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[–] [S] 173 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 120 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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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

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "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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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (28 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    "REE" is right. I have a 10 pound sledge that can fix this RIGHT up. Just doin' my part for humanity.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    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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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    No filtered room temp option is the real crime.

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