• Maple Engineer
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    -881 year ago

    Wait until they find out how much it’s going to cost them to repaint the jets that they vandalized.

    • @Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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      821 year ago

      Damn, guess it’s better to let the environment collapse and our species to go extinct because capitalism and money is more important.

      • Maple Engineer
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        -321 year ago

        I didn’t say that I disagreed with their goals. I just understand that they did hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage to those jets that will make absolutely zero difference to their carbon footprint and will probably be held financially responsible. A big win for the activists for sure.

    • @drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      371 year ago

      Damn I was literally going to make this exact comment but sarcastically because it’s stupid. Thank you for saving me the effort!

      • Maple Engineer
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        -271 year ago

        They will and they won’t care. It will do nothing to change anyone’s mind but will harden public opinion against the extremists.

      • Maple Engineer
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        -241 year ago

        Plus trespass at the airport plus cleaning and testing all of the external instrumentation plus…they can really stack it on.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      Can’t squeeze blood from a stone. The cost to repaint those jets is going to be a lot more than they can ever recoup from the activists.

      • Maple Engineer
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        21 year ago

        It’s apparently water soluable so the paint should come off easily. The expensive part is going to be cleaning the engines and external instruments if they need to be cleaned and reccalibrated or recertified. The courts have been handing out serious sentences running into the multiple years so they may have that coming as well.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          51 year ago

          I’m not aware of any committed activist that was ever deterred by a prison sentence. But they are usually pretty poor so my original point stands.

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            Well at least they won’t have to worry about feeding, clothing, and housing themselves for a while.

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              Lol yeah

              Edit to add - I meant to add, and they’ll find a whole bunch of disaffected people ripe for recruiting to a direct action cause. But my ADHD brain forgot. :(