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This reminds me of Extinction Rebellion, which is probably also an op.
hello comrades let's do performative crimes and get arrested and have all our biometric data stored by the police forever
we'll get to wear costumes
I dunno, I think us anglos are just Like That. Everything's the bloody panto innit
They came to a climate protest here with, no joke, maybe 3k paper fliers, I had to stop the guy being like "you printed thousands of pages with only a logo, a hashtag, and a qr code, you couldn't have just like... made one?".
I know it's inconsequential in the large picture, but dude also was like 40 and had pig-nearing-retirement vibes. Was my first exposure to them, and it was when they were first starting to blow up (conspicuously I might add) . Pretty sure my initial thought was accurate.
i'm skeptical of anything involving a QR code that isn't explicitly a restaurant menu. It's probably data collection
Somehow that very obvious attack vector hadn’t occurred to me…location specific QR codes that redirect you through a site that captures a browser fingerprint before redirecting to a “legit” looking site. From there super easy to keep tabs on browsing behavior of anyone who was at the protest.
I’ll hover over one with my camera and it’ll say bit.ly or some shit and I nope right outta there
It's all an op and if it's not an op people have bought into op pushed ideas that are extremely divisive.
Pretty sure Boris Johnson's dad is one of the higher ranking guys innthe organization
Definitely stinks like an op
But in that scenario, it could encourage activists to try that too. The way she's doing it serves several purposes - destroying art, stirring outrage, and possibly providing insurance payouts
you're so right
i bet they dont because it "raises the temperature" so to speak. The first time you hear about a politically motivated kidnapping or kidnapping as an act of class warfare, it's maybe a little bit shocking. But then us proles get a better sense of where we're at as a society, and they get acclimate to hearing about things like that.
it makes it more likely that the proletariat will escalate from there
Remember the serpent bootleg Rainbow Underground that kidnapped that oil heiress and the oil heiress ended up joining them?
Awesome shit, the media hated her SO muc
I’d fake my own kidnapping.
If I was gonna go that far I'd also film it, along with my daring escape and getting my hands on twin tommy guns and my last scene would be a fight scene between me and all those stupid annoying fish and birds who make simple little oil spills look like it's suuuuuuch a big deal stupid annoying fish I don't even like fish who actually even eats that stuff anyway
as a non-vegan it is literally impossible to tell the difference between those clowns and our c/food rules
i'm sorry sir but you have posted a picture of le big mac without le content warning you are now a le bann
Their “demands” are just meeting the UN’s targets, too. Zero carbon or bust, libs.
i've been to a Getty gas station and I rank it about a 4/10. Not quite as bad as a Shell, nowhere as good as a Stuckey's.
come to me for more gas station reviews
Which station has the best tasting gas?
I want give my car a little treat but it seems to be allergic to all the sugar I put in the tank.
Son of a submariner. Do they make money when we use their stock images?
If you haven't bought the rights to a Getty image, you can get sued for copyright infringement if you publish it, but they do not make more money depending on if their stuff gets used or shared a lot. Stock images are usually one-time purchases. There's exceptions, but the client (newspaper, ad agency) normally pays a one-time charge (usually in the 400$ range when we're talking Getty), to buy the rights to use the image indefinitely. That price tag makes Getty one of the more expensive stock image libraries out there, libraries like shutterstock have charges way below 100$ / image and iStock is even cheaper than that, but even the costly stock images are still a lot cheaper than having a professional photo shoot, which will always cost you in the thousands of $ at least.
I don't think they'd come after this site for :via-getty: , meme-y stuff should be covered by "fair use" laws in the US, but if you'd put the entire pic that emoji is from in your blog, they could theoretically find it through a webcrawler and send their legal team after you.
After reading about Climate Emergency Fund (the group funding these activists), I'm actually less convinced it was an op and more convinced it's a bunch of out of touch wealthy liberals thinking you can tackle climate change through media stunts and "raising awareness". They also fund a bunch of different groups from all over, so I'm not sure they are in the know about each and every activity from every one of those groups, but who knows.
i agree.
everything is not an op and saying it is just because somebody got up from behind their computer screen is CRINGE AS FUCK.
The fact that an $84 million painting was undamaged was a red flag for me. You can't actually damage the merchandise, like when a politician's office get "vandalized" by antifa or whoever.
it would essentially be cultural genocide
is good because it would cause national pain.
This isn't something to be sought for it's own sake. September 12 hate crimes were not a desirable effect of Rome getting egg on its face.
dear oil barons you can pay me to make climate stuff look ridiculous come on you stupid fucks
