Yer in one

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Practically the definition of the genre. It’s not typically “punk” if it’s a glistening utopia.

      Using robots to do conduct black market trade under the nose of the police sounds extremely punk.

  • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
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    23 days ago

    That’s odd.
    I think most of the time they just use dead drops, it’s much safer.

    Courier sticks drugs to a tree, walks away, sends a geo location of a drop to a buyer. Done.

    Druggie just has to geolocate it, never meet in person.

            • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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              23 days ago

              Yes, indeed. Hence the earlier, “HOW GET MONEY?” someone so eloquently asked in relation to this dead drop method. You could arrange your own dead drop for the dealer’s payment I guess, or stuff the money in to the same tree. It’s all a bit fraught, and requires you both to trust each other even more than a deal normally would. The system seems to be pretty flawed. Guess it works of you’re happy to leave an indelible record of you transacting with this person and if you trust them to actually put the goods there rather than just take the money since you’ll never see them and have no recourse.

          • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            Why, though? You send on paypal as friends and family. You dont get taxed on that kind of transfer and i doubt it is being audited.

            There is a level of trust you have to assume between a drug dealer and the customer. You retaining customers is all done on reputation. If you try to cheat your customers, they will all go elsewhere. There is a lot of incentive for dealers to run their “business” well and keep customers happy.

            Cash means you need to meet face to face. This is far more risky. When i was younger and smoking weed, it was all face to face, meet someone somewhere and trade there. Or a car pulls up and you have a little chat and swap money for the bag. But this was dodgey. It was risky. It eneded up in arrests more often than you think.

            Towards to end of my pot head days, it was all telegram to put orders in, delivered by royal mail via recorded delivery and money tranferred with an app as i mentioned above. This is more private than you think.

            Although admittedly i never did this sort of transaction, everyone i know who was/is still smoking/vaping is doing it this way.

        • stevedice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          23 days ago

          100 what? USD? If so, I used to routinely buy around that amount back when I was a cokehead and I still did it by getting in the back of the car. Perhaps it’s just different cultures. I can’t even imagine myself picking drugs from a tree (?)

          • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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            20 days ago

            I meant what you are saying, I think I worded it poorly. Cheaper deals are done in relatively shady places where you could get caught by chance. Bigger deals are more secure using any number of methods.

            There are just bad dealers too though, its like any other job.

    • Zess@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Right? Like did the creator of this image think more policing is less dystopian?

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Militarized police, criminal syndicates using robots that destroy evidence when caught, to smuggle drugs, I don’t think this person knows what cyberpunk is

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    23 days ago

    The 3 industries that will always have the money and be on the forefront of innovation:

    1. Military
    2. Drugs
    3. Porn
    • Emi@ani.social
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      23 days ago

      I mean it’s just matter of priority I suppose, if something is relatively cheap and effective there’s no need to invest into 4k or higher quality cameras. Especially when you don’t have the storage for a week of footage or few days that loop over each other. But that’s just my assumption, if 4k becomes the norm and storage gets bigger and cheaper we might see good quality security footage.

      • squozenode@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Counterpoint: 4k camera modules are getting rapidly cheaper, it’s standard in cell phones now. Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.

        • uis@lemm.ee
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          23 days ago

          Gyroscope modules used to be crazy expensive, then Nintendo ordered 400 million of them for the Wii.

          Those are different gyroscopes. Big spinning disk != MEMS gyro.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    23 days ago

    Russian military has a pretty cool weapon. Armoured minitank packed with explosives that drives into buildings and then detonates. It is usually accompanied by a small camera air drone that provides visual info, on where to drive the minitank, or at least is there to show off the destruction.

    That is a higher level of dystopia. But, self driving food delivery mini vehicle technology will become a tool of the resistance to the genocidal extermination of unneeded labour pool.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I betcha its not too hard to put a faux skin on one of these to make it look like an actual animal, which from a distance would be potentially hard to tell apart from an real animal. As long as it’s used in the middle of nowhere,

      It would probably be great for send drugs over remote parts of the border.