steel
... But I've also moved on. My Garmin watch is so much more capable and the only thing Pebble offers that I'd miss out on is the interface, which I much prefer over Garmin. Sadly I think I'll pass.
Also, I could read it online with an app that comes with my library ticket, but it used to be so dreadfully badly written I gave up bothering years ago.
Habe deren Vorgänger beide auf #Kickstarter finanziert gehabt, das waren aber noch Zeiten, zu denen es die #AppleWatch noch nicht gab… In der Zwischenzeit habe ich mich zu stark an die Apple Healt, ApplePay etc. Integration gewöhnt, so das ein Umstieg vermutlich nicht in Frage kommt… Aber so eine Open-Source Smartwatch zum basteln wäre schon auch cool 😀 mastodon.social/@afisch/114184…
Trump could reshape judiciary with 300 judge appointments, analysis shows - theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… "Advocacy group Demand Justice warns of opportunities for president to shift balance of courts in his favour" sickening thought
Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers discovered they can produce electrical signals like neurons.
Trump calls for impeachment of judge weighing Alien Enemies Act deportation case - theguardian.com/us-news/live/2… what a deranged, pathetic - and dangerous - rant from the wannabe dictator #trump
US president’s post marks a significant escalation of rightwing attacks on the judiciary; judge tells White House to provide more details about deportation flights by noon ET
Just a snapshot of what's going with ICE in Chicago. Beyond the headline, one man, a U.S. citizen, was picked up a couple miles from my house, handcuffed, and held for over 10 hours before being released with no way home. No record of his arrest exists. How many stories like these are there nationwide? #ICE #fucktrump
Abel Orozco Ortega was among 22 people from the Chicago area whose arrests by federal immigration agents violate a federal settlement, according to attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and ACLU of Illinois.
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."
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There’s something that kills coding speed—iteration time. If you can smash a function key and run your code, then watch it break, tweak, and smash it again—you’re working fast. But if y…
This is your reminder that the Windows App for Windows still can't connect to Windows directly with RDP - it can only connect to AVD, Windows 365, and other Azure-hosted remote desktop services.
dear americans of the US : log those kind of bullshit while it last, so you can restore all of it, once you achieved your revolution. Thanks for history(ians)
I genuinely don't know how any American can hold their head high over the actions of this administration. At best, it is divisive and reactionary at worst, it is just plain flat out fascism.
But no one should be able to see it and pretend it's normal.
Well, anti-DEI always meant racism and misogyny, yeah.
But it's also a sign of some really, really, REALLY insecure White men. I mean, WTF, White dude! Did you think that colored girl pointing at your weenie was laughing at you?
Sorry, guy. That was me laughing. But, in my defense, it was really funny.
Nobody in my family has ever referred to the road warning sign for roadworks as anything other than than "man having trouble with umbrella" from a spoof version of many signs about 50 years ago. (The rest didn't stick.)
Why do you think we find them so adorable? We are the descendants of people who found their babies too cute to just yeet them into the nearest pond for their behavior. The rational ones are no longer represented in our gene pool.
Here in #londonontario (#yxu) a girl in a ski-mask set a #Tesla on fire Monday night. Myself, I don't condone these acts of violence on people's personal property - guess she didn't know about the new Tesla building under construction in the city, now that... that could go...
[EDIT]: This is not a re-used photo from elsewhere - it is real - here is a local news article: lfpress.com/news/local-news/lo…
[EDIT2]: From the article, it appears this was a test-drive unit for the showroom in the mall, so not personal property... carry on then..
(Very surprising it happened here in #Ontario #Canada)
@dcdeejay Yes - agreed (although the paranoiac deep inside me thinks that mass media news sources owned by corps are potentially not reporting everything they could be) - this could just be a photo grabbed from somewhere else - so, not necessarily true - comments on thread are locked: reddit.com/r/londonontario/com…
climate voter/eco radical
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in reply to Low Quality Facts • • •lavender also repels a lot of common bathroom pests like silverfish.
Unfortunately, it also repels spiders, which aren't a pest in this house.
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in reply to Low Quality Facts • • •Would you believe that roses prefer to grow on horsedown?
While Elves' wings are made of..?
#exactly
Now being who I am, I shall remain a rose guy.
@stevewfolds
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