• DoubleDongle
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    18 days ago

    I feel like I’ve been given a quest. I’m a coward and it’s probably gonna sit on the list forever, but it’s there now.

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      18 days ago

      It’s shocking that there hasn’t been more vandalism, or “terrorists” attacks.

      Especially since there are so many data centers in rural Texas, where everybody and their dog owns a 300 blackout for hog hunting.

      Getting kinda conspiracy theory-ish, but I wonder if there has been a lot of vandalism, but it just hasn’t been reported on and kept hush-hush

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        18 days ago

        Those suckers are built like a fortress, although Bubba probably knows a guy with a wrecking ball.

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          not all of them. zuck’s using tents in ohio to build them faster. giant tents larger than some walmart supercenters.

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          Thermite isn’t exactly hard to make, and it does a marvelous job at melting anything capable of melting.

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          18 days ago

          an average person or someone with a latent talent for destruction?

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        18 days ago

        They’re probably of the same stock that used to take potshots at power stations. Might as well get with the times.

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        18 days ago

        there has been a lot of vandalism, but it just hasn’t been reported on and kept hush-hush

        Not sure about the “a lot” part but there’s definitely been silenced or downplayed by the media.

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    18 days ago

    Y’all are reading into this inversely.

    This just means all acts of vandalism are going to be classified as terrorist acts, which means you go to big boy disappear forever jail for fucking with them.

    It isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

    They’re going to fuck the taxpayers over (us) for any damage that happens to them, and whoever is caught messing with them is going to get fucking disappeared after being made a big fat example of.

    These are the times when you absolutely have to read between the lines.

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      You might be right, but you also might be thinking this too literally.

      Insurance is pretty archaic in how things are tracked. Some specific types of coverage in the industry is tracked via buckets (makes it easier to communicate between the plethora of companies involved in a single policy). The buckets are broad though, and are there simply to track exceptions in coverage. It doesn’t necessarily mean “the government said you were a victim of terrorism so we won’t cover it”. It more likely means “for the purposes of your coverage any act of vandalism is not covered, and we are tracking it via the terrorism coverage bucket”. Why? Because they think there is a high enough likelihood of people doing just that, and they don’t want to accept the risk.

      There are buckets for wind damage, earthquakes, etc. basically anything that falls outside of some mundane event like an employee tripped and spilled and their coffee on a server. Anything that can be traced back to a larger “event” or “act of God”.

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        Yeah, I don’t disagree with you at all. But we’re here now. Where logic is being re-written live in favor of the Epstein class.