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 out 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.
Anyone who bought into this crap kind of deserves it at this point.
I keep my appliances dumb AF because I have half a chance at repairing them should something break.
There are also fewer points of failure.
Yeah, but some people didn’t opt into it. I’ve worked on a lot of new construction in my state and they buy these appliances for every new apartment complex they build. I know people could choose a different apartment, but most people don’t have any other option and saying “no” to a decent apartment because of a refrigerator isn’t a luxury people can afford.
Why would someone buy a smart fridge for an apparent complex?
Because then it’s “luxury” and they’re allowed to charge $1500+ for a 1 bedroom
Lmao, where I live that’s par for the course.
The way things are going …if you want a new fridge at an affordable price the ones with ads will be your only choice. This is peak late stage capitalism with no consumer protections or anti monopoly practices in place
no. nobody deserves to be scammed.
yes they should have known better and did not, but they did not deserve it.
Much like the law should allow people to cancel any subscription created online, online, the law should mandate clear times when and where advertisement is allowed with opt out options.
If Samsung wants to advertise to me on a product, that should have to pay me $10/month to send those adverts.
They use that $10/mo to offset the $10/mo they want to charge you to continue using your fridge. Appliances As A Service or something.
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.
So far ilike it because of the vibes amd the director
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?
Will they shows ads for basic LG fridges?
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.
The damn thing is probably reading the barcodes too.
I would return it.
…To the manufacturer. The retailer’s not going to take it back, and even if you did manage to bully them into taking it somehow that’s still allowing the retailer to shield the manufacturer (i.e. Samsung) from the consequences of their actions. And consequences are what Samsung needs to see over this.
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place. I like home automation where it makes sense (like having some of my bedroom lights and my coffee maker tied to my phone alarm in the morning) but why would anyone ever tie their fridge to the internet?
In theory it would be cool to track inventory automatically for restocking, and you could have an app where owner can pay things to the fridge for the rest of the family to see.
In practice nobody would use that app, whiteboards are more fun, and it would never be able to tell what’s in containers of leftovers.
I remember back when YouTube just started showing ads. I knew they had ads for a few months, but i have never seen one. One night i was watching something on YouTube with my roommate, and an ad showed up. It was about a barcode scanner. They showed why you need a barcode scanner. They kept showing the uses of the barcode scanner. Put a barcode on your garbage bin, so you can scan it and scan what you threw away, so you know. We never skipped it and the ad just kept going. It was super weird, and it reminds me of a Tim Heidecker sketch, where you wait until they run out of ideas for barcode scanner uses, but they never did. Not for a second have i thought about buying one while watching this 45 min commercial, and i think people are delusional when they think they track their groceries with their smart fridge like that.
Unless they are like turbo autistic, then more power to them.
The fridge would have to passively scan stuff but it would feel weird spying on groceries like that to me
I never understood why anyone would buy one in the first place.
Because fucking idiots buy anything with a screen, over anything with a slightly smaller screen.
I might put some zigbee door sensors on my fridge so I can get an alert when it’s left open. My 3yo has learned to open the freezer and while it does make a noise, so do a lot of things in my house so I might not notice straight away. Maybe an internal temperature sensor as well? Ok, now you’ve got me thinking, imma turn my fridge into a T1000 but at least it won’t try and sell me anything.
I only like home automation in the sense of “light goes on if something moves” because that works offline.
I’m definitely with you on that. I won’t buy any smart devices that require internet connections these days. And when looking to automate things, I’m much more likely to be buying a dumb device and a smart plug, rather than a smart device. That way I can still manually use the device if and when the automation side fails somewhere along the line.
So ironic considering the advertising material. It feels like this show is about technology replacing humans.
I still don’t understand any benefit from having a screen on my fridge… but now I hate them, thanks Samsung
Ads. That’s the benefit. That’s the only possible one.
I just find it astonishing that Samsung still makes appliances… Considering how awful they are at doing it, and how much money they have to lose for the dozen+ warranty repair visits they inevitably have before ultimately refunding the device.
Maybe thats why they have screens, So their appliance division can finally turn profit by advertising you until their device dies
I think their appliances are a lot like the rest of their tech. If you get a good one it’s solid for years and years, but God help you if you get a shitty one because their customer service is garbage.
Also idk what crack or other drug their engineer was on that designed the ice box in my freezer but it literally is made in a way that constantly causes problems with ice build up and not being able to dispense ice because of it.
But I will say all the rest of my Samsung appliances and even the fridge aside from that ice box bullshit have been going strong.
I think they also have crap quality control, it reminds me a lot of anything Alienware I’ve owned. Still using a mouse from 15 years ago but also had a keyboard from them die right around the one year mark and it was impossible to get any help from their support.
While I’m ranting huge shout out to turtle beach who’s customer support and care was exceptional. My dog chewed through my headset wires and they shipped me a new one no cost.
Do they? Or do they just have someone else do all the design and manufacture like every other brand these days.
I don’t like anything on the fridge door including water and ice dispensers. Love the water dispensers inside the fridge
Like… bottles?
Those too but I’m talking about the water dispenser built in to the fridge.
interesting, how come?
Why on earth would anyone buy this garbage? The only advanced feature I’d like would be a crushed ice dispenser.
i’m not judging for having this abomination, but black tape, all the way down
Advertising must be the worst human invention ever.
It often feels like violence.
All thanks to John Advertising.
We know because that asshole told everyone about it and his services.
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?
If you bought it without ads and it started showing ads, that would be a breach of contract.
They probably get around this from some clause in the terms and conditions… Yep… Terms and conditions for a fridge.
you didn’t sign.
You don’t own the software on your $2000 fridge, read the EULA.
In purchasing this appliance you agree to our TOS that says we can change our TOS arbitrarily. Also you can’t sue us because you’ve also agreed to arbitration
Good thing that’s not legal in most parts of the world.
But it is, because it covers the software, which people buy, but do not own. Worldwide.
It isn’t.
In the EU for example a ToS can not violate your consumer rights even if you accept to waive those rights.
To that I say, why in the hell would you buy a smart fridge in the first place? That’s on you for buying something that stupid.
Same thing with screen ads in new Jeeps. You bought a Jeep, you deserve pain.
My dad owned a bunch of jeeps from the 90’s to 2005 ish. I never understood how anyone could buy more than one of these pieces of shit.
Because in the 80s they were unstoppable monsters of travel (well late 70s too, I’m talking about the CJ7 here)
They went 0-60 in 9 seconds, sideways!
The Lego of the automotive world, incredibly reliable, fantastic for off-roading, the chassis and shocks placement is what kicked off custom shocks as a thing, etc.
It was the Jeep (that wasn’t a military design) that defined the brand. Which Jeep spent all its time after just ruining.
The steering was definitely very responsive for its time, though I’d personally call it a plus. Especially when it came to offroading, it was a huge benefit to get over hazards.
fantastic for off-roading
Once you replaced the Lil Tikes suspension with actual suspension. Factory setups were always fake off road.
I have a friend who swears by them. Buys one after another of those heaps of junk. I always ask her “how’s your Heep?”
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Then connect to the internet? But I think saw on YouTube that they can brick your fridge if you do anything to stop getting ads.
it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone
