• 97xBam@feddit.onlineEnglish
      11·
      11 days ago

      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.

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
    80·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
    63·
    12 days ago

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

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      28·
      12 days ago

      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.

    • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      12·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    38·
    11 days ago

    “Reefill” sounds like something out of a wojak meme.

    “I’m reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!” - the reefiller wojak

  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    12 days ago

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

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      "They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe. And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air – or of the money to buy it – even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it’s right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: “It’s Their Land,” “It’s Their Water,” “It’s Their Coal,” “It’s Their Iron,” so you would say “It’s Their Air,” “These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?” And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on “Christian Duty” in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of the gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you’ll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to “justice” in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble.’

      Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philathropists (1914) | Ch 15
  • Gladaed@feddit.org
    223·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
    18·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
    17·
    12 days ago

    For me is the “Get the reefill app” part that gets me. Like why do you need an app for that?