ICE could soon deploy Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs, a move raising concerns among some activists about surveillance, control and potential misuse.

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    Okay, so I’ll say this. The doggies with guns/etc have been extensively prototyped, you don’t hear much about it because it happens in other countries. The only reason I know is because of friends that I’ve worked with. Boston Dynamics, as they said they will never put weapons on them, well that doesn’t mean another company won’t buy them and put them on. Get your green tips while you can.

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    I’m going to be getting a new bra for this. A trap for boobies is what I mean. It would be this long corridor entrance to my house with automatic doors on either end. If you are expected you open the door and come in. Otherwise if you’re a robot, as soon as you enter, both doors close and there will be a laser grid traveling from side to side chopping everything into little cubes. Or a large flame. Or maybe pointy rods shoot from bottom, top and sides and then retract.

    Or maybe I would just have a 2X4 on the ready. I’m pretty sure those things can be wacked with a 2X4 easily.

    Whichever is cheaper.

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      Don’t James Bond what you can MacGuiver.

      The Boston Dynamics dogs have a number of failsafe stop modes. One of which is loss of controller connection. Which can be made from some shit from the hardware store and a circuit board you can order online.

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        I’ll just accumulate a big pile of bent up paperclips and when the robot crosses my gate, I’ll dump it all on it. Then as the robot waddles around, I’ll use a big magnet to clam him down while I go looking for the shutoff switch.

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        Speak for yourself, why do you think they need AI and robots and all the shit they do? They don’t actually have that many goons and their tech is mostly grifts, we outnumber the state forces massively, we just have to fight back.

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          We outnumber them, but none of us really get along. We arent together how we should be. They have divided us and can control us

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            Your fellow Americans will definitely turn on you. The 2nd amendment people will likely join the government’s side if shit does go down. That means fighting the government, and the crazy militia people, and your loyalist neighbors, and possibly even friends, and family that turn on you.

            I think you are the most accurate here even if the truth is unpopular.

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              Even the people that wouldn’t turn, or are on our side. We are too divided. Our groups are too small, we can make fun of proud boys, but wtf do we got that equals that? Most democrats i know that hate Trump are still racist too so I dont fully trust them.

              If people want to admit it or not, the right is much much further ahead of us in this fight.

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            I don’t know, I don’t have that issue, there are many people of different types and groups I talk to and we all seem to agree that the nazis are bad. It’s true people aren’t exactly cohesive or acting in an organized manner against these forces yet, but the people power is there.

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      Of course. They make the robots all cute until it’s time for actually using them against people.

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    Who’s surprised: you can’t make machines this creepy and sell them to normal human beings with good intentions…

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      LOL genuinely before entering comments I thought to myself that this is something that Elon Musk would think up.

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        That was a artist’s display at a gallery last year, they actually walked around. Elon Musk doesn’t think up anything.

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    Nobody thought I was serious! Back in zzeddit I had stated again and again, you’ll be running away from one of those things one day. It will have a turret on it shooting at you. But nah, oh look, isn’t it a marvel? Now here are the consequences.

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    I’m not for vandalizing, but this is so clearly dystopian and reminiscent of a precise Black Mirror episode I’d want to kick the shit out of them as soon as I saw them.