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.
Wait isn’t tap water always naturally cold?
Nope. Especially not in Texas in the summertime. The pipes are close enough to the surface that they warm up (unless you have well water, which is always cold).
Weird. Where I live they bury it eight feet deep so it doesn’t freeze in the winter so it’s constantly chilly.
Yeah but you live in hell
You can always put more clothes on. You can only get so naked
Water comes out of my tap at 103f ok the summer , Arizona.
And degazify if it’s naturally sparkly.
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.
Living in an area with very hard water, yes.
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
Its available for some phones with extra work.
- Maybe earlier. Apple and Android phones have been heavily sandboxed from the start.
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
they went under
Serves the fuckers right. If only the same would happen to Nestlé Water…
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about how apps work.
How do they steal the data then?
Most of the time they don’t.
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.
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Fortunately, water isn’t the only thing capable of destroying it.
Just put gum on the subscription button so no one is able to use this scam
It’s 100% the same water
They add lead to the free side.
Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.
Breathing in rooms with outside air: FREE
Breathing in rooms with heat/AC: $1.99/moGet the Breeathe app!
Write that down! Write that down!
I think we just found our new Breeathe Free CEO!
I really thought this was real.
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.
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
WaaS
Nestle approved
HAHAHAAHHAHHHAHHAH
The pinnacle of innovation if you ask me.
I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.
That was me, I’m surprised anyone remembered.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 yeah right, prove it lol
How dare you make accusations like that! What do you think people just go on the internet and lie?!
It was totally him, I’m his nephew.
I can confirm
I was there when he took the picture
I was there when he told me, a stranger he met at the Applebee’s Bar that night after he was hitting on my 8-month pregnant wife then tried to pretend he wasn’t after she introduced me to him as her husband, the story while he was drunk.
OK i guess that settles it.
Excellent user name btw.
My favorite custom team name in sports games.
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.
