Incidentally, the soda (gas-injected water plus syrup) is so cheap this would be better tolerated as a photo op and free advertising. When you get a fast food cup and free refills, the cup is literally more expensive than the soda + ice that goes into it. It’s nearly 100% profit.
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 minutes ago
MudMan@fedia.io 6 hours ago
I mean, I appreciate the gumption but, honestly? This mentality is probably why Americans can't have decent public services.
bisby@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yeah we Americans are a condemnable lot but I don’t think “kid exploits loophole to buy comical amount of soda” is really an example of that, he’s just a kid doing a bit. If this was a public service the solution would be analogous to saying “you have to be able to hold the container in one hand” or something. There’s always going to be people pushing the rules but they’re usually the exception not the rule.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Some people prefer flat soda, my son among them. I still feel like he’s just being contrarian/messing with me, but he still insists he’s sincere.
pebbles@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
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 line “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.
big_slap@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
This is not real. This is from a satire page.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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…
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I am blown away every day by what people around here will believe if it fits their worldview.
“LOL! Conservatives so dumb they’ll believe anything!”
Here, watch me catch mad upvotes. They can’t help it, it’s a Pavlovian thing.
Billionaires, landlords, AI, Capitalism BAD!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s the Child Size beverage, in that it is the size of a child.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
istdaslol@feddit.org 7 hours ago
With this shirt … I can’t
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 6 hours ago
Yeah, who gave Peyton that? Lmao
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Peyton got it his own damn self tyvm. Goodwill find I’m sure of it.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
I lived right outside of Knoxville for 15 years. There visiting right now. I have this shirt. I have seen children wearing this shirt. It’s a real shirt. Lol
Gork@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Knoxville.
Fucking.
Tennessee.
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m sure his parents are wonderful influences.
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 2 hours ago
this kids going places
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
smh. it technically a cup if he can’t lift it and drink from it
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Leisure Suit Larry would just put that in his pocket.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Almost every one of you bought this. Jesus fucking Christ, some y’all have the media savvy of a FaceBook grandma.
Few adults would be strong enough to hold that tub for the several minutes it takes to fill, and this kid certainly couldn’t.
And no one noticed this going on for those several minutes? No one said a word?!
The orange is clearly shopped into the original image. Unless orange soda is fuzzy around the edges? Perhaps it’s boiling? 🎵 Orange haze all in my brain, lately things just don’t seem the same 🎶
unmagical@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
“Shoes” - Yum!
UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
It’s too throw off any would-be soda bandits
WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Don’t hate the player…
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 6 hours ago
“I thought this was murica!?”
Eheran@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
How is this a cup?
noun a small bowl-shaped container for drinking from, typically having a handle.
J_on_LemmyML@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Greddan@feddit.org 5 hours ago
That drinking vessel would likely be called a “glass” or tumbler.
I doubt the boys plastic basket(?) would even meet the definition of a drinking vessel.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Im from a pretty conservative small Florida town, I REALLY want a slutty shirt like that with my towns name and just walk around in it.
or better yet I could get my gay dad to wear my platforms and skirt
caboose2006@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Some legends are born
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Peyton rules.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Absolute lad
RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Peyton is my spirit animal
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
That’s not a cup. It’s shoes. If it was a cup then cup would be written on it.
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Is this actually rage bait? Dog this even happen? Who held that massive tub in place for the duration of the filling?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 hours ago
Peyton did, don’t take away his agency
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Since nobody has mentioned it yet, this is from Celina 52, which is a fictional truck stop social media account that uses AI generated images like this one to satirize rural American culture. Peyton doesn’t exist.
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 4 hours ago
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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 minutes ago
AI art has come a long way. You can make your AI look like shitty florescent lighting, or a fading photograph. Also AI folk normally have five fingers on each hand in a normal position thanks to LORAs. LORAs also fix wording when you specify what you want a caption to say.
It’ll mess up logos unless you specify a particular brand.
Ray3x10e8@feddit.nl 1 hour ago
Image
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You know, it’s actually a lot more complicated than I thought originally. It is a satire account, and it isn’t a “real” place, but apparently a lot of the photos originate from a truck stop in Tennessee. There’s a whole internet saga around finding the actual location. Most of the photos they post are digitally manipulated in some way, including alleged AI face superimposition, but they play the satire so straight that it’s impossible to know to what extent. You may be right that it’s not whole-cloth AI generated, but it also isn’t a photo of a kid with a tub full of orange soda.
troybot@midwest.social 3 hours ago
It’s a combination of Photoshop and AI generated content. The truck stop is a real place with a different name located next door to a Bucee’s. Most of their posts are built off photos and videos taken in the actual store which builds consistency and makes it feel authentic.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
One could apply edits post-generation.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Ffs
spykee@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
All you wankers blabbering about without even hinting about the important issue.
So did a small boy get his orange soda or nah?\
crazycraw@crazypeople.online 5 hours ago
OMG coca cola going into Pepsi cups?!
literally Ai slop who falls for this?!
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Now I see the Pabst Blue Ribbon dispenser, though I have no idea if that’s just how they do things in TN.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Mass Hysteria!!!
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 5 hours ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
PEYTONNNNNNN!!!
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yea it’s fake not enough piss in a bottle jokes.
capuccino@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I KNEW IT