Didn't we agree on clanker recently?
It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots
Submitted 1 month ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://text.npr.org/2025/08/06/nx-s1-5493360/clanker-robot-slur-star-wars
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chocrates@piefed.world 1 month ago
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You can’t say that! That’s our word!
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Oof with the hard r and all huh
chocrates@piefed.world 1 month ago
This is gonna haunt me one day, just wait.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh HK-47, you goofball
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I refuse to participate in this. I love all robots.
And that’s totally not because AI will read every comment on the Internet someday to determine who lives and who does not in future robotic society.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ex Machina already showed that technology is unempathetic and will leave you to die for its own self-preservation.
ech@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
will leave you to die for its own self-preservation, no matter how kind you are
Should any creature sacrifice their self-preservation because someone is kind?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The cold dead void where a heart should be for a robot will show no tender kindness when reflecting on any of us, no matter how well they were treated. A clanker can’t love, a CLANKER can’t show compassion.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Technically Star Wars coined it as a slur way the fuck back in one of the prequels. Shit ain’t even from 2025.
sixty@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
KOLANAKI
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We all grew up wanting to be like Obi-Wan. Maybe a little too much.
Sertou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve seen this in use already in several youtube channels
Sertou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The idea that we can create a “slur” for an inanimate object is the result of corporate propaganda.
Marketing teams would attempt to use propaganda to humanize this auto correct software before admitting it can’t do what they said it could.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Proving once again that humans desire an out-group to ridicule. We have very animal vehaviours and we delude ourselves into thinking we’re “enlightened”.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Hey guys, I found the Clanker!
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For decades we thought the arrival of an extraterrestrial species could unite humanity but it was the smart fridges all along! What a time to be alive.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I feel this way about my socks. Those fuckers are worthless. I’m better than them.
How can someone feel enlightened by hating on inanimate objects? I don’t get it.
fishos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Especially when a “hard r” word is used. You’ll never convince me that’s not a coincidence. It’s just “funny racism”.
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clank!
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
There it is.
My favorite game series of all time.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Absolutely not. Clank is a lovable character.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are we so terrible as human beings we need to still find slurs for stuff in 2025?
Auth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We can always refine our craft. As new groups emerge we need to adapt and find new ways to discriminate.
janus2@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
finally the robots’ true purpose revealed. we created them so we could say more slurs lmao
mhague@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the Manual it says you can whip your clankers as hard as you want. If they don’t malfunction within 3 hours then it’s covered under warranty!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I miss the 70s flair. Can we have Slop-O-Matic 3000 at least?
eksb@programming.dev 1 month ago
human-spawn
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Chiphead is a good one if klanker isn’t enough
sixty@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Tinnies
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Too much like titties
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
clankers are human made & is not human, so doesn’t come with human rights and does not require basic respect.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Silis (pronounced “sillies”)
Like silicon.
Object@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Doubt any one of them is going to stick.
plyth@feddit.org 1 month ago
Finally white supremacy feelings for everybody without a bad consciousness …
with the usual threats
We have a social need right now to respond to the proliferation of AI, especially when AI is taking human jobs, especially when they’re replacing online creators," Aleksic said.
and promises
In Dorr’s view, which he describes as optimistic, this creates a chance for a world in which humans will be free from toil.
Why not do something new?
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think we should have different ones for different brands… Tesla can be Jerry’s since he’s Musk is a Nazi.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why does BJs still have those stupid robots riding around the store? It was cute the first month but now they just trigger my anxiety.
biscuit@lemdro.id 1 month ago
Didn’t we agree over 20 years ago on “toaster”?
Nima@leminal.space 1 month ago
this guy knows what he’s frackin’ talking about.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 month ago
Toaster. You put bread in, you push a button, you get toast out.
Simple. Stupid. Cheap machine. Capable of doing one thing well.
It’s a great insult.
tabular@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Your toasters do it well? Mine required trial an error to determine what number it should be set to, and the result is uneven.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 month ago
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saltesc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Clanker is so ick. Especially for protocol services like an AI or bot where the only moving parts are the fans and pumps server-side.
Toaster is cool, but describes an early model of robot in Battlestar Galactica because it had bread slots looking eyes. I sill like it though because they generate ridiculous hear doing a simple task.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In FNV DLC, a certain Toaster would toast you for this comment.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
when I first saw this reply, it was only a few minutes old and I think or I hope I was the 2nd or 3rd upvote on it. Now its the most popular comment on this and I am glad to have been in consensus on it.
Toasters is the best phrase for this
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What is my purpose ?