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[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 30 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

90,585 days without a national health service.

248yrs. Nice, you did the maths.

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk -2 points 1 month ago

Nice. You said maths!

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

Think of the shareholders!

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] FermiEstimate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

American Rounds

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

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

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

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

FILL YOUR CRAVINGS WITH THE CIRCUS OF VALLUUUEEESSS

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

COME BACK WHEN YOU HAVE SOME MONEY BUDDY

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago

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

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

A fantastic day for capitalism!

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

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

[–] kbal@fedia.io 19 points 1 month 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?

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

downvoted for .45