#Tesla Exploding Vehicles

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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'A Cybertruck exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

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In the investigation it has become clear how much control Elon Musk's company Tesla has over their customer's vehicles as they were able to remotely unlock the car after the explosion. Tesla also gave the police video recordings from their charging stations and Musk claimed to have viewed the car's telemetry data. source link

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I went to the smaller mall a couple of weeks ago. The head shop didn't have new Rick and Morty merchandise, but the employee gave me a free snack: crunchy biscuits in chocolate and cream!

Nothing in Rue 21, Hot Topic or the nerdy store, either. I was starting to lose hope until I spotted a new holographic sign in Spencer's. Seasons 1-3 still dominate merchandise, but we're slowly catching up to season six.

Marshall's also had a pair of psychedelic boxers.

That same day, I planned to visit another head shop in the area. Unfortunately, I didn't know that a car cruise was happening on the same street, so I ended up getting stuck in nightmare traffic until I turned around and went home.

The new Tesla location was also open and showing off their vehicles. Cybertrucks are uglier in person.

A week later, I decided to give the head shop another shot. This time, the road was clear. They had a couple of items:

Initially, I passed over the coloring book, thinking it was the same book that I photographed a while back. But I opened the book and found new illustrations from seasons 4-6, including some of my favorite scenes and episodes!

Yes, I like the stupid slut dragon episode.

Anyway, this weekend brought a shock: RUE 21 IS CLOSING! 😭 OK, I wasn't that shocked because this mall is notorious for driving stores out of business, but now the closest Rue 21 is an hour away. And that's not very close!

It's probably just a matter of time before the entire mall shuts down. But in the meantime, Hot Topic had a new shirt, which surprised me because they don't get new Rick and Morty merchandise very often:

I'm glad we're getting more season five apparel, but come on, where's the Crow Witch Rick shirt? Bruce Chutback gets a shirt, but not him? Mr. Nimbus spooking Phoenix Person is pretty funny, though.

And another sign in Spencer's!

One of the nerdy stores had a stack of comics. I love this Summer (variant?) cover.

And, finally, a visit to the bigger mall today resulted in this sign.

So far, it's been a slow year for Rick and Morty apparel. Merchandising usually explodes around Christmas, but before then, we might be limited to the occasional mug, shirt or metal sign.

Or maybe they're getting ready to unleash a barrage of Crow Witch Rick T-shirts and hoodies...right?

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Monica Lenis was in Great Exuma, Bahamas, yesterday when she caught this image of Starship's explosion. Thank you, Monica! SpaceX's flagship vehicle, #Starship - designed to take humans to the moon and Mars - exploded midair late yesterday minutes after its test launch from a beach in south Texas. Other aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico were forced to alter their courses in order to avoid the falling debris, which was seen by beachgoers in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Starship itself was completely lost. Meanwhile, the Super Heavy booster that had launched Starship successfully returned to the launchpad and was caught in midair. Read more at https://earthsky.org/human-world/starship-explodes-minutes-after-launch-planes-diverted/

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In what sounds like an attempt to hand over air traffic control systems to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system and his AI company, Trump today said—and here are his words, as Aaron Rupar transcribed them—“We’re all gonna sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand new. Not pieced together, obsolete, like it is, land-based. Trying to hook up a land based system to a satellite system. The first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work. We spend billions of billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying cut it loose, and let’s spend less money and build a great system one by two or three companies, very good companies, specialists, that’s all it is. They used 39 companies. That means that 39 different hookups have to happen. And I don’t know how many people of you are good in terms of all the kinds of things necessary for that. And it's very complex stuff. But when you have 39 different companies working on hooking up different cities at different people. You need one company. With one set of equipment. And there are some countries that have unbelievable air controller systems. And they would’ve, bells would’ve gone off when that helicopter literally even hit the same height. Because it traveled a long distance before it hit. It was just like, just wouldn’t stop. Follow the line. But bells and whistles would’ve gone off. They have ‘em where it actually could virtually turn the thing around. It would’ve just never happened if we had the right equipment . And one of things that’s gonna be, I'm gonna speaking to John and to Mike and to Chuck and everybody, we have to get together and just as a single bill just pass where we get the best control system. When I land in my plane, privately, I use a system from another country because my captain tells me, I’m landing in New York and I’m using a sys— I won’t tell you what country, but I use a system from another country because the captain says ‘This thing is so bad, it’s so obsolete.’ And we can’t have that.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted today that “the DOGE team” is “going to plug in to help upgrade our aviation system,” saying that “‘experienced’ Washington bureaucrats are the reason our nation’s infrastructure is crumbling.”

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton pointed out that “US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes. Hope your unvetted 22-year-olds fix things fast.”

Critics of the idea of Musk taking over the nation’s air traffic control systems note that his Tesla electric vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America. The average fatal crash rate is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; Tesla has a rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven. On social media, “God” posted: “Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system,” an apparent reference to the January 16 explosion of a SpaceX rocket over the Caribbean that scattered debris over the region led the Federal Aviation Administration to lock down airspace over Turks and Caicos.

[Heather Cox Richardson : Letters From An American: Feb.6,2025]

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He gets $8 million per day from federal contracts.

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And we absolutely cannot equate violence against people with violence against things. No working persons’ lives are being destroyed by the act of violence against cars. Dealerships are insured. Private vehicles are insured. Do I think it’s right to spraypaint or smash up someone’s vehicle in the parking lot of a Wegmans for them to find when they emerge laden with groceries? No, not really. But it’s not violence against them. For those who actually do see their Tesla as an extension of themselves, I’m very happy to disavow them of that delusion.

Allegedly, “3 out of 4 people who have been arrested for vandalizing Teslas are transgender or nonbinary.” That’s unconfirmed at the time of this writing but whether true or not Elon Musk has taken this revelation as proof that transgender people are overwhelmingly predisposed to violence. “That is simply a fact,” states the man who cannot present a single academic source to prove the theory he invented in his ketamine-melted brain. The thing is, I wouldn’t be surprised if a statistically abnormal number of transgender people were involved in smashing, vandalizing, picketing, or just flipping off Teslas. This is a class of people he has repeatedly vowed to scour from the face of the planet he believes he owns. Not because they have done anything to harm him, but because he has taken unfathomable personal insult at their existence and especially the fact that one of his own offspring is one.

I don’t expect a single Musk ally to agree with my assessment. They will say it’s the moral equivalent of cockroaches defending themselves against a can of Raid. The foreigners who will die (good riddance), the sick and elderly who will die (parasites), the poor who will die (should have learned to code), the education and knowledge that will be lost to the next generation (they have Grok). If you’re one of the people cheering this then I don’t care what you have to say. It's those supposed leftists and liberals and Democrats and centrists and aisle-reachers and capitulators who put the safety of inanimate cars above the lives of human beings that I cannot abide. ... I don’t think it’s a good idea to set Teslas on fire, but only because an electric car fire is incredibly dangerous. Do I think a minority scared for their survival under a Musk/Trump dictatorship who sets fire to an empty Tesla should be brought up on domestic terrorism charges? Fuck no. A Tesla doesn’t need much help lighting on fire anyway, and the only person who has ever killed anyone with an exploding Tesla is, technically, Elon Musk I reiterate: I don’t encourage this stuff. But you know why I don’t condemn it? It is literally the only thing that has ever been known to hurt him. We have buried ourselves in such a hole with capitalism that capital alone can literally immunize a man from any and all of the checks and balances we ludicrously pretend exist. Laws won’t stop him. If people tell the truth about his fraud, he will sue them. If they win the lawsuit due to truth being an absolute defense against libel, he will either pay the fine or not (see: laws won’t stop him) and then sue them again until they are bankrupt. If enough people protest, he will buy whoever publishes them, fire them and then sue them. All the while his wealth continued to explode while his cars continued to explode and his rockets continued to explode. The inertia of his meme stock went up and up fueled by lies about self-driving cars and Mars colonies and fucking humanoid robots until he had enough money to buy the country and then he became seemingly unstoppable. Then someone smashed up a Tesla and he fucking flinched.

We have watched for decades as men like Musk and the constellation of billionaires around him continued to grow stronger, break the containment of law and regulation, foolishly wringing our hands and telling ourselves that there is an upper limit to the power that they could amass. That there was something more powerful than capital, in a system literally called capitalism, that could arrest an individual’s power at some certain point. There is not. Attacking his capital is the only possible way to attack Musk. There might be another way to do that without blowing up cars, but nobody has figured out what that might be, and right now that’s the only thing with any proven results. If you have a better idea, then try it. Until then, people are going to keep trying this. Forgive me as I continue not to clutch a single pearl about it.

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We’re just a few days into 2025, and already there are countless questions surrounding the two attacks involving vehicles that were carried out by U.S. Military veterans on January 1.

The suspect in the first attack, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was reported to have mounted an Islamic State flag upside down in the back of his truck when he crashed it into a crowd of people in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring 35. According to the NY Post and its eyebrow-raising tour of Jabbar’s home, he had left the perfect crime scene, complete with a “bomb-making station” and everything.

The suspect in the second attack, Matthew Livelsberger, was an active-duty U.S. Army Green Beret, who was described by his family as a major Trump supporter. So, it was all the more puzzling when he rented a Tesla Cybertruck, drove it across the country, and then, according to reports, shot himself in the head, seconds before the truck exploded outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

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2 Jan. 2025 - U.S. At least 14 killed, dozens hurt on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as driver intentionally slams truck into crowd; attacker dead

2 Jan. 2025 - The driver in the New Orleans attack was an Army veteran from Texas

2 Jan. 2025 - Islamic State flag was mounted upside down on the truck driven by suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar

2 Jan. 2025 - FBI says driver in New Orleans rampage acted alone and was ‘100%' inspired by Islamic State group

2 Jan. 2025 - NY Post Reporter Jennie Taer tours suspect tour NOLA terror attack suspect’s home

2 Jan. 2025 - NY Post Reporter Jennie Taer’s Zionist ties

2 Jan. 2025 - Driver who exploded Tesla Cybertruck at Trump hotel in Las Vegas was an active-duty Army Green Beret, source says

2 Jan. 2025 - Man who died in Cybertruck explosion outside Las Vegas Trump hotel ID'd as Army special ops soldier

3 Jan. 2025 - Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion: 2 letters found on suspect's phone, police say

3 Jan. 2025 - Matthew Livelsberger Could Have 'Obliterated' Hotel If He Wanted, Uncle Says

3 Jan. 2025 - Turo CEO: Attackers had clean records, so background checks wouldn’t have stopped them

2 May 2024 - Faceless people, invisible hands: New Army video aims to lure recruits for psychological operations

25 Dec. 2024 - Trial of Ryan Routh, accused in Trump assassination attempt in Florida, pushed back to September

17 Sept. 2024 - In Ukraine, Trump plot suspect remembered as 'delusional'

3 Jan. 2025 - Cybertruck explosion suspect ‘served in Ukraine’ – AP

2 Jan. 2025 - Cybertruck explosion suspect wore Ukrainian neo-Nazi shirt

2 Jan. 2025 - Heavy Israeli Attacks on Gaza Kill More Than 90 Palestinians

2 Jan. 2025 - U.S. Reportedly Setting Up New Base In Northern Syria

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In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran named Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove through a crowd of revelers in the French Quarter of New Orleans, killing at least 14 and injuring dozens more. Jabbar had an Islamic State flag on the rented vehicle and reportedly recorded a video pledging his allegiance to the jihadi group.

The FBI is likely conducting an assessment of Jabbar’s electronics to see what the digital forensics reveal: what kind of Islamic State propaganda was he imbibing; how frequently was he reading Islamic State posts; did he download guides to make improvised explosive devices, or IEDs; which social media platforms did he visit; and was he in touch with any actual Islamic State operatives who may have served as a cyber-coach or virtual entrepreneur in the attack.

In the past year, almost all thwarted and successful Islamic State external operations—meaning attacks outside the perimeter of the group’s various provinces—have been inspired by the group, rather than enabled or directed by it. This is a stunning feat: The Islamic State has effectively leveraged its brand worldwide to inspire violence and carnage far away from the territories it controls, without even extending basic support to the attackers.

This underscores the crucial role of technologies such as social media and communication platforms in providing access to radicalizing content, as well as the knowledge and technical know-how necessary to orchestrate attacks. It also implies, however, that many such plots depend on rudimentary, low-tech methods—such as vehicle ramming—that capitalize on the simplicity and brutal effectiveness of forceful tactics.

So, how can these attacks be thwarted, and what are ways to stem the effective franchising of the Islamic State worldwide?

The adoption of advanced technology by terrorists—from IEDs to unmanned aerial vehicles—and the continued, highly successful use of simple attack measures—from vehicle ramming to stabbing attacks—indicate the need for a more nuanced understanding of why terrorists opt for certain technologies to commit attacks over others. In a case from last November, a far-right extremist in the United States planned to attack an energy facility substation with a drone rigged with explosives—a stark contrast with what happened in New Orleans.

Vehicle ramming attacks, requiring little to no planning, have become one of the most successful tactics in Islamic State-inspired terrorism due to a combination of practical and ideological factors. They have been used in attacks inspired and enabled by the group worldwide, including in Barcelona, Berlin, London, New York City, Nice, and Stockholm. Vehicle ramming attacks are more likely to succeed because they are incredibly difficult to detect in the planning phase and are equally hard and resource-intensive to mitigate.

In terms of accessibility, cars are readily available, and through rentals and vehicle-sharing platforms, only limited resources are necessary to conduct such an attack. In what the FBI says is merely a coincidence, the New Orleans attacker and a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who shot and killed himself before the Tesla Cybertruck he was in exploded on Jan. 1 in Las Vegas both used the peer-to-peer rental app Turo to obtain their vehicles.

Additionally, the barrier to entry is low and only requires a driver’s license. The symbolic aspect of vehicle ramming attacks is also important: An everyday utility object can cause mass carnage at any moment, with almost no preparation necessary. These attacks are not unique to jihadi groups. A far-right extremist used a vehicle during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to ram into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one. Just weeks ago, a Saudi national living in Germany, motivated by a strange brew of anti-Islamic and far-right ideas, used a car to attack a Christmas market southwest of Berlin.

The Islamic State has long relied on inspiring its supporters to conduct vehicle attacks, following an explicit admonition to do so by its former No. 2, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, who once exhorted Islamic State supporters to conduct attacks against Westerners with any means at their disposal. “Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him,” Adnani urged more than a decade ago. These brute-force tactics remain highly successful and hard to detect in the planning stages.

Counterterrorism can be a thankless profession. When plots are disrupted or terrorist cells rolled up, it may make the news cycle momentarily, but few people give much thought to what could have been if an attack had succeeded. And the FBI, CIA, and other agencies focused on counterterrorism have a legitimately impressive record in the generational struggle against groups such as al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and their various affiliates, franchises, and regional branches.

But as the Irish Republican Army stated publicly after nearly killing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, “We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.” It also means that counterterrorism authorities need to allocate resources where they believe the threat is the greatest, which sometimes leads them to become fixated on the “bright, shiny object” or the potential black swan event. This means a great deal of focus on terrorists using drones for attacks or attempting to deploy chemical or biological weapons. But the more quotidian attacks, like that in New Orleans, can still be highly lethal and nearly impossible to deter or defend against.

Constructing steel bollards or other objects that help harden soft targets is one method used by counterterrorism practitioners to secure public event spaces. In New Orleans, the bollard system was being repaired in preparation for next month’s Super Bowl. But even this shows that our societies are always adapting or responding to terrorism, even as our politicians like to trot out the fallacy that altering our lives in any way is “letting the terrorists win.” Still removing one’s shoes in the security line at the airport more than two decades after the infamous shoe bomber attack is a clear example of this. On the contrary, hardening soft targets, with either protective barriers or an increased police presence, is merely a recognition that the threat is real and, as a society, we intend to stand up against it.

There is no silver bullet solution to managing the threat posed by terrorism. After all, it is a tactic and as such cannot be defeated in the traditional sense, as if it were an army or a nation-state. Sound counterterrorism means kinetic measures such as drone strikes and special operations raids but also a comprehensive approach to dealing with root causes and grievances, whether those are socioeconomic, religious, ethnonationalist, or otherwise. In many ways, the Islamic State’s model of outsourcing its terrorism in the West to lone actors with a litany of grievances is the group’s realization of its long-sought playbook. It also makes focusing on root causes more important. In the case of Jabbar, reporting suggests that he struggled, like many others, with reintegrating into civilian life after leaving the military.

Counterterrorism in the modern age must be viewed through a broad, multifaceted lens, addressing both high-tech and low-tech threats in tandem. While the proliferation of advanced technologies—such as drones, encrypted communications, and bombs—requires a sophisticated and coordinated response, we must not overlook the enduring threat posed by more primitive methods such as vehicle ramming attacks and stabbings. Consequently, a comprehensive counterterrorism strategy means dismantling the technological infrastructure that enables terrorist groups to communicate and operate across borders while simultaneously fortifying the physical and societal barriers that mitigate the risk of simpler, brute-force tactics.

Only through a balanced approach that spans the full spectrum of technology used in attacks can we ensure the safety and resilience of our communities against the ever-evolving, blinking-red landscape of terrorism. As the Islamic State ramps up its operations overseas, taking advantage of power vacuums from Syria to Somalia, it will also accelerate its propaganda and media operations, leading to more of its followers seeking to conduct attacks in its name.

The Islamic State may have fallen off the front page of the newspaper, overshadowed by Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, but it remains stubbornly resilient and will prove to be a day-one issue for the Trump administration.

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Sara Boboltz at HuffPost:

Speaking Friday from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump suggested the Capitol rioters were tame compared with the people responsible for setting Tesla vehicles ablaze in protest of billionaire Elon Musk’s meddling in the federal government. “I view these people as terrorists just like others,” Trump said of the Tesla vandals. “When I looked at those showrooms burning, and those cars — not one or two, like seven, eight, 10 burning, exploding all over the place — these are terrorists,” he said. “You didn’t have that on Jan. 6, I can tell you. You didn’t have anything like that Jan. 6,” Trump went on, referring to the 2021 riot that left several people dead. A police officer was among those who died either during the riot or directly afterward. Trump notably issued a mass pardon for hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters in the first days of his new term, regardless of whether their crimes involved physical violence. The president suggested earlier on Friday that people who attack Teslas should be sent to prison in El Salvador, where his administration recently transported over 250 migrants. Attacks on Teslas ramped up across the nation and around the world after Musk made an arm gesture at Trump’s inauguration rally that resembled a Nazi-era “Sieg heil” salute. (Musk denies the comparison.) The world’s richest man has since taken on a prominent White House role guiding the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which has pressured agency leads into making sweeping, unpopular cuts to the federal workforce and government services.

Mr. Capitol Insurrectionist says what?!

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Daily Kos: Don’t mess with Teslas: Trump wants to deport Americans over car vandalism

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So what is Nikolay Arkovsky story? Like what weapons did he bring with him does he have aura.

Also should I be concerned that his chosen first name is a lot like Pyrrha'a last name, Pyrrha Nikos. While his chosen last name almost has Arkos in it like it's giving tragedy vibes.

Nikolay Arkovsky aka Jaune Arc from Earth, spacifica from the soviet union. Nikolay's Last name is combination of Arc with Rokossovsky putting together, Which resulting in his last name being Arkovsky.

When Jaune appeared in the Soviet Union, He was given a new identity and a new name. His new fake identity, is him being a native Russian, born in Moscow in in the year 1933.

I wanted to give him an original name and last name, so I thought to give him a last name that resemble that of a famous Soviet Marshall Konstantin Rokossovsky. As for the name Nikolay, if Jaune was an actual Russian, I thought that his name would be Nikolay, as to me it seems most fitting name for him.

So no Nikolay has no relationship or connection to Pyrrha or the ship Arkos. mostly due to Nikolay being not fond of her and him being 68 years old man, even though there is no sign of aging on his face, the only signs of his age is some white strains on his hair.

Nikolay has No, love for Huntsman at all. due to an incident that showed him that show corrupt nature of the Huntsmans. With this he despise Huntsman seen them as nothing but mercenaries that hangers for fame and wealth.

Yes, Nikolay has aura. but upon arriving on Earth his aura has been weakened. The reason for this is due to remnant is providing that aura all across its planet giving its power to all living creatures with a soul. Earth On the other hand does not have Aura, Nikolay needed to train his Aura to grow and adapt to Earth’s conditions, which in the process mutated his Aura into something more powerful that anyone on remnant and earth has ever saw.

As for his weapons, he only have a Tesla pistol. as his main weapons are his aura and his semblance, Aura amplification. Which can amplify everything that he touches, he can amplify a small bullet so that it can explode like a actual artillery shell, or He can amplify his own body, to destroy entire building with one punch of his bare feast or lift up an entire tank.

This is his Tesla pistol, that is resembled that of an old German World War pistol. The Tesla pistol can shoot as normal bullets and also an electrical laser shots that can Pierce anything except for much heavy metal, it could also shoots a massive plasma blast that can destroy heavy armed enemy or even vehicles. Nikolay casually amplify his Tesla pistol that later can give a much more larger damage than usual, he can make his pistol shoots a giant laserbeam that can destroy entire city district like a small electrical nuclear bomb. It also can use his electric shocker or as EMP gan, so the Tesla pistol has many useful mods that can help you in the battle. It can also recharge itself if you out of bullets, just put the battery in one of the electric sources which can be simple sunlight that can charge the battery.