I saw that immediately, that's so illegal. You should record it and report it to the appropriate 3-letter agency (no idea which one). Doubt you'll get the money back, but making the assholes that run that machine deal with the government would be worth it to me.

Naw mate, I just noticed you clicked on that shit when you could have been enjoying a Dr. Pepper. Wtf?

noticed the same with 1.25L bottles replacing 1.5L and 1.7L replacing 2L

The American pint is actually only 473ml! That's a half litre bottle.

476 mL, or 16 oz

TIL Brits have bigger pints, not just small baby sized shots! Does it balance out?

Yeah it comes up in Canada where restaurants will say "Pint*" to short change us.

I thought the same, but they still make the 20 Oz bottles. Looks like the vending machine company is either cheating people or forgot to update the placards - https://www.target.com/p/pepsi-cola-soda-20-fl-oz-bottle/-/A-12979694

It has always been like this in my country. We have multiples of 330ml or 500ml

EDIT: I just noticed now and yeah this is false advertising

Damn, that is why I can't get my hand into the pringles tube. It is smaller in diameter.

Shrinkflation happened to this guy, also.

Nah, instead of 20oz it'll be 33.8oz.

1/3 of all money has been printed since covid? Nice

Precisely. Everyone is bitching about shrinkflation, and it's probably just a vending machine owner cheaping out and buying multipacks at the grocery store instead of 20oz at a much higher wholesale price.

Hole in the head?

A pint in the united states is 16 fluid ounces (473.18 ml)

There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:

• TB vs TiB: Computers don't count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn't helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.

• Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.

• Formatting: Empty drive space isn't the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn't just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.

Its because american terabyte is smaller than metric terabyte.

Yes, but 20 ounces doesn't equal 16 ounces, even for great values of 16.

A dry pint would be hard to enjoy

Its 0.87 of a British pint

Don't know if you're joking or not, but to anyone actually curious "fluid ounce" its the volume of 1 ounce of water (or wine, not all fluid ounces are the same since because not all ounces are the same).

Yeah - it’s “fluid ounces” but due to a much memed question that someone once posted the internet sometimes refers to them as “Florida ounces” purely for the lulz.

It's a florida ounce. Takes its roots in the cocaine industry of Miami in the 1980s.

A florida ounce is approximately equal to about 25g of mass (on earth), or 25mL of volume.

This is different from the imperial or US ounce, which is about equal to 28g or 29mL.