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Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Anyone who needs to be reminded of the damage lasers can cause shouldn't be fucking around with lasers imo. Way too easy to hurt someone.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Idk, considering this is America and most peoples alternative would be a gun, lasers seem rather benign.

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Considering this is America and most people don't actually own guns, your comment seems rather online

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    uh. i live in the bluest of states with the most centrist of liberal friends... and we all own guns. like. alot of them.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Your anecdote is meaningless when 2/3 of the country doesn't own a gun. Turns out you can't extrapolate a data point like that

    the most centrist of liberal friends

    Personally not something I would be bragging about but you do you I guess

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    So your argument is that unless a majority of Americans own guns, you're not even allowed to correlate America with guns at all? What a dumb argument.

    Nobody ever said that the majority of Americans own guns, they said that guns seemed like a more American solution than 1W+ lasers that could easily fry a camera from a distance.

    Unless you have the numbers to suggest that more people have those kinds of lasers than the 100M+ people who have guns, then your point is meaningless.

    At the end of the day this was an unserious suggestion to fire guns at utility poles made in jest towards a country with constitutionally enshrined gun rights and an unhealthy gun culture. Why be this uselessly pedantic about gun ownership statistics that nobody even mentioned or challenged?

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago

    You think in duality. You think in labels. Therefore you think ingroup/outgroup, and therefore you do not have developed the empathy skills to fully simulate "outgroup." You can't fully comprehend a person fundamentally different than you because of the möbiation of entanglement - which the Buddhists call defilement - ultimately creates dualistic dichotomy within the topological matrix of your mind, and therefore you will not notice the cognitive dissonance produced by that möbiation.

    uh

    Like, you can't comprehend that there's a person out there that doesn't think like you at all, in both good and bad ways. It's bizarre someone would even suggest these things to you. You scoffed at them, for you did not understand them with your underdeveloped empathy skill. Now go ahead and misinterpret what I just said so I can teach you further.

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