371
‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?
(www.bbc.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
371 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
59517 readers
2957 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Coo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.
That's a unique approach to suicide-by-cop
The ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.
My approach to the armed ones, particularly the TASER-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
They are also not autonomous. They have armed secret service agents very nearby. If the sensors on the dog alert them, trigger happy armed guards will come.
Joke's on them, I won the robot dogs over with my pets and can turn the sentry turrets against the guards.
That's assuming I actually look like a threat, rather than someone infatuated with the weird robot dog.
It's a golf park full of rich old people. I bet the dog-hecklers will come dozens per hour.
You must be white or not from the US. The police in the US are taught to shoot first. Sometimes they get asked questions later.
That is the way that the police work in the United States yes.
We're not talking about the police, we're talking about the Secret Service protecting the President-Elect of the United States... at a golf park Not only that, but a park where people have to be super rich since access to Trump (leader of the GOP and now President-elect) is figured into the membership fee.
And while the police are happy to gun down the rest of us shlubs, they treat rich people like they treated OJ Simpson after he hacked up Nicole Brown. When they don't and they actually shoot a rich person, then high-powered (blue-haired) lawyers come and sue the precinct and county for enough money to collapse the GDP.
But I do hear you. Police in the US are bastards to the last.
ASSAB