We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".
This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral
Amen
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.
WaaS
Nestle approved
HAHAHAAHHAHHHAHHAH
The pinnacle of innovation if you ask me.
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.
"Free"
Nothing is free
Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.
Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?
Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.
If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.
I don't see why everyone wants "free" when it's just a hidden cost that you're probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that's the way it should be.
Personally I'd rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.
Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn't have to bring a water bottle?
This is a premium service that shouldn't be the burden of the taxpayer.
When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
Not in Germany there aren't
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
It would've just delayed them running out of gas.
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.
"Reefill" sounds like something out of a wojak meme.
"I'm reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!" - the reefiller wojak
It more sounds like you're making fun of their intelligence: oh, you're going for a REEEEEfill?
I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
Reminds me of when I saw a Mountain Spring Water filling station ornamented with a picture of a snow-capped mountain at a Wal-Mart about 500 miles from the nearest mountain and nearly 2k miles from the nearest snow-capped mountain. The thing had pipes out the back going into the wall. That was straight city water that maybe that dispenser filtered a little more if it was properly maintained.
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.
Exactly!
Interestingly, I was looking for this right now and realized that they don't have an app for Android and I couldn't get the information that the App Store offers about the app's permissions (probably invasive), not to mention that it probably has to connect to several dubious servers to upload data it collects from the user. I say it because I know how this business model works.
Tap water all the time
Want $0.25 in your account monthly?
Introducing sink water! It has been treated with hand sanitizer, soaps, human waste including semen parts, shed skin particles, mucus, dandruff, sweat, spit, ear wax, blood, pee, and feces!
Missing mood stabilizers, ibuprofen, Tylenol, basically medications.
God I wish there was a source of water that has trace amounts of random medications, just imagine it as an energy drink alternative.
We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.
Perriair®
Canned in Druidia
"They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?” And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of the gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’
Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15"You'll have to buy the air from us!"
"No thanks."
"But you'll die."
"Byeeeeeeee"
at my university I can tap chilled water for free!
There is a Czech company Filtermac ("Lokni") that doesn't even offer tap water, only filtered (so you don't get a comparison to the already safe tap?) Your options are:
- Install app, verify phone number, get
- free 0.5 liters (2 glasses) per day at select stations (train stations, plus unis if you are a student)
- access to subscriptions, the "unlimited" (still limited) tier is $8/mo I think
- Pay with credit card, about half of what bottled water costs
The startup says it's very successful. WTF? Tap water is already safe in my country so you can just pay $0.50 to access toilets (or jump the gate), many railway stations also have free taps.
Also, you need to keep the phone in a receptacle while the changing QR code on screen is being scanned during the bottle fillling (bring your own bottle or get a glass one shipped with a year of Premium). Tablets and laptops with Android emulators don't fit. You only need internet to sign up but the giant thing with an ad screen does not provide Wi-Fi.
Tap water is already safe in my country so you can just pay $0.50 to access toilets
I now realize what you mean, but I just woke up and for a good 3 seconds or so imagined you slurping toilet water.
Where is /c/frugaljerk when you need it?
I expect nothing less from the country with contactless payments for using the bathroom
The? There are dozens of us!
Still, it's probably the most widespread here because Czechs are crazy cheap.
- Install app, verify phone number, get
I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.
That was me, I'm surprised anyone remembered.
Excellent user name btw.
My favorite custom team name in sports games.
A message to anyone who pays for this(I know they won’t see it): You’re the reason everything is collapsing. Go fuck yourself, idiot.
+filtered is what gets me
What's the bet those filters never get changed either?
It's the same as those water fountains at work that filter tap water. There are one or more few carbon or other filters (redundant unless your tap water is below EU standards) plus a chilling (and maybe heating) chamber with UV light. You notice the lack of chlorine that dissipated as the water stood still, otherwise there is no real difference.
I'll go to a regular tap, thanks.
