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Thanks to the good folks at Samsung to brainwash me into never buying a "smart" product.

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[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago
[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

What the fuck. The original post has a comment predicting exactly this.

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[-] RotundLadSloopUnion@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Especially funny because Pluribus can be read as an anti-social-media/AI allegory. Capitalism subsumes all critiques etc etc

[-] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

I’m enjoying the show but I can’t help but see it as a western critique of communism. The whole show feels primed to play off of the “socialist country does good thing, but at what cost?” Headlines you see. Individualism vs scary brainwashed collectivism. Breaking Bad was a phenomenal show but it definitely also extolled the virtues of rugged individualism.

I do like your read of it though as a critique of AI and hadn’t considered that before.

[-] fox@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Breaking Bad definitely didn't extol individualism because Walt, the protagonist and Chief Individualist who constantly chafes at being subordinate to others, ruins his life and the lives of everyone around him in his pursuit for rugged individualism. His arc as a drug lord effectively ends with him wasting away in a cabin in the woods, paying the one man who knows he exists hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few more minutes of company

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately this flies over the head of most young masc viewers of the show. That's much more an indicator of societal patriarchal brainrot than it is a condemnation of the writing but as I said elsewhere I do think the finale should have been more of a defeat for Walt. Him getting basically everything he wants in the end did not help things lol

[-] EveningCicada@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe it's an inescapable problem with the medium of film that even if you show things that suck, there will be a lot of people who think it's cool. Like how war movies notoriously get people to like war more even if it shows friend and foe alike getting brutally killed.

[-] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

I can’t help but see it as a western critique of communism

See I think a theme like that is too simple for how Gilligan and co write these shows. Breaking Bad was thematically kinda sloppy and Walt won too much in the end (big reason why BCS is better), but with Plur1bus I feel there's more to it than a generic individualism-vs-collectivism narrative. To me the show is more about isolation, grief, and exploring what it means to be a person in the modern world. Ofc the season isn't over yet and there's plenty of time for them to fuck it up so I might eat my words in a few weeks.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago
[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Dios mio! A LIBERAL! tequila-sunset

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

who need they pluribussy watched

[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Breaking Down Bad

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

If i walk into your house and your fridge is playing ads you're about to get roasted

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If I ever see this on my fridge, I'm immediately smashing that screen with a hammer

[-] mendiCAN@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

what does the screen normally show? ive idly wondered if people use the screen or if its ignored

[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

You have to pay extra for the ad-free fridge.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

More like pay less for a normal fridge. Smart Fridges are more expensive

[-] dragongloss@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

The only way I am ever getting a smart fridge is if I buy a home (unlikely) and it is already in the home when I move in. And then I will promptly smash/disable the screen.

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