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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The US military did a test with something like 20 soldiers where they had to avoid detection by autonomous systems designed to detect humans.

Every single one of the soldiers used a different method and every single one of them succeeded in not getting killed by the system. Tactics varied from moving extremely slowly in prone position to literally metal gear solid hiding inside a cardboard box, one soldier covered themselves in tinfoil.

These will be no different. Easily defeatable simply by behaving in ways that are outside its detection, or not looking like a human being.

solid🐍 moment

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From a technical point of view, it's easier to point a gun and shoot at whatever enters your detection range if you don't have to distinguish whether it's a human or not.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing for the South Korean military that birds, animals, and leaves blowing on the wind don't exist.

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems silly of them considering how prolific North Korean hackers are, at least according to Western media. They'll just pass their silly hacking mini game and turn the turrets on South Korea

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If I install a turret with a 90Β° range of movement, no amount of hacking in the world can turn it 180Β°.

[–] Targuinia@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

sed -i 's/90/180/g' *

get hacked idiot

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Oh shit. Oh fuck.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure this is literally terrorism

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[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard from a lot of NATO leftists that China should be more like South Korea. People who say that only get their knowledge of that country from Kpop and Kdramas.

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Kpop, Kdrama, and anime really influenced Western perspectives on East Asia.

[–] GreatWhiteNope@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I feel like I get most of my knowledge of South Korea from Kpop, and that alone is enough to see how dystopian it is.

Idols are dehumanized and treated as commodities. They’re overworked, starved, and heavily scrutinized starting at a very young age all while being separated from their family. Many trainees also can’t quit because they will owe a debt to the company for their training. Even trainees who debut don’t get paid until they pay the company back for their training.

I understand no one is forced to be an idol and it’s actually mostly made up of kids from wealthy families, but it’s still a brutal industry. When even the glamorous celebrities are worked to the bone, life must be so much harder for everyone else.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Tangential question. What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea and Vietnam? Does it strike as odd to the median American? These two countries posed no direct threat to the USA.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What do Americans think of their soldiers being in Korea

they don't, it's completely left out of most American education. if it's there it is a brief one-sentence mention

Americans and think don't go well in the same sentence. We tend to only think of the world as America, and everywhere else. I still catch myself doing it sometimes, America is a hell of a drug.

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[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do the same shit with Canadians about us having soldiers in Saudi Arabia, Africa, etc. They don't care and seek to justify it totally and immediately.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I actually was in Canada for a bit and the impression that I got was that of a sense of banality where people did not know how buddy-buddy Canada has been with the US.

I was not "political" at that point. But the people I knew used to believe that Canada was similar to the US but with the "derangement" separated from the substance.

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you got it 100%.

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the end of Vietnam most Americans were solidly against it, and I believe β€œVietnam was a mistake” has broadly been the belief since then, but mostly because it got American soldiers killed, not because of the horrors they committed.

[–] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People opposed the draft. Vietnam itself didn't see much more opposition than any other conflict America decided to stick its nose into, they just didn't like the idea that they or their family members might be expected to go fight in it

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unlike the DPRK the South Korean military dictatorship installed by the USA actually did police haircuts [article]

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

JUST LIKE IN THE SQUID GAME TREATS soypoint-1 πŸ”« 🎎 soypoint-2

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

south Korea is one of the few countries on earth that seems like they'd be worse to live in, from a "hope for the future" point of view, than the US

Death to America

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Korea is a cyberpunk dystopia

Can't speak about the channel in general, and there is no mention of the north, but this is a pretty short summation of South Korean society that does not hold back. I guess CW since it will probably make you sad, but it is also kind of mesmerizing how bad it can get.

[–] pillow@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

mhm. op's article mentions "the almost unbelievable defection of a South Korean farmer across the DMZ into North Korea" but like... for a lot of people there don't seem to be very attractive alternatives? first in all oecd countries-

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

holy shit 33% more than the next highest on the list, and almost twice as much as amerikkka. unbelievable levels of desperation

Death to America

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[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

This is JUST LIKE SQUID GAME.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

so-true Wow just like vibeo geims

[–] fuckmyphonefuckingsu@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the existence of a shoot-on-sight no-go zone several kilometers wide opens up options for some interesting hardware.

mondays

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is the mindset of terminally STEM-brained people. I had to unlearn so much of that "this is very interesting problem when seen in isolation, i don't need to think about anything else" after leaving engineering school.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"this is very interesting problem when seen in isolation, i don't need to think about anything else"

load-bearing fascist ideology

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

imagining a future where this gets artillery striked, gets buried in mud, and is unearthed by some farmer who is then shot ruthlessly and so is everyone else that comes looking for him

it appears that it comes in a version that has a battery, so waiting for some DPRK soldiers in Fursuits sneaking up to it and turning it around and running off like road runner

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Right, because there is still someone with the authority to prevent indiscriminate murder by firearms. Which is obviously not a feature of a free society amerikkka-clap

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty sure I heard about these 20 years ago, I think Samsung makes a bunch of the hardware.

[–] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This article is 13 years old

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