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[-] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hopefully 2025 will be a nice normal year--

Cybertruck outside of Trump hotel explodes violently and no once can figure out if it was a bomb or just Cybertruck engineering

Huh. I guess it'll be another weird one.

(I know I know, low effort post, I'm sick in bed and bored)

[-] mii@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, at least there’s no way the Elon simps can spin that, right?

Never mind.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

They are also spinning it into "the car is so great you cant do terrorism with it due to how strong it is", which considering the several vehicle terrorism acts recently seems very unwise.

Also 'it would be different for the bystanders' i think you can see on the explosion vid there were not that many bystanders (which makes terrorism a bit less likely) and still 7 people were hurt (and the driver died). Id wait a bit with drawing further conclusions.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

Steel, like a pressure cooker

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Somebody pointed out that I might have been wrong and steel might be a perfect shield for anything.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you'd expect that active duty green beret would know how to make a bomb, especially after seeing these things in afghanistan, but no. (containment like pressure cooker works only for low explosives, because burn rate depends on pressure. this is common knowledge among some gun owners, particularly those that reload their own cartridges. proper high explosives don't need that, any kitchenware and pieces of cybertruck would just add to fragmentation. one could expect that any highly trained soldier should know this too)

but hey, maybe taking info from different places and combining it in novel ways just isn't his thing. he wouldn't get there in the first place if it was

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

chalk it down to perp incompetence. single direct hit with old 155mm shell (7kg explosive) can destroy a normal modern tank, nevermind a car. no amount of shitty panels would contain anything at least mildly substantial. there were cases of suicide vests with bigger charge than that (10kg) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66355032

i think you can see on the explosion vid there were not that many bystanders (which makes terrorism a bit less likely)

symbolic building (??) still makes sense as a target for terrorist attack

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sure but id expect the perp to first use the cybertruck to ram into the building, or at least move closer, and not park nicely, otoh, if he was a terrorists what do I know, dont exactly know what goes through their mind shortly before things at high speeds go through their mind.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

parking like this raises less suspicion. maybe he wasn't sure enough about whatever igniting mechanism he had, he could end up stuck in a wall unable to get out to look it up

instead of high speed disassembly dude just burned down in automatically locked death trap, i guess he found that anticlimatic. not like isis (guessing) recruits brightest minds out there

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah the story is about to get weird. Your isis guess might not be far off. See this same military base as the guy who drove into the crowds.

Writers of 2025: "Somehow isis returned." (I know isis never left, media just looked less at it, but thought it would be a funny joke).

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

i've seen that news piece on how they were in the same base and how they were deployed in afghanistan around the same time previously and that's what i based this guess on

still, so far it could be anything else including complete coincidence. it's like dude forgot everything, he was radioman but couldn't make remote controlled detonator and didn't use efficient charge for some reason

not only isis never left, i guess they controlled some territory at least until last month even if it was only a couple of villages in desert

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sure, you know what, let's go with that. While obviously I don't condone terrorism, I agree with Nic here that if you are going to do a car bombing, blowing up a Cybertruck is preferable to other cars. Because it contains the blast better or whatever.

[-] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry about the low effort post, even the writers of 2025 are phoning it in.

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