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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Dasani is the worst tasting bottled water

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

You know how people say LaCroix tastes like carbonated water that sat open next to a bunch of fruit?

Dasani has that sort of deal going on but with a sewage plant.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so happy to see so many comments shitting on Dasani. I've sworn at random times to friends and family that Dasani tastes like garbage. Like wet dog runoff or water that was stewed with pennies. But nobody ever agrees. It actually tastes closer to my sulfur-y well water than any other normal bottled water.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

My girlfriend's house has sulfur-laden well water. I find it absolutely revolting, taking a shower feels like I'm in a pot of hard boiled eggs, but she swears she's used to it.

I think it's subconsciously the reason she's always dehydrated.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Oh god, I don't know if I could do that. Our showers are softened and... something else that removes the smell. And we have an under-sink 5-stage filter for drinking or cooking with because if you use the well water for, say, stew or pasta, it just tastes "off"

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I suspect it'll be the one mandated to be sold alongside the other Coca-Cola owned sodas.

The best(?) water I've ever had that wasn't from a tap is the mega cheap Kirkland Signature stuff from Costco. It's still largely the same taste as the tap water, though I am fortunate enough to live in an area with decent tap water.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago

Having good tap water is truly a blessing. I’ve never felt the need to have bottled at home

[–] brap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's just tap water isn't it? It got recalled here and never came back.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

No, tap water is palatable. Dasani is runoff from an over-exerted kiddie pool filter.

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Dasani has water in it.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] MagnyusG@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

then why does it taste sweet?

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago

Microplastics.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Do they really? That's actually really good for some of us with certain medical conditions. I have to add sodium and other electrolytes on my own.

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[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ishbia’s purchase of the Suns was approved in Feb. 2023. Since he’s relatively new as majority owner of the team, I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt and assume in this situation he is working to make things better with his position and either only recently became aware of the price issue or was only just now able to change it, rather than simply making the change now for optics. You can be cynical about those who set the prices before him.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Now Im not in the US so I dont know ticket prices but seats are seats, maintenance on the stadium is largely a fixed cost. Empty seats generate $0 in food and ticket revenue.

If you can reasonably predict that a family of 5 can go have a great time for $50 + tickets you are going to get families coming, making it a thing the family does regularly which also sells merch and jerseys and creates life long fans, which creates a franchise that pays off in the long term. Its good long term business thinking. Nobody is going to the Basketball because the Hotdogs are amazing, your selling the experience not the food.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

People can try and be the helpers at any point. Life can be like that. You don't have to accept it. But it don't hurt to try.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the rest of the world, 16 oz is approximately 500 g so I guess that's equivalent to a 500 ml bottle.

$2 for that is actually pretty reasonable for an event.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

It's confusing, but there are two different units: "oz" (ounces) and "fl oz" (fluid ounces). Ounces are a unit of weight and fluid ounces are a unit of volume. But it's not always written explicitly as "fl oz", sometimes it's shortened to just "oz" and you get from context they mean the fluid ones.

So 16 oz in that context means 16 fl oz, which is about 473 ml.

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

For water, they're actually equivalent, just like grams and milliliters. As the old saying goes, "a pint's a pound the world around, but mainly in the U.S. and Liberia."

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

And not in the UK

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Word is that the nachos are stale, and come with pickles and cold cheese.

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'd much rather go to San Antonio, get some churros

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Why? There'll be a Filiberto's mere minutes away. That's like a whole day of driving from Phoenix to San Antonio.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

That's still more than I would pay.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

$2 for a bottle of water is a robbery

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It may be, but it's a standard price that you would find outside of a sporting event.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mother of face fucking god, that's terrible pricing. We're buying 6packs of 1.5L bottles of carbonated water sometimes and it's like 2-3 Euros, and contains more than 24 times more water than this joke of a bottle o.O

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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

$2.75 at the vending machine at work.

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago

Well of course, that's the point of being in a captive audience, like at the movie theater or airport. At least they aren't bleeding you for $8.50 for the same bottle. Makes it hurt a little less if one of your treats in life is watching a game, and someone needs to start the precedent of slowing down the momentum of overcharging for basic goods

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Damn, imagine if you went to every game

If I was a fan I'd be sat wondering why they'd been happily talking a 75+% profit margin from me after I'd already bought a ticket to be there.

If they could just not, when they feel like it

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