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Neural Foundry's avatar

Brillaint comparison between the two drone episodes. The shift from public hysteria in New Jersey to more measured European responses backed by actual intelligence is kinda telling about how threat perception changes when goverments have real skin in the game. The challenge is that with so much legitimate drone activity mixed with misidentifications, we're basically creating a perfect environment where adversaries can operate openly, knowing every detection gets lost in the noise.

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Patrick Abbott's avatar

Thank you. And I agree on the noise drowning things out. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a sort of "geography of terror" exercise going on where actors are figuring out at what level do certain things happen such as the police being called, local news catching, etc.

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J. Michael Thomas's avatar

For some reason I liked things better when they weren’t hiding things in plain sight. They’ve taken all the fun and mystery out of conspiracy theories these days!

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Patrick Abbott's avatar

Remember Black Helicopters? Good times. Now the drones are real for sure.

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