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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People dumb enough to buy flamethrower dogs setting a whole state on fire is an imaginary scenario?

[โ€“] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Roofing flame throwers have been a thing for 40 years. We not suddenly going to see a bunch of new accesses to these tools. They said the same exact shit about the not a flamethrower and here we are not burning alive from fires started by them.