Fediverse vs Disinformation

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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.

What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.

By equipping yourself with knowledge of current disinformation campaigns by state actors, corporations and their cheerleaders, you will be better able to identify, report and (hopefully) remove content matching known disinformation campaigns.

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Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers (futurism.com)

submitted 3 days ago by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse_vs_disinfo@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/47995540

The physics of being hit by a tall car are gruesome. With a standard sedan, which has a hood height of around two and a half feet, a pedestrian who gets struck straight-on gets flung onto the hood. While perilously acrobatic, hoods are designed to absorb impacts and cushion the pedestrian’s fall.

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Federal researchers at the Transportation Department’s Volpe Center, for example, warned that taller cars with their bigger blind zones were killing hundreds of pedestrians and cyclists every year back in 2022. But as the reporting notes, it still receives far less attention than other road safety issues like drunk driving. And those federal researchers say their warnings were ignored.

“There was just zero acknowledgement of the problem,” Angie Byrne, a former Volpe Center employee who was involved in the research, told the NYT.

If you drive a pickup like this, you have made an arbitrary choice to kill the next person you accidentally hit.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

These vehicles are murderous, their rise in popularity represents a visual indicator of the vanishing social contract in the US.

DO NOT BUY A VEHICLE LIKE THIS, otherwise one day you will be staring at a dead kid you just hit with your stupid truck you can't see out the front of.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most people are so emotionally cowardly they would resolve the cognitive dissonance in a way to blame anyone and everyone else. "It's not my fault!"

These oversized cars should be illegal.

And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn't.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

If I saw someone cutting the brake lines or attaching a bomb to one, no I didn't.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And if I saw someone vandalizing one, no I didn't.

Same.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the cameras and facial tracking will though

[–] HarneyToker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

$3 baklava

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh shit, where?

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

seriously... that's some damn cheap baklava

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I know a place near me that had it but the pieces were tiiiiiny and not the best. Still like every day.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You will not be able to see the child you murder. It'll be fine. You won't even notice if you hit it on the way to the car wash!