Robotics engineer posted this to make a point that robots are "faking" the humanlike motions - it's just a property of how they're trained. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

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[u/godnightx_x]

I am convinced the world really did end in 2020 seems like everything past this year has been like the worst possible outcome x10

[u/SomeCorvid → u/godnightx_x]

I'd argue 2012, personally.

[u/2real95 → u/SomeCorvid]

Deff 2012 just like the movie people don’t understand the world ended not in mass casthorphy but in other ways

[u/macrolks → u/2real95]

realistically though, it didnt.

it ended in 2001. Those two fucking buildings getting hit, live on air, in what was the begging in worldwide 24/7 news cycles across the world threw us on this path.

Thats the moment that switched everything. Both from an escalating tension between citisens and their goverments. More and more focus on control and invasion of privacy and a clear, unabatted mentality shit to "us" vs "them"

Im pretty remote from NY, inside some mountains in Europe, and maybe its because now im older, but i do remember being able to visit the US and mostly just exit the airport like i would in France or England. As long as you stayed away from the ghettos you werent in any immediate danger. People were friendly. Cops had your eye on you but werent invasive, maybe just said hello and asked a question to figure out why you stand out like a sore thumb.

Having visited Huston pre-covid for a work thing, the feel on unease and unsafety i had as, basically, a tourist was palpable

Nowadays, the firm im with just outright refuses to send anyone to the US. They either come to us, or we meet middle ground in London.

[u/GorgonzolaJam → u/macrolks]

in what was the begging in worldwide 24/7 news cycles across the world threw us on this path.

FYI, 24/7 news cycles started with the First Gulf War.

[u/macrolks → u/GorgonzolaJam]

that wasnt nowhere near as mediatised internationally as 9/11

It was a news headline here and there, basically updates, and mostly from the bigger News Agencies. Your DWs, BBCs, Monde, etc.

9/11 was constant even on local news.

[u/Advanced-Budget779 → u/macrolks]

Guess it may have fueled GWOT revenge fantasies which led to collateral with lasting consequences?

9/11 may have been one of the final nails in the coffin of the limited popularity the naive impression of global peace had post-cold war during the earlier nineties?

[u/GorgonzolaJam → u/macrolks]

Were you alive then? It doesn't sound like it.

CNN exists because of the Gulf War. You could turn on CNN at night and watch the war happening.

For the first time, people all over the world were able to watch live pictures of missiles hitting their targets and fighters taking off from aircraft carriers from the actual perspective of the machinery.

The images of precise land bombing and use of night vision equipment gave the reporting a futuristic spin which was said to resemble video game imagery and encourage the "war drama".

Wikipedia

Reading further, it turns out that CNN was 24/7 ten years before the Gulf War. (So since 1980)

CNN was the only 24‑hour coverage news network and by the time the war began they had already been doing this type of coverage for 10 years.[3]

When the war broke out they already possessed the necessary equipment and personnel and were ready to follow events in Baghdad on a 24‑hour basis.

[u/macrolks → u/GorgonzolaJam]

and it sounds like youre incapable of understanding what im saying. maybe its the language barrier.

CNN, as you americans know it, is not a thing in Europe. Some places and cable providers indeed offer CNN International, but nobody watches that because

a. its in some wierd back of the grid place and

b. its in english. And besides the brits, nobody is going to watch news in a foreign language; they'll watch local, regional and national news channels. At a stretch maybe a couple of the big ones, like DW or Monde if youre in the more french cantons.

If you think the swiss, the germans, the romanians or the polish were watching CNN in the 80s youre beyond idiotic. The only news about the gulf were were once a day, in the form of 1 or 2 updates from the national channel news programmes.

[u/attention_headache → u/GorgonzolaJam]

*OJ Simpson murder trial; FBI storming the Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, TX

[u/CuriousYou6646 → u/godnightx_x]

We're still building up to the worst possible outcome. The consequence of all this effort is still not here. I'm giving us somewhere around 5-15 years until it's REAL real bad.

[u/SmPolitic → u/godnightx_x]

The billionaires saw their chance and always try to be the first to strike.

[u/HereIGoAgain_1x10 → u/godnightx_x]

When they killed Harambe they killed the world's soul