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