Imo this is not so much infuriating as it is just straight up ridiculous.
Don’t bloody buy smart appliances. If you happen to have one, switch off its connectivity. If you insist on local connectivity, isolate it from the web. If you insist on using the internet connectivity of your home appliance then you deserve every bit of the nonsense that is thrown at youOnce smart appliances become the only way to make profit competitively dumb appliances simply won’t be made. Why would anyone invest in it if smart appliances make more money through these methods? Arguably, we are already very close to thus reality.
It’s kinda coincidental to have all three conglomerates in that picture: Sony producing that TV show, with advertisement paid by Apple TV to Samsung.
And probably some Google analytics tracker in the background as well.
I would be so pissed if I bought one of these. I’d probably smash the screen in rage.
I knew this would happen though.
I’d look for a way to unplug the screen or something first. But then I’d probably find out they used some “clever” design to make me not be able to do that, and THEN I’d smash the screen.
Then you have an expensive fridge that isn’t even that good with a dark screen.
But it doesn’t show ad’s, so there’s that
Why on earth would anyone buy this garbage? The only advanced feature I’d like would be a crushed ice dispenser.
My guess is to “digitalize” the sticky notes that people put on fridges. Its ment to be a billboard for the famially unit to itself! Advertizers getting inbetween and editing your note to selfs is gross!
This is me.
I just cant imagine wanting a fridge to do anything other than keeping things cold.
Advertising must be the worst human invention ever.
All thanks to John Advertising.
We know because that asshole told everyone about it and his services.
It often feels like violence.
Will they shows ads for basic LG fridges?
This was always the goal when they started adding screens. Screens should always be viewed as ad delivery mechanisms especially if internet connected. That goes triple for devices that absolutely don’t need a screen. Like a fucking fridge. They will slow boil the process at first. But they’ll do it.
So ironic considering the advertising material. It feels like this show is about technology replacing humans.
This is a repost. We did see that in this community or another one a week + ago.
Found it
lemmy.world/post/38772979
Soooo many reposts
Imagine your name really is “Carol”, then you wake up one day and see this shit
I know people are doubting this happened but I’m pretty sure it’s a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia to think that one’s electronics are trying to speak to you.
That comma is unnecessary and introduces ambiguity to the sentence, which is the opposite of what commas are supposed to do.
For example, who is the dumbass?:
Have a good weekend dumbass!
Have a good week, dumbass!
Have a good week,
Dumbass!
Who is Carol?!? The addressed, or the addressee? (I’m not actually an English expert so may be wildly incorrect)
You’re wildly incorrect, according to every major style guide.
If you’re critiquing widely accepted rules of English grammar, your critique may be valid.
hey this is the internet we don’t care if its correct we care if it sounds
we care if it sounds
Fine, I’ll sterilize a ballpoint pen…
Honestly I’m not sure if I’m critiquing widely accepted English grammar because it seems kinda like the serial comma (some use, some don’t), but I don’t know the name for it.
The NY Times piece on commas doesn’t cite any sources and gives examples with and without based on Byzantine rules I highly doubt anyone follows, and the OWL doesn’t seem to cover this specifically.
So… any idea what this particular type of comma is called that I’m wrong about but would like to persuade others that I should be right?
It’s called a vocative comma.
Thanks!
I’m definitely arguing against standard rules then 🙄
However, I’d say generally people write “Good morning John, please do this boring thing from last week”, instead of “Good morning, John, please do this thing”.
I don’t know, Carol.
I don’t know Carol.
It reduces ambiguity in some cases, but unlike the Oxford comma, it never adds ambiguity (I don’t think the inline-signing of a letter ambiguity mentioned earlier is reasonable).
FYI there is a setting to disable ads. Doesn’t excuse them for introducing ads in the first place, but at least it’s a solvable problem (for now).
If we’re here to solve it, another solution is not to connect it to your network.
I don’t know why someone would want the internet on their fridge.
What else am I going to use to play Roblox when mom takes away my iPad, computer, tv, Switch, phone, Apple Watch, PlayStation, Xbox, Occulus, and car infotainment system? The dishwasher?
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The absolute irony. Yeah, this advert is trying to be a reference to what’s happening in the series, as this is exactly what the main character is experiencing.
But it creeped put and distressed the character into a mental breakdown. Yes, let’s emulate that as a tongue-in-cheek fridge advertisement.
Exactly
For someone who rolled up every psychiatrist, psychologist, and social worker on earth into their head they don’t seem to know how to handle someone experiencing grief/ptsd very well.
Someone on the Pluribus subreddit suggested that certain quirks of the collective consciousness comes from how it needs to stay functional despite a vast array of minds that are individually quite different, and how those different personalities and experiences need to be merged together somehow.
There are empathetic people and completely obtuse people inside the the consciousness, highly intelligent people and those with regressive mental disorders, or more importantly; abusers and abuse victims.
In order to keep cohesion, they literally cannot deal with negative emotions. Imagine an abuser and their abuse victim merging into a single consciousness. How would they even function?
They wouldn’t.
So whenever the collective consciousness is forced to deal with negative emotions, it goes into a seizure.
I’m not sure I’m convinced. They don’t seem to be struggling with consensus on any other matters, so that kind of implies they’re just one single consciousness rather than a gestalt of conflicting ones. I don’t think the individuals are still in there, or they’re so completely subsumed they might as well be gone.
As for their vulnerability to emotional outbursts I’m betting that whatever happened with the immune survivors has made them into transmitters but not receivers for whatever psychic frequency the collective operates on. Which is why they cannot disobey or lie to her about anything except their “biological imperatives” (and even then only passively) and cannot handle her negative emotions since it disrupts the positive emotions they’re using to keep everyone’s consciousnesses subdued.
I would merely hate this and curse the manufacturer. But I know that if it were in my house, my kids, with their raw, unhardened minds, would find it irresistible. The slogans would worm their way into their everyday speech. They would talk about new ads over breakfast. They just don’t have the filters we adults have. So I’m so fucking glad I don’t have anything like this. It’s beyond mildly infuriating to truly insidious.
after seeing pluribus that ad has a whole new meaning
Ads are shitty.
Ads on fridge are insanely shitty.
That particular ad is good as ads go.
The product advertised is amazing.
Is it really good? I like Rhea Seehorn but the synopsis seemed meh to me. Might give it a go.
Edit: oh I see it’s Vince Gilligan too.
I like it a lot. I’ll warn you that the pacing is slow. Not as slow as Severance, but still slow. The world building is a lot of fun. If you want a conflict/resolution cycle per episode, you’ll hate it. The good news is, you’ll know after the first episode if it’s for you.
Thanks. I’m trying it now. I don’t mind a slow burner as long as it’s interesting, which I get is subjective.
Verdict required: Is it for you?
