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@cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months ago

‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?

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‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?

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On patrol at Mar-a-Lago, robotic dogs have their moment
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Robotic dogs are helping law enforcement protect President-elect Donald Trump at his Florida residence.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/59578

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  • AmidFuror
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    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.

    • @Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de
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      29•8 months ago

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

      • Nightwatch Admin
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        5•8 months ago

        Ahhh another Michel Lotito connoisseur!

      • FundMECFS
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        5•8 months ago

        This wikipedia page is true gold lol:

        Lotito holds the record for the ‘strangest diet’ in the Guinness Book of Records. He was awarded a brass plaque by the publishers to commemorate his abilities. He ate his award.[3]

    • @riodoro1@lemmy.world
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      12•8 months ago

      They fucking won.

  • @robocall@lemmy.world
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    129•8 months ago

    you have 20 seconds to comply

  • @felixwhynot@lemmy.world
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    93•8 months ago

    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

    • @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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      62•8 months 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

      • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        16•8 months ago

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

    • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      2•8 months ago

      Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?

  • @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    86•8 months ago

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

    • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      When Q-Anon spreads baseless pedophile ring accusations it’s ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.

      • @FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
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        69•8 months ago

        If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.

      • snooggums
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        53•8 months ago

        Trump is appointing a pedo to be Attorney General.

        Trump is a pedo.

        One is a lie is based on projection and the other is pointing out that pedos are pedos.

        • @Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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          20•8 months ago

          They have not been officially found guilty in the court of law [designed to protect them]—how dare you besmirch their good name

      • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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        40•8 months ago

        They’re just pals, nothing to see here.

      • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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        9•8 months ago

        If we want to win over Republican voters we need to appeal to their sensibilities.

        • @pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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          8•8 months ago

          They have no sensibilities if they voted for Trump.

        • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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          2•8 months ago

          I don’t think that calling someone a pedophile is any more convincing than calling them a nazi. If anything, that’ll just make them dig their heels deeper.

          • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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            10•8 months ago

            Ok but what if they are a pedophile and/or a fascist?

            • @MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world
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              7•8 months ago

              All the evidence points to them being both a nazi & pedophile.

            • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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              1•8 months ago

              Well I mean you can go around calling them fascists all you want. That already got you Trump twice but maybe 3rd time is the charm.

          • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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            1•8 months ago

            But pedophiles are something they’re preprogrammed to hate.

            • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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              Do you think they’re going to accept that he is one when the accusation is coming from someone on the left? I doubt it.

              • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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                1•8 months ago

                That’s valid. But if they won’t listen to us, what hope do we have if fixing this

                • @Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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                  I don’t think it’s that they don’t listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it’s done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you’re far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.

  • @Red_October@lemmy.world
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    83•8 months ago

    Because time travellers keep appearing with guns?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      19•8 months ago

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

  • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    68•8 months ago

    Well here we are, with all the signs of everything going as badly as possible fully present. Goddamn evil robot sentries guarding the fascist dictator-wannabe’s personal luxury habitat. At least down there, if one of those things malfunctions and hurts somebody it would have to be one of the worst people around.

    This is certainly not the future I dreamed of as a child and young man.

    • @prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
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      21•8 months ago

      The adults sold us a future they were determined to destroy before it could ever come to fruition.

  • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    60•8 months ago

    Shitty ass movie life

  • @IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    • SkaveRat
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      6•8 months ago

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

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        • SkaveRat
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          T.E.L.L? Did you watch Travelers? I think thats the only place where I heard that term

          yup, that was a reference

    • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      3•8 months ago

      When they send over these time travelers, they’re not sending their best…

  • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    This is one of my favorite Black Mirror episodes. God help us.

    • @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Metalhead? I really didn’t get the twist of it.

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

        • @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          But it was

          Tap for spoiler

          Teddy bears or something if I remember

          Is the twist that they represent hope which is something they guard?

          • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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            4•8 months ago

            It was probably just “goods” in general. A warehouse of various goods. And this was one innocent example

    • @Peter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.org
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      The moment when you seem them and suddenly everything turns black & white. Oh no.

  • @kautau@lemmy.world
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    44•8 months ago

    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

    • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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      35•8 months 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

  • qyron
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    39•8 months ago

    Because real dogs refuse the job.

  • @scumola@sh.itjust.works
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    38•8 months ago

    All these AI detection sentry robots are all trained on the same AI datasets. Just wear a black see-through hood over your face with a stop sign on your front and back and they’ll ignore you and probably stop walking when near you. You can waltz right in.

    • @Pulptastic@midwest.social
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      I want to Walz right in

    • @sauce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Or dress like a deer and it’ll just ignore you and keep going

      • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        Dress like Trump, attack it, then flee.

        Guess who’s now considered a threat to the AI?

  • @7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world
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    I feel an urge to go play Horizon Zero Dawn now.

    • @pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
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      You just reminded me I need to pick that back up.

  • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    26•8 months ago

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

    • @Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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      It can, but it comes out more like “ROOVE ARONG RITIZEN!”

  • snooggums
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    Probably because Trump hates real dogs.

    • Echo Dot
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      I think the bronzer has a bad effect on them.

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