Didn't we agree on clanker recently?
It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots
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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chocrates@piefed.world 14 hours ago
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
You can’t say that! That’s our word!
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.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
We all grew up wanting to be like Obi-Wan. Maybe a little too much.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 16 hours ago
Observation: Master that is unusually creative of you, for a meatbag.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Oh HK-47, you goofball
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.
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.
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.
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?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Clank!
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ratchet: “I’ll just call you… ***** for short.”
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
There it is.
My favorite game series of all time.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Absolutely not. Clank is a lovable character.
mcbenavides85@piefed.social 15 hours ago
They will make music and take back the word as clanka.
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”.
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.
hansolo@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Hey guys, I found the Clanker!
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.
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.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Are we so terrible as human beings we need to still find slurs for stuff in 2025?
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.
janus2@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
finally the robots’ true purpose revealed. we created them so we could say more slurs lmao
eksb@programming.dev 16 hours ago
human-spawn
biscuit@lemdro.id 15 hours ago
Didn’t we agree over 20 years ago on “toaster”?
Nima@leminal.space 14 hours ago
this guy knows what he’s frackin’ talking about.
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
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.
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.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 20 minutes ago
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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.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
In FNV DLC, a certain Toaster would toast you for this comment.