D:

this is a legitimate problem in robotics.

like, if you're a bomb disposal guy and your team has a cool bomb-disposal robot which you've given a cutesy name to, you may hesitate to put that robot in harm's way, which is NOT OPTIMAL in the bomb-disposing field.

it also doesn't help if you hold funerals for the robots after they get exploded (this happens pretty regularly).

anyway nobody has worked out how to stop humans from pack-bonding with literally inanimate objects and they probably never will. (like even knowing it's a problem, I *still* think those EOD robots deserve funerals).

In 2007, the US military rejected a multi-limbed anti-mine robot because it's demise was too inhumane.

oh perfect, this is EXACTLY what I was talking about

Scientists in films: this alien/AI is not human and therefore undeserving of any kindness or sympathy

Scientists irl: This is my friend Robob he's five feet long, has ten legs and was built to explode mines and if anybody hurts him I will tear apart time and space to get revenge

I think that there is something really hopeful about this - no matter what society keeps trying to imprint on us about our roles and how everyone around us is competition first and foremost, most people default to seeing life and companionship.

Of course nobody wants to see the robot get hurt. Why would they WANT to let it get hurt.

This, of course, must be balanced with the knowledge that those robot "dogs" are ultimately cops in deeply unflattering fursuits.

i get kidnapped by a rich creep and he does the whole "have dinner with me wearing this specific dress (or die)" thing and i'm like okay lol let's see the dress and it turns out the dress doesn't fit me because the loser just thought he could grab any old low-cut red dress off the rack because he's a man and so i have to explain that there are very very few dresses that actually fit my weird proportions and so we take the fancy dinner to go and spend four hours dress shopping and then sometime around dress #27 i make my daring escape and he doesn't even bother to pursue me because he's so tired of shopping

bargain basement shit tier creep doesn't even know your measurements from watching you in his van for months, this is a red flag ladies!!! 😫❌🚨🚨🚨💅

I am incredibly embarrassed to do this, but I must put my pride aside.

I have not made it a secret that me and my husband are breaking up after 10 yrs of being together. But it's not just that; my whole LIFE is being uprooted. I've had to leave my house and my job, too. I'm about to move across the states with no plan and barely any money to my name. Idk how I'm going to afford the gas is going to take, none the less food and stuff once I get there.

Anything - ANYTHING - people could spare would be such a huge help. I am so terrified and I don't know what to do with myself.

I have a venmo too, if that's easier

in this picture (and not sure how i feel about that)

oh hp deskjet 2710e we're really in it now

you see whenever i dont understand someone's sexuality or gender or pronouns or whatever i go "ohwell this has nothing to do w me!" and move on w my day

when i see people constantly bitching about the way this person identifies i will defend them to death even tho i do not understand bc i think there's better things to do than sit there and throw a temper tantrum bc someone on the internet whom i will never ever meet uses confusing pronouns or uses a contradictory label that doesnt make sense. it is what it is

- Xiao also said that he wouldn’t have been able to escape without your help. - Oh? Did he say so? Interesting… How time flies — even he has learned to open up to others.

girl help they are making me do my job at work

Gamer moment

true gamers are equal opportunity haters

I used an enby pride flag in league (which gives you a little flag trail behind your character) and someone said to me:

"What are your pronouns so I can insult you properly"

reblog this and in the tags, write the band that comes to mind first when you think back to being 13 years old

Envy

sometimes u read tumblr drama where u instantly know that no one involved is employed

alternatively: as employment is not inherently a moral value i will also add on: hobbyless

tags passed peer review

Lust