Robotaxis burn in Los Angeles in backlash to immigration raids
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I'm happy to sever more and more ties with those backing MAGA as each day passes.
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It's really interesting that ICE seems to be heavily targeting people in large cities with a voting base that tends to lean democrat and not a dense concentration of people that meet the criteria for targeting. Instead of focusing on rural areas with a voting base that tends to lean republican, and that are filled with farm workers that meet the criteria for targeting.
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Yeah my dog, they don't understand peaceful. We've been peaceful for way to long. It's now time to speak their language.
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Have you spoken with the reporter shot with a riot control gun while he was doing his job, too?
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The patriotic act is resistance to tyranny.
That's kinda how this whole experiment in democracy got started over here, isn't it?
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Correct. While I think militia might be an inaccurate description, the Black Panthers were focused on self defense, self determination, and community uplift. They ensured the police thought twice about brutalizing black citizens (so much so that the laws were suddenly changed with the intent of disarming them: Mulford Act signed by Reagan) and provided resources (including, but not limited to, free breakfast and lunch programs for kids) to those in the community less fortunate. All of that gets swept under the rug in our schools though, with the message simply being they were "bad" terrorists like X and not like the "good" blacks who followed MLK.
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So you consider the accused to be guilty automatically — no trial. You are, as is the usual case, on the wrong side of history.
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The problem with using violence is that that's a playing field where the government is even harder to beat. Especially with a senile lunatic like trump ignoring all the laws that are supposed to bind the power of the government.
I wouldn't be too surprised if trump declares martial law to become the emperor of the US or something similarly problematic, using this as flimsy excuse. And then sending in the military to shoot protestors, the press and everyone else he doesn't like.
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My father had Panthers escort him when he was registering Black people to vote back in the 70s. They weren't violent, but they were prepared to protect him in case people did what they do to Jewish lawyers who register Black people to vote.
More importantly, though, he needed the Panthers to introduce him to community leaders, and also to vouch for him to regular people who had absolutely no reason to trust another White guy full of talk.
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Her, although there could be more than one.
View: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgTbjfB/
And you’re not supposed to even use these “less lethal” rounds so close. That was assault with the intent to maim.
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and I said to you "show me The video of a national guard doing something different then what I said they were doing in my comment."
la police were firing rubber bullets and tear gas at protestors.
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If the USians can keep their country together until trump's gone, maybe they can elect a government that gets rid of it ... one can home at least...
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Exactly the question I have. I wish someone would address this somewhere in the news. I don't fully understand the authority structure of the National Guard and to what extent they are controlled by the states vs the federal government.
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A humble environmentalist suggestion to the protesters: Smash the waymos with baseball bats and spray-paint them to your heart's content, but please try not to set them on fire. It hurts average people who breathe in the resultant poisons.
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Don't ever do that!
The last time I did it he came back with twelve cases of Chicken Feast in Gravy Fancy Feast, seven bags of Insane-in-the-Membrane Catnip, three laser pointers, four bags of Science Diet, a $400 self-cleaning litter box, and six boxes of Fresh Step, and fifty cans of StarKist in oil.
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The civil rights movement was largely peaceful. Yes, there were instances where they were not, but let’s not let those examples outshine the unbelievable sacrifice so many folks made through peaceful protests.
MLK was strongly against violence and advocated for peaceful protests. He understood that riots would happen through rage and frustration, but he did not advocate for them.
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no I am not stating the reporter was protesting,
this is my original comment.
""the national guard at this point is only being used to protect federal employees and buildings.""
my point is the national guard is not participating in policing actions at this point. they are currently there protecting federal buildings assets and personnel.
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I don't expect anyone to out-shoot the military, but if the chain of command is politicized, and lawful orders become a grey area, bad things will surely happen. Exactly what that looks like is a real question, but a bunch of dead protesters is one real possibility. Worse still is the possibility that some troops open fire on protesters and other troops open fire on those troops (the Syrian civil war answer). Part of why this is so reckless is that it has an unbelievable number of ways it could go unexpectedly and catastrophically wrong. That doesn't mean we should abandon all hope, but if some marine's interpretation of the law of war is the only thing standing between you and a marine opening fire on the orders of his/her commander, I would not feel particularly confident about the outcome.
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That sounds like a braindead hypothesis. I bet there are lots of reporters with cameras around the protests that are taking footage already. At least if the police isn't shooting at them to drive them away. And I bet many of the protesters are posting videos and pictures online for everyone to see.
No additional waymo cameras needed.
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I don't think that mosquitos are doing anything inherently ethically wrong, but this doesn't stop me from crushing them.
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They are authorized to support ICE in their ongoing activities of dubious legality. They are a single step away from having (again questionable legally) "authority" to engage in direct action against civilians.
In either case, firing of weapons indiscriminately is not required to protect buildings. Removing the personnel would be adequate to protect them.
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I personally don't want a mediocre TV personality deciding what laws should be enforced, or that due process doesn't apply to people he wants out of the way.
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You know who doesn't know what "majority" means? Tell me you don't know without telling me you don't know...
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The government and the media are not going to tell that story. For Trump, it's not the narrative he wants to push, for the media it doesn't generate the clicks/views that chaos does.
If so much as one act of theft or violence happens, that's going to be the headline no matter how peaceful everyone else was.
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Riots in the street when a fascist takeover (under the pretense of martial law) is imminent. How dare they?!!!
This is textbook Latin America in the 70's and 80 's. ICE thugs provoke riots, army called in to "suppress" and it's over. The CIA has set up dozens of these. Simple and efficient.
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He got just under half of the vote.
His approval rating has fallen far lower than that though.
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The cameras on a self-driving car produce an enormous flood of video data. It is just not possible to save very much of it. To upload video, it has to be sent through the car's cellular data link, which has only limited capacity - much like streaming video from your phone over cellular (not wifi). Alternatively, robotaxis could be equipped with a big disk for saving video, uploaded through a high bandwidth link when the car returns to its garage. I worked at a company that used both methods in its small engineering test fleet.
It was soon realized that nobody ever cared to look at the daily terabytes of video, except for occasional episodes when a car would encounter some kind of difficult or unusual situation or require realtime assistance from a remote operator. It was pointless and costly to try to capture all that data. Instead, under normal conditions the cars retain the video for only a few minutes. The onboard AI is taught to watch for stressful situations or unusual events, and trigger recording from shortly before the event until shortly after the return to normal. Only these clips were then uploaded and saved for possible later review.
If there's an accident or crime near the car, a stressful traffic situation, emergency vehicle lights or sirens, a human directing traffic, a construction zone, etc, it was intended that the car would autonomously save that video to be uploaded. It would discard other video.
There's a good chance that cars like these would indeed capture video when being vandalized or encountering people marching or blocking traffic.
However, note that the robocar's cameras only need good enough resolution and image quality for making driving decisions. More pixels require more compute: the car's computer has to be bigger and faster. The cameras are designed for driving, not cinematography. People's faces may not be identifiable unless they are close to the car.
Robotaxis are not much good as a surveillance platform because they aren't equipped to store or transmit much of what they see. I suppose if a protest is expected, government agents could hang out in the robotaxi remote assistance control room, look over the shoulders of the remote operators, and demand that they turn on realtime streaming from specific cars. But really they would get much better results by flying a drone over the crowd, or a helicopter (their helicopter probably has a stabilized camera pod with a long zoom lens).
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Don't make the mistake of thinking all supporters of Trump are the same, obviously you can't convince everyone, but there is a lot of other kinds of supporters. There are 2 things that really push people one way or the other: money and security. These protests will be portrayed as either "violent thugs attacking law and order" or "violent police attacking peaceful protesters", both affect the feeling of how secure you and your family are, you really want to them to be seen the right way.
Anyway, you don't have a choice, the goal is to shift public opinion as much as possible, and if you reach enough then either the pressure is enough, or it becomes a revolution. If you can't reach a high enough public opinion, then you can't do anything.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think it was the national guard that shot him. Details are important.
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My reply is more to Dr. Gitlin than to you, but you have a very good point. Trump is known to want to grab power, and has had ICE agents in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles arrest innocent people.
It's not far fetched at all that the people on video aren't actual protestors deciding to do this. It's likely they are, but not certain.
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