• lseif@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    like and share if u would beat a billionare with a metal pole

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    If I had the opportunity for some street justice on a billionaire I wouldnt fucking hesitate. That said, it would change jack shit. His wealth just passes to the next asshole.

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      6 hours ago

      It would change things if it becomes systemic. If they learn to be scared of being a billionaire, maybe they’d be less likely to want to become one.

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        5 hours ago

        I think they’d just hire more security. They have the money for it.

        Edit: I agree with your sentiment though

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Did you know, chimps don’t have remote killing drones, armored vehicles, or nuclear weapons.

    Well human do, and its usually not the average person that have posession of those things.

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      12 hours ago

      Average military pay is like 2100/month so I guess if the dudes in charge of the nukes/drones/tanks decide to stop getting cucked by business interests it would probably be fine.

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        11 hours ago

        Or decide not to kill their relatives. Like in previous revolutions ;)

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      11 hours ago

      This is honestly the reason why I don’t think we can achieve a successful uprising anymore. Probably not a nuke, but drones definitely could and would be used to tear through even the largest of mobs if they formed today. Marie Antoinette would be happily eating her cake watching her people get mowed down by autonomous turrets if the French revolution happened today.

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        11 hours ago

        IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc… are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc…

        However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc… We’re probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

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          8 hours ago

          Unless they’re maintaining the software themselves, there’s no such thing as perfectly loyal. In the past the revolutionaries needed to capture the armory, now they need to capture / subvert the servers / programmers.

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            7 hours ago

            It’s true… but with all things it’s a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal… IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

            Plus, it’s far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no “need to know” what these robots do when they leave your office

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      12 hours ago

      It’s alright, given the current performance of Blue Origin it’ll take him a decade or two to get the missile working.