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[–] Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How long before one of these shoots a regular kid?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah so we tried nothing and nothing worked!

Then we tried arming the teachers but they accidentally shot themselves and the students!

So now we're trying armed drones with AI doing the triggering because there just ain't any other solution to this problem!

I mean the entire world has this problem, every day we read about multiple countries facing multiple school shootings per day, every single day, and nobody found any solution ever!

So AI killer drones are the only way to move education forward, there is no other solution available Right?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i'm not sure these are AI drones, these might be remote sniper drones. which is still terrifying as fuck, considering how easy it is to find default logins for all the ALPRs everywhere and then see how many have not been changed [note for legal reasons i am not encouraging you to do this, definitely not without a good trusted VPN]

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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought it was an Onion article at first

[–] drcabbage@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

America, just throw more guns at the problem!

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like someone is going to hack one of these and then do a school shooting

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago

You bet your ass. You think with Big Balls storing millions of people's data on unsecure servers and Las Vegas being slammed with a hack that would make Hollywood claim is unrealistic means there will be script kiddies ready with pre-made hacks that would make them kill people. This is cyberpunk 2077 level shit.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

Next headline reads "armed drones were hacked and lead to worst systematic school shooting in history"

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

I think we know what the next step is here. Mass shooters start using armed drones.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a drone is a good guy with a drone.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You know how most school shootings can be stopped in the US? Safe storage laws. Most of the time the shooter is an underage kid who got access to their parents' guns and went to shoot up the school. Obviously it wouldn't stop shit like Uvalde and Sandy Hook. But it would still stop a fuckload of smaller shootings we don't hear about because they are background noise at this point.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Next mass shooting headline: Bullied nerd hacks armed drones in school to extract bloody revenge.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago

As always, the American answer is more guns!

[–] AmieFromEarth@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I get more and more grateful to be born in Europe. The US is a real life satire fever dream at this point.

[–] YogaDouchebag@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It’s funny how much they do just to circumvent gun control.

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[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (14 children)

With more than 60 school shooting incidents reported in Florida alone since 2018, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, educators and lawmakers have urgently sought innovative approaches to school safety.

No. No you haven't because every mindless idiot can fix this problem within a minute, had they have the interest to do so

BAN GUNS!

Aaaaaand problem solved.

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[–] jonesey71@lemmus.org 15 points 1 week ago

My gut says when you have to say you are "the good guy" you are in fact "the bad guy."

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Innocent children will die to trigger happy drone cops. It's going to be a remote controlled Uvalde.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago

anything but do something about the guns. SMH

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago
[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Yay! Bullied tech nerds no longer have to bring their own gun! That's convenient for them.

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Someone will absolutely take this as a challenge.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised. The only thing we're good at in this country is making weapons.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's a bald faced lie. We're also good at producing food with a lot of calories and no nutritional value.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad I'm not a young person in school

Gen Alpha is screwed even more than gen Z

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

So will these drones be paid for by a gun sales tax or will they just cut more social services?

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

While getting into an arms race with school shooters is kind of a ridiculous path, I do wish we would take this opportunity to develop personal force field/shield technology like they have in Dune.

[–] marius@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Let me guess. They also use AI?

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

it's like the Onion. it's really like the Onion. some of these you go, "hah ! could be the onion !" but this one, it really ought to be the Onion

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'm sure this will solve the problem. And, no chance at all it will be abused, somehow.

/s

[–] CraigimusPR1M3@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

Make it make sense. "OH. What's that? You have pneumonia? Here's a bit of cough medicine!" Like brother... that doesn't fucking help shit....

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