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

  • VernetheJules [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah hear me out on this: it's gonna be used for riot control purposes, with the benefit for cops that it makes protestors seem more dangerous. Get ready to hear takes like "These people are so out of control we have to use robots to approach them."

    And then because it's not a real person, it'll get fucked up like a cop car. Except since it's a biologically inspired dog-robot, liberals will be even more distraught when it gets destroyed. Not only is it property being destroyed (which triggers a visceral reaction a lá "shop windows didn't deserve this"), it's property in the shape of everyone's favorite cute adorable doggos with jobs, the K-9 unit.

    Thank you for coming to my TED talk!

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      idk, I definitely think cops will try to play this "poor doggo" angle, but I think few will buy it because these things are so viscerally uncanny-valley

      • VernetheJules [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm struggling put myself back in my liberalism shoes and imagine it myself, but I think you're right that this would definitely test the limits of my excessive sympathy for property.

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I kinda pictured it as an improvment. Honestly. Like, you couldn't program a robot to be as shitty at its job as a cop.

      So, they would stand behind this when talking to a homeless person so they never have a need to pull out their gun.

      This is the one case where I am glad to see people losing their jobs to a robot