this could only be stupider if they said AI would be used to deploy the drones
Lol wasn’t that like a I did a thing video?
This is such a tricky subject.
You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.
Or.
MUTHERFUDGING DRONES, bitches.It’s such a tricky subject. So tricky.
This isn’t tik tok you can say Motherfucking.
In fact I’d prefer if people just used the actual cuss words. Self-censoring is such a bullshit. Social media is a plague on our species.
I need more things to have a block censorship option. Like streaming music services often have a ‘block explicit’ option. I want a ‘block censored’ option.
YouTube has a thing where if you’re on data and not wifi, they will not let you watch explicit videos even if you’re signed into your account, which may or may not be old enough to drink, itself.
You have to do a thing in your phone’s connection settings and hook it to a specific DNS (like “dns.adguard.com”, which allows you to play mobile games while connected to a network without any ads)
Why are you lying online?
or: kill the cop in your head.
It is a plague but not because you can’t swear.
man I made an account just to go troll idiots and holy shit is their moderation ever so fucking bad
people can say “I would drive over them” about people crossing a bridge, but if you say, “I’d drive over you tbh”, nope, not okay.
not to mention the dumb automatic word filters regardless of context
Ploppers
do we have to have this same argument every godsdamned thread?
Argument? Nah. Just trying to help someone who seems to need help in forcefully expressing themselves.
just, i’m tired boss. no one likes being the language police, no one like being language policed. just let people talk.
but which of those options will make more money for the people in charge?
Are the drones flown by AI? …looks like there’s even more money to be made!
🤢
You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.
I’m skeptical any of this would be more than a bandaid solution, a large part of the problem has got to be how highschool in the US is just inherently a miserably dehumanizing experience.
Do not accept perfection as an enemy of progress!
If “progress” here means drugging students to tolerate their circumstances, or holding the threat of pepper spray drones over them (doubt this will stay limited to active shooter scenarios), I think it might be progress in the wrong direction.
I’m pretty sure they meant that the gun regulation, help and free healthcare would be progress, not so much the drugs and the drones.
I guess that makes sense. It just frustrates me that the scope of the discussion is all solutions that would not help directly with any problems potentially murderously suicidal teens have in their lives, the growth of those problems which you might imagine is the reason this has become a trend, but instead basically just preventing them from responding destructively.
You’re right there. Yes.
The drones, stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated. The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas—provide constant live video feeds to first responders and, in some cases, fire nonlethal projectiles to delay or incapacitate an assailant.
To me, these aren’t a bad idea. Immediate response and non-ISH-lethal. They are simply the progression of enforcement technology.
What they are not, is a solution to school shootings. They are not even a bandaid. Some people (law makers) just don’t seem to know what “prevention” means.
You said
To me, these aren’t a bad idea.
and yet you also said
The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas
in the very same post.
I wouldn’t want some bored trigger happy gun nutjob from Texas playing shoot the bad guys with pepper spray on a games console where my kids and their multi ethnic friends are the NPCs.
That’s a fair assessment. I’m guessing it’s that way because that’s where the company that operates this is. Which, now that I think about it, probably is a poor way to manage the whole program.
So I’ll post-edit to say: “with local pilot and oversight”
nonlethalless lethalUnderstandable, common typo in MY GUNS! land.
stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated
So much about that sentence doesn’t make sense though…
“secure boxes” but “a button can open them” also “silent panic” with “drones out within 5 seconds”
In any event, the ‘nonlethal’ is generally considered a bad descriptor versus ‘less than lethal’, unless they are talking about something merely mildly annoying rather than the usual things like rubber or bag rounds.
I am an OCP stockholder.
Didn’t expect to see a Robocop meme today, but I’m all about it!
Hail Hydra?
America will do literally anything to ignore gun control and mental health.
These things are going to get hacked and start shooting kids. Wtf are these idiots thinking.
Probably “this is a completely untapped market for our killbots!”
Here’s hoping it was all fraud and no drones ever are actually deployed.
Realistically its probably a ploy for peter thiel to find new blood boys to kidnap.
The measurement unit is what got me
“It’s a bit like that movie The Matrix, where the agent can jump into the nearest person and immediately be good to go. We’re a little bit like that—but we’re the good guys,”
At last, zero self awareness, wow.
I’m sure this won’t have a impact on mental health
US: Mental health issue? Here, take a bullet.
next year
armed drone hacked by deranged lunatic kills 50 kids and 10 teachers
Or, armed drone kills kid holding a banana as a gun
Child Holding Gun Shaped Object Struck By Bullets Fired From Police Drone
Idk fired is still too much culpability, how about ‘Struck by bullets in incident involving police drone’
Yeah you’re right, it’s always an “incident involving XYZ”
how about “struck by bullets leaving the gun barrel”?
You can now do school shootings from the comfort of your own home. . . That’s progress!
Kids just need to be more inventive, guns are so passé but bombs are the bomb.
aaaaand you’re on a list.
Article says there’s a pepper ball launcher and a glass hammer, so this thing is mainly for surveillance and mild distractions, which is much better than I was prepared to read.
"Currently, an officer’s job is to run toward gunfire, alone, with no support or intel—basically a standoff. With our drones, they’re not alone; they know what the suspect looks like, what they’re doing, and we take point around every corner.
“We usually find the shooter before they do and keep them occupied. Every officer who’s seen this live has said they want it.”
If this actually encourages them to do their jobs, great. If this is just a kickback to private industry and further militarizing schools while police still sit cowering, than I know where they can dock those drones…
It is a massive invasion of privacy (like everything public school)
It’s a foot in the door because of that attitude. No one jumps straight to Gatling guns on drones at the elementary school they might however do pepper ball, then tazer, then hard markers, rubber bullets, actual bullets.
“Currently, an officer’s job is to run toward gunfire, alone, with no support or Intel”
That’s a lie, they don’t run toward gunfire at all. And they’ll wait until they have at least three departments of officers before doing anything.
If they want to break glass as a distraction they can do that already, they don’t need a drone. And their plan to break glass will startle an already on edge and unstable shooter, instead of using tactics to de-esecalate the situation. Also, isn’t this what swat is for? They have no qualms about flashbanging babies in cribs but when it comes to an actual situation all of a sudden they need drones so no cops are in any iota of danger.
It’s absolutely number 2… They leaving the parking lot.
It is funny how americans think that more guns will prevent gun violence. Then again, they think that more pills will prevent drug problem.
Fucking hilarious quote here:
“It’s a bit like that movie The Matrix, where the agent can jump into the nearest person and immediately be good to go. We’re a little bit like that—but we’re the good guys,” he added.
Oh yeah so it’s kinda like the terrifying dystopian surveillance nightmare where people are oppressed at all times by an omnipresent, invincible, untouchable outer force that compels them to unquestionably follow the path laid out for them in life by their masters. But like, in a good way!
What actually happens to people who’s body is taken by the agent in the matrix? They can’t be not dead, right? This makes it even better.
Fantastic. Remote controlled school shootings.
I wonder when the first one will happen?
Too many guns leads to weekly school shootings.
US: We need more guns!
