Love always, Sinthia

Boston. 

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[nando161mando]

[villainessbian]

[armedjoy]

[sculptingsuccess]

Look we all want a robo dog but if you kill someone with a sledgehammer to steal theirs, they are going to find you. There's no way a 75k$ dog doesn't have gps

[wotsukai-leftlmao]

we are killing the dog

[purplealchemist]

NO.

ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.

Even robot ones.

[perigeeprincess]

its not a dog, its a machine used and designed for police surveillance and the entire reason they made it dog shaped is so idiots like you would go "awwww robot dog how precious" instead of seeing them as the oppressive tools they are.

we're killing the fucking dog

[bluelivesaintshit]

[tangent101]

That's not a robot dog.

It's a four-legged robot spider.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

It is not a dog, a spider, a chicken, a horse, a fish, a tick, a mosquito, a tapeworm or a baby

It is a weapon

There is nothing morally wrong about breaking weapons that are hurting people for any reason other than to prevent those people from hurting others worse

[roach-works]

the dog robots are fully capable of hurting people, and badly. failsafes that would prevent that have not been installed. the police are deploying a thing out in public that can maim anyone who touches it wrong.

look, when i was a kid i was passionately in love with the idea of robots--that humans would one day create another sort of intelligence to share our world with-- and believed very firmly that we should respect and protect all our robot friends from the start, so there would be no violent humans-against-robots revolution or anything.

anyway it turns out that the people trying to keep end-stage capitalism running are really banking on us feeling more love for the robots than for the kind of people they're going to be using the robots to oppress.

so like. maybe lets all agree right now that if a robot is being used to hurt a person, you need to smash the fucking robot. they're going to make the robots really cute. they're going to show us so many movies about how much robots need to be loved. and then they are going to use robots to hurt people.

let's try not to fall for it, okay?

[rapidashrider]

[booskerdu]

And don't forget that scary af episode of Black Mirror, Metalhead. Robot dogs can fuck right off.

[skyline-sunset-in-my-veins]

They created a weapon, told you to call it a friend and watched as your empathy became their trap and tool. 

[anarcho-gamerist]

Real life dogs are oftentimes weapons as well

[aloeverawrites]

People who exploit animals will often exploit humans too. They’re exploiting the cuteness of animals to manipulate you and the potential danger of dogs to control you.

So if we’re being intersectional about this, also be cautious about people who use animals as tools.

[way-to-go-you-funky-little-blue]

MSCHF, 'Spot’s Revenge'; Boston Dynamics Spot® Robot, Resin, stainless steel; 67 x 65 x 52 inch 170.2 x 165.1 x 132.1 cm; Unique

Boston Dynamics publicly condemned the project for using its robot “in any way that cpromotes violence, harm, or intimidation.” The day after Spot’s Rampage debuted, Boston Dynamics rolled out a partnership with the NYPD.

Boston Dynamics remotely disabled MSCHF’s legally-purchased Spot® robot via an undisclosed backdoor.

[shrewreadings]

If it ain’t three laws safe, it ain’t friend shaped.

Bludgeon it.

[gothiccharmschool]

Sooooo the company I work for works with law enforcement. As in, they're our main customers. (Which I'm actually all for, because the amount of accountability we're loading into the back end while "making their jobs easier" is ASTONISHING. My very leftist old hippy Dad is excited about me working here.)

Anyway, I have seen these robot dogs in person at a conference, and it took under a minute for my brain to go "Doggo! Friend shaped!" When I stepped back and thought about it, it was unnerving as HELL.

So yeah. Go buy that hammer. Bet you can find similar ones at thrift stores, too.

[vore-goblin]

no no no no, listen to me: remove smashing technology with a hammer from your mindset.

the type you'd need for this is heavy, expensive, unwieldy, without practice you are just as likely to hurt yourself more, and genuinely at the end of the day you are not going to break this with a hammer.

forget "hammer == best way break technology"

if you wanna fuck up technology you get a can of expanding foam. it's small, incredibly easy to carry/conceal and it WILL fuck up any technology WAY MORE than even an expertly wielded hammer hitting every weak point every single time.

you break something with a hammer and unless you know precisely what you're doing (and have the time to do it), that shits reusable anyway. but expanding foam? there is no coming back from that for anything.

[kedreeva]

Good news, it's even cheaper than the hammer

[injuries-in-dust]

[haughty-ojousama]

a gun would be better, also remember that dog will have police back up, so bring a bunch of friends

[imsobadatnicknames2]

This is a good post but the "If it ain't three laws safe, it ain't friend shaped" comment is so baffling to me because like. The whole point of Asimov's three laws is that they don't work. Literally almost every single story that features the three laws revolves around something going terribly wrong because of the way they're formulated.

Like the three laws weren't created as a serious proposal for robot ethics, but as a narrative tool to illustrate why trying to reduce robot ethics to a simple set of universal principles is a fruitless endeavor.

[scavengedluxury]

The unusual..

The bizarre..

The Lamronarap.

Wolverhampton, March 2016.

[yeoldenews]

A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

[beggars-opera]

[sanshofox]

And now the 2022 update: merry quismois

[crazy-brazilian]

😳😳😳

[awktopudicus]

ohh mein gott, zhey're posting püssenvagen on ze instagrāmmen

[thedicepaladin]

Being the DM when the party wants to focus on a rock you mentioned for 2 seconds when you actually wanted to accomplish something this session:

[captainofthetidesbreath]

"How was the Calamity finale?"

The Calamity finale:

Bonuses:

[captainofthetidesbreath]

For what moments these are:

Lou — "[Brennan:] Zerxus, you pull the true heart of the Lord of the Hells into Exandria."

Marisha — "[Brennan:] This will be our final roll of this campaign."

Luis — Sam begins to describe Loquatius cycling through the faces of those he wronged or failed as he loses consciousness.

Sam — Marisha rolls two 10s on her Counterspell against Power Word Kill.

Aabria — "[Aabria:] Is this a spell effect?" // "[Travis:] No, this is physics."

Travis — "[Elias:] I don't know why I didn't send it. I don't know why I didn't—" // [Zerxus:] You don't need to explain yourself. I know why, and it's okay."

Bonuses:

Aabria — "[Luis:] I pull him." // "[Aabria:] Does the Time Stop stop?"

Marisha — "[Asmodeus:] Let's get ourselves cleaned up."

Luis — "[Cerrit:] I love the both of you so much. So much."

[relelvance]

Girl if you don't simplify that fraction

[alchemic-incantations]

I've started saying this to myself when I'm overthinking. Like girl.... get simplifying what is wrong with you

[relelvance]

Love that for you diva

[depsidase]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[scriptmyworld]

This is so terrifically sad, but I can’t help but commend Brennan for rewarding Travis. He did possibly one of the most taboo things in D&D, he left the party, and he was rewarded for it. He got to save his family. Because this isn’t a normal campaign. This is a tragedy, and heroism gets you nothing. Selfishness, as contradictory as it seems, is the most useful trait.

AND THE THING IS—because I know how that last sentence sounds—HE WASN’T SELFISH. HE WAS THE LEAST SELFISH OUT OF ALL OF THEM. ITS LITERALLY THE LAST THING HE SAID BEFORE HE LEFT BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE WAS TOO SELFISH AND BLINDED BY GLORY AND NYDAS TRIED TO SAVE TOO MUCH but Travis WASN’T and he was rewarded. The Sightwarden, perhaps the only non-visionary in that room, gave us a single thread of hope for the future.

[neenarchive]

checking over the work email five times to make sure i typed 'thanks for your quick response' and not the full lyrics to closer by nine inch nails

[neenarchive]

kind regards,

i wanna fuck you like an animal i wanna feel you from the inside

[happyheidi]

Catbus! x

[luwyv]

I think I just went trough the five stages of Theseus… I do not like Theseus

[albinobirb]

If Zagreus was a boss in Hades 2 it would definitely be another cerberus situation

[parakeet]

my dad was outside feeding the slugs cucumber slices earlier

[parakeet]

he was like ‘thats the same one from last night!’ (he was feeding the slugs cucumber slices last night too) im like man you’ve been spending too much time with the neighbourhood slugs if you can tell them apart

[ahagoat]

Friendship comes in many forms. Don’t get in the way of a man and his friendly slug friends

[parakeet]

you’re right sorry dad for my crimes

[byjove]

[parakeet]

This made me laugh cus it’s actually really accurate. Like one time he called me downstairs to see the ‘cutest thing ever’ and it was three slugs of varying sizes eating cat food and he said ‘they are a family!! Just like us!!’