Gives me similar vibes to a southern plantation owner saying ‘my slaves are all happy; they’ve never complained to me!’
“Shit, they even sing while they work, they love it!”
What is the significance of the singing?
If this is an honest question: slaves in the US would sing songs as they toiled to help them cope with their hardship. From the slaveowners view the songs often seemed silly or full of hope, while the lyrics actually contained veiled instructions about insurrection or escape.
it helped keep the tempo of work and make time pass faster
I think it’s a slavery reference.
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I’ve had someone say “I took real good care of my animals, why wouldn’t I have taken care of them?” In a 100% unironic way.
I just left it alone there.
Fuck soda stream, not only because there Israeli and had a factory in the occupied territories until backlash forced them out, they’re also anti-repair.
I have one and one time I pumped it a bit too much and heard a pop and it would no longer work. I opened it up and found that a piece of foil had been ruptured, and found a video online of someone replacing it by unscrewing a plastic bit and replacing the foil. I eventually stripped the screw trying to get it out only to find in the comments of the video that they glue that screw in now . They don’t sell a replacement part for it either so I eventually just had to use hot glue to seal it, which doesn’t feel safe.
The foil seems designed to pop as a safety pressure release mechanism, but it basically bricks the unit afterwards and you have to buy a new one.
LPT: go get
- a real CO2 cylinder with a CGA 320 valve (the 10lb size is plenty)
- a CGA-320 CO2 regulator
- some 1/4" ID reinforced PVC tubing
- a carbonation cap + 1/4" barb ball lock disconnect (mentioned together because they’re often sold as a set), and
- a plain old empty 2-liter soda bottle.
That’s everything you need to carbonate soda yourself without some proprietary bullshit device.
(I found the best price for the gas cylinder from a local company that resupplies restaurants etc. with soda dispensers, which is convenient because they can also refill it for you. The rest of the stuff can be found easily enough from Amazon or whatnot. I wouldn’t buy the cylinder from Amazon unless I wanted aluminum instead of steel, for no good reason.)
Works if you have space to put a 10lb CO2 cylinder
There’s also smaller 5# tanks
The paintball ones?
You have to make sure whatever you use is food grade. A paintball refill wouldn’t have to be and could contain weird oils you wouldn’t want to ingest.
Even better: get a soda keg, fill with water and charge with CO2. Seltzer on tap!
Better, but more expensive and space-consuming, especially if you want to store the keg in a fridge. One day I’ll do it right (including storing the keg(s) in a mini-fridge in which I’ve cut a hole to route a line to a dispenser), but that day is not today. : (
they’re*
Your right. But don’t be that guy.
Yes I did it on purpose.
You’re*
Whoosh.
Whoo’sh*
Nah we just think you’re a dick.
For suggesting someone not be a grammar nazi!? It doesn’t add anything to the conversation. I did the “your” thing on purpose to see if he’d do the same thing and of course he did. I’m not being a dick, I’m suggesting maybe overlook people’s little mistakes and contribute something worthwhile. But if that makes me a dick, then I’m a dick I guess.
Your responses make you look like an overly-sensitive, humorless jagoff, hence the vote differential.
You’re all good dawg, people need to chill
I checked his comment history and literally his most recent comment had “its” instead of “it’s”. And that explains everything you need to know.
If you get a working one again you can get a 10lb CO2 tank from a local homebrew supply and an adapter from the Amazon and never have to worry about their shitty bottle exchange ecosystem ever again
Aww man, I like using sodastream. Is there an alternative that isn’t directly tied to an apartheid state committing genocide?
I’d assume that most other carbonators aren’t made by Sodastream 👍
Seconding Drinkmate. I replaced my soda stream a while ago and have been very happy.
Drinkmate. Better anyway because the removable/cleanable carbonator head allows you to carbonate any drink and also premix drinks. You’ll lose a lot of carbonation the SodaStream way of mixing after carbonating.
You can just get a cap that will fit on any bottle and attach to a traditional c02 tank. Added benefit that if you use this with any regularity it will cost you much less over time.
You can also get corny kegs like the other person posted but those can be pricey. You can get them cheap at restaurant auctions sometimes (I basically got mine for free but they were gross). These take up a decent amount of space but you can make a lot of stuff at once
Is there an alternative that isn’t directly tied to an apartheid state committing genocide?
Yeah there are countless alternatives (at least here in Germany, but Germans are obsessed with sparkling water so YMMV depending on where you are). A soda maker ain’t some crazy technology, it’s a CO₂ cylinder, a valve, and something that holds the bottle, in fact, it’s so simple, other comments suggest to just build one yourself: https://lemmy.world/comment/13959890
Just make a couple of Google (or preferably DuckDuckGo) searches for “soda maker” or “sodastream alternative” and I’m sure you’ll find something that suits your needs.
I’ve never used one of these, why not just get a good old fashioned soda syphon? Does a Sodastream do anything special?
If you already have the machine plenty of places sell compatible cartridges, or you can get an adapter to hook it up to a larger co2 tank.
and it’s actually more affordable to get a larger co2 tank.
In Germany Brita is quite good.
The Palestinian workers have to wear different color clothes so security knows to not let them use certain hallways.
Do you have a source for that?
Arab is the allowed word for “Palestinian”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought I read that their factory is actually built in occupied territory.
It’s the reason I’ve always refused to but one.
get a used one then buy a normal c02 tank!
Yep, this is how I do it. I bought a tank adapter online and just get a professional CO2 tank refilled at the local beverage gas shop.
Also, get the glass water containers, they last indefinitely.
at the local beverage gas shop.
Wh-where the heck do you live, candyland?
Seattle babyyyyy. It also supplies industrial welding gases etc, in sodo
There are tons of other brands and the co2 tanks are standardized, I have a Phillips
Nah the factory in the West Bank was closed about nine years ago. So you’ll be happy to know Palestinians in the West Bank have a longer commute and have to pass through a lot of security checks if they want to work for Sodastream.
So you can buy a Sodastream with a clean conscious. Unless even employing Palestinians is somehow wrong. Which people will find a way to rationalize because everyone knows that people who have a decent job are less likely to fire rockets at Israel, and we want that to continue forever, right?
conscience*
Isn’t soda stream also very pro trump?
Mine says Bratislava
But what about the peace ? What about the harmony ?
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Been waiting for competition to produce one for years.
There are already many alternatives. Have you looked up carbonators?
I will now
I will toss my Sodastream into the recycle bin, thanks for the information.
Peace it the middle east?!? We can’t have that! Throw it out!
Peace is good.
Whitewashing genocide is not.
