I think it’s missing commas.
… disaster, relief, and ecological surveys.
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Underuse3862@artemis.camp 1 year ago
In the future, write the scientists in a paper published in the journal Science Robotics, drone swarms like this could be used for disaster relief and ecological surveys.
That's an optimistic way of looking at it.
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Yeah, I bet China can’t wait to do more ecological surveys.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 1 year ago
Reporter: What could have caused the deaths of these people?
Government Spokesperson: Ecological surveys can be pretty dangerous.
Reporter: Follow-up question. All 37 people appear to have been shot simultaneously in the back of the head. What is ecological about that?
Government Spokesperson: I’m sure we could arrange for you to observe an ecological survey very closely…
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Why does China always get these kind of comments. I’m from the UK and I have seen my country and the USA do more to destabilise the world than China ever does?
Sure china is fucked if you live there and they have too much power with the manufacturing, but I’m genuinely curious as to why Reddit and Lemmy really like to shit ok china when we most likely live in countries with just as dubious morals.
gullible@kbin.social 1 year ago
China is the face of automated spying. Particularly on their citizens and as visibly as they possibly can. Drones that track people seem relevant to China as a result. You can’t announce your countrywide spy network with a prideful voice year after year and expect not to be turned into a caricature.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Dude the CIA and GCHQ were found to be spying on their own citizens too.
Like shit I get it china bad but also we are bad too. It’s insane all the posts of avoid Chinese tech as they spy, but it’s cool to buy this American tech as the cia are privacy advocates just like apple. Ffs.
Glass houses and stones is all I’m saying.
LaSaucisseMasquee@jlai.lu 1 year ago
A hint could be that in one of those countries, you may very well disappear if your voice is opposed to that of the regime.
Harrison@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Plenty of outspoken state critics have had the CIA’s highest reward for investigative journalism administered cranially.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yes in that country and often with act of rendition.
Again, what are they doing on a global scale? Selfish or not m, what goes on in China has little effect on me, but when countries like mine and the USA invade counties under false pretences and people then set off bombs in my country then that does effect me.
All I’m saying is we seem to throw a lot of stones from inside our glass houses.
nevemsenki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
China is actively engaged in ethnic cleansing and/or genocide right now (eg the uyghurs). Those things are not so popular in the west, at least not in an actively state sponsored way.
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 1 year ago
From the article:
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
And?
You don’t believe that the USA and other counties are working on the same thing?
You don’t think there might be articles in China right now about the CIA and there drone swarms?
If I recall the USA literally murders people with drones and a certain level of collateral damage is acceptable. Or that we dropped two nukes on a country as a flex to Russia.
We littered Laos with enough bombs that people still die today.
All I am saying is we should maybe throw less stones from our glass houses.
Achird@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
UK is pretty far from perfect but to suggest we have “just as dubious morals” as China is categorically wrong.
FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The first actual response with the actual crimes that china commits.
I guess it depends on current morals or the uk of the past. After all we did colonise half the world.
Currently we have some pretty draconian views and removal of a lot of rights. Plus the way the government thinks about ex-pats (sorry I meant immigrants, ex-pat is when we go elsewhere). We invaded Iraq under false pretences.
I just don’t see how we are so hypercritical of one country and any view that questions it is usually (not here,today) condemned as a plant, shill, or Winnie the Pooh himself.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 year ago
Only if you have a wilfully short memory and/or are wilfully ignorant of the atrocities that came with far reaching British imperialism
With the internet at your fingertips there is no excuse:
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-transatlantic-slave-trade-records/
https://historyindoors.co.uk/britains-dark-past-the-atrocities-of-the-british-empire-and-its-legacy-today/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence
kambusha@feddit.ch 1 year ago
I mean, in this case it was due to the context of the article.