Well no shit, they don't care if they get fuckin stabbed
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I mean when I'm picking them, like 65% end up being eaten, 35% end up in the basket. I don't imagine the clankers would eat that much.
Makes sense, because blackberry thorns are just awful.
As a Pacific Northwesterner who also loves to eat blackberries, I have found that there are tactics. I can handle some brambles pretty well.
Raspberry thorns. Those are worse. They are so thin that they will go right through most leather gloves.
I don't get this pick all sorts of berries every year. Never get stuck. I just watch what I'm doing
IIRC, they have hybrids with a bunch of other berries that don't have thorns.
I don't think that boysenberries have thorns, though I haven't been picking them for a long time.
kagis
Apparently there are thorny and thornless variants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boysenberry
The boysenberry /ˈbɔɪzənbɛri/ is a cross between the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus), European blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), American dewberry (Rubus aboriginum), and loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).[2]
In the 1980s, breeding efforts in New Zealand combined cultivars and germplasm from California with Scottish sources to create five new thornless varieties.[5]
The loganberry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loganberry
The loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus) is a hybrid of the North American blackberry (Rubus ursinus) and the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus),[1][2] accidentally bred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan, for whom they are named.[3] They are cultivated for their edible fruit.
A prickle-free mutation of the loganberry, the 'American Thornless', was developed in 1933.
The "smooth blackberry":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_canadensis
Rubus canadensis is a North American species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names smooth blackberry,[2] Canadian blackberry, thornless blackberry and smooth highbush blackberry.[3] It is native to central and eastern Canada (from Newfoundland to Ontario) and the eastern United States (New England, the Great Lakes region, and the Appalachian Mountains).[4][5] It has also been sparingly recorded in Great Britain, in which it is often confused for the many other native blackberry species.[6]
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/rubus-canadensis/
Smooth blackberry has almost completely smooth stems that are free of prickles and spines.
Probably others.
Marionberries are great, but I've never seen them in the wild so I don't know how thorny they are.
This is what clankers should be used for.
Don't tell Elon, it'll become a sex toy.
I wonder if it’s better than the human hand?
it can harvest my black berries.....
and by that i mean it can be used as an automated masturbation device to extract the semen via sexual stimulation from my genital region. implying that i wouldnt use it for its intended purpose, but for sexual ones, as a joke.
on a subconcious level, this is a knee jerk reaction to a creeping feeling that humans are becoming more and more obsolete in the face of automation, and the horrific potentialities of what is yet to come.
fuckin' clankers!