OboTheHobo

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Power brick, power adapter, or USB charger are what come to mind for me.

I gotta say I disagree heavily with your fiancee on dongles. IMO dongles are adapters for data of some kind, not just power from the wall. But to each their own I guess.

There was debate around whether they should use lidar. I thought I remembered that the initial plan was lidar but that musk dropped it before any actually got into the hands of consumers. I could be wrong though

This is ancient news, but I still cant believe they ditched lidar. Relying in computer vision alone when you could easily give it more reliable data to work with is just stupid.

So let's look at these requirements:

• violence: not really. Vandalism and destruction of equipment aren't violence, to my knowledge PA has not harmed or attacked anyone.

• non combatants: they targeted weapon shipments and military equipment. While I suppose you could argue the UK military aren't combatants as they aren't part of the war directly, but honestly that point is entirely moot given that they didn't target people.

• political and ideological aims: sure, they are a political activist organization. Obviously that alone doesn't make them terrorists.

So, even by what Wikipedia defines as the "broadest" definition, not terrorists.

I mean, at an absolute minimum, terrorism requires violence against people, which they did not do. They targeted planes and other military equipment. That's not terrorism no matter how much damage they caused.

Im not saying what they did isn't illegal. I'm saying it's not terrorism. This is like if someone was charged with murder and punished for it only to turn out all they did was rob a store and you're like "well akshually ☝️🤓 they're a criminal so it's fine"

Then the UK's legal definition is fucking stupid. Terrorism is when a group attempts to strike fear and terror into a populace to coerce them. It definitionally requires violence and fear.

So they vandalized some planes and snipped some cables? And this got them declared as terrorists?

I've noticed a pattern where "terrorist" is often used as a stand in for any group that opposes the government.

Sure they did something highly illegal, but anyone who thinks that illegally trying to stop a weapons shipment is terrorism is insane. If "using force to achieve a political goal" is terrorism, then nearly every country on the planet is a terrorist organization. Idk if thats like actually the UK's definition or something but that is a ludicrous definition for terrorism.

Terrorists use terror. Its why they are called that. Not the use of force, but specifically attempting to strike deep fear into a civilian populace. At no point was PA trying to make people fearful. They were trying to stop people from dying.

What's acts of terror has Palestine action committed for it to be classified as a terrorist organization?

I have mixed feelings on this one, tbh

On one hand, that was actually the original name. That changed after WW2 and to be honest I kinda think the name was part of a greater campaign to make it seem as though, somehow, the military actions that followed in the next few decades in the middle east, Asia, Latin America, etc. were actually all just "defending" the US. Which is bullshit.

On the other hand, having perhaps the most insane president this country has ever seen saying that calling it war instead of defense because its more accurate to the current times is quite concerning to say the least.