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maddeningscientist:

thathopeyetlives:

maddeningscientist:

apparently all of california’s garbage trucks have HUGE ROBOTIC ARMS on them to pick up the trashcans??? what???? the fuck??????????

Other places don’t have this??

NORMAL garbage trucks have a guy who just sort of hangs on to the back and jumps off whenever they pull up to a house so he can throw the garbage in

No. NORMAL garbage trucks in Finland have HUGE ROBOTIC ARMS too; only weird-ass poor-place garbage trucks have a guy.

1 month ago · tagged #automation: it works dogs · 47 notes · source: maddeningscientist · .permalink

  1. wirehead-wannabe reblogged this from maddeningscientist and added:
    We only got these a couple years ago, but yes, the robots are in fact taking our garbage collecting jobs.
  2. globalistdrones reblogged this from soylentvanilla
  3. soylentvanilla reblogged this from eversolewd
  4. zwitterionics reblogged this from theaudientvoid and added:
    My part of Oklahoma had the giant robotic arms…
  5. theaudientvoid reblogged this from rocketverliden
  6. ubiquitouch reblogged this from rocketverliden and added:
    You know, it never even occurred to me that this was only in California. Like, I’ve seen images of garbage men hanging...
  7. overnight-shipping reblogged this from rocketverliden
  8. rocketverliden reblogged this from thathopeyetlives and added:
    (Arizona here) I think our trucks are the hydraulic loader-type.
  9. chroniclesofrettek reblogged this from maddeningscientist and added:
    Interestingly, garbage trucks in the suburb of NYC I grew up in have what @maddeningscientist describes as “NORMAL...
  10. crowmeme reblogged this from mitoticcephalopod and added:
    listen i love HUGE ROBOTIC ARMS as much as the next girl but as someone from a weird-ass poor-place, the guys are very...
  11. mitoticcephalopod reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin
  12. socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from maddeningscientist and added:
    No. NORMAL garbage trucks in Finland have HUGE ROBOTIC ARMS too; only weird-ass poor-place garbage trucks have a guy.
  13. the-grey-tribe reblogged this from thathopeyetlives and added:
    Other places have this. At least three cities in central Europe have this. Haven’t paid attention to that many garbage...
  14. metagorgon said: bins are standardized here
  15. eversolewd reblogged this from thathopeyetlives
  16. itsbenedict said: same in north carolina but they’re terrible and half the time trash bins aren’t standardized so they have to have the hanging-on guy anyway for when the robo-arm fucks up
  17. thathopeyetlives reblogged this from maddeningscientist and added:
    F U L L A U T O M A T I O N
  18. maddeningscientist reblogged this from thathopeyetlives and added:
    NORMAL garbage trucks have a guy who just sort of hangs on to the back and jumps off whenever they pull up to a house so...
  19. metagorgon said: that’s all garbage trucks in phoenix. there are also forklift dealies for dumpsters.