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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27121839

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[–] butsbutts@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

mm sugar water

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sad day for people drinking cancer

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, it's just caffeine and sugar, but still unhealthy.

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's far from being that only, check the ingredients (especially if using the zero sugar/calories version)

Yuka is a great app to tell you this as well, if you're okay with it

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 87 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not only do they cost more, the greater surface area means your cold drink warms up faster.

Neat.

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 33 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Greater surface area also means more material for the same product, which leads to less effective transport, more waste and increased polution. Non-standarized can size means every can storage system and cup holder which have taken can size into consideration will be worse. I'm sure a lot of vending machines will have to be modified or scrapped for this can design.

Everyone are worse off because of this, and it's all for attempting to trick consumers and increase profits. Shit sucks.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Greater surface area also means more material for the same product, which leads to less effective transport, more waste and increased polution.

Weren't soda companies whining about aluminum costs just recently? Guess they found some extra in order to fleece their customers.

[–] loserville@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

These are more easily stackable and take up less horizontal space, so they are more efficient for transport.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey we get this revolutionary super can which is supposed to keep your beer cool.
The ribs are supposed to reduce the contact area of warm fingers.
It doesn't work obviously since they aren't big enough and skin on fingers are flexible enough to touch everything.
You only pay 30 to 50% more for this nonsense.
Everyone tries to avoid them but somehow the normal cans are more than often 'sold out' in stores.

[–] some_dude@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's what you get for drinking jupiler

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[–] AmbientDread@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Prices go up up up Never come back down down down

The invisible hand job economy

[–] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Oil prices go up - petrol goes up.

Oil prices go down - petrol goes up.

Oil prices do nothing - petrol goes up.

Petrol is purposeful and independent.

Be like petrol!

[–] Sibshops@lemm.ee 135 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good enough reason to boycott coke products, anyway.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 106 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

The funding of Death Squads in Colombia is a better reason IMO but this works too, haha

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The reasons keep on stacking up.

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[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 106 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun fact, a taller, narrower can uses more aluminum!

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 29 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It's definitely more surface area per volume, but a 200 vs 202 lid and a smaller hermetic seal cancels some of those losses. Sidewall is cheap aluminum wise, but you're likely right in that it's a little more aluminum. Definitely costs more to make since they do fill a little slower.

Also fuck coke, what a bunch of assholes

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[–] AntY@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I thought it was the other way around. The thickest part of the can is the top, followed by the bottom. The sides are much thinner. I thought the reasoning behind switching to tall and narrow cans with the same internal volume was to save on aluminium.

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[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I mean it sucks and I drink coke (it's my mix for booze) but it's a welcome change (price increase). Soda pop should not be drunk as frequently as it is by people and anything to make it less common is a welcome change IMHO. If becoming more cost prohibitive to people makes them drink it less that's not a bad thing

Now the challenge becomes, because America is becoming a 3rd world shithole it's possible that coke is the only safe drink because thanks to the EPA being gutted over decades water isn't safe in many areas due to contamination. That's not cool.

[–] loserville@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago
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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 67 points 3 days ago
[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago (17 children)

Just straight up stop buying shit. Drink filtered tap, and live off only what you need and shrug off ppl that think buying expensive shit will make them cool.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

How do I fit my coke addiction in your filtered water?

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[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago (10 children)

You know, this should only trick young kids as they genuinely believe taller = more. The fact that it probably tricks a ton of adults just suggests their critical thinking never made it past adolescence and we should be very concerned by that.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (8 children)

You know, this should only trick young kids as they genuinely believe taller = more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger?wprov=sfla1

Adults in Murica are just as dumb and unneducated

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

There's a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" that talks about a bifurcation of the mental process between intuitive mental work and deliberative work. It goes through a bunch of examples of people with established credentials, careers in intellectual professions, and proven records of deliberative thought being tricked by relatively casual visual and verbal illusions.

Getting tricked by Tall Can isn't something you can "Critical Thinking" your way out of reflexively. It is something you have to exert continuous mental energy to achieve. When the overwhelming majority of your decisions are made reflexively, and even the process of stepping over from reflexive intuition to deliberative intuition is ultimately an intuitive process, you're going to get fooled more often than not. The only real defense is to intuitively train defensive behaviors, and that doesn't avert being fooled so much as it averts falling for the most common scams.

In the end, a handful of marketing flacks can consistently outwit any audience, because they can knowingly engage in a campaign of strategic deception more easily than you can reflexively catch every deceit thrown your way. What you need is a countervailing force. A regulatory agency dedicated to imposing transparency at the barrel of a gun can render calculated deceits more expensive to implement than they return in revenue.

But the "lolz, just don't fuck up" mentality is what leads to people getting gulled at industrial scales. You're not going to outsmart the professionals and its painfully naive to think otherwise.

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This doesn't really have anything to do with critical thinking, it's just that our brains work on estimations and approximations, although experience can balance it out.

Try this: draw a martini glass (inverted cone), and draw a line where you think it would be half full.

It will be wrong. Numberphile - Cones are messed up (YT)

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Where is the one on the left no longer available? I live in the US and see those all the time.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People with vending machines aren't going to be happy, those new ones won't fit.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

As a consumer you should have thought about the consequences of your habits. Because of you they now have to replace all the vendig machines.

Its the consumers fault. Companies have absolutely no responsibility.

Huge /S if there ever was any doubt.

[–] stevedice 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

So that's why they changed the shape. I saw no valid reason so I just assumed they were trying to evade taxes in some way. I'll admit I have no idea how much anything I buy at a convenience store costs.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

If anything the taller cylinder will use more aluminum for the same volume, so they're kinda shooting themselves in the foot here with aluminum and steel tariffs, lol

Seems pretty clear the only reason for this was to change the price without as many people noticing.

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[–] SamB@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Babe, wake up. New shit corpo practice just dropped.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Dickflation.

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