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Tell crackheads that there’s 50 pounds of copper and two catalytic converters in these things.
Lol 50? They would do it 2 lbs.
You can also get the same effect by telling a meth head who hasn’t slept in 7 days “hey, I think that things watching you”
Shit, even my ears perked up at that…
They know.
Those solar panels look pretty nice…
Come to think of it, yeah… These things will be real nice to have after the collapse.
A modestly sized, but complete and mobile off-grid solar system, just waiting for you to hitch it to your car and pull it away. Tear the cameras and lights off of it, then use the solar panels, batteries, and associated electrical equipment to power whatever small electrical loads you need.
Or like one stick of ram
Forget telling crackheads there’s copper, tell gamers there’s ram modules on there they could solder to their GPU
There actually might be… brb
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Has anyone told the crackheads how much copper is in that thing?
It’s got wheels and everything. You can literally just roll it right to the scrap yard.
There’s one of these in a shopping center around me. I flip it off every time I see it.
I mean, I deliberately drive near it, stop, roll down my window, put my arm out, and flip it off very intentionally.
I don’t care if it knows me. I’ve made no secret of my hatred for authoritarianism throughout my life. I’ve gone to more protests than I can count. Besides, if authorities really wanted to do something to me, they’d readily make things up anyway. They don’t need an excuse, so I might as well express myself.
This shit is dystopian as fuck and every time I see it or it blasts out its message about us being watched, it boils my blood.
Fuck it all. This is not okay.
. . .flip it off very intentionally.
Heehee I’m kinda glad I’m not alone here. I walk my neighborhood and people install those STUPID cameras facing the sidewalk to catch EVERYONE walking by, that whistle at you, or say “you are being recorded!”
I give it the finger without looking at it basically as a reflex now. I’ve never even flipped someone off in traffic, I’ve been told I have the patience of a saint.
But surveillance capitalism and stupid paranoid suburbanites satisfying their nosy-neighbor compulsions is definitely a line.
We’ve got those stupid towers all over the place here too. Construction sites, parking lots.
Freaking absurd. I’m upset that it’s the best crime deterrent they can come up with, because I suppose skulky fellows lurking around dark parking lots aren’t preferable either.
I sold my old car to a crackhead. He had way more chill than any kind of AI surveillance.
WARNING CITIZEN! THIS AREA IS UNDER SURVEILLANCE! YOUR FACE HAS BEEN SCANNED AND ADDED TO A DATABASE!
Hate it. It’s so annoying. The stores in the area hate it because it pisses people off and they complain to the stores and them the stores are like we hate them as well but the cops put them there.
the stores are like we hate them as well but the cops put them there.
If they’re on a store’s parkinglot, they’re trespassing if they’re there without the store’s consent. That means they can be removed.
Most stores are tenants of a landlord. Even those Walmart warehouses are leased, often both in land and structure.
Even if they are tenants to a lease, the doctrine of quiet enjoyment would prohibit a landlord from being able to freely agree to having police property sitting on the store’s parking lot if their lease covers the parking lot. It’s kinda like renting a house with a yard: your lease is for the house and the yard surrounding the house. A landlord cannot just come on top the lawn and start ripping it up without the tenant’s permission.
A landlord cannot just come on top the lawn and start ripping it up without the tenant’s permission.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand that’s only as enforceable as a tenant can fight it.
In practice it happens. Unless the tenant has the resources or there’s a legal advocacy group dedicated to that specific issue, owners tend to be able to do whatever they want so long as they use the argument of ‘protecting my property’.
The settlement and restitution just ends up something like the owner keeps their stuff there and maybe you get to terminate your lease tomorrow without being forced to pay out the whole eight remaining months of the lease. But that’s anecdotal.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand that’s only as enforceable as a tenant can fight it.
Trespass to land is a tort, which means there’s the potential for monetary damages.
Regardless it’s the people working at the store who don’t like it. The owner class loves this shit and hate poor people.
Time for a strike?
I’m assuming the higher ups for one of the more corp stores allows them there. The people actually working the stores hate them.
I guess that kinda depends on the business structure. Are they fully owned and operated by the main corporation? Or are they licensees of the store’s name and brand? If it’s the first one, some humdrum middle manager could do what you said. If it’s the later, those surveillance things could be trespassing.
Each store has to take care of a part of the lot, but this is all secondhand info from employees working in the stores. So I’d assume one of the stores is fine with the yapping tower thing on one of their spots, even if the other stores aren’t.
I feel safer around crackheads than around cops
is this the perfect example where men can finally understand why women chose the bear?
edit: I’m greatly amused that six cucks disliked this comment.
I like it. “Which do you feel safer around, a cop or a crackhead?” Should upset the wife beaters.
Specifically engineered to keep out “undesirables”.
What the hell is that thing anyway
Solar powered, wireless, remote, battery-powered, GPS tracked, overly-designed mobile CCTV/loudspeaker/strobe light trailer. This one in particular is manufactured by a company called LVT, who are one of the major manufacturers of these. They can go about 5 days with no sunshine before the batteries are depleted.
I’ve only ever seen them in Walgreens, CVS, and McDonald’s parking lots. Blinking away with the brightest blue LED all fucking night.
They’re all over Colorado
I think I’ve seen these in LA.
Always wondered whats the use case. If I see these in the parking lot, no deals inside are pulling me there enough to stop by.
Mobile CCTV station, they’re used on construction sites a lot.
I’ve only seen them in retail parking lots. Cameras. They can play audio.
Can they play Sandstorm?
That’s da rudest thing I’ve seen in years
I was ready to be like nah that’s just a traffic obs camera or someshit, but I looked it up and it really is a total shitheadomatic-5000
Yeah we’ve got a bunch of these in our neighborhood. It’s a rundown area but this just makes it worse. I’d love nothing more than to mask up and smash this shit
*Mask up and disassemble that shit for parts on the spot. Make it serve the people, rather than spy on them.
It does have some very nice solar panels on it, though.
I for one think it’s quite generous of the surveillance state to provide free off-grid solar systems for the taking
No worries, a few years of surveillance state and everybody becomes a crackhead one way or the other!
Break spybox.
But it’s solar powered. So it’s actually a good thing. /j
An eco-friendly dystopia
Wtf are these things
Mobile surveillance stations. Typically solar powered with a backup battery, and the inevitably monstrous result of surveillance capitalism.
Half the derelict RVs in Seattle have a power system out of one of these bad boys
