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[+] 134 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Worse. They will track my shamefully lax dental hygiene habits.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Hey, guess why your dental insurance just went up!

    (unless you're blessed to live in a country with socialized healthcare)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Also that one case where a casino was hacked though a fish tank thermometer. Save for phones and computers, any other 'smart' devices can burn in hell. I'm not paying a fucking subscription to use my freezer, I'll rather just live like a medieval peasant.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 😞

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You have to be a special kind of stupid to buy an internet connected toothbrush.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And why does it need an online account for that?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Coaching your brushing"

    I wish I was dead so I could spin in my grave right now, isn’t that something people learn when they’re 5? What do adult humans who pay 400€ for a toothbrush need a coaching for?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    having your toothbrush coach you is absurd, but we really don't teach people how to properly brush.
    I looked it up a year ago and it turns out you just fuckin hold the head against the front, top, and back of each tooth, and raise it off the tooth before moving it to the next spot. Really we should just stop calling it "brushing" and instead say "polishing" because that's what you're doing.

    If you brush it back and forth you'll be fucking up your gums

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My book ran out of batteries.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    "The commies don't want you to even own your own toothbrush!"

    Well well well, how the turntables.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I just can't wait to continue my Oral-B brushing experience.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Does the toothbrush stop working if I log out of the OralB account?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Statements concocted by the utterly deranged

    But unironically

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Does it have terms of services and a license to use a tooth brush?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)