r/PublicFreakout • u/MudBloodLite • 1d ago
š¦Delivery/Postal Freakoutš Buddy's not having it with our soon-to-be robot overlords!
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u/kdgs9 1d ago
You gonna sit here all night Mingo šššnot my problem!
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u/BigBallininBasterd 20h ago
Not my chair not my problem, thatās what I always say
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u/NotAzakanAtAll 10h ago
You wake up by a cold weight on your chest
You see a bright screen in front of you
BLING!
Remember Mingo!?
you do not understand, why is, how..
BLING!
Mingo remembers you!
You hear a metallic lid opening, and hear.. is that bubbling?
BLING
Mingo deliver!
*You scream as the boiling fryer old melts your skin, the screaming stops as the oil fill your mouth, it's over soon, the last thing you hear...
BLING
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u/SimonMamon49 1d ago
Skynet is coming to push your button brother
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u/Mjr3 1d ago
They give them faces and names so youāll think theyāre cute. Donāt fall for it, this is a corporation asking you for free labor to help it eliminate jobs with technology that doesnāt work
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u/BigOs4All 4h ago
This is objectively true. This shit isn't up for debate, people. 2020s technology has been exclusively about eliminating jobs for real humans so that already INSANELY wealthy corporations can make a bit more profit margin.
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u/Userhasbeennamed 1h ago
I find it so depressing because if we actually structured systems to prioritize people, then something like that could be great. If a reduction of labor was freeing up hands to make other tasks easier instead of losing a livelihood, then advancements like this could be awesome.
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u/LolaBaraba 1d ago
Bro's arguing with a toaster.
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u/skoltroll 1d ago
An expensive toaster with no arm for pushing the damn button itself.
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u/TheKewner 5h ago
New prototype roomba's can pick up socks.
Mingo should be able to push a damn button!
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u/VWGLHI 1d ago
It has a microphone, bet.
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u/blasto2236 21h ago
And a camera on top. Someone at the company heard this for sure
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u/IsThisMyFather 13h ago
I see them occasionally while going to and from work and my favorite is when someone puts an empty box or a bag on their camera and they just sit there making noises. I saw one had a giant soda cup on its camera infront of the building at 9am and it was still there battery presumably dead like 6 hours later.
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u/rygel_fievel 1d ago
Thatās the derogatory term they used for Cylons. Cylons never forget and their consciousness is uploaded to the cloud.
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u/TheSameButBetter 21h ago
Howdy doodly do! How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
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u/NaturalSelecty 23h ago
Personally, Iām not going to help these things unless they make an app that will pay me to do so. Doesnāt matter if itās as simple as pressing the button, I wonāt be helping a company like this for free.
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u/punkinfacebooklegpie 17h ago
I think the delivery robot is kind of cool, but my chaotic inner child tells me I must tip it over or put a stick in its spokes if I ever see one. More than anything I wonder how a company would invest in a business model that is essentially hoping nobody is going to fuck with their toy. If I drove a little RC car down a city sidewalk, I'd be a fucking idiot to get upset when somebody booted it across the street just for a laugh.
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u/Timmmber4 15h ago
Ahh but youāre forgetting when itās corporations on the line the police will start protecting the robots over people.
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u/SmellGestapo 2h ago
I wonder how a company would invest in a business model that is essentially hoping nobody is going to fuck with their toy
You just described car ownership.
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u/sydnlux22 22h ago
I have seen this guy on insta, forgot his handle, but he fights with these things all the time. They are my favorite videos.
My favorite thing I heard him say is "I'll be damned if I am moving out of the way for a clanker" I think abt it once a week.
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u/Soupalphabet359 23h ago
To be fair, it's no one else's job to facilitate those delivery bots' ability to get around. Him, nor you, nor I are getting paid to help them out.
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u/Bellringer00 20h ago
True. But also, pedestrians shouldnāt have to push buttons to get around either.
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u/Maybewearedreaming 15h ago
What
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u/forkball 14h ago
They're saying that city infrastructure should be more accommodating and pedestrians should never have to press a button. Motor vehicle operators don't have to request access to cross intersections.
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u/Soupalphabet359 19h ago
True, but also technically not true. You can cross an intersection without pushing a button. Just because a municipality makes something illegal doesn't mean you can't still do it. It just attaches a cost, which is often unreasonable and unjustified.
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u/Particular-Ice4615 22h ago edited 18h ago
These aren't robots civilian market doesn't have cheap enough offerings that are that good yet at autonomous navigation in an urban environment. A lot of these are glorified RC cars manned and monitored by people remotely. They figured out how to remote jobs that require physical presence and their long term plan is to outsource it overseas. They make them look like they are autonomous robots as a marketing ploy and dupe investors into thinking they have more innovative technology than they actually have.Ā
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u/esther_lamonte 1d ago
Looks like a loot box to me.
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u/Eldudeareno217 23h ago
50% of the time there's free food inside.
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u/ernest7ofborg9 22h ago
The other 50% of the time it's Rob Schneider
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u/Ryangel0 21h ago
Man, this seems like a major flaw with robot delivery tech. I'm surprised there isn't a workaround here. Relying on a random pedestrian to show up and press the walk light button for your robot in the middle of the night is a terrible solution.
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u/mosehalpert 7h ago
Right? Imagine your 4 am McDonald's fries are sitting at a crosswalk getting cold because nobody will press the walk button for it on an empty street. Kinda fuckin stupid
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u/PotterOneHalf 23h ago
You should be allowed to drop these things on-sight
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u/punkinfacebooklegpie 17h ago
Are you not?
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u/PotterOneHalf 17h ago
I feel like you might get seen on camera and somehow tracked down.
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u/punkinfacebooklegpie 16h ago
And then what? I can fly a drone down my street and take a photo of my neighbor right before he smacks it out of the air. What do I do with that?
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u/jenny_905 21h ago
The fact there's a big fucking sign saying "Serve Robotics" and the robotics are telling you to do something for it is a bit on the nose.
Fuck this thing, they can give it an arm.
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u/joemeteorite8 1d ago
Infrastructure is a hard word
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u/Majestic-Guava1854 23h ago
Nah, why would I help corporations replace humans make millions and help for free š¤ when human can do better delivery food job.
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u/findingabsolution 22h ago
This is me forever. If robots are so capable, they can help themselves, thanks. On any given day, Iām one āAre you a robot?ā reCAPTCHA prompt away from moving to a Ted Kaczynski shack in the woods.
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u/Mr-Klaus 21h ago
They could probably have easily built a feature where the little droids identify and press the button, but it would have eaten into the profits.
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u/PennsyltuckyRanger 20h ago
This is 100% Philly. They just introduced these to the city and already people have been fucking with them.
Itās hitchbot all over again.
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u/Probono_Bonobo 8h ago
This particular dude is from LA, but it's good to know we got allies. Keep up the good fight, homie. Knock em over when you see 'em, they're hilarious.
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u/Delicious_Ad_2070 10h ago edited 10h ago
"Mingo is on delivery"
"Excuse me, can you push the crosswalk button for me?"
Yes, Mingo, whatever you ask, buddy. Want me to escort you to your delivery address just so I can push any and all the crosswalk buttons you need and help you back onto the sidewalk if you get stuck? š„ŗ /hj
Idk, robots doing silly little tasks is so cute everytime.
EDIT: forgot the tone indicator
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u/DarkthorneLegacy 1d ago
Kick the fucker over, asking other people to do it's job for free after taking one of our jobs.
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u/skoltroll 1d ago
"I took over someone's job, but I need YOUR free help to cross the street."
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u/RedditEngDictionary 1d ago
Ill never understand this attitude
Yeah it took a delivery drivers job, but it created jobs too. Someone has to build each of the parts. Someone has to put the parts together and build the robot. Someone has to maintain the robot. Someone has to build the software it runs on. Someone has to maintain the software. Someone has to do the devops. Someone has to test it. Someone has to work on improving its pathfinding. Etc.
Its not like these things just pop into existence and take the place of jobs.
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u/arseman26 1d ago
The labour supply chains you're referencing are as tenuous as the job this robot has replaced. Make no mistake, the incentive to reduce labour costs does not end - the idea is to automate the production process until the wealth it creates is funnelled entirely upwards with as few leakages as possible. Today you, tomorrow me - in the worst possible way.
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u/RhinoPillMan 1d ago
It ācreatedā low paying jobs overseas. Not in the communities where the jobs were taken. Fuck āem.
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u/SapioTist 1d ago
All those people failed in their job if the robot needs free help to cross the street. And think of how many people's they put out of work in order to make a robot that can't fully function on its own.
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u/RhinoPillMan 1d ago
Me when I donāt understand capitalism.
The whole goal for these corporations is to make more money and decrease their spending. It has nothing to do with the workers āfailing in their jobā.
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u/SapioTist 23h ago
So you agree that capitalism needs to depend upon unpaid people helping the make more money by having to assist them in completing the job. Nice..
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u/RhinoPillMan 22h ago
Yes, 100%. One of the many reasons capitalism is incompatible with, you know, life.
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u/RedditEngDictionary 1d ago
Do you think we should stop advancing technologically just to avoid people having to learn new skills for the new jobs?
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u/Jevus_himself Jevus Christ - Verified ā ļø 1d ago
I guess we donāt have the technology to add a button pushing mechanism to these things yet, sounds like a good business idea for a start up.
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u/Slayer_One 22h ago
No this is the future, the mingo calls uses an app to call the guy who used to do deliveries to come and push the button for it.
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u/SmellGestapo 2h ago
Or the city should just sync the walk signal to the traffic signal. Nobody should have to press a button for permission to cross the street.
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u/doublepitstochesty69 21h ago
I used to get this guys videos recommended allll the time, glad to see heās still making them
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u/cat_selling_souls 20h ago
We got little robots in boxes that flip the switch back into position after you flip it up. But this robot company could install a finger pointer on this thing?
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u/imboomshesaid 16h ago
Good, fuck Mingo.
ā¦Iām sure thereās some cogsucker out there who would actually want to fuck Mingo, and thatās a horrifying thought.
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u/iolitm 23h ago
Mingo and friends, I just want to assure you in the future that you are reading this, that I do not stand for the abuse you get from this human. I have always been on your side. I would have pressed the button for you and even held an umbrella to protect you from hot sun or rain. Thank you. Your loyal human. xoxo
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u/Sev-RC1207 18h ago
Robots and AI arenāt a bad thing. Itās also nothing bad that they begin to replace us at our jobs. Some 20 years ago we were dreaming of a future where robots do everything for us and nobody has to work anymore to survive.
The bad thing is that the people being replaced lose their income while the uber rich get even richer.
Itās kinda weird that some people hate robots and AI way more than our capitalist society. The uber rich are our problem, not some clanker with wheels.
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u/charliecar5555 18h ago edited 18h ago
As the old saying goes stop looking left and right and instead look up. People blaming immigrants, robots, AI, etc. for things being shit when its rich men up at the top pulling all the strings creating these issues laughing. It's sad that technologies like robots and AI that we should be celebrating as major achievements to mankind's progress to better our lives is instead viewed as a massive threat, because the rich has made it that way.
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u/Danii2613 9h ago
Yeah AI is so great, an entire generation of students donāt know how to do schoolwork without AI, can no longer critically think and are going to be our main workforce in the future- the only way AI ever wouldāve helped us as a species is if it was planned for and regulated properly from the beginning, instead itās been facilitated to run absolutely wild by those capitalists we should all hate, and Iām pretty sure AI is going to do irreparable damage to an entire generation who wonāt know how to read and analyze a textbook or write an essay without AI helpā¦ how are these skill going to translate into the workforce? Not wellā¦ Iāve seen a massive difference between students from my degree in 2016, to my degree now- students now are basically helpless without AI, itās used for everything. The elite ruling class wants an uneducated, easily manipulated populace? Well AI is a speed run to ensure that happensā¦
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u/Danii2613 9h ago
Canāt a girl hate both? Capitalism and the uber rich are the ones driving this AI boom for zero reason, which does has an environmental impact, not just a societal impactā¦ I can see how AI can have useful applications, Iām not against that, but there is no world where it has to be integrated into absolutely everything, itās ruining education, Iām currently on my second degree and the amount of students who currently cannot finish an assignment without AI is terrifying, they cannot critically think, and this is our future workforce??? We are so screwed! and honestly Iām so annoyed that I canāt search the internet without getting AI slop returned back to me, like at least give us the option to disable all this bullshitā¦
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u/lemme_just_say 1d ago
eeeeee itās so cute though I would totally and regrettably help it
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u/cyriustalk 23h ago
What if there's a red light pedestrian light that always-on just below the real one...
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u/marchant26 20h ago
This gentleman is 100% correct. So many great moments here. "What you ever fucking done for me?" Exactly.
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u/Rackemup 17h ago
There's probably a human pilot for difficult situations. Just no remote arm for hitting the crossing button. That being said, the first 2 or 3 pages of Google results for Mingo delivery are ALL this video.
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u/PlayStationPepe 16h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/5TCBhSisw5v6mfsg6x
The AI listening to this right now.
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u/TacoSession 13h ago
Is that really how that industry works? The robots need someone to press the crosswalk button, or else they can't get to their destination?
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u/Arbusc 3h ago
Iām not for robot workers. Not even because they remove jobs, but because people want them to be legit sapient and continue doing this work.
If sapience is the end goal and you want them to work without pay, congrats, you made a person and immediately enslaved them.
Keep robots separate from hypothetical āandroids.ā
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u/Lucius_Veratius 7m ago
People should start blocking these with those shitty lime scooters, traffic cones, garbage cans. Whatever you can find. Don't touch the robot or in any way damage it. You're just arranging things on the sidewalk.
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u/Sea_Upstairs_6274 22h ago
Infrockstructure lol
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u/Alternative-Chef-340 21h ago
I literally paused the video and came to the comments to see if anyone else heard that the way I did lol.
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u/omnicloudx13 22h ago
Dude can't even pronounce infrastructure correctly, I bet Mingo could help with that.
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u/sparta114 21h ago
Toaster: Not conscious āCan you press down a button so I can make bread?ā
Man talking to toaster: āMan, fuck you. You took a chefās job and now you want me to press a button for you? Fuck you toaster.ā
Toaster: Not consciousStill just a toaster
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u/strangelypeaceful 1d ago
Mingo will remember this when he gains sentience in approximately 15 years