cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31424812
Murtaza Hussain, Waqas Ahmed, and Ryan Grim Jun 09, 2025
"A review of leaked data from Meta, provided to us by company whistleblowers, shows that Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions.
We also just posted the translated audio of an extraordinary interview just given by former Israeli PM Yair Lapid, who is often discussed as a more humane, centrist alternative to Benjamin Netanyahu. Give it a listen and see if you agree with that label."
Yea well like,that’s the idea,maybe if they stopped killing babys we might not associate their products with baby killings
Zionists and their lackies in the West are attacking our fundamental freedom of expression and assembly. The only real power we have left is consumer power.
Download “No Thanks” or “Boycat” and steer clear of brands that enable genocide.
Boycott israel and it’s enablers.
Consumer “power” means a whole lot less than it used to…
A crazy idea to be sure, but do you suppose if Israel stops its genocide against the people of Palestine, proceeds to take measures for restoration, complies with the International Criminal Court, and pursues a two-state solution it might help matters for their businesses?
Just a crazy thought about doing the right thing. I know…
How antisemitic of you!
/s
It’s weird; it really is like they’re taking the “melodramatic Galadriel” approach to geopolitics - that is to say, “ALL SHALL LOVE ME, AND DESPAIR”
You’re right. Imagining that Israel would ever comply with international law or abandon its long-term goal of colonizing the entire region is indeed a crazy thought.
Lapid said returning the Israeli captives should be the immediate priority, even if it requires ending the war — a move he admitted “no one wants” because “we want to keep killing Hamas.” He emphasized that the “annihilation of Hamas” must remain a long-term goal and said Hamas would “sooner or later” provide Israel with “opportunities” that would justify renewing the assault in the eyes of the international community. On Iran, Lapid positioned himself as more hardline than Netanyahu, arguing Israel should have struck both Iran’s nuclear facilities and oil infrastructure after the April 2024 missile attack, even over U.S. objections.
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Idk what to do about my Sodastream and addiction to carbonated water. And my frugalness and desire to be eco-friendly. And not wanting to house a giant tank of CO2 at home.
You’ve already got it, don’t throw it away. Put some Palestinian stickers on it. Get a relatively small tank of CO2 at home, with an adapter to refill your own canisters.
Haha that’s what I’m thinking. Can you recommend that parts? I only seen pieces for connecting the machine to a big tank.
There’s a few different ways to configure the connection, and you’ll want to make sure you are getting the right adapter for your particular bottles.
What site are you searching on? I’m in US btw. Thanks!
Sorry, that’s aliexpress. If you have the blue label gas bottles, you can search for the same items on fleabay or scamazon.
I’ve been burned by Aliexpress in the past, so I’ll see where else I can get them. I have the pink quick connect bottles. Maybe an independent website has something.
Drinkmate is honestly a similar-but-better design, speaking as someone who moderated Reddit’s sodastream community for years. And I think most users of that subreddit would agree with me. Sodastream just has better marketing and all the market share so it has become the “Kleenex” of the category as the first one anyone thinks of and often the only one they even can name.
Nice. I’d just been going off the Amazon reviews and pricing. I wish I knew about Drinkmate earlier.
My bottles need renewal at the end of the year and I’m tempted to throw out the whole system.
Biggest problem is finding gas canisters without their logo plastered on them.
Get a CO2 tank and adapter and refill your own canisters.
Assuming North America, you can get standard Sodastream->CGA320 “direct connect” adapters that let you hook the machine to a standard CO2 tank of any size (it won’t fit inside the machine but I don’t consider that a functional requirement). Similar adapters are made for other regions I just don’t know their specific sizes and terminologies.
Not in NA, also don’t have room in my apartment for a big CO2 bottle.
Could put a big one in the garage and refill my own cartridges, but still a bit of a hassle to set up, not to mention I’ld need to invest in the big tank first.
Are they all created equal or do you have a recommendation? I have the quick connect? Any dangers with overfilling or just keeping a tank at home? Pretty easy to mitigate? Thanks!
Yes, they’re all pretty much the same except for threaded vs quick connect. Some people prefer the ones with steel braided hoses for safety. The main “danger” of overfilling is that once the ice melts to liquid and boils to gas the pressure will go to the moon and burst the safety valve (permanently), becoming a broken tank with a small leak that vents gas quicker than the liquid can boil. Large amounts of rapidly venting CO2 create thick fog rolling along the ground (as seen in many halloween displays for example) so the leak would be obvious and is not dangerous as long as you don’t lay down and stick your face in it and try to breathe for awhile. If you don’t notice it you may be surprised to find your tank is empty when you go to use it, and any attempts to refill it will immediately start leaking. Anyway, it’s an expensive mistake so you probably won’t make it more than once. Technically the burst disc can be replaced, but that’s beyond the scope of this discussion.
It’s easy to avoid as long as you understand that filling can only be done reliably by weight, not by time, feel, eyeball or pressure or anything else. Whether you’re using dry ice or liquid from another tank, the weight of the tank is all that matters. An empty tank is a particular weight which can be measured as it will have to be completely empty before you attempt refilling it anyway. A full tank is a higher weight. The weight you should not exceed should be printed on all tanks but for Sodastream-size tanks can hold exactly 410g above empty weight. Less is fine. More is risky (some people do exceed it regularly though, but that’s on them and their wallet) Pressure is mostly meaningless for a liquified gas like CO2, the liquid phase maintains constant pressure as dictated by temperature and physics.
Liquified gases don’t really “explode” like pressurized gases, they either vent, or leak. This can be noisy and visually dramatic but is not a safety concern. Even a catastrophic failure will remain mostly liquid for a long time and is just a spill of increasingly cold liquid that is creating fog (more and more slowly as it uses up all the available heat by becoming cold). The gas doesn’t appear instantly, the liquid has to boil to make more gas, and that takes a lot of time and heat it has to absorb first before it can do that. The biggest risk is frostbite, not explosion. The liquid CO2 gets very cold when boiling freely, because of all the surrounding heat it’s absorbing to try to turn into gas. It is not a fast process. This is also how dry ice works, and why it stays ice for so long, and why we can use it to make things very cold for a very long time. FWIW propane is also a liquified gas, and behaves mostly the same way, except that it is flammable, which can make it explosive under certain conditions. Some people are bothered having a propane tank next to their house, but most people aren’t. CO2 isn’t flammable or explosive, it’s safe enough to have in your kitchen in my opinion. In a pinch it can double as a fire extinguisher. :P
Wow! Thanks for the thorough explanation. I have so many more questions now haha. I gotta watch some videos.
So I don’t need to worry about having a meter on the valves to measure pressure. I just need to weight the tank before and while I’m filling it up.
Hoping it’s not too expensive of an endeavor to get all the equipment I need. I do love a hobby.
Would it be a bad idea to leave the tank in the garage during the summer in CA? How hot does it have to get to do damage?
125F is the maximum recommended storage temperature. Like the people who overfill their tanks, it will probably be okay for a bit above that, but you run the risk of rupturing the safety valve. Not sure how hot your garage typically gets, but it’s probably not an ideal storage place. FWIW propane’s maximum recommended storage temperature is only 120F, so if CO2’s not safe in your garage neither is propane. Some ventilation would probably help keep temperatures down. Keep in mind this is actual physical tank temperature we’re talking about. Direct sunlight matters – humidex and “feels like” temperatures don’t.
Thanks!
You can just replace the tops with a generic version and refill yourself. Takes two seconds and a vice grip. Did it for my mom, and got her a big food grade CO2 tank, and now she’s set for years.
