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Armed drones to be deployed at schools to stop mass shooters (www.newsweek.com)
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[–] 153 points 1 year ago (24 children)

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.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    This isn't tik tok you can say Motherfucking.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    do we have to have this same argument every godsdamned thread?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do not accept perfection as an enemy of progress!

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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