It's called hentai, and it's art robotics.

Trade with Russia should be conducted on a whitelist basis. Trading partners that are necessary or can prove that they aren’t profiting from the Great Eurasian Drone War should be exempt from most sanctions.

Did you mean the First Eurasian Robot War?

It’s called metaphor

Who would win? 100 primitive Autobots vs 500 crackheads?

Although if you have both economy-wide labor shortages and shortages of infrastructure and resources to absorb immigrants or newborns (for instance due to aging plus supply constraints) there ain’t much of a choice.

And with the current supply chain issues, robots (unlike immigrants or local humans) don’t compete for food or housing.

I was born right as G1 faded from consciousness in my country, and by the time Bumblebee came back to my country I had graduated high school. So I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

Obviously it’s different for people with families, but as a single guy I’m just riding the wave in the birth decade of Optimus Prime! (Adam Savage met him recently on YouTube)

Every day I thank Allah for remaking me into an obsessive Transformers fan in 2019. I’m ready for this decade.

Killer robots may reduce combatant casualties, but I do not want to think about the damage to civilians or infrastructure that would come from some warlord or terrorist with a 100% loyal drone army limited in size only by his bank account.

Ideally killer robots and drones would be used in bot vs. bot jousting to reduce casualties, but I have no doubt that certain countries will use them against civilians or infrastructure. The goal of war is to incapacitate your opponent, not to defeat them like a Pokémon rival.

We’re watching the First Great Robot War unfold in real time. How I wish I was not a Transformers character.

Friendship ended with robot loot boxes

Robot trucks are new best friend

The point of war isn’t to win a sporting contest but to incapacitate the enemy. These will likely be used against infrastructure or worse against civilians if they force a faster surrender. An absolutely loyal drone army is capable of incredible evil if it falls into the wrong hands.

Didn’t Amazon bail on these? Or is that just due to the recessionary environment in the USA?

Don’t shoot me. I’m just the guy who watched a Transformers movie back in 2019 (although technically this is more Go-Bot technology).

Imagine taking someone from 2019 and fast forwarding them into 2022. They would think they were either high or a science fiction character.

Roll with all this cartoon robo-car stuff imo. It’d be fun if GM relaunched their Camaro Transformers Special Edition with modern driver assistance features (and licensed voices!) too.

There needs to be more fun and cuteness in the world.

Why not both? Large parts of the northern USA and most of Europe have cars as well as walkable streets.

It seems like, with the exception of the COVID vaccine, nothing can be delivered on time anymore. What’s changed since the days of the space race and the Manhattan Project?

“Something’s Amish.”

> For example, Meckling said, many countries in continental and northern Europe have created institutions that allow policymakers to insulate themselves from pushback by voters or lobbyists or to pay off constituencies impacted by the transition. As a result, many of these countries have been more successful at absorbing the costs associated with transitioning to a clean energy system, such as investing in greater wind capacity or upgrading transmission grids.

Hopefully these institutions can be replicated in places with different origins. I really don’t want us going back to the days of Northern European cultural supremacy.