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Is it moral to vandalize Teslas?
  • Personally, I don't consider it moral at all. They spent a lot of money on that thing. And what if people on the other side decide to vandalize back?

    This looks like relatively harmless vandalism. What if it escalates?

    What if car vandalism isn't enough, what if they burn your house down? Or you to them?

    I just think it's an ugly way to live & nothing good comes from messing with shit that isn't yours. In this case, the fitting punishment is already applied & by their own hand. Rapid depreciation, vehicles that rust in car washes, virtually no product support, expensive to maintain, ridicule from others...idk. I think that's enough on its own.

  • Back to plastic: Trump announces US policy ‘to end the use of paper straws’.
  • Bloody Marys.

    It is a little important to fix & move on, since these paper straws...don't work too well for too long...and their binding glue is a carcinogen! It's a good thing, like you, I tend to go without straws. 🙂

    No use, no waste. Also frequent use of straws leads to perioral wrinkles & IIRC it's not great for your teeth.

  • Trump enrages Christian MAGA by naming ‘heretic’ pastor to White House
  • According to the Christian faith, women cannot serve as preachers, pastors, priests, etc. That, alone, demonstrates a terrible misunderstanding (or blatant disregard!) of a painfully basic teaching of the Christian faith.

    To then promote a woman to be the head of this faith whatever, that's tonedeaf AF. Of course they're angry.

  • Hypocritical Oligarchic Rulers
  • Republicans & Conservatives would constantly cry, "They're destroying the _______."

    The government? They're just really in love with the government, this is what they're known for?

    No. The answer to that fill-in-the-blank is, "They're destroying the COUNTRY." Government /= country, it's not even fucking close. This reminds me of when I'm "quoted" but they change the words. 😂 Changing words changes the whole context, usually to make me look worse & their arguments (artificially) look better.

  • Granny went on a date with her 38. (Granny is also a literal Nazi).
  • 2 Corinthians 6:14. Not that I believe this shit anymore, but that's not true. I've heard a number of in-depth sermons on this verse. Marriage partners being "unequally yoked", and how marriage partners need to be on the same team, pulling in the right direction, sharing the same values.

  • Which part of DEI do you hate?
  • ....no.... Still not the story behind Let's Go Brandon. It's a constant call to attention that a reporter tried to lie about a crowd of young men yelling "Fuck Joe Biden" at a NASCAR race. Insisting they were instead chanting, "Let's Go Brandon".

    So much like the Pritzker signs with dual meaning, when they were saying Let's Go Brandon, it's not only saying Fuck Joe Biden, but also fuck the people censoring speech.

  • Which part of DEI do you hate?
  • That wasn't the point of the "Let's Go Brandon" crap. At all.

    Then yeah the Pritzker Sucks...the life out of small businesses is a simple double-play, a cheeky "gotcha". Not a lack of conviction at all.

  • Debadging a car
  • Idk exactly what you're referring to, I see a bunch with FORD put in on the grille. And that's the easiest debadge-job ever; you just buy an aftermarket clean grille. I think it looks very nice & clean.

    Same thing with the tailgate, either find a way to tastefully remove the logos or buy aftermarket. I like the look of the "air flow" tailgates, or the straps.

    Especially if you're buying a junker, and you don't care if it looks super nice...that's just free license to get creative & rip 'em off, cover up any way you see fit. Fuck Ford badges. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Debadging a car
  • I agree, people will no, but debadging even that little oval? Taking it ou of the grill? That is very intentional, it doesn't occur by accident, it might even make some people go, "...huh."

    I would refuse to have their emblems on my vehicle. I have my reasons. Unless somebody wants to buy me a nice one & leaving badges on was part of the conditions, by all means, drop thousands of dollars on me & make me a hypocrite. I am nothing if not practical. But if it's my money, on my Ford vehicle, all badges & emblems are being stripped off.

  • Debadging a car
  • Another reason not listed: fuck the manufacturer. I don't pay, I don't drive around town, I don't live my life to be an advertisement for you. ¯\(°_o)/¯

    Ford has done me wrong. Ford has done America wrong. But for the right price, I still might consider driving a Ford. Why cut off your nose to spite your face? But you bet your ass I'd debadge that motherfucker. Ford doesn't deserve to be publicly acknowledged by me on my goddamned vehicle, bought with my goddamned money, to be seen by others. Nah. I'm not doing that.

    Get a salvage Ford, or a really ugly/deformed Ford, debadge it? Hell yeah. Let's go.


    I also don't like explicitly branded clothing. Why do we pay to advertise for these people, like it's some kind of privilege or status? 🤨 Especially the most basic bitch stuff out there, manufactured by foreign slave labor. Idk, it's all dumb.

  • You can summon a baguette out of thin air but it is always slightly stale. How do you use this ability for personal gain?
  • I guess that is an angle. But I think I heard of an old Asian tale basically saying that tyrants, dictators, and oppressors require amazing security detail by default. But universally loved rulers who care for the people & do incredible amounts of good need minimal security, and every good man is an unpaid member of their security detail. Virtually all will work to protect him.

    Even if that were the case, if you could quickly work over a few countries & create organic, fertile topsoil for all the barren land on Earth -- I would argue you have a moral obligation to quickly, quietly execute that power. Even if it kills you. Perhaps start by creating oceans of slightly stale baguettes in the deserts; leave people in the dark. Then go to countries in secret & be like I am the bread god, you've seen my work, pay me now, and get all the bread.

    Even if they were to eventually find & kill you, strictly speaking about utility, creating millions of tons of fertile, rich compost & filling the bellies of millions of people is more good than you or I could ever hope to accomplish in a lifetime. Even a million people. It would be an act of goodness that would change the world forever.

  • You can summon a baguette out of thin air but it is always slightly stale. How do you use this ability for personal gain?
  • Being only slightly stale isn't an issue at all, especially when it comes to sustenance to stay alive. Setting personal gain aside, have people pay you to travel to Bumfuck, Africa. Make it rain infinite slightly stale baguettes. Solve their hunger, at least for a while, and build a composting facility to create mass amounts of compost out of tons of slightly stale baguettes. Feed their livestock tons of slightly stale baguettes.

    Travel to Bumfuck, India. Make it rain infinite slightly stale baguettes. Solve their hunger, at least for a while, and build a composting facility to create mass amounts of compost out of tons of slightly stale baguettes. Feed their livestock tons of slightly stale baguettes.

    I'm sure you could reach out to many impoverished countries of the world, say hey you pay for my travel, my food & lodging, and pay me $200K (or whatever they can afford) and I'll make slightly stale baguettes rain down from the fucking sky and they'll gladly take you up on that offer. If they're smart.

    World hunger, solved. Deserts covered with multiple feet of fertile, composted bread-soil. And as others have said, French toast & other foods forever. Plus if you work it right, you could get paid to travel the world & enrich the nations with your talent.

  • What mis-stated phrases or words do you feel still need to be corrected (online or in person) in 2025?
  • If you claim to be someone's friend, there is a small obligation & duty to try & keep them from embarrassment. I have tried. 🫠

    I am serious, this man is 33. I have in the most friendly of ways stopped our private conversation (no one else was around), and I said very pointedly: "You keep saying Pacific. You mean to say specific." I think I've even done it on two separate occasions. He sheepishly smiles and says, "Uh, yeah" and we continue talking because I'm not going to be a total dick about it.

    The man hasn't ever claimed to be much of a scholar (he isn't), and he's got depth of knowledge on other things & he's my friend. But every time he randomly says Pacific instead of specific my brain goes fuuuuuuuuuuck, dude, whyyyyyyyy? Thankfully that word doesn't come up much organically; he said it a week & a half ago. Before that it's been many months. A small price to pay for a lovely friendship.

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