I am going to stake my reputation on this, that image is not AI generated. AI images struggle to get wording and spelling right. Also the colors are mutated like the photo was taken in shitty florescent lighting, AI images tend to be cleaner.

Ffs

Not anymore anyway, they've been dissolved in the soda bin.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Don't forget Weber valley speedway

All you wankers blabbering about without even hinting about the important issue.
So did a small boy get his orange soda or nah?\

OMG coca cola going into Pepsi cups?!

literally Ai slop who falls for this?!

Shut up. Don't ruin this for me. I need this.

I KNEW IT

Yea it’s fake not enough piss in a bottle jokes.

I work in a store with one of these machines and i've seen the invoices. This is absolutely true. There is no way for the business to lose money on these things.

A 5 gallon bag o syrup costs around 50 - $100 depending on volume discounts and what part of the US. At a 5 to 1 ratio, that's 30 gallons per bag. Assuming each cup is 12oz (they do put in a lot of ice usually) that's 320 servings (assuming no spillage).

So it costs McDonalds or similar 15 - 30 cents per soda they sell in soda costs, and 11 cents for the cup lid straw combo. So assuming it's still a dollar, that's between 74 to 59% profit based on volume discount the specific place has with coca cola. So not really 100% profit, but still high. And no the cup doesn't cost more, if that were ever true it was for a brief moment in history.

As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you. It keeps quoting 16 cent cost for the entire soda, but the syrup alone costs at least 15 cents.

Incidentally, the soda (gas-injected water plus syrup) is so cheap this [a real boy really named Peyton coming in and filling his bin for the fill-your-own-cup-special] would be better indulged and tolerated as a photo op and free advertising

What do you think this is? Edit: oh this is from a satirical account so by default not real, got it.

No. The loss from ridiculous misuse insofar as food (not soda) is small but meaningful and basically worth nothing because typically "exposure" isn't worth anything whatsoever. Worse it might convince some other assholes with the same strategy to specifically target your joint magnifying their loss.

It's funny that you who have run nothing know better than every company.

he did that container clearly says its for shoes, if it was labeled soda it would be ok

Going to get diabetes, that's where he's going

It's too throw off any would-be soda bandits

Things in favor of Peyton here:

• Corporations in general
• There is no rule against it
• 7-11 has a pretty regular event where "fill a silly cup, feel free to be absurd" is a thing, so there is precedent
• That amount of soda is still probably profitable for the company, fountain soda is incredibly cheap
• This isn't regular consumption and clearly not a regular occurrence, if beverages were regularly freely available, it wouldn't be exciting to do this and this type of behavior would go away -- you have to hoard service when public service is an artificially limited quantity.
• This didn't deprive any other customer of soda -- the only downside here is a corporation losing a few cents of profit.

Things against Peyton:

• Hoarding is a bad mentality to be in (agreed with you here)
• It will take days to drink that much soda, and it will be flat and nasty

When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It's why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a "use it or lose it" for those people. If you've been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.

Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them... results in Americans desperate for public services... which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available.... which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services... which results in less funding... Its a vicious cycle.

Yeah I feel we have too adversarial of a mindset. Or maybe "too independent" like so independent that we don't even consider how we are all connected and only have a society because we work together.

It leads to people saying really silly phrases like "self made millionaire" which ignores all the people that gave that person money.

Like money is inherently social. You can't do anything with it on your own.

the mindset of Americans, as a fellow American, is "fuck you, got mine".

until we unlearn this behavior, we will continue to cannibalize each other. not sure how many generations thats going to take, but I hope it happens in my lifetime

This is not real. This is from a satire page.

This mentality is probably why Americans can't have decent public services.

What mentality? You mean falling for obviously fake bullshit that only idiots would believe? Yea, I'd agree that's the root of many of society's problems...

this is why MAX_FILL_AMT is necessary

Peyton used the length of hose he normally uses to steal gas for his three-wheeler ATV as an extension to fill the tub on the ground.

Peyton reads well below grade level but he is not stupid.

Peyton did, don't take away his agency