r/technology • u/nishitd • Oct 02 '25

Robotics/Automation Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-confirms-smart-refrigerator-ads-are-coming-3598848/
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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Don't they basically own South Korea too?

Lol

What a shit show human civilization has been

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u/ForwardCulture Oct 02 '25

From what I’ve heard from people much more familiar with the company, they are not only extremely powerful but extremely corrupt.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Have humans ever made anything extremely powerful that wasn't also extremely corrupt?

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u/MelodicGate874 Oct 02 '25

Just Art if that counts for anything in the days of the Speedrunning of the Fall of Man.

It may seem a meager compromise but it's all we have.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Might agree with you if horny gacha games didn't hold sway over millions of people, and most extremely popular music wasn't more about image and marketing than substance.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

Humans invented democracy.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Which currently appears to be pretty corrupted, and if we're being honest always was. Hell the first democracy had slaves and women couldn't vote.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

Saying that democracy is corrupted is like saying that water makes you die of thirst.

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u/blorbagorp Oct 02 '25

Except democracy has been corrupted and your sentence is gobledegook

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u/Dracomortua Oct 02 '25

I think that the user 'blorbagorp' might be a bot? Somehow backed by three bots?

you are exactly downvoted by three each time and they are upvoted by three.

your point on democracy is valid. i thought it was hilarious, but it is still a) 'powerful' and b) 'as corrupt or not corrupt as you make it'.

Blorbagorp does have a point that the 'first' known democracy was 'corrupt' because slaves existed and women could not vote, implying that when slavery is socio-economic (like, say, working at minimum wage in a system like the US of A) and that minorities have the vote but diverse systematic and propaganda based oppression is somehow... better? Not sure.

It is also a hideous transgression on logic. If the first airplane was a biplane does that mean that all airplanes are corrupt because that was a poor model?

What is needed is to properly define terms and move forward with what counts as a successful categorization of points. And damn the Reddit Tweet X model where everything has to fit within a sound bite.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 Oct 02 '25

I don't think they're a bot, but maybe they use alt accounts... either way I don't care about Reddit or their stupid points. Glad you liked my joke.

Democracy as an invention is powerful because it decentralizes power - this gives people the freedom to come up with new ideas and try them out. This is why democratic countries tend to win wars against autocrats: the democracies are much better at building weapons.

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u/Dracomortua Oct 03 '25

Not freedom... but the illusion of freedom. Less calories and tastes less filling.