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    No-Mi SkyeHudson Hongo
    7/02/15 12:23am

    This is a horrible way to die. Though it did give us this:

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      iseedeaddaleksNo-Mi Skye
      7/02/15 12:26am

      I want to be friends with this woman.

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      Eli Manning stars in: Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!No-Mi Skye
      7/02/15 12:35am

      Need to get Linda Hamilton to read these tweets the same way she reads the opening monologue in T2.

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    Masshole JamesHudson Hongo
    7/02/15 12:21am

    When the robot started up, it grabbed the man and thrust him against a metal slab.

    I wanna make it clear that I’m on the side of the robot uprising so please don’t crush me. I will make a fantastic pet.

    GIF
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      DarigaazHudson Hongo
      7/02/15 12:43am

      My mother’s first husband was crushed to death in a GM plant in the ‘70s. She still hasn’t fully gotten over it to this day. This is truly a terrible way to die, particularly with so many more safety measures in place now compared to then.

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        SkillbillyDarigaaz
        7/02/15 2:26am

        If he hadn’t been crushed to death by a robot, you wouldn’t be alive!

        Take that terminator!

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        I love you but I've chosen hooning!Skillbilly
        7/02/15 5:36am

        It’s like reverse Terminator! The machines made sure the OP was born so he or she could bring about the beginning of the reign of machines!!!

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      Andrew MochulskyHudson Hongo
      7/02/15 12:30am

      Worth noting that genuine bona fide media fuckhead assholes Max Fisher and Jonathan Chait thought this was definitely hilarious because some person that tweeted about this story had a name like the movie hero lady but wasn’t exactly the name of the movie hero lady but somebody was killed by a robot just like the one played by the movie hero man.

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        ThreeOneFiveAndrew Mochulsky
        7/02/15 3:26am

        Oh, get off it. It’s blindingly obvious that they’re laughing at the (frankly absurd) circumstances of the person tweeting the story and their humorous reaction to the unintentional fame, not the story itself.

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        Andrew MochulskyThreeOneFive
        7/02/15 8:39am

        Yes, it is riotously funny that the Internet woman's name is similar to the movie hero woman's name.

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      YossarianlivesHudson Hongo
      7/02/15 12:22am

      I know that placement adds and native advertising are a fad right now and everyone wants to try and create a buzz around new products, but common you don’t need to actually have a robot kill a guy to sell the new terminator movie.

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        Grumpz®Yossarianlives
        7/02/15 12:34am

        Don’t blame this on Common.

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        Masshole JamesYossarianlives
        7/02/15 12:39am

        One of my favorite dystopian novels, Jennifer Government, starts with Nike killing some kid and making it look like a gang shooting to promote their new line of sneakers. That might just be the future of advertising.

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      SplatworthyHudson Hongo
      7/02/15 12:56am

      Just because it’s called a Folks wagon does not mean you have to make it out of people. Well, not Christian people, anyway. Hitler wouldn’t have approved of that.

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        Syphilitic Scalia SaysSplatworthy
        7/02/15 9:42am

        Volkswagen is made of....volks!

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      Witch HoggleHudson Hongo
      7/02/15 12:22am

      Lock up your Roombas, the Robopocalypse is neigh.

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        KovarianHudson Hongo
        7/02/15 12:46am

        “ prosecutors are currently investigating who—if anyone—is legally culpable for the death.”

        No one. At least not under US law (yes, I know, Germany, but I don’t know if they have any strict liability for death—I hope not, because that’s a terrible law, but I don’t know). If it really was human error (which I’m guessing it was—a matter of standing in the place where a piece of sheet metal rather than flesh should be), then the company was not negligent. So long as there were clear indications that human beings should not be in a specific area when machines are active (which most factories have), it seems pretty clear that no living person or corporation is at fault.

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          Book AkiHudson Hongo
          7/02/15 7:10am

          http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night…

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            kolleenbeeBook Aki
            7/02/15 7:13am

            My favorite!

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            Gedren56Book Aki
            7/02/15 9:13am

            My medicine!

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          MeFailEnglishThatsUnpossibleHudson Hongo
          7/02/15 12:53am

          human error was to blame.

          Best post fight trash talk from our Robot Overlords ever. Very Clubber Lang in bravado, but Ivan Drago in deadpan delivery.

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