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    Finally! We only got 52 yearts left till 2077! A lot remains to be done, but this is a start!

    Edit: The fuck, it is my cakeday? Didn’t I just join a couple of weeks ago (after I was annoyed over at lemmy.world)?

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      17 hours ago

      Light?

      Maybe it depends on which Fox News articles you read. They vary wildly from hard news to hard right punditry. I find most Post Millennial articles to be more biased on average, but a lot less sensational and editorial as well.

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    “We knew we had something special, but we didn’t know that it was going to explode like that,” Magers said.

    I don’t want any ammo vending machines if they’re going to explode /s

    On a serious note, I’m surprised these weren’t already available. Now we just need a gun vending machine and I can feel like I’m living in a Borderlands game.

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    Meanwhile, they’ll end up banning pencils and pens in schools, because they could be used as shanks.

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    Waiting to see when this will make the news that one is posted in a US school building.

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      Image of a “good guy with a gun” trying to stop an active shooter; asking everyone running past him if they have change for a dollar as with increasing urgency, he keeps trying to smooth out and feed a crinkled dollar bill into the machine that keeps spitting out.

      Edit: the dystopia flows through me - how bout it becomes subscription based so if you’re on the lowest paid plan you have to watch a 60 second promo spot for season 62 of “Congress Candy Crush Smackdown” or transfer ownership of 10% of your genetic sequence to Disney-Boston Dynamics for their “Real Boy Initiative”, or agree to enable Server mode on your “Nestle Neural Chocolate Chip” to contribute 10% of your brain’s processing power to their distributed “Metabolism Enhancement Network” where subscribers can customise their own metabolic rate, preferred tastes and even allergies.

      It becomes SNL adjacent when the shooter also needs to refill on ammo, but he’s not a member for this particular vendor - so his ammo dispense-rate is glacially slow and not without strings attached. He can wait it out and eat a “compliance wafer” per round dispensed, or he can speed it up after “correctly” answering questions about FAANG (after the big 5 companies merged post Project 2025 and effectively took control of the world population and their minds) - he can switch his neuro-wave thought chip to the machine’s provider on the spot, or provide the names and addresses of five dissenters who are unaligned with the values of the one true religion, Capitalism.

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      It won’t. Many Americans drift through life in ignorance and even if confronted with something they don’t know, won’t incorporate or react to those things unless they are told how to react. You see it all the time with Trump. When he does something that has been happening since Clinton it’s suddenly a big deal and outrageous, when Obama did something that was perfectly normal since Reagan, it was suddenly beyond the pale and evidence of a commie plot.

      When an ammo vending machine was installed in my high school 25 years ago no one noticed or cared, but if I went and took a picture of it today and posted it on twitter with some provoative text like “I can’t even…” there would immediately be some kind of outrage about it for some reason.

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        Can you expand on the ammo vending machine installed at your high school in 1999? That’s wild to me.

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    Hey US… you are insane. You know how this looks to people who haven’t been raised in your culture, right? right?

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      Yes a lot of us do know. Unfortunately about half of Americans are just not intelligent. I mean it really is just that simple. They were born without a large intellect, and our educational systems have been on a steady decline for decades, so what capacity they did have for rational independent/critical thought was never developed.

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      You know how insane this looks to someone who was born and raised in that culture?

      Fucking nuts.

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        Who are you people? I’m not even a huge hunter or anything, but ammo for sale in a grocery store is pretty mundane in places where hunting is common. Have you ever left your suburb?

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          I lived in several countries and visited many more. Ammo for sale in a grocery store isn’t considered normal in most countries…

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            Different countries have different things they consider normal and in particularly diverse countries like the US, different regions in the same country have different ideas of normal. For example you won’t see live bait being sold in London or Paris grocery stores, but seeing that for sale in Louisianna outside of New Orleans (or even inside it) is extremely mundane and normal.

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                Pretty hard to kill someone with ammo too, but fortunately only psychopaths immediately think about how easy it would be to kill people with mundane items that they aren’t familiar with.

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          It is real fucking off kilter to have these things in a country where children are mass murdered by bullets so often. The bullets were already legally purchasable but putting them in a vending machine really makes it obvious that in this country the Almighty Gat is as available and ubiquitous as Coca Cola. We’re a sick people willing to allow another middle man between us and the sale of some bullets so we can have it dispensed out of a cool vending machine like in my favorite action-adventure roleplaying video game title Cyberpunk 2077.

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            Who is “we.” And vending machines have been available since before your favorite video game depicted them. I had a vending machine for shotgun shells in my high school like 25 years ago. We did skeet shooting and if you needed a few more rounds you could go buy some ammo instead of having to go off campus for it. The whole thing is extremely mundane.

            e: The vending machine was actually an old cigarette vending machine heh.

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              Perhaps theres a difference between your shotgun shell vending machine in school (still fucked up; if the rounds were for extracurriculars why did they charge you for it?) 25 years ago and the current world with its bi-monthly mass child sacrifices to Mammon. Different contexts. Now such a thing is definitely gaudy and flagrently disregards the countrys gun violence problem and how many people are dying so these gun industry fucks can get their jollies.

              Edit: you conveniently misconstrued a factoid from your youth to make my argument against out of control gun culture seem fallacious and I don’t love that.

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                Dude, every aspect of every extra curricular is charged to the student. Football costs parents hundreds. Schools don’t have the budget to pay their teachers, they aren’t doing shit for students that’s not legislated