Trainguyrom

It's based on way too many reinterpretations of descriptions of studies into how cats communicate. Basically cats without human interaction will only meow as kittens communicating to their mom and their mother might meow back, and as they grow older they will learn to communicate with each other purely by body language and pheramones. Cats who interact with humans have learned that meowing at us like kittens gets our attention and is effective at communicating with us.

Some have interpreted that to mean cats see us as really strange kittens, which of course gets miscommunicated by well meaning people repeating something they half-remember. It seems the reality is just cats have learned to adjust their behavior to better coexist with humans.

Impressively, cats and their humans also will develop complex enough communication that humans can interpret the need of the cat purely from their meow

At least this is my memory of research I half-remember reading about

That is a good point. I'm not sure if the AI hype cycle is strong enough that bragging about your less-than-lethal weapons you sell to schools being AI piloted would outweigh the obvious danger of having AI controlling less-than-lethal weapons in a school environment.

I'm just thinking from a cost perspective, they aren't going to want to pay enough people to pilot 30 drones individually even just for school hours, they're going to have one person piloting several of them at once when they deploy, and they'll be shifting focus between the various drones they control while the automation handles the ones not being manually controlled at that moment, much like the remote assistant drivers for some self-driving car companies.

I have a nasty feeling that getting hit by one of these is going to be very traumatic in the medical sense. A 10-20 pound object with fast spinning blades flying at up to 100mph in an enclosed space? The tragedy practically writes itself!

Kid pulls a gun in a classroom, shoots a couple of classmates before another kid starts wrestling him for the gun, ultimately the shooter and 3 students are killed a couple more wounded. Meanwhile the drones are automatically deployed in the hallways by the sound of gunfire. Their pilot is on vacation today so it goes to the on-call pilot who's currently chilling in the pool when the call comes in and therefore doesn't answer immediately. The drones are fully automated for the first 15 minutes of the incident because of this delay. One has its AI interpret a kids fortnite shirt depicting a sentient banana throwing a grenade as the assailant, flies through a window to get to them shattering it and blinding one kid, the drone however is damaged by the window and flies erratically hitting a few students in the heads giving them head injuries before crashing into the floor and shooting it's entire payload in all directions. Another drone clips a wall and crashes into the face of another student severely lacerating their face. Another interprets a pair of crutches as weapons that a kid with a broken leg is using to get to his next class, and pepper sprays him and blares alarms at him causing him to fall and break another limb, meanwhile the cops arrive on scene and pile onto the incompacitated and even more injured kid as obviously the assailant because the drones AI identified him, one trigger happy officer shoots him, and this is the moment the drone pilot finally comes online and starts powering them down since he could see from the drone that went to the source of the gunshot and related it's camera feed that the incident is cleared. Ultimately the gunman killed 3, and injured 3 more while the drones killed 4, injured 20 and police shot one more innocent because they trusted the drone's identification (oh and the innocent who was shot is initially blamed as the shooter while the cops try to cover their asses, and 20 more schools order drones due to this "success")

Many departments already have drones with cameras, loudspeakers and thermal imaging. Currently mostly used for missing persons to scan large swaths of woodland quickly

The article doesn't actually specify that they're human operated. From the way it's described it could easily be just one human managing a swarm of 100 autonomous drones and taking control or issuing commands to individual drones as they see the need to

So many countries tried that option and have you seen their school shootings statistics?

Have you seen the size of their firearm and miltech industries? Pathetic! Guns are a tool for wealth accumulation through creating an arms race where one didn't previously exist!

(I'd sarcasm tag except I'm starting to be convinced that the above is in fact the motivation behind it all)

Entities hiring private drone security to fill in for demonstrably unreliable police is so cyberpunk

Reportedly a lot of his supporters are becoming disillusioned by the whole sex trafficking thing. Like ,what was your first clue but also better late then never?

There's even a theory that a lot of people are using the whole Epstein thing as a offramp

Aaaand now I'm wondering if Trump's Mar-a-lago club is also a hotspot of sex trafficking where I wasn't before!

Welcome to the cyberpunk future we all ~~dreaded~~ dreamed of!

I thought I'd be okay without a headphone jack but I'm now learning that USB-C to headphone adapters will enter a power save mode after a few seconds of silence, and quiet moments in shows or music can cause that, then it takes a split second to power back up, so the end result is choppy sound if it isn't constant. Maybe it's better with a better adapter, but also how the heck do you search for such things on Amazon and the like? It's not exactly a specification they list...

Damn homophobes...