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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months ago

Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to

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Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to

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@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months ago
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Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to
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Poorly maintained sewers can have disastrous consequences, but regular inspections can be time-consuming, expensive, and dangerous. The solution: subterranean dung drones.
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  • @[email protected]
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    31•2 months ago

    “What is my purpose?”

    • @[email protected]
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      5•2 months ago

      Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.

    • bean
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      9•2 months ago

      “You clean poop chutes.”

      • Tippon
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        6•2 months ago

        “NOT LIKE THAT! NOT LIKE THAT!”

  • @[email protected]
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    12•2 months ago

    They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
    I’m looking at you, spelunkers.

    • @[email protected]
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      6•2 months ago

      Humans have no business being in holes

      Thus, sex became forbidden, and humanity declined, with last generation asking their ancestors why would they impose such harsh ban upon them shortly before extinction.

    • @[email protected]
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      11•2 months ago

      The bots yearn for the mines

  • Nougat
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    3•2 months ago

    We are all poop drones on this glorious day.

  • @[email protected]
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    14•2 months ago

    Sewer drone found footage could make a great horror movie.

    • @[email protected]
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      3•2 months ago

      Please don’t give Hollywood any ideas… like the Blair witch project.

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 months ago

    I almost beat Sewer Shark. I was made for this!

  • @[email protected]
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    12•2 months ago

    So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.

    (Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)

    • @[email protected]
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      5•2 months ago

      eh…

      mike rowe’s full of shit. don’t think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.

      Man now I miss cash cab…

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 months ago

        I remember he was shilling for trump after he won his first term, he was trying to play it off “it’s not that bad” that he got voted.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 months ago

        It’s basically like saying “illegal immigrants” aren’t made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.

        • @[email protected]
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          4•2 months ago

          iirc he was a musician before this gig so… yeah, hard working blue collar stuff rrwwarr ford tuff hemi merika fuckyea

  • Snot Flickerman
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    76•2 months ago

    Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.

    Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).

    • LostXOR
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      51•2 months ago

      This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.

      • thedruid
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        25•2 months ago

        yep. all we have to do is keep incrementally improving lives with tech, instead of being assholes to each other. Imagine the world, if peace was the most researched branch

        • @[email protected]
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          10•2 months ago

          Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.

          • @[email protected]
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            3•2 months ago

            Peace isn’t something that can be managed in its own department. Peace is the (unstable) result of a lot of other things being very carefully managed.

  • @[email protected]
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    35•2 months ago

    Sounds like a shitty job.

    • @[email protected]
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      5•2 months ago

      Yeah I’m sure he regrets quitting his job to pass butter

    • @[email protected]
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      20•2 months ago

      AI is great at doing shitty jobs.

      • @[email protected]
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        And ai is shitty at doing great jobs

  • @[email protected]
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    14•2 months ago

    One job that we can happily hand over to robots

  • @[email protected]
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    2•2 months ago

    Robots are taking over our jobs… did folks who work is sewers make good money because it wasn’t a pleasant job?

  • @[email protected]
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    15•2 months ago

    Well, that’s a brand new sentence.

  • @[email protected]
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    1•2 months ago

    Lmao, they outsourced pooping to drones.

    And I was doing it for free too.

  • AmidFuror
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    7•2 months ago

    I had poop drones on my bingo card!

    Have vaginal scented candles been invented?

    • @[email protected]
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      14•2 months ago

      You are multiple years too late on vagina candles: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop

      • AmidFuror
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        That’s a bingo! Is that how you say it?

        • @[email protected]
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  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 months ago

    Remind me of that James Bond scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1zn7l86HA

  • billwashere
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    16•2 months ago

    Two words I never thought I’d see together… poop drone.

    • @[email protected]
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      14•2 months ago

      Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.

    • MeatPilot
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      3•2 months ago

      Well I’m glad it’s this and not a drone made of poop.

      • billwashere
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        1•2 months ago

        Why do I believe if Mythbusters was still on the air they’d actually try this.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•2 months ago

          Adam savage has yt channel, basically he’s doing whatever. Adam and Jamie doesn’t seem eye to eye, by his experience with him, it was mostly professional relationship

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