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https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-woman-arrested-uber-eats-robot-protest/
This article has more from and about her. Even more based than before.
May this lead to similar events.
it’s philadelphia. i would be surprised if there wasn’t.
I don’t get it. Were these people also sabotaging factories? Were they tearing down computers? Were they ripping up plumbing and electricity?
Those inventions directly and immediately created new kinds of jobs and that was clear to everyone. Plumbing made plumbers, electricity made electricians, computers made programmers. Robots take jobs and add very few new jobs. Which people dislike, because for millenia the social contract has been that everybody has to “earn” their survival. That contract, while always disingenuous due to existence of various kinds of aristocracies and elites, has been more or less in balance due to the need for labor. This is what’s breaking now. And the two possible outcomes are either only the elites survive, or none of the elites survive.
If some guys were raping a woman, the cops would not have shown up at all
According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot’s path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move.
She was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
Can standing in a public space legally be enforced as “disorderly conduct?”
If she kept moving to be in front of it, it’s not just standing there as you’re framing it.
Yes, it can, and has many times before
She wasn’t charged with disorderly conduct for standing. She was charged with it for repeatedly moving and for ignoring officers’ commands to stop moving.
If she did that to you while you are trying to get to your office for an important meeting, how would you feel about her actions? If the robot did that to you, how upset would you be?
I agree with this woman’s cause but she is just a crazy Philly woman. If you really wanted to stop these things just kick them over and run, as it looked like she just stood in front of the bot and waited for the cops. Even better get a big ass truck drive up next to these bots scoop them up and then you got free lunch and a robot collection.
The robots have tons of cameras, sensors, and tracking equipment. You would be caught very quickly if you were just trying to vandalize them
If you wanted to go that route, pretend to be on your phone and trip over it in such a way as to knock it over
If you have the resources, you can tack on a personal injury lawsuit
It most definitely has “angry old man shakes fist at sky” energy around it.
wait I know her! she does this consistently here in Chinatown and on arch street by reading terminal market. always a joy to see, she’s really funny with it.
the other day I saw her manage to block one into driving over a metal grate on the sidewalk, at which point its sensors must’ve gotten confused cause it just stood there and didn’t move. I left after about 5 minutes, I wonder if someone had to come rescue it lol
