arstechnica ,
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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/you-can-now-buy-a-flame-throwing-robot-dog-for-under-10000/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

philip_cardella ,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

@arstechnica wait. Is that the Hound from Fahrenheit 451?!!!??

JoBlakely ,
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica people’s own homes will be burned to the ground. It will be just like guns and harm those with them, and their children, the most.

JoBlakely ,
@JoBlakely@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica mini AT-AT prototype.

katzenberger ,
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@arstechnica A new challenge for those already bored by hacking the IP cams in their neighborhood.

Darberoom1954 ,
@Darberoom1954@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica
"I'll be Bark" 😈

davidpmaurer ,
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@arstechnica

does it say where i can get one? i don't read any more.

DemocracyMattersALot ,
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social avatar

@arstechnica

It's an INCEL dream come true!

miiamustang ,
@miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi avatar

@arstechnica United States be like:

"Autonomous flamethrowers with no human input? Go right ahead! But don't you fucking dare own a switchblade or a balisong knife"

samhainnight ,
@samhainnight@mstdn.social avatar

@arstechnica Just saying, a Supersoaker with dish soap and sand mixed into the water can gum up the gears of just about anything.

prettyhuman ,
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@arstechnica
Flamethrower robo-dog is legal, abortion is not. :blobcat_owo: okay

eldadoinquieto ,
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@arstechnica

It can't be true... 🙄

What a madness...

StephanieMoore ,
@StephanieMoore@mastodon.online avatar

@arstechnica this should come with an immediate suspension of property insurance and admission to damages in case of wildfire

imadnyc ,
@imadnyc@mstdn.social avatar

@arstechnica only mastodon would people dunk on this. is it totally irresponsible? yea. Is this also baller as hell? yea

mike ,
@mike@sauropods.win avatar

@arstechnica Second Amendment, innit? The right of the people to bear flamethrowing robot dogs shall not be abridged.

JakeHarrison ,
@JakeHarrison@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica As if those robot dogs couldn't get any more terrifying. 😨

StanczakDominik ,
@StanczakDominik@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica this really looks like a unit from an RTS game I help develop...

redwireless ,
@redwireless@mstdn.plus avatar

@arstechnica ...you'd think, with all the forest fires, etc that it'd be the opposite: a robot for firefighters to hook a hose on its back and send it straight to the 🔥 instead of the other way around...ofc, that would make sense so...

ochaos ,
@ochaos@techhub.social avatar

@arstechnica I'm going to add this to the growing list of items my wife won't let me purchase.

antygon ,
@antygon@pol.social avatar

@arstechnica Helldivers 2 is leaking into reality...

tudsamfa ,
@tudsamfa@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica

"I just don't feel safe anymore without my murder-machine, violent crime is at a sky-high level here in _____. Trying to restrict my 2nd amendment right to threaten homeless people to get out of my sight or they'll get torched would be against the American dream."

"The real problem are the Luddites and thieves, who give me no other choice but to buy 30 of them."

jimmyhoke ,
@jimmyhoke@fosstodon.org avatar

@arstechnica Wow! A cool invention that definitely won’t ever be misused!

MaryAustinBooks ,
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social avatar

@arstechnica
You just thought your dog had death breath.

Methylcobalamin ,
@Methylcobalamin@mastodon.social avatar

@arstechnica

Queue the gun nuts arguing how the "well regulated militias" need advanced military weaponry to keep the government in it's place when it is the MAGAs threatening democracy.

civfanatics ,
@civfanatics@mstdn.games avatar

@arstechnica I want that one as unit in :D

ChemicalEyeGuy ,
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science avatar

@arstechnica ⬆️ Very bad news for . Who needs to go to a when you can have a flame-throwing dog in your backyard?! 😂

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