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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Robots are white for the same reason Apple computers are white: to chase that 2001 A Space Odyssey aesthetic that's become shorthand for "futuristic."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Space Odyssey is racist too??

(Actually I haven't seen it, but a movie from 1968, wouldn't surprise me, if it wasn't all that PC)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It doesn't even really involve people (there's 1 guy and an AI).

But HAL was totally racist against humans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You haven't seen it?

Wow.

But no, doesn't involve that.