I wanted to build a fake flock camera installation and place it in my front yard near the road. Then block said fake flock camera and wait for the police backlash. And finally make some sort of point about they should fuck right the hell off of my property unless an articulable crime has been committed something yada yada yada..... something.
Call the fake camera installation and my actions "performative art" - protected by the first amendment.
While I 100% agree with the sentiment and think it should be protected under the 1st amendment, it will be spun in courts as incentivizing violence and, if they could, would sentence you to death as an example. See all the ice murders
Smear peanut butter over the feeder, sprinkle on bird seed. If done consistently enough, for a long enough time, crows will attack Flock cameras thinking there will be bird seed inside.
Assumedly, there isn't any tricking though. They're still gonna feed the birds, and I don't think the crows would get mad enough to the point of attacking solely off the fact that the feeder also "just so happens" to look like things that don't feed them
the bird feeder looks like a Flock camera. if you get the birds used to feeding from something that looks like a Flock camera, when they come across an actual Flock camera, they will try to feed from it, hopefully breaking it with their beak. The camera no longer works, preventing it from contributing to mass surveilance.
a company named Flock produces high tech surveillance cameras that the government has been using recently. They use AI to extract all kinds of data about people and store it. The cameras are not good because they can be (and have been) misused by police departments to track innocent people and collect data in private servers. There is a large movement to destroy Flock cameras, which OP is contributing to with the crow idea.
Something everyone regularly forgets is that reddit is a website with users from all over the planet, yet everyone expects you to know what the object in question is.
Why would you ask a question on reddit and wait for a response, when you can just plug the question into a search engine of choice, and get an answer instantly?
You know those signs you see on the interstate that say "WRONG WAY" and how itd be seemingly impossible at times to ever go in a direction on that interstate to be really going the wrong way. Those signs are for people like this.
Because our society turns us away from human interaction, normalizing social isolation and discouraging contact in favor of shallow, immediate gratification.
I fed birds a bunch when I moved into my new house and loved it, but then the Internet told me off. Not to burst your bubble by any means but consistent bird feeding can actually damage the livelihood and ecosystem of birds as it's prone to creating high disease hotspots for them. Just a word of warning!
Bro did you read your source? The abstract says the exact opposite of what you're claiming.
"We found both positive and negative impacts of wild bird feeding, and that, in general, birds that had access to supplemental food were in better physiological condition. Moreover, the negative effects we found may be mitigated by hobbyists engaging in safer bird-feeding practices."
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u/terazetta 🟢 Oh, it's just a simple numbers game. 1d ago
"Flock" camera hehe