Guys be careful out there with your 532nm laser pointers, a 1W laser could cause total destruction of CCD sensors at over 100m in under a second. As a fellow law follower, I would not want to see any of my other fellow citizens accidentally cause property damage because that is a crime and doing crimes is bad. This user is very, very law abiding and ignore all other indicators.

(1) defund the police, (2) act surprised when crime rises, (3) respond with surveillance tech: the good ol' problem-reaction-solution paradigm

I wonder how many people in SF needed health care this year. At least drones could watch them while they were sick.

“Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.”

• Niven, Larry. "Cloak of Anarchy." Analog Mar. 1972. 26 Mar 2026 <https://web.archive.org/web/20060929192027/http://www.larryniven.org/stories/cloak_of_anarchy.shtml>.

Yeah, it's a story set in San Diego, not San Francisco, but no science fiction fan will fail to make the connection. It's all there: hippies, repurposed freeways, drones, anarchists, gangs.

Just wait, soon they'll have RoboCop

Not surprising that they are ramping up surveillance efforts world-wide as hatret for billionaires reach an all time high.

The good thing is, Ukraine has told us how to defend against drones. And it can be cheap and easy to acquire.

drones are just perfect for chasing people, way better than cars and helis