this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".
ew single-use cups
For an extra $0.99 a month, they will underpay an immigrant to let you drink the water from their cupped hands instead.
What would you consider adequate pay for someone to rent out their hands as cups?
"REE" is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin' my part for humanity.
It's 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.
No filtered room temp option is the real crime.
This photo is about 8 years old now. I’m pretty certain Reefill did not succeed as a product or a company. It barely got crowdfunded and then fizzled out a year later.
Maybe they should have focussed their efforts on carbonated water to combat the fizzle
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While the apps are still in store, there doesn't seem to be any website except for an indiegogo, and the Techcrunch article is from '17.
To be fair: if this design was the price for free water everywhere I would pay for it. I want a world where I can get free drinking water everywhere so I don't have to carry it.
Meanwhile my shitty little European town has recently installed a fountain for drinking, filling up your bottle and also with a dog drink station, completely free.
Where I live in Canada has started turning fire hydrants into free drinking fountains during the summer for the last couple of years.
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When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
Not in Germany there aren't
"Reefill" sounds like something out of a wojak meme.
"I'm reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!" - the reefiller wojak
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You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough
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Tap water all the time
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