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
we are killing the dog
NO.
ALL DOGS ARE PRECIOUS.
Even robot ones.
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
That’s not a robot dog.
It’s a four-legged robot spider.
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
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?
And don’t forget that scary af episode of Black Mirror, Metalhead. Robot dogs can fuck right off.
They created a weapon, told you to call it a friend and watched as your empathy became their trap and tool.
Real life dogs are oftentimes weapons as well
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.
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.
If it ain’t three laws safe, it ain’t friend shaped.
I had quite a few Patrons knocked off the roll this time around. If you got declined or a fraud warning or something, please be patient and try to stay on top of it.
For some reason, Patreon appears to have moved its payment processor to Ireland. This is causing some American banks to see payments routed internationally and they’re flagging the charges as fraudulent.
Just a giant damn mess.
I’ve lost about 1/5 of my Patreon income due to this mess, and I’ve gotten of WAY easier than most artists. Please check your subscriptions and transactions!!
I’m honestly done with Patreon on this point. I’m looking into some other subscription style options, but I might just stop subscription stuff in general for awhile because it has never worked super well with the type of creator I am.
It is probably continuing fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, at which I believe Patreon banked. Since SVB was bought by JP Morgan Chase, this makes their decision to move to an Irish payment processor even more baffling, especially since Ireland is EU and there are now likely privacy data compliance rule issues Patreon has just created for itself.
My name is Jesse, I’m a disabled trans man, and I really need help to move away from my unsupportive family and a state that’s becoming increasingly hostile. I have a place to go, I just need to get there by the end of the year.
If you can help, I would appreciate it more than I can say.
Thank you so, so much to everyone who’s donated! I can’t believe it, you’re all wonderful and I appreciate you so much!
Hey friends! We’re about 20% of the way to our goal, and that helps an incredible amount already!
For those of you who missed my first promo, this is my very good friend Jesse who I’ve known for about a decade and whose health, family and housing situation, frankly, terrifies me. So we’re fundraising to get him the medical and moving help he needs to be able to move in with me ASAP.
If you were looking for a way to help save trans lives, this is something you can do that will save a life.
Thank you everyone who has contributed and shared so far, you’ve already helped immensely.
Hey everyone!
First of all, thank you so much to everyone who has been able to help so far!
We are a little over 1/3rd of the way to our goal, with about half the time left. If you can donate even a bit, it will materially help one of my dearest friends escape a dangerous situation. This really is an every dollar counts scenario, so thank you all very much.
If you’re able to spread the word, that is also extremely helpful, thank you as well.
Gallus, you’ve put this on RFM, haven’t you? I don’t think i’ve seen it?
The EU is doing a big survey for LGBTQ people who live in the EU about how it is for them right now. That’s the kind of survey that’s used for official reports and for laws so it’s super important that it has as many people taking it as possible. You can take it in every EU language. (You can change the language in the top right corner) Share it with your friends!
Its a good survey that uses respectful language. I just took it. It should be said that the survey is also open to people in Albania, North Macedonia and Serbia.
Just a reminder that, if you are supporting original creators, you need to remember that they’re usually either single people or very small teams. Do not message them repeatedly in 24 hours because they haven’t answered a question about your order yet. They’ll get to your message when they get to it and you treating them like a corporate entity with dozens of staff that can immediately answer messages is a good way to get yourself blocked.
This is also a good idea if you are working with a service provider (e.g. dog trainer), who is half of a duo act, and whose cell phone serves as the company’s.
Texting me 10 times in a day to find out when we can have a FaceTime call is a good way to make sure you get shoved to the bottom of the ‘to do’ list.
There is a recall for albuterol inhalers that don’t deliver adequate doses in the midst of an albuterol shortage. These companies are so wasteful and greedy that they used faulty batches of valves that didn’t seal properly and allowed an already finite medication that saves lives be further wasted until entire batches of said medication became unsafe for use.
the batch numbers are IB20045, IB20055, IB20056, IB20057, IB20059, and IB20072.
Noticed something a little funky in the world around you and want to figure out what’s up? Especially if there might be something you ought to be doing about it? Not sure what information sources to trust these days? If you’re in the US, federal agencies like NOAA, USGS, EPA and more collect massive amounts of scientific data every day, much of which is publicly available online - if you know where to look.
A PDF version with clickable links is available for free on my itchio page (quakeandquiver); I’ll add a direct link in a reblog.
yes. I mean, I know I like Sir PTerry’s (GNU ) prose work better than Gaiman’s prose work (and the opposite when it comes to graphic media), but, really, the last 10 minutes of the series really helped me understand -WHY.-
So D&D black dragons are supposed to live in swamps, right? Pretty amphibious, live in swamps, lair in…
caves. With a main entrance and a back entrance.
In swamps.
I really have trouble with the idea that there’s these dragon-sized caves in an area with such a high water table, y'know? We have to go through miles of swamp to reach this lair, it’s not one little boggy place in a mountain valley otherwise filled with nice caves. And the cave has to have two entrances, too? I can believe in dragons, but not this geology.
So… maybe it’s not geology. Because a lair in a marshy place with exacting design specifications sounds a lot like a totally natural thing –
A beaver lodge.
So now I have this new image of black dragons industriously gnawing down giant trees to construct their mighty swamp lairs, and I am so much happier.
He’s building his lodge.
To anyone worried about this eliminating the fear factor, don’t worry; instead, imagine a lair full of sharp spikes formed from logs. Imagine previous, less fortunate treasure-hunters, dragonslayers, etc. being impaled on those spikes for your party to see.
That’s brilliant! I’d done a dragon with shrike behavior in my game before, but it was a red dragon. I had the wrong species. We do know that black dragons like to let their food decompose a bit before tucking in. So they put in on a meat hook for a while.
I adore the newly emerging study of the ecology beavering swamp dragon.
Now - how would one create a suitable habitat in the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick [Swamp] Dragons? Would the decorative pond finally be out to use?
