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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

Breathing in rooms with outside air: FREE
Breathing in rooms with heat/AC: $1.99/mo

Get the Breeathe app!

breeathe.com

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Write that down! Write that down!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

I really thought this was real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

I think we just found our new Breeathe Free CEO!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

For an extra $0.99 a month, they will underpay an immigrant to let you drink the water from their cupped hands instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

What would you consider adequate pay for someone to rent out their hands as cups?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They add lead to the free side.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

Nestle approved

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago

No filtered room temp option is the real crime.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (25 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Where I live in Canada has started turning fire hydrants into free drinking fountains during the summer for the last couple of years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

They have those at a lot of parks that I take my dogs to in my state in the US too. Usually free poop bags too, and yet half still can't be bothered.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Not in Germany there aren't

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 165 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Tap water all the time

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day 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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