• Echo Dot
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      44 months ago

      I think the bronzer has a bad effect on them.

      • @Freefall@lemmy.world
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        54 months ago

        That is correct and not relevant. Being an ignorant twit that is pretty much the first lady and has likely always wanted robot guard dogs, and so suggested them to trump…is kinda on brand though.

  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    94 months ago

    Because not spend $10,000 on $1,000 worth of security camera system instead of helping poor people. Rich bastards.

  • @kautau@lemmy.world
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    434 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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      344 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

  • @nomous@lemmy.world
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    254 months ago

    The body is Rottweiler-sized, segmented into overlapping hard plates like those of a rhinoceros. The legs are long, curled way up to deliver power, like a cheetah’s. It must be the tail that makes people refer to it as a Rat Thing, because that’s the only ratlike part - incredibly long and flexible.

    The grass under the Rat Thing is beginning to smoke.

    “Careful. Supposedly they have really nasty isotopes inside,” Hiro says behind her… “A radioactive substance that makes heat. That’s its energy source.”

    “How do you turn it off?”

    “You don’t. It keeps making heat until it melts.”

    The body converges to a sharp nose. In the front it bends down sharply, and there is a black canopy, raked sharply like the windshield of a fighter plane. If the Rat Thing has eyes, this is where it looks out.

    As part of Mr. Lee’s good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido’s in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

  • 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.

  • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    194 months ago

    Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

    Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

      • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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        I’m sure the secret service is absolutely thrilled complicit with his horseshit

        • @RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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          74 months ago

          Probably.

          I have zero faith in our institutions. They’ll quietly do their jobs until the dictator has them purged.

          • @Snapz@lemmy.world
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            04 months ago

            And that, your statement, is russia’s actual victory prior to trump even being sworn in.

            • @RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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              34 months ago

              Russia may enjoy how the chips landed. But the wound is entirely self inflicted. 50 years since the US govt gave up all pretense of giving a fuck about anyone worth less than 8 figures. Stagnant wages. The opposition to Republican bullshit is center-right plutocrats with their heads so far up their own asses they cocked up a 2nd layup election against an insane serial criminal reality TV host by running to the right. Best we can do on Healthcare is fucking Romneycare. And the idea of opposing a for real no shit in living color full 3d genocide is met with cries of antisemitism and being told to get over it.

    • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      184 months ago

      Foreign adversaries already had Trump installed. Why would they need to go through extra work.

      Hell - the new Director of Intelligence is a Russian asset.

    • @800XL@lemmy.world
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      14 months ago

      These things are communicating by radio. Whether it’s wifi or 4G/5G modem, either can be disabled easily with a raspberry pi and some software.

    • @perestroika@lemm.ee
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      44 months ago

      Level 3000 hack: compromise security with drone fleas that jump onto drone dogs.

      Level 9000 hack: join the pack with a drone attack dog.

    • @SquatDingloid@lemmy.world
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      74 months ago

      It looks like a fun and fulfilling thing to hit with my car.

      Those little fuckers creeped me out ever since the black mirror episode when they were turned into automated murder dogs