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Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by ornornor » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 9:20 AM UTC

EamonnMR wrote: post #144

lamontcg wrote: post #62

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> I agree. Early 2000's were the glory years of the internet. You know how every generation thinks that the music they grew up with was the best and its all gone downhill from there? Well, lemme tell you little shits a story about Usenet and Eternal September...

I've been searching for a natural way to browse pre-eternal-september Usenet. Google Groups is less than ideal.

Of course I can’t find I now, but there was a website that let you read today’s Usenet from 30 years ago in real time.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by antifa » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

xenadu02 wrote: post #39

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #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.

> 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…

> It is possible they were vending long expired drinks... but it is also possible they simply had a hookup at the distributor and sourced rare drinks from time to time.

I stepped into my office 6 months after covid WFH started. All the unrefrigerated sodas were flat.

I doubt they had expired drinks with no complaints.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by stewx » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 2:03 PM UTC

On a visit to Seattle, I went waaaaay out of my way to find this machine and use it. It just ate my change and didn't give me a drink. I was furious.

On the plus side, I ended up popping into a local convenience store afterward and the cashier told me "you look just like that really famous person".

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by xrd » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

InfiniteRand wrote: post #140

slavboj wrote: post #107

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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

It's so simple it's brilliant. Who has all the money and is being robbed? Vending machines. They want to fight back but keep getting attacked in the liberal AND conservative media. Who has all the teeth but no money? Sharks.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by ALittleLight » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC

goldenkey wrote: post #150

ALittleLight wrote: post #147

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Alcohol contributes to obesity as well though. Alcohol, like soda, is unhealthy to drink and it causes the more serious problems I alluded to previously.

Indeed but not in children. You're comparison is a red herring. Two things can be bad in different ways.

Alcohol is very unhealthy for children as well. So toxic, in fact, it's illegal to sell alcohol to children or for them to consume it.

Alcohol and soda are both drinks that cause health problems. There is nothing wrong with the observation that alcohol is considerably worse than soda.

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by klyrs » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 7:16 PM UTC

ianhanschen wrote: post #117

klyrs wrote: post #36

It's funny, I probably walked by that thing a few hundred times, but I don't drink soda so I ignored it entirely. But once the locksmith was mentioned, its location clicked in my head, a dim rectangular outline of a hole in my spatial memory. Brains are so weird.

I use operating system memory paging as an analogy for this: you paged it back in.

It's a really good page, too. Just across the street was the best smell & taste in all of spacetime, the original Espresso Vivace roastery...

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by goldenkey » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

ALittleLight wrote: post #155

goldenkey wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed but not in children. You're comparison is a red herring. Two things can be bad in different ways.

Alcohol is very unhealthy for children as well. So toxic, in fact, it's illegal to sell alcohol to children or for them to consume it. Alcohol and soda are both drinks that cause health problems. There is nothing wrong with the observation that alcohol is considerably worse than soda.

There are laws prohibiting kids from getting access to or drinking alcohol. No such laws exist for soda. Soda has a huge negative impact on young children, whereas alcohol doesn't. I'm discontinuing this conversation as you clearly have maligned intentions as evident by your uncharitable interpretations of my points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

Re: Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine

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Post by pbronez » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 1:34 PM UTC

1986 wrote: post #20

pbronez wrote: post #7

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It's literally a story about this thing happening.

It's a story about this thing going away!

what the point of things mysteriously appearing if they can't also mysteriously disappear again? You only want permanently observable mysteries?

If you want more fun inexplicable stuff in the world, go put some out there! Go yarn bomb something!