cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1295file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmy.worldbbc@rss.ponder.cat
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minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoCoo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoThat’s a unique approach to suicide-by-cop
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 hours agoThe ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed. My approach to the armed ones, particularly the TASER-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoThey are also not autonomous. They have armed secret service agents very nearby. If the sensors on the dog alert them, trigger happy armed guards will come.
Coo at them. Pet them. Call them a good doggie. Drop a treat on them, all in defiance.
That’s a unique approach to suicide-by-cop
The ones at Mar-A-Lago are unarmed.
My approach to the armed ones, particularly the TASER-equipped ones used by some US law enforcement departments, would be very different.
They are also not autonomous. They have armed secret service agents very nearby. If the sensors on the dog alert them, trigger happy armed guards will come.