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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 98 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It all makes sense now! Cats like to catch birds, so cat drones can catch bird drones.


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Yes, that's an actual taxidermied cat. It used to be alive as well.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow, that's fucked up. It's like something out of a Junjo Ito comic.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait till you see the RatCopter, Ostrich Drone and SharkJet.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where can I donate my cadaver?

I'd like to attend the 2080 Olympics in style

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I want to be turned into a battle bot

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Nope. Chuck Testa.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Here I was having a perfectly good day and you had to come and ruin it.

[–] jannis@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

I've never been a fan of taxidermy, but now I hate it even more

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

goddammit even the silliest memes become real, I'm done with this reality

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Where do you think they get their ideas??

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 25 points 2 years ago

Birds are going to think the zombie apocalypse has begun

[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck that account. They took a long running internet joke and then tried to claim they started it, all to chase a buck. Charlatans.

Eh, the movement was built upon bullshitting others. Let the bullshit flow, I say.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] EvilTwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's just sleeping.

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago
[–] cunning_bolt@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well they were conspiracy theorists

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They we are conspiracy theorists?

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Precisely as it should be.

[–] xandowsk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[–] Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 5 points 2 years ago

How long before they move on to humans and start the real zombie apocalypse?

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I suppose it would be cheap and effective to use the bird's superior wing?

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The conspiracy that ALL birds were drones, not that they made drones out of dead birds.

This is more of a drone corpse

This would actually disprove that 'birds aren't real' and points to a more sinister cabal.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is clearly just a limited hangout so they can say "look at how crude our taxidermy robots are! This totally proves birds are real!"

The government wants you to believe they aren't capable of creating the omnipresent surveillance network that are so-called "birds". We've been under this surveillance since the early 60s when the government avian extermination program was in full swing. Why else do you think they were so gung-ho about DDT? It helped provide smokescreen for the avian replacement system experiment. Wake up, Birds Aren't Real

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But if you read the avain replacement system experiment paper you would have seen it was of limited success. Sure pigeons and starlings are no longer real, but those were the only 2 successfully replaced species.

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You forget that paper is from the mid-80s. I don't understand why people think they just stopped replacing birds. The authors of that paper based it all on declassified documents that were almost 30 years old even then! If anything the government just got better at hiding what they were doing, mark my words in another couple decades it'll come out that it's not only the pigeons and starlings that have been replaced but also robins, seagulls, and a variety songbirds!

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

IIRC the issue with waterfowl conversion was sudden failure of seals, buoyancy and ballast systems.

The seagull program was hit with the extra problems of salt water

Last leak mentioned the advances have made in the house sparrow model, but battery life is still an issue.

Songbirds aren't used due to birdwatchers; as outlined in the paper "Avain surveillance: security, counter surveillance, and camouflage" read the updated 2019 version.

[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I forgot to add, not fucking serious, because if you click the link it takes you to a tech death metal song.

Really should remember my fellow neurodivergents have issues when you deliver a joke deadpan.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Mentioned issues aside, I’ve met quite a few neurotypicals who are extremely blind to satire, deadpan or not.

[–] magmaus3@szmer.info 3 points 2 years ago

didn't notice the link, sorry