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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Recently an acorn fell on a cop car, the cop thought it was gunfire, empied his magazine over it, and then did a fucking barrel roll.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

did it end the cop's career though?

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No criminal charges for him or his partner, who started blasting too. The first one resigned after the sheriff’s internal affairs investigation told him that he did an oopsie.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

so no real consequences as expected

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Aside from the end of his career

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I don't call that a real consequence to opening fire on an acorn on a public street.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

he didn't get fired, he resigned, he probably could restart whenever he wants to

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Who/what was he firing his gun at? Who did he think was the enemy?

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They shot at their cop car. His partner opened fire too. Also there was someone in the backseat of the car too.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But they didn't shoot at his cop car. It was an acorn that fell on his cop car.

[–] pankkake@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

The cops shot at the cops' car

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There was a handcuffed man in the back of his cruiser that they thought shot (and hit) the officer

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Inhale vegetables explained half of it. The other half are two memes about Taylor Swift. One is the right-wing conspiracy that she's secretly a far left agent (and thus might have an interest in things like "ACAB" and getting cops fired). The other is criticism of her for her environmental impact by virtue of how much she flies everywhere in a private jet (you may have seen a bunch of other memes on your Lemmy front page entitled "TayTay on her way to…” showing her private jet).

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The other bit of this is that Taylor Swift sent a C&D letter to Jack Sweeney who is the guy who has been publishing flight paths of various celebrities. Sweeney obtains this data publicly because since 2020 all aircraft (with few exceptions) are required to use ADS-B transponders. The ADS-B system has numerous safety benefits compared to previous systems, but a side effect is that every aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.

Generally, threatening legal action against somebody who isn't doing anything wrong or illegal is considered a dick move, and puts Taylor Swift in the same category as Elon Musk (who has also previously threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney). So we are proceeding to make fun of her without remorse, as it was her decision in the first place to fly privately, which is very bad for the environment.

Instead of threatening to sue the guy who's breaking no laws and publishing information that is already public, she could just consider another mode of transit if privacy is that important to her. But in the meantime we will enjoy the memes

[–] ridethisbike@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

It's not just about making fun of her. You're leaving out a very important part.

It's also about making fun of the conspiracy nut jobs that think the Superbowl was rigged and that Swift was behind the whole thing, which is the premise behind her plane being the one that dropped the acorn

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every motorized form of transportation requires publicly-visible identifying information on the vehicle.

If she were traveling by car, anyone who had cameras watching roads could report everywhere she went.

I hope you can see how that would be the same process of collecting and then publishing public information, and how it might still be worthy of a lawsuit given how a record of everywhere someone’s car has driven to is creepy.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

This take is hot off the press and I haven't really thought it through, and you can call me an extremist if you want, but billionaires don't deserve privacy

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

every aircraft now constantly broadcasts its position, velocity, and altitude information, and anybody who wants to can build a ground station capable of receiving this information.

Isn't this a pretty serious security concern? What if some armed group gets their hands on these real-time aircraft flight paths?

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

I mean everyone can already get their hands on it: https://www.adsbexchange.com/

The exceptions to ADS-B requirements include military aircraft. Awhile back a friend and I were in the Nevada desert and some F-35s buzzed past us at only a few hundred feet. I was curious about the flight so I checked ADS-B exchange, and sure enough there was no trace of it. Friend got a cool picture though.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ignoring the fact that everyone has their hands on these flight paths because it's publicly available data, what if they did? Genuinely, what do you think is the worst that can happen?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know militaries don't need publicly available flight tracking to shoot down planes, right? Like, they have machines that tell them exactly where everything in the air near them is all the time.

Plus, airlines literally post departure and arrival times on the internet as part of their business model. Even if you didn't know exactly where the plane was and when, you could make a pretty educated guess based on that information.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't a military. It was a separatist group. My concern is that broadcasting your location significantly reduces the difficulty in shooting you down, to the point some armed group can do it.

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Even the older Mode C/S transponders broadcast altitude, and passive radar could probably get you position. As I understand it, ADS-B doesn't add a ton that wasn't already available (from the point of view of a terrorist), but it does eliminate the need for radar, and includes ICAO hex codes that make it easier to uniquely identify an aircraft.

To shoot down a plane flying at 33,000 feet you'd need a surface-to-air missile system and a few missiles. Looks like the system used to shoot down MH17 cost ballpark of $100m, possibly more. Missiles are around $200k each.

You get target tracking and missile control radar included for free in your mobile SAM. At that point ADS-B is probably redundant, though I guess it could help you track the plane before it enters your airspace.

Though, really, where an airplane is going is usually not a secret. In most cases a flight plan will be filled (unless VFR). And there are other sources for near-realtime and realtime flight path information, including directly from the FAA.

You could also hire spotters with binoculars just to confirm that the plane is headed towards your mobile SAM.

Or, once the flight plan is filled and the departure time is confirmed, just stand outside the airport with a shoulder mounted missile launcher.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, I see. That makes sense.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Generally speaking we rely on a culture of trustworthiness more than we rely on a culture of security in the US.

It’s why you can buy things with a credit card without showing ID. You can sign with a slightly squiggled line and it never gets looked at.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Taylor Swift jet stuff + Taylor Swift being on the left + that cop who shot at the suspect already in custody because an acorn fell on his car.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Taylor Swift being on the left

This isn’t part of it

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well if she was on the right, she wouldn't be going out of her way to end police careers 😌

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember when wanting to end the careers of idiotic cops who shoot at acorns wasn't a partisan issue.

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

For other former non-partisan topics, see also:

  • Fighting nazis
  • Space exploration
  • Having a planet that can support life
[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Wait, I missed the space exploration part. Why is that partisan now?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They believe leaving space to private companies results in greater success

Personally I think if the government taxed all these billionaires the equivalent to what they spent on space then NASA would be ahead of all of them but I don’t make policy

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Who even knows. Republicans are always attacking NASA. At various points because it was "woke", or researching climate change, or an easy target for budget cuts.