Actually, hitting the civilian economy was NOT the goal behind the Wildberries attacks, just a useful side effect. Wildberries was storing and distributing military equipment in those warehouses (stuff like body armor), which is the only reason they became a valid/legal military target.

I've heard that some of these AI phone chatbots can cost up to $0.30 USD/minute. That's $18/hr, which is probably more than it costs employ most call center workers...

Plus, call center workers don't get stuck in hilarious loops when you claim to have trouble understanding them, and need them to say "Albuquerque, New Mexico" any time they say a word that starts with the letter A or ends with the letter O in order to proceed... :D

It's part of the answer. The people destroying the cameras are helping to bring it into the mainstream media, so refusing to convict them means that more people will do it, and it will get more attention. Plus cities may decide it's not worth it to pay for cameras that only last two days, then pay to prosecute people that are impossible to convict.

Plus, a widespread campaign of jury nullification that's successful for this will send a message that we won't let them get away with stuff like this.

Biasing towards premium economy/business/first class might work out:
- The higher classes already subsidize lower cost economy seats, so having fewer of them might not actually raise prices on premium classes. If anything it might steal high-profit pax from other routes.
- This direct flight provides a time-saving, less-likely-to-miss-connection, less-likely-to-lose-baggage option for those willing to pay for a higher class
- The premium passengers would tend to gravitate towards this route, while economy might tend to gravitate towards shorter legs so they're not stuck in a middle seat so long

Ha... I can't remember the last time I've seen elementary-age students *walking* to school. Even in perfectly nice weather in daylight. All the schools around here are traffic nightmares of each parent dropping off one student from a giant SUV.

I had to walk, but that was in the early 1980s.

Sunlight in the morning is relatively useless: most people are waking up, getting ready for work, and going to work, all of which can be done with artificial light.

Sunlight in the evening is valuable: people get off work and need to work in their yards, kids have after-school sports/activities, etc. outside, which are all either easier or only possible with sunlight.

Instead of destroying the cameras outright, it would be interesting to see if you could add another camera to the pole (either wire into the existing power source, or add your own solar). Now you have full control of footage from the same angle, and can either publicly release it, calming to be from the flock camera, or use it to target FOIA requests at other useful people.

If you get enough people in an area together, you can start to coordinate your small FOIA requests around where city officials are and/or don't want to be seen, and build a good picture of their behavior. Once you have a starting point for the mayor, and know what direction they were going, you can find other people in the group in the area at the same time, and put in additional FOIA requests until you have the whole route covered. Then start publishing their every movement.

Catch a few city council members at/near strip clubs, etc., and watch the cameras disappear.

Everyone does. Especially permanent anti-drone defenses.

The next war of aggression between physically adjacent countries will probably be drone blitzkrieg.

Imagine if Russia had already had a million cheap drones. Day one of the war would have seen 100,000+ launched all at once, targeting every piece of infrastructure in Ukraine, almost instantly rendering the country unlivable.

A patient enemy could pre-place thousands of Operation Spiderweb-esqe containers all over the US - using drones assembled in-country - and do the same thing here.

Treat the set date like a starting point, and make it so that any time that date field is accessed, it returns a random date between what you've set and one calculated based on the average human lifespan.

Give them some junk data to chew on.

As someone who grew up loving video games in the 80s (elementary and middle school aged then), it was a totally different situation than now. The games were more arcade-y, instead of designed to get you attention-addicted, and in order to use a game console, you had to share the one (in our case) TV in the house with everyone else, which severely limited available time.

When computer gaming started to become common in the late 80s/early 90s, you practically had to have a computer science degree to get some of those games to run on resource-starved PCs, and the problem analysis/solving skills that honed stood a lot of us in good stead for high-paying careers later on.

Wait, they require you to provide a phone number to get a phone number? So people who don't already have one can't ever get one? :P

Well, that kind of depends on whether or not you're the one that owns the capital...

This is why the fastest way to end the conflict after Putin's ICC arrest warrant was issued would have been for the US and/or EU to fund a $billion+ bounty to any group that delivered him to the ICC to face the charges. His own security would sell him out in days, and if not, he'd be so paranoid he probably couldn't function.

The math is pretty easy... even if you had 100,000 riders/day for 50 years, it would still cost over $120/day/rider to pay off the initial investment - that doesn't even count ongoing costs. If you're paying interest on $231B, those 100k riders at $120 won't even pay the interest. $300-400+ per ticket would probably be necessary, but no one's going to pay that.