• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    My wife’s cousins dairy farm has one of these robots. It’s like a big roomba that dispenses hay. The cows love that machine lol. He also has an automated cow hugger and cows walk up to get squeezed by this machine. It’s pretty cool.

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      Okay, I joked in another comment, but I have to know more about this cow-hugging machine!

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        Wtf why do all the good jobs keep getting take by fucking robots.

        I don’t want to dick with excel sheets, pay me to hug cows.

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        There’s a phone near me and they have two rotating brushes. They look like the things that wash your car in a drive in car wash, except with bristles rather than floppy mops.

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        You’re right. It’s horrible and evil and I should disavow both my wife and her cousin for participating in such a thing and burn the entire thing down and free the cows 🤡

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    I was skeptical - really skeptical. Then I read the article and cheered. Thank you.

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    Imagine believing that carnists profiting from torture, murder, and environmental destruction give a shit about happier cows.

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    There have been robots for cows for years. It‘s the SHIT PUSHER ROBOT. It‘s pushing away the straw and shit all the day. That’s useful automation imho.

    Edit: And a feeding machine is know for years as well. Same with the hugging brushes.

    Call it a „robot“ and it gives you an article in the IEEE magazine and promotes your startup. What a shit show.

    Editedit: Ok, read the article. It’s more a „Hey look how much automation is in a cow barn already“

    The life of a cow becomes much more free and comfortable. Somehow it reminds me of the life of a human working and living in a modern society. (Not sure, if we recognize the fences around us and still call it freedom)

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      That’s not its job. It’s supposed to grab you. And hug you. Like a cow…