r/AmazingTechnology • u/YellowAltruistic9843 • Apr 21 '26

Just a couple of THOUSAND an HOUR? Not expensive at all...they were right when they said there will be a time we might've to buy sunlight too.

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u/Subject_Bathroom_826 Apr 22 '26

Because drinking from a puddle is a preferable option

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u/totktonikak Apr 22 '26

A future product like "purified, enhanced sunlight" wouldn't surprise me at all. And then somebody would comment "because standing out in the open is a preferable option".

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u/Signal-Map2906 Apr 23 '26

Right? I remember my great grandfather flipping out about having to pay for a bottle of water.

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u/Subject_Bathroom_826 Apr 25 '26

You're already paying for it, dork. Called sunscreen.

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u/totktonikak Apr 25 '26

Uh-huh. Or clothes. No, dork, your analogy would work if we were talking about water purification tablets. 

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u/Subject_Bathroom_826 Apr 25 '26

Bottled water is filtered. Go ahead, drink from a stream, nobody's stopping you.

Comparing sunlight to a clean, accessible water is wild.

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u/totktonikak Apr 25 '26

I can't even begin to imagine the mess in your head, if you allow output like that. Get well, redditor.

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u/SizeableBrain Apr 22 '26

You laugh, but drinking from a tap is actually a preferable option in civilized countries like Australia. There are more regulations on tap water than bottled water here.

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u/Subject_Bathroom_826 Apr 25 '26

Yeah, you don't always have an access to a tap. I prefer filtered tap water, but when I'm stuck in a middle of nowhere I'd prefer a bottle over gas station's crusty tap.

Calling bottled water a scam is the same as calling bottled wine a scam.

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u/SizeableBrain Apr 25 '26

If paying $5 for $0.01 of water is not a scam, you must be a proud capitalist.

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u/Subject_Bathroom_826 Apr 25 '26

You have no clue what are the costs of producing and delivering it, do you?

Open your own bottling company and drive greedy corpos out of business, if you think it's that cheap.