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Lying on my bed, my new dog will keep me warm on cool winter nights.
And you could roast marshmallows in bed!
According to the FAQ on the flamethrower, while the unit is apparently pretty flexible in fuel that it can handle, the recommended fuel is mostly diesel. I’d imagine that one could use biodiesel and do climate-friendly heating.
Even less money for a real dog and flame-thrower…
Yeah, but controls are… unreliable.
Training tends to fall out the window when Lacy sees the flames spewing from her backpack.
*…30-foot flame-throwing range, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth"
Is that wifi6? 🤔
If so it won’t be a buy for me, wifi7 is a must.
for $10,000 I want at least wifi8
Dudes rock
Also: Which 2 states are the sane ones where this would be illegal?
Screw those states, flamethrowers are awesome and I want to see more of them.
But… why?
No, the question is why not?
The next question is whether they can stick a couple chemical tanks with variable-flow fuses on that thing to inject into the stream so that they can get RGB flames.
Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?
Where’s the robot to clean up the flaming, decapitated gopher carcasses off my lawn?
Not needed, because they get flamed while they’re in their burrows underground. So all you have to do is plug up the holes after the bot comes out and you’re done.
They have an app for that now. It’s like Uber but somehow even treats their “contractors” in a worse fashion. It’s called Flameaway.
Because, Awesome!
Because. Also, flamethrower aren’t considered weapons by the government, so the only states that limits you from buying one is California and Ohio and Maryland banned them.
Ok how the hell did Ohio limit flamethrowers? We’re the Florida of the north
Apparently the company is even based here in Cleveland
Ohio has a ban too? The company that makes these is based in Ohio lol
Not a ban, a restriction. Like California, you need a permit. Sorry if I made that confusing.
Ok new life goal. Be that guy at the DMV with a permit for a flamethrower arguing with the civil servant that “because it is cool” is a valid reason
In most if not all states, if you have an AAA membership, you can do your DMV stuff at AAA offices and dodge the DMV entirely. The lines are way better.
In my area, the DMV is actually quite pleasant. I’ve had to go like 2-3x ever? And each time was a 15 min adventure:
- registered my car from out of state
- bought a car from a local private seller - I brought them with me to finalize the transfer
- bought a car from an out of state private seller (my brother), just brought the signed title
Or emissions checks can be submitted at the check station for $8 or filed online for free, so there’s no reason for most people to go to the DMV. In fact, most other stuff can be done online too.
It honestly takes longer for me to get there (like 15 min drive) than to actually get my business sorted. It’s one of the better run agencies in the state.
That said, the DOL division sucks. We don’t even require in person renewals, but the two times I had to go sucked (when I first moved here, and for my wife to get her license transferred). It’s a much smaller office with far more people waiting.
I have a DMV that’s never busy around me too, at the cost of being further out of my way (even more so now that I’ve moved even farther from it). But it’s worth being able to walk in and go right to a counter (without an appointment even!) instead of waiting 8+ fucking hours starting at 5am like the one in my actual city.
Of course they are…
flamethrower aren’t considered weapons by the government
Considered firearms.
No they’re not. The ATF does not consider flamethrower a firearm and there exists no country wide law about flamethrower, and by law, even a felon can own a fully working flamethrower.
Right. I’m saying that you wanted to use the term “firearm”, not “weapon”.
California allows roofers to have flamethrowers. They use them for curing something in the roofing tiles(? I don’t know the proper term for those things. They’re basically cardboard covered in tar and gravel, possibly a thin layer of asphalt?).
It was a bit unnerving the first few times I heard the roofers doing their thing.
They’re called shingles, asphalt shingles being the most common in most parts of the US because they’re relatively inexpensive.
I think I made one of those in the new Zelda game
I want it.
I just want one that delivers a beer and a hunk of summer sausage.
But a flamethrower? I guess…sure?
burns down house during summer sausage delivery
Well, you’re in luck! They’re already testing those out in Los Angeles: https://www.serverobotics.com/uber-eats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9MJorTjpxU
Well now I’m definitely going to have to save up $10,000 for a flame-throwing robot dog.
How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?
How else am I going to protect myself from all the flame-throwing robot dogs?
Build a tesla coil for 100$.
What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?
Also, how will I get my revenge?
What if their flame thrower range is longer than the range of my Tesla coil?
Put your Tesla coil on a long boom.
Make use of the only
goodusefully informative scene in Small Soldiers, and use a power transformer to create a city block radius EMPThe nice part of that is that the fire conducts along the electricity
Also, how will I get my revenge?
With a fire-extinguisher robot dog?
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.
Not quite doable: https://youtu.be/Ry5YEknaxBk
A 5 minute thing blown up to a 50 minutes action sequence with cars drawing circles in the desert and a helicopter filming infrared and tüdelü, all in 10x repeat, is a sad new high for me.
But of course someone tested that already.
Well…That’s TV shows for you.
But evwn better: Between each repeat would be an ad break. :)
At least we don’t have that (premium and/or ad blocker) on youtube…Didn’t notice the ads. Newpipe with sponsorblock i guess?
The only defense against a bad guy with a flame throwing robot dog, is a good guy with a flame throwing robot dog
What about a neutral girl with a flame throwing robot dog?
Believe it or not, a chaotic neutral or lawful good girl with a flame throwing robot dog. There are some nuances if you’re using Pathfinder.
I’ll take all the nuance if it means more flamethrower robot dog gladiator battles.
I’ll take those odds!
You gotta fight fire with fire
“Flame-throwing robot dogs don’t kill people, people kill people”
Dear ladies and gentleman of the jury. I will now argue that the LLM that programmed the fire breathing dog, did so in such a manner as to make it sentient. The dog was able to and did act of it’s own accord when it killed the woman, Ms Smith. The defendant here did not create sentience in the dog, nor could he have known turning the dog on, outside, may result in the fire breathing dog torch a bystander to death.
You can see here, the dogs walking and urination patterns closely align with a real, organic dog. This definitively proves that the dog killed the woman, and now the defendant, who only released the dog into nature. Thank you very much.
That’s a legit point under common law. The owner or keeper of a wild animal is generally strictly liable for damage caused by the animal, except if the animal is local fauna, in which case liability terminates on the animal’s escape back into the wild. I don’t know of any place with native flame throwing robots.
What if enough flame throwing robot dogs escape into the local environment for them to become an endemic invasive species? Then could we be able to terminate any liability associated with the barbequing of the general public?
Obviously then yes it would be fine.
Theoretically if Amazon drones become wide spread in the environment and I capture one, attach a flamethrower to it, and the above scenario happens after I release it back into the wild, would that defense then apply as Amazon drones are native to the environment?
That would probably fall under intentional torts rather than strict animal liability. If you do, put up some vague “is this your drone?” flyers with a blurry photo, wait a bit, take the drone to the vet and pay the bill in your name, and build the evidence of your keepership, because you’ll have to admit being a keeper for the defense to work. Also, owners or keepers are liable, and this is one of those rare times in law when or also means and, and Amazon will probably help you defend the case in chief, though they will probably come after you next. This does not constitute legal advice.
I need it for personal protection.
It’s my “emotional support dog”.
Totally replacing my snowblower with one of these
Cool like in Mona Lisa Overdrive. All I need to do now is to get a few and move into an abandoned factory in South Jersey until the Yakuza hire me to look after an AI for them.
suprised this wasn’t elon musk
Can I just get a robot dog armed with a super soaker? That would be hilarious.
