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Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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I 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.

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. Voidfunc loved Big Brother.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must not have read the article, it is on Capitol Hill in Seattle, which is in the state of Washington, not Washington D.C.

Seattle may have or influence tech secrets Russia wants.

They want to manipulate the weather on our toolbars and sell us counterfeit goods.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's literally a story about this thing happening.

In the past. The comment said "increasingly impossible," looking toward the future.

In 2018, which was extremely recent. It’s not like this thing stopped once Facebook came into existence.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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I 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.

In a sort of similar vein there was the Mystery of the South London Hellraiser VHS. A few years ago, someone spotted a Hellraiser VHS on the roof of a bus stop. It was removed and a replacement appeared. Then it happened again. Then more Hellraisers appeared on other bus stops. It can still be seen on Google Maps. I always thought Stoke Newington was a gateway to hell, so it was good to have it confirmed. https://blo…

Maybe we should internet-sleuth Ebay auctions of Hellraiser VHS copies and see if it's the same account winning them.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Oddly, true Alternate Reality Games [0] peaked in the mid-to-late 2000s, even as the world has shrunk by orders of magnitude since. Perhaps that's the period when the internet itself was at its most Unknown, before the great silofication of everything. [0] ...as opposed to, say, ads with base64 "puzzles" tacked on or narrative-less viral videos with arbitrary distortion.

> true Alternate Reality Games peaked in the mid-to-late 2000s I agree. Early 2000's were the glory years of the internet. The internet was powerful enough to be bringing people together that could have never communicated or met before. It allowed niche interest groups to connect so that these types of stories and mysteries could proliferate and spread, but it was not so widespread and attention-focused that the myst…

Well, it’s clear now!

TBH, that picture couldn’t give us less information if it tried…

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