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I'm drinking boxed wine tonight but I accidentally set the box in a puddle of water on my kitchen counter and the bottom of the box fell apart, so I had to just take the bag out and realized boxed wine is really just bagged wine. So now there's just a plastic bag of wine sitting on my table and for some reason that felt a bit cyberpunk to me, you just buy a big bag of booze when you want to get fucked up in Mega-City 1.

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[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drones recently have been fucking me up. Just zip tie some explosives to consumer quadcopters, drive a truck somewhere, and boom instant attack

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you familiar with slaughterbots?

(I'm sorry. But it's better to be aware.)

[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

oh lovely

"As of 2020, DARPA was actively working on pre-operational prototypes that would make swarms of autonomous lethal drones available to the US military."

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

yea

The best defense imo is to make yourself either useful economically or culturally, or at least not specifically hated by anyone powerful.

The future of warfare, and of organization in general, is distributed. One might even say "swarm-based".

Good thing the political ideology of this website isn’t specifically in opposition to the current power structure