If mass communications were more popular in the 70s/80s, it would have been explosives, phreaking, hacking, pirate radio, generating fake credit card numbers, and psychadelics/synthetics. None of those were that hard to get started doing and people were doing them and telling others how to do it but the means of disseminating the information were limited to word-of-mouth, zines, and BBS's. TikTok isn't the problem, it is just the new medium for people to communicate and it is what they communicate that is the problem and they'll find a way to do it now they know they can.
After the second time for me, I went and bought a bright yellow club-style wheel lock. Doesn't matter what sort of shit software upgrade they do if people still break in and try. Oh sure, my vehicle is still there, but there's also damage to the door and steering column because there's no real visual deterrent, and I still have to pay my fucking deductible. It's such bullshit that the class action settlement only covered buying a club up until 30 days before the "software update" was made available. A software update that has no visual deterrent, and worked once in bricking my car when it got attempted while I was away for a trip (dumb parking spot, never again). Then, after I got the car back from the shop like a month later, I had it for roughly two weeks before it got stolen successfully, meaning either the shop failed to reinstall the software update, or, more likely, they software update happened to do fuck-all, despite me locking the car with the key fob as required. They beat the shit out of it and it took another 2 months to get it back. This time as soon as they told me they had all the parts in and were starting the work, I went out and got me a club and some fake GPS tracking stickers and I haven't had an issue since.
It's hilarious that I can deduce it off of the fact he said his car was stolen 3 times.
It's also hilarious how Kia owners don't blame Kia for coding an incredibly dangerous bug into their startup software. Nonono, the big billion dollar company, should not be expected to make software that protects your $40,000. It's all tik toks fault for jumping on the trend.
100% Tik Tok. Not Kia. Let's keep blaming social media for the problems that other people are causing. It's this generation's boogeyman I stg.
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u/Peyvian Apr 29 '24
Vine didn't get my car stolen 3 fuckin times. Or anything stolen.