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If I was still in California, I'd be very tempted to get right in the face of devout computer touchers that still worship King Bazinga and laugh obnoxiously loud in their face in a way that might provoke a fistfight.

That's how I feel right now. For some reason, this many layers of blantant lies with no consequences and credulous techbros still buying into it sort of entertains me but also pisses me off enough that throwing hands, just once, might feel good.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their last "humanoid robot demo" was literally just a guy in a suit, now they're doing literally just a guy controlling waldoes, what progress

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even the fucking bazinga bus (that has no seatbelts) was being remotely operated by a guy blatantly standing like 20 feet away.

This is weak carnival shit that would make P.T. Barnum shake his head at the amateur hour cons... or just concede that they work because techbros are that fucking willfully ignorant and want to believe the Singularity(tm) will solve all their problems and make the poors go away.

My hate is pure.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Calvinist rapture eschatology for the new atheist crowd.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From AI to this shit its just the sequel to the Mechanical Turk but on a societal scale.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Burned down forests, dried up lakes, and the product is still made by invisible poor people trying to maintain the illusion.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

One of the best insults I ever saw sent toward my-hero was "Apartheid Willy Wonka."

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Mechanical YanKKKs

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tesla always fakes demos. Literally. Always. The first model S demo was a Mercedes with different body panels

This robotaxi thing? Same thing. I'd be willing to bet on it. The only thing that's surprising is that rubes keep falling for it.

https://dawnproject.com/teslas-history-of-faking-demonstration-videos/

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And just think, he's probably going to be part of Trump's government.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only silver lining to that would be that there would so many clumsy bazinga grifts with clunky and outright clownish decisions made from the top down that E~L~O~N might potentially self-sabotage his own apartheid police state and/or death camp aspirations with his own incompetence.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

honestly wondering if it's safer for everyone to have the Foolish Fash in charge, which is a wild thing to be thinking as the parent of a trans kid, but 🤷 here we are

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That event would make nice Hitman level.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's that one level in Miami where you can kill a techbro guy by messing with the identification system on the killbot he's pitching to the US military.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

New headcanon for the tech demo in Robert Cop 1 just dropped

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You drug the bartender controller asleep, then take control of his rig and make the mechanical bartender do something very cool

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I was thinking taking control of the loservan and then running over would be more spectacular.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Do you have any idea how often I have exactly this thought?

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

theyve been talking about doing this to replace baristas and waiters and stuff with cheaper 3rd world labor remotely for a long time now.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Really incredible that they're going for low-wage humanoid telerobots instead of just robotic arm baristas/bartenders (which actually work & exist, but presumably are too expensive & don't look like a slave).

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

theyve been talking about doing this to replace baristas and waiters and stuff with cheaper 3rd world labor remotely for a long time now.

From what I can tell, this bazinga tech isn't even replacing baristas or waiters and is just making them more invisible so they remotely operate a machine that makes misogynistic and racist techbros feel more comfortable. susie-baffled

[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's remote controlled, they can work from India, and they can be paid less

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It chills my blood how many Indian men in particular seem to idolize my-hero

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Amazing, we finally got a more advanced version of this guy and it only cost many millions of dollars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK6sqxT0ttQ

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] someone@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's really telling that all the batshit crazy scams that come from that asshole are always from the non-SpaceX companies he owns. Shotwell obviously knows how to manage her boss so he doesn't fuck things up for her.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SpaceX isn't publicly traded, there's no stock price to juice with lies

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

True, but SpaceX's entire premise of colonizing mars during our lifetime is potentially the most damaging lie that Elon pushes. Mars will not save us. No tech innovation is going to save us and Mars is never going to happen if we can't even take care of the planet that we have.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago

I am pissed for all the millions of kids (globally) who got into tech dreaming of changing the world only to find out that everything big tech promised was either a lie or is actually making the world worse off. Or worse still, that they wasted the very best years of their lives and took on crippling levels of debt for a computer science degree that is now worthless because capitalists have decided that training juniors doesn't maximize short term profits. Fuck capitalism.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So they can do Avatar shit? Or was OZ just behind the curtain?

Might have been cooler if he said this was human controlled via Starlink instead of A.I. otherwise he's got a knock off universal attraction.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

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

I KNEW IT. I feel vindicated