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Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by goldenkey »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #127
ALittleLight wrote: post #84

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Soda can make you fat and brown your teeth. It doesn't create addicts who destroy their lives over it. Soda doesn't kill people via Drunk Driving. Soda doesn't contribute to violent crimes and domestic violence.

It’s not fair to write off the harm caused by soda as just causing brown teeth and fatness and to then to juxtapose it with domestic violence and drunk driving. That’s a basic strawman, which I sought to exclude by carving out “alcohol abuse” in my OP. Because alcoholism is terrible, especially when it affects a close loved one, and was not the subject of my comment. Fortunately, the vast majority of people who consu…

The majority of people who consume alcohol are not alcoholics however the majority of people who consume soda ARE unhealthy. Quite the disparity yet the above posters are trying to use the parallel as a strawman.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by abeppu »

ALittleLight wrote: post #84
dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #76

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I might be able to compartmentalize slightly better than GP, but as much as that machine is charming as hell and brings warmth to my heart, soda has more or less been a plague on humanity. Unlike soda, alcohol has a lot going for it, because unless you abuse it, it can be a pretty wonderful, unique inebriant.

Soda can make you fat and brown your teeth. It doesn't create addicts who destroy their lives over it. Soda doesn't kill people via Drunk Driving. Soda doesn't contribute to violent crimes and domestic violence.

I mean, I didn't come here to fight about soda, but metabolic disease is a real problem, and people do seriously consider whether the way our brains respond to sugar constitutes addiction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

Sugar doesn't contribute to violent crimes, but a coca cola bottling company in Colombia may have killed labor organizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

autoexec wrote: post #110
dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #76

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I might be able to compartmentalize slightly better than GP, but as much as that machine is charming as hell and brings warmth to my heart, soda has more or less been a plague on humanity. Unlike soda, alcohol has a lot going for it, because unless you abuse it, it can be a pretty wonderful, unique inebriant.

Why is it that alcohol be a wonderful unique inebriate but soda can't be? It used to be my preferred source of caffeine. If you don't abuse soda, it has a lot going for it too. It's basically liquid candy that also makes you more alert and attentive. If there's a problem with sugar filled soda it's how it has been aggressively advertised in ways which normalized it as something to drink regularly and included filling…

> Why is it that alcohol be a wonderful unique inebriate but soda can't be?

It definitely can be. I meant to say that for me, caffeine isn't in the same league of inebriants as alcohol. It's definitely a lot less subtle for me. I'm sure that varies from person to person though, so maybe it can be? I don't know.

> that also makes you more alert and attentive.

This must also be a subjective experience-based thing. I've never felt more alert or attentive from soda, but of course that's just me. And I may have ADHD, which may be a factor.

> If you don't abuse soda, it has a lot going for it too. ... If there's a problem with sugar filled soda it's how it has been aggressively advertised ...

Yeah, I agree with this. I think if there is a problem, that's the problem. Also the serving sizes, which used to be much smaller when soda first came about. And the degree to which people lead sedentary lifestyles, and a bunch of other factors.

For what it's worth, I'm not promoting alcohol here, either. I'm not a big fan because it's hard to get it right (but when I do, it's great) so in the last ten years I pretty much only consume alcohol like 5-10 times a year, max. It just goes wrong too easily for me.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by gjs278 »

techsupporter wrote: post #25
ju-st wrote: post #10

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2nd link for Europeans: http://archive.is/2017.08.07-014013/http://www.capitolhillse...

Quick question: Why "for Europeans?" I tried from a couple of EU-based endpoints and could access the second link just fine. What error did you get? I ask because I know the operator of CHS via a friend of a friend kind of thing.

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Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by nwah1 »

mindcrime wrote: post #122
userbinator wrote: post #115

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here is a tragic death of a child in the US, 2021 That's a very different type of injury to what the parent comment was referring to: "elevator crashes", where the car falls to the bottom of the shaft. The list of elevator accidents is mostly composed of ones involving construction, freight, and mine-shaft elevators.

"elevator crashes", where the car falls to the bottom of the shaft. Yes, that was the kind of incident I was mainly commenting on. The list of elevator accidents is mostly composed of ones involving construction, freight, and mine-shaft elevators. I probably should have made a point to qualify what I said above as "passenger elevators in office type buildings" or something. Definitely did not mean to include mine-sha…

In any event, even including the mine shafts, elevators are an order of magnitude less dangerous than stairs. And way less dangerous than cars.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by snypher »

poopsmithe wrote: post #61

There's a few machines like this in Spokane Valley, WA. Not that that the machine's operator is secret, but they have mystery buttons. It's been around for years and it's right outside a Coke distribution center(?). My siblings and I used to refer to it as, "The Mystery Magic Coke Machine" https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6787458,-117.2733456,3a,49.5... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNN12D4W7k

Another in Walla Walla too.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by filmgirlcw »

This was one of my favorite parts of the neighborhood (I moved to Seattle/Capitol Hill in July 2017) and it was so sad when it disappeared. Weirdly, I thought about it last summer during CHOP/CHAZ and was sort of glad it was already gone because it would have been destroyed last summer.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by locusofself »

poopsmithe wrote: post #61

There's a few machines like this in Spokane Valley, WA. Not that that the machine's operator is secret, but they have mystery buttons. It's been around for years and it's right outside a Coke distribution center(?). My siblings and I used to refer to it as, "The Mystery Magic Coke Machine" https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6787458,-117.2733456,3a,49.5... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iNN12D4W7k

I am from Spokane and also lived in the neighborhood in Seattle where this machine was. I recognize the mystery buttons but I can't remember exactly where I'd seen them.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by toast0 »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #74
xenadu02 wrote: post #39

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> 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. For folks who aren't aware your local distributor cans / bottles a much wider variety of product than what you find on typical grocery store shelves. If you have a commercial account with them you can get the list. Sometimes they make special runs for a promotion, special event, or…

Ok, but that doesn’t explain cans from the 1980s, does it?

This is just internet rumor BS, but I've read that many drinks are not removed from bottlers' repretoires, they just stopped getting orders when the soda company stopped marketting it.

Supposedly, you could order Crystal Pepsi, but nobody did, so none was made (except for a brief period a couple years ago).

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by InfiniteRand »

slavboj wrote: post #107
peanut_worm wrote: post #83

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That implies that there are a lot of provoked shark attacks I bet the sum of provoked and unprovoked shark attacks is still less than the unprovoked and provoked soda machine deaths ;)

Overworked and underpaid shark attacks

Perfect solution: soda machines can pay the sharks to increase attacks thus reducing the prominence of their own murderous agenda
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