"If you can see this, you shouldn't be shopping here."
Tell crackheads that there's 50 pounds of copper and two catalytic converters in these things.
Or like one stick of ram
There actually might be… brb
Forget telling crackheads there's copper, tell gamers there's ram modules on there they could solder to their GPU
Those solar panels look pretty nice...
Come to think of it, yeah... These things will be real nice to have after the collapse.
A modestly sized, but complete and mobile off-grid solar system, just waiting for you to hitch it to your car and pull it away. Tear the cameras and lights off of it, then use the solar panels, batteries, and associated electrical equipment to power whatever small electrical loads you need.
"After the collapse" he says, with no idea what powers my posting >:)
Well????? Don't hold back, tell us about the internals and where the tracking devices are.
Think less heist, more looting. Batteries in the bottom, panels up top, charge controller in between are the good bits
Ah, I see. Electricity wiring has always been my weak spot. I'd probably fry myself or the good bits if I tried.
Shit, even my ears perked up at that...
I sold my old car to a crackhead. He had way more chill than any kind of AI surveillance.
Was your old car made out of crack?
Has anyone told the crackheads how much copper is in that thing?
It's got wheels and everything. You can literally just roll it right to the scrap yard.
Specifically engineered to keep out "undesirables".
What the hell is that thing anyway
There's one of these in a shopping center around me. I flip it off every time I see it.
I mean, I deliberately drive near it, stop, roll down my window, put my arm out, and flip it off very intentionally.
I don't care if it knows me. I've made no secret of my hatred for authoritarianism throughout my life. I've gone to more protests than I can count. Besides, if authorities really wanted to do something to me, they'd readily make things up anyway. They don't need an excuse, so I might as well express myself.
This shit is dystopian as fuck and every time I see it or it blasts out its message about us being watched, it boils my blood.
Fuck it all. This is not okay.
These things are so fucking dystopian.
They really are. I visit a location with one of these regularly and a pleasant loudspeaker says "Welcome to [shopping area], please report any disturbances" and I immediately feel like I'm in Half-Life, or another dystopian video game...
The ones by me play loud classical music at night to keep homeless from setting up camp. Nothing makes me feel more safe at night than loud classical music. Just kidding it always makes me feel like a slasher movie killer is just a few feet behind me.
Probably the most dystopian thing I've ever experienced IRL.
It costs less than 10 dollars to disable them.
It also costs about negative 1200 to steal them.
It costs infinitely more to do nothing.
What even are these? I'm not American, we don't torture (or have) crackheads here. I mean we do have bums, but hard drugs are too expensive and hard to find for then I think. Booze is easy.
Anyway, in case anyone here is thinking of their local community's wellbeing, idk what it's like in the US with tariffs and all, but I know that in general it's like 30 bucks off Aliexpress to get a cordless angle grinder that works with Makita batteries. Maybe 50 with a battery and charger included. Yes, they work.
It's like portable CCTV. Police cameras. They can move them to wherever the crime is basically.
The first time I saw one of these was at a Fourth of July gathering in a public park. I saw the high blue lights and I figured it was marking some kind of portable police resource center. I had imagined some basic first aid and some officers ready for emergency assistance. I had imagined something that was partly a service and partly community outreach. I had imagined something with positive features.
I was so disappointed to find out it was just cameras. Quite an emotional trip in my head there, from "We're here to help!" to "We're watching you, fuckers" in the space of a moment.
But I guess the cops in my suburb are no better than the cops in any other suburb.
Wtf are these things
I was ready to be like nah that's just a traffic obs camera or someshit, but I looked it up and it really is a total shitheadomatic-5000
Yeah we've got a bunch of these in our neighborhood. It's a rundown area but this just makes it worse. I'd love nothing more than to mask up and smash this shit
*Mask up and disassemble that shit for parts on the spot. Make it serve the people, rather than spy on them.
Hate it. It's so annoying. The stores in the area hate it because it pisses people off and they complain to the stores and them the stores are like we hate them as well but the cops put them there.
I’m crashing out daily yall.
But but they're so nice to sleep under when you're homeless or on a road trip and allergic to expending capital on motels... Just me?
Why not both?
What if I told you most crackheads nowadays are working for the Trump administration?
I can believe most people working for trump are crackheads, but maybe not the other way around.
Technology like this always brings up the balance between safety and privacy. It’s important that communities keep having open conversations about where that line should be.
this comment sounds like ai
sooo... you just gotta pull 3 cotter pins and it's rolling down the road on its own?
I wouldn't recommend it since the thing is covered in cameras
paintballs and slingshots. or well-aimed crackheads.
Or just wear a hoodie and mechanics gloves and don't drive up to it.
...Or maybe don't go around vandalizing things
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