no words, much feelings

I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this
- Nah, you'd notice if the water wasn't chilled.
  
  The real trick is to build these in places where the tap water is naturally cold, and to heat the free stuff.
- 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.
  
  A good filter can do wonders.

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.
- Maybe they should have focussed their efforts on carbonated water to combat the fizzle
  
  It would've just delayed them running out of gas.
- While the apps are still in store, there doesn't seem to be any website except for an indiegogo, and the Techcrunch article is from '17.

You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough
- 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.
  
  Yeah when the fuck are sandboxing being implemented correctly in telephones smh
- 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.
  
  I was going to look it up and share but I think they went under. No app on iOS either and the URL takes you to a wix placeholder page
- Spoken like someone who knows nothing about how apps work.
  
  How do they steal the data then?

Sweet Jesus I didn't even notice that it's a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.
- Spray paint? Fill cup with shitty water, poke hole in bottom of cup, place cup over expensive water button, let the water and circuitry settle their differences.
  Dystopian tech needs to be destroyed, not defaced.
  
  this machine is likely waterproofed, for obvious reasons
- Just put gum on the subscription button so no one is able to use this scam

Breathing in rooms with outside air: FREE
Breathing in rooms with heat/AC: $1.99/mo
Get the Breeathe app!
breeathe.com
- Write that down! Write that down!
- I think we just found our new Breeathe Free CEO!
- I really thought this was real.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_%28Doctor_Who%29

It's 100% the same water
- They add lead to the free side.
  
  Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.

This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.
- vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral
  
  Amen

"Reefill" sounds like something out of a wojak meme.
"I'm reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!" - the reefiller wojak
- It more sounds like you're making fun of their intelligence: oh, you're going for a REEEEEfill?

We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".

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

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.
- 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.
  
  Where I live in Canada has started turning fire hydrants into free drinking fountains during the summer for the last couple of years.
  
  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.
  
  Why does it say "Woof Woof Bow Wow" on the dog bowl, if I may ask?
  
  I am from Europe and that is not the norm.
  
  "Free"
  Nothing is free
  Someone paid for the fountain. Either you, your neighbor, your friend, or your fellow countryman. But someone.
  Why nickel and dime everyone that is probably never going to even see the fountain instead of letting the people that want/need pay for it?
  Cold filtered water at just a single park you regularly go to is probably worth 3 bucks a month.
  If extra money went to park improvements, that would be even better.
  I don't see why everyone wants "free" when it's just a hidden cost that you're probably paying anyways. Yes, probably costs more for the people that use the service more, but that's the way it should be.
  Personally I'd rather save 20 dollars on my taxes and bring water to the park. Even still tap water is just fine.
  Why would I even want to pay 5 dollars more in taxes so someone doesn't have to bring a water bottle?
  This is a premium service that shouldn't be the burden of the taxpayer.
- When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.
  
  Not in Germany there aren't

We are so close to these fuckers selling clean, healthy air as the world suffocates.
- Perriair®
  
  Canned in Druidia
- "You'll have to buy the air from us!"
  "No thanks."
  "But you'll die."
  "Byeeeeeeee"
- "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
- https://lemmy.world/post/25417403

WaaS

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.
- 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.
  
  StPellegrino is so good, only La Salvetat beats it (and perrier but only in those 33cl glass bottles, I don't know why).
  What's your favourite?
- Tap water is already safe in my country so you can just pay $0.50 to access toilets
  I now realize what you mean, but I just woke up and for a good 3 seconds or so imagined you slurping toilet water.
  
  Where is /c/frugaljerk when you need it?
- I expect nothing less from the country with contactless payments for using the bathroom
  
  The? There are dozens of us!
  Still, it's probably the most widespread here because Czechs are crazy cheap.

I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.
- That was me, I'm surprised anyone remembered.
  
  Excellent user name btw.
  My favorite custom team name in sports games.
  
  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah right, prove it lol

ew single-use cups
- For an extra $0.99 a month, they will underpay an immigrant to let you drink the water from their cupped hands instead.
  
  What would you consider adequate pay for someone to rent out their hands as cups?

For me is the "Get the reefill app" part that gets me. Like why do you need an app for that?
- That's why I've stopped eating fast food almost co oletely. I won't install their app to get any of their "deals", and they've all jacked up their prices to the point that it's just not worth it without them..
  
  Fuckin’ tell me about it.
  I once downloaded the Maccas app, and they insisted I let them track my location at all times so they can “tell me where my nearest restaurant is”
  I know where my nearest fuckin’ maccas is. I also have a map. Instant delete.
  
  I had a Big Mac a few months ago last year. There's nothing "big" about the Mac anymore.

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.

+filtered is what gets me
- What's the bet those filters never get changed either?
- It's the same as those water fountains at work that filter tap water. There are one or more few carbon or other filters (redundant unless your tap water is below EU standards) plus a chilling (and maybe heating) chamber with UV light. You notice the lack of chlorine that dissipated as the water stood still, otherwise there is no real difference.

No filtered room temp option is the real crime.

Tap water all the time

Want $0.25 in your account monthly?
Introducing sink water! It has been treated with hand sanitizer, soaps, human waste including semen parts, shed skin particles, mucus, dandruff, sweat, spit, ear wax, blood, pee, and feces!
- Missing mood stabilizers, ibuprofen, Tylenol, basically medications.
  
  God I wish there was a source of water that has trace amounts of random medications, just imagine it as an energy drink alternative.

at my university I can tap chilled water for free!

I'll go to a regular tap, thanks.