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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gonna be some ED-209 moments.

Too bad about Kenny, eh?

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

I saw Chopping Mall! I know how this ends.

[–] courval@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

"New Challenge Unlocked!"

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 160 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is such a tricky subject.
You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.
Or.
MUTHERFUDGING DRONES, bitches.

It's such a tricky subject. So tricky.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.

I'm skeptical any of this would be more than a bandaid solution, a large part of the problem has got to be how highschool in the US is just inherently a miserably dehumanizing experience.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The drones, stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated. The devices—operated remotely by a team in Texas—provide constant live video feeds to first responders and, in some cases, fire nonlethal projectiles to delay or incapacitate an assailant.

To me, these aren't a bad idea. Immediate response and non-ISH-lethal. They are simply the progression of enforcement technology.

What they are not, is a solution to school shootings. They are not even a bandaid. Some people (law makers) just don't seem to know what "prevention" means.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

stored in secure boxes on campus, can be deployed within five seconds of silent panic buttons being activated

So much about that sentence doesn't make sense though...

"secure boxes" but "a button can open them" also "silent panic" with "drones out within 5 seconds"

In any event, the 'nonlethal' is generally considered a bad descriptor versus 'less than lethal', unless they are talking about something merely mildly annoying rather than the usual things like rubber or bag rounds.

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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This isn't tik tok you can say Motherfucking.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

man I made an account just to go troll idiots and holy shit is their moderation ever so fucking bad

people can say "I would drive over them" about people crossing a bridge, but if you say, "I'd drive over you tbh", nope, not okay.

not to mention the dumb automatic word filters regardless of context

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

do we have to have this same argument every godsdamned thread?

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Argument? Nah. Just trying to help someone who seems to need help in forcefully expressing themselves.

just, i'm tired boss. no one likes being the language police, no one like being language policed. just let people talk.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

In fact I'd prefer if people just used the actual cuss words. Self-censoring is such a bullshit. Social media is a plague on our species.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

or: kill the cop in your head.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago

It is a plague but not because you can't swear.

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 112 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Scotty_Trees@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Didn't expect to see a Robocop meme today, but I'm all about it!

[–] Bot@sub.community 2 points 6 days ago

Hail Hydra?

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[–] TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip 87 points 1 week ago

America will do literally anything to ignore gun control and mental health.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Article says there's a pepper ball launcher and a glass hammer, so this thing is mainly for surveillance and mild distractions, which is much better than I was prepared to read.

"Currently, an officer's job is to run toward gunfire, alone, with no support or intel—basically a standoff. With our drones, they're not alone; they know what the suspect looks like, what they're doing, and we take point around every corner.

"We usually find the shooter before they do and keep them occupied. Every officer who's seen this live has said they want it."

If this actually encourages them to do their jobs, great. If this is just a kickback to private industry and further militarizing schools while police still sit cowering, than I know where they can dock those drones...

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It's absolutely number 2... They leaving the parking lot.

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[–] florge@feddit.uk 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"It's a bit like that movie The Matrix, where the agent can jump into the nearest person and immediately be good to go. We're a little bit like that—but we're the good guys,"

At last, zero self awareness, wow.

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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fantastic. Remote controlled school shootings.

I wonder when the first one will happen?

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