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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

What happens if the building with this vending machine catches fire?

Or if someone throws a molitov cocktail at it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I agree with Chirs Rock that you shouldn't worry so much about regulating guns as much as regulating ammunition. This was a terrible idea.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

luckily we have this cybersecurity export to get that info

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

Ok, how about no bullet vending machines because that’s obviously dystopian and if you desperately need bullets and can’t wait to get to a gun shop you have bigger issues

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Can't wait for single use, plastic, vending machine guns ala Cyberpunk 2077.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Does it print ir inject them itself to replenish its own stock?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Won't anyone think of the gun owners that have social anxiety that can't bear to look the guy at the gun shop in the eye and don't have the time to wait for an online order because IVE GOT TO DO IT TONIGHT IF I DON'T DO IT TONIGHT ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN

/s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

America is the stupidest damn place that has ever existed

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

"I've got bullets with your name on them! Wait that didn't come out right..."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago

Hey everyone, lockpickinglawer here. Today I'm going to show you how you can open one ammo vending machine with another ammo vending machine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The people who use the machine are undoubtedly the same people terrified of a national gun owner registry. A machine that scans your whole face from multiple angles every time you buy ammo...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Neo Libertarians. As long as its a private company with all their biometrics, they're fine with it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago

Any vending machine can be hacked. We used to get free sodas from one twenty years ago.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

But voting machines are safe, right? /s

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Humanity is fucked when you can buy death from a vending machine. Where are the vodka vending machines? No? Just things to kill people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Vodka kills a lot of people

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did you know you can just buy a vending machine and put whatever you want in it? Vodka, blunts, heroin, Irn Bru, anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Where can I buy a vending machine? Is there a vending machine selling vending machines I can visit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Not quite, but vending.com has vending machines. I think they run a few thousand each, so they're not exactly cheap...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cigarette vending machines used to be quite common. Even today, there are some alcohol vending machines in controlled areas (some fancy hotels have 24/7 vending machines stocked with a particular brand of champagne bottles).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

A hotel I stayed at recently had a vending machine filled with beer and wine. It just worked with the honour system, no ID check or whatever.

It was fairly nicely priced too, especially for a hotel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Actual ammo vending machines. That can be tampered with. Great.

Could we not Torment Nexus the rest of Bioshock, please?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

From what i can see here, the USA are currently socially regressing from Bioshock 1 to Bioshock Infinite.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

All you need is a frequency modulator and to send four pulses of a specific amplitude at the right time in sequence, and then all the bullet costs are discounted.

"¡Muchos gracias, señor!"

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