Sorry to hear that...
It stuck with me as well, read that book 20+, almost 30+ years ago, in I think 6th grade...
But conversely, despite having been in many situations in my life where I have been in extreme pain, at a hospital/clinic, I've never had or been given morphine or oxy or anything like that.
Docs/Nurses just don't believe me, I guess because I am not screaming and flailing and moaning... because I have a higher than normal pain tolerance... they just give me acetometaphen.
Yes, but...
1 - To the best of my knowledge, though I could be wrong; lasers that powerful are often not actually generally legal for a normal person to possess/purchase/carry, in many states and cities.
2 - The cameras on these things are rapidly spinning. I am not 100% certain, but... depending on exact range and power of the laser, the fact that the camera unit is rapidly rotating, would that not diminish the ability of a laser to do a permanent CMOS burnout?
Farenheit 451.
Montag gets chased by... roughly, robotic cheetahs or leopards, with hypodermic needles for teeth.
Well, untill someone develops an affordable way to construct an effective DEW / EM 'cannon' out of old microwave magnetrons, that is actually man portable, and also won't irradiate the user...
(Please for the love of god, this is a joke, you will probably seriously injure yourself or worse if you attempt this)
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Best tactic is uh, use a gun.
Specifically, try to 'button' the thing, roughly.
Aim for the cameras.
You can't see it in a still picture, but I think all these models, the main camera is rapidly spinning to capture a 360 visual/lidar image at a very high refresh rate.
On I think all these models, they've got a protective, 'roll cage' type construction around these main, spinning camera units.
For whatever weird reason, in the US, it is much more legal and easy to get ammunition that has good armor penetration properties, than it is to get hollow points, rounds designed to maximize damage to an unarmored fleshbag.
AR 15 in 5.56 will almost certainly do the job at under 100 to 200 meters, really any very fast caliber that leaves your muzzle at over ~2000 ish fps will probably take out the camera if you can get one solid hit into the spinning part of the camera.
Alternatively, 12 gauge shotgun slugs are probably beefy enough to significantly fuck these things up with a body or limb shot at ... under 100 yards/meters? 50? ... 5.56 may be sufficient as well, unforunately, there is a lack of publically available field testing data on this subject.
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Another thing working in your favor is that... this gets dubbed out of many videos of these things... but they are fucking loud, whole lots of actuators and such, they are much easier to hear coming than a similarly sized human or animal.
Alternative possibly effective strategies would be extremely high lumen, narrow field flashlights, long distance lasers, again aimed at the camera... this will likely reveal your location, but may 'dazzle' or stun the bot temporarily.
Also also: Nets.
Throw a goddamn high tensile strength trawling net around one of these things, maybe decent chance it does its best impression of an AT AT on Hoth.
Also x3: They are very heavy, compared to similar sized humans and animals.
Get them to move over a pit trap, a false, breakaway floor thats over a deep enough pit with water.
Swimming is not in these things retinues, and they can probably be tricked into thinking a board of shitty plywood is more solid and load bearing than it actually is.
Or just a sufficiently deep pit.
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Everything I have just mentioned can be done with fairly easily, legally obtainable items in the US.
(Not that uh, actually doing any of these tactics would be legal.)
(So uh, don't.)
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There are lots of illegal things and tactics you could use against these, but my FBI handler is telling me I should maybe slow down a bit.
(It will never stop being one of the most ironic things that has ever happened, in my mind, that Rush Limbaugh used this as his intro music for like 3 decades... basically everything lamented by this song was dramatically accelerated and worsened by basically everything he ever said or did, everyone he supported.)
Hrm.
I always thought that ... if a gift is given with a transactional expectation, of any kind... its not a true gift, it has strings attached, which are often not verbalized, not made clear or explicit.
This is transactional, controlling, in a messy way.
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I have always thought that a gift should only be given out of... just genuinely caring, and appreciating a person...
... if anything, the only non 'perfectly' altruistic element of it would be you hoping to experience the other person genuinely enjoying receiving the gift, hopefully not performatively pretending to enjoy it.... their joy makes you happy, because in some sense, platonic or romantic, you love them.
Or I suppose at the very least, 'I don't need this anymore, but I know you well enough that I think you would find joy or use in it'.
I think that that mindset of gift giving is ... more healthy, comes from you, is much more in your control, you don't have any expectation of being able to make them like or love you more... worst that can happen is they don't really appreciate the gift, or find it offensive?
And if those latter scenarios occur... well, be ready for that to possibly happen, prior to giving the gift, prior to buying or making it or w/e.
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Its... also not good to try to do the uh, apology gift type of thing either, "I fucked up and was shitty, here's something to asymmetrically compensate you."
Thats also another kind of transactional gift giving.
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I am not sure if this is entirely making sense, but I do think that being more altruistic with gift giving, and ... giving gifts you can actually afford to give... doing this is you doing something yourself.
There there, she'll always be in our hearts.
And also possibly our image cache repositories, depending on your client/browser settings.
Maybe you are my proverbial missed connection:
Every gal I've dated seriously, unprompted, I would surprise them with flowers, chocolates, charcuterie boards...
... listen to all those actually actionable, verbally dropped hints, and followed up on them...
... and not all, but almost all of them, either physically, financially, and/or emotionally abused me, and/or cheated on me (in what was ostensibly a monogamous, non polyamorous relationship).
Maybe we are now both... different sides of the same coin, kind of disappointed and tired, lol?
Phrased somewhat differently:
If you aren't ok on your own, if you can't validate and responsibly enjoy yourself, your own life...
...you're not ready for a serious relationship, you're either not mature enough, or not yet sufficiently healed from the trauma you carry.
They made dead internet theory real because 'next quarter profits' brain.
We had the whole... 'Fediverse Girl' thing, a while back now... somebody stole someone's pic and was was dming people as a sort of brute force catfish attempt...
But I haven't seen too much of anything else?
1 - My FBI handler suggests you also slow down
2 - How and or why would making shrapnel include neodymium... do anything special?
... an... exploding magnet does not generally create some kind of EMP pulse.
That is maybe how video game / movie logic works, but not actual physics.