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    “As far as I’m concerned, we’ve got to protect the children. We have to be able to disrupt intruders,” West said at the demo. “We saw what happened in Uvalde. School resource officers were hesitant to go into that room, and so what you’ve got to recognize is, there’s a danger for them also, but they are there on the front line.”

    But it wasn’t just the school resource officers not going in, was it?

    The cops had assault rifles and ballistic shields and flashbangs and body armor. What makes you think one more toy is gonna make a difference?

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    Schools are cutting funding for free lunch programs but are supposed to have funds for this?

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    ED-209: ILLEGAL THOUGHT DETECTED.
    ED-209: IMMEDIATELY STOP. YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
    Teacher: You better stop thinking independently, Kinny.
    Kinny: stops singing Captain Planet themesong
    ED-209: YOU NOW HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY.
    ED-209: I AM NOW AUTHORIZED TO USE PHYSICAL FORCE.

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    The high-tech drones, which are piloted by a team of former military men and nationally ranked professional drone racers,

    For now. Eventually when they’ve got these in every district they outsource drone piloting to save cost, either to India or AI.

    Honestly, im not 100% against the concept. It’s like a sprinkler system, but for shooters. And i reckon school resource officers aren’t held to much of a standard either so…

    That’s a good point about the wifi jammers i admit. But I don’t know of any active shooter events that involved someone who put that level of thought into it, not to say there arent any its just… idk… Couldn’t be that hard to swat it out of the air in a hallway…

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      Shooting reported on school campus.

      Teach pulls out gun to protect students from shooter

      Teacher mowed down by drone.

      How are they supposed to know who the shooter is? If it’s just finding the one with the gun, then I assume you have to ban teachers from bringing guns again.

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        I mean, presumably the pilot would be able to tell because the teacher with the gun is barricaded in a room with students theyre not shooting

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      If they’re using anything other than shit tier components they can have a load of different control and video frequencies on different drones, all in the same building. No serious drone is gonna be reliant on fucking wifi, unless it’s a child’s toy lol

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          Well I don’t think having your drone system get paralyzed by relying on wifi is gonna be good for profits. That means they failed on their mission and they lost a load of reputation and have to start over with something better.

          Maybe I’m just FPV-brained, but it seems really trivial to make jamming a difficult task even if you only have access to chinese parts, at least in the context of kids. As long as the company doesn’t show their cards (control and video frequencies, how it’s stored when not in use, fhss patterns (if any), how it connects to the operators) it seems difficult to mess up.

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      I mean. I always see stuff to indicate the shooters put a shit ton of thought into it. I have yet to see one were in the morning they were like. lol gonna gun it up.

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    I… vomited (boofed?) the onion on this one hard. After reading the article, it’s not actually as bad as it sounds, but I don’t trust that there’s any way to encrypt or bar access to these drones that will stand up to all of the kids in Texas schools.

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      “When we think about it, it’s less militarizing than having police officers carrying guns everywhere."

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    This is ridiculous. Clearly the solution is for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build Hyperloops underneath each school, to allow students to escape quickly in their Teslas.

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      I recently finished a historical novel where an old man asked a boy if he was an Oki, and the boy replied he’s from the Texas panhandle. The old man replied they’re the same thing, so your comment amused me.