I love the drone panic because its a reminder that despite all our technology and societal advancement we're never more than one unanswered question from reverting to peasants worried we'll make the stars mad
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I’m going to respectfully disagree given what we’ve recently witnessed in Gaza with AI directed drone strikes. They’re/we’re experimenting with civilian monitoring and neutralization, meaning targeted killing of civilian individuals.
I am content shouting at clouds. Drones do not worry me, and any questions I had of the incoming government were throughly answered in 900+ pages of documentation. The answer those people have for my existence sucks for me. It sucks that that is my country's answer to me.
What's wild is that there's a significant portion of the population that can do things another significant portion of the population doesn't understand. You have people that can 3D print and program drones living with people that don't know what any of that means and thinks is futuristic nonsense.
This is true. I run a CNC laser shop, 3d printers, and am even working on my own flight controller for my RC stuff. My family all use iPhone and don't know how to do anything 🤣 (tech related).
I'm building a bot with a smartphone for a head that will display this on the screen and use a secondary unit for LLM and Generative processing while the smartphone head displays it and takes in all the "sensory" inputs lol
Ah man, I'd love to have a CNC machine right now lol. I've been working with AI for a few years a lot for image, video, voice, music, language, and programming. I'm working on a 3D printed bot now that will incorporate some of the AI tools I've made.
They seem to have forgotten Orson Welles and the panic he caused back in the '30's when he made War of the Worlds seem as though the Martians were coming. They were left with egg on their face.
I think we need a trailer park volcano that survives on Takis Fuego, Mountain Dew: Code Red, Menthol Rhyolite, and thinks doing an impression of Randy “Macho Man” Savage snapping into an actual Slim Jim is never not funny.
If we wish to appease the stars then we must sacrifice our best billionaires and ceo's the poor and trans won't do it anymore sky Gods angry look at the sky.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan, 1995. The foreboding has come to be. We are in the age of “celebration of ignorance”
I personally think you're wrong. I know that we have not explored the whole universe and I cannot believe as expansive as it is that there are not other intelligent human like beings and the universe. The cosmos is expansive and not explored.
What you're minimizing is the distance between objects in the universe, and the amount of time it would take for any intelligent being to travel to a place where other intelligent beings reside. The chances of actually physically meeting one another are exceedingly small.
Well thank you but more than likely what I was saying was satire. It was meant to bring a little humorous relief. I see you're a very serious minded person. I'm a Gemini so I'm not a serious mind as you are. I hope you have a lovely day
Scrödinger’s Immigrant:
Simultaneously a drag on society/the economy, while at the same time taking all the premium jobs due to their skillz
Just slap the “1337 ďröne operator” onto their résumé and call it a day.
I visit family in Morris County NJ frequently. This county is beneath a Newark airport approach path, and home to the busy Bedminster airfield. Residents up here are well-educated, exposed to constant air traffic, and can differentiate planes from drones!
When we started attacking foreign countries with drones, my first thought was that other countries would soon catch up, our “historic isolation” advantage would vanish, and we are wayyy more vulnerable than we think (power plants/water supplies/entertainment centers). It’s only a matter of time.
Probably some SpaceX prototype... Gonna use the hype to justify some proposal in the next few months to contract for security services to, "protect the people"...
It makes me think of the old Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” where aliens demonstrate how easily humans can be manipulated by exploiting prejudice and paranoia.
It is very painful to see the rubble of your house in front of your eyes in the face of this siege, hunger, oppression and catastrophic situation. I hope you will help me make food for my child and my family.😞
It's actually hilarious; you can buy a decent drone for under $100, throw your gopro on it for a few bucks more..
What did people expect? Nobody's going to buy one? lol.
Better get used to it.
Most people wander around a world where things are functionaly magic to them. They click a switch to turn on the magic lights with no idea what electricity is. Then they use all their tech devices which, to the majority of people, might as well have been made by wizards.
How much panic when the railroad came through town? How much panic when automobile came to town? How much panic when the TV set became popular? How much panic when the Internet was created..
I was in elementary school when the teacher asked what the Sun was. I said, "A star." A kid behind me said, "A big ball of fire!" We got in shouting match over it, so she said we were both right to stop it. He thought thunder was "God's potato wagon.", too. 2nd time in 3rd grade for him.
The thing that kills me is that we have a long history of testing out experimental aircraft (think SR-71 Stealth bomber) and not telling anyone. If these were truly a problem they would have been shot down immediately.
All those funds are held in dollars. The dollar is a fiat currency. A fiat currency derives its value based on the trust people have in the issuing authority. Full stop. The U.S. treasury bond is the stock of the United States. Think anyone in the world wants to buy and hold that stock now?
May have been that way prior to 1/6. But when a nation almost sends all of their treasury bonds to zero and then gets the rating on their debt knocked down from AAA, that changes. People avoid holding the debt of a politically unstable nation with poor impulse control. It’s just too great of a risk.
It doesn’t change as long as we have to pay for our food, shelter, heat, power, and water in dollars, and other countries still buy things made in the USA.
Kinda hard to do that when everyone’s assets, all the money, just everything, vanished overnight. The banks are now gone, the payment processors are all gone. There is no economy possible in the United States without democracy. Every business model in the United States depends on democracy to exist.
That’s the kinda stuff Bear would throw out when people brought up the risks they were seeing in the MBS markets in 2008. Might want to ask yourself why behavioral economics allowed Michael Burry to see the big picture, when no one else could.
I had somebody text me last night “just saw a drone pass our house and it’s headed towards yours”. I said “you sure it was a drone because I do literally live right next to the local airport”.
Those idiots are Uncle Sam.
And they are searching for something.
This is not the work of hobbyists, they’re ours, and to be honest… that is very worrisome.
The ONLY psychopath with unlimited funds I can think of would be Elon Musk. I doubt if Shadow President Musk would send out drones over Republican states.
We're also 5 years removed from wondering "why are we getting sick", to some people figuring it out, to others denying their work, to many saying, death is inevitable, why do anything.
The tv at the bar last night had CNN on and they were pontificating about mysterious drones in New Jersey and when the commercial break came on, and I am not kidding: there was an advertisement for drones on sale for Christmas gifts! 😂
Though I think the worst theory I've heard is that the drones are ours but they are looking for radiation from a hidden/smuggled nuke. A Sum of All Fears type scenario
Technology as simple as a drone can shut down an airport. Three terrorist strikes shut down our nation’s airports back on 9/11 and has ruined the quality of air travel for everyone since. Trillions wasted fighting Mideast wars followed and accomplished NADA.
If people really knew the actual number of drone operators - from responsible hobbyists and professionals to a-hole chaos merchants and nefarious actors - they’d never sleep a wink. This is a slight of hand story meant to divert attention away from the coming shit storm of a new government!
Hello, I'm Omer from Gaza.🇵🇸
My life and dreams have been destroyed by the war. I lost my home and source of income, and my family and I live under immense psychological pressure.
I ask for your support and solidarity to help us build a new life free from fear and suffering.🙏🏻
I like to point to when the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, and the police deployed drones to assist with stopping the “Philly Phun” as I called. Within 20 minutes, private drones were deployed and drone on drone warfare commenced.
I live adjacent to a huge dumb pickup truck Trump town so I’m a member of their FB Group. The talk about drones is absolutely hilarious. They are two days away from throwing a virgin into a well.
The thread about a trans student using a different bathroom was mind blowing. Every girl dad was ready to to go to war.Turns out the only trans student was a biological female who was transitioning to male. The Montagues & Capulets looked like an augment over a parking space compared to these fools
I think it's worse.
We're never more than one purveyor of disinformation away from believing that we've made the stars mad.
And someone has figured this out and is using it against us.
The Chinese are not so careless as to leave the lights on when they spy on us, so the only explanation is a few idle guys trying to have fun by creating a ruckus.
I had to turn off the news this morning. Christie on ABC going on about how he’s never seen drones in his whole life living there. It’s odd there were no drones in the 60s or 80s or any other time in his life. If only there was a reason why he didn’t have drones flying around in the 80s?!
Its not a “panic”. It’s a request for wtf they are doing since drones this size “can” carry payloads that can destroy buildings and tanks. It’s reasonable to know what is their purpose.
I’m genuinely impressed we have made our way to this point. It’s amazing what a few educated people can accomplish in a sea of panicked hairless apes. 🦧
People love watching and people want attention and money making nonsense videos. I skimmed through a few on YT and, yep, just goofy people getting dopamine hits from conspiracy theories.
The drone panic has hit in the small TN town I live it. I’m laughing because I just know it’s a teenager that’s moved to the country from the city recently messing with these small minded people 🤷🏻♀️🤣🤣
What is with all this classism these last few days?
Quick question, ACLU employee, why is the education system in the US broken? Is it the peasants who engineered that? Did medieval peasants lack of education happen because they chose it? Or was it maybe the lords?
I enjoy it somehow to hear these dip shits loosing their small little minds. The drone panic is a sign that not everyone is ready to go on to the next level.
I'm increasingly convinced that society is defined by genetic tendencies that cause certain percentages of the population to behave certain ways. Conspiracy theorists, cynics, sycophants, doomsayers. They're all types of genetic deviants that evolved to save the species in crisis. ...
Some percentage would irrationally refuse to eat something new, and would survive the poison salad. Others would irrationally eat anything, and they made new food options available. Most of the time the deviants are just an annoyance, but occasionally they win. And occasionally they kill thousands.
I doubt that *every* immigrant had ADD/ADHD. 🤣 (Do you have a source?) Most folks immigrated out of necessity and resource scarcity, not because they wanted a glorious adventure.
Step one… do something ridiculous with no “credible threat”.
Step two… do same again with credible threat and no one will care.
Could this be part of normalizing drones?
I knew about 10 years ago that when drones began becoming popular, we would soon enter an era of non stop UFO now called UAP sightings and conspiracy theories. Drones usage will probably be competing with Uber and be phased into delivery services offered by companies in the near future.
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"Was anyone else there when the drones probed you?"
"Well, my good friend Bubba was there but they didn't probe him"
Nothing to worry about
As they steal your wealth!
As the steal your wealth!
As they steal your wealth!
Uh oh..
trust me, it's better for them.
Good point
“Yo, you checked out the new America snack?”
“*rumble*???”
This is good.
Simultaneously a drag on society/the economy, while at the same time taking all the premium jobs due to their skillz
Just slap the “1337 ďröne operator” onto their résumé and call it a day.
Coverup!
The big disadvantage of technology is that it can be easily used by millions of dumb people who don't know any science.
Change of the guard in 2016 with 0 change in information content understood by the general public.
* new oligarch proverb
https://bsky.app/profile/gbbranstetter.bsky.social/post/3lddul6rwkk22
Nailed it!
What did people expect? Nobody's going to buy one? lol.
Better get used to it.
Bring on the class war.
I don't want to know how many fake-videos are out there, concerning this matter 😄
https://www.lpl.com/newsroom/read/weekly-market-commentary-who-is-buying-treasury-securities-and-why-it-matters.html#:~:text=With%20global%20central%20banks%20not,keep%20up%20with%20expected%20supply.
It's illegal to shoot them down
And they are searching for something.
This is not the work of hobbyists, they’re ours, and to be honest… that is very worrisome.
Oligarchs can only feed the poor with BS for so long. MAGA will turn on their leadership fast. Pitchforks are coming.
Trump is going to need to write a whole bunch of checks fast to people..
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rRvzvIUJFIauGkERiObxo?si=1YsyHr5fT-OHcNrxaikV8g
My life and dreams have been destroyed by the war. I lost my home and source of income, and my family and I live under immense psychological pressure.
I ask for your support and solidarity to help us build a new life free from fear and suffering.🙏🏻
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Both the rich and the poor have drones. That's the difference now.
The cops lost.
It even rhymes!
We're never more than one purveyor of disinformation away from believing that we've made the stars mad.
And someone has figured this out and is using it against us.
Open your eyes sheeple
Thank you.
Because Christianity in the U.S. embraces right wing incl. gun 'awash' regulation (arm all) we have an entire gun economy we depend on.
Mine's a good opinion.
What is with all this classism these last few days?
Quick question, ACLU employee, why is the education system in the US broken? Is it the peasants who engineered that? Did medieval peasants lack of education happen because they chose it? Or was it maybe the lords?
Consider how every single explorer, researcher and immigrant had all the symptoms of ADD and/or ADHD.
When we get too numerous, we get antsy and have to find something new.
Step two… do same again with credible threat and no one will care.
Could this be part of normalizing drones?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo