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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 19 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] valkyre09 47 points 21 hours ago

Maybe they should have focussed their efforts on carbonated water to combat the fizzle

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

at my university I can tap chilled water for free!

[–] werefreeatlast 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, you'd notice if the water wasn't chilled.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (11 children)

The real trick is to build these in places where the tap water is naturally cold, and to heat the free stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Valmond 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah when the fuck are sandboxing being implemented correctly in telephones smh

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

Its available for some phones with extra work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)
  1. Maybe earlier. Apple and Android phones have been heavily sandboxed from the start.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

they went under

Serves the fuckers right. If only the same would happen to Nestlé Water..

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[–] Rooty 59 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sweet Jesus I didn't even notice that it's a subscription. I abhor vandalism but this shit needs to be spraypainted yesterday.

[–] Sterile_Technique 38 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

this machine is likely waterproofed, for obvious reasons

[–] Sterile_Technique 1 points 9 hours ago

Fortunately, water isn't the only thing capable of destroying it.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours 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
[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] t_chalco 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Canned in Druidia

[–] Lost_My_Mind 13 points 23 hours ago

"You'll have to buy the air from us!"

"No thanks."

"But you'll die."

"Byeeeeeeee"

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] SkyezOpen 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 13 hours ago

Where is /c/frugaljerk when you need it?

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[–] TommySoda 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I remember someone predicting this on reddit back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (7 children)

That was me, I'm surprised anyone remembered.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] Soup 14 points 23 hours ago

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.

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