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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 22:23:26 JST Ars Technica

   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

   • Harvey Sandstrom (cd0@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 22:33:58 JST Harvey Sandstrom

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     @arstechnica Excuse me, steward? I appear to be sitting in the wrong future, can I please move to a different one?

   • Space Wrangler (space_wrangler@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 22:45:38 JST Space Wrangler

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     @arstechnica
     What could possibly go wrong?

   • Angus McIntyre (angusm@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 22:47:40 JST Angus McIntyre

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     @arstechnica “The dog incinerated my homework.”

   • Rod Uding (outpost42@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 22:56:58 JST Rod Uding

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     @arstechnica Brings new meaning to the term "Hot Dog"

   • Slip (slipp@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:21:05 JST Slip

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     @arstechnica surely this can't go wrong at all

   • Ulrich_the_Elder (ulrich_the_elder@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:25:15 JST Ulrich_the_Elder

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     @arstechnica Cool, just in time for forest fire season. I am guessing the red states will buy these out.

   • Jo Jitsu (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:28:22 JST Jo Jitsu

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     @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.

   • Jo Jitsu (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:35:45 JST Jo Jitsu

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     @arstechnica mini AT-AT prototype.

   • Darberoom (darberoom1954@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 23:55:57 JST Darberoom

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     @arstechnica
     "I'll be Bark" 😈

   • Jake Harrison (jakeharrison@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 01:19:13 JST Jake Harrison

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

   • Dominik Stańczak-Marikin (stanczakdominik@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 01:39:17 JST Dominik Stańczak-Marikin

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

   • tudsamfa (tudsamfa@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 02:05:57 JST tudsamfa

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     @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."

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 02:26:37 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @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.

   • Arthur Copeland (arthurcopeland4@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 03:59:55 JST Arthur Copeland

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     @arstechnica

     “If flamethrower-wielding robot dogs are outlawed, only outlaws will have flamethrower-wielding robot dogs.”

     Just as the founding fathers intended.

   • Yaksh Bariya (codingthunder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 05:25:45 JST Yaksh Bariya

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     @arstechnica Why didnt the creators thought of doing something similar but a "carbon dioxide thrower"? Even has a practical use case instead of just pulling in VC money

   • Bruce Acton (bwacton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 06:42:51 JST Bruce Acton

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     @arstechnica I’d really like a fire fighting robot, it would be way more useful. Rats maybe I should have patented that!