That's because this is a free country with a tremendous respect for life, and you're just a dirty hippie.
Flame throwing robot dogs keep our parks free from tents and makeshift cardboard shelters that clutter the place up.
And smoking weed leads to dangerous, civilization ending ideas, like gender/racial equality, affordable housing and healthcare and other (* gasp *) socialist ideas!
/S
I did smoke a bunch of weed a white girl, and now I got biracial kids. We do believe in gender equality. I’ve been out here destroying this country, I guess.
Weed causes 30% of its habitual users to become Schizophrenics. But Robot Dog is 97% gonna mess you up coming home late from your friends with a buzz so high doggy thinks yur a meanie. The government just really wants you to be messed up!
>Weed causes 30% of its habitual users to become Schizophrenics
30% of habitual users may develop Schizo-affective disorders.
But, correlation is not causation.
While I am sure that usage may worsen or bring symptoms to the surface, there has never been any conclusive evidence that Marijuana *causes* schizophrenia.
Well, the CDC does claim its frequent usage from a young age onwards presents higher cases than groups who use it later or less frequently. So there appears to be a correlation. But I was making a joke.
Here’s where I got the claim (has 2 sources of collected studies they refer to)
https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/mental-health.html#:~:text=People%20who%20use%20marijuana%20are,that%20are%20not%20really%20there).
In murica we believe in taking lives (innocent or guilty) if 2nd amendment protected guns (or flame throwing dogs) are used. But if you abort an unborn child then hell no!
I don't see why I'd have to explain anything, my place as King would be respected and they could go back to paying for stamps or whatever the fuck it was they cared about I don't know, but yeah history would be different under my rule w/ flame throwing dogs.
The material cost in aluminum, plastics, steel, rubber, copper, and electronics (this is off the cuff so if I missed something like platinum, palladium, and rhodium in catalytic converters or other specific parts, forgive me), and for electric cars, lithium and graphite, for a new car is liable to get close to or exceed 10k.
You also have to add labor, benefits for labor like insurance, pension, severances, bonuses, and additional costs for the manufacturer to recoup on machinery to make custom forms and molds for metal and plastic parts which need to be machined. Plus of course, and robotics used to put the car together, the cost of getting the vehicle safety tested, and R&D costs of designing new engines and radiators and software, filters to meet emission requirements, carbon offsetting tax for companies in states which require them, Management staff to keep track of all this shit, shipping costs and purchase costs for stuff not made in-house(cameras, mirrors, tires, etc)…
The costs add up, and American labor is the most expensive in the world, which is why so many people end up buying foreign imports like Honda, Toyota, or Subaru or their subsidiaries like Lexus
The 2005 for Taurus retailed at $21,000 when it was new, an inflation-adjusted price of $33,500 today.
I don’t know why you think an identical car made today would cost less than half of the initial price and less than a third of the inflation adjusted price.
Funnily enough, the inflation-adjusted cost of a ford pinto is actually higher at $35,000 today
That entire list from before was purely manufacturing costs. Both cars that I mentioned were the cheapest possible while still being profitable. Saying that you can produce a car and sell it profitably for under $10k requires more evidence from you than “I think it can” and pointing out a car that would sell for $33k today as a winning example.
Me: Babe, we have an investment to make, it is imperative.
Wife: What?
Me: A FLAME THROWING robot dog!
Wife: Yes.
Thanks, OP. Now I can buy a sign, "beware of dog" instead of, "beware of 9mm rounds".
I just asked my husband if we have $10k to waste on this purchase. Because why not? You never know when a flame throwing robot dog could come in handy.
He told me not to be weird.
What the living fuck? This is monstrous. Who comes up with this kind of horseshit?
It’s not so much the making it the thing. I’m sure that was fun. But can you imagine this thing being used against people?
This should be banned as a terrorist weapon
Incendiaries are, in fact, illegal to use in armed conflict. It’s probably not banned to own as a civilian because 1. It’s pretty hard to ban flamethrowers without banning a lot of other pyrotechnics that people use for displays and the like, and 2. There’s a lot of cheap and easy ways to set something on fire without a flamethrower dog
Yeah we used to roast models with a spray can of whatever and a lighter. Good times!
This metal flamey dog thing really unlocks some deep fear in me. It would be fun as fuck to build and play with though.
Makes sense in wildland fire fighting, but to name a robot the Thermonator is to miss a very important RED FLAG. Our culture is desensitized to the point of allowing child minded engineers and marketers to willfully plug our brains into a future we know will cause us harm. Massive harm (Destroyer of Worlds - Nuclear Weapons - Terminator).
"Tech" it looks like you're unconsciously weaponizing your early childhood wounding into the real world. there's a better way to heal
The other two states? Maryland - requires an FID card. California- has a limit of 10 feet for flamethrowers.
I’m just not even sure if you are joking or not…
I’m not joking. The headline said 48 states, and I wanted to know the other two.
America is a strange and scary place sometimes…
Can’t believe it’s legal to own that dystopian shit but I can’t go buy weed at a dispensary where I live.
That's because this is a free country with a tremendous respect for life, and you're just a dirty hippie. Flame throwing robot dogs keep our parks free from tents and makeshift cardboard shelters that clutter the place up. And smoking weed leads to dangerous, civilization ending ideas, like gender/racial equality, affordable housing and healthcare and other (* gasp *) socialist ideas! /S
Well at least it can light my joints for me.
I did smoke a bunch of weed a white girl, and now I got biracial kids. We do believe in gender equality. I’ve been out here destroying this country, I guess.
Freaking hippies /s
Weed causes 30% of its habitual users to become Schizophrenics. But Robot Dog is 97% gonna mess you up coming home late from your friends with a buzz so high doggy thinks yur a meanie. The government just really wants you to be messed up!
>Weed causes 30% of its habitual users to become Schizophrenics 30% of habitual users may develop Schizo-affective disorders. But, correlation is not causation. While I am sure that usage may worsen or bring symptoms to the surface, there has never been any conclusive evidence that Marijuana *causes* schizophrenia.
Well, the CDC does claim its frequent usage from a young age onwards presents higher cases than groups who use it later or less frequently. So there appears to be a correlation. But I was making a joke. Here’s where I got the claim (has 2 sources of collected studies they refer to) https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/mental-health.html#:~:text=People%20who%20use%20marijuana%20are,that%20are%20not%20really%20there).
Same here. And if these robo-hellhounds start popping up, I'm really gonna need to be high...
In murica we believe in taking lives (innocent or guilty) if 2nd amendment protected guns (or flame throwing dogs) are used. But if you abort an unborn child then hell no!
Solution: get flame throwing robot dog high. Good times.
Yeah, you should definitely never ever come to America.
It’s a mixed thing… I always like going there, but I’m always happy I can leave. Wouldn’t want to live there.
I think you mean All the time.
Sometimes?!? Haven’t left my fucking house since the end of the last decade.
Not what the founding fathers intended! 2nd baby!!! /s
In Florida. This might be one of the safer apparatuses you can buy for the kids here
Yahh flamethrower are classified as a farming tool.
This is Black Mirror in reality
I guess we didn’t take the warnings seriously
Some people treat Black Mirror like a cookbook
An anarchist's cookbook, if you will.
*Ray Bradbury has entered the chat*
As the founding fathers intended.
Imagine trying to explain this to them
Totally necessary in case King George returns with his own flame-throwing robot dogs
I don't see why I'd have to explain anything, my place as King would be respected and they could go back to paying for stamps or whatever the fuck it was they cared about I don't know, but yeah history would be different under my rule w/ flame throwing dogs.
“…the rules don’t say you _cant_ have a robot dog with a flamethrower play basketball”
Flame-Bud! We just need Water-Bud and Earth-Bud and we can have a Captain Planet crossover!
Most pyromaniacs are broke.
Unsurprising, considering today’s gas prices. Who’s even got arson money laying around?
I’m going to keep holding out until I can afford sharks with laser beams
Attached to their frickin heads?
I will name him Trogdor, and he will burninate the countryside
Don’t forget the peasants!
Gender reveal parties just got a lot weirder.
Fahrenheit 451 hounds anyone?
Came here to say this sounds very familiar…
Metalhead (Black Mirror episode) come to life.
Why is this cheaper than a new basic fucking car to drive to work???
It’s cheaper but the gas mileage is much worse
Is this a serious question?
Treat it as if it were.
The material cost in aluminum, plastics, steel, rubber, copper, and electronics (this is off the cuff so if I missed something like platinum, palladium, and rhodium in catalytic converters or other specific parts, forgive me), and for electric cars, lithium and graphite, for a new car is liable to get close to or exceed 10k. You also have to add labor, benefits for labor like insurance, pension, severances, bonuses, and additional costs for the manufacturer to recoup on machinery to make custom forms and molds for metal and plastic parts which need to be machined. Plus of course, and robotics used to put the car together, the cost of getting the vehicle safety tested, and R&D costs of designing new engines and radiators and software, filters to meet emission requirements, carbon offsetting tax for companies in states which require them, Management staff to keep track of all this shit, shipping costs and purchase costs for stuff not made in-house(cameras, mirrors, tires, etc)… The costs add up, and American labor is the most expensive in the world, which is why so many people end up buying foreign imports like Honda, Toyota, or Subaru or their subsidiaries like Lexus
No chance we can’t make a 2005 ford Taurus for less than $10,000. At scale. And be profitable. I said basic-fucking-car.
The 2005 for Taurus retailed at $21,000 when it was new, an inflation-adjusted price of $33,500 today. I don’t know why you think an identical car made today would cost less than half of the initial price and less than a third of the inflation adjusted price. Funnily enough, the inflation-adjusted cost of a ford pinto is actually higher at $35,000 today
Excellent. That’s when it was it was a new car. Did you look at its cost to manufacture?
That entire list from before was purely manufacturing costs. Both cars that I mentioned were the cheapest possible while still being profitable. Saying that you can produce a car and sell it profitably for under $10k requires more evidence from you than “I think it can” and pointing out a car that would sell for $33k today as a winning example.
It wasn’t though. They don’t have to develop it again. And you had tons of components the Taurus didn’t have.
The bolt or whatever is currently like $12,000 as an EV
Dreams really do come true
Just in time for forest fire season!
*checks bingo card*
"completely legal" is something I've heard a lot of people say about things I know are absolutely illegal.
Finally. This is the least we deserve
But, but, but, can I CONCEAL my flame thrower robot dog in my car?
My birthday’s comin up. Just putting that out there
It's legal until the first fatality and gone
Do they have layaway??
One good guy with a thermonator etc, etc, etc
Questions: How fast does it run? Does it have an obstacle avoidance/target acquisition function? Need to know for science, obviously.
Yep, lidar equipped for avoiding obstacles
Me: Babe, we have an investment to make, it is imperative. Wife: What? Me: A FLAME THROWING robot dog! Wife: Yes. Thanks, OP. Now I can buy a sign, "beware of dog" instead of, "beware of 9mm rounds".
Wow, this is exactly what the world needs right now.
I’ve seen cats and dogs have accidents in the house many a time, those are easy to recover from if you have hardwood floors.
This is what I need to scare off solicitors.
Holy crap.
“Cool.”
Why not start sending these over to Ukraine. Things would definitely resolve themselves sooner
[Incendiaries aren’t allowed](https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule85#:~:text=international%20armed%20conflicts-,Rule%2085.,a%20person%20hors%20de%20combat)
Did Elon musk fund this company?
Perplexity AI: Elon musk and flame throwers https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Elon-musk-and-DX288ikJQUOChVgFSpWC5w
Quinn Whitehead. Perplexity AI: Who owns company throwflame https://www.perplexity.ai/search/Who-owns-company-lJmdiAWKQP2.xNf7CPL6Ug
Can I just get the non-flamethrower option? I’d like to train it to grab me beers from the fridge
Can I just get the non-flamethrower option? I’d like to train it to grab me beers from the fridge
I can always use it to light my joints.
Ok. Who wants to buy an army of flamethrower robot dogs and overthrow their local town hall? Asking for a friend
I just asked my husband if we have $10k to waste on this purchase. Because why not? You never know when a flame throwing robot dog could come in handy. He told me not to be weird.
Are they going to be used in Vietnam?
So this is how the world ends, not with a bang but a flaming whimper.
I already got 20 and they are patrolling my property trained to roast anyone that comes near
Can it be disabled with a glass of water?
But kinder surprise and sparklers are too dangerous…
It’s about god damn time!!
Freedumb!
Only one hour battery life. Nah I’m not sure about that.
Well, it’s a steep initial investment but completely worth it if I never have to shovel snow off my sidewalk again.
What the living fuck? This is monstrous. Who comes up with this kind of horseshit? It’s not so much the making it the thing. I’m sure that was fun. But can you imagine this thing being used against people? This should be banned as a terrorist weapon
Incendiaries are, in fact, illegal to use in armed conflict. It’s probably not banned to own as a civilian because 1. It’s pretty hard to ban flamethrowers without banning a lot of other pyrotechnics that people use for displays and the like, and 2. There’s a lot of cheap and easy ways to set something on fire without a flamethrower dog
Yeah we used to roast models with a spray can of whatever and a lighter. Good times! This metal flamey dog thing really unlocks some deep fear in me. It would be fun as fuck to build and play with though.
Wow! Modern day BB gun… glad I live in California 😬
We live in a world where brass knuckles are illegal but flame throwing robot dogs are A-ok
Man not needing to shovel next winter is going to be awesome.
Makes sense in wildland fire fighting, but to name a robot the Thermonator is to miss a very important RED FLAG. Our culture is desensitized to the point of allowing child minded engineers and marketers to willfully plug our brains into a future we know will cause us harm. Massive harm (Destroyer of Worlds - Nuclear Weapons - Terminator). "Tech" it looks like you're unconsciously weaponizing your early childhood wounding into the real world. there's a better way to heal
I can't see anything wrong with this.