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More informations and pictures here:
https://www.greenpeace.org/italy/storia/27709/abbiamo-contestato-jeff-bezos-a-venezia/
Video of the police removing it:
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Jeff Bezos, probably: get tanks out there tomorrow…
This is where God gets to prove he's real, and he's on the side of the people. If it's true, Venice will finally sink into the sea and become a legend, like Atlantis.
If that happens, I'll finally go to church every Sunday. Hear me God? That's what it will take.
Once this doesn't happen remember that god is not real and that destiny it's in your hands.
God knows you're faking, because he knows that to believe in him you'll have to give up on women's rights, science, etc
So the Venice entrance fee was introduced to deny access and make this event possible?
One day people will say “why do we let these weird weak old losers steal from us? We shouldn’t. Let’s get these assholes.”
15 minutes later it will be over
The people are too blind and mute.
15 minutes later it will be over
Worse, we'll have users telling us how this (somehow) is good for the left and downvoting everyone who lives there and says otherwise
Tax property, tax inheritance, tax capital gains no matter if realized or not, tax passive income of all kinds. Tax them progressively and tax the highest brackets high enough that these giant fortunes actually shrink. There is no other way (well... besides revolution) to reduce the spiraling inequality which is at the root of major problems all over the world.
Imagine if you took $100 billion from any of these Goblins, they wouldn't even notice it, but that money could fund homeless solutions (or any other problem) forever.
$100B would put you at #19 richest person. If taken from Elon, he wouldn't even lose a spot...
If only poor people could purchase senators and congressmen (and Supreme Court justices).
There is no other way (well… besides revolution)
The backlash that you'll receive from the cronies of mega-capital will make revolution inevitable. That's assuming you can get so far as to democratically reform the tax code in an electoral system that cages voters, manufacturers consent, and manipulates the courts to guarantee only their people hold office.
I can't even really disagree with you, but not trying still isn't an option. It's our job to at least try to convince our immediate peers.
Always hated that they pretend you cant tax unreleased gains when they are perfectly capable of raising loans against them. If unrealized gains can be used to secure loans then they have a quantifiable value that can be taxed.
The problem is they have found it cheaper to buy ALL politicians than it is to actually pay tax. It only leaves a few options left....
Minimum tax that they can never go below. Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.
There are already inheritance taxes but they should have caps on them since they hit intergenerational wealth and social mobility for lower and middle classes far more than the upper.
It's trivial to design an inheritance tax that doesn't tax a family's (first) home and starts above a certain amount (500k, a million, two, make it 10 for all I care) that still allows lower and middle classes to build reasonable wealth. It's also not that hard to not have a million loopholes for the excessively rich. That only gets difficult when people fall for the usual lies, like "businesses will close down and you will lose your jobs".
Start penalizing tax havens like Ireland.
Tax based on passport, allow for taxes at their place of residence to take priority (so, you can pay low taxes in Ireland, but if it's less than our tax, you pay the rest here), tax them a lot if they relinquish their passport. No need to start international beef about this.
Checked Reddit and Fb, thousands of bots booing Greenpeace and defending Amazon.
It seems that picture got its results.
Classic bots
Good news, the first few dozen or so top-level comments on the r/pics thread are 100% anti-Bez
Mirror:
I can’t think of a moment in human history aside from now that a man can gather that much wealth, and piss of that many people and still keep his head. Most states would have taken his fortune by now. Hell even Crassus got his, and was rumoured to have had molten gold poured down his throat for his greed
I don't get it, what's to stop people photobombing his wedding with lots and lots of annoying drones
I think workers would be better than drones. Drones can't even sting.
drone laws requiring an operator license and drones to broadcast a unique id traceable back to it's operator.
and if you patch the drone firmware or build one yourself, it's still trackable via radio signal triangulation to the controller's position.
You can fly the drone without a license in secret, and the law only requires that you scribble the ID somewhere on the craft -- something you do not need to do if flying for clandestine purposes.
Not all drone's fly via radio, many use direct WiFi connections which can be completely spoofed over 3G proxies so that the drone and operator aren't in direct contact with one another
and the law only requires that you scribble the ID somewhere on the craft
most bought drones also transmit it wirelessly too
many use direct WiFi connections
yes, the toy ones, once you get 10m away you aren't controlling that drone anymore, let alone recieving pictures
which can be completely spoofed over 3G proxies
once you start introducing the internet the lag becomes unbearable, and also phone towers are aimed at the ground, not at the sky, so you'd get shit reception anyways
Tell that to these guys:
https://github.com/uavpal/beboptwo4g/wiki/faq#latency
Typically for direct connections (see this FAQ entry), the latency is around 50 ms. The pre- and post-processing of the live video stream is more than that, which you will also experience when flying in the original set-up (over Wi-Fi).
For more staged setups, there's always MAVproxy
very cool stuff, i stand corrected
I saw that short film years ago and it still sticks with me. Back then it seemed possible but the tech wasn't quite there, now we see it in use.
His private security
who control the air?
There are a lot of anti drone defense systems at this point
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