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I don’t understand the increasingly aggressive ads. When I see a company advertising heavily I get sketched out and assume they have subpar product.
Anyone who’s played Cyberpunk 2077 might remember the big ads projected into the sky above the city. It adds a really cool dystopian atmosphere to the game.
In real life it would be a nightmare come true.
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It’s not theoretical, look up Candy Crush New York.
They can start going all out with regular ad programming over tier 1 cities many times each day almost as soon as they find themselves able to get away with it.
It’s will be regular within a few years if we let it.
If we could get cybernetic implants I’d take it. Too bad the only thing we’ll get is higher rent, lower pay, and ads in the sky.
The only thing projected in the sky can only be the bat signal. That’s the rule
Many people like to say that if they had a time machine they would go back and kill Hitler or some other valiant act of heroism that would prevent the death of millions.
Yet when faced with the real possibility of killing (or even just properly holding accountable - removal from society, redistribution of resources of) an individual now, who is already responsible for millions of deaths by virtue of withholding resources alone, never mind the active oppression and exploitation of billions that go in to maintaining the system that allows them their power, people suddenly become squeamish.
But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it (to the point of actively opposing it), and that’s just so fucking frustrating, that people can’t see the glaringly obvious dictators “of tomorrow”, who already literally control everything and are actively getting away with a lot shit directly out of the fascist playbook today, how anyone can still deny it to themselves just blows my mind.
We’re never going to get a better future as long as so many people refuse to accept that we’re never going to be given it by those living the high life off of our backs.
The difference is that I can look up a moment in history when Hitler was vulnerable and then kill him with zero consequences.
There would be a lot of consequences for killing anyone today, and it’d be really hard to kill anyone that matters.
That begets the question, why do you feel okay with murder when there are no consequences?
Were you to find yourself in such a situation with say the CEO of Nestle or Nike, or Rupert Murdoch, or whomever you fancy, where you suddenly realize you have an opportunity to murder that person without consequence, would you do so?
I’d prefer they be sent to work camps to pay for their crimes - execution is a waste of resources
But if you’re talking about a situation where “press this magic button an Elon Musk dies” well~
It was a rhetorical question meant to prompt you into a moral or philosophical justification.
But for the record, I more or less agree with your position.
Okay, but like, I don’t want to outright say it because I’m pretty sure the people I hate are watching for that sort of thing 😅
The most difficult tasks are the most rewarding.
It’s never too early to be an eco-terrorist
DItto.
I’ll start hunting ad executives for sport.
This is the first time I’ve seen the original tweet without Johnny Silverhand
If these are drones and someone does this irl I’m going to shoot them down
Drone-based sky projections/light shows typically use hundreds or thousands of them. Good luck.
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message.
So what do you think is going on in the prime universe?
Harambe sires an offspring. Covid was contained, however significant changes in social structures happened so that cross species viruses have a tougher time evolving. Mitch McConnell shat himself on the senate floor, then proclaimed his love for flamin’ hot cheetoes, then passes away. Elon Musk takes a ride on Space X, it suffers a malfunction & he burns up on reentry. Russia and China start a war, but both armies are the equivalent of an Ikea designed tank. All offensive and defensive maneuvers are so bad there are literally thousands of scholars writing doctorate thesis on them. Beer cures cancer. Universal pay is implemented worldwide, Amazon goes bankrupt. Tipping culture in the US ends. Nestlé board of trustees and executive committee are rounded up and hunted for sport by Tankies…capitalists tune in to the reality based tv show and place enough bets to wipe out world debt. Argentina finally has a sound financial footing, a robust economy, and bright future producing most of the worlds green energy needs. World temperatures stabilize and start trending towards normal as most automobiles, private jets, tankers and ocean liners are either converted to green power or scrapped. People have a healthy relationship with social media.
…fuck
With any luck, hackers will turn them into penises
Or a 9/11 recreation
Full terrorist might be a bit much, but I wouldn’t be opposed to punching holes in packaging of the advertised products.
If the trend caught on at a large enough scale to just mildly vandalize space-billboard products, that shit would stop in a hurry.
…hell we should do that with regular billboards too - gimme my scenery back!
Billboards really ought to be illegal.
Full terrorist might be a bit much
I disagree. A society that sells the night sky to private interest deserves to burn.
…on second thought… yeah.
This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it’s functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they’d have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.
Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.
This is basically just rage bate.
Wouldn’t they be more likely to use drones than satellites?
Yeah, and we already have drone lightshows
It would especially be effective in cities, with a high density of people. And the base cost would not be that large compared to normal advertising spots, which already go for a lot of money.
Basically, if it was legal, it would have already been done.
Who said anything about satellites? That looks more like bat-signal-style projections against the clouds
Could you project something on the moon?
Shotguns ftw
I had the very same gut response as Lauren.
death to those fucking soulless bastards
