This is how I feel with autonomous combat drones. I wrote those up in ~2000ish, I forget exactly when.
I’ve encountered these in the wild and my office has them installed. They’re distributed with SIM cards installed, they don’t join the WiFi. Fun fact
Can they download more water? What’s the internet connection for
I remember before Snowden’s whistle-blowing people online assumed it was crazy to think the government would want to spy on citizens personal internet communications, too. Online privacy was tinfoil hat stuff for people who didn’t know better.
Did you also call that the water would have a grapefruit flavoring option? Lmao.
Hot grapefruit.
Water, grapefruit, hot.
Jean-Luc Picard’s hipster doppelganger.
guard sniffs air
“Wait a minute! Did someone add grapefruit again?? I must inspect immediately!”
Life truly imitates art 😭
27 years later: “I told you, man!”
They said 1999 not 27 ye…
Fuck
I live in the year 2026, I’m pretty sure, and this still made so little sense to me, that I assumed they meant “hacking a water fountain” as in hitting it with an axe.
They mean to hack as in accessing it via a network to cause it to fill faster than it can empty.
I used to play shadowrun and never understood the rules for rigging and decking
You’re not alone
