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No need to kill Hitler, go back and tell Lincoln to lynch the fucking Confederate southern seditionists for War Crimes of the Civil War instead of letting them go to lick their wounds and letting them poison the next generation to come back as Christian Nationalists
And do something about John Wilkes Booth while you're at it.
At the very least they shoulda hanged Jubal Early.
The joke is that leaf blowers are worse than the holocaust. Great joke.
Kidnap whoever rejected Hitler from art school. Easy solution.
You don't need to go back in time to kill a Hitler wannabe, there are at least three in power
Is this a suburban thing I’m too urban to understand?
Probably, there needs to be trees and lawns around for this to be an issue.
People who live in the suburbs live in very quiet environments. I live next to a busy street and personally I would like to the inventor of the subwoofer eliminated.
While noisy & a bit of a nuisance they are pretty effective at redirecting tear gas fog and drowning out the commands and orders of fascists pieces of shit to each other to prevent coordinated assaults and kidnappings. You can really disorient a row of people with a couple very bright led flashlights set to strobe and leaf blowers.
Personal distress alarms are very cheap, they are keyring devices that you pull the pin out and it screams at 130db for 90 minutes or so. Toss them down storm drains as the cops advance on you so they can't be turned off or destroyed
Get a few of these and lob them like sound grenades at the cops to disrupt their comms, or toss them onto the roof of the hotels where Ice are sleeping to keep them awake
Do you have a link to these beauties?
Just search for personal distress alarms, you can get them for $12 on Amazon (yuck), ~$5on AliExpress, and there are retail stores around me that sell them for ~$15-30.
Most run at 130db, but the battery size, rechargeability and various other parameters vary a lot. If they are going to be treated as disposable, cheaper is better
I would warn that these kinds of devices are serialized, so if the cops find them, then they can be used to trace back to you.
Lol in what dimension?
This one?
Here is a picture of the board for a relatively innocuous device, a tamogotchi.
https://proxy.imagearchive.com/53b/53be32971e72c1908b4a4f775b34dd41.jpg
How many components in that one picture have a serial number, batch number, or marking that can be used to identify the component? I counted 10 at a cursory glance.
Electronics devices aren't a monolith with a single serial number. Many components have markings on them to track it for QA and recalls.
I counted 10 at a cursory glance.
Oh did you? Please circle them for me so I can laugh at you
Serial numbers can be removed....
You gonna crack the device open and remove any serial numbers on the components too? What about the board itself? Mfg and batch dates pressed into the inside of the casing?
Do you think they match batch numbers to serial numbers with any sort of efficacy?
Also what about people who resell and don't record the sale?
Are they also a restricted item?
IIRC, they caught some bomber based on a serial part of a radio he bought and repurposed components from.
So yes. They do track that stuff. As for people who resell and don't record the sale, they can track the item to that person and then sweat the story out of them.
Restricted or not, anything electronic you buy has a myriad of serial fingerprints on it that can narrow down the potential pool so suspects to a particular retail location and month.
Edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
A circuit board fragment, allegedly found embedded in a piece of charred material, was identified as part of an electronic timer similar to one found on a Libyan intelligence agent who had been arrested 10 months previously for carrying materials for a Semtex bomb. The timer was allegedly traced through its Swiss manufacturer, Mebo, to the Libyan military, and Mebo employee Ulrich Lumpert identified the fragment at al-Megrahi's trial.
ICE: So anyway thats when we started blasting
OMG, yes! I swear there's someone outside my building using one 8 or 9 days per week.
There's a regulation in my region about pollution within 10m of a doorway or window leading to where someone works.
My landlady works in the building.
Leaf blowers need to be electric.
And they're quiet.
Score!
Yeah, I think there was some regulation passed to ban the sale of gas powered leaf blowers within my city or county, but anyone who already owns one is still allowed to use them, and anyone who wants to buy a new one just has to travel to the neighboring city/county to buy one. I'm not sure what happened with that, but I can tell you for sure that the city parks department is definitely still using gas powered leaf blowers.
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14 minute old account. It’ll be deleted before it sees the top of the hour, I wager.
Are the bots testing currently? It just seems like the silliest, least consequential nonsense being posted by them
it's still here after 2 hours
Its still there but 7 posts in 2 hours with no comments is mighty suspicious.
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Honestly I oppose the idea of going back in time and killing hitler. To me butterfly effect and everything. Just break into the hospital and swap hitler and another babies places, and poof you won't get the same combination of nature and nurture that created hitler.
Or even more important, wouldn't stopping WW1 be the key there. No historian here but there's a lot of complicated economic stuff that happened after WW1 that leads to the rise of facism. Would seem to me killing hitler, would just wind up with a new guy in the same roll.
Time traveller supervisor: "Did you do it? Did you kill Hitler?"
Time Janitor: "Jobs done boss!"
Time traveller supervisor: "But nothing in the future changed! Are you certain?"
Time Janitor: "Yep, he was in a bunker somewhere, there was a dead dog and lady there with him for some reason, I shot him right in the head!"
I'm more in favour of putting a lot of bleach in the primordial ooze.
At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.
But you’re going for a variation of the “let’s make hitler’s art career take off” plan, fair enough
Also worth noting with that definition of time travel, logically it would seem, time travel would be self eliminating.
IE, I go back in time, stop whatever I would consider the worse event in history... thus putting the world on a trajectory where myself or whoever invented the time machine no longer happens, leading to someone else inventing it, going back for a different reason, also changing the trajectory of history also eliminating the events leading to his time machine's creation. Effectively the dice keep re-rolling until we get a world where the time machine is either not invented or not used, most probably early human extinction.
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The inventor of clear retail bubble packs
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Shorty McDonald, electrical engineer responsible for too short power cords on eveery appliance.
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Inventor of USB type 1 plugs.
Initially USB connectors were meant to be reversible, kind of how USB C works, but the money men said nay.
I think the money man are a better target overall
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I don't get it. Is there something wrong with backpack leaf blowers?
The basic argument is they are loud and inefficient as well as a group of users being inconsiderate about when they are used (mornings on a weekend and the like).
I have an electric blower/mulcher. I rake the leaves into a pile before mulching. Leaf blowers are loud and only really good if you have a massive area to clear dry leaves from. Also the 2 stroke versions are an inefficient use of energy for a fan impeller.
There's an apartment building across the street from where I live, and sometimes the maintenance guy decides to spend his weekend blowing every single leaf on the property. He'll be at it for hours and hours non-stop, and yes, it makes me wish I could delete leaf blowers from existence.
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Yes. Boomers using that as early as possible on a Saturday morning.
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They are so much fun when cleaning off mountain bike trails tho. Woosh!
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