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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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] 6 points 11 months ago (1 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] 5 points 11 months ago

You haven't seen it?

Wow.

But no, doesn't involve that.