3w ago

I tried to explain to my parents that the new delivery robots at their supermarket are snitches but they think they're "cute"

How do I convince them the robots are in league with the feds

They are nearly 70 so if you can find an analogy to the miner's strike it would help

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They are cute.
But they're also police informants which way outweighs the cuteness.
Jus tell them they're robotic pinkertons.
- I would have gon Scabs but both work
Your average person won’t care until they are getting fined for speeding courtesy of the delivery robot camera footage.
- This won't happen because nowhere gives a shit about enforcing speedlimits.
  
  you think so, but enforcing speed limits, parking violation, and other crap is revenue collection.
What makes them snitches?
- They're covered in cameras and the companies that run them are happy to share the footage with the pigs
  
  The only correct thing to do with these is break them down and strip them for parts
  But yes inevitably they have gps sensors and stuff I am sure
  
  They fucking make a profit by selling data to the feds. It's part of the business plan, I'm sure.
  
  Then focus on the companies’ actions instead of the robots.
- it ain't a love for the game
Get yourself a portable farady cage and you've got a free drone.
tell them robots are Russian and/or Chinese.
- If they’re not Chinese already they’re Russian to be! :fozzy-bear-shining:
But they are cute.
Im glad my roomba is chinese, I can listen to him edge across my house with satisfaction. Thanks The Goon!
- Where is this from?
  
  First season of Psycho-Pass, which is very very good.
  I do not recommend the other seasons. Think of it as a standalone thing though and it's fantastic.
This shit sucks
Don't know if they're Brits or not, but Roger Windsor, the chief executive of the NUM was later suspected of being a spy as documents that crossed his desk were regularly passed on to the police and Tim Bell - Margaret Thatcher's advisor, advertising executive, and supsected removed- who also claimed to have a mole in the TUC. The intelligence services also had either the same or a different informant in Arthur Scargill's inner circle codenamed Silver Fox.
The likes of Roger Windsor were active within the miner's movement and the talks over ending the strike and certainly took on helpful roles. But their other purpose was to gather documents, gossip, and intelligence to be used against the miners in negotiations by both the government and intelligence services who were also tapping people's phones.
A good way to get people to accept something or someone they otherwise wouldn't is to make it/them useful to people who would otherwise by suspicious of it/them.

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