logseman · HackerTrans

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Given that working class rubes like myself who finished college in a place my man can't even find in a map are somehow able to know what “cultural appropriation” or “gendered” or “heteronormative” mean, and do that by the same means as everyone else (reading about it) I'm going to presume that the good man has a very peculiar understanding of what "elite" means.

logseman

4 yıl öncediscuss

Your McGyver weapon, if it were to work and not get jammed, is not going to be able to fire more than a bullets per second like a bump stocked AR 15 can.

logseman

4 yıl öncediscuss

The entire point that is being sidelined by that is an active shooter is 1) armed 2) surrounded by unarmed people 3) has the element of surprise to their side

Even a single soldier that catches the enemy by surprise while they’re resting or asleep is going to make an absolute carnage. This is known in the military since warfare is a thing and has been used by many successful generals.

It must not get to the point of an active shooter being on the loose, and somehow in other countries it manages to be a very strange occurrence, where the guns have been smuggled by a foreign enemy power, the gunners have been indoctrinated by whatever cult got their turn today, etc.

You also managed to skirt the other part that has been mentioned. If they are ever deployed, these toys will eventually kill the wrong person, which could be a child. Given that all you are interested about is in stopping the active shooter, will you deem this death justified, and agree that there is no liability because “the code did it”?

logseman

4 yıl öncediscuss

There were a bunch of police who’d just done training on stopping an active shooter and simply refused to follow the training. What is the point of reactive measures if they are flat-out disregarded? In this example, this drone could be deployed but it could not attack the shooter, or it could attack the kids instead. Considering that everyone would reject any liability just like the Uvalde PD has done, it would not help at all.

logseman

6 yıl öncediscuss

Not sure how this is "world first" when Spain already did this (and Google withdrew the News service as a result).

logseman

7 yıl öncediscuss

I’m not sure how that’s a good control. Certain academic paths lead to much more lucrative private employment than others, so the degree holders have a huge incentive to go there instead of academic administration.

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