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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 183 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

They fucking won.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 120 points 8 months ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 87 points 8 months ago

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 59 points 8 months ago

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 15 points 8 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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[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 83 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

When Q-Anon spreads baseless pedophile ring accusations it's ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 68 points 8 months ago

If you don't get jokes it can't be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago

Trump is appointing a pedo to be Attorney General.

Trump is a pedo.

One is a lie is based on projection and the other is pointing out that pedos are pedos.

[-] Jtotheb@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

They have not been officially found guilty in the court of law [designed to protect them]—how dare you besmirch their good name

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 40 points 8 months ago

They're just pals, nothing to see here.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

If we want to win over Republican voters we need to appeal to their sensibilities.

They have no sensibilities if they voted for Trump.

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 78 points 8 months ago

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 18 points 8 months ago

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

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago

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 58 points 8 months ago

Shitty ass movie life

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 47 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

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

[-] scumola@sh.itjust.works 37 points 8 months ago

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 12 points 8 months ago

I want to Walz right in

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 36 points 8 months ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[-] 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

Good book, Snow Crash

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

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[-] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 14 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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 8 months ago

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

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

If not fren, why fren shaped

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago

Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it's not surprising they increased security.

[-] Makhno@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

An assassination attempt was thwarted. The attempt itself never took place.

Planning to shoot the president is different than actually shooting at him.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Also putting on my conspiracy hat here for a moment. I think the assassination attempts were setups. Including the one who supposedly got his ear.

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[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

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

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

These are not good boys

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago

While the robotic dog seen at Mar-a-Lago is not armed, she says competitors appear to be experimenting with models that are.

“People are trying to weaponise these dogs,” Cummings adds, citing a Chinese model with an attached rifle which she learned about at a robotics meeting this week.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

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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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

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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