There's a hierarchy

My in-laws bought a house from a guy who was sort of a germophobe, and he had installed hand dryers in all the bathrooms plus in the kitchen. And not the modem AirBlade (or similar) hand dryers, but the old kind that blew an insultingly lukewarm stream of air in the general direction of your hands for 8 seconds before sputtering to a stop. It was weird and apparently the wiring was a complete fire hazard.

Try like $200-300. Mine cost $286 because I needed one compatible with my septic system. Plus of course you have to pay to have it installed, including having an outlet installed under your sink if there wasn't already one there.

But I realllly hate the drain trap baskets. I never want to be without a garbage disposal!

One thing I recommend along those lines: commercial soap dispensers in bathrooms. Doesn't cost that much, they're meant to take some abuse, hangs on the wall, and can go a year between refills.

Elementary school librarians told me reading would open up my mind to new possibilities. They didn't specify what kind of possibilities.

Sounds like you were lucky then, because I remember elementary school too and probably every 5th kid did this on the regular. And have you ever dealt with the really young kids <6 years old? They'll ask for a boost, suck that spout like a teat, and let everything that they don't swallow run down their neck soaking their shirt, but they'll be hydrated.

What kind of water do you think is coming out of these?

I doubt the CEO cares about memes to market their water fountains. Especially on Lemmy, there's ~40k ppl here and most would rather drink CEO blood over buying a water fountain.
Nobody will buy a water fountain just because some people online think it's funny

I thought their whole point was that they filter the water because you can't drink the tap water in the US?

The fuck? No...?

The US is clownish and backwards in a lot of ways but this is not one of them.

Then what are those for compared to just a sink?

By googling it, it seems these will filter out some forever chemicals that are a problem pretty much everywhere. It will also cool the water, which might be beneficial if your tap water is a bit on the warmer side (which mine is and it's infuriating, I want to drink near-freezing water)

Note: I'm not American and don't have one of these, just googling.

Rolls right off the tl8ngue

Yeah definitely, no pictures on the entire Internet of that though

Apparently uncommon

lol the dad‘s two reactions

There are some fountains like this in Airports and where the tapwater is pretty bad, but usually a public water fountain is an old fountain from the medieval times with some ornaments and stuff

This is the one from my home city

For conveniently drinking out of them and filling water bottles in public buildings like schools and hospitals. They're really common in NA, what part of the world are you in?

But the old medieval ones outside, that potable water? That's awesome.

This is gonna blow your mind but even a lot of bottled water just comes out of plain-ass municipal water systems.

No, these machines are directly connected to the tap. Many will cool the water down but I don't think many of them do filtering.

Not all, but a lot of them. If you encounter a fountain that looks like you can drink from it and it DOESN'T have a sign telling you it's non-drinkable, you can safely drink from it

What makes you think that you can't drink US tap water? I've been drinking it my whole life. The area that I live in has very good tap water. The water department even sends me detailed reports periodically.