20 Suspected Phone Mast Attacks Over Easter (bbc.com) 84
The UK's mobile networks have reported a further 20 cases of phone masts being targeted in suspected arson attacks over the Easter weekend. From a report: Trade group Mobile UK said it had been notified of incidents in England, Wales and Scotland. One of the targeted sites provides mobile connectivity to a hospital in Birmingham. The figure represents a lower incidence rate than had been the case the previous weekend. Mobile UK added it had received no reports of staff being targeted over the period. Attacks on 5G masts pre-date the coronavirus pandemic. But there are concerns a surge in the amount of vandalism has been caused by conspiracy theories, which falsely claim the deployment of 5G networks has caused or helped accelerate the spread of Covid-19. "Theories being spread about 5G are baseless and are not grounded in credible scientific theory," said a spokesman for Mobile UK. "Mobile operators are dedicated to keeping the UK connected, and careless talk could cause untold damage. "Continuing attacks on mobile infrastructure risk lives and, at this challenging time, the UK's critical sectors must be able to focus all their efforts on fighting this pandemic."
The Brexiteers are at it again (Score:1)
Stupid doesn't #StayTheFuck@Home.
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What do you mean by "bright"? Are you referring to stupidity or ignorance? They're distinct traits.
A country with poor prenatal and childhood nutrition could well produce an average IQ less than 100 (if IQ is your metric of intelligence). A country that confuses religious indoctrination with imparting thinking skills, or that doesn't insist that females get as much education as males will produce more ignorance than one with a balanced secular education. But I don't think either of these apply to Britain
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The fascinating connection between what you've just written and the phone tower stuff is that both are likely to have started with two Russians drinking vodka in St Petersburg while having a laugh trying to come up with absurd-yet-effectively-divisive crap that credulous idiots would fervently believe. And then, right on cue, here you are, with Eamonn fucking Holmes at your side.
Re: Not Brexiters! (Score:1)
^ The above message was brought to you by the European External Action Service
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No, it was brought to you a Brit who wanted to stay in the EU and thinks you're an almighty cock. I hope that helps clears things up.
Thanks for backing my argument. (Score:2)
Personal attacks and funny conspiracy theories, is all you had and gave.
But you think my comment carried a lot of weight, to be triggered like that, and require the effort of that really quite creative reply that you tried to compensate that lack with.
So... Thanks for agreeing with me during that not liking it. :)
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That literally makes no sense.
You're saying Brexiteers are Nazis, but also pro-EU people. Why would pro-EU people be Brexiteers? You realise how mentally retarded you are right?
You've literally just made the argument for the GP that Brexiteers like yourself are sufficiently batshit fucking mental that you would believe the 5G causes Coronavirus nonsense.
Also, the EU is one of the most pro-citizen, pro-consumer governments on Earth, it's also elected through proportional representation. That makes it one of
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Who realize that nationalism and totalktarianism are evil and wrong, and the EU is also just that, except on a bigger and even more totalitarian scale.
And therefore chose to take the most nationalistic approach possible and cut all ties politically and economically from trading partners. Yep makes perfect sense.
Another ignorant post brought to you by BAReFO0t, quite possibly the dumbest poster on Slashdot.
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And yet, look at the moderation for this thread...
Slashdot sucks now.
... Censor-"moderation" again. (Score:2)
Look, if you disagree, disagree with actual arguments.
Abusing the "Troll" moderation because you got triggered like a small child, doesn't make my statements ABOUT ME any less true. It makes you a coward.
But OK, you might be a deluded totalitarian fascist in denial. In that case, trigger away! ;)
Why would they spend all this money on mind contro (Score:5, Funny)
Why would they waste all this money on a mind control initiative when the same task can be done more cheaply and more easily with a low res youtube video?
The attacks on the towers themselves is a great POC of that.
Re: Why would they spend all this money on mind co (Score:2)
Well, even cheaper and common: The traditional media. Although they only work well for pro-establisment conspiracy theories and nuttery. :)
You are right for its exactly equal bit anti-establishment counterpart. That one is best served by low quality home videos.
Although I highly suspect you think you are smart because you haven't realized that those are two sides of the same coin, and you delude yourself in believing the side that fits your wishful thinking better is more reputable. And that those who fall
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The only places I really go for news, is the BBC world service, I don't watch TV for the news unless it's sports related. And I only go to youtube to watch people run into doors and fall on discarded pieces of fruit.
You also sound really angry and you might want to talk to someone about that.
We need to make sure to keep up our mental as well as physical health during this crisis.
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Ah, but they need 5G for mass propagation of low-res youtube videos!
No .. we can do with 3G for that .. don't you care about the thousands who have died of covid19 ? !
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Don't you care about the thousands who will die due to the economy stopping? Don't you care about the massive surge in domestic violence, which threatens women and children proportionately more?
Covid probably won't kill as many as that die from the knock on effects of the "cure".
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It took a while.
Tin foil glasses (Score:1)
That's what they need, because conventional media has always been very effective at brainwashing people. It's been that way scince cavemen scribbled on rock.
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Or... if you broadcast bullshit widely enough, it'll reach a jackass credulous enough to act on it.
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Oh, obviously people aren't hearing this. We aren't even having this discussion.
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England is the original home of techno-fear anarchy [wikipedia.org] though.
These aren't luddites (Score:4, Informative)
These are lunatics who have been actively encouraged to acts of violence, largely for the sake of ad revenue, patreon donations and to sell crap like colodial silver.
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Sounds to me like a pack of easily duped morons, victims of poor education.
You know, a totally different kind of moron than you are.
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Manipulated fools (Score:3)
Don't these idiot's friends ever point out that they are acting for someone that doesn't intend to get caught? I learned this lesson in grade school: Don't do what Johnny Bad says you should, let him do it if it is such a great idea. Idiots.
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(to clarify ... not anti-capitalism accelerationism -- although that's fine too -- i'm talking anti-humanity accelerationism)
Re: let humanity die (Score:2)
Well, du pro-capitalism. Capitalism IS the main driving force behind the Holocene extinction event we're currently in, that will exterminate humanity with it, if we're lucky. Go capitalism! *toots kazoo* :D
s/du/duh/ (Score:2)
(It's important to correct this typo.)
Re: let humanity die (Score:2)
Seconded! The epidemic of humans is THE problem on this planet. All our problems are just a result of that overpopulation.
I'm rooting for SARS-3 now!
But I go all Doug Stanhope on it: Having fun while doing it! [youtu.be] :)
Re: let humanity die (Score:1)
So that means you strongly endorse the new global Nazi police state?
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i endorse anything that results in subhuman idiots like you going extinct as fast as possible.
They should attack the sun! (Score:2)
With its actually ionizing radiation, a thousand times worse than cell phones, that gives people, especially them, literal actual radiation burns (sunburn) and cancer!
They should attack and banish it!
Oh wait, ... they already did!
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Every sperm is great
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate
Not even 5G (Score:3)
One of the masts they burnt down is a new one built to allow communication inside one of the new Nightingale hospitals .... it does not have 5G ...
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These are the same people who organized semi-pro leagues for competitive traffic cam burnings. With nobody supposed to driving, there's no attention to be gotten in burning traffic cams, so they have to find something else.
It's got nothing to do with 5G equipment. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
Suck it 5G! Wait, why does my signal suck? (Score:2)
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They have 6G haircuts
Re: Suck it 5G! Wait, why does my signal suck? (Score:1)
"Man, why am I not getting any cellular service these days?"
Because 5G is about enabling pervasive surveillance, not about improving your cat video viewing experience?
wrong target (Score:1)
How about going after the assholes who want to usher in the New World Order* instead?
They might as well be burning down machine shops because the tools in there COULD be used to build razor wire fences and prisons. It's stupid, and if they think what they are doing is going to stop the evil people, they need to think again.
*The New World Order is a real thing, and it's NOT going to be for our benefit. Forget the "mark of the beast" bullshit you've heard, this is just another clsssic power/money grab.
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How about going after the assholes who want to usher in the New World Order* instead?
The world doesn't work that way. The people with power retain power until they no longer have it. You don't change things, no one ever has.
Re: Good (Score:1)
It's memetic warfare. Much like the Mexican Beer flu panic.
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If anyone needs a spooky movie, then this one will do it regarding the subject.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... [imdb.com]
Staring: Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Berkley
"We started out slowly, broadcasting a waveform for apathy and boredom, but we will expand."
"An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.!"
2020 World War duh (Score:3)
Thanks Twitter and Facebook.
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We're in a war against stupidity. And we're losing
That obvious observation makes you look stoopid mayte
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It's not the first time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Obviously criminally insane (Score:2)
I would love to see these jerks sectioned and incarcerated in suitable secure institutions. We used to have one in Devizes but no more. Apparently other countries such as China and Russia might have such places. Perhaps we should send them there. I wouldn't notice their absence.
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suitable secure institutions
er .. The white house ?
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er .. The white house ?
No, the residents of that place need to be sent to the Fletcher Memorial Home!
Re: Obviously criminally insane (Score:1)
Yeehaw, toss 'em into the gulag!! Stomp 'em with the iron boot! Death to the common people! Panopticon forever!
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You seem to be implying that these people are being allowed to commit arson and vandalism. Or that suitable secure institutions for incarcerating such people don't already exist.
So, you would like our citizens be treated like those in Russia and China? Would you also like us to be communist + / dictatorships?
Are the britons really attacking? (Score:2)
How do you know it isn't russia that is attacking the towers? I hate to start a conspiracy theory, but the russian spy agencies are behind the rumors. Would it benefit them to also attack the towers? Just a thought...
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How do you know it isn't russia that is attacking the towers? I hate to start a conspiracy theory, but the russian spy agencies are behind the rumors. Would it benefit them to also attack the towers?
At this point I'm thinking the same thing. Not necessarily Russians, but this is looking more and more like a concerted campaign by moneyed interests. Upwards of 50 towers attacked? There are a lot of fuckwits in the world, but there can't possibly be that many fuckwits who are that motivated.
Somebody planted a good(?) cover story and is now attacking and destroying infrastructure for their own ends.
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They don't need to. Just need to stir up the usual conspiracy theory idiots and they will do the work for them. Even spreading the idea for them.
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There's one behind every tree, you know.
Daddys Home II (Score:2)
How do we know these aren't copycats of Daddy's Home 2, in which one dad - in an attempt to secure the best Christmas tree - accidentally cuts down a cell tower disguised as an evergreen.
I blame Hollywood.
This better not happen near me (Score:1)
You can't fight stupidity (Score:1)
Great to see how effective education is ... (Score:2)
This is what happens when your population is all kinds of stupid, due to ineffective mass education.
So, yeah, treading lightly on the subject of how many morons there are - I really don't believe it is that at all.
Even the smartest people are easily swayed, with the right combination of lack of education, self belief and desperately seeking reasons.
This is why our education systems are failing us, as they simply do not teach people to think for themselves.
They value verbatim data storage and regurgitation a
No. (Score:2)
People are lazy and avoid unpleasantness, they choose what they want to believe and disregard the rest!
Humans thinking irrationally is normal but today anybody can learn techniques to rob people of their IQ in a limitless sea of information overload where people choose whatever strokes their ego! If you are BUSY and stressed you will not invest the time/effort to educate yourself beyond what is forced upon you... and very little is forced! THINK.
Even school itself is at the mercy of incompetent parents an
The appropriate responce... (Score:2)
Infrastructure attacks are terrorism (Score:2)
They should be dealt with accordingly. Social order and communications are vital especially in pandemic. Find and kill the culprits. Their enemy lives are worth less than nothing.
What is the normal number of phone mast attacks? (Score:2)
Is it zero? The way these 5G attacks are being presented is that the background level of vandalism on phone towers is zero but I find that hard to believe.