this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

It's going to sound like I'm defending them in some way, which I'm really not because the whole thing is stupid, but they're not charging for the drinking fountain they're charging for the cold filtered water, which is going to incur some kind of power and maintenance cost that's while negligible at scale is beyond the norm. Room temperature tap water is still free here.