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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.
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    Well now I’m definitely going to have to save up $10,000 for a flame-throwing robot dog.

    How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?

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      How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?

      Build a tesla coil for $100.

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        What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?

        Also, how will I get my revenge?

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          Also, how will I get my revenge?

          With a fire-extinguisher robot dog?

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            I can’t kill my neighbor who sent the flamethrower robot dog to my house with a fire extinguisher robot dog! Not without plausible deniability anyway.

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          Make use of the only good usefully informative scene in Small Soldiers, and use a power transformer to create a city block radius EMP

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          The nice part of that is that the fire conducts along the electricity

          Edit: this was like two weeks ago but it was the other way around I am dumb

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      You gotta fight fire with fire

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    Now that’s one hell of a ‘hot dog’.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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    Lying on my bed, my new dog will keep me warm on cool winter nights.

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    Fire-extinguisher robot dogs in 3, 2, …

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      Yeah, no. Saving people sounds like a waste of money. How can we monetize saving them? Their deaths are way more lucrative.

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      That was the excuse dog to make this dog possible. Please pay attention when safety robots are announced.

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    Imagine telling your insurance about your newest purchase.

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    Great. Which country has your bet for the first country to sic these on their enemies?

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      https://billypenn.com/2024/04/22/israel-palestine-gaza-robot-dogs-ghost-robotics/

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        Well, that answers that question.

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    Israeli Military have entered the chat.

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    Totally replacing my snowblower with one of these

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    So how much for a shark with a frickin’ laser beam attached to its head?

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    I think I made one of those in the new Zelda game

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    Now if i just had an extra 10k lying around collecting dust…

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    I need it for personal protection.

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      It’s my “emotional support dog”.

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    Deus Ex intensifies.

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    thanks i needed this

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    I have $10k and a list.

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