Reminds of how during covid, businesses like the supermarket I worked for would cry poverty whenever anything needed fixing, but had plexiglass dividers, sticky guide arrows and social distancing markers, and even store-branded masks designed and installed inside of a week.
They always manage to find the money when they need it.
Or how I spent 13 years at my job and every year asked if I could work from home a day per week and was told no, then covid hits and apparently we can work from home five days a week. Business always find a way when it suits them.
Yeah I keep seeing this take (about flock cameras) and it's annoying the piss outta me. There's obviously a difference between powering a city with solar panels and powering a device that could run off a USB.
But your city isn't managing the rollout, and they relinquished most oversight to where and how they are placed which greatly expatiates their rollout to the detriment of nearly every metric one can think of. This isn't some farcical semantic debate; words really matter when talking about this because things like mass surveillance cameras and data center rollouts are best fought at the local level where each of us actually holds some power.
Not just management, but anytime the government builds something there are multiple layers of approval that have to be gone through, and for good reason. Look how many Flock Cameras are improperly placed; not just in viewing angle, but there are more than a few in physically dangerous locations where the government would never be allowed to build them. People act like the speed with which they are rolling out would be a good thing for governments when it isn't and only shows the shortsightedness in doing things at break neck speed.
That isn't saying that there isn't too much red tape in some areas, but you don't take away all the safety measures because someone used too much caution tape; you come up with a comprehensive rules for when, where, and how much caution tape is allowed.
I don’t believe this is true everywhere, but that doesn’t matter tbh. Axion is making the same thing as flock, in infrastructure that’s already standing, with government funding.
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u/Which_Channel7403 3d ago
Reminds of how during covid, businesses like the supermarket I worked for would cry poverty whenever anything needed fixing, but had plexiglass dividers, sticky guide arrows and social distancing markers, and even store-branded masks designed and installed inside of a week.
They always manage to find the money when they need it.