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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Shadowfax! So cool!

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Shadowfax! So cool!

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Why are you hyperfocusing on the Sauron part? Look how white and pure Shadowfax is!!

Surely we aren’t the baddies!

https://defence-blog.com/israeli-firm-develops-shadowfax-drone-with-sauron-turret/

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  • Beacon@fedia.io
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    “We’ve created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus”

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      Kids this is why we make you read fiction in school and challenge you to analyze it critically.

  • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    These mf watched LOTR (of course they wouldn’t read a book), and side with the personification of pure evil.

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      One of the biggest US companies works closely with the US intelligence industry and DoD to provide them very in-depth surveillance, facial recognition, customer tracking via payment systems, and AI-assisted target acquisition systems and many highly concerning privacy-invading tools.

      They call themselves Palantir.

      • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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        yhea,I know.

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      Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn’t have enough focus on PR.

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        If Sauron had kept his objectives confined to within Germany he would have not been bad, it was just Sauron’s expansionist tendencies that made him “evil”.

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    Are they fucking serious?

    When is the Tolkien estate going to sue all these companies like Palantir and shit for using LOTR names for weapons and surveillance systems meant to subjugate and kill people?

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      Just imagine what would happen if that was the Pikachu drone with a BOWSER turret

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      When they’re finally convinced it’s hurting The Brand™

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    Guys, we should all write to the Tolkien Estate to denounce the use of names from the Lord of the Rings for weapons and tools of mass surveillance. Let’s all write a letter condemning this and asking them to do something aboutit.

    The Tolkien Estate

    c/o Curtis Brown Heritage

    Cunard House

    15 Regent Street

    London

    SW1Y 4LR

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      I agree!

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    At least the name Palantir is appropriately sinister for the technology. Using the name Shadowfax for a combat drone just feels wrong. It would be more tolerable if it was an especially fast scout or something.

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    Show me the meaning of hate, Shadowfax.

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    It looks cool, but I have an idea…

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      Yeah, we already got that.

      https://www.beyondallreason.info/unit/cortrem

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    Palantir was one thing, but Shadowfax is going too far

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    Why is it holding the rifle Aussie-style?

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      Less chance of jamming, that is why some early machine guns had top feeds/magazines, gravity and stuff you know.

      The reason humans dont do this is they have more chance of jamming upside down so it cancels out.

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      What with the drum magazine it seems easier to change the magazine if the gun is upside down. I’m just surised they didn’t use a bullpup.

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    Love how the gun is a perfectly normal AR with grips, sights, stocks and everything kinda just strapped on there

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      We have entered the era of drone technicals. Behold the future of warfare.

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        Isn’t this basically Ukraine? The original grenade drop drones just used off the shelf drones and actuated the grenade stop with the light switch.

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    I can’t tell if the names or satire or real and honestly… ffs lol

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    This thing looks way more scuffed than the ones that the Ukrainians are fielding.

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    What is non-credible about this?

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    So its got 30 odd rounds then you get a load of free and expensive hardware to keep once you tip it over?

    They probably stick explosives in it too.

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