• tea_n_typewriters@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The engineers behind these things need to be heavily blacklisted. “Oh yeah, Justin. He was one of the software engineers behind the garbage truck cameras. Toss his resume in the trash. Erica worked for Flock, toss hers too.”

    Employers are already doing this, but I’d love to see it become more prevalent.

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      Not gonna lie… If I got a good candidate, who is well qualified and not asking a ridiculous salary… I would hire them even if they worked for these evil companies.

      They won’t be working for them anymore if I hire them anyways.

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    Don’t know if it’s these “AI cameras”, but my garbage company started uploading videos of my “violations” to their portal to justify charging me more (bin was open a few inches a couple times). They have video of them picking up the bin (showing my car plates and house in the back), and also of the bin contents from another camera after they dump it into the truck.

    I can only assume they’re working on the “threw a non-recyclable item in recycle bin” logic so they can charge more protect the environment.

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    The Schizophrenic who believes the garbage men are spying on him is going to fucking lose it!

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    Why don’t we use this surveillance to nail the big companies that are polluting to the wall? (Because we are ruled by the worst among us.)

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    Will they take a picture before or after the fuckers in the truck somehow manage to fling my cans into the drainage ditch again

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      They’ll take a pic afterwards and then fine you for polluting the runoff

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    Yet another reason to move to the boonies where the only garbage truck is your own beater every couple weeks.

    And you accidentally turn a whipped cream container into a steam rocket.

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      Good news, the flock camera on every corner will be tracking you and looking for any violations with your truck.

      And by good, I mean bad.

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        Lol. Lmao even.

        A flock camera in a rural area will end up like a stop sign in a rural area. Full of bulletholes.

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          I thought so too. I live in the rural southeast. Those things are at every major intersection and about half of the rest of them.

          Maybe the people that don’t mind shooting stuff will learn what they are and take them out. So far the only people I’ve heard about doing that are some kids from one of the local colleges getting arrested for it. Don’t know what happened after that tbh. But most country people are total bootlickers for the cops, as long as they keep the browns out

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            It’s not rural until your town contracts a county sheriff for a handful of hours a week and otherwise has no police force! Literally not enough funding for a flock deal around these parts lol. If all these intersections ur talking about have paved roads, lights, and bullet hole free signs we may have different definitions of rural!

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              Yeah that’s fair, I’m talking southeast rural. I have spent some time in Alaska, and that’s something else, that’s for sure.

              I assure you our stop signs are appropriately peppered by buckshot, but you can’t go ten miles without going by a flock camera. But relatively, nothing’s that far apart down here, and you can’t go too far without crossing a state highway.

              But our good ol’ boys are far more interested in harassing minorities than disrupting government surveillance.

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                No kidding at one point I lived in Texas in the DFW triangle so not exactly rural LOL, havent been in much rural South. I now live in rural north and it is very different, closest interstate is an hour away. And thankfully people don’t really harass each mother much 👍

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      Some small towns councils/shires can be even more intrusive and nosy than those in the city, because they have fuck all else to do.

      My dad lives in a small town of 30 people and the shire is nosy as fuck.

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      Hmmm. A wall of those tall skinny evergreen topiaries run across the front edge of the lawn would be nice. Put in a little white picket gate with flowerboxes for effect.

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      To clock: to register on a mechanical recording device

      Code violations: things about a property that do not meet standards according to local ordinances

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        Wow thank you lol. I’m a native English speaker but I never would have read that headline that way.

        I was imagining some bizarre HoA rules that like, fined people for not updating their microwave for daylight savings time or something.

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    I’m very sympathetic to the crap waste people have to deal with but, yeah you can buy a dash cam at wal-mart. Please get that shit off your trucks. You can do it. I mean accidents happen you know. Cameras go missing all the time. I mean you are the waste management experts.