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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is brilliant, you could have the gestasi inspecting everyone at the checkouts at a supermarket, and if you don't buy a Sodastream cartridge, you get disappeared.

(Sodastream is an Israeli company, and used to manufacture their machines in an industrial park in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sodastream is an Israeli company

I didn't know that. Good thing I've been boycotting their cylinders for years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well fuck, I just got one, I just assumed they were a german company since they're so popular there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Not really any more, mostly though because other companies got into the business and aren't charging an arm and a leg for carbon dioxide. Other manufacturers also aren't pointlessly incompatible to each other.

Sparkling water, of course, is still ridiculously popular over here, and carbonating at home is convenient. Then, though: Tap water + soda stream co2 is more expensive than store-brand bottled water.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Same. But I switched to a (German) service that mails cylinders. https://sodabaer.de/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I got an Aarke instead because I liked the design, so now I just need to replace my current sodastream cartridge with an offbrand one...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Get a nice bar-sized cylinder of CO2 (sometimes called beer gas) and a 15 dollar adapter. Get you that (nearly) guilt-free bubbly water by never sending them a cent for gas!