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Products, just like people, have life cycles. Typically, their existence is broken into four stages—introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. And, just like ours, the time of each one can vary greatly.
So when a post on r/AskReddit invited people to name the products that they believe have died just because we weren't smart enough to understand them, it received plenty of replies.
From movies to gaming consoles and even foods, here are some of the most interesting submissions and the stories behind their demise.
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#1
The US National Park Service struggled for years to find a locking trash can that would be able to keep bears out. People couldn't figure them out so they wouldn't lock it back up, or litter, rendering them useless. One park ranger was quoted as saying there was considerable overlap between the dumbest people and the smartest bears.
Paul Neff 2 years ago
Work in IT. The degree of probable overlap for people and bears is painful.
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Monday 2 years ago
We should pitch a new game show, rather than are you smarter than a fifth grader we could do: "Are you smarter than a bear?"
GoGoPDX 2 years ago
Or an octopus! They are extremely intelligent and have been known to solve very complex problems
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I'm with the park ranger :-) That said, i live in a bear-prone area and there aren't many ways to keep a bear outta something (your car included) if it reallllly wants in. Skunks and raccoons, however, do far more trash diving, and those locked lids are great against *them* too! :-)
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Dear Personal Downvoter: They have therapy for what's wrong with you. Have a nice day! :-)
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Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
So you're saying that only bears can say "I'm smarter than the average bear?"
Shayne Randlett 2 years ago
"considerable overlap between the dumbest people and the smartest bears" is currently my favorite quote
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
At a national park in Australia, they had those kangaroo-safe trash cans with a heavy lid that had to be pulled a long way out, it had an inner corpus that reached halfway into the can.
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#2
The 1/3lb burger because people thought it was smaller than the 1/4lb one.
David H 2 years ago
This is more myth than fact. It gets spread around a lot, but several journalists looked into it, and it was a myth that began related to a burger marketing campaign decades ago
Eris Kallisti 2 years ago
Do you have a source for this? I only ask because even Snopes says this is true. I remember this campaign and I remember it failing, and apparently A&W did a pretty thorough survey after the failed campaign. More than half of the people they surveyed thought the 1/3lb burger was smaller.
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BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
.3 pounds is 1.2 bananas and .4 pounds is 1.6 bananas (courtesy to https://www.converttobananas.com/weight-converter/)
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Pim de Vente 2 years ago
I see a market opportunity for fifth burger at the same price as quarter burger.
Unpopular opinions 2 years ago
Maybe people liked the meat to bun ratio better with the 1/4lb burger, also I would imagine the 1/3lb would be more expensive.
Eris Kallisti 2 years ago
It was the same price, the other chain was trying to offer a bigger burger for the same price or cheaper. But people did not realize it was bigger.
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The Other Guest 2 years ago
Don't know why you got downvoted for this; you're right. Better rhythm & the soft R to P transition sounds nicer than the hard D to P (y'all can stop giggling over the hard D now, you know what I meant by it)
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Panda-sized Potato 2 years ago
The rest of the world doesn't use pounds as a measurement.
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Burnt Bagel 2 years ago
Americans are pretty much dumb. I believe that is the point, intended or not!
𝖊𝖆 2 years ago
This is so stupid. I was taught to think of fractions like a pizza in year 1 or 2? 6/7 years old, and I never forgot! It made it so simple. To the people who don’t understand it, Would you rather share a pizza with four people, or three? Imagine 4 slices and then 3 slices… how do people not get that??
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
it's just not that simple to everyone. Fractions are hard for me to understand beyond like fifths. I find it great that you can understand but it doesn't click like that in everyone
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Initially? The idea of washing your hands was resisted to the point that the man pushing the idea of hand washing was driven to a mental breakdown from the ridicule of his peers.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#:~:text=Despite%20various%20publica,tions%20of%20results,rejected%20by%20the%20medical%20community](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis#:~:text=Despite%20various%20publications%20of%20results,rejected%20by%20the%20medical%20community).
Today's equivalent would be a toss up between masks and vaccines. Because some >!(overly vocal, inbred, mouth breathing Jesus freak)!< people are just too f*****g stupid to listen to science.
Jenn C 2 years ago
Doctors resisted washing their hands between patients because "A gentleman's hands are always clean"
Limey 2 years ago
And the anti masker/Vaxer believes people who “love Jesus” don't need the protection of science. Same logic, really.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Don't blame the Jesus freaks. Jesus would probably have handed out free masks, started a vaccine clinic, etc. The freaks, however, are very obsessed with everything *but* what Jesus actually (allegedly) taught.
Carol Emory 2 years ago
I just remember a grocery store clerk saying how surprised they were that hand soap was getting scarce because people were starting to buy it up by the tons during the pandemic. He was like "What did they do before the pandemic?" Apparently they never washed their hands.
Elio 2 years ago
Yeah, a lot of people didn't really wash their hands. And holy water is more like unholy germ water due to priests not washing their hands.
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Mathias 2 years ago
Sadly enough the heroes of our time are attacked by the very same people who worship Semmelweis... but it's always like that. And always will be like that. It's tough to stick to what you think is the truth when the majority is against it. It's easy to just follow the masses, it allows one to avoid confrontation and if the majority was wrong... well how could you have known, I mean everybody believed it, how should I have seen trough that. But if the one guy is wrong... oh boy we tried to tell him he was wrong all along, but would he listen? No, that fool, he should have known, it was so obvious. But when the fool was right, he doesn't get praise, the majority just gets silent, they feel ashamed and don't want to admit it. Only much later by future generations who relearn the history, he'll be seen as a hero. It very seldom happens somebody gets recognition during lifetime. Always keep that in mind. Often enough you have absolutely no chance to know if you're right or wrong.
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Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
First of all, we must as a society stop insisting that science is not compatible with religion.
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
that's totally true, but sometimes it's based on correlation, not causation. There just happens to be a lot of Christian people who are loudly against science in the US, since they're so loud it sometimes gets lumped as just the entire religion. Most people know that that's not totally true too
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wild_mushrooms 2 years ago
I agree with all of this, but let's not insult a religion because of a stereotype :)
ThatOmniCapybara(she/they) 2 years ago
Yes, Christianity gets such a bad rap. And for what? We're not ALL trying to push our religion on others and claiming that Jesus will save us when jumping into a volcano.
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Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago
My favourite things about Semmelweis' story: 1. Before he came along, doctors used to deliberately go from patient to patient with their coats covered in any blood or other bodily fluids they picked up. They believed it made them look more busy and important - I guess the equivalent of how some modern chefs like to be seen with dirty aprons. 2. Semmelweiss did all this without ever understanding *why* handwashing was important - he never knew puerperal fever was caused by infection with bacteria, because germ theory was not developed until years after his death. His theory was that doctors passed on the disease after they had been doing autopsies, and that there must be some "essence of death" that clung to them and needed to be washed off before seeing another patient and passing the death on to them.
Gin Marie 2 years ago
Plus during the Crimean War Florence Nightingale made handwaahing the practice-----and more patients lived.
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Linda Riebel 2 years ago
Semmelweis was addressing OB-GYNs, who would do an autopsy and go right into the delivery room without washing their hands. Killed hundreds of women. Too stupid/stubborn to even give Semmelweis's idea a try.
#4
The metric system in the United States
JoNo 2 years ago
I scrolled down just to see if the Metric System was on this list, as it was my first thought when I read the heading. Metric is really easy, everything is in 10s, 100s, 1000s, so simple to learn and use.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago (edited)
Edited to point out that everything is easy if it is what you're raised with. Habit is powerful. See: Brits still using a "stone" to measure weight. It's not on the labels, but it's in the everyday speech/etc. for many.
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Robert T 2 years ago
"Mastering the metric system" will be a really short book. "Can you count to 10?" "Yes, good. You've got it!".
The Other Guest 2 years ago
Not really. Sure, I know it's 100 centimeters to a meter & it's super-easy to remember, but having grown up with feet & inches, I can't visualize how big that actually is. You may as well be saying it's 10 glips to a schnoozle.
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Larry XK 2 years ago
This. 99% of all products we buy listed in both imperial and metric
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Lavi Berko 2 years ago
honestly i prefer the metric system because a) more people use it, b) it is much simpler, c) it is used more in science, and d) it is actually based on some science.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
We tried back in the seventies, and were even prepping for it—-I remember schools were really pushing us kids to learn it because they thought we really needed to be completely familiar with it—-but all the old farts, especially in Congress, had themselves a very loud collective hissy fit and refused to learn it, so it just kind of died on the vine. All we have left to remind us of that time are two liter soda bottles (they used to be measured in ounces)..
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
This is NOT because people are too stupid to understand, but because switching is not nearly as easy as people make it out to be. As Land Surveyor, I can tell you that there is a significant amount of legal issues just in terms of deeds and boundaries. A deed that has a distance of 100.00 feet, vs a deed that has a distance listed as 100.01' (which is less than 1/8 of an inch different) has more legal 'weight'. A distance of exactly 100.00 feet holds precedence in a court of law. Same goes for roads. A road that is 49.5' wide is a three rod road, and has special considerations as opposed to a road that is 50 feet wide. Converting to metric can cause those very real legal considerations to get lost. Can it be done? Yes. But it is no where near as easy as "ok we are using metric now, throw away your old rulers." A great deal of time and money would need to be invested to account for these, and many other, issues.
Jay Cee 2 months ago
You threw away your ruler in 1776, what you use now is a scale rule.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Honestly, I grew up on the Canadian border when they were going all-metric and everything was in metric & standard (Imperial), so I use metric all the time, and live in the US. Southern US, no less. I switch between the two systems as easily as some people do between languages. Also, in STEM, we're metric. Our tool sets are mixed metric and imperial. We're not *that* backwards.
#5
About 15 years ago Arm & Hammer came out with a series of environmentally safe cleaning products for bath, kitchen, and glass. They worked well, smelled good, and I really liked them.
The drawback for dummies was the reusability of the spray bottle. Refills came in a cartridge the size of a five hour energy shot. You filled the bottle up to the fill line with water then screwed the cartridge into the bottle which had special inner threads to open the cartridge. The spray bottle was sold empty with a cartridge attached. The checker at the store paused when ringing me up to ask if I really wanted to pay six bucks for an empty bottle. When I bought the glass cleaner I got the same question. Nobody bought it because they didn't realize how it was packaged.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
This is not because people are stupid; it's because of poor marketing. If you're going to introduce a brand new way of doing something, you have to explain how it works and why it's better.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I feel like they could have marketed this better and tried a bit harder and made it work very well. Especially if they tried again now, used biodegradable packaging, and really went for it, people would be all over that.
Juliane Maxwell 2 years ago
Well, Grove is doing exactly that. Selling bottles and concentrate cleaner. With the idea to cut down on the use of plastic waste. Thought it was their original idea!? Sad that it did not catch on back then. Think of all the landfills full of plastic cleaner containers 😕😫
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David 2 years ago
The truth is the majority of routine household cleaning products are mostly water but people don't want to think about that. And I'm pretty sure most manufacturers don't want you to think about that either. So much money / carbon footprint could be saved by selling you bottles with an ounce or two at the bottom and telling you to go home and top it off with water and swish it around a bit. I have some professional window washer concentrate that came in a quart (or maybe slightly smaller) bottle. It has lasted me for years because you only need about a teaspoon to make a gallon of cleaning solution.
Moira Drake 2 years ago
Grove currently offers cleaners like this. Refillable glass spray bottles with beautiful colored silicone sleeves and refills of glass cleaner, multipurpose cleaner, and tub & tile cleaner in tiny glass bottles. The silicone colors match my kitchen decor and they look good when sitting on the shelf! And there is virtually no waste! Even the refill bottle caps are aluminum and recyclable!
Juliane Maxwell 2 years ago
Started buying from them for that reason. Only to find that the packaging they used to send the product was oversized and stuffed with excessive paper etc. Hopefully one of these days someone will get it right, lol.
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Miss_Priss 2 years ago
Lysol has the same thing. It was the last on the shelf during the pandemic. I bought several cartridges. Works great!
The Veil of Fire 2 years ago
Sounds like poor informed advertising. Normally if it looks or seems too complicated most people walk on to what they know.
#6
Quarantine procedures!
Jesus Christ we could have released these lockdowns months ago if people just listened to the experts!
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
PS South Africa, which is according to Herr Orange Hitler, a shithole, has a per-capita death rate lower than USA and we were out of covid like a year ago. Really. WHY? because we masked up and took our vaxes and ate our vegetables. Instead of waving flags and yelling about freedumb.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Not all of us Americans were "waving flags" or "yelling about freedumb". Most of us loathe the very vocal anti-vaxxers in our country, and many of us got our vaccinations and boosters as soon as we were able to. I still mask up in public, even though no one else in my area does.
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Carol Emory 2 years ago
We could have stopped the pandemic in it's tracks if the Orange Turd hadn't mothballed all of the protocols Dr Fauci and Obama had put in place to protect us from E-bola and Swine Flu. When Trump took over, he warehoused 15,000 ventilators without any maintenance. So when the pandemic started, he not only ignored recommendations to restrict the borders, thousands of those stored ventilators didn't work and had to be fixed before use. Thousands of people in the USA could have been saved if the original plan of protection hadn't been scraped out of spite.
Mathias 2 years ago (edited)
Please don't let your anger ignore the scientific data and medical lessons. Leading WHO experts said in early 2020 that this virus can't be stopped anymore. That was at a point it was thought to still be only in China. Later analysis of frozen sewage water did show it spread around the world already November 2019. Even 100% closed borders had not helped. Since SARS-COV-2 was much less lethal than SARS and people could be contagious without symptoms for a long time there was zero chance to stop it. Now some countries closed the borders completely and then they had a huge issue: the rest of the world had immunity, in their country there was none. So when most of the world had the worst behind them for those countries the bad time just started. See what China did with their zero covid policy. They got the numbers officially to zero but it always started again somewhere. At one point they pretty much did a: covid is beaten and that disease you all get at once now is a flu, case closed.
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David Martin 2 years ago
At one point, I found a massive rant online against vaccines. I'm not usually one to be drawn in, but I was over it by then and replied back with a long, rambling warning that basically amounted to "The real threat out there that no one wants to talk about is seatbelts; Sure, experts CLAIM they save lives and everyone should have them, but I saw evidence online that seatbelts can actually cause autism in children...and I won't risk the health of my child that way, so I support the anti-belter life, and my freedom to choose!" It took less than ten minutes for a flood of people to yell back in an idiot, of course seatbelts are safe, they've protected us for years, experts design and test them to be perfectly safe. And after a big enough pile of comments was there, I just typed "Yeah. Vaccines too"...and I never looked back at the reactions
Mathias 2 years ago
Well Einstein, by making yourself look more stupid than stupid people you are not going to prove a point but win the stupid price... and in doing so did equal harm to the reputation of vaccines. Because you are equally wrong. Vaccines always pose a risk, but one that we are usually willing to take to get rid of a much bigger risk. And because they are not something harmless like a seatbelt it takes usually 12 years of testing before they have a chance to get accepted. And then you talk to your doctor and make a decision according to your health status. If you explain it like that you might get people to think and reevaluate their point of view. If you use a comparison that is so stupid that even stupid people see trough it... well you got what you deserved.
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Satya Bain 2 years ago
Too late to upvote but wholeheartedly agree. Now my church has a growing number of covid positive congregants. How many people do you think wore masks for the Easter service? Only the ones that have not stopped wearing them. I watched the service on YouTube and will do so until they stop reporting people have covid.
#7
Golden Rice.
In many countries in southeast Asia White rice is the main food. But white rice lacks Provitamin A, which is essential for lots of stuff in the eyes and immune system.
So some scientists developed a new species of rice which has been genetically engineered to produce golden rice.
Studies have shown that the rice could be a serious help in those countries and it grows just as good as normal rice.
But because it is evil generic engineering lots of organizations give their best to slow the approval process down with (in most cases) b******t and some idiots keep destroying test fields.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
EVERY SINGLE FOOD PLANT we currently eat are "GMOs", technically. XD Corn is GMO maize. I won't even go into the number of GMO cultivars of good old Brassica oleracea. "Genetically modified organism" does not translate into "evil scientists tinkered with its genes in a lab!!!" Cross-breeding and selective breeding are also "genetic modifications".
Sonja 2 years ago
GMO is not the same as interbreeding or cultivation. Which is called GE. GMO refers solely to genetically engineered plants and animals FROM A LAB! GMO is defined by using genetic engineering, that does NOT occur naturally and can NOT be archived by mating and/or rebreeding and/or natural recombination. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Genetically-Modified-Organism https://www.livescience.com/64662-genetic-modification.html Brassica is not engineered. Not even technically, brassica is the product of centuries of aided, natural selection and rebreeding. This is GE, NOT GMO. What is GMO? It is the direct manipulation of existing DNA by using bacteriophages or hard radiation to forcefully enter unrelated DNA into another organism or delete DNA sequences directly by destroying them. That way, you can force changes that would take centuries if you'd try to breed for it or would be completely impossible to get otherwise.
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Elwood Schwartz (it/that) 2 years ago
To be fair, generic engineering isn't great. I prefer specific engineering.
Kira Okah 2 years ago (edited)
Now, forgive me as this is what I have heard - when those against them use the term GMO, they are defining it the way the WHO does - that they are altered in a way that can't occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination. Some say they are concerned about potential allergic reactions from safe food combined with genes from allergenic food, some say they are concerned about animal genes being put into plants, some say that they could damage the environment and biodiversity. The term has multiple definitions, even differing by country, which really complicates matters.
Jane Shead 2 years ago
Good lord. Everyone thinking selective breeding of plants and animals is the same as genetic engineering! - it is not! Nothing like! Genetic engineering alters the organism - in a lab - at the level of genes. It can put genes directly from one organism into another, and is nothing at all like, say, over generations of a plant gradually improving its protein levels or whatever. Not even slightly the same. Golden rice failed not from stupidity, or from "fear of the new" but because farmers were very rightly afraid of the costs involved. Instead of saving seed from year to year, they would have to buy new each year because golden rice is patented. Also, from an efficacy point of view, providing people with enough vegetable daily is far more effective. Bringing people out of poverty is what's needed, not to yoke them to a capitalist structure that will ensure profits for Monsanto or Syngenta and continued poverty for local farmers.
Noe Rayala 2 years ago
I signed up to tell you "learned" fellas that it ain't that simple; ordinary seasonal rice crops are exactly that "seasonal".. They are GMO made not by corporations, they are what is most commonly referred to as "heirloom/heritage crops".. These crops were cultivated by the people that planted them over generations and are completely free of trademarks or monetary restrictions. Your much touted *golden rice" cost an arm and a leg to purchase, because they are trademarked and copyrighted, hence the f*****g name "golden rice" it's a brand you bloody tools.
#8
Those little shopping carts at grocery stores for kids. A bunch of dumb a*s parents refused to parent their kids and they would just let them jam the carts into displays, peoples legs, other carts etc, so almost all grocery stores in our area got rid of them. They were made so kids could put their own choices into the cart and be mindful of what they choose, not babysitter bumper cars.
pelemele 2 years ago
"They were designed so that children can put their own choices in the shopping cart and be aware of what they choose" Translation: "They were designed to push consumption a little more by using children as an excuse"
Lea S. 2 years ago
These don't take away the option of the parent saying no, or shopping from a list and having the little put THOSE things in the cart. I used one of these growing up, they are still in that grocery store. My mom never let me just take home whatever I wanted to put into the cart, lol. If she would've that would've been on HER, not the shop-owner.
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Iampenny 2 years ago (edited)
The carts are fantastic, my grandkids love them, but then again, my daughter and her partner know how to take care of their children, so there's never any problems
NopedOut 2 years ago
Yeah, please don't be that know-it-all. I am a strict parent, but I have a little kid who is just really difficult. The other would be fine with little carts, but the small one would not. Please don't do the "well, you're a s****y parent, then" because that's not always true. Your pompousness doesn't really help. I try to give other parents the benefit of the doubt. Special needs kids are especially hard to deal with in places like grocery stores. Mini-carts? Oof.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
They still have them at some supermarkets in South Africa. Mostly parents let the kid push the cart and put adult stuff into it without getting a regular trolley.
BeepBoop the Single Pringle 2 years ago
they haven't had them in a long time in the southern US, but I remember them at some places when I was little. I just wanted to be responsible and get the things for my mom and feel like I was helping lol. She still bought everything and she stood beside me the whole time
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Mr.G86 2 years ago
We had these at a grocery store I worked at. It got to tho the sad point where they were stolen. I know their small and cute to see kids use but still. Don't steal the experience away from other people. That's a horrible example to set your kids.
Veronica Michelle 2 years ago
I love these. We have a store here throughout Texas that gives your kid a little surprise item whenever they return their cart back. The carts also have flags that read, “shopper in training” So cute!
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
Where is the poster from? This did not fail in Germany nor Poland. My children love those carts! We have them everywhere!
#9
Removable batteries on smartphones.
People couldn't handle the "cHeAp PlAsTiC" on a phone they were putting a case on anyway. As a result, we can't change the batteries in smartphones anymore.
David 2 years ago
I don't believe that is the reason. I believe it is manufacturers using planned obsolescence so they can sell more phones / tablets. "Sorry. No user serviceable parts". Apple would rather throttle the speed of your old iphone with an aging battery and tell you to buy the newest model than say, "Here, just pop in a new battery and you're good to go"
Bec 2 years ago
I agree with your assessment. I have cracked open a couple of our laptops over the years to replace the batteries and give them a few more years of life, in one case, I had to remove the battery because it was swelling up. Haven't had a phone that would be worth doing that kind of repair on but inability to make your own repairs is really frustrating.
Load More Replies... Derek Yeung 2 years ago (edited)
That's not true... Manufacturers optimize and remove Battery because this could save more storage space, and reduce the need of the connector circuit, battery barrier (protector case) in battery and motherboard.
YetAnotherSarah 2 years ago
*And* no user replaceable parts mean more money in their pockets.
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Lance LaRocque 2 years ago
One reason for a non-removable battery is the phone is more water resistant or even water proof.
Nasren Jak 2 years ago
I don't agree. From big cameras to small watches a lot of devices are quite water resistant still we can change the batteries. Main point of this trend that they want us to throw away our old phones and get a new one as frequent as possible. They are deliberately built as unrepearable and un-upgradeable.
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or apple decided to stop it because they want to charge you for a "genius" to replace the battery at an istore.
Valentin Iulian 2 years ago
The trend may have started due to phone makers going for more "premium feeling" materials such as aluminum or glass, but nowadays they argue that it would ruin water and dust resistance. I call bs on that. Let us not forget that the Samsung Galaxy S5 from way back in 2014 had a removable battery while still having an IP67 rating for water and dust resistance. It may be harder to pull off, but it IS doable. On the other hand, there are talks here in the EU about passing laws requiring manufacturers of consumer electronics to bring back removable batteries, or at least make them easily replaceable by end-users, so there is hope. Universal use of USB C will be mandatory on all new device launches starting in 2024, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for removable batteries as well, even though it may take a few years.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The disappearance of the option to remove the battery also has major privacy implications. It used to be posisible to ensure that you weren't being tracked or listened to by removing the battery, but this is no longer the case.
David 2 years ago
Well, if it is a concern to the point you would remove the battery, another simple option is to wrap the phone in aluminum foil. You can find videos on youtube demonstrating this. Apparently even a single layer is enough as long at it forms a complete 'box' around the phone (no gaps).
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Smartphone companies took away removable batteries because of planned obsolescence. I cannot believe people think these for profit mega corporations are making decisions for any reason other than to drive more sales.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
I've read this is because smartphone companies want to force you to buy a new phone more often. And I believe that more than this because w6e stupid as people are, corporate greed is worse!
#10
There was a lottery ticket scratch off that had a temperature listed on it. You would scratch off to reveal your own temperature, and if it was colder than the listed one, you win. Pretty simple, right?
It failed because people don’t understand negative numbers. People called in claiming that they “won” because -6 is “colder” than -8.
It is not. The ticket was ultimately discontinued.
Dan 2 years ago
yeah. I'm not really for protecting stupid people, but it seems like they could have used 100 other numbers instead of going below zero.
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Unpopular opinions 2 years ago
You’re telling me, people who spend all their money on the lottery aren’t good at math? What a surprise.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
..your own temperature - surely that's around 36/7C or 98/99F unless ill, so a very small range. Whatever the ticket said, it would cost less than 15,000 Euros to bloomin fly to the place that was colder and claim from there.
Lena Flising 2 years ago
How can they not understand that, in countries where Centigrade is used? As the text on the ticket is in German, it's clearly not from the US (or Liberia), where they use Fahrenheit.
Nikki Hilton 2 years ago
People are just ridiculous. Negative numbers are taught in 3rd-4th grade in the US.
#11
Police Squad!, made by the guys who did Airplane! and widely considered pound for pound one of the funniest TV shows that's ever aired. But it failed because it required audiences to actually pay close attention to the quickfire gags and fast dialogue. Led to ABC's president memorably saying it was cancelled because "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it."
Later it was adapted into the Naked Gun movies, which were smash successes, probably because people in theaters are locked down into the movie.
Ace 2 years ago
Was it really such a failure? Was rerun several times in the UK. but perhaps because we're used to more sophisticated comedy, or perhaps because of longer ad-free segments, I thought it did pretty well there.
JoyfulZebra 2 years ago
As an American, British humor is SO much better than American humor.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
One of my favorite jokes ever:"Who are you? How did you get in here?", "I'm the Locksmith, and I'm the Locksmith". Delivered in Leslie Nielson's deadpan voice It's so perfect.
Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
this is 100% wrong. It was cancelled because it was one of my favorite TV shows as a kid. My liking a TV has and continues to be the death of the show
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I wonder also whether it failed due to the absence of a laugh track. Not an issue for movies because the group of people in the cinema will laugh at genuine jokes. While comedy TV shows without laugh tracks are commonplace now, during the 80's it wasn't.
Lynne Hammar 2 years ago
There were only 6 episodes, I think. I rented them on VCR!! They were hilarious.
#12
For a while, seat belts, because auto executives thought it implied the car was unsafe.
Dr.Caffeine 2 years ago
Also for not patenting them and making them usable for all
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N Miller 2 years ago
There is also the paradox of the "parachute safety", which applies to cars as well. Basically, whenever new safety features are introduced, accidents briefly go up because people feel more able to take risks, because, hey it's safer now. This mainly applies to the likes of guard rails rather than seatbelts, but I'd be surprised if it didn't factor a little bit.
Lousha 2 years ago
They still fail a lot. There are the type of people who think it makes them look like a wuss. Others think they imply that they are sh*t at driving. ("You don't need to use that, I'm a great driver, you're safe with me!") And my personal favourite: the ones who claim the belts are too uncomfortable/mess up their clothes. I loved a car show where a reporter was given a ride by a professional car racer, and the reporter was uneasy about using the seat belts because they will crumple his shirt. The driver asked what looks better on a shirt, a few creases or brain matter?
PlatinumTheCat 2 years ago
This is why it was made a law, so people would be forced to use them
Lena Flising 2 years ago
It's not necessarily the cars, but the speed that is unsafe. Before automobiles, you seldom went faster than 30 km/h. With automobiles, you can go 170 km/h and it's still pretty stable (until you hit something). Go Volvo, for removing the patent on the three-point seat belt; they have saved millions of lives, me included.
A Jones 2 years ago
They're just an additional safety feature to be required. It saved me from a t-bone incident 100% direct force. All I got was whiplash. The door I was next too was bloody totaled. Wear your seat belts and practice safe driving folks. I probably wouldn't be here if I didn't buckle up.
Joshua Edrick Lim 2 years ago
when seatbelts were first introduced, people thought cars that had them were unsafe because of the extra safety feature
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masks, vaccines, and anything else scientists spend literal years researching
Austin Sauce 2 years ago
But they’ll be more than happy trusting a dude with a podcast or YouTube channel with 0 credentials.
Rachel Smith 2 years ago (edited)
I still wear a mask if I'm sick. Even if it's just a cold. I did get strep throat recently because a coworker wouldn't wear a mask and also wouldn't cough/sneeze into their elbow. They also wouldn't wash their hands or use hand sani so all their germs got everywhere. I don't have a good immune system, so even though I took the proper precautions when she was sick I still caught it.
PandaPops 2 years ago
Thats coz masks protect others and not the wearer. They stop (sometimes) virus' getting coughed or sneezed further distances. I still have to wear one in my hospital everyday but patients dont have to wear them to protect us. And they wonder why we are still getting sick??
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 2 years ago
I'd not say they failed, but rather worked as a kind of Darwin award; if you're focused on reality and science enough, you use them. If you're too "Me-me-me, why should I care about other people?" then you don't use them, and get sick and might die. Small-pox vaccine alone must have saved millions and millions of lives, with the ones not getting the lethal disease being able to instead procreate, and their offspring procreate as well. Anti-abortion people ought to think about how many babies are born thanks to vaccine (if it actually was about the babies, that is).
Frando Bone 2 years ago
The masks are now in our oceans for the next 450 years. That's a failure in and of itself.
A Jones 2 years ago
It's March 2023, still sporting da' mask. Not for CovID, but flu and cold season. Get vaccinated for not just major bugs, but the small ones too that could take ya' down.
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago (edited)
I think it meant the dumb people failed to use vaccines
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#14
Nuclear power
Matias Marczak 2 years ago
People will never understand how safe nuclear waste is as long as the media exists, so it's better to just shove the idea down the drain and invest in fusion energy.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
But when they do fail, i.e. Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi, they fail in a monstrous way.
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Temporary Dork 2 years ago
This hopefully keeps failing until we build plants in a way that won't leave us with nuclear waste that cannot be recycled and will be dangerous for longer than earth formations are stable.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Also plutonium and uranium aren't infinitely available either.
Load More Replies... D Peterson 2 years ago
Nuclear power is great except when there is (1) a natural disaster such as a tsunami or earthquake and (2) what are we supposed to do with all the spent rods & nuclear waste?
AJ Minhas 2 years ago
Nuclear power is great except for the waste. It's radioactive for a very long time and nobody wants to store it in their state.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
If only there were mines already filled with uranium so there's barely an increase in radiation. Oh wait...that's where we got the source material.
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Marian Spanik 2 years ago
Slovakia, too, we produce about 50% of electricity from nuclear plants.
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Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
Problem with nuclear energy is that they are not built or managed by competent people (as they are in nuclear submarines and ships), but instead by corporations who will scrimp on safety and monitoring to cut costs. And yes, the waste is another issue.
Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
I wonder if the people at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi feel they're safe and reliable
#15
My dad once told me about how they tried to sell crumpets in a new country and they did really poorly because no one realised that they were supposed to be toasted. I think once they updated the packaging to tell everyone they were supposed to be toasted they did a lot better.
Tamra 2 years ago
Crumpets are delicious! All those tiny little pockets to hold that melted buttery goodness...aaannnd now I want a crumpet.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
The bonus at the end is the melted butter that trickles through the holes onto the plate, and you wipe that up with the last bite of crumpet.
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John L 2 years ago
While I believe I know, could someone explain to me (in a culinary sense) what is the difference between a crumpet and an english muffin?
Remi Flynne 2 years ago
https://www.bhg.com/recipes/bread/crumpets-vs-english-muffins/ Crumpets-v...740450.jpg 
Ashley Schriber 2 years ago
I don't think people are necessarily stupid because they don't know a bread product they've never eaten before needs to be toasted.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
"Your thrush vaginitis should have responded to the medication by now." "Yes, but the tablets slide down very badly, even if I drink lots of water with them." "That's good to hear, but these were vaginal suppositories on your prescription."
Lisa Johannesson 2 years ago
That joke would be relevant if the information had actually been given on the packaging from the start.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 2 years ago
I remember reading a story when I was a kid about how early settlers thought tomatoes were poisonous because they only ones they'd eaten came out of a can. Turned out the acidic tomatoes ate through the seal on the cans and spoiled causing food poisoning. When a man stood up in front of the crowd and ate a fresh tomato, everyone gasped expecting him to drop dead on the spot.
Amanda Witt 2 years ago
The same was thought of potatoes in the early days. People were eating the leaves they saw above the ground, (which can be poisionous in some cases, of the nightshade family) not realising the main vegetable was underground
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Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Looks like an English muffin. Are they the same thing or very similar?
#16
COVID symptom checking websites. People don’t want to comply with these as a preventive measure to determine potential outbreaks before they occur because “they’re tracking my personal information.”
The COVID symptom checking programs track only your responses and if it’s through your employer or school, only your school or employee ID number. They don’t understand that their phones track much more information than the COVID symptom checkers.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
This is the best response to these idiots: gates-chan...f6775f.png 
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
You're. On. The. Internet. You're already tracked, dipsh*t. And if you're on a phone? Kiss your privacy bye-bye. Rant over.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Daughter kept getting pop ups for Visine and like products on her phone. Went into bathroom, and looked in the mirror after finishing, YUP! bloodshot eyes. Called me all freaked out, I just "told ya so"d her. She thought I was paranoid...who's paranoid NOW kiddo?
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Meanwhile, those same idiots: "Let's do a 23&Me where I literally send my genetic information to a company's giant database."
Angry Moose 2 years ago
These same people are the ones who answer all the dumb "Favorite Pet", "Where were you born" questions on Facebook. Where real tracking takes place they provide the info requested.
Lea S. 2 years ago
I had a girlfriend who got sick and she said it was just too much of a hassle to get tested...she didn't want to get stopped from going to Vegas the next week. Then she openly wondered why our city got labelled the least compliant in America and why it took so long for things to get back to normal.
ROSESARERED 2 years ago (edited)
Yep kept hearing people saying they don't want an ap tracking them . Idiots. Even without a phone you are being tracking, do you have a licence, a car made in the last 10 years, credid/efpos card, any members card, tax file number, a job....the list go on. These all track us too ..one ap won't change the world
Juliane Maxwell 2 years ago
I was talking to the nurse who gave me my first covid vaccination. Her brother refused to get inoculated because he believed the government wanted to inject micro chips to track his movements and personal life. If he had a mobile phone, that was already being done, lol. I guess he also thought that he was of extreme interest to big brother and all of his activities had to be monitored....I never laughed so hard in my life 😁😆😀🤣😂
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Related to the COVID theme, contact tracing apps. Our federal government introduced an app called CovidSafe. Despite the strong support for Covid safety measures here, the app itself went down like a lead balloon
#17
I'd have to say freedom. Too many people strip it down to "doing whatever the hell you want", and do all kinds of stupid and destructive things and give a bad name to the concept. Then people who know what freedom really is, but don't want people to be free, use it as a pretext for taking away our freedoms.
N Miller 2 years ago (edited)
People who think they believe in freedom always think it means freedom from facing the consequences
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
No-one is taking away your freedoms. Freedom ends where others' freedoms begin. Freedom ends where responsibiltiies begin. You do not have freedom, for example, to not wear a mask, and to spread covid. Why? Because you have no right to give covid to others; that is assault or attempted murder (in the case of obese / old people). Similarly, if you live in a society, you take responsibility to act responsibly in that society, so, for example, you do not sell guns to depressed teenagers. Doing these two things - allowing idiots or people with mental problems to have guns, and, declining to wear a mask because "freedumb" - well... you do not know what freedom means. You are confusing freedom and ANARCHISM.
Monday 2 years ago (edited)
Well parts of the US is taking away freedoms from women with those stupid anti-abortion bills. Freedom of choice should apply to our bodies. Then you've got the stupid anti-gay sentiments that want to take freedom away from homosexuals who want to get married. I think the OP was against anarchism since they say "Too many people strip it down to doing whatever the hell you want" and was thinking more proper freedom of choice......maker my spelling is atrocious today.
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Ruthie R 2 years ago
There's a terrible irony in people in actual dictatorships worldwide fighting and dying for actual freedom, and cotton wool-wrapped idiots in the West who already have that freedom choosing to die needlessly of preventable diseases because they believe wearing facemasks and having lifesaving vaccinations is "oppression."
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
They always think freedom only applies to themselves, not to others. They’re too stupid to realize what it really means.
kitteh floof lover 2 years ago
so many people misunderstand what true freedom is. freedom to do what you want with no responsibilities or consequences is not true freedom. true freedom includes the freedom of others being taken into consideration. my freedom ends where your freedom begins. i'm not free to harm someone else without taking responsibility for my actions, and accepting the consequences. there is no such thing as total freedom. and there shouldn't be.
Dan Buckley 2 years ago
Also, the way some Americans think that theirs is the only “free” country
Lena Flising 2 years ago
Freedoms come with responsibilities, and in order to have freedoms, you have to work towards everyone have them, or they are not freedoms, but privileges.
Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
"Too many people strip it down to "doing whatever the hell you want", and do all kinds of stupid and destructive things and give a bad name to the concept." I am not sure this is true. I think people are selfish and then try to justify it by using freedom as an excuse. It's people's selfishness which gives freedom a bad name
#18
In Sweden we had twopacks of sugarcubes at cafés. They were really simple to open, just hold it with the weld up, pinch each half and break it in half. The weld would open in an elegant way and expose the sweetness inside, ready to be taken out and consumed. Just like opening a book.
Very few understood this.
People would rip, tear, scratch, bite and do all sorts of f**kery to open the innocent packs of sweet reward. And they complained, oh they complained.
Story goes the inventor were depressed for life because just a few brilliant people could understand the beauty of his brilliant little treasure chests of sugary heaven. F*****s.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Sugar cubes are the closest thing to heaven on earth- OP of the post probably
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Teresa Sacristan 2 years ago (edited)
I’ve heard this same story in Spain, but the inventor is Spanish and the sugar package is the long and thin one containing regular sugar, no cubes, that can also be opened by snapping it at the middle. Definitely a myth!
#19
Off the wall one but: Soap that doesn't sud.
A chemical needs to be added to soap in order for it to sud, and it was added so people would know that they were scrubbing enough. Now, people all expect soap to sud, so if someone puts out soap that doesn't have that chemical, people say the soap is broken.
Dirk Daring 2 years ago
I make soap from lye, water, and a variety of plant oils. Coconut oil produces a very foamy bar of soap, without needing to 'add chemicals'. Though it is true that soap doesn't have to be sudsy to clean your skin effectively.
Chrissie Anit 2 years ago
You beat me to it! Naturally made soap needs an oil that produces lather when saponified, in addition to coconut oil this could be palm kernel oil or Babassu oil. No need to add a chemical product!
Load More Replies... David 2 years ago
Actually the lather does help with the cleaning process. Soap cuts oil and grease but when it comes to germs and bacteria is it mostly mechanical removal. Soap suds help to facilitate that. it is also a surfactant of course but that is just part of the story. I'm talking basic hand or dish soap of course. Anyone using a washing machine or dishwasher uses low/no sudsing soap.
Exotic Butters 2 years ago
I'd never say "hey, my soap is broken" (maybe if the bar was in fact broken) if it didn't get sudsy. I wouldn't use that type of soap though.
Rachel Smith 2 years ago
I think that's starting to change because people younger than 50 understand SLS (the chemical that causes foaming or sudsing) is not a good thing and irritates skin
AphraEva 2 years ago
I'm just about young enough to remember when Lush swore they'd never put SLS in their products (in the UK anyway). I think they caved to consumer pressure pretty quickly!
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The only Plueschopossum 2 years ago
I always choose products that lack these super foamy chemicals because I don't like how they dry out my out skin. On a vacation trip I gave my full bottle of body wash to someone who had forgotten theirs. Maybe I should have mentioned this because after showering they gave it back to me saying what stupid stuff that was. It wouldn't produce foam and therefore it wouldn't work. The bottle was half empty now... ಠ_ಠ
SewCrazy 2 years ago
This is not accurate for soap in general. I make soap, and am familiar with the process for bar soap. I can't say for liquid soap, as I do not make that yet. Soap is a combination of lye (comes from charcoal) and fats/oils. Which fats and oils you use determine the harshness, and lather size and quantity. What your water hardness is will also affect lather.
#20
The Wii U. People didn't know it was a new console and thought it was just a regular Wii, an add on to the Wii or who knows what else. A different name would have solved this entire problem. People still don't know how to distinguish Wii U games from regular Wii games, even though Wii U games will not play on a Wii console.
Marketing Geniuses take note, if you have a new product give it a different name than a slight variant on its predecessor.
Monday 2 years ago
It didn't fail because people didn't understand it....it failed because it had no third party support. That lead to it just not having enough good, non Nintendo games.
Bryan W. 2 years ago
Yea, the horribly named X-Box Series X is doing quite fine.
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Markus Pfeffer 2 years ago
People understood that a Super NES was no NES, that a Game Boy Advance was no Game Boy Color, that an Xbox One was no Xbox, that an iPad was no iPod, that a Tesla Model 3 is not a Model X, but they fail when a Wii U is no Wii?
Austin Sauce 2 years ago
Tell that to the PS, PS 2, 3, and 5. I personally skipped the WiiU and went straight from Wii to Switch. I don’t feel like I missed anything.
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
I think it mainly failed because it just wasn't very good. Nintendo clearly looked at what was wrong with the WiiU and fixed it with the switch.
Unpopular opinions 2 years ago
This was one of the worst marketing campaigns ever, Nintendo has no one to blame but themselves.
Richard Head 2 years ago
This continues, sometimes "Branding" is so important that it can be difficult to know what the product is. New Crust, is it toothpaste or toilet cleaner. Well it's "Crust"!!!
#21
They put out instant cake mix in the 50's. You only needed to add water, but no one would buy it. I think they couldn't believe you could make a cake with just powder and water. They discontinued it.
cen-texan replied: There was a story when I was in school that the marketing guys figured out that if you take out the powdered egg and had the end user add eggs it would sell.
They figured that as women were going into the workforce and weren't able to cook a full meal, the felt guilty about buying a complete mix. Having the end user add real eggs gave them the feeling that they were really baking and not just pouring powder out of a box.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Eh, not really. The early mixes with powdered egg and powdered milk gave very bad results, people noticed and this confirmed the skepticism about this new product, effectively killing it until it was fixed. The protein part of the eggs and the fats of the milk when quickly re-hydrated tended to clump together. The dry eggs went brown and soggy quickly. The drying process used in the 50s and 60s altered the sugar content of the egg and favored bacterial alterations that gave an off flavor and prevented stable whisking. A reliable, safe and cost effective process for egg drying was perfected only in the 80s, when pasteurized foam-spray drying and selective glucose removal techniques became available on the market.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
They also decided to make you add oil, too. "Just add oil and water!" were some, and others were "Just add water and egg!" That said, using one of those in our household was and is verboten. My grandmother would be appalled if we used a mix, and we're all pretty certain (despite most of us being in STEM) she *will* haunt us if we do!
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
OK, whoever decided to hunt me down only to downvote me?.... It's Monday. Don't you have anything else to do? My statement was factual. I haven't looked at a boxed mix for 40 years, so if it's changed, it's changed, but my late sister did use them, and I remember the oil ones as well as the egg ones, and I also know that for certaint ypes of cake, beaten egg *is* the "fluffing" agent, so you can't use a mix for those.
Load More Replies... Monday 2 years ago
Wouldn't use a fresh egg produce slightly different results to a powdered egg too?
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Realistically, no, because these are all-in-one mixes, not foam-based (genoise, angel food, etc.) where the egg is the rising agent.
Load More Replies... Gozer LeGozerian 2 years ago
And here's me who've never baked a cake from scratch but only ever from cake mix
Richard Head 2 years ago
Just add water pancake mix is never as good as an Add Eggs and Milk product.
ScrapieChick 2 years ago
One of the best alternatives to the oil/water/egg is a cola or sprite
#22
In 1979, Clairol rolled out their touch-of-yogurt shampoo, which they hoped would help people with oily hair. Unfortunately for them, oily-haired consumers didn’t like the idea of washing their hair with yogurt. The few who did buy the shampoo thought it was edible, only to be disappointed after getting sick as a result.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I can't remember which brand it was now, one of these french sounding ones, which released a "soft laser" cream. I was like, no ... laser isn't a substance...?!?
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Why would you try eating something that is clearly labelled as a shampoo? Original Source shower gels are made with fruit and honey, cocoa butter etc but I know not to eat it!
Moezzzz 2 years ago
Chewie, I don't think the people eating shampoo are playing with a full deck of cards, ya know
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Roman Hans 2 years ago
"oily-haired consumers didn’t like the idea of washing their hair with yogurt" But people with dry or damaged hair are like, "BRING IT ON!"?
Monday 2 years ago
Theoretically people with dry or damaged hair wouldn't buy something marketed towards oily haired consumers.....but you never know.
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Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
I'm not sure what the purpose of bee Propolis is in Shampoo. That stuff is sticky and made from tree sap what does it do for hair?
#23
The Zune. Mayyybe a stretch but you could pay a monthly subscription ($10 if memory serves) for unlimited downloads. As long as you had the subscription, you could download anything you wanted to your device. On top of that you got 10 song credits a month you could use to buy songs to keep forever. As a music lover, I thought this was a better option than paying a buck a song from Apple for your iPod, plus I recall it being a cheaper device with more storage. All you can eat music for $10 plus I get 10 songs a month to keep forever? Not bad. People still think I’m crazy when I bring it up. Granted, the stuff you didn’t own would go away of you ever canceled the subscription, but still, it’s not that different a concept from streaming platforms like Spotify.
Monday 2 years ago (edited)
There were feature differences too though. Later gen iPods had built in cameras and were basically budget smartphones, whereas the Zune needed extra accessories to take pictures or videos. The Zune's screen was smaller so watching movies/shows on it wasn't as good and it's battery didn't last as long as the iPod's either and transferring songs from your Zune to other devices was a tad trickier than with the iPod. I don't particularly like Apple products but they had the superior hardware in this case.
René Sauer 2 years ago
They are music players, why would you expect them to take photos and Videos? You had different gadgets for that back then.
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Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
I miss my zune. It was easy to drag/drop music into... the controls were easy and could even change the background image. I was sad when it went all "evil capri sun" on me. I still want a stand-alone MP3 player that's THAT easy (hate using my phone as a music device).
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
I had a Zune and absolutely loved it. The interface and program were so user friendly and it was just a great mp3 player. I'm sure if I dug it out and charged it that it would still work
Red Ruffensor 2 years ago
I still have a Zune somewhere, and I use a Zune emulator on my phone. It's great.
Rougarou Cher 2 years ago
I think this is the one my friend had and swore by it. There were definitely some things she could do that I couldn't with my iPod but I don't remember the specifics.
Russell Alexander 2 years ago
Yes, it's absolutely horrible to think that somebody should pay a dollar for a song that an artist like myself spent tens of thousands of dollars recording, promoting, and basically getting out there. But by all means, go spend five bucks on a Starbucks that you're going to urinate out in 2 hours. That's real value for your money, as opposed to a song that you'll listen to for the rest of your life.
#24
We had a guy come talk to us at my college about his experience in marketing. He mentioned that when he used to work for Campbell's (I think) they had trouble breaking into the Chinese market with their instant soup. They had just assumed that it would sell just as well there as anywhere else but apparently it was the same kind of issue as you mentioned where I guess culturally it was seen as "cheap" to just heat up some instant soup. So they rebranded and repackaged it as a dry mix that you had to actually add to boiling water and lo and behold it started selling
Jef Bateman 2 years ago
This is an urban legend. The word "Nova" means the same thing in Spanish as it does in English--a star that shines out suddenly. Certainly, "no va" means it doesn't go, but people are smart enough not to get confused. The Nova sold about as well in Spanish-speaking countries as English-speaking ones. I was going to post a couple of links to articles, but it is easy enough to Google.
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Madster 2 years ago
Why have Campbell's when you can have delicious Chinese soup (eg. Hot n Sour - my fave)
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
LOL. I heard it freaked some people out because, in their culture, the picture on the label was what was inside the can.
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Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
I buy neither, so I would not know about the quality of the components. Neither might be particularly healthy, but at least the instant soup produces less packaging waste.
#25
When Yosemite became more popular the Rangers began to notice a problem with locals feeding bears food. The issue is that feeding bears food is the equivalent of giving them crack. They will instantly become aggressive, and will begin ravaging campsites and cars.
Heather W 2 years ago
Lady: Can we feed the bears? Ranger: No, ma'am. That's illegal. Lady: Can we let our kids go play with them? Ranger: No, ma'am. That would be feeding the bears.
S Mi 2 years ago
I don't know if this is an original joke or not, but its fabulous
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Yugan Talovich 2 years ago
A ranger some time back found tourists smearing honey on their kid's face. The plan was that a grizzly would come lick it and they'd have a cute photo of their kid getting kissed by a bear.
No Clue 2 years ago
Are you serious? Good grief people are f*cking idiots.
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I’ve seen film from the ‘50s and ‘60s of people IN CONVERTIBLES WITH THE TOPS DOWN (!?!?) riding through the park feeding bears that would come right up and stick their heads right into their cars for food! FFS! Don’t people understand the concept of wild animals? Not zoo animals. Not pets. WILD animals. WILD. W. I. L. D. As in the opposite of tame. As in you could oh so easily become their lunch. F**k! People are so incredibly stupid!
Staci Williams 2 years ago
Grandparents were in Yosemite. Dog was barking at a bear. Dogs owner went up and Kicked the bear. Bear swatted her. Family motto was born. DO NOT KICK THE BEARS
René Sauer 2 years ago
Feeding bears crack? Reminds me of that movie that´s coming out soon. The premise is so stupid, but the trailer looks hilarious.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
There are "cocaine hippos" in the Amazon forest. Although they aren't actually on cocaine. They were brought to Colombia by a cocaine trafficker named Pablo Escobar for his private zoo. When his compound was raided, the hippos (which are native to Africa) escaped into the jungle, where they have been breeding and living ever since. So we call them "cocaine hippos"
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Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
But advertise the fact that the bears are welcome to scavenge the garbage dump (and you can watch).
#26
Blinkers
Oerff On Tour 2 years ago
BMW/Audi drivers still can't grasp the concept of blinkers, by default
David 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe they spent all their money on the seat heater subscription and didn't want to buy the blinker subscription. (FU BMW and your money grubbing subscription services)
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Bunzilla 2 years ago
I was told by one person, "I don't want other people to know what I'm thinking!" I tried to explain it was so that others on the road can anticipate when they move and have less chance of crashing into them, they just gave a blank stare. Didn't talk to them much after that.
Me. Just Me. 2 years ago
I swear this is the unreliable part of any automobile. I don't know what happens in the factory but they don't test them. The blinkers on some are malfunctioning when the car is driven off the lot. What amazes me is how sporadic they are. I mean, all of a sudden the car in front of you (any make, any model, although the luxury seem to be a little worse) has a blinker turn on in a round-about, but then it completely fails in the middle of a busy 2-lane road as the driver is turning into a driveway, and no one can figure out why this driver is stopped in the middle of a roadway. If we could increase the reliability of the blinkers, we could do wonders to reduce auto accidents!
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
Not sure where you live but that doesn't happen in the U.S. I'm not bragging on the country, but the annual required safety inspection would fail without working turn signals, so vehicles here literally must have them and I don't know of anyone in my 50 years of driving whose signals failed.
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Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 2 years ago
Pandas, it doesn't matter what you call these. Many people do not use them
Saeyoul Akiyune 2 weeks ago
This one should be higher because *my gods* no one knows what a blinker is or does 🤦♀️
Lena Flising 2 years ago
I'm learning to drive late in life, and we have a BMW (known for having blinkers as extra option). I make sure to blink before turning, but as I'm sometimes stressed and flustered, I might forget. Still, I blink more than many drivers without the Learner sign on the car. :) BMW/Mercedes/Audi/Tesla might be over-represented in this non-blinking, yes, but it can be seen in most brands. Today I saw one that blinked to the left and turned to the right. Better not to blink at all then...
#27
Nearly 50% of HDTV’s in the early era were returned because people plugged in their RCA cables as the main video source.
They not only didn’t understand what HD was, they thought the picture looked worse, as it was distorted on a 16:9 screen.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago (edited)
Yep, I had to explain this to a LOT of old people. It's the same people who give you a portrait-orientation photo and want you to render it as a landscape version, and then complain that it is "fat" and "Stretched"
John L 2 years ago
Or the people who see "black bars" on movies and think they are being cheated of the rest of the visuals. ☺
Load More Replies... PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
I have a hard time watching HDTV an recently learned that digital chips and systems are actually slower at relaying info than vacuum tubes and electron guns. For my other ultra sensitive Panda friends, this may be an explanation for you too. Digital is "better" because it can do more with less and be easily purified, not because it is faster. The kicker is there is new experimentation on chip circuits so small that they mimic the action of vacuum tubes, and when successful will finally throw computing into the stratosphere. For any skeptics, this slower response is why gamers snap up obsolete CRT tech for gaming and audiophiles use tube amps.
Roman Hans 2 years ago
That's the dictionary definition of an idiot, I think: someone who plugs in their RCA cable as a video source. Ha! So dumb! (NARRATOR: "Actually, he has no idea what this means.")
David 2 years ago
I'm guessing they mean COMPOSITE cables. RCA is just a connector type. In a composite connection all the video goes through one of those RCA cables. In a component connection the R / G / B is split into three cables. For the early HD TVs, an RCA component hookup was almost as good as HDMI. Composite RCA looks horrible by comparison. On my old early HDTV I tried both. TV had HDMI but a surround amp I wanted to use did not so I got there with component. Video looked the same. This is not true of my newer TV because it is 4K.
Sandeep Patel 2 years ago
Yep, as a guys who works in AV i have to explain to people so many time, now we are onto 4k and i have the same convo, I had to school a TV salesmen on HD - 4K upscaling
#28
Most drugs, such as morphine and LSD. They started as perfectly legal drug, that could have positive effects if used correctly. But people started abusing them and they ended up outlawed in most countries.
Ace 2 years ago
No, they're not outlawed, just controlled for proper medical use. Not that LSD has much use, but opiates, benzos, etc. etc.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
LSD and other psychoactive drugs show a lot of promise in the treatment of long term clinical depression.
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Karl Baxter 2 years ago (edited)
I’m not sure why the notion of taking drugs for pleasure is regarded as a bad thing. Most of the deaths associated with a lot of street drugs are caused by poor information, unreliable strengths and dangerous adulterants (like fentanyl). Surely, if someone wants to use anything, they should be able to do as safely as possible with full information and with product of known strength. Muddying the waters with such vague a notion as morality is completely counterproductive and contributes to those deaths. No one bent on doing drugs was ever held back by such things.
over it already 2 years ago
THIS!!! And stated much more eloquently than what my brain is putting out so far today.
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Monty Is Fiennes 2 years ago
Outlawing them didnt stop them being abused though. So in the end all they did was restrict use in useful circumstances...
Joshua David 2 years ago
Or they were over prescribed and made addicts out of virtually anybody because the Sacklers wanted to get rich.
Annie 1973 2 years ago
A lot of people taking opioids get addicted because of a gene defect which causes a so called wild effect. Basically even a small dose got you really high and people were addicted immediately. Of course as time goes on the effect goes down and they need more of it to get the same effect. Some have a normal response and their pain is better. Others such as myself don't get any effect no matter how high the dosage. Doctors experimented on me, even 500x the norm of fentanyl gave 0 effect. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100662/ anyone being prescribed opioids ought to be gene tested for this before being prescribed opioids, so the doctors can see how it will effect them. Free of course.
Christof Irran 2 years ago
Not heroine, though. Beyer, who owned the patent on it, took it off the market decades before it got out-lawed. It was the main ingredient in cough syrup they produced, and it was noticed that people using it became less and less inclined to do things, including work - and not wanting to do work is very un-German.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
LSD was mostly taken for recreational purposes before it was made illegal. It was only realized recently that it has medicinal value.
Mark Secker 2 years ago
as someone who was on, and off again, on morphine for 2 years of cancer treatment no, they are not outlawed just very tightly controlled. At one point when they decided they could trust me they actually send me home after treatment with a small bottle of morphine and a measuring spoon so I could self administer instead of having to keep me in hospital and occupying a bed for 3 days (side note, I don't get the appeal of morphine as a recreational drug, made me sick (like toddler level projectile vomit sick) and was not a pleasant feeling ... you know apart from the lack of pain
ROSESARERED 2 years ago (edited)
Paracetamol will go that way soon It's not a harmless drug, But it's easy to buy, and is being used to overdose and suicide...sadly.. organ damage is a horrible way to die, but this what it does. Stay safe, love the ones you love while you can....
#29
American liberalism. People thought that saying "the land of the free" would make it the land of the free, regardless of law changes.
Monday 2 years ago
Ironically the land of the free is significantly less free than many other countries.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
And still significantly more free than many others. Perspective. If you travel out of the "White" nations, you find out quickly how pampered their citizens are. Yes, US included.
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kitteh floof lover 2 years ago
so many people misunderstand what true freedom is. freedom to do what you want with no responsibilities or consequences is not true freedom. true freedom includes the freedom of others being taken into consideration. my freedom ends where your freedom begins. i'm not free to harm someone else without taking responsibility for my actions, and accepting the consequences. there is no such thing as total freedom. and there shouldn't be.
DC 2 years ago
Freedom comes with responsibility. The thing where you get to do and at least don't face severe fallout of your actions, if anything, is called "childhood". Extension thereof, those people are asking for, not any else or any more or any less.
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Prince of Darkness 2 years ago
LAND OF THE FREE!* *Void where prohibited. Some restrictions will apply.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Quick note for the non-US citizens on how we use the terms. Liberals = leftist progressives. Libertarians in the US = No Government Anarchy Now Hard Right Conservatives. Yes, we know, that's really weird. We get it. "Liberty" here is more like "license" elsewhere, and liberalism here is .... dying, alas.
Robin Roper 2 years ago
Is this implying that an American who considers him or herself to be a liberal do not understand that there is a need for laws, protecting ones country, etc? I believe this believe is rubbish.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Unfortunately, a society must have laws to function properly, because there are always people too stupid to think an action through to its potential consequences to themselves and others.
#30
Those chip bags that would decompose in the ground. Too noisy, they said.
But I kind of feel all chip bags are noisy to some degree. That being said, we should've either poured the contents into a washable bowl or plate or something like that or just used the noise as a deterrent to prevent over-eating
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Anyone who has tried to sneak Doritos at 2am without waking up the rest of the house knows that EVERY chip bag is noisy af, clocking in at around 120 decibels XD
Svelk929 2 years ago
*crunmchkrunkchrunbkunchcrunchkrunkcrmnchkcrumbnkch*
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DiscoqueenJ 2 years ago
Oh my gosh, those Sun Chip bags were 3 times louder than regular chip bags! It was so embarrassing to open in public. Excuse me while I disturb everyone in the vicinity while I have a damn snack, lol.
Billie Templeton 2 years ago
I was sad for the person who invented these. They were a start at solving a real problem....only to be shunned by the public.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Strange that this photo actually has a banana for scale, but no one has mentioned it so far
Joshua David 2 years ago
I remember when these came out. I was fine with them. Yes. They were a whole sound previously unheard but eh. It was fine. I was also eating Olean Lay's Chips without problems too.
QuirkyKittyGirl 2 years ago
I still think companies make the packaging loud and crinkly to deter late-night smackers.
#31
Representative Democracy.
JoNo 2 years ago
And compulsory voting. Works just fine where I live. Don't want to vote? Get your name crossed off the register then cast a blank ballot paper (it's only compulsory to turn up to vote as no one is made to vote). In my mind, I'm there so I may as well vote. It's the epitome of democracy when over 90% of the population cast a valid vote.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
We have automatic registration here in Oregon. Also we're 100% vote by mail too. We literally make it as easy to vote as possible. Sadly in the US we are the exception not the rule.
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CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
The reason Socialist Democraacy works in European countries is because the people are much more involved in the political processes than here in America.
Matias Marczak 2 years ago
I think that voting as a whole is too instinctive to be rational. It is only better than everything else.
Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
if this person is trying to throw shade at the US, they really need to go back to school because representative democracy didn't fail as we aren't a representative democracy, we are a republic. They have similar characteristics but are in fact very different
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Our foreign minister is with the Greens and always touts "her feminist foreign policy." The eyes of those involved who have to put up with this have been rolling nonstop lately.
#32
Netbooks.
There is a market nowdays for pocket-sized computers with an actual keyboard and a desktop OS, sadly people saw them only in their infancy when they were slow and sluggish. Manifacturers stopped making them just when technology became small enough to really fit a proper processor inside a little bugger not bigger than 7". Now we got games you can stream from a bigger rig, some office jobs are actually made outside the office, we consume a lot more digital medias, just think about how many people buy bluetooth keyboard for their tablet! If we made netbooks today again, and made them good, and cheap, they would be common sight.
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I still have my netbook! It's still running Windows XP and the screen whites out, but it's great for school if they need an extra laptop (we run EduBoard with a laptop and projector). I let them use mine and I plug in my little netbook.
Someone_from_the_Netherlands 2 years ago
I loved my netbook, I added 1 gb of ram to make a total of 2 gb of ram. Installed Lubuntu on it and it was quite fast/usable! And I spilled precious beer on my keyboard....
Na Schi 2 years ago
At least in Europe I'm pretty sure that a lot of big companies are using laptops/netbooks on a daily basis.
Luka Hamer 2 years ago (edited)
The average laptop is a lot bigger than this. I've never seen a netbook (I live in The Netherlands)
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Cthulhu Kitty 2 years ago
I don't think that it was lack of understanding. Had one loved it. But for the price or cheaper I updated to a Chromebook. Netbooks just lost their niche
WilburTheHusky 2 years ago
Netbooks were successful, it was just when windows 7 came out that netbooks fell out of favor. They were designed to run windows xp, not windows 7.
Rougarou Cher 2 years ago
Hm. I would think the Chromebook would be similar and those are still kickin' aren't they?
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
My mom's Toshiba netbook outlasted all of the other laptops we've ever owned, I believe it's still going strong, I'd have to check with my mom... It's at least 10yrs old
#33
At the time - alternating current.
Oerff On Tour 2 years ago
Thomas Edison proved that Alternating Current, invented by Nicola Tesla, would kill, therefore Direct Current was better
Jenn C 2 years ago
Edison was great at PR. He made a show of travelling from town to town electrocuting stray dogs with AC current. "See how dangerous AC is, don't you want to use my DC instead." Even though DC could kill just as easily. would
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Though I DID discourage my daughter and son-in-law from buying a place that had a catenary tower 100-150 meters from the back yard. My nephew (utility employee) agreed after I told him.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Think of the swing in your local park. Each time you go forward or backward you accumulate energy (kinetic and potential). You could potentially turn that energy into work, doesn't matter if you are at the topmost point forward or backwards. That's AC. If you instead try to keep yourself stopped in the lifted position, by holding to something, you still have energy stored, but it's harder to conserve it. That's basically DC. AC is easier to move around because the electrons "vibrate" instead of moving, so it makes sense for power distribution. DC is easier to handle and safer, so it's ok for use into the appliances.
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Jrog 2 years ago
I am pretty sure DC is a thing in the UK too :-). Things like LEDs, small motors, electronics, do not work with AC, they need a DC stabilized power source. Most of those appliances either have a power converter or a regulator that transform AC into low voltage DC.
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#34
The first electric cars. For the people don't know, electric cars were actually invented before gas powered ones, but people back then had so little clue/regard for climate that it never cought on until recently
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
It was more about cost back in those early days. The first Ford was an electric vehicle, but the cost was prohibitive. Charging was primitive back then as well and not many rural households were hooked up to electricity.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Basically, a great idea that was introduced way too soon.
Load More Replies... Matias Marczak 2 years ago
Idk, batteries were really bad back then, maybe the technology would have improved differently or slower with less coal and gas, but that is a really complex subject.
Jrog 2 years ago
The technology used in the very first cars is basically the same technology used in any non-electric car starter since the very beginning of automotive construction. They only swapped liquid acid for gel, but it's the same lead-acid technology.
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Toby Flenderson 2 years ago
Electric cars did "catch on" early (outselling gas cars since they were quieter, cleaner, and easier to start). Once roads between cities were improved, electric cars didn't have the range people wanted for longer-distance travel. Then Ford's production efficiency of gas cars brought their price to about half that of an EV, and the invention of the electric starter made combustion engines easy to start.
Jenn C 2 years ago
Plus the oil companies saw more profit in cars that need gasoline to run.
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detective miller's hat 2 years ago
There is a great documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car.
no Adhesivness2020 2 years ago
I remember that. A few manufactures came out with viable electric cars because they thought Japan was about to out sell them. Then suddenly anyone who bought them, mostly celebrities, were recalled and shredded. Electric car movement was crushed, apparently by the big oil companies.
Load More Replies... Valentin Iulian 2 years ago (edited)
This is somewhat of a delicate topic. Internal combustion engines are a fairly simple concept: you burn dinosaur juice and get energy as a result. And a lot of toxic substances. Battery tech is way more complex, and sadly there has been little interest in research and inovation at least until the last couple of decades when the impact of climate change has become dangerously visible. Billions have been poured into research and development since the early 2000s, yet some of the most common battery formats in use today were introduced more than 100 years ago (think D and AA cells) and haven't seen at least an increase in capacity or charging times in years. That makes me both sad and angry.
Mark Secker 2 years ago
the energy potential of petrol is so much higher than battery tech back then and even now it's really only now that EV's are starting to become both economically and technologically suitable for most drivers... and it's not even an investment in technology thing as both military (and space industries) had spent years a century on the problem
Leeza Martinez 2 years ago
yeah but they also had giant boilers on them that would blow up (Think Stanley Steamers)... they weren't the safest vehicles on the road
It's ame Mario 2 years ago
My 3rd graders just read about Thomas Edison...and they read about his battery invention for electric cars...
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
This one is sort of true. Electric cars were quite common in the early 1900s. They were more popular than gas in fact. Gas powered vehicles were hard to start, smelled bad, and produced a lot of noise. What killed the early electric car was a confluence of factors. First was the building of intercity roads, electric cars had limited range. Ford's assembly line made gas powered cars significantly cheaper than electric. And finally the electric starter made the car more user friendly.
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Inhaled insulin
John L 2 years ago
I don't see why not. It's about delivering it into the body...
Load More Replies... Carrie Roettger 2 years ago
Yes it is. I'm not sure it's still available but for some people it worked quite well. I almost participated in a trial for it. I didn't because around that time I was diagnosed with kidney disease and that disqualified me from it. It's like they still make beef and pork insulins forr the rare cases where someone is allergic to the human ones.
Chintan Shah 2 years ago
This didn't work due to many factors: 1) adjusting the dose was too difficult for patients 2) technique sometimes prevented proper dose absorption 3) it was released well after common insulins became generic and the cost was simply too high. 4) lung side effects
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
people couldn't self-admnister properly...it just didn't work well in RL...that was it was pulled off the market
Bec 2 years ago
That would be my assumption, wouldn't it be harder to control for the dosage? The advances in technologies like insulin pumps has been amazing though.
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ROSESARERED 2 years ago
It's coming in a capsule soon, no more needle for some...I hope that's a good thing for those that need it to live
#36
Condoms!
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
After sex ed, we were sure we had to cover our testicles with them.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
The Sex Ed they taught when I was a kid back in the late sixties to early seventies left me wondering how semen goes through pajamas when a man and woman hug. Oh, and “The Movie”. You know, the separate ones for each gender? When the boys would try to sneak 8 to the girls’ movie, so the teachers had to stand guard at the assembly room doors? Funny thing, the girls didn’t try to sneak into the boys’ movie at all. Probably because we figured it’d be really gross and disgusting, just like the boys were.
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No Clue 2 years ago
Binge-watching the Golden Girls with the doggos right now! ☺️
Load More Replies... Lena Flising 2 years ago
Condoms seem to work fine where I live. Teenagers get them for free, and we have more new moms over 40 than we have moms under 20.
Rocky Mom 2 years ago
I wish they m**o would. This world with babies and babies made by those who really shouldn't be having babies and babies, while being too ignorant to be using protection correctly or at allllll. It is BEYOND frustrating and pathetically helpless/hopeless. Why is pregnancy treated like some random happening than real a*s consequence. I have far too much experience witnessing the hurt of babies because our government censors common sense when it comes to sex and the mentality it takes to be aware of other lives/beings.
Telepathetic 2 years ago
One sex-ed class showed putting a condom on a banana.. Many couples wondered why the condom covered banana on their nightstand didn't work
Ashley Greer 2 years ago
My mom taught sex ed with slides in color once (she’s a doctor) and brought condoms. We were 13…The school thought it was a great idea to let us have ice cream and hotdogs after seeing sexually transmitted infections in color.
#37
NJ vehicle registration expiration stickers. They were issued about 15 years ago. Idea was simple, place sticker in upper right corner of license plate. Next years sticker, place over the old one. NJ drivers, stick the first one on correctly and subsequent stickers go anywhere on the license plate. It was pathetic the patterns of stickers I would see. The state stopped sending them out because it clearly didn’t catch on.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Same here in California. This is how it's been done here for my whole life... XD Stick the new sticker onto the old one, or peel the old one off if you wanted to. But it was always cool to try and see how "thick" you could get the sticker stack on your plate... then look at the "tree ring" type sticker layers when you inevitably HAD to peel it off to put on the new year's sticker XD
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David 2 years ago (edited)
I find it difficult to believe NJ folks are that stupid The annual sticker (as opposed to replacing the plate) has been the way here in WA state since before I started driving over 50 years ago and it works fine. And from what I see of other state's plates - same for them. PS - safety tip - every several years peel off a few layers before you put on the new sticker. The stickers are designed to rip if removed but if there are enough layers, thieves can peel off several layers including your new sticker and stick it on their own plate. Never happened to me but warning came from the DMV so I guess someone was doing it.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
In Australia, rego stickers were stuck to the inside of the windscreen and you peeled the old one off and put the new one on every year. Now that seems to have been phrased out. A pity really since it was a visual clue as to when the rego was due and you didn't have to just rely on getting something in the post
#38
Complicated videogames, they've been super dumbed down over the years.
PandaRave 2 years ago
Dear god I wish the original commenter was here so we could roast them about this c**p take
M O'Connell 2 years ago
Is there anything currently available that is Myst/Riven levels of complicated?
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Mama Penguin 2 years ago (edited)
What? Are you kidding me? First of all, define complicated. Are you talking strictly unforgiving gameplay or storyline? A lot of video games nowadays have complex and nuanced storylines. Just off the top of my head -- games like Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Ghost of Tsushima, Vampyr, Dishonored franchise, Red Dead Redemption, etc. And games that are notorious for being difficult like Bloodborne, Dark Souls, etc. There are also games that force you to make moral decisions on the fly like Until Dawn and it trips you up because the "moral" decisions do not necessarily bring the best outcome. And there are a lot of story driven puzzle games out there like This War of Mine, Oxenfree, Wolf Among Us (looking forward to the sequel), and many more indie games like these.
David Pugsley 2 years ago
This is just nonsense! there are so many good smart games out there! there are tonnes of varieties of games so you clearly arent looking hard enough
Carlos Perdomo 2 years ago
Why would I want to play an excessively complicated game? Games are supposed to be fun and engaging, not a another source of stress.
František Sedláček 2 years ago
Or games where you had a party of adventurers to take care of and had to balance their abilities and resources. Last game of this genre I can think of was Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion Storm of Zehir, but that was in 2008. Ever since then, it feels like you are "the chosen one" or anonymous nobody in every game and just get generic NPC helpers, that are more or less flashed out, but are just given to you.
Cthulhu Kitty 2 years ago
The better ones have levels. But as an original wow player, now end game raids and dungeons have no strats. I remember 40mans and complicated instructions and one wrong move killed everyone. I think many are just as good if not more nuanced in challenge.
#39
Dyson hand dryers. Put hands in, slowly pull out over 10 seconds Dumbf***s just waved hands in a blade of air which dries 5mm wide
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
I've never been fond of the idea of air dryers that blow whatever c**p is on your hands into a fine aerosol mist into the surrounding area :p Yes, I know you use them AFTER you wash your hands, but how many people properly wash their hands thoroughly? Plus, many times the bacteria can in fact be colonizing the inside of the hand dryer because it's been aerosolized from the toilets flushing open (no lids down). So, bacteria goes everywhere in the bathroom, some ends up in the air dryer... and you vent it directly onto your hands to dry them :(
Heather W 2 years ago
In the immortal words of Sheldon, “Hot air blowers are incubators and spewers of bacteria and pestilence. Frankly, it'd be more hygienic if they just had a plague-infested gibbon sneeze my hands dry,”
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Darth_JarJar 2 years ago
Mythbusters tested those hand dryers and they spread SO MANY GERMS. It’s ridiculous, just use some paper towels or wave your hands dry
Purple Sprinkles 2 years ago
Look at the inside bottom of one of those machines, mold factory.
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
Dyson hand dryers are NOT a good product. They don't get hot enough to sterilize, so they are literally blowing the germ filled water all over the place. Plus the amount of electricity they use is massive. Paper towels are actually far more hygenic, and likely at least as good environmentally.
#40
Sega Dreamcast?
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I still have mine! And I still have my Chao tamagotchi-style pet from Sonic on the memory card XD
Heather Daugherty 2 years ago
yay you! I miss mine & space channel 5. one of my fave systems!
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zak 2 years ago
What was that other one that failed? The 3D0? That thing was crazy expensive (like $700, in the mid-90's). I knew a kid that had one, and I remember the one game that was basically a complete rip-off of Mortal Kombat. IIRC, the soundtrack for it was done by Rob Zombie. **I just googled it, the game was called Way of the Warrior, and was made by Naughty Dog (the studio that makes the Uncharted and Last of Us series, among others)
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Ayy, it was better than the SEGA Saturn at least. I liked the Dreamcast personally.
#41
The E.U. Hope the Brexiters are happy...
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
As a British person this pisses me off so much. Whereas before I could go anywhere and live anywhere in the EU, now there are a gazillion hoops to jump through. Arseholes ruined it for everyone.
Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Europeans living in the EU have no idea how lucky they are to be able to freely move to another country.
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
EU is doing just fine, I am pretty sure they're happy to be rid of the british too.
User# 6 2 years ago
The EU is not doing fine, at all. It slowly but surely is turning in to a version of the US, where it's run by remote politicians where voters have zero democratic control. It wasn't just Britain, either, in many EU countries anti-EU parties were making big gains in elections. So politicians were falling over each other saying they were listening and promised improvements and then didn't. As a result, we now have a rise of the lunatic right wing parties.
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Fabian Bernard 2 years ago
Having known borders and the need to change currency at least third just moving on a 750 km radius, I can say EU is really a good and important thing. Without mentionning the economical development, stability and opportunities for most of us
Greta Kolding 2 years ago
The EU is a mastodon on clay feet. It is a monstrous bureaucracy. Just think of the amount of money they spend every month on moving the whole bleeding circus from Bruxelles to Strasbourg and back again.
Matias Marczak 2 years ago
Brexit is an example of why you shouldn't try to vote a few decisions.
Annie 1973 2 years ago
I live in Sweden and bought stuff regularly on ebay.co.uk from England. Clothes, vicks vaporub (that isn't sold in Sweden) but after Brexit we now have to pay an import tax and customs law state that vicks vaporub can only be bought in Europe else it's confiscated. On ebay the only place in Europe I can get it is Greece, and it costs a lot more in both the price and postage than when I could buy it from the UK. My dad sent me a Christmas package with gravy, stuffing and oxo cubes. Total cost of the items £12,postage was £10 but when it arrived in Sweden I got a letter from customs saying I had to pay £20 to get it, import fee. My dad sent it but I won't be getting another present from him. Brexit sucks
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
"I'm within my mind, my conscience's clear. I am a Brexiteer!" Isle of Man. Isle of Damn. Isle of Doof. Poseidon when will you let the waters rise?
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
I don't know, I'm Irish and I would vote to leave tomorrow. I know that we'd suffer economically. But if the war in Ukraine has taught me anything, it's that the EU gives no shits about our neutrality. The EU funding Ukraine directly proves this. EU countries donating money individually I have no problem with. This is exactly what we were afraid of before we were bullied into ratifying the Lisbon and Nice treaties.
#42
Microsoft Lumia phones
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Yeah, it had a Leika lens if I recall well. Can't remember which one i had but the camera was great.
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JL 2 years ago
I loved my Windows phones, but they just didn't have the app options of Apple or Android.
Jrog 2 years ago
At the time Microsoft required an accreditation to develop app for windows phones, that had a cost of roughly 250$/year if memory serves me right. After paying and being screened, you joined the program and could submit your apps, which had to be individually approved. The SDK was far more complex and fragmented that anything on iPhone or Android. After all that work you would be able to release apps for a platform that barely anyone used. Not a surprise that many developer moved to the easier-to-access Android ecosystem, or to the larger-revenue iPhone ecosystem
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Lumia had fine hardware but the OS was terrible. It launched with a broken down version of Windows CE, than transitioned to an unfinished Windows Phone OS that was so resource hungry to *require* a top of the line hardware to run at barely acceptable levels. This, compounded with a restrictive policy toward third party app development and with the slow pace of software fixes and upgrades (at a time when Android was releasing *weekly* new versions with major improvements) meant the end of the Lumia program. The fact they could not break the market even when sold at sub-cost price says it all.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
The phone wasn’t too bad. The OS was awful and the App Store was weird. Like weird versions of common apps. That wasn’t a dumb consumer thing, that was a dumb management thing.
Sergio Bicerra 2 years ago
Yeah, i remember i downloaded Timber (with an m) and was quite different than the original.
Load More Replies... James016 2 years ago
I had the Nokia Lumia 720 as an old work phone in my last job. I really liked it and it ran well
Dominique Na 2 years ago
I has bright yellow! I loved it so much I have 2 sitting in my drawer that still work
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SkekVi 2 years ago
I really liked my lumia. I miss her. I miss the apps. There was an app that let you download ebooks and then had various robot voices that read them to you! I haven't been able to find an app like that anywhere else. There was also a ringtone app that was p2p which was amazing. and i loved the way the OS looked with the tiles?? I miss my lumia!! 😭😭😭
#43
Google glass. The applications for it were massive. Though, I guess it wasn’t that people didn’t “understand it”. It was more that it made you look like a Dragon Ball Z bad guy.
Temporary Dork 2 years ago
It was expensive and people with privacy issues would remove it from your face.
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
And they caught someone recording a movie in a theater.
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Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
They were expensive at over 1500$ for a kit, the battery was a joke, the visibility was very bad except in some specific lighting condition, their use was limited by poor APIs and hardware capabilities, and they were incredibly fragile. The idea was fine, but they were two decades before their time. AR glasses are entering the market just now for some specialized industrial applications. Most are powered by Snapdragon technology that was perfected with the Google Glass project.
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
I believe to recall that the media invented the term "douche-bag-factor" to describe why nobody wants to wear them, apart from the fact that people don't like it when you have a camera pointed at them the whole time.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
I remember here in the UK, the largest supermarket chain - Tesco - launched an app for Google Glass. One day later, Google cancelled Google Glass.
Matias Marczak 2 years ago
It was meant to be a prototype/Test, the marketing is too blame in this one.
Ishaan Sawant 2 years ago
hmmm lol yea, you remove one of the lenses and you get a dragon ball Z scouter
#44
Rotary Engines: there was even a big push for GM and others to adopt rotary engines in the 1970s but poor GM design and ill timed oil embargos killed them in the states. Mazda continued development but even the excellent RX series cars were plagued by people not understanding how to care for their rotary engines (read: no turning on for a minute then off, regular coolant checks, oil mixing pump being an important service item) that they developed a stigma of being unreliable.
Ace 2 years ago (edited)
Later generations have largely solved reliability issues, but they're still environmentally very unsound due to the amount of unburnt oil being pushed out with the exhaust. Like 2-stroke piston engines, that's the reason that their present usage is so limited, very little to do with reliability.
User# 6 2 years ago
That has absolutely noithing to do with people being stupid. Wankels failed because they are inherantly less efficient then any other ICE engine, combined with having high wear rotary tips that require a complete dismantling of the engine to replace. The only benefit a rotary has is that it has slightly smaller dimensions then an otto engine with similar power output. The Wankel failed because it solved a minor issue by introducing many more disadvantages.
DC 2 years ago
Uh ... they actually went extinct on having a poor combustion chamber design. Knock wasn't much of an issue, but actual burn rate, volume/surface ratio, ... and, if not both intake and exhaust are located on the face rather than circumferencially, it shoves out a splash of oil every cycle, spoiling HC values, slowly disabling the catalytic converter and simply wasting it may be things to consider, and these all are undesirable. Stroke engines are more complicated, yes, but the differentiation of functions rather than integration, here, proves to be better. Large engines even are more complicated, less integrated, regardless of being huge instead of large, beause efficiency is key to success. Always was, always will be.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
The whole Wankel concept is fine only inside a very, very limited operational scenario. They are way less efficient, guzzle fuel and put out little torque, and have parts that are hardly accessible but require intensive maintenance. The advantage is mostly the weight and lack of vibration, that made them OK for small airplanes and motorcycles but that kind of motor does not make sens for a car.
I'm a Jimmy 2 years ago
Also, Mazda couldn’t sell them in the US for a few years because them couldn’t meet emissions standards.
RKBJR82 2 years ago
I had a Mazda RX8 with a rotary and it was my favorite car I have ever owned. However, I couldn't drop it off to get serviced or anything else because people don't understand you can't just start it and then it off. I would get there and my car would be flooded. That part was terrible.
#45
PSP Go, so practical and portable.
Monday 2 years ago (edited)
Except it had no UMD drive and was more expensive than the PSP 3000 series....which was ALREADY practical and portable. So you had to pay MORE money for a smaller screen and you couldn't play any physical games, they all had to be downloaded back in 2009 when internet speeds were s**t.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
EDIT: I'm an idiot. I never had a PSP Go. I have a regular PSP. I like my PSP XD I do not like the PSP Go system.
René Sauer 2 years ago
When I was a kid 20 Years ago we had the rule that we only got internet on weekends and Holidays, so I often spend my weekends downloading animes to watch during the week. Then I got a PSP and had my Dad register it into our Wlan. When Monday came he turned the Internet off from my and my sisters PC, but forgot my PSP. Yay, Internet acces during the Week!
#46
Those lytro cameras, you could take a picture completely out of focus and fix it in like 3 seconds, i found it amazing yet the company still went bankrupt. For some reason people were more interested in [these stupid things](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/AreocIQPSzhsU3AowuhsOiZ7_gc=/0x0:2040x1360/1400x933/filters:focal(863x765:1189x1091):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/59335319/jbareham_180327_2421_0026.0.jpg)
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Their cameras were exceedingly expensive, incredibly fragile and not practical. The images required a ton of storage space (up to 16 GB for a single photo was not uncommon), at a time where storage space was neither cheap nor fast enough. The cheapest model came at 1600$, was burdened with a terrible constant focus optic and had limited zoom, something that even the futuristic capabilities could fix only in part. It was marginally better on upscale models. Editing relied on closed-source, proprietary software and working with the most common editing suites was a nightmare, having to recompose hundreds of images basically by hand for very limited editing possibilities.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
The only actual advantage was having the possibility to shift focus on an image already taken, something that at the time was becoming possible with software, at least in a limited way but that was good enough for most. Professional setups included the possibility to have X-Y-Z values associated with the single pixels, something that could be wonderful for VFX, but the data gathered were unreliable to the point of being basically useless. At the same time LIDAR and other TOF measurements had already been a thing in cutting-edge technology for a while and were ready to migrate to the consumer market. Lytro had an interesting premise, but failed hard into smoothing out the complexity of the system and shot themselves in the foot by going the "closed software" route.
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
That photo is of a phone with a ton of lenses, but it could trigger trypophobia. Be warned before copy-pasting! XD
#47
It still sells well, but the number of people that try to return their Tempurpedic Mattress because it's too firm... It's temperature sensitive material, they refuse to use a heater during winter.
Giovanni 2 years ago
Why the f**k would you want a mattress that change firmness, let alone one that changes with temperature?!
Ace Girl 2 years ago
I own one. It has to be pretty cold for it to firm up. Like, in the 50s farenheit (or around 10-12 degrees C). So if you are keeping your house that cold, then yeah, it will be a problem. But the vast majority of people don't so it isn't an issue.
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Becky Samuel 2 years ago
How many of these returns are people who realise that it's virtually impossible to do "adult" activities on one of these mattresses and are looking for an excuse? They have zero rebound and the partner on the bottom ends up sinking into the mattress.
SkekVi 2 years ago
I'm sorry this is a great point but also I'm LOSING IT. XD XD XD A bed you can't f*ck on I'm DYINGGGGG XDDDDDD
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#48
Hahaha, democracy.
Allen Packard 2 years ago
(Looking around here in the US...) No, I'd say "the rule of the mob" is doing just fine. With predictable results actually.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Except that it's generally the rule of the loud minority. It's long past time to make the Senate truly representational, and expand the number of representatives in the House.
Load More Replies... Joe Bloe 2 years ago
Another one who doesn'T understand anything about politics and his differents models... Democracy stop working when people hate it, which is a lot of people now, especially in US.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
Sorry - don't understand anything about this comment.
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Family Guy Online. It shut down because a lot of family guy fans couldn't figure out the game and it was easy as f**k and really fun.
#50
The Steam Controller, although I blame Valve for not educating the public about it properly, rather than the public being too dumb to understand it. If you're willing to learn how it works, it's one of the finest pieces of engineering you'll hold in your hands as a gamer. Here's hoping that the Steam Controller 2.0 patents and rumours actually lead to a relaunch and, if so, a specially-designed game or software tools that will teach the user how it works, much like Solitaire taught Windows users how to use the mouse.
#51
The yellow line on buses or bus stations.
USMCFelicia 2 years ago
Maybe they mean the painted lines on the road for bus only lanes or parking?
Matthew Cook 2 years ago
I'm American and have no clue what they're talking about
Load More Replies... Ozymandias73 2 years ago
On public buses, there is a line a few feet from the driver indicating "Do Not Cross or Stand" or/and "Do not bother driver" At the stations themselves, for safety reasons, the lines are for warning oncoming passengers to stand back so as to not get knocked by the buses coming in.
#52
Juicero. The people who were too dumb to understand it were the people who created it
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Oh yes, a Wi-Fi connected juicer that used proprietary, single-serving packets of pre-chopped fruits and vegetables that were sold exclusively by the company by subscription. What could possibly go wrong? How could such a perfect product fail? XD /s
James016 2 years ago
I just looked this up as I have never heard of it before. WTF were they thinking??
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
the exact train of thought was: "Let's take a fairly simple product, convert it to a subscription-based service with an high initial sunken cost, let's build up the company evaluation through media and influencers, then as soon as we find a sucker interested in the company SELL AND RUN ". Pretty standard Silicon Valley fare.
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The PS Vita. It was so ahead of it's time
Monday 2 years ago
That was exactly the problem, not that people were stupid. The Vita came out in a time when many people didn't have great internet at home, so like with the PSP Go a large number of potential customers were alienated from the start. Not including the option to play physical media on your console back in 2011 was stupidity from Sony, not the consumer.
David Leick 2 years ago
The Vita did have physical media. They were little cards much like you'd see on a Switch.
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Game.com The hand held video game console, day planner, and internet browser (plus more) in one package
CG 2 years ago
I watched a sort of documentary about it, and one of the biggest reasons for it's failure was that it had a very small, unremarkable game library. While it has versions of Resident Evil 2, Fighters Megamix, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, these versions are often considered to be the worst ports of these games. The PDA features were well received, but the games were the biggest shortcomings.
#55
Steam Link (the box). People didn't seem to realize it wasn't just for games, but was a generic PC "remotifier" of screen, keyboard, mouse and possible controller.
#56
HE clothes washers. Worked at Lowes in appliances and people just couldn’t wrap their heads around the lack of an agitator
Purple light 2 years ago
Never seen one with an agitator here in the Netherlands. Had to Google what it is.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Well this clearly isn't true, because I've never heard of an agitator. Had to Google what HE means too. I wish people would explain stuff when they post it and not just assume that everyone else magically knows what they mean.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
HE washers didn't "fail". All three of the clothes washers at my mom's house/my childhood house are HE washers without agitators.
Colin 2 years ago
Are they still on the market? Legit asking, as I haven't noticed one.
Load More Replies... CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
They may use less water and cause less damage to clothing, but in my experience owning three different models, they do not clean as well as the old agitator design. I find I have to select "deep fill" to get work clothes clean. That defeats the water savings feature. And sheets almost always become unbalanced and the washer shakes so hard it moves six inches out from the wall if I do not catch it in time and re distribute the load.
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Agitators got clothes clean. I work construction and my clothes get dirty, very dirty. My old washer with an agitator beat my clothes clean. My new top load samsung doesn't get them clean, it has no agitator ( I called their customer support about this and was told the small disc on the bottom 'blossomed' the clothes, whatever that means) It also lacks putting in enough water as its done by weight of the clothes, so now I just pour water on my clothes before starting the washer to make them heavier. No more hot water as the manufactures idea of hot is approximately 85 degrees. When I absolutely need hot I bucket it from the bathtub.
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Mat O'Dowd 2 years ago
Sorry, but being from France I have no clue what an HE washing machine is, can you explain please? Thank you
#58
The Internet
Monday 2 years ago
I don't think we can call the internet a failed product. Destroyed perhaps, but not failed.
#59
3DO console
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
Oh man, that is a blast from the past! My parents got me a 3DO when I was a kid. I played Gex and Night Trap for hours on end. Upon reflection, my parents probably shouldn't have bought Night Trap for me to go with the 3DO XD I think I was 10 or 11 at the time, lol.
#60
Don't forget Microsoft "Bob". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob Tech people wouldn't touch it and non-techies couldn't understand it.
#61
The Atari 2600 ET game
Monday 2 years ago (edited)
Oh come on. This game was s**t. It wasn't difficult or clever....just a really bad cash grab.
John L 2 years ago (edited)
This one doesn't belong on the list. It's a case arguably for "malicious compliance". The game was coded in six weeks by one person, being pressured by the rights owner. They wanted to cash in on the movie's popularity and demand that the coder come up with a full game, "in time". One of the most costly video game mistakes in history. For years there was an urban legend that Atari collected all the unsold copies (there were a LOT) and buried them. Turned out to be true as someone found the cache, years later. I actually played the game, when released. Considering the facts of the issue, it wasn't that bad. But it did get very old, very quick, unlike the classic "Adventure". I lost a LOT of hours to that game. ☺
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Maaaaaaaaaan I logged so much time on this game as a kid and the HUGEST let down of an "ending". I only played it b/c I owned it and I wasn't really playing games for graphics, story, etc at that time.
#62
The Printing Press. Or rather what some accept as the earliest example of movable type that we have evidence for the Minoan Phaistos Disc
“An early clear incidence for the realization of the typographic principle is the notorious Phaistos Disc (ca. 1800–1600 B.C.). If the disc is, as assumed, a textual representation, we are really dealing with a "printed" text, which fulfills all definitional criteria of the typographic principle. The spiral sequencing of the graphematical units, the fact that they are impressed in a clay disc (blind printing!) and not imprinted are merely possible technological variants of textual representation. The decisive factor is that the material "types" are proven to be repeatedly instantiated on the clay disc.”
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
Oh yes, the printing press. Much fail. Totally failed. Absolutely was a failure. /s
roddy 2 years ago
Obviously did not catch on ca 1800-1600 BC or it would not have had to be reinvented so much later.
Load More Replies... #64
Diesel gas/engines in cars Until people cares about mpg
Colin 2 years ago
More countries are starting to timeline it's elimination.
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The M16 almost failed for multiple reasons. One of those reasons was a lack of maintenance because a lot of people though that the rifle was self-cleaning. Another reason why the design failed was because the US Military abandoned their 30 aux 06 round present in earlier rifles, such as the M1 Garand, in favor of the lighter NATO 5.56mm round. This made people doubt its reliability. Of course, the last reason why the design failed was because of a flaw with the design itself, but as per the question, I gave the two reasons why it failed because of the people using it.
Strings 2 years ago
The weapon as designed by Stoner was quite a bit different from what first hit the field, and troops HATED it. Now, after decades of improvements to the design, the US has what is probably the perfect infantry weapon system... and is now looking to replace it with something else
N Miller 2 years ago (edited)
I was utterly confused. The M16 was the designation of the northern bit of the M25. I supposed it technically failed because the route changed and it was renamed?
Load More Replies... Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Um since when did the M16 fail? It was the riffle used by the US Military for decades.
#66
Rubik’s cube
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tuzdayschild 2 years ago
Anyone remember when JCPenney did away with having sales and coupons and simply priced everything with it's true fair price. It was great. They nearly went bankrupt.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
How about AMC movie theater trying to create a policy where it was ok to use your electronic devices in movies…they ended up filing for bankruptcy and dropping the concept.
Load More Replies... Ace Girl 2 years ago
Paper straws. Everyone saw the video of the turtle that had the plastic straw pulled from it's nose and there was this big "environmental" push to switch to biodegradable paper straws, then those stainless steel straws came out for those really committed. I say it failed because is the environment really better off? No. Capitalism won yet again, it just turned into yet another product to buy. There is still plastic everywhere and switching to a paper straw does jack squat to put a dent in the amount of trash we collectively produce.
Jefferina 2 years ago
Definitely. Any choices an individual attempts to make in their lifestyle amounts to nothing when faced with the produce of major corporations, who, incidentally, push environmentally-friendly agendas onto consumers but refuse to do the same themselves. So then they go scot-free, and the rest of us are left to feel like the fate of the world lies only on our shoulders. 🤷
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blatherskitenoir 2 years ago
Hydrogen fuel cell cars. They actually managed to make them reality. But advertising was garbage, so everyone decided electric cars would save us.
similarly 2 years ago
Here's one: American spelling. Noah Webster believed that literacy would increase, particularly among immigrants whose first language was not English, if the spelling were consistent and systematic. He proposed a completely revised system of spelling. However, instead of adopting it completely or rejecting it completely, either of which would have been an ultimate win, people decided to do it in bits, take some leave some. This led American English to be even more confusing than it already was.
Sandy Rood 2 years ago
There were 8. Yes EIGHT of them at the store I work at and they lasted about 8 weeks. Why do folks have to be such idiots and steal??
tuzdayschild 2 years ago
Anyone remember when JCPenney did away with having sales and coupons and simply priced everything with it's true fair price. It was great. They nearly went bankrupt.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
How about AMC movie theater trying to create a policy where it was ok to use your electronic devices in movies…they ended up filing for bankruptcy and dropping the concept.
Load More Replies... Ace Girl 2 years ago
Paper straws. Everyone saw the video of the turtle that had the plastic straw pulled from it's nose and there was this big "environmental" push to switch to biodegradable paper straws, then those stainless steel straws came out for those really committed. I say it failed because is the environment really better off? No. Capitalism won yet again, it just turned into yet another product to buy. There is still plastic everywhere and switching to a paper straw does jack squat to put a dent in the amount of trash we collectively produce.
Jefferina 2 years ago
Definitely. Any choices an individual attempts to make in their lifestyle amounts to nothing when faced with the produce of major corporations, who, incidentally, push environmentally-friendly agendas onto consumers but refuse to do the same themselves. So then they go scot-free, and the rest of us are left to feel like the fate of the world lies only on our shoulders. 🤷
Load More Replies... blatherskitenoir 2 years ago
Hydrogen fuel cell cars. They actually managed to make them reality. But advertising was garbage, so everyone decided electric cars would save us.
similarly 2 years ago
Here's one: American spelling. Noah Webster believed that literacy would increase, particularly among immigrants whose first language was not English, if the spelling were consistent and systematic. He proposed a completely revised system of spelling. However, instead of adopting it completely or rejecting it completely, either of which would have been an ultimate win, people decided to do it in bits, take some leave some. This led American English to be even more confusing than it already was.
Sandy Rood 2 years ago
There were 8. Yes EIGHT of them at the store I work at and they lasted about 8 weeks. Why do folks have to be such idiots and steal??
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