The name alone suggests they went into the “research” already knowing the answer and just looking for anything they could call evidence. The Guardian should be utterly embarrassed for giving this a megaphone.

The CIA of yesteryear approves this idea.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

unless I am confusing it with another petition thing?

Yes. Obama had a petition thing directly on the Whitehouse website, and he would respond to those that got enough signatures. Trump obviously deleted it.

My general opinion of change.org is that it’s just a placebo for people to feel like they’re doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

However, since the IA appears to have started this petition themselves, I agree with the other commenter that…

if the IA want these signatures, perhaps they need them.

In times like these, it’s hard not to wonder if this wasn’t the act of someone on the inside following the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

More people should read it (it’s short) for inspiration on what skills they already possess (or can easily learn in advance) to fight fascism when the opportunity presents itself

Edit to add excerpt.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

This suggests the planet may be teeming with microbial life, the researchers said. They stressed, however, that they are not announcing the discovery of actual living organisms but rather a possible biosignature - an indicator of a biological process - and that the findings should be viewed cautiously, with more observations needed.

Researchers that have had the media blow their findings out of proportion and take their words out of context one too many times.

This is exciting enough on it’s own without the “help” of overzealous reporters making click-bait headlines and misleading people.

Double check that the AC unit doesn’t pull more than 15A {Amps). That’s all those smart plugs are rated for. It’s probably fine, but you don’t want to start a fire. I’ve seen pictures of smart plugs that melted when used on some refrigerators.

Good plan. I think the temp sensor will be an excellent addition. Whole setup could pay for itself in saved energy not leaving the AC running unnecessarily.

Which makes them anti-American.

That’s pretty much what they said.

they asked the judge to allow them to carry signs and wear the wristbands

Not just wrist bands. They were seeking legal approval to escalate the harassment.

I don’t think I’ll ever understand why they project this kind of information. Keep your mouth shut and deliver them in secret. Let the Russians find out about it when they’re looking at the Kerch bridge swimming in the water.

Everyone should be aware that OP is clearly using AI to summarize the articles they’re posting, and the summaries are garbage. This is the second one I’m calling out. Here’s the first.

First sentence of summary;

The EU suspended its planned tariffs on €20.9 billion in U.S. goods after Trump paused his new 10% tariff on all EU imports, opting for a 90-day truce.

In the actual article.

Trump had hit the 27-nation bloc with a 20 percent duty on all goods. Under pressure as financial markets melted down, he halved the levy to 10 percent — the baseline he has set in his bid to bring investment and industrial jobs lost to globalization back home.

In short, summary says 10% tarrif was paused. This is completely wrong. The 20% tarrif was paused and reduced to the 10% baseline he set for everyone (which is still extremely high).

OP, if you’re not going to proofread AI generated summaries for accuracy, don’t use them.

Has anyone checked if she’s an AI? That’s the kind of thing an AI would screw up.

China raised tariffs to 125% on US goods

That’s what Beijing is allegedly responding to in that sentence. There’s no alternative way to interpret it.

No, that’s not clumsy wording. It’s nonsense. Beijing isn’t going to “respond in kind” to China raising tariffs. As you correctly stated, Beijing is China. What if it said, “The United States raised tariffs to ___% on Chinese goods, with Washington DC responding in kind.”? It’s exactly the same nonsense.

China raised tariffs to 125% on US goods, with Beijing responding in kind.

Summary written by AI.

I’ll give you one guess when he and his cronies are buying and selling stocks.

Whenever the topic comes up with leadership, I try to explain it in financial terms.

Tech debt is just like financial debt. There are times when its appropriate and necessary to take on some debt. But debt accumulates interest charges. If we just keep building up more debt without ever paying it down, it’ll eventually bankrupt the company.

The engineering team doesn’t always know when the finance team is accumulating debt or paying it back, but we trust that they are doing so appropriately.

You don’t always know when the engineering team is accumulating or paying off debt, but you need to trust that when we say we need time to to pay down tech debt, we’re serious. We’ll all be out of a job if we don’t.

They don’t usually like to hear it, but when put in those terms, they don’t have an argument against it. I’m sure if we could provide a statement showing we had $478,562.78 in tech debt at 4.75%, they’d be more understanding about paying it down.

https://archive.ph/KBrax