• @FancyPantsFIRE@lemm.ee
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    4115 days ago

    “It looks like you’re not using an authorized Oral-B toothbrush head, for your safety your toothbrush has self destructed.”

    • @baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de
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      514 days ago

      You have until one week later to pay damages to Oral-B for their tooth brush as well as the reputational damage that comes from a big name brand having to associate with chinese-owned products. The invoice also includes one Spy Device Pro Plus, to monitor you for any further reckless behavior, as was agreed when you signed our license agreement fifteen years ago when you were gifted a trial tube of toothpaste at your local supermarket. We wish you a nice day and a happy Oral-B Toothbrushing Experience.

  • @Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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    3915 days ago

    Man it’s not like I want to, but there’s a non zero chance that I’ll turn into a (more intersectional) ted kacynsky in the futuse

    • @psmgx@lemmy.world
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      4615 days ago

      We had to read the unibomber manifesto in college, in a class on terrorism and extremism. NGL, I feel uncomfortable knowing that he’s being proven right an awful lot 😞

      • @TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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        814 days ago

        It doesn’t take a genius to know how fucked and hopeless the outlook is, only someone willing to look beyond a just world bias. If anything, believing things aren’t irrevocably fucked is burying your head in the sand.

        Where the Unabomber is an awful person is what he thinks we should do. He thinks we shouldn’t try to live the best lives we can. He thinks cruelty is somehow justified, when all that’s really justified is doing what you must to survive. All the people who recognize the truth and didn’t decide to kill people will never be remembered like that prick. Like most mass killers, he just wanted to be remembered.

      • @JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz
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        112 days ago

        Oh my god, my mom’s shitty hp printer never works with my cups install. IT BREAKS EVERY UPDATE AND SHE’S STILL A HP FAN NO MATTER THE PRICE OF INK (the original, because nothing else works).

      • @tomcatt360@lemmy.zip
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        114 days ago

        At least it makes some sense for the printer to connect you a network. The toothbrush could easily sync using BLE since the user will always be close to the toothbrush while in use.

  • Shadowedcross
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    3115 days ago

    This post is extremely misleading. The app isn’t required to use the toothbrush, the app is just for coaching your brushing, and it’s advertised as such. You do not need to use the app if you don’t want to.

  • @Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    1315 days ago

    Does this mean… it’s a multi-user toothbrush? And if so, exactly how many accounts does a single toothbrush support?

  • @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    1215 days ago

    I can’t escape this hell 
    So many times I’ve tried 
    But I’m still caged inside
    Somebody, get me through this nightmare

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    1015 days ago

    So, I just got an idea, if we keep slowly going, would people be outraged enough by artificial heart subscription (or similar)?

    You know, if we just keep moving the bar bit by bit. Artificial bionic eye subscription, nothing life treating at first. Just a bit of outrage pushed down with “But those poor people couldn’t afford it otherwise. We actually gave them a chance they couldn’t otherwise get.”, splitting the crowd into 2 opposing forces until it dies down when something else pops up, and in the meantime, when all the focus will be on elections or whatever, we start introducing pacemaker subscriptions.

    Or you know what, no. Prohibitively expensive purchase price and subscription option with the illusion of choice. Outrage? It was their choice.

    • @BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      214 days ago

      if we keep slowly going, would people be outraged enough by artificial heart subscription

      This is the plot of Repo!: The Genetic Opera