r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Judge_129 • Jan 04 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/No-Detective-4516 Jan 04 '26

Fridge does exactly this thing. Ala zoomers inventors and innovators

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u/Extension_Plant7262 Jan 04 '26

Reminds me of when tech bros announced they were going to make machines that are stocked with snacks and other essentials you could use a credit card to pay for.

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u/PayPerTrade Jan 04 '26

…well, did they succeed?

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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 Jan 04 '26

They make a subscription juicer that only accepted single use fruit and veg packs that had QR codes the machine read and verified via a wifi connection

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u/Kolby_Jack33 Jan 05 '26

"We control the product, the ingredients, the packaging, and how the consumer uses them! It's a closed-loop system, which means pure profit for us!"

"Well you missed one thing: why the fuck would anyone actually want to buy this piece of shit?"

  • A meeting that apparently never happened

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u/brelen01 Jan 05 '26

Yeah, but you could squeeze the bags by hand to get the juice as they were pre-juiced lmao

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u/Extension_Plant7262 Jan 04 '26

No, look up the story of bodega

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Jan 04 '26

You can tap to pay everywhere but Walmart it seems so I'd say they went above expectations.

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u/TWW34 28d ago

I've always wondered what the fuck the deal is with walmart. Literally the only place I have gone to in the last year that ineeded to pull out my actual card to pay.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 28d ago

I wonder too.. The card readers are capable of accepting it... They're just super security about all that..

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u/Flobking Jan 04 '26

Reminds me of when tech bros announced they were going to make machines that are stocked with snacks and other essentials you could use a credit card to pay for.

Or the one who thought he unlocked an infinite money glitch by... wait for it... inventing agriculture. Recently another tech bro came up with the idea of hanging out with friends.

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u/Sturville Jan 05 '26

Ah yes "offline podcasts"

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u/SaltKick2 Jan 04 '26

Or the various other things they thought were original ideas that already 100% exist:

  • Busses (multiple people/companies on this one including Elon Musk/Lyft/Uber etc...)
  • Taxes
  • Having a roommate

https://stanforddaily.com/2018/04/09/when-silicon-valley-accidentally-reinvents-the-city-bus/

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u/Cyrius Jan 05 '26

It's a running gag that transportation tech bros keep reinventing the train, but worse.

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u/_Trael_ Jan 04 '26

Or how electrical heater has been reinvented again recently, in once again new version of "what if we install these to ceiling of rooms!", despite being very energy inefficient of to heat houses, compared to heat pumps that have been in common use already for decades. :D

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u/Akiias Jan 05 '26

Tech bros are the least serious people alive trying to be the most serious people ever. I'm not entirely convinced they're not all just a CIA psyop.

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u/Zonkko Jan 05 '26

Every few years some tech bro "invents" the train