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I have a big no soliciting sign on my door, when sales people knock anyway I make it a point to waste as much of their time as I can and not buy anything.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 137 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I deflated somebody's tire because they were an ICE vehicle parked in an EV charging bay.

[–] BeelzebubEiNukuKoskaan@piefed.social 67 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Pro-tip to anyone who wants to do this sort of shenanigans, you can remove the valve from the valve body quite easily. Just need a tool that costs a dollar. You take off the plastic cover, put the tool inside the valve body and start unscrewing. Doing this will of course prevent air from staying in the tire.

Even more of a pro-tip, do this on two tires so the person cant just put the spare tire on.

Obviously do this only on cars that are owned by arseholes, cunts or the actual ICE.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Only do this with no electronic devices on your person, or with them packed away in a faraday bag. Everywhere you go with a bluetooth or wifi antenna is being logged by a dozen data brokers, and the gov has access to all of it.

You might get away with it once, but your radio fingerprint in range 2+ times of an incident is a pattern that's easy to spot.

This goes for ALL resistance activity, including simple protesting. The nazis are building lists, and they can use those lists to destroy your life in many more ways than assault and imprisonment (e.g. covertly limit your employment opportunities, housing options, or credit/loans).

EDIT: I suggest you leave your device at home, charging at your bedside. The faraday bag is an easily detectable anomaly (unless you make it a habit). If you need a device for maps/gps etc, your best bet is to buy an old android where you can physically remove the wifi and bluetooth antenna from the device.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If they're good at collecting and analyzing the data, you stopping there for long enough to do this might be enough. Also, assume there are cameras, on the vehicle and the area nearby.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Security is not binary. Obviously you should be wearing something that covers your face, but you can't ultimately protect yourself from drones.

The goal is to be smarter than average and defend yourself from the things in your control. The fact they're so heavily dependent on surveillance capitalism means they're less likely to use alt methods.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago

Didn't remove the valve. Just loosen it. The tire will still lose air, but it will be harder to know why.

[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Or hear me out, just cut the valve off with pliars. More destructive and much much faster.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hear u, but some cars have fucking aluminum valve stems for the tpms! Another think my buddy did as young child to random cars parked on his street was taking a tiny pebble, removing the valve stem cap and dropping the pebble on the shraeder + screwing cap back on it. Zero damage, just have to reinflate, but hell of an inconvenience. And zero property damage = very hard to get in any real shit for.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Dried lentils are the perfect size and shape for this

[–] speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Anyone know what this tool is called? Umm, asking for a friend.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

Valve core tool

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can just use a tiny stone that fits inside the cover to push the valve down enough.

[–] doublenut@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Tiny ball bearing and a dab of super glue also works great

[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

Valve stem removal tool?

[–] not@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

Tire valve stem tool