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1. xioxox+97[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:18:04
>>hliyan+(OP)
Although adverts on the fridge are absolutely terrible, is this genuine? Here's a reddit post some time before that suggesting the scenario: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...
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2. GaryBl+H7[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:26:15
>>xioxox+97
Just because someone suggested a possible scenario could happen and it then did happen isn't all that suspicious to me.
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3. ffsm8+89[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:45:22
>>GaryBl+H7
On Reddit? It should... These were historically almost always made up after people looked into it.

To be clear, the picture is likely real. The backstory to it probably not.

The people that actually feel like they've had the episode would almost certainly not go on social media with it. The venn diagram of people sharing such content, having the money to buy such a gigantic smart fridge and suffering from schizophrenia is miniscule

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4. GaryBl+R9[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:55:30
>>ffsm8+89
> The people that actually feel like they've had the episode would almost certainly not go on social media with it.

Did you read the post? It's somebody talking about what happened to their sister.

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5. testde+Pf[view] [source] 2025-12-06 11:12:16
>>GaryBl+R9
Yeah so this hypothetical sister doesn’t work, lives by themself, is severely disabled by schizophrenia but at the same time can afford a £2000 fridge. That’s a crazy amount of money to splash for someone who doesn’t work. Especially as amazing fridges are sold for £600-800. Oh, on top of all that, the persons name is Carol. It wouldn’t have worked with any other name.

I don’t think the story is real. But people who want it to be true are easily convinced.

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6. Sidebu+gj[view] [source] 2025-12-06 11:55:18
>>testde+Pf
> is severely disabled by schizophrenia but at the same time can afford a £2000 fridge.

The fridge has been on sale for a few years and schizophrenia can come on very suddenly. People's lives can change in a day because of it. You and I don't know the truth of it and can't reasonably jump to conclusions like that.

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7. dotanc+bl[view] [source] 2025-12-06 12:16:28
>>Sidebu+gj
I recently had an obviously disturbed man come to the window of my Tesla asking for help. He did not specifically say money, but that's what he wanted. Long story short, he sees that the Tesla has identified a human standing next to the car, but the Tesla showed four people. The man asked how does the vehicle know there are people there, I told him that the Tesla has eight cameras around it. He then asked how does it know there were four people, I explained that the Tesla does not know there were four people, rather the Tesla has a hard time figuring out where something as small as a human is - it is designed to detect larger things like other vehicles. The man was obviously extremely affected, and walked away without another word.

Only later did I understand that the Tesla may have just confirmed what he had suspected all along - that there are in fact four people in the place where he is standing.

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