this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 106 points 1 year ago (4 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 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where can I donate my cadaver?

I'd like to attend the 2080 Olympics in style

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

I want to be turned into a battle bot

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Nope. Chuck Testa.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine walking down the street and that thing flies over your head. I would be scarred for life.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's going to rain. The cats are flying low today.

[–] jannis@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Where do you think they get their ideas??

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 29 points 1 year ago

Birds are going to think the zombie apocalypse has begun

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago
[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year 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 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] EvilTwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's just sleeping.

[–] cunning_bolt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well they were conspiracy theorists

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They we are conspiracy theorists?

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Precisely as it should be.

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Remove the '. Took me too long to sound that sentence out.

[–] xandowsk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago
[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The zombie apocalypse for birds is about to begin.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

I just hope nobody named Far Far Sinks or something like that shows up...

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Well they are going to need aviators

[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 11 points 1 year 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 3 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

didn't notice the link, sorry