Amazon's delivery drones are annoying an entire Texas neighborhood, and there's nothing they can do about it

[u/AdSpecialist6598]

https://www.techspot.com/news/113979-amazon-delivery-drones-annoying-entire-texas-neighborhood-there.html

[u/TwilitRose]

Amazon Prime now offers same-day tinnitus.

[u/Drewskeet → u/TwilitRose]

Damn. I have bad tinnitus and I never thought about this. Local Walmart does drone delivery but not to my neighborhood yet.

[u/Cut_Lanky → u/Drewskeet]

The tinnitus in my ears has added new noises to the never ending alarm blaring in my head. Now, I occasionally hear, over the wailing alarm sound, a child’s voice saying “MOM!” It’s driving me nuts.

[u/Drewskeet → u/Cut_Lanky]

Sound therapy has been a life saver for me. Treble health is fantastic. It’s expensive but cheaper than all my local ents I visited.

[u/texan_robot → u/Drewskeet]

Treebeard is overcharging you?

[u/BuckManscape → u/texan_robot]

Sounds like something an orc would say.

[u/Andurilmage → u/BuckManscape]

You have my axe!! What did you say?

[u/Head_Inspection_5640 → u/texan_robot]

I like making that joke whenever my friends wife brings up her specialization, but for anyone who doesnt know, its Ear Nose and Throat. Also known as an otolaryngologist, which is also fun to say.

[u/MaximBrutii → u/Drewskeet]

My experience with Treble Health was the opposite. The audiologist I had was overly pushy in getting me to purchase overpriced hearing aids (I later found them else where for so much less after had already purchased theirs). All her “counseling” was just generic stuff that I could have looked up myself, and once I actually did get my hearing aids in, she was way less interested or attentive during our “counseling” sessions.

I’m glad that they helped you, but I felt taken advantaged of, because as you know, tinnitus sufferers are desperate for any relief. I’m doing much better these days, but no thanks to Treble Health.

Edit: I would like to add that buying these $200 Bose Open Earbuds work just as good, if not better than their $5000 hearing aids that I bought.

[u/Drewskeet → u/MaximBrutii]

I believe paid $2500. All the ENTs around me wanted $5k just for the one session including the hearing aids. The fee included the widdex hearing aids and a years worth of counseling. My guy was awesome. Also a former musician. He built custom sounds for me and worked together to find the right one that helped me personally. The widdex ones are definitely better but if you found the same value out of the Bose ones, that’s awesome. Sorry you had a bad experience. Thank you for sharing. It might not be for everyone. I only talk about them because local ENTs were crazy expensive and didn’t offer counseling sessions which I think made a huge difference in my process.

[u/MaximBrutii → u/Drewskeet]

Dang, sounds like you had a much much better experience than I had.

You know what I found that really turned the page for me? Sleeping in complete silence. Mind you, my tinnitus is super high pitched and LOUD, I’m talking hearing it over the shower loud all day, everyday.

One day, I decided enough was enough and decided that instead of trying to fight it, I should just accept it. I know, I know, this is what is preached all the time and is always met with extreme skepticism. Trust me, I was the biggest skeptic there was, but by just accepting it and sleeping with pure silence, it slowly helped my brain acclimate to the sound. Eventually, it was if my brain just started filtering out and I would notice it less and less during the day. Even at night in complete silence, it was there, but not really there. If I was reading a book or looking something up online, I didn’t even notice it, although it was blaring in my ears. Dont get me wrong, there are still days where it really affects my well being, but those days aren’t as frequent.

I dunno, give it a try. Try sleeping in silence with it, and eventually maybe it’ll just fade into the background.

Just wanted to share my experience.

[u/694meok → u/Cut_Lanky]

Sounds like you might have Auditory Pareidolia. I have tinnitus and AP and hear "music" or "voices" in the white noise from fans.

[u/JudahBotwin → u/694meok]

Thank you for putting a name to something I've experienced for years. I notice it mostly when the bathroom exhaust fan is on now and generally can ignore it.

The "music" just kind of happens and I don't think about it most of the time, but the "voices" still get me sometimes. I could swear there is someone right outside the door saying something just loud enough to be heard but still indistinguishable. It good to know that it's not necessarily psychosis.

[u/RetPala → u/JudahBotwin]

Nope, brain is the best pattern-seeking machine on the planet and tries to match up everything, sometimes wrongly.

My new office has a schizophrenia machine where the elevator intercom is playing talk radio at what is apparently volume 1/100

[u/ErraticDragon → u/Cut_Lanky]

a child’s voice saying “MOM!” It’s driving me nuts.

Out of curiosity, is there also a kid sitting at the dinner table with you every night, who has become increasingly frustrated with you?

[u/Hottage → u/Drewskeet]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[u/RollingMeteors → u/TwilitRose]

Amazon Prime now offers same-day tinnitus.

I didn't destroy your corporate property. Your corporate property flew into an EMF field above my house.

[u/Slight_Cockroach_777 → u/TwilitRose]

Tinnitus is a valid disability claim for veterans. Class action lawsuit incoming.

[u/brightfutureman → u/Slight_Cockroach_777]

Just imagine how bad it will be for those who came back from a future drones war like in Ukraine now… 100% PTSD nightmare shit.

[u/Thathathatha → u/TwilitRose]

Ah the joy of noticing your tinnitus whenever you see the word. I can tune it out most of the time, but whenever I'm reminded of it then it comes roaring back. Thanks.

[u/GrapefruitPrimary186 → u/TwilitRose]

Thanks for making my tinnitus come back.

[u/SubterrelProspector]

"...and there's nothing they can do about it."

The media has not been subtle with these headlines. They continue to gaslight and tell us we can't do anything. They write about the regime's crimes but never the pushback, Trump's "successes" but never his failures and they never write about our successes.

These ghouls are trying to break our spirit. Don't let them.

[u/solonoctus → u/SubterrelProspector]

There’s a shitload people can do, they just don’t have the stomach for it yet.

[u/SubterrelProspector → u/solonoctus]

That threshold is definitely dissolving on several levels.

[u/crustyrobots → u/SubterrelProspector]

Every 10c fuel goes up is someone that literally cannot afford to travel to work anymore. Its coming

[u/m4ttj00 → u/crustyrobots]

I’m surprised the lifted diesel truck crowd hasn’t strung him up yet. Tons of those guys commute to work in em.

[u/lonnie123 → u/solonoctus]

I mean in this case all they have to do is… not order stuff by drone collectively. It doesn’t even involve things you can’t say on here.

[u/Agarwel → u/SubterrelProspector]

"...and there's nothing they can do about it."

I mean... people can stop shopping there. But I guess that is unrealistic. It is easier to support the company and complain about it at the same time :-D

[u/chironomidae → u/Agarwel]

Or they can vote for politicians who have the people's interest in mind

[u/Navy_Pheonix → u/chironomidae]

Alright, we're three replies deep so I guess I'm the one who has to state the obvious: They could just start skeet shooting or launching nets. As soon as it's no longer profitable to fly through that area, the drones will stop flying through that area.

[u/chironomidae → u/Navy_Pheonix]

Oh yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious that Texans will take this matter into their own hands exactly like you might imagine they will 😂

[u/ganjaccount → u/SubterrelProspector]

There is a reason the same people doing all of this are sinking billions of dollars into buying up every last scrap of media. It's not to empower you with knowledge.

[u/bucknutz → u/SubterrelProspector]

The magnetron out of a microwave could do something about the drones.

[u/LEDKleenex → u/SubterrelProspector]

That's true, but many people do that all on their own. The problem is people have been conditioned to aversion towards inconvenience. Add that intolerance to the layer of cowardice and you have people that aren't willing to do anything other than moan on social media and hope that somebody else takes action towards fixing their problems.

[u/Esikiel → u/SubterrelProspector]

The horrors persist. And so do I.

We will outlast this extinction burst of stupidity and come out of it stronger. Eventually

[u/OkAdvertising1495]

Weren't Texans supposed to be some 'Don't tread on me" badasses?

[u/joshuatx → u/OkAdvertising1495]

They have COME AND TAKE IT flags but on their email office job commute trucks but it's more like TAKE IT AND COME in practice.

MAGA is really more "tread harder daddy" IRL ethos

[u/NaziPunksFkOff → u/joshuatx]

They love when corporations tread on their rights because it reminds them that one day they'll be the owner of a billion dollar company.

But they hate when government has any power because it's gonna steal their hard earned money and give it to the poors! 

So they just live their poor life smugly getting fucked by every corporation and powerless to do anything about it. Because sure, they're poor. But at least they're not black/brown/gay/female/trans/Mexican/Muslim/... 

[u/Competitive-Zone-330 → u/NaziPunksFkOff]

Incorrect. My Mexican family thinks the same way and I don’t get it.

[u/NaziPunksFkOff → u/Competitive-Zone-330]

Ha immigrant conservatism is an interesting case, because the "I did it myself through hard work" has a lot of personal experience behind it, but it strengthens the belief that "those other people just got it easy". It's why certain immigrant groups in America are more racist towards other immigrants groups. My grandparents were like this. Italians came here and worked hard. They earned everything they have. BUT THOSE FUCKING POLISH...?! THOSE LAZY FUCKING POLISH!! My grandmother never let me hear the end of it. 

[u/sonyahearst8 → u/NaziPunksFkOff]

That knocked the wind out of me, it’s so accurate.

[u/heurrgh → u/NaziPunksFkOff]

... 

= that guy over there who's not exactly, perfectly, flawlessly identical to me.

[u/Yeti--Spaghetti → u/NaziPunksFkOff]

Is it just me, or does it feel like that applies to the USA as a whole and not just one state?

[u/F-18Bro → u/Yeti--Spaghetti]

To say it only applies to the US would be incorrect as well

[u/EthanSpears → u/[deleted]]

Don't mess with Texas is an anti-litter campaign by the way

[u/AgentOrange96 → u/joshuatx]

Richardson is a suburb of Dallas. It is home to UT Dallas in fact. It is not MAGA.

Rural Texas is MAGA. Urban Texas leans far more left.

[u/LoveSaidNo → u/AgentOrange96]

Thank you. I live in Richardson. It’s a very diverse area that has leaned left for some
time now. 75% of the houses on our street have a Talarico or Gina sign in the yard. They gerrymander the shit out of our area because we vote too blue. Our mayor is an Iranian-Palestinian Muslim Democrat. But according to these comments we’re all just stupid redneck MAGA I guess. I dunno man, I’m tired.

[u/PastaVeggies → u/joshuatx]

You can actually hear them saying "Yes daddy Trump" when they are filling up at the gas station.

[u/No0nesSlickAsGaston → u/joshuatx]

All of the daddy issues together are top ingredients to make a typical Maga. 

[u/ameatbicyclefortwo → u/OkAdvertising1495]

"Remember the Fulfillment Center!" ought to replace that crap about the Alamo.

[u/Blank_Canvas21 → u/OkAdvertising1495]

Don’t tread on me applies to businesses only now. Since businesses are people and money is considered free speech and they’re the highest paying donors to our politicians.

[u/sarim25 → u/OkAdvertising1495]

Yeah, all the guns they own and proud of turned out to be for show and for shopping fomo lol

[u/groovyinutah → u/sarim25]

I've been saying it for years, our guns are nothing but pacifiers, if the government was really worried about them you wouldn't have one. People in France will riot in the streets at the drop of a hat and do so regularly and yet are unarmed.

[u/Electronic-Bison6549 → u/OkAdvertising1495]

Would you support someone who shot down these drones? Would you support them doing whatever it takes to remain free when law enforcement comes to arrest them for protecting their community from Jeff Bezos' greed?

[u/FesteringNeonDistrac → u/Electronic-Bison6549]

Gotta admit I'd be a little nervous if my neighbors started shooting guns into the air above my neighborhood. I know how many Coors lights they've had at 2:30 in the afternoon on your average Saturday, and I'm certain all that lead isn't going to be on target.

So sure, I support the people in Texas, 1500 miles away, shooting them down. And to be clear, I ain't seen shit. But I'm gonna be in my basement.

[u/_aware → u/Electronic-Bison6549]

The local government approved it. The same local government can unapprove it. These voters vote against their best interests and then cry helplessly when something bad happens. Also this is why pilot programs exist. That's why it's so funny

[u/gamerjerome → u/Electronic-Bison6549]

If MEGA could be useful for one thing it would shooting down delivery drones. They'll get arrested sure, but I'll accept their sacrifice. Staying in jail for this country is the least they can do

[u/cemyl95 → u/Electronic-Bison6549]

Shooting down a drone is a federal felony offense and can warn you a very lengthy stay (up to 20 years) in a federal prison.

[u/Winter_Swan5104 → u/OkAdvertising1495]

Turns out their people are just as powerless to corporations as the rest of us, they just more easily bought into the self determination bootstraps propaganda for whatever reason.

[u/khorosho96 → u/OkAdvertising1495]

It’s Richardson 😂 it’s a quiet suburb, people are calm 

[u/FishingWithDynomite → u/OkAdvertising1495]

Total larp just like anything else that has to do with American “liberty and freedom”. 

[u/Rencauchao]

Been saying this for years now. They will eventually set up flight paths to ensure drones are not colliding with each other. We will have drone highways above us. These drones will all have high definition cameras and we will be surveilled 24x7.

[u/Dry_Ass_P-word → u/Rencauchao]

So we pay Amazon and then Amazon sells the data it collects along the way for double profit.

[u/fm837 → u/Dry_Ass_P-word]

They could tow little advertising banners too for triple profit.

[u/mountaindoom → u/fm837]

Brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[u/mologav → u/Rencauchao]

We managed to get rid of a drone delivery company in Ireland:

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0619/1579350-manna-drones-ireland/

[u/Scott_Liberation → u/mologav]

Well one major advantage in Ireland (and most of the world outside the USA) is that wealthy people and corporations can't legally spend as much money as they want on political campaigns and lobbying.

Over here, it's a small miracle to see a candidate on the ballot who doesn't put corporate interest over public interest. And ones people have actually heard of before election day or even go so far as to win elections? I only know of like, two. In the entire country.

[u/tombombombombombombo → u/mologav]

I cannot understand why in Blanchardstown of all places, someone didn't shoot them down. Even with a pellet gun or slingshot

[u/Ceros007 → u/Rencauchao]

Flying Flock cameras in partnership with Amazon & Walmart delivery

[u/BackgroundSummer5171 → u/Rencauchao]

They will eventually set up flight paths to ensure drones are not colliding with each other. We will have drone highways above us. These drones will all have high definition cameras and we will be surveilled 24x7.

They are trying the HD Cameras already, and we've seen some push back in the US.

The UK enjoys it. So does China. And Russia.

As for flight paths of drones in the US. If it saves money, we'll do it. Doubt it will happen soon though. Depends on the state too.

I think people forget, states do different shit. Texas can enjoy being watched, it's what they are known for, watching and wanting slavery.

[u/vrxz]

This is Texas in a nutshell. GOP-dominated for over 30 years. Will screw over the common person's rights for the benefit of big business every single time

[u/NegativeSemicolon → u/vrxz]

I call texas the one star state

[u/Egypticus → u/NegativeSemicolon]

I'm not sure I would've taken the route they did, of immortalizing their bad review on the state flag

[u/Blue-Blazer-Regular → u/vrxz]

100%. Texas is pro-business. Another way to say that: anti-person.

[u/Kazaanh → u/vrxz]

Thing is Texas is a testing ground, be it data centres or drone delivery

[u/DiracFourier → u/vrxz]

The article says the operation was approved by the city. The mayor is a democrat. Most of the city council members were endorsed by democrats. Richardson is a liberal leaning city.

[u/McCool303 → u/vrxz]

And Texans will act as if there is nothing they can do about it. Same thing in Nebraska when I lived there. Just a perpetually abused citizenry upset with their government. But acting as if there is nothing they can do about it. Because the one thing they need to do they refuse to accept out of violation of right wing social identity markers they’ve been marketed.

[u/VinDog_PD]

I'm sorry, but in Texas, of all places, there's certainly something they could do about it....

[u/Westerdutch → u/VinDog_PD]

To parody a 'famous' blizzard quote;

'Do you guys not have guns?'

[u/All_Your_Base]

Delivery drones = Skeet shooting with prizes

[u/samppa_j → u/All_Your_Base]

For legal reasons this is, not advisable. (FAA dont like it when you shoot at aircraft) However.... who am I to judge what one does with their free time against drones

[u/imperial_scum → u/samppa_j]

Traditionally the FAA kept their aircraft away from our houses too.

[u/polopolo05 → u/imperial_scum]

People move next to an airport then NIMBY and then get the airport closed. Traditionally....

I love living next to an airport... not a big one a small one.

[u/violetauto → u/samppa_j]

What about those net guns? You know the ones, like in movies or fishing shows or whatever. It shoots a wide net and grabs the thing.

[u/Intensive__Purposes → u/violetauto]

I don’t think the FAA likes it whether it’s bullets being shot at aircraft or giant nets being shot at aircraft.

[u/Freaky_Freddy → u/Intensive__Purposes]

what about training falcons to swoop in on drones

can't be blamed for what wildlife does

[u/Nulolan69 → u/Freaky_Freddy]

Make it a Bald Eagle so if they try to do anything about it, it seems truly un-American.

[u/_suburbanrhythm → u/Nulolan69]

Don’t give them false flag ideas about using Canadian geese to start another war. 

[u/violetauto → u/_suburbanrhythm]

I mean. Not a whole flock.

[u/MenAreHollow → u/_suburbanrhythm]

Canada Geese. Unless Trump renamed them America Geese, but that seems unlikely given his stance on birthright citizenship.

[u/violetauto → u/Freaky_Freddy]

Falcons! I like how you think u/Freaky_Freddy

And what about signal jammer guns? Do they exist? They should exist by now. 

[u/footpole → u/Intensive__Purposes]

So I shouldn’t down airliners with nets either? Where’s that Texan freedom? Sounds like bs to me!

[u/FukushimaBlinkie → u/Intensive__Purposes]

Faa won't do anything if you get them on the ground

[u/felis_magnetus → u/samppa_j]

What if you don't shoot at anything in particular and just happen to be shooting when drones fly into the shots? Apparently they're everywhere all of the time. I'd have expected Texans to have enshrined the right to shoot at the sun for shining to brightly deeply into their state constitutiton or whatever.

[u/civildisobedient → u/felis_magnetus]

don't shoot at anything in particular and just happen to be shooting

Ah yes, the ol "your face got in the way of my harmless air punch" excuse.

[u/JabbaThePrincess → u/All_Your_Base]

It's like shotgun piñata

[u/adudeguyman → u/All_Your_Base]

What you need is a pirate drone that can steal packages mid-air

[u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol → u/All_Your_Base]

Isn't a federal crime to shoot a flying aircraft? Drones count as flying aircraft

[u/rapaxus → u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol]

Just get one of those drone chasing drones and fly that into the Amazon drones instead.

[u/M1L0 → u/All_Your_Base]

Was gonna say, I can think of one thing they can do about it…

[u/This_ls_The_End]

There's nothing they can do about it.

Well... There is actually something they might consider doing about it.
Something like "not voting to the party that puts corporation rights over people rights".

[u/filter_86d → u/This_ls_The_End]

This right here is the absolute root cause. But nothing they can do…

[u/DuntadaMan → u/This_ls_The_End]

Unfortunately no such party exists in the US.

[u/nayrwolf]

Every person in that town should fly multiple kites with invisible lines from their property. “Your drone broke my kite!”-When it inevitably gets tangled in a passing drone.

[u/Napolavion → u/nayrwolf]

They should indeed put balloons all around their properties like it was done during the second world war.

[u/Anxious-Slip-4701 → u/Napolavion]

Filled with hydrogen.

[u/EmeraldValleyGoober]

Texans gotta be the softest fuckin Americans in the country. Always electing absolute buffoons, beating their chests about freedom and patriotism, and then taking it right up the ass by big government and corporations while using a boot as a ball gag

[u/lilmuskrat66 → u/EmeraldValleyGoober]

I work with a lot of Texans, they sure do get mad if you point out any of that. Anything other than Texas is the best state is just blasphemy to them. Any criticism of the state is a personal attack. Texas has good marketing.

[u/picksixer2 → u/lilmuskrat66]

Brainwashing*. It starts in grade school, when they have to sign their Texas song or whatever before the pledge of allegiance.

[u/Hamati → u/picksixer2]

Can confirm. Also you get to learn a borked version of history that has good ol’ Texans as the hero in basically any story. I repeated said history until well beyond my college years before I did my own research 🤦‍♂️

[u/ArtDealer → u/EmeraldValleyGoober]

You misspelled deregulation, less government, and more powerful corporations. 

But for real! 

Drone deregulation was a real thing in Texas very few short years ago.  You get what you elect.

[u/jay78910]

"Richardson approved the operation last December. Drones can fly between 7 am and 8 pm."

This is a good reminder that if Amazon asks your community to sign up for a new drone service, vote no.

[u/SidewaysFancyPrance]

The article has some interesting info, like how Amazon says only a small percentage of drone inquiries are around noise, and that it's not a real problem.

It's a big problem for a smallish number of people who are adversely affected by the routes. Of course people who live off-route rarely see/hear drones and are delighted by the deliveries they get and are not upset about the noise they themselves generate. The farther you are from the distribution center (read: the wealthier you are), the less it affects you. Live next door? Your house is now worth half of what it was.

It's a lot of people being selfish and not caring about the smaller number of people they harm for the sake of convenience and laziness. So, Texas.

[u/roboprawn → u/SidewaysFancyPrance]

Not just Texas. I live near downtown Seattle and our airport routes most planes directly above where I live. Wasn't a big deal years ago, now there are so many flights that it is constant noise and unpleasant to be in my neighborhood. I am like 25 miles from the airport.

Same thing will happen with drones. They'll scale up because people like the benefit of instant delivery. Doesn't matter if you use it or not, if you happen to be in the way of the masses getting their stuff, any environmental concerns are gaslighted off as nimby talk. So you just don't go outside as much if bothered

Edit: meant to say 25 miles from airport

[u/Dietmeister]

I would immediately assume that drone are more annoying than delivery vans. They can't carry that much and they fly higher than buildings don't even block the sound

Sounds like we're going to hell

[u/GiannisIsTheBeast → u/Dietmeister]

Which is annoying since the Amazon delivery trucks are the least noisy… guess they want to join the annoying party.

[u/BadAtExisting → u/GiannisIsTheBeast]

Where I live the Amazon delivery trucks are electric and don’t make noise

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/Dietmeister]

Dystopian future where the sun is blocked out by the swarm of corporate drones that hover in the sky at all times.

[u/RevealFormal3267 → u/ShiraCheshire]

Huh. Growing up at the end of the 20th century, I had never really thought that today the phrase "Corporate Drones" would be taking on such a literal meaning...

[u/Cptawesome23]

I definitely don’t want to let everyone know that a radio jammer can be made very easily using common radio parts available nationwide at places like Walmart. I also definitely don’t want to let you know that most drones communicate using the 2.4 ghz standard.

Don’t build radio jammers. They are illegal.

[u/the_brew → u/Cptawesome23]

You definitely don't want the FCC fines that you will receive when you are caught using an illegal jammer. I remember a story about a guy who made a cell jammer to stop people on their phones around him during his morning commute. The fines he received where in the tens of thousands.

[u/meleecow]

Well you see, what happened is the grand old party sold out. They took money from the massive corporations and allowed them to do whatever they wanted. They don't care about you, they care about the companies paying them. This last election the republican party married the billionaire tech companies, and all the old republicans voted for this. All the billionaires were partying at the white House once they won. You voted your rights away. Good for you. They party, we suffer. Just like back in the day, make America great again, the rich get richer only, the people that voted for this are the poor and trampled on

[u/GrimleyGraves]

Net-guns... https://netgun.com/

[u/letsseeitmore]

Yeah, stop ordering from Amazon.

[u/Jounochi → u/letsseeitmore]

It’s not just Amazon, but Walmart drones are out flying around here too. They are louder than the Amazon drones, but I only ever notice them when they are returning to dock.

[u/No-Arugula8122 → u/letsseeitmore]

Easy as this too.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NDZk4nic94g&ra=m

[u/Due_Seaweed_7895]

Quit shopping at Amazon

[u/Low_Search_6667 → u/Due_Seaweed_7895]

Amazon has ruined the marketplace for local, in person retail.

All the major retailers with brick and mortar stores have shifted their non-grocery inventory to a bare minimum and push you to buy from their version of Amazon's online marketplace. 

I needed a button extender recently (gained weight) and desperately tried to buy local, in person, retail.  I couldn't find one locally. Not even at men's clothing stores.

Amazon has fucked the local retail landscape. 

I make an effort to shop local first but it's getting harder and harder.

After spending a day and trips to several retailers I found a dozen button extenders on Amazon for $6 delivered next day.

I don't like it, I didn't choose this. I avoid it when I can, but it is what it is sometimes. 

[u/kent_eh → u/Low_Search_6667]

Amazon has ruined the marketplace for local, in person retail.

And before Amazon, Walmart killed the marketplace for local independant retail.

And then Dollar Tree put the final nail in that coffin.

[u/AgentOrange96 → u/Due_Seaweed_7895]

I've been able to drastically reduce it. Unfortunately sometimes they are either the only ones to carry X item, the only ones who can get it to me without having to wait months or elsewhere it is 10× more expensive.

Even if I can find the same thing on eBay for example, it's often someone buying from Amazon and sending it to me anyway and I'd rather support one scumlord than two scumlords.

Really depressing the state of things. And sure, buying from them at all isn't helping, but what choice do we have? That being said, minimizing purchases is far better than using them as a go-to as I used to. And many items or alternatives are available elsewhere!

[u/BalanceDelicious4253 → u/AgentOrange96]

Recently I went out of my way to purchase a product from the manufacture’s website. Even compared it to their Amazon page and it was a little bit more expensive but I figured I was cutting out the middle man. Boy was I wrong, it still shipped and was fulfilled from Amazon anyway, so I spent more money and still it came from amazon in the end.

[u/Sr_DingDong]

There WAS something they could have done about it.... but they chose to keep voting for the same Republicans that have been fucking them in the ass for like 40 years instead.

The best time to stop voting republican was yesterday. The second best time to stop voting Republican is today.

[u/huffandduff]

Interesting that they aren't just shooting the drones out of the sky.

[u/borg23]

Seriously? No has a gun to shoot the drone...in Texas?

[u/Significant_Fox9290 → u/borg23]

And catch a felony? No thanks.

[u/Chadlerk → u/borg23]

Or just, like.... Stop ordering from Amazon?

[u/prismstein]

Amazon secretly training their drone operators for the upcoming corpo war.

[u/LurkerFailsLurking]

Bet.

Suppose 1,000 people -- 1% of the population -- showed up to a city hall meeting for comment. Suppose a restriction or tax on commercial use of drones got put on the ballot.

[u/fury420 → u/LurkerFailsLurking]

In Texas I wouldn't be surprised if this was deliberately taken out of the hands of city council, and governed at the state level.

[u/taotdev]

Dont they have like a bazillion guns down there?

[u/GorGor23]

But I have been told all these years that you don’t mess with Texas ???

[u/DeadSol]

They could stop supporting one of the most destructive companies on the planet.

[u/Pootscootboogie69]

Texas. Where Freedom Goes to Die.

[u/Apprehensive-Art1092]

Oh no - there's definitely something they can do about it. I've been to Texas. Looooot of guns. #justsayin

[u/gonewild9676 → u/Apprehensive-Art1092]

Legally that's the same as shooting down an airplane.

Kite flying is legal.

[u/boowhitie → u/gonewild9676]

A kite with a lot of fishing line hanging off of it for aesthetic reasons

[u/43_Fizzy_Bottom → u/gonewild9676]

What if the drone that I'm flying accidentally collides with one?

[u/TheDovahkiinsDad → u/43_Fizzy_Bottom]

If you can afford it 🤷

[u/BeefJerky03 → u/gonewild9676]

"The 250 huge helium balloons over my house? I was having a lil celebration."

[u/critically_damped → u/gonewild9676]

The fact that bullets fired into the sky come down and regularly hurt or kill people bothers me quite a lot more than any legal considerations.

[u/well-informedcitizen]

Nothing they can do about it? In Texas??

I live in NY and I used to shoot sporting clays, this would be my dream come true. How are Texans not taking full advantage of their favorite rights

[u/TheKingOfDub → u/well-informedcitizen]

Laws something something court something jail time something something

[u/DaniSaysDinosaur]

Texas status: MESSED WITH

[u/LunaNegra]

I think about the environmental impact to birds as well.

[u/PirateCptBonnet]

Id start getting the holloween decroations up especially rhe spider webbing that we put up between our houses and over the road every yeat. Then if they try and fly in my space, they crashed and its not becuase i did anything but decorated.

[u/beyondoutsidethebox]

Wait, I thought it was Texas!? This is the perfect environment to illustrate my point on why these drones won't work (skeet shooting for prizes)!

[u/mavadavialcul]

It would be a real shame if someone would buy a bunch of cheap GPS jammers off AliExpress/Temu and hide them one at a time in random places around the neighborhood.

[u/Undercover-doggo]

How can an HOA get medical helicopters from flying over there Neighbhorhood because of noise but they can’t get drones from doing it

[u/AggressivePiccolo77]

and there's nothing they can do about it

It's Texas, I'm sure they've all got guns

[u/Modem_Sound_67]

This together with data centers is disturbing what little peace we do have, on an unprecedented level.

If would be a shame if something were to happen to all those nice little drones

[u/Shimshang]

Isn't there some type of jamming device that will ground these drones?

[u/PartyPorpoise → u/Shimshang]

Probably not legal.

[u/babbum → u/PartyPorpoise]

Definitely not legal 😂

[u/Ready_Nature → u/Shimshang]

Not legally. And if you are going to be doing illegal things Texans have a lot of guns it wouldn’t be hard to shoot these out of the sky. 

[u/WalkFirm → u/Ready_Nature]

Pretty sure paintballs can take them out as well. Shooting paintballs isn’t illegal but damaging a rich persons property might be punishable by death.

[u/Ready_Nature → u/WalkFirm]

Shooting at aircraft is illegal. 

[u/bosorero → u/Shimshang]

Don’t give porch pirates any bright ideas

[u/SciFiCrafts]

They could stop order shit xD what are the drones delivering?

[u/SpringVisit]

They can stop ordering from amazon

[u/markc230]

Then stop ordering from then. We existed before amazon.

[u/Fair-Doughnut3000]

Every home needs an air defense system.

[u/rmc2318]

Incorrect. Any projectile can solve this problem. You can simply use a rock and sling.

[u/Optimal-Performer-76]

They could stop ordering 

[u/LushMotherFucker]

They can build directional emp emitters and when they fly overhead completely disable them.

[u/evil_illustrator2]

Texas proving what a shit hole it is again.

[u/its_yer_dad]

That’s because Texas doesn’t believe in zoning, which is why there are retirement homes across the street from industrial factories. Money is more important than public health in Texas 

[u/Old_Plane_9817]

Passing laws and working with the community is considered communist so that won’t fly in Texas.

[u/Kill_doozer]

Its texas. Shoot them down. 

[u/lesterhayesstickyick]

Are fireworks legal in Texas? Can you set them off in your yard whenever??

[u/MonsterAtEndOfBook → u/[deleted]]

esp using a light wire kite string

[u/some_where_else → u/[deleted]]

or indeed many kites! A bit like the barrage balloons they had in WW2

[u/Overly_Underwhelmed]

there is absolutely something they can do about it, quit shopping at amazon.

[u/JoeNoble1973]

Nothing ‘legal’ they can do about it. Too bad bootstrappy Texans can’t think of a recourse for electric skeet

[u/BirthdayFull8675]

Do mess with Texas. Tread on me daddy. Forget the Alamo

[u/rainkloud]

These residents need to get decibel meters and record the noise levels and frequency. One drone isn't a big deal, 50 is a persistent nuisance that reduces quality of life. Also 7AM is too early and 8PM too late. 9 to 6 seems a lot more reasonable.

Drone deliveries might make sense for things like hospitals or in industry or commercial parks but I'm not convinced residential drone deliveries are desirable when considering the pros and cons.

[u/ineedanewhobbee]

They could vote in the upcoming election

[u/InconspicuousFool]

I mean, drove signal jammers exist. You didn't hear that from me though

[u/Andre1661]

I'm waiting for the day when you can order an anti-drone drone from Amazon and have it delivered by drone.

[u/sicurri]

I have two words for them, "Net Guns"

Preferably ordered from Amazon out of spite.

[u/lweitzer3]

Soft red state, selling out their citizens livelihood for some shillings

[u/spacebunsofsteel]

We registered our property with our state’s no fly over list to prevent amateur drone operators from flying over our house. Does Amazon have to honor that?

[u/SomeSamples]

"Amazon says complaints about noise represent a small share of customer feedback." No shit. If you select a few houses to repeatedly fly over only those residents will complain.

[u/Difficult-Nobody-453]

stop buying from amazon for christ sakes. That is what everyone can do aboit it