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Cleveland Voted to Kill Its Flock Camera Network. They Have REMAINED ON, With Police Still Using Them
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Paintball markers.
Make Tippmann proud.
I once contacted their support cause I sent my "marker" in for warranty, they're like oh yeah unfortunately your chunk of metal is um (probably in their museum) but nothing we can do for you except ship you our top of the line brand new model... Dang you guy's really screwed me.
Tippmann really are the GOATs of just like... the 'I like to go paintballing everyonce in a while' demographic.
Yeah, yeah, other people make fancier pantsier shit... T98 is the goddamn AK47 of markers.
Maybe one of the actual last examples of American manufacturing one could actually be proud of.
They were definitely great when I sent them a used ProAm I had bought. Supposed to convert it over to a ProLight version, but I think they sent me a pretty much new marker, didn't recognize any "old" parts on it. Haven't played in years, but still have it stored away.
Lasers. You can get rather beefy ones that wreck havoc on any optical sensor.
Anyone who needs to be reminded of the damage lasers can cause shouldn't be fucking around with lasers imo. Way too easy to hurt someone.
Idk, considering this is America and most peoples alternative would be a gun, lasers seem rather benign.
Just wear spectrum-matched eye protection, please.
Considering this is America and most people don't actually own guns, your comment seems rather online
uh. i live in the bluest of states with the most centrist of liberal friends... and we all own guns. like. alot of them.
Your anecdote is meaningless when 2/3 of the country doesn't own a gun. Turns out you can't extrapolate a data point like that
Personally not something I would be bragging about but you do you I guess
So your argument is that unless a majority of Americans own guns, you're not even allowed to correlate America with guns at all? What a dumb argument.
Nobody ever said that the majority of Americans own guns, they said that guns seemed like a more American solution than 1W+ lasers that could easily fry a camera from a distance.
Unless you have the numbers to suggest that more people have those kinds of lasers than the 100M+ people who have guns, then your point is meaningless.
At the end of the day this was an unserious suggestion to fire guns at utility poles made in jest towards a country with constitutionally enshrined gun rights and an unhealthy gun culture. Why be this uselessly pedantic about gun ownership statistics that nobody even mentioned or challenged?
They literally said "most people" in their first comment but thanks for the essay
You think in duality. You think in labels. Therefore you think ingroup/outgroup, and therefore you do not have developed the empathy skills to fully simulate "outgroup." You can't fully comprehend a person fundamentally different than you because of the möbiation of entanglement - which the Buddhists call defilement - ultimately creates dualistic dichotomy within the topological matrix of your mind, and therefore you will not notice the cognitive dissonance produced by that möbiation.
Like, you can't comprehend that there's a person out there that doesn't think like you at all, in both good and bad ways. It's bizarre someone would even suggest these things to you. You scoffed at them, for you did not understand them with your underdeveloped empathy skill. Now go ahead and misinterpret what I just said so I can teach you further.
I'd be careful with that. Not sure how likely it is that the beam reflects and messes up ur eyes.
So there is a country with more guns than inhabitants, and they are afraid of a f-ing laser?
I would argue strong lasers are more dangerous than guns on average.
Depends on the definition of "strong".
If you mean "a laser that melts down the Flock camera into a steaming puddle", then I'd agree. But if you mean "a laser that kills a CCD chip", then no.
What a good way to damage your or other peoples' eyesight
Only if you don't know how to use them. They are safer than guns.
I mean yes, true, but:
More dangerous
More expensive
Easier to track who purchased/likely owns one
More complex to use.
... if you get caught marking up a camera with paintballs... or frying it with a laser...
Which person do you think is looking at more potential fines and jail time?
Whats less expensive and easier to dismantle and throw away or otherwise dispose of?
A fairly decently powered laser?
Or a Tippmann 98?