@the_etrain@beige.party Thanks. I call it the "Silly Anti-Drone Plan" because it involves silly-string, so I get to use the word "silly" when talking about the plan.
@the_etrain@beige.party They just need to be able to shoot silly string in all directions when they get close to another drone. Sure, it'll probably take out your drone, too, but that could be ameliorated by flying above the enemy drone and squirting silly string generally downward.
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I confess I snapped at my bosses (because who doesn't have more than one?) today, "I get it, I get it, I get it, don't do [x]" that they'd been chiding about for minutes on end. I get it. Don't do that.
The problem is the requirements change all the time. I can barely keep up with all the changes in Good-Ole-Boy direction.
Basically, I won't communicate with half the US population, now. They can eat a dick and die for all I care.
Obviously I have to say "yes" and "no" to strangers, but otherwise it's eat dick until I know where you stand on the whole "Orwellian Hellscape" issue.
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