OHHH… Fucking hell, this was so close to what I’ve seen that I assumed this was completely sincere. Masterful satire.

My dumb ass with “why is the munich museum in oslo” I need more sleep…

And especially you have to disclose it if you work for the US government at the same time. It’s very basic conflict of interest stuff.

Wow, needlessly rude. How boring is your life if that’s what you think merits being calmed down?

… okay but what does that have to do with satanic rituals.

Wait, what? I’m not sure I follow that connection at all.

They can, but with all the weird little artifacts in the image (and well, the creepy fucking expression on the dog…) I’m pretty sure this is AI.

… Satanic rituals?

Also you have no idea what wavelength they actually are, so your safety gear (you do have safety gear, right?) may be totally worthless!

Pointing laser pointers at planes is a federal crime because air traffic is federally regulated. Reckless discharge (steady lads) in a high traffic area, which is where flock cameras are located, falls under state jurisdiction because those laws are state regulated.

The jurisdiction in which a crime is committed does not dictate the severity of the punishment - while lasering a plane generally carries a severe punishment, it’s unlikely it would even be noticed by the crew unless you’re specifically targeting that plane. It’s certainly going to carry a lower sentence than reckless discharge (steady) in a populated area during the commission of a crime.

Generally they’re mounted high enough you can’t hit them with a stick (totally sincere here: I am so curious where the idea that every american has a baseball bat came from. We don’t, that’s like assuming every canadian has a hockey stick). The best method of physically damaging them is just to loop a chain around them and pull them down then hit them with your standard-issue Size 2 Louisville Slugger. But that takes time and several people, so for a quick & clean takedown laser pointers are fairly effective.

This seems almost dishonest real unfamiliar with the subject in how it’s presented. The immediacy of the attention you get is really important: A gunshot can be heard for over a kilometer in any direction, even through walls. A laser pointer is both much less noticible and much less dangerous to bystanders.

edit: wow, I phrased that like an asshole, sorry.

“Heave rock at bad thing” really does cut to the primal core of the species. Thog not believe how much copper is in mammoth.

Because not only are guns expensive and quite difficult to learn to shoot accurately, shooting at things in crowded areas is likely going to kill someone? And is much more illegal than using a laser pointer for vandalism, even if you don’t hit someone?

Also make sure your friends have laser goggles, and that nobody is anywhere downrange if you’re trying this. It takes way longer to blind a camera with these than it does to blind a human/animal, and it will turn minor vandalism charges into felonious assault.

Brutal honesty here: if you can’t figure that out on your own, you really really REALLY should not be playing around with high power lasers.

Yall make sure you’re not visible on another camera when you try this - it’s not like they won’t be able to figure out when and where you were when you did it. FLOCKs are usually in high camera-density areas like parking lots and strip malls and such, and there’s a lot of pressure to address vandalism against the surveillance apparatus.

THANK YOU. The idea that this is some new trend drives me nuts. I wanna add on that waxing hair for aesthetics is even older than shaving; it’s extremely difficult to get a shaving edge with bronze tools (and shaving with flint sucks), but you can make sugaring paste with honey - and there’s evidence of it being done for beauty at least 6,000 years ago. There’s plenty of evidence that it was common in ancient egypt, rome, greece, china…

Too obvious, don’t reward someone for going after low hanging fruit…

Yeah, I’ve never had such a good massage chair. Super lucky find!