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    But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

    “You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

    FYI

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      Definitely don’t Google “2K spray paint” because it’s impossible to remove and you can seriously damage surveillance devices with it, like cameras and stuff I dunno

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        Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.

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    Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

    This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

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    Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

    Ah life really does imitate art

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      Wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir

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    will it also say “move along citizen there is nothing to pet here” in a male robot voice?

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    Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it’s not surprising they increased security.

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      An assassination attempt was thwarted. The attempt itself never took place.

      Planning to shoot the president is different than actually shooting at him.

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        Also putting on my conspiracy hat here for a moment. I think the assassination attempts were setups. Including the one who supposedly got his ear.

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        That one seemed so fake lol

        Feels like secret service needed a redemption after whatever happened the first time. So that’s what they got 🤡

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            I ain’t shy of any tinfoil but this one didn’t land.

            What are you basing your position that the first one was also fake?

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                Exactly I don’t care if it was just glass what not. There would be a scab something. Your ear would not magical show zero damage after two weeks.

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                  An impact from a blunt object like a bullet would absolutely show damage, and clipping an ear would have to take a piece off.

                  If it was clipped by a sharp piece of broken glass or plastic it might, because cuts from sharp objects can bleed a lot but be pressed together and heal pretty well. My wife cut her finger on broken glass last week and it bled like crazy at first, but with a little pressure and a bandage for a couple of days you could barely tell it ever happened.

                  Trump was nicked by some shrapnel and played it up as being hit by the bullet for his base.

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                Haven’t heard this one. The media cycle around was rather weird.

                So deff gave me cover up vibes injust assumed it was because feds botched the job.

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          He got nicked by some shrapnel that did so little damage that you couldn’t even tell it ever happened when his ear diaper came off.

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            You literally cannot come closer to having your brains blown out and live to tell the tale. To downplay that as if it wasn’t a big deal is ridiculous and unreasonable.

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    Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.

    Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).

    Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.

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    Funny and sad. Society so divided, so polarized, cemented bipartisan - they can’t have candidate above divisions.

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    Because they’re eating the dogs, the people that stay there, they’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live around there, and this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.