Mullet.

Super low cut pants with the thong sticking out on top.

White lipstick.

Guys wearing pants that dripped below their droopy boxer shorts, giving me a gigantic view of the top of their a*s crack. I mean, wear what you want, but that look is not my favorite.

Wells Fargo. I paid my moms car payment to help her out ONCE. And they set my account as the main account. Wouldn’t be a big deal if they overcharged my account ONE TIME and fixed it. No. They did it four times. Each month my mom would call and have them reimburse my overdraft fee and delete my account from their records. They said they would and what do you know, next month I’d have $400 or an overdraft fee removed from my account.

The last time my mom literally cussed and screamed at them until they fixed it. She threatened a lawsuit and everything before they finally did what we needed. Next time she needs help with her bills she’s getting cash. And if Wells Fargo is doing the loan, I’d rather take it somewhere else. As long as I can avoid using them, I will.

Apple. I used to buy their stuff because it was built to last. Now it’s all about planned obsolescence.

Apple

I'll swim in my android bubble thank you very much.

United Way (charity).

Coworker gets cancer and we set up a big jar in the cafeteria for donations to help her with treatments. United Way comes in and tells us that they have an "exclusive contract" with our company (large, international company) to be the sole recipient of any charitable donations on the property and demanded that we remove the solicitation jar and cease any fundraising for coworker's cancer treatment.

They had an annual "drive" where department heads competed to have the most donations and ongoing monthly contributions, but the next year the number of participants in the company dropped to almost nothing. Good.

Nestle. They're making a huge profit off of Canadian fresh water and paying next to nothing in taxes.

After meeting your parents, 90% of the time I think, "The apple didn't fall far from the tree." It's not necessarily good or bad, but you're probably more like your parents than you realize.

Jared Leto

*gestures broadly*.

There are many reasons to hate ellen degeneres but her telling dakota johnson she wasn't invited to her party when she WAS made me really hate her.

Okay so, I’m about to out my age but

I will NEVER forgive Kenneth Braunaugh for cheating on Emma Thompson. I also actively dislike Helena Bonham-Carter bc she was who he cheated with.

The big scam: religion

A tax-free industry gets people to believe that happiness, health and economic prosperity truly depends on the frequency of attendance and the extent of donations ,

The Catholic Church used fear and indulgences to extrude wealth from hapless participants.

Modern religion uses HOPE as the way to bleed congregations and keep any abbherant thinking in check.

Gotta accrue those golden nails for your heavenly ✨️ mansion.

Software as a Service models. No one needs or wants their software to update and change formats every few months. We all just want a stable software that we can learn to use for a few years before a major performance upgrade. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t still be using Microsoft Word Millennium edition.

Worked a month as a pharmacy clerk, health insurance price disparity is insane, especially on things like insulin.

SocraticIgnoramus:

This is also why you can’t ever get a straight answer in medicine regarding how much a given procedure costs. Everyone’s got these contracts with wildly different prices, but they know that can’t say “$5,280 with Cigna, or $37 with Medicaid” so they give all kinds of non answers.
The American healthcare system’s lack of a transparent fee schedule should literally be against the law.

Finding out who sponsored "influencers." The largest sponsors of "clean Tok" are cleaning manufacturers. Those makeup videos? Sponsored by makeup companies. All the "tradwife" and farm life videos? Sponsored by far right media groups. It's ALL a scam. All of them are being paid behind the scenes to push certain goods or a certain lifestyle. TikTok is literally just watching short commercials with less transparency.

In the USA?
- Teachers
- Lawyers
- Scientists
- Engineers

Because education, law, and science are suddenly considered anti-American. Without education, everything eventually crumbles.

Even before this Trump administration, Americans have been losing jobs to foreigners that are better educated than us. We’re losing those jobs because Americans just aren’t qualified, simple as that.

At the rate things are going right now, we won’t have any professions left that require a brain.

I hope it’s influencers.

My friend is an artist. She made a living off commissions on Twitter. That site going to sh**e and the rise of AI has already caused her to lose 80-90% of the commissions she was getting a few years ago. She’s currently working a minimum wager to keep what she can in her account while she figures out what to do.

draggar:

This is one of the saddest parts of AI. We thought AI would take over mundane tasks so we could pursue things like the arts, yet here we are, doing mundane things while the arts are being taken over by AI.
Even our community alerts pages on FB are now adding AI generated images with every post. It's annoying AF 99.99999% of the time.

My hope is that car salespeople go extinct. The dealership model is antiquated and unnecessary. There’s no good reason why one can’t buy a car completely electronically. Choose car. Add options. Add to basket. Select financing. Complete purchase.

The IKEA "Billy" bookcases have a notch in the lower back designed to fit over baseboard moldings so your bookcase can sit flush with the wall.

Zippo lighters.

Singer sewing machines. Such delicate components yet they can be repaired to last a century.

Technics 1210 MK 2.

Fiskars scissors.

The Fender Telecaster and the Gibson J-45.