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Crackheads versus Palantir Spybox (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Photo of a portable surveillance system with the caption “I'd rather see crackheads at the gas station than this stupid overstimulating surveillance state crap”
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[–] 28 points 8 months ago (14 children)

What the hell is that thing anyway

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  • [–] 55 points 8 months ago* (9 children)

    Solar powered, wireless, remote, battery-powered, GPS tracked, overly-designed mobile CCTV/loudspeaker/strobe light trailer. This one in particular is manufactured by a company called LVT, who are one of the major manufacturers of these. They can go about 5 days with no sunshine before the batteries are depleted.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    I've only ever seen them in Walgreens, CVS, and McDonald's parking lots. Blinking away with the brightest blue LED all fucking night.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    They're all over Colorado

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    They are kind of almost somewhat reasonable on those job sites where they’re almost done building the apartment complex, but maybe only because it’s so temporary

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This is an insane comment. There is absolutely nothing temporary about these. They may be in that lot temporarily, but it won't move more than 100 meters before it meets its destination.

    These are valuable. Deface and steal them.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    They are in every single shopping mall parking lot by me. Need to go to Home Depot, one of these. Target, you guessed it, another one. Maybe you need to go to the grocery store, there’s another one there for you. Every single place near me has them.

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