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It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

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Submitted ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • biscuit@lemdro.id ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t we agree over 20 years ago on “toaster”?

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this guy knows what he’s frackin’ talking about.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Image

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      • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In FNV DLC, a certain Toaster would toast you for this comment.

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  • chocrates@piefed.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn't we agree on clanker recently?

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    • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can’t say that! That’s our word!

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Technically Star Wars coined it as a slur way the fuck back in one of the prequels. Shit ain’t even from 2025.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We all grew up wanting to be like Obi-Wan. Maybe a little too much.

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1000006523

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.

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    • Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh HK-47, you goofball

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  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ex Machina already showed that technology is unempathetic and will leave you to die for its own self-preservation.

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      • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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  • BillDaCatt@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clank!

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”

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      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There it is.

        My favorite game series of all time.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Absolutely not. Clank is a lovable character.

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    • mcbenavides85@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They will make music and take back the word as clanka.

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  • fishos@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hey guys, I found the Clanker!

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    clankers are human made & is not human, so doesn’t come with human rights and does not require basic respect.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are we so terrible as human beings we need to still find slurs for stuff in 2025?

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We can always refine our craft. As new groups emerge we need to adapt and find new ways to discriminate.

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  • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    finally the robots’ true purpose revealed. we created them so we could say more slurs lmao

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  • eksb@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    human-spawn

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  • Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    replicant

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    • r_deckard@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Skinjob.

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