NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives (blog.adafruit.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/raspberry_pi@programming.dev

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Public safety rules should be dull in the best possible way. Clear. Predictable. Written by people who understand what actually causes harm in a crowd of thousands. New York City usually gets this right. It has decades of muscle memory for doing hard things in public, under pressure, without panicking. Which is why the prohibited items list for the January 1, 2026 NYC mayoral inauguration block party seemed… off

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[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

These are all ingredients to release the Kraken in my DnD game, and they’re probably trying to avoid that because NYC knows what happens when I release the Kraken. NYC would prefer I do not do that.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

Probably because they have more than enough Kraken addicts already.

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