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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A friend of mine was working at a company with contracts for them when they released their first drones back in the early days.

At work, they watched the trailer for the fancy drone. (Later that day he would share the same video with me)

He made the joke: "At least we know what will be coming to gun us down in ten years."

That joke went down like a brick with his coworkers. No one else seemed to understand the severity of what we were buidling up to