Could people do some capital destruction other than fire in a wildfire prone region plz? Hammers, acetone, glue... a tankie killdozer? I know it's not as fast, but I'm a tree hugger and I don't want to choke on wildfire smoke this season.
tankie kills a dozer.
Bit of a long shot, but I've been trying to find info about acetone pranks ever since someone told me tantalizingly that you can disable solenoids with it easily.
I don't suppose you'd know if this is approximately right? It's my current understanding:
Acetone is deployed mainly to attack the rubber seals in solenoids and also has the effect of speeding up metal corrosion, so it might also be destructive to electronics generally. Presumably also very effective and annoying to deal with on hydraulic and pneumatic systems including seals on actuators etc. You'd expect to deploy the acetone and for it to do most of its work unnoticed causing various points of failure to accelerate rapidly, but not so soon as to pinpoint when you were pulling off your comedic hijinx and not all at once, so you might get lucky and knock it out of commission on back to back projects if some of your jokes don't get noticed during repairs or an expedited service.
More or less the whole story or am I off in the weeds with this?
I honestly don't know. You can always try it on various metals and rubber. I do know that it messes up a lot of plastics and synthetic textiles.
Critical support because wouldn't there be a shit ton of people at the mall at 10:30 am on a Friday? Plenty of people work 4 day weeks and have Friday off.
I don't see why he couldn't have snuck in at midnight and done it, then it would just be a matter of mall security not being asleep on the job and escaping.
But hey it sounds like he injured an officer at least. 
if i'm a 4-day work week andy i'm not getting up early enough to be at the mall before lunch
Seems the bread and circus levels have crossed below a critical threshold
Bread is $10 and the circus is AI-generated.
All you had to do was pay a living wage 
And a legend was born. 
lathe: it's gonna happen a couple more times, then trump is gonna say something incendiary (heh)
and then it's gonna happen all over the place. there won't be a place it's not happening
Wish it was AI datacenters tbh but hopefully those will at least fail on their own as energy prices climb.
datacenters usually have a security perimeter, but i'm sure somebody with a drone will do something cool this year.
TBH I think there are better "pre-riot" targets. Not that the data centers are innocent, but other 
have better risk-reward-difficulty payouts.
They also probably have those really nasty fire suppression systems that instantly remove all the air from a room. And also aren't very flammable overall. Not sure how you'd burn an AI data center down without like a missile or something really hot and large
The most vulnerable bottlenecks for both operations and supply chain will be their electrical equipment. If their transformers are outside, for example, they can be easily damaged.
Everyone's mind is on electricity right now. Don't forget the cooling system.
All that water has to go somewhere and porky loves to make polluted water and chemical waste "not his problem" by exiting his wastewater on public land. Probably on a riverbank or the side of a gully.
Merry pranksters day dream about finding a way to get in and do some work during construction, contributing their labour subtly enough that the modifications pass testing but fail catastrophically later, long after the hero has vanished to laugh online.
The odds of someone being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills and tools are pretty slim though.
Apparently what these jonklers do instead that gives them way more room to breathe and time to plan is they find the pollution pipe outlets and follow them as deep as they can safely and reasonably go and then they start building with whatever materials they're comfortable with. Often a wooden dam and some concrete, but depending on skillz and circumstance apparently there was/is at least one person who likes to weld them shut. (Apparently experienced pipe smokers don't usually like to use found materials from the area as that tends to leave telltale signs that will later lead a survey crew directly to the pipe.)
One profitable factory that had been dumping chems into critical waterways had their entire site shut down FOREVER because they couldn't find the blockage. Many many millions of dollars of sunk capital locked up on a site that I imagine would have been very hard to sell to anyone if it ever did. They didn't even depend on moving water to stop the most valuable on-premises assets from cooking instantly.
None of this is original thought, except realising the significance of pipe plugging for hot running data centers. Chapter 3 of the Ecodefense Monkeywrenching manual has some pages on pipe plugging which is why I feel so qualified to write this post.
BUT if you ever see someone like a friend or even just another human soul planning to go fucking around in stormwater drains and other pipes, make sure they understand that YOU MIGHT DROWN SUDDENLY. Make sure they do a lot of very thorough research and lots of due diligence and observation to record the times during the day and/or night when waste tanks are emptied and keep a real good eye on the weather. Flash floods kill urbexers and cavers all the time. Rain that lands "upstream" can find its way to you without warning if you're unlucky so if you know anyone silly enough try do real life tunnelmaxxing make sure they are capable of very methodical planning and lots of patience.
The good news is the book I mentioned has waaay more info about how to maximize your chances of living a long life of liberty while becoming a reasonably advanced persistent threat to high dollar assets in your preferred areas of buffoonery.
The even better news is that nobody gives a fuuuuck about the pipes! This is a major fucking freebie waiting to be taken. Nobody's patrolling that shit.
Remote surveillance is likely to be an issue which is why one might develop a keen interest in bird watching so they can get in there and have a reeeeal thorough look around. It's 2026 so a really paranoid jester might think about getting a nerd to provide them with their own suite of gadgets and doohickeys to set up early warning perimeters so you can leave expeditiously if you're about to be interrupted by company men.
Don't let your friend get too cocky but although it would be hot and heavy and tiring work, it will often be low risk from a running into the opp's perspective. Like so low risk as to almost be zero when compared to the potential upside of hearing such a ridiculously loud laugh track.
Asking Copilot how to make thermite for 
if i didn't vividly remember one of the better days of highschool i'd just watch cody's lab
Grok is literally powered by methane.
yeah that spot in particular seems vulnerable to a hunting rifle or something. the generators are outside it could scarcely get easier to damage or destroy them
as if those stores didn't have enough trouble already, they're in a mall in 2026
A lot of malls near me are filled with slop hypebeast stores that resell fashion products or pokemon cards / merchandise now.
The successful ones seemed to have pivoted from selling products to selling services like bowling / axe throwing / go karting.
Which I don't blame them for, really. It makes sense, the only reason I go to the mall is to try on clothes to see what size I am. A lot of fast fashion now, overprivileged teenagers carrying dozens of bags from zara / h&m even though the clothes won't survive one wash.
Uniqlo is also doing really well, they have a lot of business but they can't seem to keep up with the demand, the place is always a mess when I go there.
It’s funny Uniqlo is one of the few stores in these kinds of places I would bother going into. The prices are generally fair and the quality is decent. The clearance section is also worth looking at. And I mean, I hardly shop for clothes at all these days because I really have to stretch my dollar.
there's so much clothing at uniqlo that trend towards gender neutral as well with boxy silhouette cuts which does wonders for my dysphoria. i couldn't find any clothes i genuinely felt comfortable in till i started trying things on there.
Yeah, I buy 2-3 shirts a year (should probably be less but I keep getting bleach on my shirts when I clean), Uniqlo is good enough quality and for like $9 a shirt I have zero complaints.
I can't speak for their pants though, and neither can my partner lol. I have thicc thighs and none of their pants fit me unless I go way over my waist size, and she's taller than average so they all look like capris on her.
I don't think I've purchased clothes from anywhere except Costco / Uniqlo in 5 years at this point haha
huh if the mall was all activity kinda shit and community space i might have gone to one in the last decade.
Malls are popular here in Finland. At least more than in the US. The difference seems to be that they actually sell things you need.
In the US, it is like the cliché of buying a pocketwatch from a shady guy in a trenchcoat. All of the stuff is junk you don’t need, and even if you need it, it’s junk, sold at luxury prices. It isn’t even buy-it-for-life for the price.
A mall should be essential city infrastructure, not privatized portions of a city wherein capitalism reaches its most pure expression
our big suburban malls are even worse than that and typically aren't somewhere you could walk to even if you wanted to
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