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How long until buildings like this are retrofitted into crowd control weapons?
by verandaguy 13y ago
How long until buildings like this are retrofitted into crowd control weapons?
- VLM 13y agoThey already are crowd control weapons. Just not controlled. You probably meant to write aimable weapons. Not kidding about this either. For example there are ways to design the facade of a building to make wind intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, thus repelling homeless from the building. This actually works pretty well for a "car culture" building. Perhaps the goal was merely to make it intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, to eliminate undesirable foot traffic, panhandlers, etc, but it went a bit too far...
- unimpressive 13y ago>Not kidding about this either. For example there are ways to design the facade of a building to make wind intensely uncomfortable for pedestrians, thus repelling homeless from the building. This actually works pretty well for a "car culture" building. Remind me to get this feature for my evil lair. Considering that this apparently isn't the first time that the Architect has made this mistake, I have to assume either extreme incompetence, or that he got a little too much enjoyment out of burning ants with a magnifying glass as a kid.