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Ricky Rigatoni @retrolemmy.com

1d ago

Become irreplaceable

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Our city made it illegal for scrap dealers to accept catalytic converters, and suddenly theft vanished entirely. Weird.
- 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.
- Same, but my state. It was maybe 6 months after mine 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.)
  ETA link to legislation
  
  Yes, this car has 50 catalytic converters attached to it.

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 :

EVs don't have catalytic converters.
- Lots of copper and batteries though.
  
  Not as easy to get to, though.

I thought it was some kind of steampunk samurai until I read the caption.
- Looked like Fallout Power Armor to me
  
  Looked like Mannequin feet at first glance to me
  
  This isn't a Fallout meme?
- Wait, it's not some kind of armour?

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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