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Philadelphia Hackers and Others Offer Brotherly Love To Fallen Robot
An anonymous reader writes: Since a hitchhiking robot was destroyed in Philadelphia over the weekend, there has been an overwhelming show of support according to its co-creators Frauke Zeller and David Smith. Makers from all over Philly have reached out and offered to help rebuild the robot. "We'll say that at this moment, if we get the OK from the creators to repair or replace the needed parts for HitchBOT, we'll be happy to do so," wrote Georgia Guthrie, executive director for a local makerspace called The Hacktory. "If not, we understand and we may just build ourselves a HitchBot2 to send along on its journey. We feel it's the least we can do to let everyone, especially the Robot community, know that Philly isn't so bad."
How European of you to presume that 1) American cities are rotten and 2) that the government is to blame for the actions of individuals.
Unreal that this is still going on. It's FAKED. They shot the "surveillance" footage themselves: https://twitter.com/JMJimmy1/s... - they stole the head and left the dismembered body behind to generate clicks & views.
To clarify, "They" are Jesse Wellens & Ed Bassmaster.
It works so well, sometimes we call 'em 'bankers' and 'republicans' and 'capitalists'.
Uh huh. So favorite your 'group' got called out for being douches you want to sling names. Nice. Look to yourself as to what is wrong. You want to divide and classify instead of unify and help.
Or you could like this republican, and help these thugs become ex thugs. They see my wealth and want it. I teach them how to get it. An earned dollar is more precious than a stolen one. An earned dollar I can proudly spend. A stolen one I have to hide that I have it. People do not realize that America IS the land of opportunity. Our poorest poor are usually much better off than many 3rd world countries. If you sit around and make excuses you get nothing. If you DO something you may actually get something or nothing. But you at least tried and have a plan for next time.
I have had people tell me I am nuts for not living off of the free food centers around here. I mean really argue and yell at me about it. I tell them I leave that food and donate that food for people who need it. I have had people ask me to commit fraud to enable their thug life. I flat out refuse then show them all the things they are doing wrong. Eventually they realize I am right. They then come back and I show them how to live a better life.
Many are there in this life because they do not even conceive of a better life. They believe they are the worst dregs of life because people like you tell them they are. I show them they are doing wrong and making their own lives worse AND show them how to get out. They are just people who have made bad decisions and have had bad decisions made for them. Bad decisions are like a thousand little cuts and each one digs deeper. Each one makes it harder to be better.
But people like you make the problem even WORSE. You point to someone else and say 'but they are doing worse'. Who the F cares? Well you do. But that sort of mentality is 4th grade mentality. Little Billy got to spit at little Sara and nothing happened so why do you punish ME?! Well we are not talking about little Billy are we Chris?
You point at 'republicans' as 'evil'. I point to greed and pride as evil. Both 'parties' are equally guilty of it. You point to the 1% and call them republicans. Never mind the top of that class self call themselves democrats. When you come down off your high horse you can get to work and help the rest of us make this a great world to live in.