PaulW , 28 days ago

@arstechnica oh lovely

johnlogic , 28 days ago

@arstechnica

Flamethrowers are banned only in Maryland.
California requires a permit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_flamethrowers_in_the_United_States

DWTSquawk7600 , 28 days ago

@arstechnica AKA, who needs Jewish Space Lasers??

Bwacton , 28 days ago

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

grumpybozo , 28 days ago

@arstechnica *Until you actually use it, which is likely to be illegal to some degree almost anywhere near humans, wildlife, or vegetation.

natureworks , 28 days ago

@arstechnica I dunno, I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

CodingThunder , 28 days ago

@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

lety , 28 days ago

@arstechnica Literally zero people in this thread have ever worked in forestry or lived in snow country and it really shows lmao

lety , 28 days ago

@arstechnica Literally zero people in this thread have ever worked in forestry or been trapped in snow country and it really shows lmao

jakalopes , 28 days ago

@arstechnica Fahrenheit 451 coming closer to being nonfiction every day

juanejot , 28 days ago

@arstechnica Trogdor does not approve.

Neither does Guy Montag.

ArthurCopeland4 , 28 days ago

@arstechnica

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

Just as the founding fathers intended.

leemoknows , 28 days ago

@arstechnica FBI agents everywhere…

Come On Wow GIF by BrownSugarApp

seanablett , 28 days ago

@arstechnica How could this go badly? No, really. I’m interested in the responses. There’s gotta be a million of them.

ChemicalEyeGuy , 28 days ago

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

#USpol #TrumpCantWin #2024election

civfanatics , 28 days ago

@arstechnica I want that one as unit in #Civ7 :D

Methylcobalamin , 28 days ago

@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.

MaryAustinBooks , 28 days ago

@arstechnica
You just thought your dog had death breath.

jimmyhoke , 28 days ago

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

tudsamfa , 28 days ago

@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."

antygon , 28 days ago

@arstechnica Helldivers 2 is leaking into reality...

ochaos , 28 days ago

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

redwireless , 28 days ago

@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...

StanczakDominik , 28 days ago

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

JakeHarrison , 28 days ago

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