For reference of just how easy this is, most AR-15s that I’ve seen have been units built from individual parts, my own included. That’s kinda the AR-15’s whole schtick, is that it’s super modular and customizable, so much that a lotta people joke that it’s “LEGOs for adults.” It makes good sense, if company A makes a good upper, but Company B makes good triggers, so why not mix and match for the best of both worlds?

Every night in VR is always a silly night! Just last night even, we explored some spooky worlds and played some games. Always makes for a fun time.

My assertion is that general health and wealth are correlated. Basically, if you are poor or even financially unprosperous in a higher-income country, your general healthcare is substantially worse than those around you who have found financial prosperity. More cuts are made to doctors visits, healthcare expenses, immunizations and symptoms treatment, etc. These small investments that prevent big costs to health and finances later are often skipped, since unprosperous individuals feel more pressure on making ends meet.

This is prominent enough that statistics started to represent it, and if you’re interested, I did find a recent video essay on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwklXWLy2UA

This reads to me as a causation v correlation, rooted in how more financially prosperous individuals live longer and healthier lives than those with lesser fortunes, not so much the vaccine itself as a source.

No shame if you’re one of these people, but I figured mostly everyone on Lemmy would’ve known about this sorta stuff by now. While many apps are just frontends for services, the presence of an app alone is enough to massively expand trackability of the user. Heck, its profitable enough for companies to force people to use apps that some services are forcing all mobile website visits to redirect straight to an app store.

You’re trying to spell check a farmer. We simply do not care.

I know its a joke, but man I just bailed hay yesterday and I’m really feeling it. My nephew had his first time bailing, fella looks like a bit of a twig, and I could tell he was struggling with it. As is usual, I had to pickup the slack, just as my family did when I was new to bailing as a kid. Bet he can’t wait until the next field is ready next week.

Odysee has a lotta nice to haves, like filehosting, but I’ll be damned if most comments sections I see aren’t full of the craziest of people.

Progress happens in spite of them, aye. Feudalism led to capitalism, while it is flawed, I’d say this is an upgrade. Capitalism originally embraced slavery, and while some aspects still exist today, mostly all capitalist governments have put massive blocks on it. Monarchism led to constitutional monarchism, the beginnings of the rule of law. Through this rule of law, democracy could be organized.

Thr next steps are entirely up to your opinion, yet I feel things will on average improve. There will be setbacks, yet onward we go.

I will say, steel is a very likely chance for the poles. Namely, that steel’s qualities are more adequate for resisting loads, and that steel is cheaper than aluminum, which is likely an optimization Flock would’ve made to their internal costs. I’d bank on between 3/32" and 3/16" steel wall thickness of the tubes, I wouldn’t imagine they’d need more than that.

Also, just spitballing the idea if things dont go smoothly and you wanna do something to it, even if not everything. If you cut a portion away, but didn’t get through all of it, you can try using the sledgehammer in a pinch to bend the pole at the cut point, such that it’s not able to see the road or cars nearly as clearly.

Specifically IR LEDs in the 840nm range. How you apply it if you choose to do so is up to you, but it obscures vision for the camers’s night mode. What some people have done is put an array of these 840nm LEDs on a little handheld surface, which they then pointed at the camera as they walked by it. It won’t damage anything, but it does not see well while being beamed.

What you could try is wearing a hat with a mount on it that’s just filled with loads of these LEDs. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy, just gotta work. Still avoid being caught by the camera, but its a nice redundancy if something goes wrong.

Edit: Found a video to give a rundown. They basically used an infrared floodlight from an online retailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt1e1QHDES8

And yet another another thing to note, which is honestly kinds scary about just how much this surveillance has progressed, is that statements from Police officers and Flock representatives state that the cameras can identify individuals by their walk cycle. Absolutely mind-boggling, and in some ways I feel I want to see it to believe it, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find this is true. So yeah, stay away from the camera, and if it’s pertinent enough, maybe put something near the crotch area in your pants such that your gait is altered.

Pep talk:

An angle grinder can work if you use a cutoff wheel, but knowing the camera’s technology, the likelyhood of a vibration sensor pinging back home is too high for my recommendations. Plan to be out within a minute or two, as you wouldn’t want a cop responding to it. If it is chopped, dont bring it with you, make sure there is a very nearby method of breaking the camera’s innards. Angle grinders do not work as well on plastic as metal in many cases, as plastic will melt from the heat and bind to the disk. A possible solution could be a sledgehammer, if you feel confident in your ability to wield it.

Other approaches can work well too, but it depends on how much damage you want. Some speak about laser pointers, but I advise against that. You’d need an 840-960nm laser of sufficient power, and that can blind innocent people within proximity. What I’ve seen mention of is a spraypaint can on a stick, but that only damages easily replaceable and cheap covers, so it’s only a temporary fix that’d heighten police interest. Nonetheless though, its a low-risk way of telling them to Flock Off.

If you want to stay hidden during night hours, lining things with 840nm IR LEDs will obscure the vision (+920nm works too, but 840nm is the most common). This won’t work on daylight hours though, as that uses visual light more than IR.

Also, phone stays at home. Geofencing, Bluetooth signatures, WiFi pings, and SIM tracking, etc. are way too prevalent to risk. And as always, stay safe when using an angle grinder, those fuckers can hospitalize. Park far away, if a car is used, and consider using a “Flock Off” ESP32 device to detect for nearby flock cameras, github page here: https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you… And I think the last thing worth mentioning is to have gloves and face coverings. Aaaaaand I’ve yet another new thing, avoid speaking, and consider obscuring your walk pattern if you do appear in it.

To find nearby cameras, this website works well for me: https://maps.deflock.org/

Actually, I dont think this one is AI. Both sides of the plane have components distributed evenly on it, and even the glass over the center bulge looks complete. Just visually, it has an AI-like rendering.

Usually being put up for adoption happens after they find out.

This the type of shit that he’d name “The Trump Dollar”

Waaaaay back when ISIS was still in the news, for myself.

This thread is absolutely wild, how’s about we don’t recreate The Final Solution in the modern day?

“Muh property value”

Got librewolf, turned the settings a bit more strict than what comes base so cookies and site data don’t even get saved. Makes me feel good, with that level of ease.