I'll go to a regular tap, thanks.
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We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.
"You'll have to buy the air from us!"
"No thanks."
"But you'll die."
"Byeeeeeeee"
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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.
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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For me is the "Get the reefill app" part that gets me. Like why do you need an app for that?
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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.
I expect nothing less from the country with contactless payments for using the bathroom
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Yeah look i wouldn't sign up for this on principle because subscriptions are shit, but I do enjoy poncy overpriced water.
I don't drink booze, smoke, or do drugs. I have a very restrictive diet and can't even have a slice of cake once in a while.
You'll have to pry my lightly sparkling imported Italian mineral water from my cold dead hands.
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You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough
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.
I was going to look it up and share but I think they went under. No app on iOS either and the URL takes you to a wix placeholder page
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+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 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.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah right, prove it lol
How dare you make accusations like that! What do you think people just go on the internet and lie?!
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.
Wait isn’t tap water always naturally cold?
Nope. Especially not in Texas in the summertime. The pipes are close enough to the surface that they warm up (unless you have well water, which is always cold).
Weird. Where I live they bury it eight feet deep so it doesn’t freeze in the winter so it’s constantly chilly.
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