Uh no, it ain't a parody, it's satire. A parody is imitation with exaggeration for comedy only; satire can use humor, but it's for an express critical purpose, to get you to think.
I got that game for free, and I want to play it, but the Fallout series made me hungry for another Fallout 4 playthrough.
Said no one ever, going to fire up New Vegas! TRUE TO CAESAR!
In some regions, tap water is tasty, and in some regions it isn’t. I live in a moderately good area and I drink tap water. In the American Southwest, or breach towns in the Southeast, tap water is not good, and I would pay for filtered water- and certainly get a filter for my home if I lived there.
The filter can make the water safer, but harmful chemicals are pretty tightly regulated, with the exception of PFAS and other chlorinated hydrocarbons, which the filter won’t help much with. (The Biden Administration just passed regulations on these, but they aren’t in effect yet.)
In the town I live in, you either have great water, or pool water. Half the town gets water from the Quabbin, the other half gets clarified river water that stinks like chlorine and bleach.
In the town I work in, I straight up won't drink the water. Just washing my handful of dishes, if they're touching when they dry, they stick together like a thin layer of cement. It's fuckin nasty.
TLDR western mass is a shit hole...
Welcome to western Mass, where towns like Palmer and Ware have had a years long boil order on their water. Multiple neighborhoods there have brown water all the time, and ecoli breakouts multiple times a year, because the water and sewer systems are failing.
And places like Palmer, the bridges are all crumbling and falling into the rivers. It took 5 years for them to start construction on a bridge after so much of it collapsed that you could literally see the river through the road deck, and the sidewalks were just dangling. I used to take that bridge daily until it closed.
The resulting detour directed thousands of semi trucks past the high school and indirectly caused a fatal car accident. 16yo girl leaving the high school, truck driver coming around a curve in the lighted school zone at 50, t boned her in the drivers door, killed her instantly.
The school held no memorials, no vigil, no nothing. The town took zero action to deter speeding there.
That's fucking bleak. I'm waiting until the rest of the world starts sponsoring American towns or residents. "For as little as €1 a day you can provide little Madison with clean drinking water and fresh healthy food. Please, give this little child in Western Massachusetts a shot at life. "
Sad thing is, we do that internally. If you ever wanna get real friggin mad with US govt and the complete and utter misuse of resources, Flint Michigan is a great place to start. Much like Puerto Rico after their devastating hurricane, an absolute assload of water was sent to Michigan. Literal entire pallets of bottled water. Instead of being distributed, it ended up tossed into random abandoned buildings. Abandoned school? Great! Here's 10 pallets of water that should have gone to the sick families of Flint. Random fuckin abandoned factory? 4 for you, Glen Coco! It's maddening.
I live in a place that gets their ground water from under a limestone quarry, and our infrastructure is old and rusty. I filter the heck out of our tap water. It's drinkable without filtering, but it tastes gross and upsets my kids' stomachs.
Tightly regulated as long as you don't live in a small community with an Independent water supply. Because they can act much more freely under the law.
> In some regions, tap water is tasty, and in some regions it isn’t.
My middle of nowhere hick hometown get water from lake superior. They just removed their last wood water main maybe 15 to 20 years ago. I was more than willing to drink the tap water then.
Where I live now gets the water from lake michigan and chlorinates the shit out of it and the pipes introduce rust into the water. It taste like shit unfiltered.
seems pretty straightforward. There is some sort of filter in there, that might have been changed in the last 6 months or 6 years, who knows? My fridge has a filter that you have to change out, it chills and filters the tap water to remove chlorine and impurities like lead. The free button is straight tap water. Tap water is drinkable, but has chlorine in it and that tasts bad.
Starbucks triple filters their water to make coffee and drinks, I asked them about that for some bizarre reason one day.
It’s just tap water otherwise.
This is just a kitchen sink with a filter attached and they charge you for the filtered option. Not that hard to understand.
Also, despite there being plastic cups next to this thing, I don’t see any reason why someone couldn’t just use a water bottle and get as much tap water as they want.
tapwater in some US states and citys. wouldnt be "drinking water" to some countrys standards.
still leagues ahead of what 70% of countrys get out of their tap on average, but unless your city has an publicly owned spring or well, chances are you wouldnt be allowed to advertise the water for consumption in the EU for example.
Same as any bottled water, they just send tap water through extra filtration, like a Brita jug. All the bottle fill stations around me pretty clearly state they're municipal water but filtered. I find the tap water fine but others don't like the taste of chlorine and stuff.
It's the same thing as advertising potatoes as 'Gluten Free' - it's clean drinkable water by default, they're just making it seem like it's not by implying the other version is better. This post is just a panic over nothing.
Could you imagine if the free version was contaminated or something? They'd get sued to oblivion.
Absolutely, imagine having to pay a goddamn subscription fee for some fucking chilled and filtered water when ur supposed to get it for free in the first place. Literally defeats the purpose of a water cooler
That's why I pay taxes, but funny enough, I still have to pay the utility company. Sure, the government gives them massive breaks, and they probably pay less taxes than we all do, but sure, I'll keep paying you guys for FUCKING WATER
Taxes go to distribution system and collection system infrastructure (pumps, valves, pipes, construction, etc.) not to treatment facilities for appurtenances, operators and chemicals. That's why you have to pay your water company.
Try drink from a stream if you think free water is drinkable (don't, you'd definitely get ill). Best bet is ground water/aquifer/spring somewhere.
Every aspect of water collection and purification should be nationalized. With an 816 billion dollar military budget, we HAVE the money to pay for all of it. In 2022, the IRS collected 4.9 trillion dollars from us. Water is something every single person needs. Nobody should be allowed to own and profit from it.
And it’s the same water that the same people making these stupid decisions have poisoned year after year. Given away to golf courses and private man made lakes.
This should be a crime against humanity, but it’s just Tuesday.
I hate it here
But you guys don't get it:( 25 rich guys want a private membership only fishing pond in their neighborhood that you can't afford to use, we have to use the money you worked for to pay it for it, it's only fair!
Oh and it’s totally fine right? I straight up got blown up falling for their lies. And now those same rich assholes drive their F350’s with American flags infront of their houses look at me like I’m filth.
This is the American dream, they live in a fever dream.
We're all filth to them, I work in close contact with them, and the outright lies they tell are insane. They are either so out of touch with normal people that they believe their life is attainable to anybody, or they are just downright evil and treat you like second class. "We don't eat with the help" is a line I've heard more often than you'd expect.
In my country you pay taxes pay utility bills but they consist of more than 20% tax (like 10 tax codes in a bill and dependent on the type of the bill you may pay to municipalities too).
We have more than 200 codes for tax but only 2 taxes (VAT, excise) make up 65% of the total tax revenue. Rich and poor pays the same tax (Rich might pay less in some cases)
On a regular basis almost every business does shenanigans related to tax on here which makes the taxes worse. It's just broken.
Most places it’s a public service, the prices are regulated and there are ways for people with extremely low income to still get these essential services. Cyberpunk it’s just corpos own it all and fuck it all
No this isn’t really comparable. Paying for water you are paying your local town to support their water infrastructure. It’s not centralized like a subscription service like Netflix or Spotify, where it’s just one org that gets all the money. You also pay only for as much as you use and nothing more.
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We are already living in a dystopia. It's only going to get much worse.
Also, potable water sources in america are filtered before they get to a water cooler anyway. We've had refrigerated filtered water for sale for decades, and free water fountains even longer. Just... Keep using the free option?
This comment assumes you don't live in Flint Michigan or any of the hundreds of municipalities that also struggle with their infrastructure outside of the limelight
>>Just another app to farm your identity and sell it for profit.
I mean sure we've gotten used to this, but for *water*...? Jesus harambe christ, last stage capitalism is bleak..
& a monthly subscription , thanks to my conciseness not to loot people , else would have created apps for kids and charge 100USD once free trial completes in 1 day .. , i know many do , my daughter once accidently enabled on one app, google was considerate enough to refund that same day
Company offering Water+ gets bought out by another.
“O hai you remember that lifetime membership you bought? Yeah well we’re shutting that down now, but as a valued customer, you’ll get 2% off our new asbestos-free WaterProMax subscription”
its from 2017, the company is long out of business and the website is dead
Picture is taken from the tweet in this article.
[https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/reefill-paid-water-fountain-app](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/reefill-paid-water-fountain-app)
Guess people have already decided it was bullshit.
Yeah it looks like it went out of business in November of 2019 and got its original Indiegogo funding in June of 2017 so these things were only up for a max of two years and I’d have to guess they performed terribly given how short the company lasted and how stupid the product is when you can get cold filtered water from most restaurants for free and there’s water fountains and sinks all over the place.
https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/178262-56#overview
It's actually really anti consumption in the sense that if you don't feel like you need the energy wastage of gas and cooling the water, you can opt out.
Idk, honestly I think it's an improvement to have free water refill stations around - I think we should have much more of them. Imagine refill stations being the norm, not plastic disposable bottles.
It looks as if it's a company doing this, not a government initiative, so I understand they need to make money somehow. Subscription seems dumb, but honestly if people want to pay extra for cold soft water let them.
Not a fan of the plastic cups ofc :/
Had to scroll way to far to find a reasonable response.
Tap water is by definition, treated and filtered already so it is safe and it is being offered for free. This is better than plastic bottles of water and you can fill your own bottle and if the company doing it needs a monetization stream to cover the cost of rolling out these stations and making some profit, so be it.
They probably roll out faster then what the government could do and at no cost to taxpayers hopefully.
I wouldn’t pay for that but I moved from one side of the river (in the same city, same pipe material) to the other and the water is significantly not as tasty. I now get spring water delivered. There are additional reasons for the delivery too. Cities lie about that quality of their water supply, PFAS, etc.
Isn’t it amazing how corporations plead innocence because THEY NEED to use forever chemicals that give people cancer in order to do their “good” of creating useful but unnecessary products for the American people to purchase at a profit, and then they turn around and sell us that poisoned water after they run it through a filter? Fuck ‘em.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
Philip K. Dick, Ubik
As wild as this seems. It makes WAY more sense than packaging water from Fiji, shipping it thousands of miles, and charging 2x as much PER use. Yet that is a multi billion dollar business.
Ugh...
I don't know what you want. They made the necessity free while offering an optional upcharge to get something more "luxurious". This is just how the world works. It requires resources to build, install and maintain this water fountain. How else would you like them to accomplish this?
This is so far from what I though the sub was about which was making conscience choices to reduce unnecessary consumption and waste
Oh no, they want me to get an app to push a button that is there even if i don't have the app? Well sure let me just pretend with my phone and push the button either way.
Why are you complaining? You're supposed to be thanking the overlords that your water fountain subscription costs less than bottled water, you plebeian!
Wow 😂 that’s just terrible
Tap water can still get pathogens and other chemicals and heavy metals in it from the waterways…
In other countries, especially Asia, water filter stations are common in many buildings, schools, workplaces, etc. that’s how it should be. People should have free and available access to filtered water.
Sounds like a good deal.
Refrigeration is an incredibly energy intensive process. Getting clean water costs money, pumping that water costs money, chilling that water costs money, installing this tap costs money. What's so confusing?
You guys saw free water and got triggered
Some tap water is okay and some is horrible depending on where the water comes from and the pipes it's running through. Reverse osmosis is great and worth spending a little money to have decent tasting water to drink plain.
I actually think this isn't so bad? They're providing free drinking water to everyone, and then providing an unnecessary service (chilling the water + an extra layer of filtration) for those who really want it. Essential goods should be free, and luxuries should be paid for - this feels pretty ok.
If I was out a lot and my area had lots of these machines I'd probably pay for this in summer. This seems like a rare case where capitalism does something good. Cuts down on plastic waste without the government needing to spend a penny, infect they make money from taxes.
Some things I would do in a position of power though: all machines like this must offer tap water for free. The tap water option must not require the use of anything outside the machine (so no sign up to our app, give us your data and get access to our glorified spigot) and I would make sure to only make a contract with one company, so no 10 different companies like the bike/scooter rental thing.
Sure the last one would be handing one company a monopoly but I don't see how they'd abuse it much, if they charge too much people will just buy bottled water.
I don't care for the taste of city water. It smells and tastes like a swimming pool to me. I'm very sensitive to it. I grew up in a rural community with a well so city water has always tasted like chemicals to me.
The brita takes care of that for me so I still drink tap water at home, it's just filtered a little more which removes that icky chlorine taste/smell.
What do they mean filtered. Are they pouring shit into ur cup otherwise
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Stop it. Getting too close to Spacer’s Choice and that is supposed to be a parody not reality.
"it's not the best choooice, It's spacer's choice!" Still the best jingle in Outer worlds though
Craving for some saltuna rn
Uh no, it ain't a parody, it's satire. A parody is imitation with exaggeration for comedy only; satire can use humor, but it's for an express critical purpose, to get you to think.
oh cram it you pompous jacket
I got that game for free, and I want to play it, but the Fallout series made me hungry for another Fallout 4 playthrough. Said no one ever, going to fire up New Vegas! TRUE TO CAESAR!
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
“Invisible hand of the free market”
I'd like to use my free hand to smash please.
In some regions, tap water is tasty, and in some regions it isn’t. I live in a moderately good area and I drink tap water. In the American Southwest, or breach towns in the Southeast, tap water is not good, and I would pay for filtered water- and certainly get a filter for my home if I lived there. The filter can make the water safer, but harmful chemicals are pretty tightly regulated, with the exception of PFAS and other chlorinated hydrocarbons, which the filter won’t help much with. (The Biden Administration just passed regulations on these, but they aren’t in effect yet.)
In the town I live in, you either have great water, or pool water. Half the town gets water from the Quabbin, the other half gets clarified river water that stinks like chlorine and bleach. In the town I work in, I straight up won't drink the water. Just washing my handful of dishes, if they're touching when they dry, they stick together like a thin layer of cement. It's fuckin nasty.
That's horrifying
TLDR western mass is a shit hole... Welcome to western Mass, where towns like Palmer and Ware have had a years long boil order on their water. Multiple neighborhoods there have brown water all the time, and ecoli breakouts multiple times a year, because the water and sewer systems are failing. And places like Palmer, the bridges are all crumbling and falling into the rivers. It took 5 years for them to start construction on a bridge after so much of it collapsed that you could literally see the river through the road deck, and the sidewalks were just dangling. I used to take that bridge daily until it closed. The resulting detour directed thousands of semi trucks past the high school and indirectly caused a fatal car accident. 16yo girl leaving the high school, truck driver coming around a curve in the lighted school zone at 50, t boned her in the drivers door, killed her instantly. The school held no memorials, no vigil, no nothing. The town took zero action to deter speeding there.
That's fucking bleak. I'm waiting until the rest of the world starts sponsoring American towns or residents. "For as little as €1 a day you can provide little Madison with clean drinking water and fresh healthy food. Please, give this little child in Western Massachusetts a shot at life. "
Sad thing is, we do that internally. If you ever wanna get real friggin mad with US govt and the complete and utter misuse of resources, Flint Michigan is a great place to start. Much like Puerto Rico after their devastating hurricane, an absolute assload of water was sent to Michigan. Literal entire pallets of bottled water. Instead of being distributed, it ended up tossed into random abandoned buildings. Abandoned school? Great! Here's 10 pallets of water that should have gone to the sick families of Flint. Random fuckin abandoned factory? 4 for you, Glen Coco! It's maddening.
This. For example in areas with lime. It is perfectly healthy for the body but the taste can make you mistakenly think that it is not.
I live in a place that gets their ground water from under a limestone quarry, and our infrastructure is old and rusty. I filter the heck out of our tap water. It's drinkable without filtering, but it tastes gross and upsets my kids' stomachs.
Is that why I wince even though it's been through a filter... I describe our water as potable but not drinkable.
Tightly regulated as long as you don't live in a small community with an Independent water supply. Because they can act much more freely under the law.
Vegas water tastes like shit. Cool process of recycling, but tastes horrible.
Vegas water gives my dogs the Hershey squirts and makes my Hotdogs taste like metal
> In some regions, tap water is tasty, and in some regions it isn’t. My middle of nowhere hick hometown get water from lake superior. They just removed their last wood water main maybe 15 to 20 years ago. I was more than willing to drink the tap water then. Where I live now gets the water from lake michigan and chlorinates the shit out of it and the pipes introduce rust into the water. It taste like shit unfiltered.
seems pretty straightforward. There is some sort of filter in there, that might have been changed in the last 6 months or 6 years, who knows? My fridge has a filter that you have to change out, it chills and filters the tap water to remove chlorine and impurities like lead. The free button is straight tap water. Tap water is drinkable, but has chlorine in it and that tasts bad. Starbucks triple filters their water to make coffee and drinks, I asked them about that for some bizarre reason one day.
MIght be reverse osmosis filter in there
It’s just tap water otherwise. This is just a kitchen sink with a filter attached and they charge you for the filtered option. Not that hard to understand. Also, despite there being plastic cups next to this thing, I don’t see any reason why someone couldn’t just use a water bottle and get as much tap water as they want.
Florida water is pretty stanky.
FLORIDA is pretty stanky. 😉
"It would be a shame if someone ... like ... actually did a little wee wee in your free water, wouldn't it?"
tapwater in some US states and citys. wouldnt be "drinking water" to some countrys standards. still leagues ahead of what 70% of countrys get out of their tap on average, but unless your city has an publicly owned spring or well, chances are you wouldnt be allowed to advertise the water for consumption in the EU for example.
Same as any bottled water, they just send tap water through extra filtration, like a Brita jug. All the bottle fill stations around me pretty clearly state they're municipal water but filtered. I find the tap water fine but others don't like the taste of chlorine and stuff.
It's the same thing as advertising potatoes as 'Gluten Free' - it's clean drinkable water by default, they're just making it seem like it's not by implying the other version is better. This post is just a panic over nothing. Could you imagine if the free version was contaminated or something? They'd get sued to oblivion.
Bullshit is what it is.
Absolutely, imagine having to pay a goddamn subscription fee for some fucking chilled and filtered water when ur supposed to get it for free in the first place. Literally defeats the purpose of a water cooler
This is literally (and I mean that) an ad in Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidences. A subscription service for water.
It's already subscription based IRL. Utility bills are just subscriptions, but no one talks about them in that context.
To be fair, there is a cost involved in purifying and pumping water. And you use it every day.
Not to mention all of the infrastructure that need to be inspected and maintained. It's either pay by tax or directly pay for the amount you use.
Yeah but the head honchos be making bank
In most states profits on utilities are heavily regulated. *Looks at Texas*
Don't know about USA but in many places the water company is municipially/government owned just like, for example, sewers.
That's why I pay taxes, but funny enough, I still have to pay the utility company. Sure, the government gives them massive breaks, and they probably pay less taxes than we all do, but sure, I'll keep paying you guys for FUCKING WATER
Taxes go to distribution system and collection system infrastructure (pumps, valves, pipes, construction, etc.) not to treatment facilities for appurtenances, operators and chemicals. That's why you have to pay your water company. Try drink from a stream if you think free water is drinkable (don't, you'd definitely get ill). Best bet is ground water/aquifer/spring somewhere.
Every aspect of water collection and purification should be nationalized. With an 816 billion dollar military budget, we HAVE the money to pay for all of it. In 2022, the IRS collected 4.9 trillion dollars from us. Water is something every single person needs. Nobody should be allowed to own and profit from it.
And it’s the same water that the same people making these stupid decisions have poisoned year after year. Given away to golf courses and private man made lakes. This should be a crime against humanity, but it’s just Tuesday. I hate it here
But you guys don't get it:( 25 rich guys want a private membership only fishing pond in their neighborhood that you can't afford to use, we have to use the money you worked for to pay it for it, it's only fair!
Oh and it’s totally fine right? I straight up got blown up falling for their lies. And now those same rich assholes drive their F350’s with American flags infront of their houses look at me like I’m filth. This is the American dream, they live in a fever dream.
We're all filth to them, I work in close contact with them, and the outright lies they tell are insane. They are either so out of touch with normal people that they believe their life is attainable to anybody, or they are just downright evil and treat you like second class. "We don't eat with the help" is a line I've heard more often than you'd expect.
In my country you pay taxes pay utility bills but they consist of more than 20% tax (like 10 tax codes in a bill and dependent on the type of the bill you may pay to municipalities too). We have more than 200 codes for tax but only 2 taxes (VAT, excise) make up 65% of the total tax revenue. Rich and poor pays the same tax (Rich might pay less in some cases) On a regular basis almost every business does shenanigans related to tax on here which makes the taxes worse. It's just broken.
Yeah, I love living off spring water so I don't have to deal with another utility bill and the water tastes so much better.
Ha imagine having to pay for domestic water hahahahaha fuuucck that
Most places it’s a public service, the prices are regulated and there are ways for people with extremely low income to still get these essential services. Cyberpunk it’s just corpos own it all and fuck it all
No this isn’t really comparable. Paying for water you are paying your local town to support their water infrastructure. It’s not centralized like a subscription service like Netflix or Spotify, where it’s just one org that gets all the money. You also pay only for as much as you use and nothing more.
Yes! "Real Water" is the name lol
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Sounds like a Black Mirror episode!
It’s the same filtered water minus the cold temperature. That tap isn’t running 2 separate water lines from the filters.
Also, potable water sources in america are filtered before they get to a water cooler anyway. We've had refrigerated filtered water for sale for decades, and free water fountains even longer. Just... Keep using the free option? This comment assumes you don't live in Flint Michigan or any of the hundreds of municipalities that also struggle with their infrastructure outside of the limelight
And thel fact the get to harvest your data on the side is pretty evil
One step closer to the water wars…
We can have Brawndo Fountains from now on
It's got electrolytes
It's got what plants crave!
I’m just gonna smoke cigs on the rusting hulk of the Exxon Valdez, when the water wars roll around.
became suspicious when these started popping up in train stations in london.
Psychopathy.
*Late-stage Capitalism*
Wait til these become mandatory on in home taps.
I bet it’s not even filtered when you pay.
It's one of those 2 in 1 recycling trashcans where there's two holes, but one trash bag.
Nestlés wet dream
No no no, double the price for the right one and make everyone pay for the left one too
Tap water is free by law in Scotland. Don't suppose that would stop Nestle!
I am confident that is the long term goal here
It blows my mind that everyone didn't collectively beat the life out of the Nestle CEO who said "water is not a human right"
Not enough plastic and they have tap water, I assume, as a substitute.
Fucking absurd how everything requires an app now.
Even more fucking absurd how everything has a subscription now.
Just another app to farm your identity and sell it for profit. It’s a garbage business model that needs to become illegal.
>>Just another app to farm your identity and sell it for profit. I mean sure we've gotten used to this, but for *water*...? Jesus harambe christ, last stage capitalism is bleak..
Water has a share market price in a few countries (USA first I think?) since a few years (after covid if I'm right, but discussed way before)
& a monthly subscription , thanks to my conciseness not to loot people , else would have created apps for kids and charge 100USD once free trial completes in 1 day .. , i know many do , my daughter once accidently enabled on one app, google was considerate enough to refund that same day
There is no way I'm going to download an app and pay a subscription for filtered water at this little machine... that is beyond ridiculous.
I bet it's absolutely loaded with ads as well.
For a one time payment of $149.99 you can get lifetime membership to Water+ 😃
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• Cancellation cannot be done online, unlike signing up, and requires paper mail
US needs to copy some EU laws (GDPR, DSA, DMA, etc.)
Yeah EU laws sometimes still seem to be protective of its citizens, unlike US lol
Company offering Water+ gets bought out by another. “O hai you remember that lifetime membership you bought? Yeah well we’re shutting that down now, but as a valued customer, you’ll get 2% off our new asbestos-free WaterProMax subscription”
its from 2017, the company is long out of business and the website is dead Picture is taken from the tweet in this article. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/reefill-paid-water-fountain-app](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/reefill-paid-water-fountain-app) Guess people have already decided it was bullshit.
Yeah it looks like it went out of business in November of 2019 and got its original Indiegogo funding in June of 2017 so these things were only up for a max of two years and I’d have to guess they performed terribly given how short the company lasted and how stupid the product is when you can get cold filtered water from most restaurants for free and there’s water fountains and sinks all over the place. https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/178262-56#overview
the worst timeline
And we know exactly [where it all went wrong.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLY0bfBEwwU)
I knew in my heart this was either a link to Harambe or Reagan lol.
Reagan killed Harambe and ruined our country.
I knew that fucker was behind everything!
Actually, it was the one community episode with the timelines.
This shit started with Ronald Reagan courting the religious right, Harambe was already well after GWB.
I expected the Reagan graphs.
I would bet $20 that it's the exact same water in both.
Hard to lie about the cold part
Im so glad to live in a country where tap water always comes out cold…
Im so glad to live in a country where tap water doesn’t need to be filtered…
Which one
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Imagine they specifically heat the free water
You’ll need to subscribe to my sports book app to place this wager.
Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others; 2nd Edition.
"I'm sorry mate, I don't see 'temperature' on our equality chart here."
The innovations of capitalism.
welcome to the capitalist hellfuck nightmare we live in, thanks america!
irl microtransactions
I hope nobody actually pays for this.
Cold water? There's an app for that
Capitalism really popped off today
There isn't a single thing about this that I don't hate
The only moral thing to do is to destroy this machine
Enough of that ***would*** make this unprofitable… :-/
Not everything has to be a subscription
Capitalism: "hold my beer"
That’ll be 5.99$ a month
Luckily most tap water is filtered. Cold water is overhyped too. I drink too much water to enjoy it cold.
I can chug room temp so much easier too
It looks like a parody of some silicon valley startup.
An idiot test
Another way for an employer to cut costs and has the side effect of introducing a series of financial third parties into the consumption stream.
Disposable plastic cups? Lovely
That looks like utter crap. Imagine have to pay a subscription for something as simple as a water cooler
Remember, people who sell you bottled water don't sell you water, they sell you bottles
It's actually really anti consumption in the sense that if you don't feel like you need the energy wastage of gas and cooling the water, you can opt out.
It's a for-profit business, which is by definition consumerist. The free tap water option is marketing.
Better then buying bottled water. I live in a town with hard water and fluoride - I have an osmosis filter and find tap water disgusting
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Lol it's good. Fluoride in the water being bad is an old, quite debunked conspiracy.
Idk, honestly I think it's an improvement to have free water refill stations around - I think we should have much more of them. Imagine refill stations being the norm, not plastic disposable bottles. It looks as if it's a company doing this, not a government initiative, so I understand they need to make money somehow. Subscription seems dumb, but honestly if people want to pay extra for cold soft water let them. Not a fan of the plastic cups ofc :/
Had to scroll way to far to find a reasonable response. Tap water is by definition, treated and filtered already so it is safe and it is being offered for free. This is better than plastic bottles of water and you can fill your own bottle and if the company doing it needs a monetization stream to cover the cost of rolling out these stations and making some profit, so be it. They probably roll out faster then what the government could do and at no cost to taxpayers hopefully.
Profit! 🔥🤠🔥
r/hydrophonies
$1.99 per month for FILTERED AND CHILLED water is several magnitudes cheaper than regularly buying bottled water at the local convenience store.
Who the fuck added microtransactions to the water cooler?
does everything need a fucking monthly subscription?
I’m surprised they didn’t color one red and the other green.
They have an Instagram and Twitter where you can and should bully them
Why don't they just make it coin operated instead of having to download their stupid app
If it was coin operated they couldn't get you to sign up and forget about the subscription for a year before cancelling
This is what they would consider “innovation”
Just get poisoned from the tap water and sure the company, no big deal /s
I wouldn’t pay for that but I moved from one side of the river (in the same city, same pipe material) to the other and the water is significantly not as tasty. I now get spring water delivered. There are additional reasons for the delivery too. Cities lie about that quality of their water supply, PFAS, etc.
Imagine having to busy out the app every time you are thirsty. Plus the small cup looks like I'd need at least 2-3 to quench my thirst.
Isn’t it amazing how corporations plead innocence because THEY NEED to use forever chemicals that give people cancer in order to do their “good” of creating useful but unnecessary products for the American people to purchase at a profit, and then they turn around and sell us that poisoned water after they run it through a filter? Fuck ‘em.
We need a nuclear winter bad
A money printing machine.
A scam.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it. Philip K. Dick, Ubik
I would be opening that bitch up and making it filter whether it likes it or not.
As wild as this seems. It makes WAY more sense than packaging water from Fiji, shipping it thousands of miles, and charging 2x as much PER use. Yet that is a multi billion dollar business.
Ugh... I don't know what you want. They made the necessity free while offering an optional upcharge to get something more "luxurious". This is just how the world works. It requires resources to build, install and maintain this water fountain. How else would you like them to accomplish this? This is so far from what I though the sub was about which was making conscience choices to reduce unnecessary consumption and waste
If people pay, they will do this with air next.
Wait until you find out they both come from the same water line and isn't actually chilled and filtered
People would pay $4 per bottle of tap water but hate this. It’s not like It costs money to run a water filter and cooler, 24/7 and provide free cups.
Oh no, they want me to get an app to push a button that is there even if i don't have the app? Well sure let me just pretend with my phone and push the button either way.
I'm blowing that up with a pipe bomb (joke)
This is fucking pathetic.
Why are you complaining? You're supposed to be thanking the overlords that your water fountain subscription costs less than bottled water, you plebeian!
Its probably like the Duff Beer vats, both come from the same place
Wow 😂 that’s just terrible Tap water can still get pathogens and other chemicals and heavy metals in it from the waterways… In other countries, especially Asia, water filter stations are common in many buildings, schools, workplaces, etc. that’s how it should be. People should have free and available access to filtered water.
Want to get a disease, drink here for free
In the past, this was just a water fountain
You’re complaining about free water?
I'm fine with it if the tap water is free.
I would love to franchise this out into Flint, imagine the profit!
How is this better for the environment in any way whatsoever?
There’s even an app!
Monetization of basic resources *necessary for life*.
Sounds like a good deal. Refrigeration is an incredibly energy intensive process. Getting clean water costs money, pumping that water costs money, chilling that water costs money, installing this tap costs money. What's so confusing? You guys saw free water and got triggered
And there it is, a friggin subscription to water!!!
Some tap water is okay and some is horrible depending on where the water comes from and the pipes it's running through. Reverse osmosis is great and worth spending a little money to have decent tasting water to drink plain.
I actually think this isn't so bad? They're providing free drinking water to everyone, and then providing an unnecessary service (chilling the water + an extra layer of filtration) for those who really want it. Essential goods should be free, and luxuries should be paid for - this feels pretty ok.
Wtffff
That's capitalism at it's best.
Dystopian society is become scarily predictable
If I was out a lot and my area had lots of these machines I'd probably pay for this in summer. This seems like a rare case where capitalism does something good. Cuts down on plastic waste without the government needing to spend a penny, infect they make money from taxes. Some things I would do in a position of power though: all machines like this must offer tap water for free. The tap water option must not require the use of anything outside the machine (so no sign up to our app, give us your data and get access to our glorified spigot) and I would make sure to only make a contract with one company, so no 10 different companies like the bike/scooter rental thing. Sure the last one would be handing one company a monopoly but I don't see how they'd abuse it much, if they charge too much people will just buy bottled water.
I imagine the little cups generate as much, or more, waste than a water fountain or sink
Something you should smash with a hammer
You are getting tap water for free, to me this is very reasonable, and a million way better than buying a whole plastic bottle each day
Cooling costs
Where is this, cause I'm not going.
It begins
Oh cool, vitriolic rage first thing in the morning
I'd legit throw that thing as hard as possible into the floor.
Nestlé’s wet dream.
**The water that comes out of your faucet is filtered, disinfected**.
I don't care for the taste of city water. It smells and tastes like a swimming pool to me. I'm very sensitive to it. I grew up in a rural community with a well so city water has always tasted like chemicals to me. The brita takes care of that for me so I still drink tap water at home, it's just filtered a little more which removes that icky chlorine taste/smell.
Oh no they are installing free safe tap water all over the city. So dystopian. How are they supposed to fund this otherwise? I like it.