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Barely relevant Benson GIF:
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Gumball machines are pretty impressive, especially when you consider that there is no embedded microprocessor…
What? You mean there were complex machines back in the Dark Ages? Who knew?
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Yeah, I thought that line was kind of dumb. I was not certainly MORE impressed when I realized there are no microprocessors inside.
In fact, I would be surprised if someone built one WITH microprocessors and it worked as reliably.
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Sooner or later there will be gumball machines that take contactless payments.
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When I owned a Captain Fantastic pinball machine, I had to learn a lot about it to maintain it. One trivial fact is how the coin apparatus is designed to be easily cleaned after someone dumps Coke in it, an apparently frequent occurrence.
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IoGM 
… teaching children worldwide how to capitalism, and to subsist on industrial waste, for over a century. 
I still don’t understand how it knew how to give me a green one.
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