Post by @ifixcoinops@retro.social

2026-09-29 04:09 UTC

Now if a doctor wants to join the mathematicians and say 🐺 Actually Dan you're wrong about that as well, you probably won't die, I think you'd live, I think you'd get some powers, I'd be open to that, I'm good at being wrong, I've practiced a lot

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-09-29 04:24

Now you might well say well shit Dan, what's stopping me from just buying a thing of jellybeans and periodically taking out five at random and eating them, and I'd say nothing, nothing's stopping you at all, remember how in that film Big in the early scene at the carnival the lad went "Shit I can just have a mate write a fortune for me on a card and hand it to me and save my quarter, hell they can even just say it aloud, fuck that Zoltar thing" THE MACHINE IS WHERE THE POETRY COMES FROM, we've been putting coins into eerily lifeless machines and having Things come out of those machines for like two thousand years, this is in our cultural DNA, the act of putting the penny in the slot is what changes this Fleeting Taste from a Curiosity to a GAMBLE, you have inserted a Stake, you have parted with some small fraction of your power, the INERT MACHINE has MOVED because you INVOKED it, there are LAWS about these things, people worry about what influence they have on their children, Coin Operated Equipment Has Special Culture Juice, there are thousands of old gumball machines sat lonely in barns and you should go and rescue one and put it in your house and fill it up with jellybeans and make folklore about it

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@iMeddles@mastodon.eddmil.es 2026-09-29 06:26

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I asked the group chat, and got five doctors to agree that you'd get powers from doing so. None of them are medical doctors though, you're taking advice from two mathematicians, two computer scientists and an astrophysicist, but I'm *sure* they're correct.

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