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AK-Is-Harmless — Be Kind to Robots
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Published: 2016-06-15 20:49:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2162; Favourites: 60; Downloads: 1
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It’s easy to hate people with their stupid faces and their stupid mouths saying stupid things, but it’s very hard to hate robots. They do so much for us without complaining. They make our cars and clean our floors and babysit our children with hardly any errors at all.
A few months ago my wife accidentally bought an automated garbage can online. She was suffering from sleep deprivation and insomnia (always a dangerous combination), and in the wee hours she thought buying this thing would be a good idea. We didn’t return it because it seemed like a cool device, especially for my notoriously germaphobic wife; the lid opens when you wave your hand over a motion sensor, so your delicate flesh doesn’t have to come into contact with whatever toxic waste you’ve got brewing in the garbage can’s belly. It didn’t take long before I started calling it our “robot” around the kids, thanking it every time it opened its lid for me. My 3-year-old has latched on to this idea and now thanks the garbage can (“mommy’s robot”) whenever he throws something away.
I apologize for the garish green of the first panel. It doesn’t look so bright in person, but once it was scanned it went nuclear.
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This first appeared on Defenestration www.defenestrationmag.net on Friday, June 10th.
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Comments: 54
There should be a law against this kind of waste.
---AK
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Winslow's smile at the end is like "ok I'll go do it"
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If it was any other character, they'd be upset or disappointed somehow. That's why she had to be talking to Winslow. I feel like he says stuff around Reya JUST to hear that kind of reaction.
---AK
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There's some good flesh-and-blood people out there... But damn is it hard to find them!
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Oh no, I never thanked our robot rubbish bin! 
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Oh, you're doomed.
---AK
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Remember people, do what the title says and you might not get enslaved when they take over.
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This will definitely probably work.
---AK
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I tried thanking Siri once. Alas, it just attempted to interpret my "thanks" as another request and got puzzled.
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Siri wasn't programmed to recognize good manners.
---AK
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Some women just want to watch the world burn.
---AK
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She speaks a whole lotta truth.
---AK
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that she does. besides the humans are asking for it. if not the robots the aliens will get them.
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True stories are the best stories.
---AK
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Since amiibo can learn how to fight, maybe I shouldn't just let them gather dust...
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Especially when you watch the news a lot
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No argument there!
---AK
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It's good to be prepared.
---AK
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HA! There is an advanced elevator in the Wells Fargo building across from my wife's law firm,
and I go over there to pick up breakfast a couple times a week. I always thank it when I get
on. Y'know, in case the robot revolution happens, I want it to remember I was polite and
respectful. I, for one, welcome our new machine overlords. XD
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You gotta put in the work now, man! Those robots have good memories!
---AK
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Support that idea wholeheartedly machine overlord being mad at u is likely a bad idea.
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Especially when the nanomachines make their debut. >.<;
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Well, good to see there's SOMETHING Rena doesn't hate.
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She hates people, but I don't think she hates inanimate objects.
---AK
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How does she feel about cartoon characters?
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Well, she IS a cartoon character... so they get lumped in with other people.
---AK
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And bread, she hates bread.
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