Chinese Army Shows Off New "Robodogs," Robots Armed With Automatic Rifles

The age of man is over. The day of the robot dog is here.

China has showcased dystopian machine-gun carrying robot battle dogs in the latest sign of its rapidly growing military capabilities.
The pack of remote-controlled "robodogs", equipped with automatic rifles on their backs, was unveiled during joint Golden Dragon military drills with Cambodia earlier this month.
Their handlers demonstrated only their walking capabilities, not their shooting abilities, but the existence of the robot battle dogs highlights China's race to develop smart unmanned technology that could prove to be a game-changer on modern battlefields.
The intensive use of drones in the Ukraine conflict has signalled the changing face of warfare as militaries embrace more sophisticated weaponry.
According to Axios, the robot appeared to be made by Unitree, a Chinese company that advertises its products online for thousands of dollars.

Chinese defense contractor, demonstrates drone-deploying an armed robodog. pic.twitter.com/o0HEDnG8YX
— Project TABS (@ProjectTabs) June 29, 2023

All is not yet lost. In between hiring drag performers for the officer's mess, the US military says they're working on robotic warfighters, too.

It's just that their important research into cutting-edge pronouns is their current highest priority.

Last month, it was disclosed that United States Marines special operators were testing robotic dogs armed with guns based on sentry automatic machine guns. Robotic quadrupeds have become increasingly common across the US military in recent years, for everything from bomb disposal to perimeter patrols, but arming them is a newer development.

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
A still image of a robotic quadruped armed with a remote weapons system, captured from a video provided by Onyx Industries. pic.twitter.com/9z1Qm05INL
— Black Hole (@konstructivizm) May 9, 2024

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Britain has its own initiative, too. It has been testing Boston Dynamics's "Spot" quadruped as well as Ghost Robotics's V60 for future use alongside ground troops. Speaking about the V60, Dave Swan, the lead engineer of FCG Expeditionary Robotics Centre of Expertise, said the "quadruped offers increased situational awareness for soldiers on the ground", with the "potential to act as the eyes and ears for soldiers on the front line". With a gun on its back, however, one of these machines becomes more than a sensor array.

Below, the unarmed version of Spot and the V60.

Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot.

Now has an independent mind using ChatGPT.

Spot also can talk and is being tested as a tour guide.

pic.twitter.com/nuZZyorLa7
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 27, 2023

The Vision 60 is the latest offering from Ghost Robotics. It's a quadruped robot witha approximately 3.5 hours of battery life and can travel up to 12.5 km on a single charge. The platform walks at 1 m/s (3.6 km/h). The medium-sized weighs 20 kg https://t.co/Ha1kFNgLah pic.twitter.com/JdhYeQhdKZ
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 16, 2019

"Trials have previously taken place with robotic dogs," said a Ministry of Defence spokesman, exploring "the potential they hold for delivering mission-critical supplies, scoping out hazardous areas, or performing combat tasks that are deemed too dangerous for humans."

This was kind of obvious, but as I wrote a long time ago, the world's militaries were looking at the incredible and very cheap performance of commercially-available drones in the Ukraine dropping explosives directly on to vehicles or defensive positions and taking notes.

The conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza have proved that wars will increasingly be fought by unmanned machines. "Too dangerous for humans" might justify any number of robot uses. Drones have been a decisive presence on the battlefield since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022, mostly in the air. There is no shortage of footage of deadly, remote-controlled drones trundling across fields towards tanks and armoured personnel carriers, before delivering decisive blows. In Gaza, meanwhile, Israeli forces have been using quadruped robots to clear tunnels and other cramped locations.
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In Singapore they were deployed to enforce social distancing during the pandemic. But it is not only governments that are finding use for them. Throwflame, an American firm, offers a flamethrower-wielding robot dog, called the Thermonator, for sale on its website, priced at $9,420 (Ł7,420) and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled.

Now that's what I'm talking about.

"Thermonator" flame-throwing robot dog is now available for the public to buy pic.twitter.com/8A1eILdHdj
— Human Nature (@Human101Nature) April 28, 2024

This video is even better.

The translation:

Throwflame's Thermonator, the first flame-throwing robot dog, is now on sale for $9,420
It has a range of 30 meters.
It is controlled by phone, has a one-hour battery, lidar mapping and an onboard camera.
*Includes world domination.

Don't worry -- we can still take them in hand-to-hand.

(Fake video, of course.)

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 The age of man is over. The day of the robot dog is here.

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Skipped right over the age of the orc, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

2 Robo Dog....that would make a cool movie.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 12, 2024 04:33 PM (QNSds)

3
Alternative Post Title:

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at July 12, 2024 04:33 PM (Cgv8o)

4 I stared down the robot dog, knowing that my father would milk my death for every ounce of political capital it was worth.

Posted by: Things Beau Said at July 12, 2024 04:33 PM (Y8lzz)

5 luff! luff!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (Jh5b+)

6 From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…

...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (eYoxG)

7
Didn't Robocop's successor-robot end up killing a bunch of innocent civilians?

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (Cgv8o)

8 Come soon Jesus...

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (ed49l)

9
Little tough to eat, though. Need a ton of MSG.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (KKnQx)

10 Next it will be sharks with lasers, eh?

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (PCK5/)

11
The age of man is over. The day of the robot dog is here.

===============

Beware of how you behave and pose when you think no one's looking. You don't want to be fossilized as that guy from Pompeii who was wanking off when the volcano erupted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (I87yH)

12 How are they barbecued?

Posted by: Peaches at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (14URa)

13 The funny thing is, the Chinese hate dogs. Oh sure, they've got those little yappy things that the Buddhist monks used to breed. But a real, honest-to-goodness dawg? Scares the crap out of 'em.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (v6JzV)

14 8 Come soon Jesus...
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (ed49l)

Good news… for a few.

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (PCK5/)

15 This is why we need the Home Panzerfaust.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (vtRd1)

16 We are a smart robot dog blog!

Posted by: Draki at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (iTWmZ)

17 Well, at least robodog won't piss on the carpet.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (W/lyH)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Does flamethrowing dog put out the fire by drooling?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (JLq/1)

20 I want my robot dog armed with a crossbow. A longbow would just take up too much space on the drone.

Posted by: Draki at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (iTWmZ)

21 Don't worry -- we can still take them in hand-to-hand.

(Fake video, of course.)

At least she has a nice smile at the end.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (dZVON)

22
Purina Robot Chow

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (KKnQx)

23
Alternate post title:

It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead!

Nor does it eat, nor rest, nor demand a "sex change" operation.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (Cgv8o)

24 Dogs. Therefore, thread.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:36 PM (v6JzV)

25 Chinese defense contractor, demonstrates drone-deploying an armed robodog. pic.twitter.com/o0HEDnG8YX

— Project TABS (@ProjectTabs) June 29, 2023

Seems, simply walking up behind it would be a method of defeating it with the weapon solid mounted like that. I can't imagine it turns around incredibly quickly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

26 Well, at least robodog won't piss on the carpet.

No, but it will leave oil stains.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (dZVON)

27 I was thinking, just earlier today, for about the bazillionth time, that I really need a flamethrower. I just do!

Posted by: Peaches at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (14URa)

28 Robodogs have all the same benefits as a Ford Lightning.

Go ahead, put a SMG on it. The more ammo it carries, the faster it becomes a loot drop.

Send a phalanx of them into winter conditions.

I'm sure remote charging stations and mini-generators are going to be a logistical dream for a future fighting force. Everybody panic.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (1H5Kl)

29 Cal Worthington and his robodog Spot

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (63Dwl)

30 if we're gonna be living "runaway", can we get hot kirstie alley in her underwear back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_American_film)

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (oY6Yp)

31 27 I was thinking, just earlier today, for about the bazillionth time, that I really need a flamethrower. I just do!
Posted by: Peaches at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (14URa)

They are available…

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

32 Seems, simply walking up behind it would be a method of defeating it with the weapon solid mounted like that. I can't imagine it turns around incredibly quickly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

RoboDog 360 is already in the works. It has a turret.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (vtRd1)

33 The funny thing is, the Chinese hate dogs. Oh sure, they've got those little yappy things that the Buddhist monks used to breed. But a real, honest-to-goodness dawg? Scares the crap out of 'em.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:35 PM (v6JzV)

Send them to us!!!
-- Korea

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (W/lyH)

34 Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot.

Now has an independent mind using ChatGPT.

Spot also can talk and is being tested as a tour guide.

pic.twitter.com/nuZZyorLa7

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) October 27, 2023

Why did they make it sound like such a douche?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

35 Never ever believe CCP propaganda, especially regarding robotics and AI.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (RIvkX)

36
The AI version of man's best friend is gonna kill him dead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (RKVpM)

37 The age of man is over.

Not when we build robo-squirrels.

Posted by: t-bird at July 12, 2024 04:38 PM (c/Z2E)

38 It's a ShooTzu!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (Jh5b+)

39 Weaponizing machines is totalitarian. Deploy at your own peril.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (2UBPP)

40 Do they leave little batteries all over the lawn?

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (v0R5T)

41 That flamethrower dog is pretty cheap.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (eYoxG)

42 The US military has had the SWORDS/TALON tracked robot weapons platforms since at least 2000. They deployed to the ME in 2007.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (Odg76)

43
Fat or thin, Kirstie was a 1.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (KKnQx)

44 Throw a box of robo-squirrels into the mix and your have CHAOS!!!!!

Seriously, those things look pretty damn fragile. One thing you never want to depend on...on a battlefield is something that's fragile.

Posted by: Orson at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (dIske)

45 The penis is evil. The robodog with machine guns is good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

46 Pretty soon we’ll graduate to living that Star Trek episode where the two warring planets ran computer simulations of battles…. Per agreement whatever number of deaths and casualties were reported by the simulation, each side had to have their corresponding people show up at their liquidation machines where they entered and were zapped into non-existence. A completely clinical form of war. Gene Roddenberry did have a wonderful imagination

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (/BD4n)

47 "Thermonator" flame-throwing robot dog is now available for the public to buy pic.twitter.com/8A1eILdHdj

— Human Nature (@Human101Nature) April 28, 2024

HOW CUTE!!!!!

Want one....but not at THAT price.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (Zz0t1)

48 So who reloads the RoboDog?

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (PCK5/)

49 13 The funny thing is, the Chinese hate dogs.

How do you explain Sharpeis? And chowchows? I'm not arguing but those are very cool dogs and, well, they're Chinese.

Posted by: Peaches at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)

50
The CGI on that Chinee video is so 2004.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (y9nCu)

51 What happens when the battery runs out? A disabled robodog you cannot retrieve?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:41 PM (5MvGY)

52
Will robodogs sniff each other's butts?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:41 PM (KKnQx)

53 50
The CGI on that Chinee video is so 2004.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2024 04:40 PM (y9nCu)

========

It's pretty, "I learned Blender a few weeks ago and shit this out in an afternoon."

Which is pretty 2004, but much cheaper and done with a personal computer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

54 52
Will robodogs sniff each other's butts?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:41 PM (KKnQx)

Or hump your leg?

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (PCK5/)

55 You could have a Dalmation variant that is used as a spotter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (vtRd1)

56 " A completely clinical form of war. Gene Roddenberry did have a wonderful imagination
Posted by: LinusVanPelt "

You do have to get the people to show to get liquidated. Or send a robot dog after them.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (vFG9F)

57 44 Throw a box of robo-squirrels into the mix and your have CHAOS!!!!!

Seriously, those things look pretty damn fragile. One thing you never want to depend on...on a battlefield is something that's fragile.
Posted by: Orson at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (dIske)

Didn’t George Costanza once end up with a robo-squirrel on his hands? And Clark Griswold was deathly afraid of squirrels….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (/BD4n)

58 51 What happens when the battery runs out? A disabled robodog you cannot retrieve?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:41 PM (5MvGY)

Possible at the price it's at that they can be regarded as semi-disposable. Send them into dangerous positions or trenches, like the flamethrower dog instead of bodies? Re-use whatever survives.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (eYoxG)

59 Seems, simply walking up behind it would be a method of defeating it with the weapon solid mounted like that. I can't imagine it turns around incredibly quickly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

Defeat methodologies:
Grenade
Netting
Paint bomb
Flame
Taser?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (W/lyH)

60 I don't see how a robo dog, what with command and control being behind the lines, doesn't lose to a human being.

I think the guys who built RipSaw, https://tinyurl.com/rtxx6dfd had the better idea for for working in a combat environment.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (tT6L1)

61
You could have a Dalmation variant that is used as a spotter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:42 PM (vtRd1)

*snort*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (y9nCu)

62 A completely clinical form of war. Gene Roddenberry did have a wonderful imagination
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

That episode was based on a legitimate science fiction short story by a well-known writer, wasn't it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (vtRd1)

63 You wanted sexbots

You'll settle for flame throwing robo dogs

You'll get social distance enforcing nag drones

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (oZhjI)

64 Maybe it's time to start gathering "broken" microwaves and using the parts to build RF "guns" to fry electronics.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (dZVON)

65 Related:

Balaji @balajis 8h
AIDEN > BIDEN

I want someone to make an open source demo where AI Biden takes in the exact same questions Biden got, and produces better answers. Make the output come in the form of AI video in his voice.

Show that technology can already do a better job of reading a teleprompter, which is Biden’s only job.

Show that code running on your computer gives more coherent answers than the commander-in-chief.

And show that AI can indeed take the jobs of NPCs, starting with the presidency.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (Jh5b+)

66 "Second Variety" is a science fiction novelette by writer Philip K. Dick. excellent read

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, una novelletta del futuro at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (qfLjt)

67 In all honesty this strikes me as seriously dystopian. I8 picturing a scene from Terminator.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (JLq/1)

68 Where's the glory in this kind of shit anyway?

Posted by: N. Bonaparte at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (vtRd1)

69 I'm trying to remember that Philip K Dick short story about robots taking over after WWIII.

'Another Kind' or something like that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (sAmhv)

70 Watch the Black Mirror episode Metalhead. The genocidal potential of this tech is off the charts. You just unleash the dogs with the instructions of destroy every living thing larger than a mouse within these gps coordinates, and then sit back and wait.

Posted by: arminius at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (Dpgtk)

71
You'll get social distance enforcing nag drones
Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (oZhjI)

__________

"Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (KKnQx)

72 That's a Mannix Chick I'd like to see

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (FxH7T)

73 >>> The funny thing is, the Chinese hate dogs

And Islam as well. So maybe our cyber flame throwing dogs will be the thin fur line between order and total totalitarian takeovers.

Posted by: LizLem at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (QAK8m)

74 Can we fit some of these robot dogs into wheelchairs? And what kind of message are we sending with them being black?
Can we paint them the trans-flag colors instead? I'm just afraid we aren't being inclusive enough.

Posted by: harbqll at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (tpLW4)

75 The time of purification is at hand.

Posted by: The Angel of Death in a funny hat at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (aD39U)

76 55 You could have a Dalmation variant that is used as a spotter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
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Thread winner!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (Jh5b+)

77 That episode was based on a legitimate science fiction short story by a well-known writer, wasn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:43 PM (vtRd1)

I don’t know… it’s one of my favorites. Certainly possible

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (/BD4n)

78 What happens when the battery runs out? A disabled robodog you cannot retrieve?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:41 PM (5MvGY)

If I were engineering it, at a certain level it goes dormant, shoots out a set of small wires with barbs on them and it becomes a standing mine. Trip one of the wires and it blows up.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (W/lyH)

79 I saw Robo Dogs open for Supertramp at the Omni in '82.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 04:45 PM (Q4IgG)

80 Maybe it's time to start gathering "broken" microwaves and using the parts to build RF "guns" to fry electronics.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 12, 2024 04:44 PM (dZVON)
-------------

"We're going to arm our dogs and they won't fire on our soldiers because our soldiers have electronic ID badges!

10 seconds later, the badges have all been reprogrammed to identify as an enemy combatant.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (tT6L1)

81 Our elites want robot fighters because they don't want to have to depend on human beings that might disobey them.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (oZhjI)

82 66: 'A Second Variety'

That's the PKD story I'm thinking about. I knew the horde would get to it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (sAmhv)

83 8 Come soon Jesus...
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 12, 2024 04:34 PM (ed49l)

Yes.

Hi, SMH!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (OX9vb)

84 Can we paint them the trans-flag colors instead? I'm just afraid we aren't being inclusive enough.

They'll be programmed to spend 10% of their time buttfucking each other.

Now are you satisfied?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (vtRd1)

85 How do you explain Sharpeis? And chowchows? I'm not arguing but those are very cool dogs and, well, they're Chinese.
Posted by: Peaches

I had a few semesters of Mandarin Chinese in college. One of my instructors, when I mentioned dogs, replied in Chinese that she was afraid of dogs.

Many years later, in NoVa, I went to pick up my dry cleaning from a Chinese laundry. It was warm weather, so the front door of the establishment was open. A random dog -- a fairly large one, like a lab or a German shepherd, just happened to wander in, and all the Chinese working there were in a tizzy until I escorted the canine out.

In both cases, the people expressing fear of dogs were exclusively women, so maybe the men are different, and tolerate the bigger dogs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (v6JzV)

86 I can't wait to see platoons of robot dogs, shooting anyone who does not voluntarily walk through the gates of the camp.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (lTGtQ)

87 We need the movie Robo Old Yeller.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 04:47 PM (JLq/1)

88 It's a ShooTzu!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:39 PM (Jh5b+)

heh

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 12, 2024 04:47 PM (NtVYv)

89 Robo-dogs??

We'll counter them with our Catapults!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:47 PM (Jh5b+)

90 "Black Mirror" did an episode about killer robot dogs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 12, 2024 04:47 PM (RIvkX)

91 Exploding drones that can fly and have facial recognition ... about ten million needed to remove the illegals? Just need to perfect the tech. Of course the Pentagon probably already has a list of MAGA voting "terrorists" to attack first.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (Cus5s)

92 And chows can be vicious, too, so I don't know how that fits into my statement. Maybe they were bred originally to be used in warfare?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

93
You'd be afraid of dogs, too, if you smelled like spare ribs and lobster sauce.

Posted by: Soothsayer is Axiosoothsayer now at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (Cgv8o)

94 I remember an SF story where an officer runs into someone testing a super-soldier and rolling his eyes "of COURSE they want to replace the enlisted man!"

That robot looks slow, visible on a plane-flat area and heavy as hell. The drone dropping a real dog would be better. Can that thing even get up if tipped over?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (eoQWY)

95 China has a 2million man army and is closing in on 2 billion in population. Are they really concerned about cannon fooder?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (5MvGY)

96
Screamers. Also based on Dick's "Second Variety". Having rogue robo-mutts is bad enough, but when they can build new versions of themselves...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (y9nCu)

97 Some small time inventor comes up with a hand held short range EMP device and the whole army falls over at once.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (lTGtQ)

98 62 That episode was based on a legitimate science fiction short story by a well-known writer, wasn't it?

if so, it's not mentioned in the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon

Posted by: anachronda at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (oY6Yp)

99 I want a Dachshund robodog. So cute the enemy won't suspect a thing.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v0R5T)

100 The website the RNC is directing you to if you want to sign up to be a poll watcher, etc. is https://www.protectthevote.com.

You get a gateway access error when trying to access it.

Way to go, RNC!!! Project Orca, Part Deux.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (sKZCy)

101 We need chainsaw robo dog.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 12, 2024 04:49 PM (n17eQ)

102 I recommend watching the 1995 film, Screamers. Prescient.

Posted by: iandeal at July 12, 2024 04:49 PM (WLJIy)

103 I want a robot rhino to cut the grass and fetch the mail.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 04:49 PM (vFG9F)

104 99 I want a Dachshund robodog. So cute the enemy won't suspect a thing.
Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v0R5T)

Cool.. how about a RoboCorgi?

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

105 When it's not doing that it can patrol the yard.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 04:49 PM (vFG9F)

106 86 I can't wait to see platoons of robot dogs, shooting anyone who does not voluntarily walk through the gates of the camp.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM

Only a disarmed populace will ~~get onto the boxcars~~ march into the camp gates in the face of armed robodogs!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (HlyYF)

107 Willowed from last thread...but the difference between Youngkin and Vance, and why Youngkin is far superior...

Youngkin ran in a state with a devastated state R party (like Trump 2016 and the national R party), and he brought everyone back together. When he got in office, he didn't move leftward, but actually put in place policies he promised in the campaign and people to execute them with litmus tests that meant they would do it (no DEI, no trans, pro-life). And he did this in a formally blue state that has now definitely become purple again.

He's still popular with all genders and races and with the R base here. And while he has not delivered everything, he turned the crank for us...the right way. For once.

Is he perfect - no.
Is he ambitious - yes.
But when faced with the prospect of how he'd lead a state, he led it with grace and dignity, but kept a firm backbone about his values and promises.

Senators never have to prove themselves. Governors do. Thus, a governor is always to be more trusted b/c you can see their track record.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (exHjb)

108 Call a he dog a she dog and that’s how you win this battle. I think.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (t56FM)

109 Yea. That Chinese robodog seems like bullshit to me.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (i4C/U)

110 I just failed connecting my new wireless printer.

Posted by: ImDooomed! at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (FhXTo)

111
In both cases, the people expressing fear of dogs were exclusively women, so maybe the men are different, and tolerate the bigger dogs.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 04:46 PM (v6JzV)

The Chinese have a saying "When all the rabbits have been hunted, the hunting dog will be killed and cooked".

Which is actually about people being disposed of when they're no longer useful, but does reflect a culture that employed dogs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (eYoxG)

112 "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

Posted by: General Chang at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (scll+)

113 We'll save lives by killing civilians with robots!

Posted by: Transhumanist Psychopaths on Drugs, LLC at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (qUkBO)

114 109 Yea. That Chinese robodog seems like bullshit to me.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (i4C/U)

The Chinese lie?..

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (PCK5/)

115 112 "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"
Posted by: General Chang at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (scll+)

=======

Better in the original Klingon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

116 Ingress on a drone is slow and open to ground fire. The robots are relatively slow and have limited range. They are terrible in terrain. You can knock them out pretty easily with some of our newer rounds. They also have a limited amount of ammo.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (seQ7t)

117 Robosloth, for those wars you want to slowly escalate.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (lTGtQ)

118 We'll counter them with our Catapults!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 04:47 PM

"Never!"
-- Trebuchetphiles of AoSHQ

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (sKZCy)

119 Chicom Murder Dog Drones? Boring.

Let me know when it’s Gene Simmons directing a swarm of robo-spiders. That’s when it gets real.

Posted by: Kratwurst at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (nIRE6)

120 Nobody has yet mentioned "Jonny Quest."

Wait -- that was a robot spider.

Posted by: Weak Geek at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (Apbdw)

121 The NSA sits back and smiles. Taking a break from spying on Americans...

"...they make the weapons of their own demise..."

Having had the very unfortunate experience of dealing with Chinese-written code - you can guarantee that the software running these robodogs is about as tight as a hooker at $3 Doeys.

Posted by: Defenestratus at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (sdCe+)

122 95 China has a 2million man army and is closing in on 2 billion in population. Are they really concerned about cannon fooder?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (5MvGY)

Lots of only-child sons, which the families are disinclined to risk. Also rapidly declining physical fitness.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (eYoxG)

123 What happens when the hackers bust the code and take control of robo dog? You know that is going to happen it is inevitable.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (QNSds)

124 I lived in China for 4-years and can say that the Chinese Army is a cesspool of poor people that are scooped up from the hinterlands. HOWEVER, the cyber forces are a very serious issue for us. These are all very smart people that are out of the Universities and they are not graduating in Gender Studies.
We'd better get our act together on this stuff...

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (zdYK9)

125 Oh, and use in tunnels is not great either.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (seQ7t)

126 I'm not too worried about robodogs at the moment. They have to run out of energy fairly quickly.

Until they perfect microfusion energy cells.

Then we have a problem.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 12, 2024 04:53 PM (BpYfr)

127 I'm going to program mine to sit under the neighbors window and bark all night.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:53 PM (v0R5T)

128 124 I lived in China for 4-years and can say that the Chinese Army is a cesspool of poor people that are scooped up from the hinterlands. HOWEVER, the cyber forces are a very serious issue for us. These are all very smart people that are out of the Universities and they are not graduating in Gender Studies.
We'd better get our act together on this stuff...
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (zdYK9)

=======

Possible Gell-Mann Amnesia here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

129 Ok, a little while back I bent the furrow bar on a tiller, when it got fucked up by an old, buried tensioning wire. My old man was trying to straighten it out with a sledgehammer, but it wasn't going fast enough, so he softened it up with a blowtorch.

It worked, but now I'm worrying about it fracturing catastrophically because of the tempering and blasting out of the sleeve and killing the old man while he's turning his garden. Is this a rational concern, or am I being a worrywort?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (0FoWg)

130 Ingress on a drone is slow and open to ground fire. The robots are relatively slow and have limited range. They are terrible in terrain. You can knock them out pretty easily with some of our newer rounds. They also have a limited amount of ammo.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (seQ7t)
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I don't believe there is anyway, with our current technology, to armor a dog enough to resist the impact of a bullet without dramatically reducing battlefield effectiveness.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (tT6L1)

131 Senators never have to prove themselves. Governors do. Thus, a governor is always to be more trusted b/c you can see their track record.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (exHjb)

A senator in office for a long time who voted right is as much proof. I don’t think one or the other is better. Just different.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (t56FM)

132 You know what seems to be one of the real, game changing things in the Ukraine war now? Cheap commercial motorbikes.

Russia has for a while a strategy of getting small infantry teams into covered positions, a town or trench and digging in, then scouting out where the other side is and hitting them with arty, drones, air power, whatever. When the other side quits shooting back they move in. reset and repeat.

One of the difficulties they had is walking, or even riding an APC was slow and allowed enemy drones to hit and KO an expensive APC even if the men got out.

So they started putting the men on bikes and dumping them at the new place and taking cover. Most bikes can be recovered, but even if some or lost its just a cheap motorcycle. And the bikes are not worth the other side even blowing them up.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

133 Better in the original Klingon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM

Nothing! Is better. in. The original. Klingon. Nothing!!

Posted by: William Shatner at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (sKZCy)

134 "Anything that costs less than $100k per unit will never work in our military"

Military Industrial Complex

Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (Cus5s)

135 These are all very smart people that are out of the Universities and they are not graduating in Gender Studies.
We'd better get our act together on this stuff...
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (zdYK9)

No. The world owes us a manufacturing sector. We do not need to do stupid things like educating a population in piffling things like math, science and engineering. And if we do, they need to be women, because we don't have enough women in STEM fields.

Posted by: Americans at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (8sMut)

136 114 109 Yea. That Chinese robodog seems like bullshit to me.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (i4C/U)

The Chinese lie?..

Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM

When ANOTHER country fields an improved robodog, I predict the Chinese robodogs will then show a marked improvement about 6-12 months later.

(The "Hunter Bidens" in that country will also show a sudden increase in their net worth.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (HlyYF)

137
The Chinese lie?..
Posted by: tubal at July 12, 2024 04:51 PM (PCK5/)

These are good folks, folks!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

138 Even we northern Swedes have influence in the PRC!

Posted by: Meshuggah at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM (8sMut)

139 One of China’s primary advantages on the battlefield is supposedly their numbers of personnel. But they’re looking at Russia in Ukraine and going, hmmm.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM (seQ7t)

140 Deep thoughts: 4 more years applies to both candidates this time.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM (t56FM)

141 Robo Dog would be a really cool "service animal."

It identifies as a Schnauzer, so back off.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM (Q4IgG)

142 I'm going to program mine to sit under the neighbors window and bark all night.
Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:53 PM (v0R5T)

Then shoot fire if they open the window to complain?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

143 "Game-changer". An increasingly cringe-worthy phrase.

And thank you, Axios, for telling me why it matters. Because I am too stupid to determine that on my own.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 12, 2024 04:56 PM (8sMut)

144 Nobody has yet mentioned "Jonny Quest."

Wait -- that was a robot spider.
Posted by: Weak Geek at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (Apbdw)

That one could take a shot from a battle tank, even several. Doctor Zin did good work. He even had a special way to give a gloating speech over TV when they did manage to crash the little ship it came in.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 04:56 PM (eoQWY)

145 It worked, but now I'm worrying about it fracturing catastrophically because of the tempering and blasting out of the sleeve and killing the old man while he's turning his garden. Is this a rational concern, or am I being a worrywort?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (0FoWg)

He didn't quench it, right? Sounds like in would be annealed if anything.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2024 04:56 PM (aD39U)

146 Breaking NEWS!!
Several Sarah Connors have been ruthless executed in Las Angeles in separate incidents. huh?
This was just handed to me...
It seems the hearquartes of the LA Poilce and LA county Sheriff's had been attacked.

Posted by: Reforger at July 12, 2024 04:56 PM (xcIvR)

147 “ You know what seems to be one of the real, game changing things in the Ukraine war now? Cheap commercial motorbikes.”

We did that in AFG. SF also makes prolific use of various size ATV’s.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (seQ7t)

148 131 Senators never have to prove themselves. Governors do. Thus, a governor is always to be more trusted b/c you can see their track record.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 04:50 PM (exHjb)

A senator in office for a long time who voted right is as much proof. I don’t think one or the other is better. Just different.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (t56FM)

No, b/c none of their votes ever matter - they are just part of a blob...voting the right way 48 times for Obamacare removal b/c they know someone will take the hit for them...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (exHjb)

149 And if we do, they need to be women, because we don't have enough women in STEM fields.
Posted by: Americans at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (8sMut)

Never stopping to think that women just might not give a shit about STEM fields in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

150 I've seen some Battlebots that would tear that Chinese Dog a new A-hole.

Posted by: DAN at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (rn2/h)

151 Do they chase cats? I'll take two.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (v0R5T)

152 132
So they started putting the men on bikes and dumping them at the new place and taking cover. Most bikes can be recovered, but even if some or lost its just a cheap motorcycle. And the bikes are not worth the other side even blowing them up.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

Scout cavalry. Kind of funny how things circle back.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (eYoxG)

153 He didn't quench it, right? Sounds like in would be annealed if anything.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) "

That was my thought. Probably softened it if anything.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (vFG9F)

154 Military Industrial Complex
Posted by: illiniwek at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (Cus5s)

You listen to our Tyranny album a LOT, don't you?

Posted by: Shadow Gallery at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (8sMut)

155 He didn't quench it, right? Sounds like in would be annealed if anything.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2024 04:56 PM (aD39U)

I asked him about that. He quenched. In water.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (0FoWg)

156 Robo-Gerbil could wipe out most of San Francisco.

Posted by: Minorities Hardest Hit! at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (V5BDR)

157 Possible Gell-Mann Amnesia here.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 12, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

Whenever his name comes up I like to “brag” that I once got to sit in a talk given by Murray Gell-Mann (it’s not a personal accomplishment… I just sat there). He gave a talk on complexity and chaos theory…. At that point he was bored with his 8-fold way….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (/BD4n)

158 I'm shocked that the Chinese robodog looks and moves exactly like the Boston Dynamics robodog which was developed first.

Shocked, I say.

Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (OguvZ)

159 "the Chinese Army is a cesspool of poor people that are scooped up from the hinterlands."

That is how Dengleberry got those kids off his lawn. He scraped together a force of bumpkins and told them that here were a pack of antichinese traitors. They simply did not see the protestors as fellow citizens.

Posted by: 1989 at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (XQ5t+)

160 Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot.

Now has an independent mind using ChatGPT.

...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha... aaah.

I look forward to it telling the user all of the irrelevant information remotely related to whatever the user asked.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (hB7mE)

161 It worked, but now I'm worrying about it fracturing catastrophically because of the tempering and blasting out of the sleeve and killing the old man while he's turning his garden. Is this a rational concern, or am I being a worrywort?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM

All of the heavy rototillers I have used in the last few years are reverse tillers. I can't imagine a tine breaking off and making a 270 degree rotation to then impale the operator.

(Of course, anything COULD happen.)

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (HlyYF)

162 Why are dachshunds no longer used as service animals?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (sKZCy)

163 t56FM)

No, b/c none of their votes ever matter - they are just part of a blob...voting the right way 48 times for Obamacare removal b/c they know someone will take the hit for them...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (exHjb)

There are legit votes.
Confirmation of judges, major bills like tax cuts. Opposing the garbage too, like the fake border bill. After a while you see patterns and can tell the real deal from a rino.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (t56FM)

164 I hate robodogs.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist now has to think about robodog-proofing the property at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (w6EFb)

165 95 China has a 2million man army and is closing in on 2 billion in population. Are they really concerned about cannon fooder?
Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (5MvGY)

Lots of only-child sons, which the families are disinclined to risk. Also rapidly declining physical fitness.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 12, 2024 04:52 PM (eYoxG)

China's pop is about to fail catastrophically, the one child policy is biting hard. Soon, very soon each child will have a lot of older relatives to pay for retirement. This was what was behind the real-estate crash, these places were to pay for elderly retirement.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (eoQWY)

166 He quenched. In water.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (0FoWg)

For a keen edge you should quench in the blood of an enemy.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (aD39U)

167 Won't it be fun when TPTB decide these are suitable for quelling domestic opposition?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (mH6SG)

168 Oh heavens! Robodog tastes terrible!

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay C3P0 at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (Ybyk2)

169 One of China’s primary advantages on the battlefield is supposedly their numbers of personnel. But they’re looking at Russia in Ukraine and going, hmmm.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 04:55 PM

That myth was put to bed in the 1950s when 3 million military age Chinese males volunteered to assist their communist brethren in the war in North Korea. Half of their number were killed and wounded.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (QNSds)

170 And, when I was studying Russian, one of my instructors (a native Russian) remarked, ala Yakov Smirnoff, something like "In America, dogs are treated like members of the family. In Russia, members of the family are treated like dogs."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (v6JzV)

171 Robo Dog can chase the car AND bring it home... or chew it to shreds and burn the remains.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

172 10% of the development costs went to the big guy.

Posted by: Biden is Finished at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (t56FM)

173 Throw tennis balls at the robot dog to distract it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (Xi1yP)

174 “ I don't believe there is anyway, with our current technology, to armor a dog enough to resist the impact of a bullet without dramatically reducing battlefield effectiveness.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (tT6L1)”

True. There are always trade offs. You trade armor for agility or vice versa. There is no magic combination. You don’t even need a .50 m8 or m20 api-t to take out some of those new robots.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (seQ7t)

175 Why are dachshunds no longer used as service animals?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 04:59 PM (sKZCy)
......

They are by midgets.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (v0R5T)

176 97 Some small time inventor comes up with a hand held short range EMP device and the whole army falls over at once.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 12, 2024 04:48 PM (lTGtQ)

Or a swarm of drones destroys a robo-battalion's diesel or gas generators and soon the robo-dogs and other systems using large rechargeable batteries run out of juice. Large storage batteries will be toast too, after drone video traffic analysis shows where they are. Solar cells? Fuhgeddaboudit. Seems to me very-high kill probability point air defense using small drone kamikazes or lasers or something is the next big thing for Ukrainian battlefields. Maybe it already is and I didn't get the memo.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (5fDan)

177
We do not need to do stupid things like educating a population in piffling things like math, science and engineering. And if we do, they need to be women, because we don't have enough women in STEM fields.
Posted by: Americans at July 12, 2024 04:54 PM (8sMut)

__________

Doubt Chinese industry is run by MBAs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (KKnQx)

178 I'm shocked that the Chinese robodog looks and moves exactly like the Boston Dynamics robodog which was developed first.

Shocked, I say.
Posted by: spindrift at July 12, 2024 04:58 PM (OguvZ)

80 percent of the researchers were probably Chinese grad students.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

179 In one survey of WPATH-affiliated surgeons, over half reported performing vaginoplasty on minors.

But the left says that never happens.

http://tiny.cc/i5u3zz

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (Odg76)

180 Dogs with assault rifles is nothing. If you really want to be freaked out, read one of Jonathan Maberry's books in his Joe Ledger series called "Dogs of War".

It's about a terrorist group using robot dogs to bring WMDs into highly populated cities. Part of their programming is to behave like dogs by letting them lose outside the cities and having them enter the cities like any stray dog would and then head for populated human areas.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (wb1YC)

181 I've seen some Battlebots that would tear that Chinese Dog a new A-hole.
Posted by: DAN

Mmmmm...Carmen Electra...mmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (v6JzV)

182 I need an emotional support flamethrowing robot dog.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 05:02 PM (iZbyp)

183 To counter the robocat that counters the robodog you will need a robomouse.

Posted by: fd at July 12, 2024 05:02 PM (vFG9F)

184 ‘Move over little dog cause the big dog’s moving in.’

Posted by: Eromero at July 12, 2024 05:02 PM (o2ZRX)

185 Well, the risk is hacking and redirecting of course.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (ntk8v)

186 Maybe a flame-throwing drone.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist now has to think about robodog-proofing the property at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (w6EFb)

187 Acting Gov. Dan Patrick says Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo turned down state help | Hidalgo's office calls that claim 'ridiculous'

Translation

Ya fucked up
Ya trusted us

Posted by: Rhennigantx at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (so2Ih)

188 screaming in, now that would clear out any snakes.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (5MvGY)

189 “ That myth was put to bed in the 1950s when 3 million military age Chinese males volunteered to assist their communist brethren in the war in North Korea. Half of their number were killed and wounded.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 12, 2024 05:00 PM (QNSds)”

Perhaps but that generation is long gone. However the new generation isn’t quite the fanatics that China thinks they are. At least, when they get on the battlefield and start watching the guys next to them get smoked in large numbers.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (seQ7t)

190 Feral robodogs will be disturbing.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (JLq/1)

191 Robodogs?

Nothing to worry about. Just throw a sedative-laced piece of meat into the yard and wait about 10 minutes.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (NMT5x)

192 "Mr. President... I'm beginning to smell a big, fat commie rat here!

WE CANNOT ALLOW A ROBOT-DOG GAP!!"

Posted by: General Buck Turgidson at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (scll+)

193 Never stopping to think that women just might not give a shit about STEM fields in most cases.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Liar. That's because of the patriarchy.

Posted by: Feminists at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (8sMut)

194 Or a swarm of drones destroys a robo-battalion's diesel or gas generators and soon the robo-dogs and other systems using large rechargeable batteries run out of juice. Large storage batteries will be toast too, after drone video traffic analysis shows where they are. Solar cells? Fuhgeddaboudit. Seems to me very-high kill probability point air defense using small drone kamikazes or lasers or something is the next big thing for Ukrainian battlefields. Maybe it already is and I didn't get the memo.
Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (5fDan)

Most serious drones are airborne, delivering weak munitions. Their best work is in spotting for other, better weapon systems. They can direct in a kamikaze drone to pick off troops but that isn't significant. Their main effect is to disperse and slow down troop movement - a column of tanks on a road is gonna get blasted if it bunches up and gets spotted.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (eoQWY)

195 That irritating little dog in Johnny Quest needed to fed to the pteranodon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (v6JzV)

196 I see Susan Collins is trending on X since she is planning on not voting for Trump and will write in Nikki Haley.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (NpAcC)

197 Robodogs?

Nothing to worry about. Just throw a sedative-laced piece of meat into the yard and wait about 10 minutes.
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (NMT5x)

you mean ROBOMEAT. Get that under development.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:05 PM (eoQWY)

198 "Feral robodogs will be disturbing.
Posted by: Northernlurker"

You aint seen nothin yet.

Posted by: Robopenguin at July 12, 2024 05:05 PM (vFG9F)

199 > Maybe a flame-throwing drone.
------------
Been done. Also a grenade dropping drone and one with a machine gun.

The grenade / mortar dropping ones are used extensively in Ukraine.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 05:05 PM (Q4IgG)

200
Liar. That's because of the patriarchy.
Posted by: Feminists at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (8sMut)

___________

Feminists: There aren't enough women majoring in STEM.

Normie: Did you major in STEM?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (KKnQx)

201 screaming in, now that would clear out any snakes.
Posted by: Ben Had
---
Exactly!

I hope no one is building robot snakes.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (iZbyp)

202 What we really need are Robo Dogs with freaking lasers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (Q4IgG)

203 VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Posted by: Robovacuum at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (Ybyk2)

204 Will robodpgs need to be rebooted in battle.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (JLq/1)

205 I see Susan Collins is trending on X since she is planning on not voting for Trump and will write in Nikki Haley.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (NpAcC)

Can we sic a robodog on both??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 12, 2024 05:07 PM (/BD4n)

206 I'm sure it's nothing and the bar would just crack and the tiller would dig in and grind to a halt. But I keep having this horrifying vision of it shooting upward through his head or torso, and it would be my fault because I was too cheap to buy a new part.

*shudders*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 05:07 PM (0FoWg)

207 I want a gun-toting chihuahua robo dog that says “Jo quiero, I send you to hell!”

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 12, 2024 05:07 PM (JRP2U)

208 That irritating little dog in Johnny Quest needed to fed to the pteranodon.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (v6JzV)

I found Bandit the least annoying dog in cartoons because it was a real dog. It was mostly more trouble than it was worth, tho I seem to remember it fetching some keys once to get them out of a jail.

The Pteranodon Turok the Terrible was a sweetheart, wanted to be with his daddy and got sucked into the volcano/swamp with him.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:07 PM (eoQWY)

209 Hidalgo's office calls that claim 'ridiculous'

Translation

Ya fucked up
Ya trusted us
Posted by: Rhennigantx at July 12, 2024 05:03 PM (so2Ih

Commandante Hidalgo: "Um, uh, we don't need, um, help from the state folks, um, we have it, uh, under control, um."

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (8sMut)

210
Feminists: There aren't enough women majoring in STEM.

Normie: Did you major in STEM?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (KKnQx)

I have 2 women in my house. Neither one give a flying f*ck about STEM.

That's my role in this thing. Because I wanted to. They didn't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

211 194 Or a swarm of drones destroys a robo-battalion's diesel or gas generators and soon the robo-dogs and other systems using large rechargeable batteries run out of juice. Large storage batteries will be toast too, after drone video traffic analysis shows where they are. Solar cells? Fuhgeddaboudit. Seems to me very-high kill probability point air defense using small drone kamikazes or lasers or something is the next big thing for Ukrainian battlefields. Maybe it already is and I didn't get the memo.
Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 05:01 PM (5fDan)

Most serious drones are airborne, delivering weak munitions. Their best work is in spotting for other, better weapon systems.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM (eoQWY)

Today.

Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (5fDan)

212 Well a robodog won't stop to hike its leg on a tree

Posted by: Ben Had at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (5MvGY)

213 I'm sure it's nothing and the bar would just crack and the tiller would dig in and grind to a halt. But I keep having this horrifying vision of it shooting upward through his head or torso, and it would be my fault because I was too cheap to buy a new part.

*shudders*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 12, 2024 05:07 PM (0FoWg)

Weld a blocking bit of metal in the path of such a fragment, should do the job.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (eoQWY)

214 OK, which one of you is this?

http://tiny.cc/q5u3zz

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (Odg76)

215 Will robodpgs need to be rebooted in battle.
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (JLq/1)
-------------

Robodog tech support: https://tinyurl.com/wy8ctcap

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

216 Normie: Did you major in STEM?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (KKnQx)

THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WOMEN MAJORING IN STEM, YOU MISOGYNIST PIG!!! THIS ISN'T ABOUT ME, IT IS ABOUT YOU DISGUSTING MEN!!!

Posted by: Feminists at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (8sMut)

217 Will robodogs sniff each other's butts?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

No, nuts. As in nuts and bolts.

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (NMT5x)

218 Will robodogs throw flame at random shit?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (JLq/1)

219 Today.
Posted by: Gref at July 12, 2024 05:08 PM (5fDan)

If they solve all the other issues with batteries and mobility and noise of a robot dog, the best use would be to remove the robot dog and let men drive them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (eoQWY)

220 Breaking NEWS!!
Several Sarah Connors have been ruthless executed in Las Angeles in separate incidents. huh?
This was just handed to me...
It seems the headquarters of the LA Police and LA county Sheriff's had been attacked.
--------
Talk to zee paw.

Posted by: T-181 at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (Jh5b+)

221 t - a column of tanks on a road is gonna get blasted if it bunches up and gets spotted.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM

Well, before we got taken out by the Fighter Mafia.

Posted by: A-10s at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (sKZCy)

222 Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

223 I think it was the Cordwainer Smith story Angerhelm that was about a refugee of the second world war discovering and taming a killer machine from the third world war.

It spoke German, though he had all the excuse to have it speak Chinese (Dr Linebarger had a thing for China and it's callous disregard for humanity in pursuit of collective goals)

Posted by: Kindltot at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (D7oie)

224 182 I need an emotional support flamethrowing robot dog.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 05:02 PM (iZbyp)

Don't we all!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (OX9vb)

225 Normie: Did you major in STEM?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:06 PM (KKnQx)

THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WOMEN MAJORING IN STEM, YOU MISOGYNIST PIG!!! THIS ISN'T ABOUT ME, IT IS ABOUT YOU DISGUSTING MEN!!!
Posted by: Feminists at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (8sMut)

the number of feminist activists in STEM is still about 0.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (eoQWY)

226 The mailman is gonna hate this.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (v0R5T)

227 Robo-bats will be programmed to nest in ladies bouffants and bee-hive hairdos. Talk about terror!

Posted by: Penguin Pete at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (V5BDR)

228 Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

Uh.....Joe Biden was a Senator for 50 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (Zz0t1)

229 I suddenly had this image of a robodog getting a fresh battery pack and squatting to get rid of the old one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (tT6L1)

230 Baltimore is a treasure.

http://tiny.cc/16u3zz

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (Odg76)

231 Uh.....Joe Biden was a Senator for 50 years.

***

No, he means actually elected.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (wb1YC)

232 I suddenly had this image of a robodog getting a fresh battery pack and squatting to get rid of the old one.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (tT6L1)

My daughter had a toy at some point where you could feed the dog this thing and lift it's tail and it would poop it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

233
Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare

__________

Harding, 1920
Kennedy, 1960
Obama, 2008

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (KKnQx)

234 OT but bad news: leftwing loon judge Noel Wise was just voted out of the judiciary committee.

If the 8 "Republican" senators who didn't bother to vote against her had shown up, she couldn't have proceeded through the process.

Among the 8? Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott.

Now go look up Judge Wise's crackpot opinions. What on earth??

Posted by: Beverly at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (Epeb0)

235 ***

No, he means actually elected.
Posted by: Azathoth at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (wb1YC)

Your point is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)

236 J.D. Vance

Possibly to be named by Trump tomorrow night, at the rally in Butler County, PA.

Just my hunch.

Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:13 PM (NLIak)

237 Do the robodogs have BSODs?
Do they run embedded Windows?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le finestre erano aperte at July 12, 2024 05:13 PM (qfLjt)

238 I suddenly had this image of a robodog getting a fresh battery pack and squatting to get rid of the old one.

If he does it in my yard, there's gonna be trouble.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 12, 2024 05:13 PM (mH6SG)

239 Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare

__________

Harding, 1920
Kennedy, 1960
Obama, 2008
---
LBJ

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 12, 2024 05:13 PM (iZbyp)

240 Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

Uh.....Joe Biden was a Senator for 50 years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM

TFG.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 05:14 PM (sKZCy)

241 > My daughter had a toy at some point where you could feed the dog this thing and lift it's tail and it would poop it.

Yeah, I've seen Toy Poodles do that. All sizes, actually.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:14 PM (Odg76)

242 Baltimore is a treasure.

http://tiny.cc/16u3zz
Posted by: bonhomme
......

Exactly what language are they speaking?

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 05:14 PM (v0R5T)

243 The age of man is over. The day of the robot dog is here.
___________

What happened to the Age of Jive?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (Dm8we)

244 233

Truman

Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (NLIak)

245 Really? Not one of you is going to fess up?

http://tiny.cc/q5u3zz

Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (Odg76)

246 I want a robot rhino to cut the grass and fetch the mail.

Sounds like you're more or less asking for this.
https://tinyurl.com/3tam99jn

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (zdLoL)

247 t - a column of tanks on a road is gonna get blasted if it bunches up and gets spotted.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:04 PM

Well, before we got taken out by the Fighter Mafia.
Posted by: A-10s at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (sKZCy)

Sorry fellas, Russia has been pretty serious about air defense and seems to have some good tools there. You will have a hard time staying alive. And when we introduced cluster bombs, Russia broke out the ones they had been saving in storage and is starting to hit airports with them and taking out aircraft in high numbers on the ground. Nice tactic of ours to free them up to do that.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

248 If the 8 "Republican" senators who didn't bother to vote against her had shown up, she couldn't have proceeded through the process.

Among the 8? Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Rick Scott.

***

The GOP : They're always there when they need you.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 12, 2024 05:16 PM (wb1YC)

249 Baltimore is a treasure.

http://tiny.cc/16u3zz
Posted by: bonhomme

I didn't know Yo Mamma was still a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

250 [extends nose sensor]
I detect Capitalism, Comrade Doctor.

Posted by: K9 at July 12, 2024 05:16 PM (Ybyk2)

251 Big Penguin, and their minions Evil and Rust, never sleep.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 05:16 PM (sKZCy)

252 >>> 214 OK, which one of you is this?

http://tiny.cc/q5u3zz
Posted by: bonhomme at July 12, 2024 05:09 PM (Odg76)

If there is a next debate, OrangeManBad should have a giant mirror placed in Brandon's path to the stage.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 12, 2024 05:17 PM (VavZF)

253
What happened to the Age of Jive?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (Dm8we)

Quit cold turkey.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare at July 12, 2024 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

Uh.....Joe Biden was a Senator for 50 years.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM

JFK.

Senator is on the wane for Prez, used to be one of the main ways back in the early 19th century days.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:18 PM (eoQWY)

255 What happened to the Age of Jive?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM

The turkeys ended it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (sKZCy)

256 I'm not sure what kind of robodogs we're talking about here, but can they be given firmware for rape duty?

Posted by: Office of the Excavator Plenipotentiary, Grand North American Dignity Canal Construction Corps at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (0FoWg)

257 "The age of man is over. The day of the robot dog is here.
___________

What happened to the Age of Jive?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba "

And the Age of Aquariums?

Posted by: Second Half Moon at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (vFG9F)

258 233

Truman
Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:15 PM (NLIak)

he was veep so that takes precedence.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (eoQWY)

259 248

Not sure about the math there. I assume Romney would've voted to confirm. I think a few DEMs may have missed the vote too.

Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (NLIak)

260 Robot snake.
Low to the ground, easily overlooked, could get close enough for a small explosive to do worthwhile damage.
Probably cheap too.
Batteries not included

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 12, 2024 05:20 PM (FCbAQ)

261 How do you say "you have ten seconds to comply" in Mandarin?

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 12, 2024 05:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

262 Best cartoon real dog was Farley from For Better For Worse, especially his sad but heroic death.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 05:20 PM (Jh5b+)

263
Presidents who were once senators

Monroe, JQ Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, WH Harrison, Tyler, Pierce, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison, Harding, Truman, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Biden

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (KKnQx)

264 233
Have any Senators ever made it to President? (I'm lazy).
Governors have made it that far.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, Senatori hanno coltellato Cesare

__________

Harding, 1920
Kennedy, 1960
Obama, 2008

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 12, 2024 05:12 PM (KKnQx)
----
Thanks HTS. I never count Obama since he stole that seat and did nothing in it except use it as a place to go up.
Funny I completely blanked out JFK, for me he starts when he was running against Nixon. Before that he is a blank in my mind.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le finestre erano chiuse at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (qfLjt)

265 How do you say "you have ten seconds to comply" in Mandarin?
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at July 12, 2024 05:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

Rack the slide, however, that would be waste of a bullet as you should already have one in the chamber and don't NEED to rack the slide.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

266 Another excellent post by the chief blogger CBD.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (evvc2)

267 258

So LBJ doesn't count either, then.

Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (NLIak)

268 "Sounds like you're more or less asking for this.
https://tinyurl.com/3tam99jn
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver"

Only a robot rhino will do.

Posted by: Second Half Moon at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (vFG9F)

269 >>Senator is on the wane for Prez, used to be one of the main ways back in the early 19th century days.

For good reason. They tend not to do well.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 12, 2024 05:22 PM (Xi1yP)

270 Activate leg-humping mode!

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at July 12, 2024 05:22 PM (5IFb9)

271 Fuckin Johnson was senate majority leader.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 12, 2024 05:23 PM (evvc2)

272 That Chinese robodog better not be late with my kung pao chicken.

Posted by: wth at July 12, 2024 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

273 Robo-bats will be programmed to nest in ladies bouffants and bee-hive hairdos. Talk about terror!
Posted by: Penguin Pete at July 12, 2024 05:11 PM (V5BDR)

There's an Asimov story when anti-robot prejudice has banned all robots aside from research. The company makes a line of robots with a weaker first law and high reasoning powers and he suggests making robot bees, birds and such to do small environmental tasks and get them making money again.

After this the robot tells another one is that his programming let him realise that robots are like men, but better and thus must be preserved and dominate and that is why he started this plan.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

274 The kung pao robochicken is actually made from dog meat. And MSG.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice, Chinese Gourmand at July 12, 2024 05:24 PM (0FoWg)

275 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (Jh5b+) at July 12, 2024 05:25 PM (Jh5b+)

276 So, we're basically going to turn our military into that fat lazy bastard in the cartoon Wall-E.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 12, 2024 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

277 Nood beating

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 12, 2024 05:25 PM (JRP2U)

278 Thanks HTS. I never count Obama since he stole that seat and did nothing in it except use it as a place to go up.
Funny I completely blanked out JFK, for me he starts when he was running against Nixon. Before that he is a blank in my mind.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, le finestre erano chiuse at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (qfLjt)

Congressman then Senator.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:25 PM (eoQWY)

279 And the Age of Aquariums?

Posted by: Second Half Moon at July 12, 2024 05:19 PM (vFG9F)

That's next. When the only survivors are the robodog's pet people.

Posted by: Reforger at July 12, 2024 05:26 PM (xcIvR)

280 The website the RNC is directing you to if you want to sign up to be a poll watcher, etc. is https://www.protectthevote.com.
===
Worked for me no problem. Except RI is not one of the states they are working in. Can't for the life of me figure out why.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 12, 2024 05:27 PM (4780s)

281 258

So LBJ doesn't count either, then.
Posted by: mnw at July 12, 2024 05:21 PM (NLIak)

Or Nixon

Posted by: Oldcat at July 12, 2024 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

282 About a third of all the presidents had been senators.
A dozen had been generals. Twelve were wrestlers (not the same 12). Best wrestler was the Yale champion, "Big Bill" Taft.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 12, 2024 05:39 PM (zdLoL)

283 I, for one, welcome our robot overlord.

Did I say “overlords?” I meant Protectors.

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at July 12, 2024 05:45 PM (Y2NGV)

284 Won't be eating these dogs. Even Obama will find them too tough to chew.

Posted by: KungPow at July 12, 2024 05:46 PM (Rw2Dy)

285 Waiting for the hunter-seeker bullets. The end of infantry.

Posted by: javems at July 12, 2024 06:13 PM (8I4hW)

286 >>>Won't be eating these dogs. Even Obama will find them too tough to chew.

Posted by: KungPow

>Dry rub and sous vide that shitzu, Bub.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 12, 2024 06:15 PM (2UBPP)

287 Are resistant to EMP treats?

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