Those hunky water bottles. In general why are there so many water bottle trends?
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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A good water bottle is a friend for life. We have a dozen in the cupboard:
- several are plastic, mostly swag but a couple that are for bikes. They're cheap, and one leaks from the lid, but I'm not going to buy another little, metal water bottle just for the bike. Plastic is mostly useless as they don't keep liquids cool.
- there are a few workout ones that are just tall cups with lids. Again, plastic; their one use is working out, because they don't break or break things if they get dropped on the treadmill. I hate the lid mechanism.
- there are a few metal ones; again, mostly swag. Two are actual thermoses with great insulation, but they're relatively small (16 oz), and their sippy lids are clearly optimized for hot liquids the other metal ones have screw tops and are a PITA to use. In fact, one is my second most recent one, which I replaced because unscrewing the top in the middle of the night was fussy so I'd just leave the top off, except I kept knocking it over by fumbling for it in the dark, spoiling water all over the nightstand and carpet.
- we have two glass ones, and one with an electric mixer base that I got for my wife for when she travels, so she can more easily have protein shakes in the morning. The glass ones are insulated and nice, but the tops don't seal and you don't want you drop them, so they just live in the cupboard.
And then there's my prize, the black widow. Isn't she lovely? Oh, wait, sorry, wrong song.
The one I have now, that has taken me decades to refine, is 1 liter - not too large, so it's easy to carry around, but enough so a couple of refills a day are enough. It has a little handle to facilitate carrying. It's metal, and robust. It's vacuum insulated, so it keeps ice water cold all night. And it has a little sippy spout with a sprung button orifice so that when I knock it over it doesn't leak. It's the perfect water bottle, and it took me a couple decades of trial and error to refine my requirements for a water bottle: the size, the mechanism, the material.
A water bottle that meets all of your specific use case needs really is wonderful; it's a pleasure to use, is convenient, and by its nature encourages you to hydrate. Honestly, it's one is those weirdly and unexpectedly useful things that you'd never expect to have as big an impact as it does, that you find yourself using more than any other single gadget you own.
Since you have so many plastic water bottles, I'm gonna ask you, a week ago I didn't wash my bottle right away after mixing a protein shake in it (I left it for 5 hours) and now it smells foul. And no matter how many times I wash it, the smell won't go away. Is there something that would help?
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I can count very few things I use as much a my water bottle on a daily basis. It comes with me everywhere I go.
LOTR stuff. Pompous and boring.
I agree. But the hobbit book is good.
How very dare you Sir/Madam!
Why, I'll have you know...
Hmmm, maybe it is?!
Low hanging fruit, but AI. I don't need to explain why, do I?
I've heard several different reasons, which one is it for you?
- Copyright
- Water usage
- Appeal to tradition
- Lack of creativity
- Something else?
Also, are you against all AI (such as NPC AI, chess robots, intelligent vacuum cleaners, etc) or specifically LLMs/generative AI?
I don't buy a lot of the negative hype either, but you didn't list one of the main ones. Their use in spam.
Lately there have been issues with people submitting AI generated bug reports to bug bounty programs and wasting everyone's time. For this reason a lot of projects are considering shuttering their bug bounty programs entirely. It's just one example of the many that AI-spam has caused.
1, 2, 4, power wastage, the hype, the low returns for all the time, energy, and resources spent on a technology that has its uses but is no more a panacea than bitcoin, web4 or any of the other bullshit bubbles that have been ubiquitous since people worked out that venture capitalists will spunk unlimited amounts of money at the latest shiny thing.
Sounds like you dislike LLMs, not AI. Many medical breakthroughs have come from AI/ML. Car safety features, drone flight assistance, weather prediction, etc, are all examples of good AI.
AI is a catch all term, and I'm using it as such. I'm not saying that none of the technology has any use, but the hype saying it's a panacea is just that - hype. The same as Blockchain, which has its uses but was hyped out of all proportion.
You are right that LLMs are particularly bad when it comes to value for energy/water/hardware etc.
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I may be dating myself here, but Beanie Babies.
There was a store near me when I was growing up that specialized in Beanie Babies. They also sold PokΓ©mon cards. This was back with first-edition base set, then standard base set.
I never thought PokΓ©mon cards would be the ones to soar in valueβ¦.
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Game of Thrones
I enjoyed it when the author was in charge of the TV series. I watched until the end of the initial series, but after that I never looked back.
Spoilers/explanation below:
Too many things didn't make sense, like how the dragon queen suddenly became a completely different person. How the Lannister siblings made up after hating each others guts, only for the tower to collapse on top of them the same instant. That everyone met their nemesis at the very end. Why anyone would vote for Bran to become the new king when he barely spoke to anyone since he was like 13 years old, and many other inconsistencies like that. The last couple of seasons barely had any story at all, it was mostly about fighting... It was bad.
YouTube, celebrities, influencers.
Souls-like games, game streamers, turkey (the meat).
Pokemon Go
Daft Punk.
What do you mean you don't like listening to the same line a hundred times over a funky beat?
I like Daft Punk but I totally get people why people may find them overrated.
Pretty much everything.
Parry Hotnerd
Harry potnerd?