They burnt down an entire city block when George Floyd was killed.
If enough people are pissed off, there’s very little the authorities can do, and soldiers don’t like firing on civilians one bit.
Besides, law enforcement and military are funded by the taxes the working class paid.
I’m aware. Do you think these guys want to be martyrs?
That really nails it, I think. Tech is a hobby for some, a means to an end for the vast majority.
I’ve used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.
But sure, I couldn’t possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it’s obviously the marketing.
Christ this is such a Lemmy take.
The other option is users just not using tech at all.
I’ve said this before here, but techy people vastly overestimate both the ability and the patience of the typical user, and it’s the reason so few people use FOSS products.
Products from big tech aimed at private individuals are designed to be as simple to use as possible, which is why they’re so popular.
It will be like Russia, where they make nuclear threats on a weekly basis, but know they would be obliterated if they ever actually used them.
Having said that, you’re right about Israel having nukes being nothing to cheer about.
No, but they can certainly kill the Ayatollahs, and I don’t think they’re willing to die for the cause.
They quite famously killed the guy in charge, is what I’m getting at.
How many senior Taliban members are still alive from those days? The organisation persists, most of the leadership didn’t.
The US response to something like that would almost certainly result in a regime change in Iran, and the death or life imprisonment of its leaders.
I really don’t think Iran’s leaders are that foolish, after what happened last time someone did that.
I’ve seen attacks where a hundred people were either killed or injured, they call that a car bomb. I.E, you need a vehicle to carry that much explosive.
Utter nonsense that a pager did that.
How is that even remotely possible? The users here will believe absolutely anything.
I mean, rebellion was very much a core theme of punk.
The best outcome here is these toys are a massive flop, and cost Mattel a bunch of money.
That’s the language these corps truly speak.
They don’t often have a use case for them, which is probably a good thing.
How many times does this need to be posted? We get it.
Who’s going to back up Iran though? Maybe the houthis, but they barely count.
YouTube should be fixing their buggy mess of a YouTube app, what a disaster. Every change they make, makes it worse.