• blakestacey@awful.systemsM
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    6 months ago

    “Humans are generally far removed from the scene of battle” (if you don’t count the people that the drones are blowing up)

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        6 months ago

        Something about redefining a person as a shield based on how much of their body absorbs the blast. Below that threshold they contain the property of the US military and are considered potential recycling recepticles.

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      yeah, and it’s been like this since brits used freshly invented heavy machine guns in their colonial wars. machines killing machines is just what will cause army bean counters to burn at stake operators of these machines