• foggy@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Lol, some hobbyist who doesn’t watch the news is about to have a baaaaaad day ☹️

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    9 days ago

    It’s because drones have potential to be a legitimate threat to the monopoly on violence.

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    9 days ago

    This if fuckin’ stupid. The country is going nuts I swear. Nothing like a good mass hysteria to really bring the nation together.

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    Shooting bullets into the air is a good way to get people killed. They just become ballistics, and what goes up must come down.

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    I bet real estate companies are seriously pissed off about this. They are getting very reliant on drone photography for properties.

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        9 days ago

        Apart from save you a hell of a lot if time and effort selling a house yourself. I don’t love the industry, but they do offer a useful service for people without the time and the energy to do it themselves.

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          But they also demand way too much money. Selling a $400,000 house to a real estate investor shouldn’t come include 2 $12,000 commission checks for the agents.

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              First step is to revoke the trademark on the word “Realtor.”

              The only way to use that word is to be a member of the National Association of Realtors, which is a private lobby that spends most of its money governments, people, and companies that if you aren’t a realtor you aren’t a real estate agent.

              Houses for sale usually have locks on the front to let agents access the home, but those Sentrilocks are only accessible to realtors. So the NAR essentially has a monopoly on home sales, and monopolies increase prices.

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                8 days ago

                I can buy a keypad lock box on Amazon right now…

                I’d be more inclined to look at state licensing and paperwork standards if you’re looking for barriers to entry.

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                9 days ago

                I am all for that, but like I said, for now, as far as I can tell, the options are a realtor or you sell it yourself. I would love to hear other options (especially in Indiana) because we will be selling our house next year.

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                  There are Real Estate Agents that aren’t realtors. But they’re rare because of issues like the lock boxes that prevent buyers agents from being able to show a house if they aren’t a realtor.

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        8 days ago

        as someone who lives in a country where folks dont post properties online for sale and there is no MLS and the government has terrible records of land boundaries, I can say that the work that real estate agents do is super fucking helpful

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      9 days ago

      I don’t think they are using large drones that require a pilot’s license. Probably small hobby drones are used in real estate.

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    8 days ago

    If you want to sink probate yachts, underwater drones work better than airborne.

    Does Yemen have a git repo with instructions?

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      I was driving home on the southbound 5 near Seattle, when suddenly this yacht came our of nowhere man. If it wasn’t for the old guy fucking a consenting 18 year old, I would have noticed traffic and the other guy in front of me also looking intensely at the bouncing tits.

      I propose we have a law against sexual activity for very old men who are CEOs. They should run instead and you can imagine many ways to make that very effective. Some would suggest that just a car could do it. But I disagree because we need the activities to last, and a car would be too easy. I propose a bull run. Every Saturday and Sunday and other days that may happen in between, we’ll bring old men And women, both, into a closed off street and we’ll release a bull or two in there. I figure there would be some running. Enough for television. Once its over, we bring back the bulls to pasture and give them all that is necessary for a good run every now and then.

      I had an idea about a plastic sub controlled by a ps3 controller where CEOs could go check out Titanic. But I just don’t have that sort of money. I do, I mean I can find a barrel for 50 bucks but, I mean, a good go pro. Nah, too fancy. I would still to bulls, but they tend to not like it.

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      I dont think it works like that.

      The planes that were shot landing in Hati didn’t have mechanical issues. If a stray bullet hits an aircraft, the biggest risk is that it hits a human on that aircraft afaict

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      It’s already illegal to shoot at things in the sky unless you’re a government agent or soldier. And they aren’t about to start dropping things unless drones are getting in the way of stuff on the joint military base in NJ or at Newark Liberty Airport.

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    I propose the state stops flying drones and blaming them on foreign actors when it’s all a stunt to distract the public from Luigi and it’s all bullshit anyway.

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    I wish they’d ban them everywhere except your own private property, or areas designated for rc plane flying. Also, land owners should have the right to shoot any drone flying over their property down.

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    9 days ago

    But I thought it was just satellites and meteors and bad captures of airplanes on cellphone cameras. That’s what we’ve been told. Who would have thunk 🤔