• Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    That's bullshit and a cursory look at the wikipedia page shows that people exposed for more than a few seconds come away with 2nd degree burns.

    It's literally right there on the wiki.

    Give these to cops and they will 100% burn the shit out of people with them while cackling to themselves maniacally. They have no concept of limited use or responsible control.

    After shooting loads of people with microwaves is definitely going to be one of those things where 40 years later we hear about strange increases in cancer among certain sections of the population too. I don't trust their research claiming their war weapon is safe one bit.

    • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Great, so someone basically invented a less than lethal flamethrower, what an amazing time to be alive. This sounds exactly like the stuff we should be spending money on, not silly stuff like preventing the climate apocalypse.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        It's the stuff that will be used on the people fleeing the climate apocalypse

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      From that same wiki:

      According to Wired, the ADS has been rejected for fielding in Iraq due to Pentagon fears that it would be regarded as an instrument of torture.

      Deploying it against civilians is all good though. Cool cool cool.

  • Avell [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    How the fuck is that better? Waterboarding isn't drowning someone, just makes them FEEL like they are drowning. Fuck off with that torture apologia.

  • quartz242 [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    LRAD and now this.

    They tested it during global south imperalism, time to bring it home

  • Cherufe [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ohh so they are using Crucio instead of Avada Kedavra 🙃

      • Koolio [any]M
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        4 years ago

        Calm down, he's the resident lib interpreter

    • Equeon [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Thanks for putting it in terms I can understand!

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Jokes on them. Every leftist would start quoting the fear is the mindkiller mantra from Dune.

  • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Apparently this weapon is deployed as a large, vehicle mounted radar dish-looking thing. Now I'm just idly wondering what a brick launched from say, one of those water balloon slingshots would do to that very expensive piece of tech.

  • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Doeas anyone else rember hearing rumors of this at the time? Or earlier in the dc protests?

  • Juiceyb [any]
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    4 years ago

    Wait? Did someone in the government decided on this after they watched the first season of Silicon Valley? Because that’s the only explanation I can think of.

    • Chapo0114 [comrade/them, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      iirc this has been in development for awhile. There was something similar in the Left Behind books (I read them before my Come to Jesus-Doesn't Exist moment) and I looked it up back then and found people talking about the development of Directed Energy Weapons being primarily aimed at Missile Defense and Less-than-Lethal Crowd Control applications.