Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

https://reddthat.com/post/30890925

Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds - Reddthat

Lemmy

No thanks. I’ll get an emotional support cat and you can’t brick my cat. Take that, big tech!

you can’t brick my cat

Is this a challenge

A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.

Don’t leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.

Why would you try that with any cat, especially one that you’re close to? The fuck.
But he only said he scruffed them (if I am reading it right), not that he grabbed them by the scruff, is this apparently something that is considered abusive or something? If a cat claws at my leg and I pinch there to make it stop that is absolutely not the same as grabbing them there. I would never actually try lifting them that way.
It doesn’t work on all the cats, though. Also, I heard that it’s not painful for a cat to be lifted that way, but I would prefer not to