I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
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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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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.
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Breathing in rooms with outside air: FREE
Breathing in rooms with heat/AC: $1.99/mo
Get the Breeathe app!
breeathe.com
Write that down! Write that down!
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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.
It's 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.
This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
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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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.
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We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".
"REE" is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin' my part for humanity.
"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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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.
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Sweet Jesus I didn't even notice that it's a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.
Spray paint? Fill cup with shitty water, poke hole in bottom of cup, place cup over expensive water button, let the water and circuitry settle their differences.
Dystopian tech needs to be destroyed, not defaced.
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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.
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When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
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We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.
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No filtered room temp option is the real crime.
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.
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I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.
Tap water all the time
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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