All of a sudden, the future doesn't look so bleak (amuse me here for a minute).
For unto a present landscape of spoon-size microplastics haunting our headspace, unmoored ice shelves freewheeling their way across a surging sea, and corpo allies drooling with thoughts of torturing free thinkers in government gulags, rises one bright hope: Taco-dispensing ATMs.
The only problem? The only one we've ever heard of just opened over 1,400 miles away, in North Texas.
Dallas Fingerprint brings the news that Fort Worth now has an "Automated Taco Machine," courtesy of local Funky Lime Hospitality, which owns a bunch of nearby restaurants and bars.
The ATM sits next to a smoke shop and has a touchscreen where you place your order for a smoked chicken taco, al pastor taco, or "beef fajita taco." Again, it's Texas.
You get to pick between corn or flour for your tortilla, as well as from a list of toppings like cheese, cilantro, cebolla, chiles, and different salsas. It takes your credit card, then it spits out a taco from a drawer at the bottom, presumably linked to an actual taco-making human on the other side. You can also get elotes slathered in Taki and Flaming Hot Cheetos crumbs.