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Psionickitten
Also, it's easier to get away with because no good person would ever snitch on you if they found out.
JoeyJoeJoeSeniorShabadoo
https://www.gadgetreview.com/googles-ai-said-flock-cameras-have-gold-inside
Detacheddavid
I doubt this is true.
Regarding gold, there's a tiny amount of it in electronics, but small enough to not bother about it.
The copper cables might be worth slightly more, but again, electronics don't need loads of power so they are surely thin.
The photovoltaic panel + battery though might be worth looking into.
hobojones85
Shit I been unemployed a while now. This sounds like a nice job
certainlynotaserialkiller
also a fun fact: sawzalls dont make any noise near a flock camera. its one of natures little quirks.
thisisjunk
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gF1gSCNFRXA
levyathyn
Sawzalls can get damaged blades on the common aluminum poles they use, so hopefully any prospective terrorists cutting those things down don't have extra blades handy or a different tool to handle it!
etherbunny41
It is often much more fruitful to use the knowledge you have yourself than it is to shout it into thee void hoping someone else will.
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
If this hits FP, even MORE people will find out about it. Not cool, man.
AbsenseInASense
MyUsernameHas22letters
UncleMartha
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
redditambassador
Could this information be called part of Flocculation? you know, that process in which fine particles suspended in a liquid come together to form larger clumps called flocs, making it easier to separate them from the liquid.
This process is commonly used in water treatment to remove contaminants.
You know, shit.
YepIamStealingYourMeMes
Oh really
Harm
Well,not particularly on Threads. This social is full of bots up to the ceiling.
Toqom
Meta is likely 95% AI/bots
etherbunny41
"Hey, stupid people desperate for cash because you have drug problems, go solve our problem for us, yeah? We're too busy having jobs and working for the oppressors to do it, kthanxbye."
If, for whatever reason, you're upset by this message but AREN'T working for one of the many mega-companies, or are indeed protesting/striking/helping topple Trump's regime in some manner, then THIS ISN'T TALKING TO YOU. YOU'RE AWESOME, KEEEP IT UP!
Subsound
Someones got to staff emergency services when addicts OD or take something sprayed with fentanyl
Decitron
Have you seen the economy?! We're ALL broke enough to consider it, even without drugs.
etherbunny41
And yet.
Mirrormancer
I wonder if that's true. Might want to post this around several more places and ask people who are experts.
Dasnekones
Its not true but the components inside the camera and the solar panel is worth many times the price for a catalytic converter. They ironically did not skimp on the hardware in those things.
etherbunny41
The more useful thing to do would be to get out there and find out for yourself, but posting/joking about it online is way easier, so I guess folks'll just do that instead. Better to have hope that someone else'll do the dirty work than rrisk getting caught doing it yourself, right? That's how protests work, right?
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
They might not have much copper... but they do all have a PHD Energy rechargeable lithium ion battery. https://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/
7qd26tttv7
I heard those are prone to fires when they overheat
Albertorius
Only one way of knowing for sure!
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Mirrormancer
Whoooooosh!
AdmiralButtStuff
My bad. Replied to the wrong comment.
JustDumbCommentsAndCorrections
Lemme translate some subtext here for you, friend: "Vague facetious excuse for reposting to more places so as to spread the message because surveillance state is bad."
AdmiralButtStuff
Oof. Replied to the wrong comment.
Animatronio
It is most certainly not true. Gold is only used as a coating on electrical contacts in miniscule amounts, and copper is only worth about $6/lb.
Immobilized
Nice try, but I see right through the play, you just want all that scrap metal for yourself!
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
GorillaFLicks
The target audience doesn’t know or care if it’s true or not.
The need to be correct in this case isn’t the point.
WhatzitTooya
Sure they care, they have business interest in "borrowing" things. If they borrow flock cameras it's in our best interest, but they gonna find out quick how they are worthless and go back to borrow other things, maybe not in our interest anymore.
Probablyimaginary
Did anyone tell Florida Man yet? He likes a challenge.
AdmiralButtStuff
Also, it's worth noting that following everyone's completely reasonable hatred for Flock, some places are switching to Axon cameras. Axon is no different from Flock when it comes to inhaling our data. Municipalities are going to spin this like it's an improvement over Flock. It's not. It's the same invasion of our privacy with a different logo. More, Axon also makes TASERs and has repeatedly pushed for nonsense medical diagnoses to cover up the fact that TASERs fucking kill people sometimes.
slightlybrokenegg
Yep the only cameras that should exist should be owned by the city and only accessible through court order.
comeonjointhejoyride
I wish that Flock cameras came to Sweden and the rest of the north so we could rid us of all illegal imigrants. Its a shame it has come to mass surveilance but if that is what is needed to get rid of the violent rape-people then so be it. I miss when Sweden was safe. A new study shows that 50% of the imigrants learning Swedish in SFI, are homophobes and hate HBTQI+.
rgraz65
I believe this an instance of Poe's Law. At least I really hope it is!
Toqom
The difference is that axon is partly owned by trump
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Are we talking about AXON, producers of the people-killing TASER?
blueKD
Nice
BananaForScaIe
Funnily enough I just saw a pre-pitch media campaign from Axon called "De-Flock" so.... yeah. They're seeing this as an opportunity to pitch Axon as "the healthy alternative' which makes my skin crawl.
Toqom
Axon is partly owned by trump
DoomGuyRipley
... and they are making them harder to detect, making them look like normal traffic cameras, installing them higher on the actual street light pole...
PyroAvok
Suppressors are pretty much off the NFA now *wink wink*
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Interesting. I bet the value of the rare metals inside the Axon cameras is no different than Flock cameras.
ATastyCorpsesicle
Or at the least, close enough to still be worth it.
PearjuiceATX
The crackheads don’t need to be given different instructions
certainlynotaserialkiller
tasers and assorded stuff like beanbags are called "less lethal", not "non-lethal" for a reason. i am willing to bet you still would take a taser over a 9mm.
Goldensands
SneakyGaryTheSerialHorseDrowner
What's the tastiest brand of boot polish?
You seem like someone who'd know.
jasondeslin
I fucking hate that companies have to try and cover that shit up in the US to avoid lawsuits.
Let me be clear, FUCK Axon, and ACAB.
Having said that, bitches sueing over long term heath effects/death is the reason why police ended up with surplus military equipment instead of tasers/lasers/pepper spray/less lethal options.
No one sues the police or gun manufacturers because a bullet had a negative health impact. They might sue due to being shot, but police rarely lose those suits. 1/
jasondeslin
2/ When police use a gun, they can say they believed they were in danger. It's a lot harder for them to claim a persons death/lifelong injury was justified if they reached for a less lethal option instead.
Fucking lawsuits trained police to be MORE violent and dismissive of the safety of the public.
If a city has to choose between normal police violence, or bankrupting the local government, they choose killing us as the preferred result.
One more fucking thing made worse by capitalism.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Hey, so that thing where you think it's good for a company to cover up their problems?
Yeah, you're a dummy.
You should eat some dirt about it, fuckbrain.
theobstruction
A) you're an asshole.
B) how is it covering anything up? "Less-lethal" is the actual term. It's how they're marketed. The term literally means that it isn't NON-lethal. If you bothered using your brain, you'd see what it meant just fine.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
A) Yes. You deserved it, fuckbrain.
B) A term dreamed up by marketing to cover up all the deaths they caused and pretend like ohhh they're innocent. Plus, y'know, all the literal coverups too: https://gijn.org/stories/how-they-did-it-reuters-massive-database-of-taser-deaths/
3) Use numbers, idiot, they make more sense. You bootlicking dummy. I'm the one not using their brain? I'm the one who points out the coverup isntead of licking their fucking murderous boots.
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
AdmiralButtStuff
I think you missed the most important parts of what I said.
certainlynotaserialkiller
i really didnt. the narrative that stuff like a taser doesnt kill is completly fabricated.
Gamer4125
Nobody said tasers don't kill or they're nonlethal. What WAS said was that AXON is trying to say they're less dangerous than they are.
certainlynotaserialkiller
obviously. no company is going to admit how shit their products are.