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Why not both?
What if I told you most crackheads nowadays are working for the Trump administration?
I can believe most people working for trump are crackheads, but maybe not the other way around.
They aren’t common in the places I typically shop, at least not yet.
So, around here, when you see these, you know you’re in an unsafe part of town, so they’re essentially a huge advertisement to go shop some place safer and nicer. The privacy invasion aspect of it isn’t even really the biggest factor in regards to where I spend my money.
I’m crashing out daily yall.
These are on basically every corner of my city
I’m my experience you still see crackheads with the cameras.
I was ready to be like nah that’s just a traffic obs camera or someshit, but I looked it up and it really is a total shitheadomatic-5000
It does have some very nice solar panels on it, though.
Yeah we’ve got a bunch of these in our neighborhood. It’s a rundown area but this just makes it worse. I’d love nothing more than to mask up and smash this shit
*Mask up and disassemble that shit for parts on the spot. Make it serve the people, rather than spy on them.
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Technology like this always brings up the balance between safety and privacy. It’s important that communities keep having open conversations about where that line should be.
when has it ever helped safety?
It isn’t necessarily a linear correlation where you can pick the cutoff that best suits your personality and politics.
The technology and the act of surveillance don’t just slide you up the safety/privacy slope. They carry their own risks that can REDUCE safety while still paying the privacy trade off. And it is not predictable.
And that (plus caring about people) is why I don’t support the Leopards Eating Faces coalition even though I’m an old white educated native-born male USian.
Has anyone told the crackheads how much copper is in that thing?
It’s got wheels and everything. You can literally just roll it right to the scrap yard.
There’s one of these in a shopping center around me. I flip it off every time I see it.
I mean, I deliberately drive near it, stop, roll down my window, put my arm out, and flip it off very intentionally.
I don’t care if it knows me. I’ve made no secret of my hatred for authoritarianism throughout my life. I’ve gone to more protests than I can count. Besides, if authorities really wanted to do something to me, they’d readily make things up anyway. They don’t need an excuse, so I might as well express myself.
This shit is dystopian as fuck and every time I see it or it blasts out its message about us being watched, it boils my blood.
Fuck it all. This is not okay.
There will be a robot standing in that spot in 10 years.
. . .flip it off very intentionally.
Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”
I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.
But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.
We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.
Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.
I’m not saying anyone should do it but in the photo it appears there’s a drainage ditch nearby. It would be real shame if someone with a ski mask and a plateless truck were to relocate it there.
sooo… you just gotta pull 3 cotter pins and it’s rolling down the road on its own?
I wouldn’t recommend it since the thing is covered in cameras
paintballs and slingshots. or well-aimed crackheads.
Or just wear a hoodie and mechanics gloves and don’t drive up to it.
…Or maybe don’t go around vandalizing things
Res tower from PUBG, surely?
No worries, a few years of surveillance state and everybody becomes a crackhead one way or the other!
