Fluke

"It's still the immigrants' fault you're poor AF" says Starmer, while he slips his hand in your pocket for another fist full of money.

Genuine question;

How can anyone argue that privatisation has any benefit to government whatsoever?

Private enterprise exists to make money above all else. In some cases they are legally obligated to choose the path of greatest profit, no matter what.

This, by definition, means that any service provided will be of the absolute minimum viable, so as to make the maximum profit. It means that profit is the driving factor, not providing an excellent service or product.

That means that everywhere private enterprise has a job for the government, they will charge as much as they can, and provide the absolute least possible in return. Contracts will be gamed and exploited for maximum profit, and the service will be the barest possible to meet contractual obligations.

How can anyone even pretend that private companies leeching every penny at every available opportunity is less wasteful than doing it yourself and actually getting what you've paid for?

Unless the laws of the land have power to slap down the greed inherent in human beings, whatever form governance takes, it will fail.

I've not seen any farmers arrested for their rolling roadblocks so if I had to guess, it's if oil, weapons manufacturing, or finance that's the target it's not legitimate and therefore illegal.

"While we absolutely recognise the importance of the right to protest, we have a responsibility to intervene to prevent activity that crosses the line from protest into serious disruption and other criminality."

You're allowed to protest, unless it's actually successful in getting attention, then you're a criminal.

Yeah? Fuck off you fascist fucking pig.

Then "most people" need to drag their thoughts further afield than their own tiny selfish little world.

Ignorance is not innocence.

It just takes a bit of training and practice is all, it's really not that hard.

Get a solid radio like a Radiomaster Boxer (or Pocket, if you're broke AF) and a copy of Velocidrone. The radio plugs into your PC like a joypad, and you can crash as many simulated drones as you need to get the hang of it 💛

Truth.

I have a little 3.5" diameter propeller freestyle drone that runs on 4s LiPos.

It does 124mph and will pull 40G turns. It's like being strapped to the front of a missile. More fun and orders of magnitude cheaper than civil aviation, that's for sure. 😁

I know of a discord for helping people with FPV stuff, alas most forums are dead these days.

I know we hate on discord round these parts, but it's the best I've got 💛

https://discord.gg/drones

"The Homer"

Those poor kids would otherwise grow up into the next generation of coal rolling, republican voting binfires. My sympathy is somewhat limited.

DJI drones, for example, broadcast an ID at a loud enough wattage that it can literally be triangulated and traced back to the controlling radio Tx without any difficulty.

It got a lot ruzzian wannabe drone pilots killed early on in their invasion of Ukraine, before they learned to change the firmware on them first.

Edit: It's trivial to build an FPV drone from parts nowadays, there is no way anyone should be using DJI drones for tasks such as the OP.

DJI stuff is more expensive, less durable, and less user serviceable.