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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds(arstechnica.com)

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Their creditors would sue because thats an asset that can be sold to refund them.

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Corngood@lemmy.ml
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Yeah, likely true without some sort of legislation.

Well at least there’s a business opportunity for someone to reanimate these things and use them to push gacha games and energy drinks on the innocent children they’ve bonded with.

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