• fubo@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If only we could be sure that $400 drones will only ever be used to kill tanks, and never to kill neighborhoods …

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      8 months ago

      I’m waiting for the panic that will happen at the first political assassination using drones

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        8 months ago

        Several years ago, before COVID, the Japanese government was on high alert because someone parked a drone on the roof of the Prime Minister’s office. Small traces of (harmless) radiation were detected on the drone and no one knows who put it there or why.

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          8 months ago

          It’s entirely possible someone just flew it around near Fukushima, brought it to near the PM’s office, and then parked it on the roof as a political statement