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Tyrannical governments, natural disasters, crime, violence, poverty—mix these ingredients and you get a hopeless society where people don't live, they just exist.
Sounds like a nightmare, right? Something we would never wish to see on Earth. However, at the same time, such a predicament is quite easy to imagine. According to the subreddit r/ABoringDystopia, that is because humanity is already moving in that direction.
This online community unites 760K members and they regularly share real-life examples to prove their point. Here are some of the recent ones that seem pretty convincing.
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#1
Strange Priorities
Uncommon Boston 10 months ago
The wealthy have tax loops so they pay less taxes, but we blame the welfare moms. Who costs the country more?
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#2
This Is Not Normal And Should Not Be Seen As A Wholesome Story Either
Before the subreddit was created in January 2016, there was a Facebook group of the same name.
The group was founded by the late philosopher Mark Fisher, the very person who originally coined the term "boring dystopia."
However, Fisher, widely known as the author of the cult classic Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, told Vice that the group "wasn't that well thought-out at the start" and that he hadn’t done anything like this before.
As a result, he closed it in November 2015. But apparently, the internet needed such a space.
#3
That Is The Truth Sadly
#4
'murica Never Disappoints
#5
Argentina New "Anarcho-Capitalist" President Announced People Would Lose Social Welfare Plans If They Blocked Streets In Protest. These Are The Streets Outside Congress At 3:00 Am
Originally, Fisher had noticed a common theme in pictures he shared on Facebook and wondered if it could be developed into a group.
"It was understood from the start to be a consciousness-raising exercise, encouraging people to perceive the actual state of Britain rather than the PR state," he said in December 2015, a month after he shut down the group and before the inception of the subreddit. "Which is surprisingly hard, because there's this mixture of Silicon Valley ideology, PR, and advertising which distracts us from our own aesthetic poverty, and the reality of what we have. Which is just all these crap robots..."
#6
The Oligarchic States Of America
#7
It Is So Over Goddamn
#8
So We’re Here Now, Do We Deserve Each Other?
#9
It's A Trickle-Down Nightmare
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago
We're still waiting for Saint Ronnie Reagan's tinkle down to reach the people. That could be any day now. Then Project 2025 could get down there by 2065.
"Crap robots" were a common theme on his Facebook group. One typical post included a photograph of a broken vending machine, with a note attached to it saying, "The light inside has broken but I still work."
"It’s Californian ideology without Californian sunshine, isn’t it?” Fisher asked rhetorically.
#10
Housing Crisis Reality
Owen 10 months ago
When I was homeless (Not in the US), I broke into an abandoned shop and stayed there at night. Just so I wouldn't die of exposure in a cold winter. I would urge every homeless person worldwide to do the same. If it's not being used, but it can save your life? Commit that crime.
#11
Bernie Asks, Billionaire Answers: The $7.25 Standoff
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago
No CEO should get more than ten times the lowest paid employee's wage.
#12
Heil… Wait, This Can’t Be Real?
Jo 10 months ago
Watching events in America right now makes me weirdly proud of our batsh*t political system (UK). We may still have a monarchy and all sorts of archaic nonsense, but there's not one single individual in government with the power to "pardon" convicted criminals with the stroke of a pen. This is some medieval madness
#13
Palestinians Returning To Their Homes In Khan Yunis, Gaza After The Iof Partially Withdraw. This Was A City That Housed Approx. 400,000 People. Photo By Ali Jadallah
To many of the three thousand members the group had, it's content was mainly entertainment, but it also served to illustrate "hauntology," the term Fisher used to describe the sense of a lost future—in this case, one where machines enhance, rather than hinder, our lives.
#15
So I Happaned To Rewatched Don't Look Up, And This Scene Hit Pretty Close To Home
#16
Ten Whole Thousand Dollars!
Scott Rackley 10 months ago
I truly hope for jury nullification. He made a good start at least. Go for Nestle next.
#17
Economist Michael Hudson Warned That The Parasite Anti-Economy (Finance, Real Estate, Insurance) Would Devour The Real Working Economy. Article Link In The Comments
ElfVibratorGlitter 10 months ago (edited)
Looked it up, this is in steamboat springs, Colorado. I then looked up rent prices in steamboat springs and it's about $2200 for a one bedroom apartment. Conversely, financial planners recommend spending 1/3 or less of your salary on mortgage/rent. So (167000/12)*(1/3)= 4638.88... and 2200 is less than 4638, so I'd disagree that this is actually affordable to live on that salary. (And I live in Colorado and am actually trying to figure out how to apply for this job, bc where I am now rent is also about 2200/month, but I make 64k...)
According to a new survey from book publisher The Folio Society, around 26 percent of American men and 14 percent of women feel like they are already living in a dystopia.
At the same time, only one-third of Americans believe the nation has a functioning democracy, and younger people were increasingly convinced that democracy had failed in the U.S.
Americans are particularly concerned over free speech (60 percent) and government surveillance of personal and family finances (45 percent).
#18
The Human Internet Is Dying. AI Images Taking Over Google
Montanavanna 10 months ago
GREAT NEWS! so almost every community, at least in America, has a physical library. They have books there! Mine has an entire section of books for sale but it is only by donation. Give what you can. We MUST use our libraries before they try to take those away too.
Nicola Roberts 10 months ago
I wonder if printed encyclopaedias will make a come back as a source of truth?
Fellfromthemoon 10 months ago
I guess their online counterparts will be more in use in the foreseeable future. Those can be fast edited by the real experts and not altered by the "common person".
Load More Replies... Tabitha 10 months ago (edited)
I don’t want anything to do with AI until it’s regulated. But companies are sneaking that s**t onto our devices. My company uses WhatsApp and f*****g Zuckerberg snuck AI onto WhatsApp—-and made it so it cannot be deleted or even turned off. So we’re forced to have it on our devices, with no choice in the matter. That does not sit well with me, as I do not trust something so potentially harmful that no one is even attempting to regulate.
Xeba 10 months ago
The newer phones (talking about Samsung and Apple, idk about the other ones) all have ai integrated on them. At least in the samsung my parents have they can deactivate the features if they want.
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Cydney Golden 10 months ago
I joined a gardening group on FB. So many of the images were AI. That's not gardening.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 10 months ago
I used this, it's brilliant and works: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/
Panda Panda Bo Banda 10 months ago
I'm not against Ai art but it definitely shows up too much in search results
Xeba 10 months ago
Btw anyone has good alternatives to Google on a phone? I feel like the search results are worst than before. I write something and it gives me results on some parts of my search and not all.
Bartlet for world domination 10 months ago
DuckDuckGo on a Firefox browser?
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And Some People Are Afraid, That A Class War Might Be Imminent
#20
Picture Sent To Me From A Friend That Works In An Amazon Distribution Center
#21
Top 1% Of U.S. Earners Now Have More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class
Sergy Yeltsen 10 months ago
The middle class has just about been wiped out in Australia. Soon there will only be poverty-level poor and obscenely wealthy rich.
However, why did Fisher close 'Boring Dystopia' 1.0 if his thoughts are proving to be so relevant to people?
"For me, the point at which the group started to go downhill was when it became like every other Facebook group. It was just recirculating 'content' and sending links, keeping people inside what I would call capitalist cyberspace instead of looking outside at their own environment," the philosopher explained. "It felt like it was reinforcing the condition it was intended to displace."
#22
Whistleblower Found Dead
#23
17,000 Tourists Arrived Today With Cruise Ships In Santorini, A Small Greek Island. Santorini's Total Population Is 17,000 Citizens. Overtourism Is Real And It's Scary
Jrog 10 months ago
It's estimated the island could handle at most 8000 tourist/day. Instead, they have over 17.000 on average, the overwhelming majority from cruise ships. Tourists from cruise ships are generally considered the works type of tourist for many reasons: they come in large groups, overwhelming infrastructures and tourist locations that could benefit from a more "spread out" approach; cruise tourist are the ones that spend less on site by a huge margin, bringing almost no value to local economy; they come with the huge environmental impact of the polluting ships, and require infrastructures to be scaled up to handle sewage and utilities. Santorini installed a $20/day/pax fee on cruise ship tourism, and it is apparently still not enough to cover the financial and social cost of the phenomenon.
#24
Russia In The 90's But It's Argentina Today
#25
Guerrilla Poster On The Subway
The alternative to closing it was endless policing by him and Rumi Josephs, an artist who served as the group's second admin. "It didn't work at that scale, and you could feel that it wasn't the right place for it… It was just an experiment, and Facebook probably wasn't the right platform. I didn't want it to be diluted."
#26
Drones Luring Civilians To Their Deaths
#27
I Can't Even... (Link In Description)
#28
This Ad Looks Like It’s From A Dystopian Movie But It’s Real
Roni Stone 10 months ago
Then, Alx, you and Musty spit those babies out your own asses and stay the hell out of our uteri.
#29
Yet Again The Us Vetoes A Un Resolution For Ceasefire
Fisher cast Facebook as a distorted reality following an alternate sense of time, where old news is endlessly recirculated and human nature is subject to automation. At that time, the filter bubble had already felt developed enough to rewrite reality by what companies paid for us to see. Which hasn't really changed since, either.
Because of this, in 2023 (over 6 years after Fisher's passing), the subreddit's team eventually released a statement saying it wanted to honor his stance and committed to removing social media content unless posters get approval from the moderators. It will be interesting to see how well they will manage to enforce the rule.
#30
Improvised Shelter Made From Condo Sales Signs
#31
The Official White House Page On The Us Constitution Just Went 404
#32
Used Meta AI To Edit A Selfie, Now Instagram Is Using My Face On Ads Targeted At Me
#33
Tik Tok’s Ban Comes With A Side Of Propaganda
#34
Even A Paying Customer Is Considered Loitering If They Stay Past 30 Minutes. What Happened To Hanging Out At Diners?
#35
AI Company's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Ads All Over Sf
#36
Went To A Bar To Watch The Olympics. Everyone Pledged Allegiance To The Trump Flag Before Starting
NetworkMan 10 months ago
God, you Americans terrify me. I know it's not all of you, but I'm just using a blanket term. If someone here in England said they start their day pledging allegiance to a cardboard cut-out of Kier Stamer, I'd request to have them sectioned. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it, and the last time people started to salute the man and not the flag, there was a 6 year war that engulfed the world.
#37
Tire Particulate In Your Bloodstream
#38
Today, For The 32nd Year In A Row, The Entire World Voted To Condemn The Us' Illegal And Cruel Embargo Against Cuba - Except For Three Countries
#39
Removing Slavery Was On The Ballot In California. It Literally Had No Opposition Campaign At All, And It Still Lost
#40
I'm Going To Celebrate Today As A Holiday
#41
A Perfect Snapshot Of America In The Trending Articles From 12/6/24
#42
Sad Times With No Reprieve On The Horizon
#43
There Is No Privacy Or Freedom In Tesla
#44
A Police Sniper Stationed On The Roof Of The Indiana Memorial Union Overlooking A Student Encampment At Iu Bloomington
#45
A Company Box Lunch That Comes With Simulated Cookie Printed Out
#46
It Isn't A Threat, The Casings Are Empty. It's A Reminder Of How Far Society Is Being Pushed By Profit Over People
#47
What's The End Game Here?
Jrog 10 months ago (edited)
The spelling mistake was made on purpose to get clout online with this image going viral while they were undergoing a round of capital seeding. It was just a marketing stunt. The company's product is a barely functional "AI sales assistant" demo, they gathered about 11 million in capital round last September (that is chump change when it comes to venture capital). Their financials are sketchy to say the least, it's a very small company and they are entering late into a market that already have established players ten times as big.
#48
Idk If They’re Joking With This Survey? Or What? Prolly Trying To Make A Point I Hope
#49
Absolutely Speechless Right Now. Am I Being Trolled?
Nils Skirnir 10 months ago
Trump pushed for TikTok to be sold and Republican Congress passed it. Then Democrats approved it. Now Trump is backtracking or has plan for one of his lackeys to buy it
#50
What's Next Gambling How Many People Die?
#51
Don't Worry Yall. Since La Cut $17.6 Million From The Lafd And Gave A Significant Portion To The Lapd, The Police Will Be Able To Handle It
Jrog 10 months ago (edited)
BTW, it's not true and it started off as Trumpist propaganda. The LA Municipality initially passed a budget of $819,6M against previous year's $837M. This is where the misinfo stems from. What they omit on purpose is that the initial budget was preliminary, and in November the budget was raised a further $53M, for a net INCREASE of the 2024/2025 budget of about $32M over the previous year.
#52
Where Have I Seen This Before? Hmm 🤔
#53
"What Starts Here Changes The World" Officers Surrounding Peaceful Pro-Palestine, Anti-Genocide Protesters At The University Of Texas In Austin
TotallyNOTAFox 10 months ago (edited)
To be fair, if those are the same kind of protesters we have at german universities... I'd recommend an additional riot-control water cannon
#54
Had To Pay 50 Cent To Use The Restroom, But There Is A Cutout For Kids To Use It Free
#55
Maye Musk, Mother Of Richest Man In The World, Sits In On Doge Meetings
#56
Spotify Decided The Device I Bought Less Than 2 Years Ago Will Just Stop Working
#57
Israel Wipes Out Another Village In Lebanon
Jrog 10 months ago (edited)
This is supposed to be a photo of the Libanese village of Ramyeh. Must be pointed out the photo is of dubious origin, with some claiming it's from the 1982 war, some claiming AI but for sure it lacks a definite source. What is true, though, is that Ramyeh suffered intensive and repeated bombing by the IDF, and the Israeli attacked on purpose an UN Peacekeeping outpost with tanks and rockets killing 4 and wounding 15, in what is effectively a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_attack_on_Ramyah_UNIFIL_post
#58
Just Got This In The Mail Today
#59
The Definition Of “Out Of Touch”
Nova Rook 10 months ago
A big scary gun turned all those well armed 'warriors' into cowards. They let children die while they posed with their guns. Some children made the mistake of crying out for help - those Texan cops did nothing but the killer was able to hear them and murder them as a result. Never forget that Texas was fine with this. And gun extremists will tell us we need to arm the home ec lady because she'll turn into John Wick, somehow.
#60
Fortune Magazine Shaming Gen Z For Not Purchasing Diamonds Mined By Children Or Owned By Oligarchs
Jrog 10 months ago (edited)
Misleading claim. Lab grown diamonds are not made from "burning coal". They are made from purified CO2 gas obtained mostly from desulphurized natural gas or liquid oil, fed into a a process called HPHT (High Pressure, High Temp). The main production hubs for synthetic gems are effectively India or China, and in those countries 60-70% of the electricity produced comes from coal. Not the energy specific for the diamond manufacturing: ALL the electricity. So, if we consider this claim ANYTHING made there is made "from burning coal".
#61
Corporate Media Says Corporate Greed Not Driving Inflation
#62
That Won't Even Cover My Out Of Pocket Maximum For The Year
D D 10 months ago
Pensions have been stripped away, they give less and less benefits and health care is being stripped. When we have health care they deny the claim. Home insurance and car insurance will charge you more to recover the costs if you file a claim so you actually pay more than the cost of the original claim even though they pocketed your money for decades without a claim. Health Insurance is in the business of taking money and refusing to provide the service you paid for WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST. This a*s clown literally made everything worse (not Luigi the CEO). It is hard to believe it can get worse but he managed to make it happen. We are applauding that someone is doing ANYTHING to get this tyranny to stop. Meanwhile thousands of children are killed by gun violence and we just look away & say oh what can you do? But the second a CEO got shot they sure went into action didn't they? It won't matter because insurance company's are morally and ethically bankrupt just like the President.
#63
Ys Presidential Candidate And Ambassador To The Un, Writes ‘Finish Them’ On Bombs Used To Mass M*rder Children
David 10 months ago
This photo is cropped. The one in the Reddit thread this was scraped from includes the text, "Nikki Haley writing "Finish them" on Israeli missiles. This woman ran for president in the US." It's nit picking - but they appear to be artillery shells, not missiles or bombs. Same practical difference though.
#64
The First Image That Pops Up When You Google Beethoven Is Now AI Generated
#65
It's Hot Let's Gouge People For Water
David 10 months ago
These are not new. I've seen them here (WA state) in a local store several years ago. It's basically to a paper price sticker as an e-book is to a paper book. They can change them with a scanner / pricer tool thing. Each one has a battery in it but my understanding is because the screen is mono and static, the battery lasts a super long time.
#66
McDonald's In The 1980s Compared To Today
HeavyMetalHeart 10 months ago
Frankly, this is a huge improvement. That tree will haunt my nightmares.
#67
Tesla Cybertruck Reportedly Catches Fire Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas
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What do you think ?
Disgruntled Panda 10 months ago
I think I'm gonna curl up into a ball and rock back and forth while making little mewling noises
Captive 10 months ago
I'm surprised there were a few posts showing Israeli war crimes and their procedures since most of the times it's swept under a rug. Don't turn a blind eye on genocide
Donna Peluda 10 months ago
Not a fan of the Israelis but not a fan of the terrorist either. I had a family of Palestinians living in my block. Practising Muslims who had to flee Palestine in the 2000 because he refused to send his children to the Iman ( can't remember the name, like religions schools) to be indoctrinated. He refused to have his daughter clítoris cut of and married at 14..I lost contact, they were trying to get to Sweden. Woman in Palatine have no rights. I make me laugh when I see western woman defending the PLO or whatever the call it now. If that had been born there they would have the clitoris cut off and ) or raped by now. He was a professor at some university. He wanted his daughters to study.
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Luke Branwen 10 months ago
Don't. You have to see and celebrate the day Donald Trump dies.
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LB 10 months ago
I want to go cry in a bathroom somewhere. Some days it's so hard to even feel any of this is real...
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago (edited)
Thank you for turning Bored Panda into a sensationalist, US-centered tabloid schittwhole. It used to be an oasis of positivism, okay, escapism in a depressing world.
Auntriarch 10 months ago
I went through my old email notifications last month, and it appears that Bored Panda did indeed used to be mostly about having a laugh, learning something interesting, meeting decent people, and of course the obligatory cute animals. I don't suppose there's anything we can do about it though.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 10 months ago
Our state shut down all DEI funding, which in turn shut down a women's center at the local university. A female MAGA coworker got really mad about that, and I got to be the person to ask her who she thought DEI was for. She just assumed it meant taking jobs from decent American folk and giving them to brown gay people. Never realized that SHE was who it's for, and she just voted it away. The schadenfreude was strong with me that day.
Wintermute 10 months ago
Or the people who discovered what tariffs were AFTER they voted for them, and were shocked that it was going to make groceries cost more. Morons.
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Rae Reyn 10 months ago
SO this link will show you how to get rid of Ai images, https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1ah4340/here_is_how_to_avoid_ai_sites_on_google_images/ I use Firefox, but there ways to remove that annoying Ai answer bot that pops up with misinformation on every search. I installed a third party plugin creatively named "Hide Google AI Overviews"
Cydney Golden 10 months ago
My hope is that at the midterms sanity takes hold after his supporters see what he does.
PenguinEmp 10 months ago
Lol 1600? A one bedroom here goes for minimum 1800. Inside downtown it's like 2800
sturmwesen 10 months ago
Hans Rosling: Factfullness....I highly recommend this book for putting the perceived decay of the world in perspective...
Jacqueline Dartley 10 months ago
These are heavily slanted and many are not true, however, many people will believe anything put in front of them without doing proper research on the topic.
firecrackershrimp 10 months ago
Just trying to compete with the retrumplican side...their posts are. Heavily slanted and not true soooo
Load More Replies... Disgruntled Panda 10 months ago
I think I'm gonna curl up into a ball and rock back and forth while making little mewling noises
Captive 10 months ago
I'm surprised there were a few posts showing Israeli war crimes and their procedures since most of the times it's swept under a rug. Don't turn a blind eye on genocide
Donna Peluda 10 months ago
Not a fan of the Israelis but not a fan of the terrorist either. I had a family of Palestinians living in my block. Practising Muslims who had to flee Palestine in the 2000 because he refused to send his children to the Iman ( can't remember the name, like religions schools) to be indoctrinated. He refused to have his daughter clítoris cut of and married at 14..I lost contact, they were trying to get to Sweden. Woman in Palatine have no rights. I make me laugh when I see western woman defending the PLO or whatever the call it now. If that had been born there they would have the clitoris cut off and ) or raped by now. He was a professor at some university. He wanted his daughters to study.
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 10 months ago
Don't. You have to see and celebrate the day Donald Trump dies.
Load More Replies... LB 10 months ago
I want to go cry in a bathroom somewhere. Some days it's so hard to even feel any of this is real...
General Anaesthesia 10 months ago (edited)
Thank you for turning Bored Panda into a sensationalist, US-centered tabloid schittwhole. It used to be an oasis of positivism, okay, escapism in a depressing world.
Auntriarch 10 months ago
I went through my old email notifications last month, and it appears that Bored Panda did indeed used to be mostly about having a laugh, learning something interesting, meeting decent people, and of course the obligatory cute animals. I don't suppose there's anything we can do about it though.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 10 months ago
Our state shut down all DEI funding, which in turn shut down a women's center at the local university. A female MAGA coworker got really mad about that, and I got to be the person to ask her who she thought DEI was for. She just assumed it meant taking jobs from decent American folk and giving them to brown gay people. Never realized that SHE was who it's for, and she just voted it away. The schadenfreude was strong with me that day.
Wintermute 10 months ago
Or the people who discovered what tariffs were AFTER they voted for them, and were shocked that it was going to make groceries cost more. Morons.
Load More Replies... Rae Reyn 10 months ago
SO this link will show you how to get rid of Ai images, https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1ah4340/here_is_how_to_avoid_ai_sites_on_google_images/ I use Firefox, but there ways to remove that annoying Ai answer bot that pops up with misinformation on every search. I installed a third party plugin creatively named "Hide Google AI Overviews"
Cydney Golden 10 months ago
My hope is that at the midterms sanity takes hold after his supporters see what he does.
PenguinEmp 10 months ago
Lol 1600? A one bedroom here goes for minimum 1800. Inside downtown it's like 2800
sturmwesen 10 months ago
Hans Rosling: Factfullness....I highly recommend this book for putting the perceived decay of the world in perspective...
Jacqueline Dartley 10 months ago
These are heavily slanted and many are not true, however, many people will believe anything put in front of them without doing proper research on the topic.
firecrackershrimp 10 months ago
Just trying to compete with the retrumplican side...their posts are. Heavily slanted and not true soooo
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