XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.economics, seattle.politics   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 18/08/25 03:54, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:54:09 -0700, a425couple   
   >  wrote:   
   snip   
   >>   
   >> During the opening ceremony, the robots demonstrated soccer and boxing   
   >> among other sports, with some cheering and backflipping as if at a real   
   >> sports event.   
      
   > I would think /nothing/ would do more to depopularize sports than   
   > this.   
      
   Displaying emotion in public has become more acceptable over recent   
   decades because it shows that sports people are human rather than   
   robotic physical extremists. Robots will imitate humans because the   
   grandstands won't be filled with toasters and self-driving cars.   
      
   >> One robot soccer player scored a goal after a few tries, --   
      
   > But did the fans riot in the streets afterwards? That /is/ the   
   > tradition, after all.   
      
   They will eventually. Perhaps you haven't noticed but sports fans only   
   follow the uniform no matter what is inside it. The lower classes pay   
   uniform wearing millionaire mercenaries to play tribal competitive games   
   with no concern for their nationality nor tribal affiliations.   
      
   >> The robots also modeled fashionable hats and clothes alongside human   
   >> models. ----   
      
   > Small children play dress-up too.   
      
   With the Zelenksy exception proving the rule, so do our elected and   
   non-elected leaders. The wardrobe of Hilary, (wife of Epstein video   
   star, Bill), probably cost more than feeding KFC to Palestinian children   
   in the Gazan concentration camp for several months would. Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)