A quote, "So loveable, it tugs at our heart strings." WHAT???

And before one of you uhh achksullys me, yes I know that is a paintball gun. Just broaden your imagination a bit more please and include the NYPD in this imagination.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1364769189874065413?s=20

I don't say this often cause it's kinda silly most of the time. But this really is manufactured consent for thinking we need robot dogs having guns. It escalated so fast from a bomb detector/natural disaster aid to a fucking walking turret. All under the guise that oh isn't technology so cute!!! uwu

  • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    IF police are only supposed to shoot people when they fear for their lives why does a robot ever need a gun? It would never have a justifiable reason to use it.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I know my brain is broken because I read this, agreed with it, and immediately started coming up with reasons they'd used to justify it. Here are a few in short form: Private property. "Backup." "To protect." "What if it saw a helpeless dog when busting down a door."

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They're going to use it for riot control or something, what's great about that is that these things are easy as fuck to knock over. So we'll have our own in no time.

        • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          It's good that our dystopia is inspired by fictional ones or they'd just out these things in treads. Metal Gear logic

                • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Caught the edit and yeah, that's what I was talking about. It's like the AT-ATs in Star Wars, legs are a huge vulnerability with no advantage, it's not like these things can go off road.

                    • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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                      4 years ago

                      They won't be autonomous and if deployed for crowd control there will be plenty of spotters on radio able to speak to the doggo operator instantly, if they have weapons of any sort they may just blind fire as long as it's confirmed it's facing towards protestors and not cops. People don't understand robots so there's plausible deniability there. However potholes and ditches are a way bigger issue or just inclines are way more of a threat to a robot with legs cause legs are just harder to do than make wheel spin.

                        • MichoganGayFrog [they/them]
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                          4 years ago

                          Shooting a robot dog with a gun until it doesn't work isn't murder so that's cool. I'd have a harder time taking a shotgun to a cop if anything due to the consequences.

      • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        I am sure you're right. I'm starting to get a sneaking suspicion that maybe cops don't just kill people in self defense. But I'm sure I'm just being paranoid.