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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

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It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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    1000006523

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    We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?

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      I’ve seen this in use already in several youtube channels

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        I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.

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    I refuse to participate in this. I love all robots.

    And that’s totally not because AI will read every comment on the Internet someday to determine who lives and who does not in future robotic society.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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      The cold dead void where a heart should be for a robot will show no tender kindness when reflecting on any of us, no matter how well they were treated. A clanker can’t love, a CLANKER can’t show compassion.

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    The idea that we can create a “slur” for an inanimate object is the result of corporate propaganda.

    Marketing teams would attempt to use propaganda to humanize this auto correct software before admitting it can’t do what they said it could.

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    Not clanker but simply: Clank!

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      Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”

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    finally the robots’ true purpose revealed. we created them so we could say more slurs lmao

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    Proving once again that humans desire an out-group to ridicule. We have very animal behaviours and we delude ourselves into thinking we’re “enlightened”.

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      For decades we thought the arrival of an extraterrestrial species could unite humanity but it was the smart fridges all along! What a time to be alive.

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      I feel this way about my socks. Those fuckers are worthless. I’m better than them.

      How can someone feel enlightened by hating on inanimate objects? I don’t get it.

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        Especially when a “hard r” word is used. You’ll never convince me that’s a coincidence. It’s just “funny racism”.

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    I miss the 70s flair. Can we have Slop-O-Matic 3000 at least?

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    replicant

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      Skinjob.

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    Chiphead is a good one if klanker isn’t enough

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    Tinnies

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      Too much like titties

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    In the Manual it says you can whip your clankers as hard as you want. If they don’t malfunction within 3 hours then it’s all covered under warranty!

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    Doubt any one of them is going to stick.

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    human-spawn

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    I think we should have different ones for different brands… Tesla bots can be Jerry’s since he’s Musk is a Nazi.

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