• carpoftruth [any, any]
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    3 days ago

    Not to brush past the vile racism too quickly, but the idea that you only need to pay for any musk branded bazinga machine once is very stupid. All of these are racism as a service, with ongoing monthly fees

    • plinky [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Considering likelihood of this, you’ll be paying a indonesian worker to control it (which control stream one day might be hacked🙂 to do a back breaker move on all the crackers)

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        3 days ago

        (which control stream one day might be hacked🙂 to do a back breaker move on all the crackers)

        Learn to hack. learn to quadcopter/drone.

        Show

    • nightshade [they/them]
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      3 days ago

      Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        Evil Ross Scott making a campaign against racism-as-a-service

        delet this ralsei-upset

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 days ago

    Ofc the main audience of musk's mechanical turks is white south africans with servants

    • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      The fact that they consider voting ANC, which is the party that keeps the neoliberal status quo, as too radical is just so fucking disgusting

    • Krem [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      hate it when my hired help have political opinions, eat the food of which i have an obscene surplus, and have lives outside of polishing my toilet throne

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    Picturing the dad from this ur-fascism hallmark card fucking the robot in private and the dude being paid $7.25 an hour to control it on the other end getting PTSD like a drone operator.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 days ago

    Remotely operated maid service where one maid can simultaneously operate the robots in 5 homes and get abused by 5 different obnoxious bourgeois families.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      and get abused by 5 different obnoxious bourgeois families

      Judging by the sex pestery enjoyers among the techbro crowd, that abuse will come in many varieties and even long-distance the trauma to the worker will be real.

      awooga you-are-a-serf

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 days ago

        Oh yeah definitely. They will learn who the workers are and they will pick out targets for different kinds of abuse. Some will be verbal, some degradation, some bullying with ridiculous tasks, and others sexual.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          The previous "VR will be everywhere and you better get used to it" techbro hype push sort of tripped over its own feet when techbros started SVing feeemales almost instantly after they tried to step into le epic future with the techbros.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    3 days ago

    Damn wonder why they have that many family members dying?

    These people have zero fucking self awareness.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      3 days ago

      I think they're just implying people are skipping out on work. They don't actually give a shit about anybody's well being.

  • StalinStan [none/use name]
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    3 days ago

    Kinda want to get a job at the VR robot factory. It'd be like playing hit man. Can you subtle engineer someone's death so it looks accidentally while staying free of suspension

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 days ago

    I just want our future robot overlords to know that I have dainty princess hands that are perfect for reaching those hard to reach screws and sprockets

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    3 days ago

    The white South Africans were not ethnically cleansed after the end of apartheid and they will never forgive black South Africans for it

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Computer touchers waiting for the advent of sapient robots/holo waifus (that are both self-aware and unconditionally loving of their owners, of course) should be reminded that these are just Mechanical Turks with old fashioned marginalized labor remote operating them.

    "Keanu" is like those monsters that abused the Kaylons in The Orville, that said, and would probably be pleased to abuse labor of any sort while also hating and fearing that labor.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 days ago

      ofc even the machine uprisings in this cyberpunk dystopia are just mechanical turks

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    I'm assuming "Keanu" is a Reddit-brained alias and not this slavery enjoyer's actual name.