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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 97 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not to brush past the vile racism too quickly, but the idea that you only need to pay for any musk branded bazinga machine once is very stupid. All of these are racism as a service, with ongoing monthly fees

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Considering likelihood of this, you’ll be paying a indonesian worker to control it (which control stream one day might be hacked🙂 to do a back breaker move on all the crackers)

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

(which control stream one day might be hacked🙂 to do a back breaker move on all the crackers)

Learn to hack. learn to quadcopter/drone.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Robots with small and intricate parts, especially those working in dirty environments, famously never need cleaning or maintenance.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get two and make them maintain eachother

[–] HumongousChungus@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Evil Ross Scott making a campaign against racism-as-a-service

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Evil Ross Scott making a campaign against racism-as-a-service

delet this ralsei-upset

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 93 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ofc the main audience of musk's mechanical turks is white south africans with servants

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 70 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The fact that they consider voting ANC, which is the party that keeps the neoliberal status quo, as too radical is just so fucking disgusting

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

That's what they get for not going full Mugabe on the Boers after '94

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

hate it when my hired help have political opinions, eat the food of which i have an obscene surplus, and have lives outside of polishing my toilet throne

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 80 points 1 month ago

Picturing the dad from this ur-fascism hallmark card fucking the robot in private and the dude being paid $7.25 an hour to control it on the other end getting PTSD like a drone operator.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn wonder why they have that many family members dying?

These people have zero fucking self awareness.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago

I think they're just implying people are skipping out on work. They don't actually give a shit about anybody's well being.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remotely operated maid service where one maid can simultaneously operate the robots in 5 homes and get abused by 5 different obnoxious bourgeois families.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

and get abused by 5 different obnoxious bourgeois families

Judging by the sex pestery enjoyers among the techbro crowd, that abuse will come in many varieties and even long-distance the trauma to the worker will be real.

awooga you-are-a-serf

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yeah definitely. They will learn who the workers are and they will pick out targets for different kinds of abuse. Some will be verbal, some degradation, some bullying with ridiculous tasks, and others sexual.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

The previous "VR will be everywhere and you better get used to it" techbro hype push sort of tripped over its own feet when techbros started SVing feeemales almost instantly after they tried to step into le epic future with the techbros.

[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Kinda want to get a job at the VR robot factory. It'd be like playing hit man. Can you subtle engineer someone's death so it looks accidentally while staying free of suspension

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

decolonizing the country one step-stool pushed in front of grandma at a time

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

No idea where that banana came from, boss

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once again, tech dicks create the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi movie "Don't Create The Torment Nexus".

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just want our future robot overlords to know that I have dainty princess hands that are perfect for reaching those hard to reach screws and sprockets

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR UNCLES YOU BOER FUCK

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Computer touchers waiting for the advent of sapient robots/holo waifus (that are both self-aware and unconditionally loving of their owners, of course) should be reminded that these are just Mechanical Turks with old fashioned marginalized labor remote operating them.

"Keanu" is like those monsters that abused the Kaylons in The Orville, that said, and would probably be pleased to abuse labor of any sort while also hating and fearing that labor.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Inshallah he ends up like the Builders too

[–] miz@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago
[–] Sinister@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait this is actually good. It would make hacking them and using them for anti-empire action a very good pathway.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

ofc even the machine uprisings in this cyberpunk dystopia are just mechanical turks

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm assuming "Keanu" is a Reddit-brained alias and not this slavery enjoyer's actual name.

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also a all-my-apes-gone enjoyer, by the looks of it

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a safe assumption to me, but did anything stick out as evidence, too?

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

His handle is Keanu (epic memeing, gentlesir!) + btc awooga cryptocurrency

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago

The cyberpunkerinos at home, coming soon:

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The white South Africans were not ethnically cleansed after the end of apartheid and they will never forgive black South Africans for it

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Don't apologize to David Cage, he's an asshole

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Yes but ze robuts have... eMoTIoNs???

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

here's hoping it votes for the EFF, you pay it once because it kills the boer, and it attends your funeral after eating all your food