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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?
It's 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.
"REE" is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin' my part for humanity.
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.
I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
Nah, you'd notice if the water wasn't chilled.
The real trick is to build these in places where the tap water is naturally cold, and to heat the free stuff.
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No filtered room temp option is the real crime.
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
My theory is that the new method for data vacuuming is charging a benignly small fee to make it appear that you're paying for a service and not getting raided, as opposed to using a free service where you assume they're harvesting you like an apple tree.
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Tap water all the time
Sweet Jesus I didn't even notice that it's a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.
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