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A Boring Dystopia
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Police drones have been in use for many years for crowds
Like how nsa and the spying was real since Snowden leaks.
...but it's going to be worse.
Sometimes I wonder if social media was specifically funded by the FEDs to datamine. They spent years manipulating people and collecting data, and now they are building data centers and applying software to profile people. It seems clear they will use hardware for policing on a new level, as well as move from the police force to ICE. These new drones and flock style ai monitoring is like the datamining of the real world.
I think people are too engrossed in cultural consumer and entertainment escapism to even understand how fucked up things are. And it's sad because that escapism is also feeding the datamining and marketing to further out people in hole soullessness and social manipulation. The path of our lives isn't even our natural path anymore, they use our life for reasons that aren't ours. Shit. That last sentence is a paraphrase from John Stockwell - a CIA whistle blower from the 80s.
Death seems like it's slowly becoming more genuine than life. Like it seems obvious the goal of those in control has nothing to do with genuine humanity, but instead some psychotic ideology based off fear of freedom and natural existence.
If we're lucky maybe someday they'll allow us assisted suicide for the ailment of understanding truth. ...but they'll probably just crucify us, or genocide.
Your ancestors were made of sun and soil and dancing and joy and community and struggle. Those things still exist. You do not need to feed the algorithm.
You're 100%
Look up the day Lifelog was retired by the gov and the day Facebook started.. Do you believe in coincidences?
You missed jpreston2005's entire point, possibly intentionally for a chance to virtue signal.
I genuinely don't see what point I could have missed, they said drones will be used for something, but drones are already in use for that very thing.
Pedantically, yes, they should've mentioned drones have already been used.
More to the point, the vast majority of their comment highlights the bar is getting lower and lower for what drones will be used for.
Yeah that is the reason I quit going to protest in Morganton, NC of all places.
Some local cops got in trouble this year because they were using their drones as PHYSICAL enforcement of the drone-ban for the 4th of July fireworks.
As in, they didn't follow drones to find their owners, they tried to use their own drone to smash other ones out of the sky. They hit a car on the way down...