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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by meepmorp on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:35PM (#37326773)
It's not all that different from the Cold War, tbh. Robot dogs with guns seem much less scary to me than the possibility of small stars dropping out of the sky, wiping out millions of people in an instant and slowly poisoning the survivors.

Anyway, my kids worry more about climate change; correctly, I think.

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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by landryraccoon on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @03:36PM (#37327777)
Agreed. As a kid I vividly remember waking up in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm thinking that it had finally happened, the Soviets must have launched and the world was ending. I can’t really feel that scared about killer robots when an entire generation lived under the constant fear of nuclear extinction.
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Re:The Army Wants to Slap a Next Generation Squad Weapon on ... by ChatGTP on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @05:25PM (#37329355)
The nukes are still there and a war with Russia is still in progress.
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