wtf
@soulfire "Works with Alexa" is a con, ngl
@soulfire
Why does this need a fucking internet connection? Why would you want a smart soap dispenser?
@dushman @soulfire having one with an IR sensor for when I’ve just been handling raw chicken is pretty great. But that’s about the Max of smartness I want.
@norgralin @soulfire
Exactly. That's the most you'd ever need.
@soulfire "Alexa, please squirt soap everywhere while I'm out of the room"
@soulfire
Hehe,
> Works with Alexa
WTF?! And that is even considered a good thing 
@soulfire I actually had to fact check this because it sounded too dumb to be true... but nope its true... and now I want to go outside and punch someone.
Thank you for my raised blood pressure this friday.
@soulfire sry can't let this go. Who tf does this to themselves? How enamored can someone be with the visual trappings of technological break through without the actual break-through to invite this in to their home and think at any level that its a good choice?

@soulfire WTF!?

also, review link for those who are curious just like me https://reviewed.usatoday.com/smarthome/content/amazon-smart-soap-dispenser-review

This smart soap dispenser works with Alexa—and it’s pretty cool

We tested the Amazon Smart Soap Dispenser.

Reviewed
@soulfire I already have my hands under it just detect that there's 0 reason for this thing to have my wifi credentials (other than playing fucking ads)
@soulfire If my soap dispenser plays an ad I am stomping it into the floor
@soulfire How long untill toilets play ads?
@soulfire
This cannot be a real product
@soulfire

If this came out back in May of 2020 back when people still cared enough about covid to wash their hands all the way, a 20 second timer that displayed LEDs for a count down and could synch with your Alexa speakers to play a jingle might have made sense.

But they're 3 years too late to even be a gimmicky covid cash-in product at this point.

EDIT: I'm not trying to downplay the severity of covid or the need for ongoing efforts to mitigate it. This just seems like a great cheap cash in device.
@soulfire I can just remove the speaker from it. You wanna play ads while I wash my hands? Go ahead and try.
@soulfire boo. Boo everything about this.
@soulfire You know the ad-supported & pay-per-use bullshit appliances we see smashed in dystopian future fiction apartments? This is why.
@soulfire why the fuck would i want my soap dispenser to have wifi on it
i dont wanna charge a soap dispenser i already forget to plug things in enough
@soulfire what does "works with alexa" even mean in this context
@mia @soulfire Alexa, give me soap
@mia @soulfire Alexa, moisturize me
@[email protected] what, does alia make you ask for soap every time you wash your hands?
@mia what the fuck no
@astrid @mia these last two messages were so utterly bizarre when i saw them out of context

i'm not sure the context makes it any better
@mia @soulfire

you can yell at Alexa to spew soap all over the counter
@soulfire Con: Not does not resist the violence i will direct at it, if it ever dares to play ads to me.
@soulfire @vale We live in the worst timeline lol.

@soulfire

Stupid Soap Dispenser, more like!

@soulfire listen most smart devices I think "nice idea too bad they'll ruin it with data harvesting and ads"

But this isn't even a nice idea I cannot think of a single bonus to this that a regular motion sensor dispenser wouldn't have

@soulfire engineers spent so much time working out if they could, they never stopped to ask themselves if they should
@soulfire what the hell is a "smart" soap dispenser???? does it analyse your hand's surface and laser-designate microbes to be soaped and neutralised to minimalise soap wastage?? big tech companies are getting wild now LMAOO
@niko @soulfire "smart" just means "it can talk at you" nowadays lmfao
@frost @soulfire jeeez im introverted as hell and i STILL dont feel lonely enough to use a SOAP DISPENSER that i can TALK with 😭😭
@soulfire i’m sorry but what does it do? besides dispensing soap – which should not involve internet or voice activation, for any reason – what does it do to justify any of that? let alone SPAM you in your fucking bathroom
@soulfire please tell me this is parody!

@soulfire

@pluralistic you need to see this shit to believe it

@soulfire You can get your soap right after this block of ads
@soulfire Amazon wants everyone to know that the Smart Soap Dispenser only works with liquid hand soap. Seems that as products get “smarter,” buyers get less smart.
@soulfire why would anyone want that #SurveillanceTech in general??
@soulfire it looks like it breaks if you look at it wrong