• @vivavideri
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    281 year ago

    Can we hack it and make it so all it does is take nut shots at the nypd?

  • @hark
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    181 year ago

    Government and corporate creeps seeing dystopian sci-fi works: “What an excellent idea!”

  • @Wussy
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    141 year ago

    “The police robot, which is painted white, insisted that the mayor, who is black, made what is believed to be a ‘gang sign’ with his hand and aggressively placed it on its body. The mayor is now recovering in a nearby New York hospital after allegedly being shot 18 times by the police robot. Despite the entire event being caught in camera, the NYPD insists that the robot is innocent and did nothing wrong.”

  • mrbubblesort
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    131 year ago

    Adams also proudly stated the cost-effectiveness of the robocop as compared to a human transit cop: The city is leasing the robot for $9 an hour.

    “This is a good investment of taxpayer dollars,” he said. “This is below minimum wage, no bathroom breaks, no meal breaks.”

    I’m genuinely surprised the union is ok with this.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      171 year ago

      That’s because cop “unions” aren’t real unions.

      Real unions protect the employment of all their members while fighting for better wages and working conditions.

      Cop “unions” defend criminal cops from the consequences of their actions, fight for impunity for all cop killers (killers who are cops) and lobby the government to fund those heinous activities.

      • @DoomBot5
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        41 year ago

        Perhaps killer cops would have been a better phrase.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          -11 year ago

          Both work. A cop killer can be killer of cops or a killer who happens to also be a cop. I like it over killer cop for two reasons

          1. it implies that the killer part is the essence and the cop part is external to that

          2. it replaces a term meant to set apart a category of killers for being worse because they kill cops (as if “blue lives matter” more than all others) with the many times more common killer that’s worse for being a cop.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            It’s nice that you like your way and all, but the phrase ‘cop killer’ has a long standing accepted meaning in the English language. You are simply wrong here.

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              -11 year ago

              Standard isn’t automatically the only correct usage of a word or phrase. As long as it makes sense and is understandable, it’s correct enough. Live a little.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                Except that what you said was not understood as you intended. Entertaining willful ignorance is not 'living a little '. Be better.

                • @Viking_Hippie
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                  -11 year ago

                  I explained concisely but thoroughly what I meant and the logic made sense. Regardless, ignorance doesn’t enter into a deliberate subversion of conventions.

                  You’re just being a crotchety prescriptivist and/or doubling down because you don’t want to admit you’re wrong. YOU be better.

  • @jeffw
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    81 year ago

    420? Nice!

    Wait, Robocop? Not nice!

    • @Borkingheck
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      31 year ago

      So is this just a mobile camera maybe with a speaker from someone in a control room who can say, “stop that!”.

  • subignition
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    51 year ago

    I wonder how expensive these robots are.

    For completely unrelated reasons of curiosity, I wonder how susceptible they would be to a sledgehammer.

  • @andrewth09
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    The press conference ended with a photo op for the mayor and the NYPD’s latest recruit. The mayor made a half-heart shape with his hand and pressed it to the K5’s waterproof exterior. The robot did nothing.

    Love this last line. Ultimately the robot can’t do anything other than alert the police.

  • @x4740N
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    51 year ago

    Can’t wait until someone pushes that onto the tracks in front of an oncoming train

    • @andrewth09
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      141 year ago

      When asked whether the robot was at risk of vandalism in New York City, the mayor strode over to it and gave it a few firm shoves. “Let’s be clear, this is not a pushover. 420 pounds. This is New York tested,” he said.

      Yeah. This thing is still going to find itself on the tracks.

      • @x4740N
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        41 year ago

        That weighs less than an average medium car from a short Google search and I’ve seen videos of groups of people lifting cars

        And one new york city mayor is not representative of the nyc population

      • @surewhynotlem
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        31 year ago

        Did… Did he just tell New Yorkers they aren’t strong enough to do something?

        The balls on that guy… I give it a week.

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