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Why not both?
What if I told you most crackheads nowadays are working for the Trump administration?
They aren’t common in the places I typically shop, at least not yet.
So, around here, when you see these, you know you’re in an unsafe part of town, so they’re essentially a huge advertisement to go shop some place safer and nicer. The privacy invasion aspect of it isn’t even really the biggest factor in regards to where I spend my money.
I’m crashing out daily yall.
Half the derelict RVs in Seattle have a power system out of one of these bad boys
I’m my experience you still see crackheads with the cameras.
These are on basically every corner of my city
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.
"We’re here to help!” and “cops” in the same thought is wild lol
We’re here to help “property owners and wealthy people”.
Sometimes the first thought is what the propaganda you grew up with said
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ACAB.
AAAR
Is this your bootlicking pirate impression or ?
What? That cops are dangerous? They are. Your chances of dying go way up whenever you are in the presence of a cop. That’s why I vacate the premises whenever one walks in. You never know if he just got chewed out by his wife, or his boss, or someone else, and he’s looking for someone to take it out on.
Nothing good can come out of being in the presence of a cop.
Fuck the police
“This. This attitude right here. Stop it.”
Yeah, so long as the police system in the US is corrupt as hell and intent on militarization and spying on the population: lol no.
Wait, stop the attitude of thinking can’t help, or stop the attitude of thinking cops can?
No cop wants to help anyone but himself.
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
It does have some very nice solar panels on it, though.
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.
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.
when has it ever helped safety?
It isn’t necessarily a linear correlation where you can pick the cutoff that best suits your personality and politics.
The technology and the act of surveillance don’t just slide you up the safety/privacy slope. They carry their own risks that can REDUCE safety while still paying the privacy trade off. And it is not predictable.
And that (plus caring about people) is why I don’t support the Leopards Eating Faces coalition even though I’m an old white educated native-born male USian.
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I’m not saying anyone should do it but in the photo it appears there’s a drainage ditch nearby. It would be real shame if someone with a ski mask and a plateless truck were to relocate it there.
What do they do anyway?
Non-consensual colonoscopies
Metaphorically speaking
(They check you all the way up your ass)
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.
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.
There will be a robot standing in that spot in 10 years.
. . .flip it off very intentionally.
Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”
I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.
But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.
We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.
Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.
