I will either be a veteran, or a casualty, of the Clanker Wars

We need to build our own robot army that's open sourced and decentralized. Maybe it can all run on Linux lol

No. The GPLv2 is too restrictive the only way forward is THE GNU HURD

I'd rather destroy robots than kill humans in a fight for water.

Given that it's Boston Dynamics, these are likely to be cop bots, making the reality even WORSE than OP's dystopian scenario 😬

Joke's on you -- after you fight your way past the robots, you'll find that they deliberately poisoned the water on the way out, just so you couldn't have it.

hm.. must be the sequal of a game I played when I was in your age, where the end boss looked less threatening:

You think these things are running on Windows? Lol. I don't think you could get a picture of them all standing at the same time if they were.

I recently learned to make traditional Balearic slings. I'm ready.

Just go to Goodwill or other dirt cheap spots and load up on bed sheets. Toss over the top, voila, out of the game.

The GPLv2 is not restrictive enough in terms of allowing bad actors to circumvent it with DRM.

I'll send a Chinese robot to fight your American robot

Time to build one of these bad boys :)

EMP Rifle

I've yet to have anyone adequately explain how it's not going to rain in the future...

Cooling plants can use runoff water, salt water.... As long as we keep from polluting the fresh water too much it'll continue to be there.

A highly agile, deadly accurate, inexhaustable enemy with more strength and less vulnerabilities?

Bruh whaaaaaaat

Throw a bundle of thick rope on them. That will stop them in their tracks.

"For The Republic!"

... Do you think it rains enough for everyone to have drinking water now?

Secondly, air pollution can render rain unhealthy to drink. Aggressive environmental regulation, the type that people are currently staunchly trying to remove, are what made it so everyone stopped talking about acid rain.

Thirdly, climate change alters the growth of plants. The growth of plants mediates soil conditions, and soil conditions control water evaporation, drainage, and where rain falls. For an example, consider the dust bowl.

Finally....

As long as we keep from polluting the fresh water too much it'll continue to be there.

That's exactly one of the major concerns!
We've been polluting ground water sources for a while, and there's also a phenomenon where over pumping a ground water source can shift the water table and expose it to ground pollution that it was previously not exposed to.

you spellt "big worthless chunk of metal" wrong :p

This made me lul to hard

I see you've never gotten sand in a brushless motor, or seen how most of those robots move outside of a choreographed scene, or thought about their battery capacity. :)

All that aside, I think they were talking the morality of it.

10/10 I would rather fight one of those than a human.
Humans are quite durable, adaptive, and agile.
I twisted my ankle once doing a task I'd never done before. I adjusted my footing and carried on. Our current humanoid robots cannot adjust to something like that. They're just not designed in a way that makes them adaptable to changing physical layout.
I might be squishy, but I only have two places that are vulnerable to sand and they come with covers that usually work pretty well, and one of them is mostly redundant.

The robots will guard the rich humans with water. So you will have to kill the robots first. You might have to kill humans second.

I mean, if Ukraine can make their own drones so can you.

insert every Battlefront 2 clone call out

For the amusement of the rich .003%...

Kinda feel like we need to start nipping this in the bud now.

agreed. time to people's army up.

Hockey sticks don't work.

Ya funny eh? They need water too... The datacenters that operate them need their cooling :P

Guess we need to make compact EMPs or something to take these things out 🤷‍♂️

Billionaires aren't people

"Hostile D.A.W.G inbound!"
Honestly terrifying.

However many robots you can build, they can build a thousand more.

Let's stick to protocol droids and astromechs... for now...

I feel like a black powder weapon would be unironically good against these, like sure they would probably be armored for dealing with 5.56 ammo but what about grape shot?

Vode An intensifies

Fun fact during WW2 in North Africa Axis and Allied troops thought they were poisoning the water supplies as they retreated. It was actually contaminated due natural crude oil runoff and had been documented as far back as the Roman empire the OG one not Mussolini's crack fic.

I think I can take one of the bipeds. Their are agile but not that agile.

water ®️

Neither does kicking them.

C'mon guys we need to narrow down their weakness!

This is why I have a stick with a piece of string attached on me at all times.

For a moment the thumbnail looked like an old Egyptian painting. Like a depiction of new metal gods. Almost philosophical.

Lol no. They'll just hire some people to do it like they always have.
Create a fucked up world where a small handful of people control every resource. Everyone else has nothing. Give a few people a little more and they'll kill for it. Its never going to be robots, we'll be killing and be killed by our own kind.

We need to be fighting each other to survive so we don't have time to organise and fight them.

Me picking up my spare slippers I am ready

chanclas ready

This is (or was) the front lobby of their office. I used to work across the street from their old office, and actually got a tour of their labs a number of years ago. This is exactly what you saw when you walked in the door.

Just hack them, make 'em fight for you.

Kind of amazing how similar they are to the mechas (Metal Gears) in the Metal Gear series.

"Just like the simulations"

I’ve yet to have anyone adequately explain how it’s not going to rain in the future…

Its a pretty well covered topic if you're interested in an answer. Here's a TLDR version:

• increase in atmospheric temperature means more water is held in the air as vapor instead of liquid water (and its not as equally distributed around the Earth then) The atmosphere holds 7% more water vapor for every degree Celsius.
• the disruption in the water cycle from lack of snow pack to changes in global air currents means it doesn't rain nearly as often, but when it does its a monsoon. This means most of the water runs off because it can't be stored, and ground soil, baked by drought the rest of the time, doesn't absorb water either.
• at the far extreme, look at the planet Venus. Rising atmospheric temperatures boiled all water away to steam. So, yes, there is water on Venus, but not liquid or solid.

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