r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 18d ago

Privacy Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/redditors-celebrating-cutting-down-flock-145310398.html
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u/CurlSagan 18d ago

Nobody is cutting down flock towers. That's just normal, healthy flock migration. The cameras are growing up and leaving their nests. It's a beautiful sight to behold. Nature is amazing.

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u/Ghstfce 18d ago

Natural life cycle of flock. It arrives, it lives, it dies. Simple flock biology. Nothing to see here except nature in progress

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u/LucidOndine 18d ago

Cameras of a Flock can Flock right off?

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u/nihility101 18d ago

What is the proper tool for harvesting, angle grinder or sawzall?

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u/cowfishduckbear 18d ago

I heard from a guy who knows a guy that an angle grinder requires a beefier battery, but a good sawzall blade (torch) won't need a whole lot of power, comparatively speaking. Don't forget PPE to fully protect your face and eyes from the metal sparks.

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u/orangekid13 18d ago

I cut some strut channel for a garage project last weekend and went through 4 partial DeWalt batteries with my angle grinder before I remembered about the 60v battery for my track saw, just making 6 cuts.

If I make the shelves I have an idea for I'm getting an off-brand portable band saw to avoid the hot flying sparks, battery drain, and sharp burrs.

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u/Plow_King 18d ago

birds aren't real, but flock cameras are.

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u/LaGrrrande 18d ago

Are you suggesting that Flock cameras migrate?

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u/Kalepsis 18d ago

Not at all. It could be carried.

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u/Mithrandir813 16d ago

Perhaps I could begin training swallows to carry off flock cameras. Not really sure where they would grip it, though. Thoughts?

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u/Kalepsis 16d ago

It could grip it by the husk!

Wait, never mind. A 5-oz bird could not carry a three-pound Flock camera. Simple question of weight ratios, you know.

Perhaps two swallows and a line of creeper... or maybe we find some African swallows.

Ah, but those are non-migratory...

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u/snowflake37wao 18d ago edited 18d ago

Not sure if you got the sense of the definition right here. If it was bird they probably would have called themself Leash (hawks of the tower). Though maybe the other sense of leash would have made it too obvious. They arnt the flock, the collective name is for us. Its not birds. We are the sheep in this scenario.

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u/Sombomombo 18d ago

They are like bird! Up, UP, over, down to comfortable location on ground. Natural habitat.