Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
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#2Getting a hot chocolate out of a vending machine while the sky is dumping snow is one of life's many sublime pleasures.
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#3Why is this even posted here? It doesn't seem even remotely relevant to Hacker News.
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#4Why is this even posted here? It doesn't seem even remotely relevant to Hacker News.
Because it is 'deeply interesting'
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#5Hokkaido is a great place.
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#7Why is this even posted here? It doesn't seem even remotely relevant to Hacker News.
Because culture.
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#9Those Japanese vending machines blow my mind. I got lost on takao mountain once and was utterly hopeless of ever finding civilization again. I found abandoned and rotting tractors the forest had taken back, weird half completed concrete structures, the trail was gone, I was well and truly lost. Then, I turn a corner, and find a goddamned vending machine. Powered. With stock.
I followed its power cord back for a solid ten minutes before I found the little building on a trail it led to.
Somebody restocked that vending machine. Somebody installed it.
It's like this throughout Japan. Boggles the mind.
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#10Why is this even posted here? It doesn't seem even remotely relevant to Hacker News.
impressive durability: some of these vending machines are friggin' snow-proof -- and they still keep the drinks warm.