Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
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Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine
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#2I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
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#4I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
I think that this has lead to the popularity of ARG/Analog Horror/SCP/etc. The Unknown is shrinking, so we need to create the Unknowable.
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#5Spoiler alert: it was the locksmith in front of whose shop the machine was allowed to exist (rent free)
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#6> dispensed drinks were rare cans that were either ordinarily unavailable in the United States or have not been in circulation since the 1980s
> In June 2018, the machine mysteriously disappeared
I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore.
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#7I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
It's literally a story about this thing happening.
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#8> dispensed drinks were rare cans that were either ordinarily unavailable in the United States or have not been in circulation since the 1980s > In June 2018, the machine mysteriously disappeared I don't think it's mysterious. The owner likely ran out of full, rare cans of soda and could not / did not want to source them anymore.
or he didn't have to restock it because at some point, people got tired of drinking flat stale soda from the 80s
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#9I feel like we live in a world where it is becoming increasingly impossible for things like this to exist. I don’t have much commentary on the matter other than to say it makes me sad.
Nothing wrong with a more orderly, predictable, benign, ideally deterministic world without variance.
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#10Background: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/capitol-hills-magi... Restocking: https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2014/05/spoiler-alert-mys... Disappearance: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seattle-mystery-soda-m...
2nd link for Europeans: http://archive.is/2017.08.07-014013/http://www.capitolhillse...