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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Breathing in rooms with outside air: FREE
Breathing in rooms with heat/AC: $1.99/mo

Get the Breeathe app!

breeathe.com

[–] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Write that down! Write that down!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I really thought this was real.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think we just found our new Breeathe Free CEO!

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the kind of thing I find enraging to the point of vandalism.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

vandalism against large corporations is beautiful and moral

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[–] maxalmonte14@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

We need a community called "Capitalism Gone Wild".

[–] rolling_resistance@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

For an extra $0.99 a month, they will underpay an immigrant to let you drink the water from their cupped hands instead.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

What would you consider adequate pay for someone to rent out their hands as cups?

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Therobohour@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They add lead to the free side.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 17 hours ago

Flint Michigan loves this simple trick.

[–] Unlocalhost@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 23 hours ago

Nestle approved

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No filtered room temp option is the real crime.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (25 children)

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.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

Where I live in Canada has started turning fire hydrants into free drinking fountains during the summer for the last couple of years.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was in Rome there were just public water fountains everywhere. Good quality water, accessible to everyone.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Not in Germany there aren't

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 115 points 1 day 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.

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day 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.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Reefill" sounds like something out of a wojak meme.

"I'm reefilling my water bottle with mineral water from 1000m deep!" - the reefiller wojak

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 165 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

I bet that internally the mechanism must be like this

1000056940

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[–] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 90 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Tap water all the time

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