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[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is not Peyton's problem that they have an exploit. Should've thought about it upon planning the event.

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

this is why MAX_FILL_AMT is necessary

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe at compile time they replaced the constant and they v0.9-pre for debugging purposes but somehow made it onto production machines.

[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 3 points 10 hours ago

somehow made it onto production machines.

"Guys, nothing bad will happen if we push to prod on Friday..."

[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

"Knoxville fucking tennessei"

This soda tastes like shoes

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why is the place even open on labor day?

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I've never seen a gas station closed for labor day.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

let alone Christmas, gas stations only close in the event of large scale riots in my experience. I've been forced to work overnight in a blizzard that dropped three feet of snow. I had one customer all night, he was a plow driver coming in for a few energy drinks.

[–] korazail@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 day ago

And you are a hero to that plow driver. And others like you are heroes to the people that also had to be out on terrible weather days and holidays.

I assume a gas station could run without anyone present, leaving the convenience store part closed, but having someone on-hand to hit an e-stop if needed is pretty important.

My goal is not to devalue your work, but rather to support it. "Essential workers" are called that for a reason. We should work to ensure that they are paid their worth. Just because it's not necessarily a "skilled" job doesn't mean it's not important. The bro running the local hedge fund is providing way less actual value than anyone in a service job.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

event ain't gonna happen by itself

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 286 points 2 days ago (13 children)

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 77 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] troybot@midwest.social 16 points 2 days 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.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day 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.

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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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. 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.

ETA The same is true for people who eat too much at AYKE buffets. Take a picture of the dude, and have him sign the guest book and put him up on the wall of eating champions. The loss from one over-eating dude is going to be made up by the draw that yes, we mean all you can eat, and all he ate. Managers who throw big eaters out are just short-sighted and failing to do the math.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you.

The web in general is fucked, since most sites less than 3 years old are now entirely written by AI. :(

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Its just infuriating, if I were worse at math or hadn't been in the industry before I would have come up with an answer that was not even close to correct.

Also does boolean logic not work on searches anymore?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Haven't noticed. Are you using the right syntax? I'm not sure if 'AND', 'OR' have to be capitalized or what https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

1/5 syrup is a lot of syrup, and doesn't track with Italian-style sodas.

I have heard that brand name syrups are often charged extra for a patent fee or something, much like the studios overcharging movie theaters since the 90s / aughts, forcing them to run entirely on concessions.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

But 5 to 1 part isn't 1/5 it's 1/6 isn't it? I dont drink a lot of soda, but used to be on the sales side in a prior life. So I am going off what the internet says on mixing. I assume because some syrup brands/packs have significantly different caloric counts that the ratio isn't the same brand to brand or restaurant to restaurant.

You might be on to the weird relationship thing, but IDK if it's positive or negative for them. McDonalds specifically gets different packs than other places. Different size, shape, everything... So maybe they get thicker syrup or something. Something has got to be going on if my search was to be believed, because they are paying much more per pack and I don't remember them being significantly bigger.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

10 to 1 would be a bit much. 5 to 1 indicates the syrup is already thinned out, which is a possibility if the denser syrup doesn't mix readily with the fizzy without stirring.

But then, I'd figure there was purchase-density syrup, and then pre-make which is ready to dispense with fizz water, and a clerk is tasked with diluting one to make the other.

That's the way it'd be if I were writing a fast food sim.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 78 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I mean, I appreciate the gumption but, honestly? This mentality is probably why Americans can't have decent public services.

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 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.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's the child size beverage, in that it is the size of a child.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

Only Peyton from that godforsaken part of Tennessee I'll ever cheer for

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] istdaslol@feddit.org 59 points 2 days ago (4 children)

With this shirt … I can’t

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, who gave Peyton that? Lmao

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago
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[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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