Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

Post by amluto » Fri, May 22, 2026, 3:55 AM UTC

HWR_14 wrote: post #52

TrueSlacker0 wrote: post #46

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Its a reverse osmosis machine. You can get them for as low as $100 on amazon or anywhere. I have one at the house attached to my sink that makes about 20 gallons a day on demand and a small commercial one at work that cost 220 and makes 500 gallons a day (its about 2sqft in size) filling a large tank. Neither are large nor high in electric usage, the home one has no power, the small commercial has a small booster pum…

Is the waste higher in the unpowered machine than the powered machine? Because saving electricity at the cost of water isn't necessarily a good thing .

Post by msm_ » Fri, May 22, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

jrmg wrote: post #42

Aachen wrote: post #28

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The latter is yet another reason to ask for tap water in restaurants. It's probably fine but besides the uncertainty of what the plastics and additives do to a person, might as well not have more plastic bottles be produced, leech into the far-transported water, and then have to be disposed of responsibly. I usually explicitly request they write it up as a normal water price and just bring me a glass of tap

Restaurants charge for tap water where you are?

Post by dominojab » Fri, May 22, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

Aachen wrote: post #28

stratocumulus0 wrote: post #24

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It's because restaurants make the most money on drinks, so selling you overpriced water with artificial branding becomes an excuse to charge the same money for water as one would for sodas. And some cannot be convinced that tap water could be safe to drink. I know a few people who exclusively drink glass-bottled water, because they fear microplastics on top of that.

The latter is yet another reason to ask for tap water in restaurants. It's probably fine but besides the uncertainty of what the plastics and additives do to a person, might as well not have more plastic bottles be produced, leech into the far-transported water, and then have to be disposed of responsibly. I usually explicitly request they write it up as a normal water price and just bring me a glass of tap

Post by polotics » Sun, May 24, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

bitcurious wrote: post #60

qlm wrote: post #47

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to not use an LLM?

Precisely! There are orders of magnitude more people who are poor English writers (by virtue of being ESL or merely not having the gift) than those gifted at English prose. What we are seeing is not a decrease of quality writing but a compression of the large span of poor writing into a much more narrow mediocre range.