• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      Spray paint poles are cheaper and safer. Tungsten carbide sawzall blades aren’t that expensive either

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      You’d need a laser powerful enough and those are hard to get. Those are super dangerous I’d recommend people stay away from them if they don’t know about how they work.

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        Absolutely. 500mW+ lasers can injure human eyes in a fraction of a second, even from a reflection, similar to how they can destroy a camera sensor.

        They’re not particularly hard to get online in the USA though.

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    The police have been yelling for years that fighting crime is just an unwanted side effect of their actual jobs; protecting capital and killing brown people.

    One of these days we should believe them.

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    That was never the objective in the first place. Blanket surveillance and getting people used to the idea of zero privacy, ever again.

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      “Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”

      -Edward Snowden

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    Just like most AI, it makes the user lazier. And I’m someone who is forced to use AI for work and I can confirm.

    Why would police actively try to solve a crime when they could lean on flock? Even if it gets it wrong they can say they tried and then move on.