(title added by lemmy community mod). Original text:
last month when my car and I were smashed to bits by a drunk driver, just as the fire department was pulling my broken body through the crumpled door, the dashboard started flashing GOODBYE GOODBYE GOODBYE and I did not need that. I did not.
Image description: Meme titled “All robots and computers must shut the hell up” and goes on to state that all machines should not speak unless spoken to and that “I will never speak to you”
(Originally published earlier today on mstdn.social)
I live in the cousin-fuckingly deep US south, and this is something that REALLY triggers the local rednecks.
One of the funniest things I’ve seen since moving here was at a local grocery store - a self-checkout kiosk got set to a British accent, and the workers either didn’t know how or didn’t care enough to change it back, so it just stayed like that for a month or so.
Every single time I went to the store during that period, I’d hear some dumbass hick say something along the lines of “…can’t even buy fuckin potatoes anymore without having to listen to some commie bullshit.”
They absolutely hated it. Like red-in-the-face, day-ruined hated it. It was amazing.
Listen. I’m from the North. I’ve got Appalachian roots but I’ve lived in the city most of my life. I consider myself fairly enlightened. Woke, if you will. All people were created equal, no one should serve another (except in the joy of helping their fellows), each person deserves dignity and respect as a baseline.
But I mute the self checkout. I silence turn by turn directions. I don’t even own a home assistant, and my phone’s assistant is turned off. And do you know why? Because that device serves me, and i will not be talked back to by a goddamn tool! I may not control much in my life, but when it comes to electronics I am the master of my domain