I think bottled water got popular when I was a kid, and I remember thinking the same, but that’s because no one could explain to me the difference between good and bad water. Wasn’t until much later that I learned to appreciate differences in waters. However, I think that comes with the territory of enjoying good food and drink.
On the hand, it’s not clear to me that AIR can function similarly as a sensory experience good. Like, sure, I breathe air all day long, but I don’t perform a ritualistic air breathing one or more times per day where I’m focused on the quality of the air. Maybe I should be though? Is that even the sales pitch? I’ll avoid the mistake with water this time and acknowledge that good “air” is probably more than just pure N2/O2/- in the same way that good water isn’t about pure H20. Here’s a company from Canada that bottles air from Banff and Lake Louise:
Saw a video of this guy saying you get the mountain experience with all of the notes like fresh pine. That makes a lot more sense to me than just AIR as a clinical mixture of gases. However, I’m still not seeing this as a thing that I’d pay [checks notes] $52.99 for. I’ve definitely paid more than that for: a pound of coffee, a bottle of wine, a steak, etc. What I can envision here, I suppose, is a product you breathe from a can that provides a sensory experience so crazy that I might pay that, but I dunno if there’s a “natural” air that meets that criteria. Maybe something like an amazing botanical mix?
Same. For some reason, quicksand seemed like a thing that I may very likely encounter some day and would need to be able to identify and avoid or know how to escape from. Also remember being fascinated with camoflauge when an adult told me that it makes you invisible, which I took literally.
Plastic waste is why I’ve started drinking canned Alpine water instead. I’m sure there are no environmental downsides to transporting that water thousands of miles plus the cans look vaguely like they contain beer.
Which is almost everybody in a lot of countries. It was the only easily drinkable water in China (though some would boil tap water and color it with barley to separate it from untreated water in a pinch).
Bottles of water literally cost 1 RMB ($0.16) in China. Everybody could afford it.
Ms. Heughins’s lawyer, Claire Rauscher, said on Tuesday that her client was not responsible for Mr. Neville’s death.
“She did not restrain him or hold him face down on a mat in a cell,” Ms. Rauscher said in a statement, adding that she did not know why Ms. Heughins was the only person indicted.
“She was not allowed to be in the cell as the other officers held him down,” Ms. Rauscher said. “She asked the detention officers to open the door and let her in when she thought he was not breathing and immediately began performing CPR. She was the only person at the Forsyth County jail who worked to save his life. She will be fully vindicated at trial.”
I’ve got to wonder if there wasn’t some kind of qualified immunity mentioned in the grand jury because just reading the article there’s no reason why the nurses actions would stand out as to be indictable but the jailers not.
We should import them to work in the US - like we do with the Irish.
I’m sure LePen will get right on solving that. Sorry young adults, still no jobs - but we do have non-white scapegoats. Is that something you’d be interested in?