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[–] 68 points 4 months ago (14 children)

You already have a toilet subscription, it's called your water bill.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You don't see the potential. Imagine what we can achieve once every toilet is connected to the cloud!

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wut? you guys don't use Copilot to shit yet? Are you stupid?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Sorry to share the bad news

    https://gadgetsandwearables.com/2025/10/30/kohler-dekoda/

    The device Kohlerβ€―Dekoda is priced at $599 on the company’s website. In addition to the one-off hardware cost, there is a subscription required for the companion Kohler Health app: the single‑user plan is USβ€―$6.99 per month, or USβ€―$70 per year.

    Just a random website from search results.

    Edit: The company claims they scan the bowl for gut problems and othet health related things. Would be either a horrible or very funny data breach.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    But what about second subscription. Don’t you care about the share holders?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I already have second subscription, it's the sewer bill. Should I consider getting third subscription?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Do it for the shareholders friend! And maybe even a 4th if 5th subscription! With overage fees and junk charges!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago*

    Look I'm not going to do that but if you were to sell subscription toilets well under market rates for a long time using investor funds until you run normal toilet manufacturers out of business I'm not sure I'd have a choice.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago

    2048 and this guy has running water? Fake news!

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why on earth is there a gemini watermark on this?

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You want people shitting in the streets? Because that's how you get people shitting in the streets.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wait till these children learn that their toilet is subscription model indeed

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    The door refused to open. It said, β€œFive cents, please.”
    He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. β€œI’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. β€œWhat I pay you,” he informed it, β€œis in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
    β€œI think otherwise,” the door said. β€œLook in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
    In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
    β€œYou discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
    From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
    β€œI’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
    Joe Chip said, β€œI’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

    Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Sink is right there, what's the problem?

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even better, goes down with way less stirring.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Thanks for giving them an idea

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Utility bills are already a thing

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    The subscriptions which are actually still hard to avoid are: for a lot of people rent, for Muricans healthcare, power, water, trash, Internet. Parents get a few more and personal liability insurance is also a good idea (but also relatively cheap for most people).
    The other subscriptions are luxury and easy to just not have.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even your house is a subscription in the US. My mom has to pay over $10,000 yearly in property taxes of her house that's been paid off for over a decade. If she dies (she's healthy so not soon, but as a hypothetical) I inherit a house I can't afford the maintenance and taxes on. What are the luxuries? Netflix? That's passΓ©. We can all cancel Prime, that's not the point.
    Any new tech is a subscription unless you do all you can to research it and make sure it only connects to your network.

    There is very little that people want and is easy to not have, unless you want to live a very bare-bones life. Cue Karl Marx quote about going to the pub.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's an interesting situation, isn't it? You own a house, but because you need to generate income to keep it, you have to either become a landlord and live somewhere else - perhaps using part of your income to pay the mortgage on another house - or sell it and draw down your new wealth by paying rent.

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  • Exactlyyyy. It's basically rent to the state. We have sales tax in this state too and why are we paying taxes on home valuations when the home isn't being sold. The house is probably going to be sold for a nursing home and bye bye inheritance for me. I wonder when this bubble is going to burst. Only my wealthiest friends anticipate getting a substantial amount from their parents.

    I want to have a child but I don't feel I can give them what they need. I would never pressure my family members to do what benefits me most, but I secretly wish that my mom would retire in Taiwan, where she was born, where she'll have family and it might be kinder. Retiring in the US seems like the biggest grift. I won't bring it up unless she brings up grandchildren and then I'll say I can't swing it unless she retires in a more affordable country. Now nobody is happy

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I shit in Pirate Bay. Check and mate.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    It's ok, just download the app and watch 15 ads for one flush.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Can’t believe we’ve been shitting for free all this time.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Time to get shwifty.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Yeah no shit breaking things and hacking things might become some of the most useful skills in the future

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    just poop your pants and you might become the new leader

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Have you ever seen the play Urinetown?

    This is the plot. Literally.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    2048 you say? That's being optimistic!

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    [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    The lid won't lock. It just won't flush.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Just shit in the shower. We all do it, right.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    San Francisco since the 21st century has had four or five public restrooms that are automated and self cleaning, and free! Why? Because even then poop from the homeless and impoverished was a problem.

    Not allowing people to use your business restroom is just a good way to end up with occasionally cleaning up poop on your grounds, and your back alleys perpetually smelling like urine. In the meantime, if you do let people use your restroom for free, they're more inclined to return to your establishment to patronize it.

    Small businesses in the US like restaurants and cafes will lock their bathrooms anyway more out of habitual miserliness: Laws in the US immensely favor large chains and franchises, so small business owners and managers get used to doing everything they can to raise revenues and lower costs (including stealing tips and underpaying staff) so the petit bourgeoisie for a while seemed crueler than big corporations. (As workplace regulation violations are not being investigated, big businesses are catching up, as per Amazon and Facebook). In 2026, small resellers rarely open their restrooms up to the public, and some restaurants and cafes don't feature restrooms at all.

    And so major cities all have poop problems, either managed by municipal cleaners or by ordinance requiring property owners keep their grounds clean.

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  • Or San Francisco a decade ago.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Oh, there is no forgetting. Theyre going to get their money, fucking vultures.

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  • The bathroom said, β€œFifty cents, please. Before turning on the water.”

    Ubik, P K Dick

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    Juste saw a propane bbq requesting for an update in thΓ© store..

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    This is not my problem it's everyone elses.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Wouldn't stop me.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It annoys me to see people fall for this. My fellow kin, they will not make micro transaction/loot box/gambling/money borrowing/rental products if you do not pay for then. Case in point is my cousin who happily pays for HP's printer subscription πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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  • have you ever heard of paying your water and utility bills?

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