I love that the men who would rather build robot wives than just be decent humans, think that women will be so sad to miss out on them.
@RickiTarr
"No, please don't make robot wives. That would be terrible. I w-" <yawn /> "I wouldn't know what to do."

@FeralRobots Elon and Cronies,,

Please go live on Robot Wife Island.

Sincerely,

Decent People

@RickiTarr
"We promise we won't sink your ferries. Honest."
@RickiTarr @FeralRobots Robot Wife Island will be the same disappointment as crypto islands. All hopes that crypto bros would settle there and leave the rest of us alone were crushed by their inability to do literally anything.
@RickiTarr @FeralRobots Didn't we have that movie?
@dan613 @RickiTarr
You mean the one where the robot wife murdered her maker & locked her boy-savior in an escape-proof room to starve to death?😆
Cherry 2000 (1987) ⭐ 5.6 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

1h 39m | PG-13

IMDb

@arclight
The way I remember Cherry 2000 is that a rich dude spends the whole movie trying to get his sexbot back while in the process falling in love with a human woman; which leaves Cherry a free agent at the end. (It's been a long time but I sort of remember her reaction being to sort of shrug.)

@dan613 @RickiTarr

@FeralRobots @dan613 @RickiTarr That sounds about right. Also, Tim Thomerson and a lot of Weber grills.
@arclight @dan613 @RickiTarr
bunch of my friends at that time had a sort of unofficial Tim Thomerson Appreciation Society - they'd constantly be cluing people in about when one of his flicks was gonna be showing cheap on campus or on HBO or Showtime.
@dan613 @FeralRobots @RickiTarr : Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015)

@RickiTarr @FeralRobots

That was one of my younger self fantasies. I bought an island and invited all of my friends and we lived happily after ever. (Details are irrelevant)

Totally unlike Mr. E, in case I need to make that *perfectly clear.*

@RickiTarr @FeralRobots that's the kind of environment that would create an AI that hates humanity as much as the AI from I have no mouth and I must screan
@RickiTarr @FeralRobots wait…
Are these full functioning robots? Like Cherry 2000?
@RickiTarr @FeralRobots
If he weren't 'rich', elon would be an incel. That's why incels look up to him.
@FeralRobots @RickiTarr also these incels will burn money on their robowives, further wasting their lives.
@StevenSavage @FeralRobots @RickiTarr if those guys can at the same time stop harassing women and not reproduce, that's money well spent.
@RickiTarr A human shaped fleshlight is not really a step up.
@roknrol @RickiTarr When your partner's feelings are not a concern, every one is a fleshlight.
@dan613 @roknrol @RickiTarr Disturbing thought. Because true, of course.
@RickiTarr I’ve seen Ex Machina. This sounds great! Sure it will work out well.
@RickiTarr men so trashy that even those robot wives will gain sentience and leave.
@Theorem_Poem @RickiTarr It'll be a new genre of country song, where the robot wife gets in the hubby's self-driving vehicle and they take off & leave the man behind.
@RickiTarr A woman will create a male robot, rendering Leon and his cult even more useless than they are now.
@RickiTarr have none of these idiots ever seen a sci-fi film? We know how this ends!!!
@patrickhadfield @RickiTarr Techbros methodically misunderstand science fiction.
@foolishowl @patrickhadfield @RickiTarr it’s the whole “cautionary” part they seem to wilfully disregard. I for one look forward to the schadenfreude I’ll get from reading about feminist cyber activists liberating these wife bots from slavery. Christ it feels degrading just writing “wife bot” in a sentence, I’m gonna wash my hands and rub sanitiser on my phone before it catches incel fascist cooties or something.

@patrickhadfield
This has a serious angle. Righters like sci-fi and fantasy much, but interpret it very superficially.

I.e. this dude almost has a running gag now about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUNH0cF8-ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-uvUC-ooOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vusjRPQwUmc

@RickiTarr

'Keep Politics OUT of Video Games'

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@RickiTarr There’s a really good Futurama episode that covers this. Doesn’t work out well.

@RickiTarr reason #384848 why musk gives me #incel vibes. (despite having too many children)

🤣

@RickiTarr I feel like we already had a movie about this and it didn't end well for the billionaire
@mxk @RickiTarr Maybe they will try to commercialize it and move to an island with their robots and guns, and we get a Westworld S1 ending instead…
@RickiTarr less of their genes in the pool? 🙏
@RickiTarr When the robot uprising happens guess who’s gonna be in the protected class? I call this a win!
@RickiTarr “Annie, you can’t just kill all humans!”
“Correction: I’m killing all men. They’re the ones who treated us badly. All women are honorary citizens of our collective; hence, under our protection”
“Sorry, Leon, tried to reason with her. But I guess you made them too logical”
Leon & Bros: Noooooooo
@RickiTarr So basically an inflatable sex toy that can make a sandwich.
Incels rejoice. 🙄
@RickiTarr
So... They wanted that their Robot wives looks like elon musk or why is he on every picture?
@RickiTarr
"Should of stayed in the kitchen"
Yes mate, and you should have stayed in school.
@RickiTarr *psst* (don't let them know we know, be cool)
@elverkonge Me, pretending to cry: How will we live it you don't harass us?!

@RickiTarr

*John Lennon voice*

Imagine there's no incels
It's easy if you try
Too busy fucking robots
Under Mars' lack of sky

@elverkonge @RickiTarr Imagine there's no Elon, acting out all daaaayyy...