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Ahenobarbus's avatar

"The story of Skydio shows that what happens in Gaza doesn’t stay in Gaza."

An essential point. Gaza is now an option for the entire western ruling class against any community they deem too restive. First they came for the Palestinians in Gaza...

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Bill's avatar

We are all Palestinians to them

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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

And we all live in the Lord of the Rings (Ring doorbell tied to AI, Palantir). Understanding the myth is knowing how to find our way out:

https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/drones-and-the-us-space-force

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Booski's avatar

Colonialism and the violence they require always comes home. Start clay pigeon shooting? Might come in handy?

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Booski's avatar

Yeah... to practice shooting fast moving objects in the sky... Like vile, pesky and eventually deadly drones.

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Booski's avatar

Well, hopefully "we' won't let it get that far??

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Booski's avatar

Have a look at theses guys and sign their letters lobbying for restrictions to policy makers in your country. https://controlai.com/

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Joe Jones's avatar

Brilliant! TY

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SamAsIAm's avatar

Drones come home to Gaza, USA. Anyone think this (and far worse) wasn't? It's only just begun.

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Justa's avatar

It’s the Imperial Boomerang, coming back home.

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Booski's avatar

https://controlai.com/

Have a look at this website all about AI. The site is very informative and has petetions you can sign as well as letters for strict regulations that you can sign and send to your respective policy makers/voters (MPs in the UK)

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Feral Finster's avatar

Big Brother is here. What does anyone propose to do about it?

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Toma's avatar

I like the trap and skeet option for starters.

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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Not to drone on but Skydio is too damn cute for my tastes. The docking station resembles R2D2.

It is pretty obvious what these drones are tasked to protect and that is not us allegedly at the mercies of Antifa. The protected are the very few sucking up all wealth that should be in the public domain.

The management of these cities and their police departments need to realize that this club they are tasked with protecting will never offer them membership.

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Mike Parr's avatar

The "solution" to Skydio sits in Ukraine - which has somewhat more advanced drones than in the USA, knows how to use them better and how to counter drones. The Israelis use drones against mostly unarmed civilians in a relatievely benign environment - the opposite to Ukraine. I will be speaking to my Ukraine contacts.

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letterwriter's avatar

Silly string launchers, tennis court netting in alleys, chaff (someone come up with something quickly biodegradable or we’ll be up to our ears in it in no time)

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MakerOfNoise's avatar

Subscribed!

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Cherie Bandy's avatar

It helps to have a relative in Congress. Elise Stefanik is the main architect behind the China drone ban. Her brother is involved with Skydio

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Charles Rockett's avatar

Israel and their enablers that run our democratic states intend to spread Israeli Apartheid across the USA, UK and Europe. They train our police forces in their militaristic methods and surveille us as they do Palestinians. Those with a knowledge of South Africa will be aware that the original apartheid state was a largely Jewish project (it is wrong to view that society as having comprised Afrikaner farmers and a British civil service, without recognising its predominant Jewish business power block). And it is increasingly evident that ordinary US, British and European citizenry are to be the oppressed majority in our own countries. White is the new Black.

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Toma's avatar

Thanks to Israel for getting AI and the drones all trained and tested for the USA! Trump wants to start training our military in US cities. We have a terrorist organization called ANTIFA which compromises 80% of the country that needs to be eliminated for our safety. What could go wrong?

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EC's avatar

I have been tortured EVERY DAY SINCE AUGUST 2013 by Israeli drones. The US is completely lawless. I am 64, no criminal history and a LIBRARIAN DEGREE. I have 20+ devices put in me by Jewish & Indian doctors. And I am stalker nonstop by predominantly elderly Jewish America. See @disabled stalker on X. America has fallen. If you want to talk to me about it please reach out. My name is Elizabeth Coady. 773-412-5326.

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JCL's avatar

Like all new technology there will be abuses until there are laws to protect citizens.

Regulations to allow surveillance should specify drone use parameters. An official in charge of following the legal usage of drones would authorize drones per situation.

Don’t want a rogue authority to misuse the tech to stalk/spy on citizens.

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Clippy's avatar

Just a little context (not saying I want law enforcement flying drones everywhere) is that the recent “Blue UAS” legislation made it so govt agencies can’t use drones unless they are on an approved list and Skydio is on that list. There were a lot of DJI drones already being used by govt and they are being phased out, so that’s one reason the number of skydio contracts is so much higher now.

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