US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione
Mangione, 26, accused of carrying out ‘premeditated assassination’ of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
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Drone warfare is politically agnostic. If it can be used by a Luigi against a healthcare CEO, it can be used by far-right extremists against progressive politicians, pride parades, or Black churches. I'm not very jazzed to live in the world of Slaughterbots.
Not to mention, the minute it happens, the government will carpet the skies with observation drones in the name of safety
Maybe, but honestly there isn't too much a need for them to thanks to the existence of things like TLO. Maybe for surveillance over less developed areas?
Idk I'm not happy about any of this but it's interesting to speculate what a modern day cyberpunk is going to look like.
That's fair, there's other angles of observation made available already.
Seeing as you like speculating about cyberpunk, how about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there's an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects.
If you've got a bunch of drones overhead already, you could run one in to the path of a kamikaze drone, or if your swarm is even lightly armed, you can extend engagement range and reduce required accuracy with a single buckshot shell to shoot an offending drone down.
If you're content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there's a lot that can be done.
Drone displays terrify me.
How about if observation is just the initial way to way to sell the drone cloud? Depending on how cheap you can make them, there's an argument to made for reducing time-to-intercept for low-speed aerial objects. If you're content to prioritize executive safety over public saftey, there's a lot that can be done.
This isn't something I've ever considered, I hate it! 🤣 Essentially a light weight, personal, iron dome. Considering the great lengths Putin goes through to protect himself from his own military, I could see the mango and friends doing this.
Hell imagine if they made the drone cloud then took Israel's "Gospel", slapped that into them and create a full blown Big brother. Sure it just recommends targets now, but with more training from two fascist states it could become something much worse.
I hate this timeline.
I feel with that interpretation, any weapon is politically agnostic. Which I'd agree with given the use of firearms by far right extremists to shoot up Walmarts, clubs, and churches. They've already been using weapons against their "adversaries" like the domestic terrorists they are.
But agreed, I'm not actually excited about it. The premise is horrifying. I do hope the good guys pull the trigger first on this one. It's, in my opinion, the logical next step.