this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 106 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where can I donate my cadaver?

I'd like to attend the 2080 Olympics in style

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I want to be turned into a battle bot

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Nope. Chuck Testa.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

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

[–] jannis@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

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

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Where do you think they get their ideas??

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 30 points 10 months ago

Birds are going to think the zombie apocalypse has begun

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago
[–] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months 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.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Eh, the movement was built upon bullshitting others. Let the bullshit flow, I say.

[–] cunning_bolt@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Well they were conspiracy theorists

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They we are conspiracy theorists?

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Precisely as it should be.

[–] 257m@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] EvilTwin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's just sleeping.

[–] xandowsk@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago
[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The zombie apocalypse for birds is about to begin.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

Well they are going to need aviators

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[–] Rukmer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Flabbergassed@artemis.camp 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

didn't notice the link, sorry