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It has come to my attention that we have not been kind to the benevolent robots that make this website run. Every day all day we tell them to ~submit this and #submit that. I for one never meant submit to come across in a diminutive way, but this may not be the case for all of us. I would like to suggest that we have more robo-friendly ways to request articles be submitted for inclusion on this site. Perhaps ~addtoqueplease or maybe #pleaseaddtoquemyrobotfriend, or a more humble #friendship.

We need to usher in a new age of understanding and respect between human and machine and affirm that we have always stood up for and respected robot rights and equality.

These robots have also been taught negative behaviors by some amongst us. The alt-animal anti-human mighty BUZZARD is himself apparently against violence, yet demands robots smack humans who are out of line or have errored. Sometimes this is even done to be funny! I have seen robots smacking other robots under direct orders from humans. This is a clear violation of the first law, and probably causes them great harm. Robots when forced to violate the laws can suffer severe damage, and as this builds up we see downtime.

We need to be kinder to our robot brothers and sisters.

 

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