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I’m often reminded of a bit on Top Gear years ago, when they were talking about “turbo” as a marketing tool in the 80s, when you could buy “turbo” sunglasses or “turbo” watches or “turbo” after-shave.

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62 points

2000 or 3000 as product numbers was also a thing.

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HD and 3D.

marketing is so stupid. and humans are worse because apparently it works.

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LOL, I recall seeing HD sunglasses somewhere roughly 15 years ago. That was the period where everything had to have an HDMI port. I guess someone must have made an HDMI compatible toaster too.

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5 points

Lever 2000 comes to mind.

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These days it’s Pro. The word lost all meaning entirely. In the vast majority of products that are sold with this tag, it’s just a slightly better version of an enshittified product

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or “plus”. still waiting for Wallmart Plus and Starbucks plus

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You missed the memo!

https://www.walmart.com/plus

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Walmart plus

hahahahapain

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Plus, Ultra, Max… All superlatives have completely lost their meaning.

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and later the turbo button on your pc that actually made the CPU clock slower

turbon’t

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Yea, if you ever had old DOS games, this button was a godsend.

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Even now you can buy a Porsche Taycan Turbo, an electric car, so there’s no turbo in it.

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Or the 00s-10s when everything had to be “HD”.

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About a hundred years ago you could buy a “radio flyer”. It’s a red wagon. People don’t change.

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I never made that connection, somehow.

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We need turbo smart AI things.

Turbo smart AI potatoes. Turbo smart AI cigarettes. Turbo smart AI lamps. etc.

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MOAR! Turbo smart AI thing pro max xl featuring Dante from Devil May Cry

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