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[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 minutes ago

will it also say "move along citizen there is nothing to pet here" in a male robot voice?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 41 minutes ago

Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

Metalhead? I really didn't get the twist of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 2 minutes ago)

Does it need a twist? They accurately warned us about exactly what US fascists are building to protect their private bunkers.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 117 points 7 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] 11 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

They fucking won.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 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] 26 points 7 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] 60 points 9 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] 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Small Soldiers also taught us how to turn an electric pole transformer into an improvised EMP device. That turns the dogs off.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 hours ago

you have 20 seconds to comply

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago

Because real dogs refuse the job.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 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] 6 points 7 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] 51 points 11 hours ago

Shitty ass movie life

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

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

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

Why are you holding my birth certificate???

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Should I drop it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

They're guard dogs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 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] 31 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 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] 2 points 45 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 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] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They were both fake. Magic healing ear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours 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] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

Yeah, but it didn't get him the attention he wanted so he stopped trying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours 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.