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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

They’ll be put in schools next.

90,585 days without a national health service.

For fucks sake America.

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The bullet machines will be for the campus law enforcement, the tots won't get to use them.

But they will get to try out the tech in cafeterias, so that they'll be more conveniently denied a free lunch.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Myopic of them. We've seen cops respond to school shooters by cowering. The only thing that can stop a bad tot with a gun is a good tot with a gun.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

90,585 days without a national health service.

248yrs. Nice, you did the maths.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk -2 points 10 months ago

Nice. You said maths!

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 6 points 10 months ago

Think of the shareholders!

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I doubt so, since those vending machines require a face scan and ID verification for proof of age. Also those are two things that would make me decline to use such a machine.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

They should put them in the duty free part of airports.

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

American Rounds

What, was the Circus of Values brand too expensive to license?

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

Ammo bandito would've stirred mixed feelings about conservatives' border policy

[–] Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

FILL YOUR CRAVINGS WITH THE CIRCUS OF VALLUUUEEESSS

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

COME BACK WHEN YOU HAVE SOME MONEY BUDDY

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 22 points 10 months ago

Tenner says we're seeing them in GTA 6 for obvious reasons

[–] kbal@fedia.io 19 points 10 months ago

I wonder what kind of training it takes to become capable of deciding that the thing your ammunition vending machine project really needs is Artificial Intelligence. Does the NRA have an MBA program?

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A fantastic day for capitalism!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

I'm sure we'll do this all again soon enough.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

Well time to build a large golden statue of a shopkeeper.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's harder to buy alcohol than use the vending machine. Where I live, I can't buy alcohol at the liquor store before noon on Sunday or on holidays. But I can stock for a school shooting?

Puritan America values strike again.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 10 months ago

Puritan America values strike again.

Just got an acausal message from the future. 2025 will be shocking, we have seen nothing yet. And sadly I don't think we in Europe have it in us to do a D-day to save the USA from the fascists.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wonder what initial conditions spawned this fractal of bad. This Mandel-rot. This Sier-stink-ski

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't know why anyone would use these. I just got 500 rounds of .45 for $.23/ea. LOL, they're probably $2/ea. in a vending machine.

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

buddy, I'm not sure you took the right lesson from this

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago

downvoted for .45