• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Everyone else has already made great points, so I’m gonna throw a new one out there. Why do all of these people with more money than God dress like absolute shit. I’m sure that cowboy hat cost more than I make in a year, but the man looks like an idiot. Musk and zuck always have the dumbest trash on, too. I get that they are trying to look different to signal that they are elite, but it really just gives off a strong “Look Mom! I dressed myself today!” vibe.

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      It’s the same reason they have such outlandish there opinions. There is no one in their orbit to tell them ‘no.’ They’ve been experiencing ai psychosis for years, only in the form of yes men instead of plagiarism machines. Anyone that had the temerity to tell Elon that no, we will not have people living on Mars within ten years has long since been removed from access to him.

      In absolutely no way defending them- if you spent your life having every person you interacted with telling you that whatever drivel you spouted was the greatest thing ever, you too would presume to be one of the smartest on Earth.

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      Its the extreme end of “I can dress the way I want, screw what others are thinking”. But when that becomes a thing of its own it ends in some questionable fashion choices.

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      It’s what happens when you are surrounded by yes men. Also they can never experience genuine love without wondering if the person is just there for their money.

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    Guy I work with thinks it’s a a very short matter of time before kamikaze drone swarms take out some boardrooms - I think that kind of worry is behind all their secrecy about tracking these folks’ locations

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      These techno feudalist freaks don’t realize that when you set up an extrajudicial mafia infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before one of your capos slit your throat and take your place.

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        I’m sure they have them, but the wire guided ones I’ve seen (on video!) used in Ukraine are crazy. E: But you’re right, even if they can’t jam the drones, just the detection is probably enough to be safe on a superyacht. I hope the paparazzi never let them rest

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          So this is gonna be a bit rambly but I do have a point to make.

          My great-grandfather worked on V1s and V2s for the US Navy during WW2 mostly on the gyroscopic guidance system but also was witnessed to general testing. Anyways he wrote a never published paper on theoretical strategic and tactical uses on their usage, he gave wee little 11 year old me a solid summary of them.

          Basically he wanted to create a deep deployment method for US Army Rangers wherein they could airdrop in a simplified V1 based design deep into enemy lines which could then be set up for sabotage methods. He wanted to create a high powered long range but single use transmitter that could be used to set them off for fire and forget sabotage.

          Anyways I’m curious if anyone will dig up or think of said ideas, since they basically predate modern tech and would more or less be impossible to counter without firing off an AA system. Hell with modern tech you could probably outright improve apon his idea.

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        Good. Force these fucks to build an arsenal they either don’t know how to maintain or will fail trying.

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          You don’t honestly think the ultra wealthy are personally planning the details and implementing the systems and weapons for their security detail, right?

          They hire companies staffed by experts and former military whose purpose is to do all of the work for them.

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            Yeah, I deleted my comment immediately after I published it. How did you see that nearly an hour after the fact?

            Regardless, doing so is extremely expensive (I would think). The ultra wealthy right now benefit from a legal system that protects them well enough, they can spend the majority of their fortune on fucking with the less fortunate. Let their paranoia dampen their capacity.

            The ultra wealthy are dependent upon economic income streams to maintain any one of their systems. We are a society depend on the economy only until the economy stops serving us—by which point we depend upon ourselves and the economy flounders. I fail to see a scenario in which we are freed enough from our dependence to make tangible threat to the ultra wealthy, while still they maintain enough financial resilience to maintain their arsenal.

            They’re doomed if a militia forms against them, because that’s only going to happen via their weakened capacity in the first place. Don’t you think?

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      i’v honestly been considering it, not boardrooms (too much collateral damage) but park a kamikaze drone or 2 at each vacation home of these billionaires and just wait for the cunts to show up.

      taking out murdoch’s 1st son (his daughters want to sell the propaganda machine off for parts), thiel, and bannon would fix so much current/future suffering in this world. musk…i feel like it’s almost worse to leave him alive at this point.

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      I totally agree. It’s the type of attack virtually anyone can pull off solo with just a couple thousand dollars. You don’t even need a lot of engineering skills, battle-ready quadcopters are available off the shelf. The only thing that would be difficult is the payload, and there are plenty of people capable of making a pipe bomb.

      Everyone should watch the short film Slaughterbots, I think it does a good job of explaining. https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw