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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 191 points 10 months 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.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

They fucking won.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 127 points 10 months ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months 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

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 61 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 10 months ago

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

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 81 points 10 months ago (15 children)

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

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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months 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.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

Shitty ass movie life

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months 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

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 38 points 10 months ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[–] scumola@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months 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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago

I want to Walz right in

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[–] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months 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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Good book, Snow Crash

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months 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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[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 14 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

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

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If not fren, why fren shaped

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

These are not good boys

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.

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