You put the CO2 in this bad boy, you put the CO2 in the drink and bottoms up we save the planet! Why is big soda trying to ruin the planet??

    • macniel
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      thats why my cartridges are aftermarket and not by “jews and arabs working in harmony” as sodastream on their product packaging suggests.

      • @SkyezOpen
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        Ugh. Welp I already own two bottles (BB&B clearance), know where I can refill them instead of exchanging?

        • @EvilBit
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          I’ve read about ballers who pop the top and drop the appropriate weight of dry ice in. There are tutorials out there but it’s scarier than I’m willing to take on.

          Don’t look at me though, I use Drinkmate.

          • @Sam_Bass
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            Same. They even give you a return label to send them the empties for a 22% discount on refills

            • @voracitude
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              Me too, but I got a sodamod for mine and refills are $5 at the local homebrew shop. Paintball places are cheap too, or some Dick’s Sporting Goods can do it.

        • macniel
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          they wont be refilled, but perhaps there are stores with no name branded co2 cartridges?

          • @[email protected]
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            There are offbrands like Indigo, but they can be refilled as well. Stores won’t do it, but you can buy a 5~10lbs tank from a beer supply store and fittings and adapters from eBay/Ali.

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          The stock ones can’t be refilled unfortunately. You need a special adapter and some modified airsoft tanks: https://www.sodamod.com/

          Our CO2 refills are $5 at the local homebrew shop now; worth it, IMO, but we drink a lot of carbonated water.

        • @Sam_Bass
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          Welding supply might do it. Call and ask

          • Rob T Firefly
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            Provided you want to consider welding supplies to be food grade.

            • @Sam_Bass
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              Yeah. The airgas I shop at has that for a premium over industrial

    • UnfortunateShort
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      There are alternatives tho, no reason to support them

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      Idk about other countries but there’s like several generic supermarket alternatives to sodastream in all bigger shops here, and idk who the fuck would buy the overpriced sodastream brand co2 when most markets sell a generic brand bottle for half the price.

      So at least here it doesn’t have a majority of the market. Perhaps the largest share, but I don’t think the majority.

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    OK, but…that entire tank contains less CO² than the average car emits every kilometre. I don’t think soda stream are contributing massively to global warming. The fact that it’s an Israeli company with a history of exploitation of Palestinian labor, complicity in settlement expansion, and continued violations of Palestinian human rights, is a very good reason not to use it.

    Edit. Oops, worked that out from the assumption of 60L of CO², closer inspection shows 410g, which would be around 3.5 KM.

    Edit 2. The average person breaths out more than twice this amount of CO² a day. Perhaps being complicit in genocide is Soda Stream being carbon neutral?

    • @[email protected]
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      What if we collect the CO2 from cars and fill up the cartridges with it and then we drink the car CO2 water? We can drive cars and combat climate change!

    • @SendMePhotos
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      I think the loss of human lives at a large scale will eventually bring a new earth cycle to normality. It may not be the same ecosystem that it was, but it might be stable with humans being less of an infestation. This may be virus or starvation. We’ll all see soon enough.

        • @renzev
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          Ecofascism tries to solve the looming problem of mass extinction with… mass extinction.

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        I’m trying to follow the logic here.

        SodaStream —> Zombie apocalypse

        in just one easy step? Sign me up!

        • @SendMePhotos
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          Climate change and humans is the underlying topic.

  • @[email protected]
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    One of those canisters is equivalent to burning 178mL of gasoline. Or enough to power an average car for 2km. Most people burn through the equivalent of 30+ of these a day going to work and back.

  • @474D
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    I tried this on vodka and it blew up.

    • subignition
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      Soda stream is inferior. Get a drinkmate, it’ll carbonate anything

        • @the_tab_key
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          This is what I do and it’s fantastic.

        • @grue
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          I just use a carbonation cap for a normal 2L bottle.

            • @grue
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              I mean, I’d love to have five gallons, but that costs, you know, money.

              Specifically, a corny keg is like $50 used or $100 new, whereas a carbonation cap is like <$10.

        • @voracitude
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          Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

          This might work for me. Thanks for the idea!

    • @[email protected]
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      Tried it on white wine and it made champagne that was better than champagne btw

      Specifically Gewürztraminer

  • Ben Hur Horse Race
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    People keep mentioning Drinkmate, and it sounds fine but I’ve never heard of it- in Europe you can get the Aarke which is essentially a (I believe) Danish clone, interchangeable bottles etc

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      Have an Aarke and it’s great, solidly built of metal. I really like their whole ‘no plastic crap’ design.