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all a high-end luxury home with lots of security says to me is "there's a prize inside!"
We call that environmental storytelling
I'm sure some esteemed deeds are commemorated here!
It's like a kinder egg! 😋
The prize: slowing the environmental & biodiversity collapse, and a bit more freedom to society, also some polluted meat & bones.
Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter/drone. 
How hard would it be to program around a dozen drones or so to execute a coordinated kamikaze attack?
It's for a book, I swear
If only the left weren't so anti-ai.
I'm only anti-AI in the sense that under our current system, it's only being used as a means to deprive us of our means to make a living
I want cool shit like robot buddies and holodeck simulator games, but not if it's destroying the environment and ruining people's lives
Anything under capitalism is gonna do that anyway. 🤷 Did you think using Google as a spellchecker all these years was green? Lol.
Spellchecker? I just move my fingers really fast and it usually works out
40 grand on a college education reallg panned out for me 
Dictionary, spellchecker, whatevs. None of this (waves arms around) has ever been efficient or sustainable.
I don't think you want generative "AI" to program a coordinated kamikaze drone attack.
We can abstract it to the idea of a video game. Imagine a video game with a dozen enemies all attacking the player with none overlapping. Easy peasy.
Good I hope they live in permanent fear
Lol. Reminds me of my favorite Dead Kennedys song. I wonder if one day one of these rich creeps will get shot by their own guards.
Fun fact, those guard jobs are often just regular jobs on indeed and anyone could apply and lie about their qualifications
Then your target just hands you a gun and thinks you're gonna protect them
That's just the start, once this happens once it will create a ripple effect of fear washing over the ruling class, they won't trust their real bodyguards anymore and will inevitably treat them poorly due to this new paranoia, this of course leads to some of those bodyguards getting some thoughts of their own and it could all just keep going from there
"God job planting the gun on that handsome Italian kid Agent 47, for your next mission you'll be going to a wedding in Venice..."
Nothing a ballista couldnt solve
Or a couple of those rocket arrow things like what the Chinese had
protoKatyushas
Building a 60m tall trebuchet in front of Jeff Bezos until he surrenders challenge
"Or rockets"
Meanwhile, millionaire politicians like 
are protected by 3mm of glass that can be overcome by a drunk with a hammer
Video games have trained me for this
I'm almost convinced Hideo Kojima was using MGS to try to teach stealth and combat skills to the gamers while making sure the West wasn't the hero of the story 
If hiding under carboard boxes doesn't actually work, I'll be sorely disappointed.
I was very impressed in MGS2 on the hardest difficulties if you were in a box that wasn't in the area it should be the guards would try to move it, and if you had an alert they would search every spot methodically so they would still check your box unless you were like hidden beside other similar boxes. On some behind the scenes of the development they showed the dev team and Kojima going through a close quarters combat training class and learning how to properly clear rooms as a team.
But they later added an oil drum you can hide in and then roll at enemies in to take them down, that's bulletproof and unstoppable in real battle.
I like those Ukrainian drones that drop a stream of napalm/thermite, allowing them to zip across a forest or anti-drone net and torch the whole thing in 30 seconds.
Moat? I got a trebuchet for that, $20 extra if you want to throw it to throw a dead body.
$20? In my day you'd fish the body out of the river for me and launch it for a nickel!
Ok, but there better not be an unskippable cutscene before the boss, I hate those, there is plenty of environmental lore to get what's happening.
We need a good version of Mr Beast to sponsor the hitman speedrunning community to do something really funny 
I wonder how much they'll be paying their guards? Or the contractors to make sure that the building work is all properly done? I'm sure that they'll be more than happy to be generous to other people when their life is on the line, and their insatiable greed won't get in the way of making their fuhrerbunkers fully secure.
This also means that the training data is public.
"the insurance guy got shot on a public street so to avoid that particular fate I'm installing more guards and lasers in my house" 
JEFF BEZOS
[CHICAGO SUNROOF INTENSIFIES]