Didn't we agree on clanker recently?
It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots
Submitted 2 months 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 2 months ago
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You can’t say that! That’s our word!
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oof with the hard r and all huh
chocrates@piefed.world 2 months ago
This is gonna haunt me one day, just wait.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh HK-47, you goofball
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Ex Machina already showed that technology is unempathetic and will leave you to die for its own self-preservation.
ech@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
KOLANAKI
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We all grew up wanting to be like Obi-Wan. Maybe a little too much.
Sertou@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We already have “clankers” thanks to Clone Wars. What more do we need?
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve seen this in use already in several youtube channels
Sertou@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like that both “toasters” and “clankers” are hard “r” slurs.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Hey guys, I found the Clanker!
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Clank!
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
There it is.
My favorite game series of all time.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Absolutely not. Clank is a lovable character.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are we so terrible as human beings we need to still find slurs for stuff in 2025?
Auth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We can always refine our craft. As new groups emerge we need to adapt and find new ways to discriminate.
janus2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
finally the robots’ true purpose revealed. we created them so we could say more slurs lmao
mhague@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I miss the 70s flair. Can we have Slop-O-Matic 3000 at least?
eksb@programming.dev 2 months ago
human-spawn
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Chiphead is a good one if klanker isn’t enough
sixty@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Tinnies
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Too much like titties
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
clankers are human made & is not human, so doesn’t come with human rights and does not require basic respect.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Silis (pronounced “sillies”)
Like silicon.
Object@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doubt any one of them is going to stick.
plyth@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Didn’t we agree over 20 years ago on “toaster”?
Nima@leminal.space 2 months ago
this guy knows what he’s frackin’ talking about.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
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saltesc@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
In FNV DLC, a certain Toaster would toast you for this comment.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
What is my purpose ?