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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago

So they have a coffee brewer on their back but you cannot pet? Please make sense.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

Funny and sad. Society so divided, so polarized, cemented bipartisan - they can't have candidate above divisions.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

And What’s stopping them from eating the robots? I mean someone ate an entire plane

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

They fucking won.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies

Ah life really does imitate art

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But despite their many impressive features, the devices can be taken down.

“You just have to spray it with Aqua Net hairspray in its ‘face’,” Cummings said. “And that would be enough to stop the cameras from working correctly.”

FYI

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 84 points 7 hours ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago

I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

If they appeared with guns, wouldn't the robodogs also be strapped?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

One would think it would be easy to get T.E.L.L.s nowadays and just send one after another

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 hours ago

Shitty ass movie life

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There's always a place for a happy little accident.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you holding my birth certificate???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Should I drop it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

They're guard dogs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Considering that there was an assassination attempt there not that long ago, it's not surprising they increased security.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

An assassination attempt was thwarted. The attempt itself never took place.

Planning to shoot the president is different than actually shooting at him.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

He did literally get shot though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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 🤡

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They were both fake. Magic healing ear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 minutes ago

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.