Aransentin
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Aransentin
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9mo ago
Hm, yeah, thinking about it that would create an enormous uproar for sure. Even if you spent a huge amount of time and resources to perfect the plan people wouldn't really know that; you'd have lots of people assuming anyone can now buy a drone on aliexpress and easily assassinate people without getting caught.
As for the viability itself, it's still kinda iffy:
- I think letting out a drone from a hotel room window might easily get noticed as well? They aren't exactly silent.
- The police is going to wonder where the drone came from, and for sure check out who rented the rooms in the nearby hotel.
- A switchblade-style kamikaze drone seems exceedingly hard to make yourself. The repurposed commercial drones used in e.g. Ukraine simply drop grenades, and take a lot of time to position. That works for soldiers hunkering down for a long time in trenches, not so great for a person walking to his car.
- Renting a hotel room takes time. You'd have to know the exact itinerary of the target to prepare all that in advance, and sit around waiting for a really long time for the moment to strike. The more time it takes, the more potential for mistakes and random events leading to your discovery.
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
9mo ago
Seems complicated and pretty likely to fail. The logistics are also questionable; he'd have to hide away somewhere in the middle of the city with his gear, and then either keep the drone in the air as he waited (which will get noticed), or launching it when the victim was approaching (which takes time and requires you to rush positioning etc). Much easier to hang around with a gun in your pocket.
Also if your intent is to cause terror you'd want to show that anybody could be a potential terrorist. Very few people could construct a viable kamikaze drone, while a lot of people can buy a gun and stand on a street corner.
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
9mo ago
"Glitching" can be any error, really. It doesn't really convey the "you haven't plugged the cable in all the way" or the like that "glapp" does.
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
9mo ago
If a English isn't your native language, are there any words that aren't in English that you miss?
As a Swedish speaker, glapp is one example. It means a loose connection somewhere in a circuit. E.g. if the sound intermediately cuts out in a livestream, you can say "the sound is glapping". A useful concept to be able to quickly express, but sadly lacking in English. Any others?
Aransentin
p ≥ 0.05 zombie
11mo ago
A lot of this is surely just random accidents that gets blamed on Israel right now due to paranoia.
The idea that GDP is fake is mostly cope (and I say that as an European), but there is a nugget of truth in it as a lot of things rich societies spend money on really is 'fake' in a way:
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Positional goods. Things that only/mostly benefit you if you have better stuff than everybody else. This includes luxuries like fashion, but also much of higher education, and all ways people price out poor people to e.g. not having to live next to them.
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Waste. The government spending a gazillion dollars on a 4-year environmental pre-study for some infrastructure project without any tangible result absolutely counts as GDP but doesn't really benefit society much.
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Paying for results that other people get for free. If you live in a high-crime area and have to spend a bunch of money on replacing stolen goods, security, insurance, fixing vandalism etc. you are contributing to GDP even though somebody living in a low-crime place get that automatically.
This has probably always happened in all societies to some degree or other, but it's just more prevalent in the richer ones that can afford the slack.
25 years later, Alpha Centauri keeps being relevant.
Personally I'm conflicted. The concept is icky and aesthetically horrific, and probably could be used as a slippery slope to clearly awful outcomes, but I don't really have any counters to my steelman version of it.
It's one of those problems I'm glad technology hasn't arrived at yet that we don't have to solve.
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