this is akin to cleaning out your snowed-in driveway with a twin-engine afterburner from an F14 Tomcat - holy shit, it actually cleaned the thing! saved me a buncha time! and it cost pennies!

yeah, but:

gas is subsidised by Northrop-Grumman's investors for the first year or so; afterwards it'll cost you dearly. and the maintenance, madonn'
there are no city snow cleaners no more and no store is selling shovels
it obliterated all the trees and grass and critters and shit and damaged parked cars
you polluted the shit out of your sight line, nothing will grow there for generations and the runoff poisoned every body of water this shit touches
now you gotta clean the burned shit
nobody in your neighborhood can get no gas no more; there's some two boroughs over, but it's 3x the price
nobody can fix their cars with cheap parts, all raw materials go towards NG's production/maintenance
the "explode" and "afterburner" buttons are kinda close together so the former happens eventually
everybody says you're fucking loco and fucking stop with that shit but everytime you press the blast button, a pleasant "you're so awesome!" voice booms and it makes you feel very special

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And sometimes it doesn't actually remove the snow.

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It actually doesn't remove the snow, which I think makes it a PERFECT analogy since you've wasted a shit ton of energy on the flashy,expensive, idea instead of just doing what actually works.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you not understand how insane jet engines are?

[–] WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

I read it as melting snow, not just getting it off the drive way. But just blasting the snow from your driveway onto to street won't be a ton of help either since that still needs to get plowed.

[–] RandomStranger@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Just to make a counterpoint. Yes, it will! https://youtube.com/shorts/hlYtx4Xe7r0