A Boring Dystopia

Both probably give the same exact water at the same temp.

Even if it was free, opening an app to get water is bullshit.

Edit: Let the record show, I was referring to the chilled water.

Jokes on you; I torrent my water!

If this was downtown or at parks I can kinda see them providing something. Knowing this is likely at a university library or building its just removing access that was already there.

I feel that the majority of innovation occuring in modern capitalism is confined to two key areas:

1. Regulatory capture and market control.

2. New ways to mindfuck people into overpaying for goods and services.

Reefill.com isn't even a registered domain. I call horseshit.

That's how corporations nickel and dime you. I resist subscription services almost completely (I pay for cloud backup storage for my phone in case of breakage/theft and that's it) because as well as being a constant financial drain they inevitably degrade and enshittify, often even removing things you paid for

I would rather take the tap water than trust the maintenance of whatever filter they put in there.

Is it still a thing? The website doesn't go anywhere and I can't find the app. All I can actually find are a few articles talking about how ridiculous it is to have a $2 subscription service on water fountains.

I'm not going to hate the company for trying, but if you're a building admin using these instead of Oasis or Elkay fill stations you're a huge fucking asshole.

Product designers are supposed to understand pareidolia and will often intentionally put faces into their designs. Some designs look happy, others like sports cars can be made to look aggressive.

The top of this design looks like some combination of angry, sad and disappointed, which I like to think is intentional.

Drill a fucking hole in that motherfucker and siphon it off. Or just drink tap water. It's fine. At least where I live. But still drill a hole in there to fuck with them.

I am not often in favour of shooting people.

For legal reasons this concludes my statement.

Property damage of this is valid. especially if you can give people water for free next to it.

when you see shit like this you are morally obligated to make them lose money

It's a failed crowdfunding campaign, their last tweet is from 2017

Pay for the PRIVILEGE of not drinking contaminated water!

Why are people trying to justify this, the city can put in chilled water taps like those Elkay ones for super cheap. Then when shitty businesses like these go under, you aren't left with a useless machine with no other water source nearby. Relying on private entities for basic things like this is just objectively a bad idea if it can be at all avoided.