‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?
(www.bbc.com)
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Shitty ass movie life
Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it’s not surprising they increased security.
An assassination attempt was thwarted. The attempt itself never took place.
Planning to shoot the president is different than actually shooting at him.
That one seemed so fake lol
Feels like secret service needed a redemption after whatever happened the first time. So that's what they got 🤡
They were both fake. Magic healing ear.
I ain't shy of any tinfoil but this one didn't land.
What are you basing your position that the first one was also fake?
Magic. Healing. Ear.
Haven't heard this one. The media cycle around was rather weird.
So deff gave me cover up vibes injust assumed it was because feds botched the job.
Exactly I don’t care if it was just glass what not. There would be a scab something. Your ear would not magical show zero damage after two weeks.
An impact from a blunt object like a bullet would absolutely show damage, and clipping an ear would have to take a piece off.
If it was clipped by a sharp piece of broken glass or plastic it might, because cuts from sharp objects can bleed a lot but be pressed together and heal pretty well. My wife cut her finger on broken glass last week and it bled like crazy at first, but with a little pressure and a bandage for a couple of days you could barely tell it ever happened.
Trump was nicked by some shrapnel and played it up as being hit by the bullet for his base.
I got cuts to and two weeks no matter how small you could still see the cut. Only other explanation is he put makeup on the hide said cut. By why do that?
No visual shots of Trump are going to be as close as you looking at your own body.
Why would someone who plasters orange concealer all over his face in an attempt to not look like the pale ghoul that he is cover an imperfection with makeup?
I have no idea why a vain person would do that. It just isn’t like vain people to cover up small imperfections!
My point being even fake having a scar on his ear would cater to his base. I mean motherfucker wore a tampon on his ear for 2 weeks.
Yeah, but it didn’t get him the attention he wanted so he stopped trying.
He did literally get shot though.
He got nicked by some shrapnel that did so little damage that you couldn’t even tell it ever happened when his ear diaper came off.
You literally cannot come closer to having your brains blown out and live to tell the tale. To downplay that as if it wasn’t a big deal is ridiculous and unreasonable.
Closer would have been actually being grazed by a bulllet…
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.
Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?
If they appeared with guns, wouldn’t the robodogs also be strapped?
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you have 20 seconds to comply
Shitty time travelers and their stormtrooper aim.
Somebody definitely fucked up the timeline and they send these untrained time-travellers to try and fix it (and failed miserably).
Now we get Black Mirror robot dogs.
One would think it would be easy to get T.E.L.L.s nowadays and just send one after another
T.E.L.L? Did you watch Travelers? I think thats the only place where I heard that term. Man, I loved that show, a shame they cancelled it.
Maybe they only managed to send two time-travellers before they got raided by the gestapo. 🤷♂️
Welp now we get to be in a dystopian movie
not even just a movie, we got a whole series with possibly multiple seasons
I have a feeling I’m one of the side characters that’s gonna get killed soon.
yup, that was a reference
When they send over these time travelers, they’re not sending their best…
FYI
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
Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.
Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?
Because real dogs refuse the job.
I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.
You just reminded me I need to pick that back up.
There’s always a place for a happy little accident.
Why are you holding my birth certificate???
Should I drop it?
Ah life really does imitate art
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Wouldn’t be surprised if it was named after the game. These guys like to name their companies nerdy sinister names on purpose. Like Palantir
They’re guard dogs
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.
They fucking won.
And What’s stopping them from eating the robots? I mean someone ate an entire plane
Ahhh another Michel Lotito connoisseur!
This wikipedia page is true gold lol:
Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.
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.
If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.
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.
They have not been officially found guilty in the court of law [designed to protect them]—how dare you besmirch their good name
If we want to win over Republican voters we need to appeal to their sensibilities.
I don’t think that calling someone a pedophile is any more convincing than calling them a nazi. If anything, that’ll just make them dig their heels deeper.
Ok but what if they are a pedophile and/or a fascist?
All the evidence points to them being both a nazi & pedophile.
Well I mean you can go around calling them fascists all you want. That already got you Trump twice but maybe 3rd time is the charm.
But pedophiles are something they’re preprogrammed to hate.
Do you think they’re going to accept that he is one when the accusation is coming from someone on the left? I doubt it.
That’s valid. But if they won’t listen to us, what hope do we have if fixing this
I don’t think it’s that they don’t listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it’s done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you’re far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.
They have no sensibilities if they voted for Trump.
They’re just pals, nothing to see here.
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This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.
Metalhead? I really didn’t get the twist of it.
Does it need a twist? They accurately warned us about exactly what US fascists are building to protect their private bunkers.
But it was
Tap for spoiler
Teddy bears or something if I remember
Is the twist that they represent hope which is something they guard?
It was probably just “goods” in general. A warehouse of various goods. And this was one innocent example
The moment when you seem them and suddenly everything turns black & white. Oh no.
Funny and sad. Society so divided, so polarized, cemented bipartisan - they can’t have candidate above divisions.
So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.
Probably because Trump hates real dogs.
I think the bronzer has a bad effect on them.
will it also say “move along citizen there is nothing to pet here” in a male robot voice?
It can, but it comes out more like “ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!”
It’s a golf coarse… it’d be perfect for the simplicity of wheels.
They’re robots, probably don’t “rough”
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.
The adults sold us a future they were determined to destroy before it could ever come to fruition.
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
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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.
Damn
This is how you start the Great Robot War.
I’ll see her standing by the monorail
She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault
Or is it?
And she eyes me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
Nah, put a traffic cone on 'em.
I’d like to pet it with a .50 cal.
Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?
Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.
I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled.
I’m sure the secret service is absolutely
thrilledcomplicit with his horseshitProbably.
I have zero faith in our institutions. They’ll quietly do their jobs until the dictator has them purged.
And that, your statement, is russia’s actual victory prior to trump even being sworn in.
Russia may enjoy how the chips landed. But the wound is entirely self inflicted. 50 years since the US govt gave up all pretense of giving a fuck about anyone worth less than 8 figures. Stagnant wages. The opposition to Republican bullshit is center-right plutocrats with their heads so far up their own asses they cocked up a 2nd layup election against an insane serial criminal reality TV host by running to the right. Best we can do on Healthcare is fucking Romneycare. And the idea of opposing a for real no shit in living color full 3d genocide is met with cries of antisemitism and being told to get over it.
Level 3000 hack: compromise security with drone fleas that jump onto drone dogs.
Level 9000 hack: join the pack with a drone attack dog.
Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.
Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.
These things are communicating by radio. Whether it’s wifi or 4G/5G modem, either can be disabled easily with a raspberry pi and some software.
These are not good boys
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.
I want to Walz right in
Or dress like a deer and it’ll just ignore you and keep going
Dress like Trump, attack it, then flee.
Guess who’s now considered a threat to the AI?
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
Accelerationism coming from exactly the social class we expected
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?
Any robot is a sex robot if you are brave enough.
How did you even fit into that USB port???
Well you try one way, and then if that doesn’t work, you roll over, and if that doesn’t work then rolling over again should do the trick
Keep the proles out.
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.
There are demonstrations (or of ATLAS I forgot) that shows them keep straight after hard kicks and such. Wont work
What about an angle grinder?
Plasma cutter
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.
Good book, Snow Crash
oh cool/good
Because musk is an ignorant child redditor…that is why.
Boston Dynamics isn’t a musk company
That is correct and not relevant. Being an ignorant twit that is pretty much the first lady and has likely always wanted robot guard dogs, and so suggested them to trump…is kinda on brand though.
Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.
try 75,000 dollars
If not fren, why fren shaped
It looks like a fun and fulfilling thing to hit with my car.
Those little fuckers creeped me out ever since the black mirror episode when they were turned into automated murder dogs
Because they are too expensive for schools to buy although I think that would be where they should be first.