Same reason vending machines for drinks or cigarettes exist: easy access to capitalize on moments of weakness or craving.

That said the vending machine in question is only in the game Cyberpunk 2077. as far as I know, anyway…

It’s commonly known as a ‘liberty cap’. They show up in a lot of flags and media from the 18th and 19th centuries.

If khakis there was the driver, I’d say this was about as good a crash as he was going to see.

I got a new factoid and get to snidely laugh at Musk?

Must be my birthday come early.

Is this a Korean War poster?

They’re getting heated yeah, but I don’t see the issue with the graphs.

The x-axis is the year (not labelled, but reasonably inferred)

The Y-axis is percent of Americans agreeing (numbered on the right instead of the usual left, but explained in the header)

I thought that was Finnish M05, but it turns out that they were independently developed.

Who could have forseen that two subarctic nations have similar snow camouflage requirements.