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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Whatever happened to all the people that bought the Boring Company flamethrower?

They'd be a good customer base for this, but strangely I never hear how they're getting on now

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 10 months ago

Considering it was a Musk product, it probably fell apart in their hands the first time they tried to pull the trigger. If it didn't explode in their faces.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Were you expecting weekly updates?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I was at least expecting them to be publicly humiliated