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    LMAO, “Do you mean I have to talk to these people?”

    Boyce, who says she voted for President Donald Trump and is a staunch supporter of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., found herself making common cause with people on the left who also opposed the cameras.

    “I’ve had to really be open to having conversations with people I normally wouldn’t be having conversations with,” she said.

    Her coalition won out. On Sept. 9, the City Council voted unanimously to end Sedona’s contract with Flock.

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      Unfortunately yeah in this fight you’re gonna find that a lot of ordinary moderate people won’t care but the crazies and radicals of all stripes fear government surveillance enough to fight against it

      Edit to clarify: the crazies are right here, most normal people don’t engage with the issue and just assume it’s fine, but among people who fear government surveillance you’re gonna get some nuts

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    i believe the speed cameras could be part of it, they started installing it everywhere in cali(if you go above 25mph in a absent area, it tags you asap)

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      After watching quite a bit of StyroPyro on YouTube, who’s experience with lasers is frighteningly impressive, and while I can’t say for certain if such a laser would affect them, I believe they are probably not designed to take such energy, and it might mess with them significantly. That said, given the inverse square law, I couldn’t predict the minimum required distance to target necessary to mess with them.

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        Inverse square doesn’t directly apply to lasers though, as the law presumes an even dispersal of energy per distance unit - but lasers, as the name suggests, are designed to not disperse even at large distances (which is why it’s super dangerous to shine powerful lasers up into the sky, the brightness remains quite even, even at large distances, easily blinding pilots), and the distances we’re talking about - presumably human-guided lasers so at most around 500-700m - the energy dispersion would be so low that a 5W laser would register around 4.9W when it hits the camera.