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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our city made it illegal for scrap dealers to accept catalytic converters, and suddenly theft vanished entirely. Weird.

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was driving a busload of kids home one evening outside of Philadelphia, and I passed by a mechanic’s shop that had a big lit-up sign that said “WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS”. I’d like to assume it was a honeypot but I have no idea if it was or not.

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  • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, but my state. It was maybe 6 months after mind was stolen.

    (technically, you can still sell them but the rules are strict. One of the ways was if the catalytic converter was attached to a car at the time. I think the other way was just more paperwork.)

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, this car has 50 catalytic converters attached to it.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well apparently all it would need to do is be a generstive AI trained on the image of a cstslytic converter in order to ““steal”” them.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  EVs don’t have catalytic converters.

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  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lots of copper and batteries though.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not as easy to get to, though.

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• CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  AI: Hold my water that I need more than humans

  : proceeds to hallucinate that the car factory needs to reroute catalytic converters to China by using its unfettered access in the procurement and shipping systems :

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought it was some kind of steampunk samurai until I read the caption.

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looked like Fallout Power Armor to me

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    • welfare_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Wait this isn’t a fallout meme?

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looked like Mannequin feet at first glance to me

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