Open your mind. MORE!

yeyyyyyyyyyyy tax money!

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Magic bullets A new rifle being tested in Afghanistan fires smart ammunition—bullets containing tiny computers, programmed to explode when passing near hostile troops. Such rounds allow soldiers to attack enemies in ditches, round corners or behind walls.

God, I’m so happy our technology is getting better at killing people. 

Your tax dollars at work, ladies, gentlemen, and others!

How very progressive. Imagine the uproar if an Afghan was testing XM25 bullets in the United States. Let’s just have a look at the mechanism of this gun. 

Each rifle bullet is programmed, before it is fired, by a second computer in the rifle itself. To determine the distance to the target, the gunman shines a laser rangefinder attached to the rifle at whatever is shielding the enemy.

When the round is fired, the internal computer counts the number of rotations it makes, to calculate the distance flown. The rifle’s muzzle velocity is 210 metres a second, which is the starting point for the calculation. When the computer calculates that the round has flown the requisite distance, it issues the instruction to detonate. The explosion creates a burst of shrapnel that is lethal within a radius of several metres (exact details are classified). And the whole process takes less than five seconds.

Less than five seconds. American progress, in this context, means killing people as fast as possible. Preferably in seconds. How uplifting.

welp it’s been a good run

What the actual fuck? Testing in Afghanistan? Bullshit. You can test that shit in America. What you’re doing is murder.