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[–] [email protected] 194 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because they're eating the dogs, the people that stay there, they're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live around there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And What’s stopping them from eating the robots? I mean someone ate an entire plane

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[–] riodoro1 12 points 1 month ago

They fucking won.

[–] robocall 127 points 1 month ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[–] felixwhynot 93 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

“You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

FYI

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Definitely don't Google "2K spray paint" because it's impossible to remove and you can seriously damage surveillance devices with it, like cameras and stuff I dunno

[–] AngryCommieKender 16 points 1 month ago

Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.

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[–] Red_October 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

If they appeared with guns, wouldn't the robodogs also be strapped?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.

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[–] RaoulDook 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe's personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

[–] prof_wafflez 21 points 1 month ago

The adults sold us a future they were determined to destroy before it could ever come to fruition.

[–] gibmiser 60 points 1 month ago

Shitty ass movie life

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.

Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).

Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.

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[–] kautau 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

Ah life really does imitate art

[–] Nuke_the_whales 34 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they'll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I want to Walz right in

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[–] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.

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[–] iAvicenna 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

will it also say "move along citizen there is nothing to pet here" in a male robot voice?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It can, but it comes out more like "ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!"

[–] nomous 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah's. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that's the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

"Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside," Hiro says behind her... "A radioactive substance that makes heat. That's its energy source."

"How do you turn it off?"

"You don't. It keeps making heat until it melts."

The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Good book, Snow Crash

[–] spankmonkey 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

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[–] douglasg14b 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Isn't this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

[–] chiliedogg 18 points 1 month ago

Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

can you just approach them and turn them over so they cant get up themselves anymore,, would be some fun activism?

Or is that a crime already in such a free country

[–] LePoisson 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/jEBELMDT6cE?t=262&si=dprkjYTi5nhRjbuK

You can't really keep them from getting back up, they won't stay on their sides perfectly balanced because of the curves on their legs. Even so they could "kick" their legs to push them to be able to get back up.

Just in case you're wondering in the future if that will work.

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[–] masquenox 13 points 1 month ago

I'd like to pet it with a .50 cal.

[–] bruhduh 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If not fren, why fren shaped

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[–] Freefall 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Because musk is an ignorant child redditor...that is why.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's always a place for a happy little accident.

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[–] Etterra 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.

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[–] xenomor 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.

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[–] AeonFelis 8 points 1 month ago

These are not good boys

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is such a shame, I mean we could be putting those bots to good use.

Can I get a rule 34 on these robots?

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