Hey Pandas, What’s Something You Think Should Never Have Been Invented? (Closed)

All weapons...

... they spared us of the hot version of the cold war. I wouldn't want to live in a world where the simple fact that a war is actually winnable decreases any reluctancy towards beginning one.

or worse, BP premium

"Now let's see, 'Hey Pandas, What' Something...'" *pop-up ad for Gucci appears*

Can I upvote this more than once???

My Grandpa died 2 years ago because of this. :(

I said elsewhere yesterday I have swapped my 4/5 cigarettes a day for most of a vape. It's ridiculous and I am now looking into nicotine free options to wean the way one guy quietly weaned his gf of her massive vape addiction by changing hers to n/f.

Totally agree! Any "fool" can point and aim a gun, even kill someone by accident with one. If all we still had were swords, you'd have to have some skill at least if you were going to try and off someone. More than likely, they'd have one as well and would (hopefully/more than likely for their sake) be trained as well.

So if I start doing horrible things in the name of bacon, does it mean bacon is evil and shouldn't exist? Religion isn't the problem, it's the people who use it as an excuse to do horrible things. And if religion didn't exist, they'd just find a different excuse. It'd solve nothing.

Tbh, we all have a choice to engage and disengage in conflict. Personally, social media has beneficial factors for those with social anxiety, little to no friends to talk to in real life. I'll put it this way. Some people play video games to escape. Some people like to socialize on social media to escape. It makes me feel less alone but not as drained as talking to groups of people where I tend to get pushed out of the conversation. Plus, I wouldn't have met my bf if it weren't for social media. If someone gets nasty with me I just block them, now, or ignore them. That's not me admitting to anything or being "scared". I just want to enjoy my time on Earth doing what I like.

Came here to say this.

Looking back to the invention of writing, then Gutenberg, every improvement in communication has been resisted at the time by those inconvenienced by the changes it brings. I'm backing humanity against the censors, especially as humanity learns to discriminate between grounded discussion and bot-speak from silos. But today's teenagers are monumentally better informed (if they want to be) than any previous generation, and much more socially adept as well. It's our job to help them become better than we ever were!

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And high heels are *just* as bad for women as pointe shoes!! (BTW, I have deformed feet and bad osteoarthritis from dancing en pointe when I was young... but I loved dancing so much at the time that I didn't care about possible future problems and pain... so I just kept on dancing)

Not to the point, but if female ballet dancers are ballerinas, what do you call a male dancer? A ballerooney?

I don't know how you'd have a modern democracy without political parties. You'd have to personally know every politician's deep beliefs, and they would have no viable way to communicate those to you. I think you could have this if societies got no larger than a few hundred people, but once you're in the thousands, and especially in the millions, you need a short-hand mechanism to understand where people stand on certain issues. I think the difficulty of parties is that after an election, if one party is not in clear control, political alliances are required to form an effective government. And if you have dozens of parties in power, this can be a laborious process. And on the other side, in winner-take-all systems like the USA, it's difficult to have more than 2 parties. This creates parties without clear goals. It is why you can have a party with Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, in spite of them having radically different views. Two party systems also have polarizing effects

It's a good material if we can handle it properly.

Well, it could be argued that religion is one of the reasons that we have civilizations to begin with.

We all fear 'the other' - people who are not like us. Skin colour is a clear - though irrelevant - display of 'otherness'. Hate is based on fear, and as the fear is washed away by understanding and familiarity, we will find that the hate goes, too. Then we can consign 'racism' to the history books, as a factor which will have to be explained to rising generations who will not experience it themselves. Rather like the religious wars in Europe that lasted so many centuries... but, today , we are making a start.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with religion. What is horrible, rather, are the people who take the opportunity to misuse it.

Humans have been facing the use of lying for millennia - and will continue to do so, as long as they retain the ability to communicate. We just have to get better at spotting it, faster than the liars make their lies more convincing. Teach your children well ...

Can't stand it when you go get fitted, and you're bust size is at least a D and you're told "Sorry, but that is the size you have and you need support with an underwire. This is what we're going to show you."

In the US, drones are regulated. The problem is that nobody is willing to enforce the rules. Or implement the new ones that are also needed. Like extending peeping Tom laws to cover them, and extending "expectation of privacy" to cover fenced yards and other areas not reasonably accessible to the general public.

They were probably invented to balance the use of force as a universal right. Their place has, to some extent, been supplanted by 'Laws'; which can be seen as little gods we have created ourselves. And can change where necessary ...

Bottled water is a hard one. The good - a lot of people with sketchy water supplies rely on it. The bad - tons of waste. There are better materials that will break down, but the expense is currently too high for people in low-income areas to afford.

If it's in glass bottles it's fine by me. Ditto cans. Until 36 months ago I still lived in an an old Croft with just ground seepage well water - which meant NO water in any particularly hot summer. (e.g., Highland Spring Still Water Glass Bottle 12 x 750ml £19.49 Inc VAT)

With respect, as very few people have much idea exactly what an algorithm does, it's maybe a bit early to start voting them up - or down. I suspect that their benefits or dangers will be more from the databank they are built from, especially if they truly are 'self-educating'. But if they are limited to marketing, we may have dodged a bullet. Would you want to face a legal algorithm at your trial, or would you prefer a jury?

I've been pondering this since my teens. My folks didn't get my pov. Other people still don't get it. Money is such a deep-rooted, integral part of society, linked with creations, services, infrastructure, homes, resources, education, health, food, nearly everything in the world. We hold such monetary value in everything we do and have, and in people, that many people just can't fathom a society existing without money. But I look to the animal world. Though some animals do have a trading, bartering, payment system in the form of food, nesting materials, etc, many just live and survive. They do things for each other without expecting some payment. Perhaps some species have a sort of you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours deal going on. Humans are the only species on the planet driven to blow up other people over c**p we find in the Earth's crust that we placed a heavy monetary value on, opinions on who created the universe, and other stupid nonsense that really doesn't matter at all.

It's what makes the world go round! (At least to Mr. Krabs)

if you hate money so much, toss it my way.

H'mmm. Everyone is supportive of firms providing jobs and pay for people, but firms need money to start with and this is provided by offering shares in the profits, and / or bonds promising regular interest on money lent to the company. Stock exchanges facilitate both of these, though unfortunately too many firms are run, not for the benefit of society, not for the benefit of their workers, but for the benefit of top bosses alone - or the shareholders. There does not seem to be a way of correcting this - yet...

If your substance use is causing you to do a crappy job at work, your boss should care about your performance. If you are getting high on the weekends but doing a great job during the week - how is that your boss's business?

Oy you could, you know, mind your own business.