• i_drink_bleach [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    So here’s the thing about that: Those are expensive as fuck.

    I can get an aerial drone off Alibaba, strap a bunch of C4 and nails on it for like $50 and we’re done and dusted. I don’t have to be a special forces operator. I just have to be able to fly a drone close enough to nail-bomb a bunch of dudes from a cozy remote control center. If I fuck up, well, there’s 10,000 more drones I can remote into. They’re cheap. No need to pay Boston Dynamics $300,000 per unit. I got that Alibaba hook-up.

    Warfare is rapidly becoming pointless. What’s the ultimate end game? A bunch of drones versus a bunch of drones? What’s the point? I would like to think that this would make humanity realize the fruitlessness of warfare, but I’m not that naive. We’ll all go along with it. Why wouldn’t we? We’re all idiots.

    • hogslayer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      I can get an aerial drone off Alibaba, strap a bunch of C4 and nails on it for like $50 and we’re done and dusted.

      I hate to post this on the internet, but I wish I knew how to do all of that.

      I mean I could figure out how to buy a drone online (is it really that cheap?). Then I think I need to get a drone license to fly 'em around as practice. But I’d have no idea how to make the C4 nail-bomb or where to get the stuff for it.