People wouldn't be so obsessed with killing each other if there wasn't at least a bit of truth to economics and life being zero-sum.
I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone
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#32Only read the title. Going by it: you could also kill me with a kitchen knife, your car, a bat (if you're fit), multiple types of poison, a homemade firebomb, etc.
The pearl clutching is just these folks out there who think, "if it wasn't for the laws people would be running amok murdering like the purge!"
These people are not to be taken seriously. "But what about" and "what if" are the most annoying things any person can say in a meeting to appear smart, and this is no different.
This is also why I'm building a cabin in the woods and I work for myself, but yeah.
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#33Society degrades from war. People that were in warfare shouldn't be allowed back into normal life. Even with a just war, like with Ukraine defending themselves from Russia, the soldiers coming back from the front are killing their wives. I don't think there's a solution. I've worked on projects in the USA trying to predict behavior changes in veterans that lead to murder/suicide and it's just not possible. Just try t…
This is a very interesting post - like, I think it's wrong, but the sentiment is fascinating.
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#34"Meanwhile, on the military side, the Pentagon is still buying Boeing Scan Eagles at hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop when they can buy a similar capability for only a few thousand dollars at a local hobby shop." 1.Your local hobby shop drone will not be able to fly for 20 hours like a fixed wing Scan Eagle. Bad comparison. 2. Modifying drones to be used for combat is cheap if you don't count the labor cost, an…
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-a-team-of-marines-...
Moreover, as this War on the Rocks podcast shows, all levels of drones are being integrated.
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#35Society degrades from war. People that were in warfare shouldn't be allowed back into normal life. Even with a just war, like with Ukraine defending themselves from Russia, the soldiers coming back from the front are killing their wives. I don't think there's a solution. I've worked on projects in the USA trying to predict behavior changes in veterans that lead to murder/suicide and it's just not possible. Just try t…
And then war came, the enemy somehow managed to attack the area where you live - think that silly Red Dawn movie - and enemy troops are closing in on your area. What do you do?
1: Give up and let them take you and yours
2: Fight them in the knowledge that you'll be shunned by society which took your own advice to heart
Nope, I suspect you'd board one of those army transports which have been sent to evacuate civilians to a safe area where they'll live until the military has successfully beaten the enemy combatants. Then you'll return to your house which seems to have survived unscathed, fire up your laptop and write another post on how it is best to avoid the people who just saved you and yours. Don't hire them, don't date them, they're broken and can't be fixed
Happy 4th of July btw.
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#36Yeah but you won't so it's not a big problem We can't orchestrate our society around what someone "could" do You could kill me with a rock easier than you could kill me with a drone
> Yeah but you won't so it's not a big problem
The reason you can comfortably say this is exactly because we orchestrate our society around what someone "could" do.
Operating a drone is not that easy, today. And killing someone has consequence most people don't want to face.
What if we enable every human to be able to kill someone anonymously by pressing a button?
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#37Society degrades from war. People that were in warfare shouldn't be allowed back into normal life. Even with a just war, like with Ukraine defending themselves from Russia, the soldiers coming back from the front are killing their wives. I don't think there's a solution. I've worked on projects in the USA trying to predict behavior changes in veterans that lead to murder/suicide and it's just not possible. Just try t…
Well, this is a way to up the casualty count! What would you propose countries do with veterans? Kill them all, or maybe exile them to an island? I guess that turns getting drafted into a death sentence, which it could be anyway, but your approach pretty much guarantees it.
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#38I could kill you with a pen.
Ah but it would be infintely more impressive if you can create life with it.
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#40"Meanwhile, on the military side, the Pentagon is still buying Boeing Scan Eagles at hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop when they can buy a similar capability for only a few thousand dollars at a local hobby shop." 1.Your local hobby shop drone will not be able to fly for 20 hours like a fixed wing Scan Eagle. Bad comparison. 2. Modifying drones to be used for combat is cheap if you don't count the labor cost, an…
> will likely take enough labor time to verify, let alone certify All that to say that US desperately needs to copy Ukrainian model. Lots of small manufacturers and an excellent skunk works team for very quick iteration.
UKR is in survival mode. They don't need to worry about a worldwide distribution net. They don't integrate these into larger systems.
UKR can still feasibly kill a RUS soldier with a Molotov cocktail or hunting rifle. That doesn't mean US Army platoons should carry deer rifles and bottles of gasoline.