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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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You know those drink dispensers that can mix fifty flavors in any combination you want? Closest thing to replicators IRL.
And the most cyberpunk part about them is that they started cool like that, hey mix any combo you want from this huge list, but now it's basically: yeah you can have plain coke, cherry coke, or vanilla coke. You can have plain root beer or vanilla root beer. Here's about 6 other drinks with 1 extra flavor option each.
It feels like the tech was too much work to keep clean (also true of all other soda fountains), so they canned any interesting interactions pretty quickly.
Feels like it should have a flashing neon sign hanging about it banging on about "over a million flavor combos!" but with the last part perpetually turned off and dropping sparks on you and into your cup during the process.
Went to an amusement park and they had bar codes on the bottom of the cups so you only got one refill every 15 minutes. I hope those machines die
Yeah the machines are going away in most places too. They were just too good for a failing society like ours.