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On the plus side, if you can shoot one out of the sky, you get free drugs! No pesky armed drug dealers around to stop you from stealing from them! Just watch ou

On the plus side, if you can shoot one out of the sky, you get free drugs! No pesky armed drug dealers around to stop you from stealing from them! Just watch out for GPS trackers in the package.

mortallywounded 3y ago
Hopefully not near your home-- when the cartel comes to the GPS coordinates ;p
- adolph 3y ago
  Pretty close to the plot of No Country for Old Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men
  - yard2010 3y ago
    That's a tough and important movie
    - dingnuts 3y ago
      lol you mean a pointless movie that intentionally tortures the audience and is unpleasant to watch because that's "subverting expectations" trite critic-pandering trash imho, it's only "tough" in that the director hates you, the audience, and thinks you're stupid, and it has a nihilistic message that is the opposite of important, it's stupid and disastrous, and most of the people who I have encountered who like this film seem to be in a pissing contest with one another over who can enjoy the most unpleasant film
      - wilkystyle 3y ago
        ...? For such a strong opinion, you didn't include any examples of why you and your circle of friends feel this way about the movie.
      - InSteady 3y ago
        Wow, what a take. Of course you are fully entitled to it! This is perhaps favorite movie, written by my favorite author and adapted/directed by my favorite filmmakers. I was absolutely on the edge of my seat basically from start to finish on the first watch, and am still fully captivated every time I revisit it. I find it a fascinating character study of three different people -- the cowboy, the sheriff, and the assassin. Each of them feels so incredibly authentic despite inhabiting roles from tired old tropes. I also believe the movie was superbly acted, which I guess is no surprise given that it was a critical success with some big names. The point of the plot isn't to subvert expectations so much as to tell a story that is true to life: the societal decay which began in the 70's and 80's that can be embodied by, if not directly attributed, to the war on drugs. More than anything else, the plot is a massive indictment of the war on drugs, as well as an (unpleasant) meditation on the role of violence in the American West that has existed for generations. Of course, that latter point applies to basically all of McCarthy's work. While some of the characters are certainly nihilistic (or just bewildered and filled with existential dread, in the case of the sheriff), the story itself is not. In fact, the novel was criticized by some for being too moralizing compared to McCarthy's other work. The hero (and just about everyone else in the story) loses in the end to the implacable evil: an honor-bound psychopath who is motivated by more than just greed (but plenty of that too), who is perfectly suited to navigating his desires and achieving his grisly ends with absolutely no regard for the society that enables his success. By the end of the film, he almost feels like a force of nature moreso than a man (and I think this is intentional, for instance in the way he is polite and almost apologetic as he murders the hero's widow at the end simply because he gave the hero an ultimatum that was refused). The point wasn't to subvert our expectations, although that may have happened along the way. The point was to show a very brutal reality that we still face today by retelling a story old as time through unique characters and a (semi) modern setting. Haha ok I'll stop adding to this now. As you can tell, I have a lot of love for this story. You don't have to love it, but maybe don't be so quick to shit on people who do :)
        autoexec 3y ago
        As someone who has seen the film but was somewhat ambivalent towards it, I appreciate your take, but for the sake of others who haven't seen it, it might be good to put a spoiler warning at the top of that...
    - InSteady 3y ago
      It is also a great book. The Cohen brothers adapted it masterfully, as they tend to do (see also: True Grit and Oh Brother Where Art Thou). Overall it's extremely similar to the movie, but it's a short read so well worth it if you enjoyed the movie and enjoy reading for fun. Interestingly, Cormac McCarthy originally wrote No Country as a screenplay in the 1980's and went all over Hollywood trying to pitch it, only to be told things like "that will never work as a movie." Eventually he gave up, and later he adapted the screenplay into a novel (published in 2005). Then Cohen brothers take interest, and then they readapt it back into the screenplay for their film.
PoignardAzur 3y ago
This made me spit out laughing! The future is cyberpunk, just no in the ways you'd expect.
- celticninja 3y ago
  I'm not sure what cyberpunk you read, but this is the exact cyberpunk future I expected. Aside from implants we pretty much got the sprawl trilogy, anonymous, WikiLeaks, drones, surveillance, AI, megacorps, I often think I should re-read and work out who is who. Like what faction IRL imare the cognitive dissidents ?
  - pegasus 3y ago
    Names like Chomsky, Assange, Snowden pop first to my mind. Or someone like Navalny in Russia or Mandela in South Africa. Scientists like Dyson or Bohr could go under that rubric as well. And of course, many artists are bona fide cognitive dissidents. The list goes on...
    - pixl97 3y ago
      >cognitive dissidents Heh, I love the term, and am surprised on how little it's used based on Google searches for the term. Also, how many people misuse dissidents instead of dissonance mistakenly.
    - dingnuts 3y ago
      Chomsky is a tenured professor in the Ivory Tower -- how on -earth- does he classify as a dissident? If anything, Chomsky represents the dominant ideology in academia in America. Maybe he was a dissident sixty years ago, when he was relevant?
      - celticninja 3y ago
        And as with all of these things they ebb and flow. I would challenge you on the point that he represents a dominant ideology any longer, he may have once and he may still have adherents but he is not as instrumental as he once was. So perhaps he started a dissident and will end as one too, but for different reasons.
golergka 3y ago
Drug addicts have been scavenging dead drops for about 10 years now, since drug dealing first adopted Tor and dead drops. The danger lies in identifying the substance. A lot of people ended up dead using methadone thinking its mephedrone.
- Terr_ 3y ago
  > mephedrone For a moment I wondered if this was a pun on the content matter.
  - jcpham2 3y ago
    Nope that’s “bath salts” and lots of analogs or designer variations - none of which are in any way similar to mu receptor opioids like methadone. Sounds kinda dangerous to me.
    - yard2010 3y ago
      I love how something murderous like bath salts get the attractive name "designer drug" bitch no designer designed this that's f'ing poison
      - celticninja 3y ago
        The designer in designer drugs indicates that someone changed a molecule here or there in a known drug to get around drug laws that specified certain substances as illegal. So we ended up with a bunch of derivatives until such time as the law could catch up
      - kadoban 3y ago
        It's designed, just the design goals were "be technically legal and try not to kill the user after one dose". Turns out those don't make good drugs, fairly predictably.
    - golergka 3y ago
      The most important difference is dosage. A typical mephedrone line is 5-10 times bigger than the methadone one. If you snort a single methadone line like that it's a guaranteed death sentence.
optimalsolver 3y ago
Great way to star in a cartel video.
- autoexec 3y ago
  A sky pirate's life is full of adventure.
- tracerbulletx 3y ago
  Another drone with a bowl cut hunts you down and kills you with an attached air pressure cattle euthanizer.
aaron695 3y ago
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pvaldes 3y ago
Drug storks will soon start traveling in couples or under surveillance by a high flying drone. It has been proven in the last months that a drone can easily follow other drones home and kill the drone operator (or the drug receiver) if needed

On the plus side, if you can shoot one out of the sky, you get free drugs! No pesky armed drug dealers around to stop you from stealing from them! Just watch out for GPS trackers in the package.

mortallywounded 3y ago

Hopefully not near your home-- when the cartel comes to the GPS coordinates ;p

adolph 3y ago
Pretty close to the plot of No Country for Old Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men
- yard2010 3y ago
  That's a tough and important movie
  - dingnuts 3y ago
    lol you mean a pointless movie that intentionally tortures the audience and is unpleasant to watch because that's "subverting expectations" trite critic-pandering trash imho, it's only "tough" in that the director hates you, the audience, and thinks you're stupid, and it has a nihilistic message that is the opposite of important, it's stupid and disastrous, and most of the people who I have encountered who like this film seem to be in a pissing contest with one another over who can enjoy the most unpleasant film
    - wilkystyle 3y ago
      ...? For such a strong opinion, you didn't include any examples of why you and your circle of friends feel this way about the movie.
    - InSteady 3y ago
      Wow, what a take. Of course you are fully entitled to it! This is perhaps favorite movie, written by my favorite author and adapted/directed by my favorite filmmakers. I was absolutely on the edge of my seat basically from start to finish on the first watch, and am still fully captivated every time I revisit it. I find it a fascinating character study of three different people -- the cowboy, the sheriff, and the assassin. Each of them feels so incredibly authentic despite inhabiting roles from tired old tropes. I also believe the movie was superbly acted, which I guess is no surprise given that it was a critical success with some big names. The point of the plot isn't to subvert expectations so much as to tell a story that is true to life: the societal decay which began in the 70's and 80's that can be embodied by, if not directly attributed, to the war on drugs. More than anything else, the plot is a massive indictment of the war on drugs, as well as an (unpleasant) meditation on the role of violence in the American West that has existed for generations. Of course, that latter point applies to basically all of McCarthy's work. While some of the characters are certainly nihilistic (or just bewildered and filled with existential dread, in the case of the sheriff), the story itself is not. In fact, the novel was criticized by some for being too moralizing compared to McCarthy's other work. The hero (and just about everyone else in the story) loses in the end to the implacable evil: an honor-bound psychopath who is motivated by more than just greed (but plenty of that too), who is perfectly suited to navigating his desires and achieving his grisly ends with absolutely no regard for the society that enables his success. By the end of the film, he almost feels like a force of nature moreso than a man (and I think this is intentional, for instance in the way he is polite and almost apologetic as he murders the hero's widow at the end simply because he gave the hero an ultimatum that was refused). The point wasn't to subvert our expectations, although that may have happened along the way. The point was to show a very brutal reality that we still face today by retelling a story old as time through unique characters and a (semi) modern setting. Haha ok I'll stop adding to this now. As you can tell, I have a lot of love for this story. You don't have to love it, but maybe don't be so quick to shit on people who do :)
      - autoexec 3y ago
        As someone who has seen the film but was somewhat ambivalent towards it, I appreciate your take, but for the sake of others who haven't seen it, it might be good to put a spoiler warning at the top of that...
  - InSteady 3y ago
    It is also a great book. The Cohen brothers adapted it masterfully, as they tend to do (see also: True Grit and Oh Brother Where Art Thou). Overall it's extremely similar to the movie, but it's a short read so well worth it if you enjoyed the movie and enjoy reading for fun. Interestingly, Cormac McCarthy originally wrote No Country as a screenplay in the 1980's and went all over Hollywood trying to pitch it, only to be told things like "that will never work as a movie." Eventually he gave up, and later he adapted the screenplay into a novel (published in 2005). Then Cohen brothers take interest, and then they readapt it back into the screenplay for their film.

PoignardAzur 3y ago

This made me spit out laughing! The future is cyberpunk, just no in the ways you'd expect.

celticninja 3y ago
I'm not sure what cyberpunk you read, but this is the exact cyberpunk future I expected. Aside from implants we pretty much got the sprawl trilogy, anonymous, WikiLeaks, drones, surveillance, AI, megacorps, I often think I should re-read and work out who is who. Like what faction IRL imare the cognitive dissidents ?
- pegasus 3y ago
  Names like Chomsky, Assange, Snowden pop first to my mind. Or someone like Navalny in Russia or Mandela in South Africa. Scientists like Dyson or Bohr could go under that rubric as well. And of course, many artists are bona fide cognitive dissidents. The list goes on...
  - pixl97 3y ago
    >cognitive dissidents Heh, I love the term, and am surprised on how little it's used based on Google searches for the term. Also, how many people misuse dissidents instead of dissonance mistakenly.
  - dingnuts 3y ago
    Chomsky is a tenured professor in the Ivory Tower -- how on -earth- does he classify as a dissident? If anything, Chomsky represents the dominant ideology in academia in America. Maybe he was a dissident sixty years ago, when he was relevant?
    - celticninja 3y ago
      And as with all of these things they ebb and flow. I would challenge you on the point that he represents a dominant ideology any longer, he may have once and he may still have adherents but he is not as instrumental as he once was. So perhaps he started a dissident and will end as one too, but for different reasons.

golergka 3y ago

Drug addicts have been scavenging dead drops for about 10 years now, since drug dealing first adopted Tor and dead drops. The danger lies in identifying the substance. A lot of people ended up dead using methadone thinking its mephedrone.

Terr_ 3y ago
> mephedrone For a moment I wondered if this was a pun on the content matter.
- jcpham2 3y ago
  Nope that’s “bath salts” and lots of analogs or designer variations - none of which are in any way similar to mu receptor opioids like methadone. Sounds kinda dangerous to me.
  - yard2010 3y ago
    I love how something murderous like bath salts get the attractive name "designer drug" bitch no designer designed this that's f'ing poison
    - celticninja 3y ago
      The designer in designer drugs indicates that someone changed a molecule here or there in a known drug to get around drug laws that specified certain substances as illegal. So we ended up with a bunch of derivatives until such time as the law could catch up
    - kadoban 3y ago
      It's designed, just the design goals were "be technically legal and try not to kill the user after one dose". Turns out those don't make good drugs, fairly predictably.
  - golergka 3y ago
    The most important difference is dosage. A typical mephedrone line is 5-10 times bigger than the methadone one. If you snort a single methadone line like that it's a guaranteed death sentence.

optimalsolver 3y ago

Great way to star in a cartel video.

autoexec 3y ago
A sky pirate's life is full of adventure.
tracerbulletx 3y ago
Another drone with a bowl cut hunts you down and kills you with an attached air pressure cattle euthanizer.

aaron695 3y ago

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pvaldes 3y ago

Drug storks will soon start traveling in couples or under surveillance by a high flying drone. It has been proven in the last months that a drone can easily follow other drones home and kill the drone operator (or the drug receiver) if needed