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[–] ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Has anyone considered how this might interfere with the rapture?

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

“~~Chinese~~ ~~Spy~~ ~~Weather~~ Birthday Balloon”

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I’m surprised they didn’t just lie and call it a drug lord spy balloon.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 minutes ago

Maybe the family that propped the balloon was too rich to silence using ICE?

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are we possibly actually entering into a Gilead situation with DHS scooping up military assets?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 2 hours ago

Possibly, actually, and other adverbs.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

We need no longer fear the birthday balloon. (With apologies to Seth)

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

So the narrative the other day was drug cartels were swarming the airport with drones and that's why they had to shut it down.

Was that a total fabrication to cover for this obvious false positive?

Also answers my question for "How come nobody has drone bombed you-know-who yet?"

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, this administration produces wild lies constantly.

Just about everyone dislikes bureaucracy even if it is honest and trustworthy.

On the other hand, everyone hates a lying and corrupt bureaucracy. I guess making everyone hate the government is code for MAGA.

Make the government fail and then triumphantly point out you said it would fail. Yeah, because you fucking made it fail you dimwit.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Make the government fail and then triumphantly point out you said it would fail. Yeah, because you fucking made it fail you dimwit.

Orange McRapepedo can only chase the latest shiny trophy or bribe that gets dangled in front of pig eyes, but don't mistake him for the incompetence of everyone. JD Couchfucker and the scum like him would absolutely continue dismantling the government, not out of stupidity but so they can sell off the broken scraps to the tech sociopath oligarchs.

"Oh damn, looks like government healthcare doesn't work, guess we should put Tim Apple in charge of iHealth. Looks like social security money isn't being distributed efficiently, let's set everyone up in Sauron Thiel's Palantir database so things work more smoothly. Education results continue to decline after a pedo protector from the WWE couldn't run things? Obviously Cuckerberg already has the infrastructure to get everyone into a controlled virtual learning environment, and recess can be spent playing games with loot boxes."

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The Department of Misinformation wants to hear more about your Loot Box Learning program. After they merge with Roblox and Grok AI they are going to need visionaries like you. People who are not afraid to ask the tough question our children deserve to hear like was the Holocaust even real?

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

DoD tackles air pollution

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

the administration when it comes to birthday celebrations:

fuck them kids

the administration when it comes to abducting children from schools because they're not white:

fuck them kids

the administration when they see a child

fuck them kids

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hello? Nena? You're not gonna believe this... 🎈

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Legendary reference pull

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How fucking cartoon villainous do you have to be to shoot down a fucking birthday ballon with a multi-million dollar laser - JFC I want off Mr toads wild ride

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If I had one of those lasers, trying it out on some balloons is probably the first thing I'd do XD

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They would be bought for the purpose, not someone else's =)

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

That’s what a monster would say! Jk

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago

Damn, maga fascist are now shooting down illegal aliens

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Soooooo should counter protesters just release a bunch of mylar balloons to cause disruption? Publicly admitting that their tech/operators can't discern between balloons and drones is..... A choice.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Soooooo should counter protesters just release a bunch of mylar balloons to cause disruption

Yes.

Publicly admitting that their tech/operators can't discern between balloons and drones is..... A choice.

Also yes. 😄

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Balloons are sky trash, bad for the environment. But they could be good camouflage for drones now, I guess.

Edit: maybe release a hundred of these:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/702995043/biodegradable-pride-rainbow-colours

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a source on the material of the balloon? Like did it have a radar cross section and that's what caused the confusion?

Because if so, you're gonna want to attach something like aluminum foil as it doesn't look like those would actually be able to confuse optics.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

a bunch of these

but tastefully edited

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago

Good point about the sky trash, forgot about that!

As for using biodegradable pride balloons to distract fascist weaponry? That's the ultimate poetic justice! 😘👌😄

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 51 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Funny they need such an advanced piece of war defense equipment deployed against their own citizens

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

If it was a fair fight they would lose

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Ehh. I'm not seeing evidence that was in any way pointed at people. In the aftermath of the Ukrainian strikes on Russia's strategic bombers it became quite apparent that leaving your air force out unprotected in your own country is a shortcut to losing a lot of it at once. The US Air Force has the same problem the Russian VKS had: lots of expensive planes out in the open scattered over a massive country that anyone can get drones or explosives into. This was near an airbase. While the drone identification bit needs work I don't find the presence unreasonable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Grrreeeat. CBP casually out here committing terrorism. Imagine if they accidentally shot at a commercial aircraft o.o

[–] spacesatan@leminal.space 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A commercial aircraft has ads-b and a radar signature larger than a basketball.

Well to me it just sounds like they were doing target practice on random stuff lol

[–] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

NinjaKiwi better take notes for a new Bloons tower lmao

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There’s a song about that!

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 34 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

🔊🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich Von neunundneunzig Luftballons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich Von neunundneunzig Luftballons Und, dass so was von so was kommt

You and I in a little toy shop Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one they were gone Back at base bugs in the software Flash the message: "something's out there!" Floating in the summer sky Ninety-nine red balloons go by

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

"It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In this dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here And here is a red balloon I think of you, and let it go"....

Such a surprisingly depressing song if you've only heard the original and you don't speak German

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I'm surprised Faux "news" didn't claim it was in the possession of the same jewish group that uses space lasers to start forest fires.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 15 points 20 hours ago

Lol. Reflective balloons can defeat that multi million dollar piece of shit. Wonder how it does in the rain

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

These guys been watching too much IT, thinking balloons are the enemy.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago

Typical Derry folks: fearing everything to the point of joining a redhead clown

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

just cover your drones in mirrors ciattbabingboomdone