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“Logged Out Of My Toothbrush”: 102 Disturbing Posts That Prove We’re Already Living In Dystopia
Back in 1949, when George Orwell’s 1984 was published, the novel was deemed a depressing masterpiece and prophetic warning. Readers were horrified by the idea that the future might eventually reflect the themes in the book. Nowadays, however, we know all too well how accurate the story has become.
It seems like every single week, news headlines are more and more dystopian. Artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pervasive by the day, and governments around the world appear to be taking steps to remove individual freedoms, rather than expand them. And if you’re interested in seeing some harrowing examples of what’s happening to society, you’ve come to the right place. We visited the "That’s Dystopian" Facebook group and gathered some of their most unsettling posts below. From employees working past the age of 100 to citizens being encouraged to snitch on shoplifters, our lives are starting to feel like we're living in a Black Mirror episode.
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Spencer's slave no longer 9 months ago
Dirty nappies and cat litter spring to mind on this, veggies are too expensive in the Disunited States.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
And isn't it odd, that the US wants NOTHING to do with Communism which is defined by the government overseeing the methods and means of commercial productivity. As the 'Orange God' is demanding Nvidia and US Steel, pay 'tribute' to the government by allowing him to have final say so over how they run the business?
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Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago
But do the actually shun it? I think it's normally just withheld.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
One of my professors, Alfred Baumeister, at Vanderbilt's John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, used to tell us that if you want to know the best predictor for how someone would turn out in life given the current US climate was to look at the zip code of the child's parents when the child was born.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 9 months ago
Not uncommon. The homeless in the town where I grew up used to commit non-violent misdemeanors & felonies in order to get themselves arrested. They knew they'd get a shower and a shave, some fresh clothes, and a few meals that were far better than what they'd been getting on the streets.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago
For 25 years, when submitting a proposal for work from my company, they had to have my CV. It was basically, 'Owned and ran this company for [however many] years'. Every time.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago (edited)
Well, no. I get overwhelmed by how online is a genuine dystopian nightmare, and out of my windows is a chaotic utopian wilderness that is absolutely adorable.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
Anyone who buys a toothbrush with that sort of technology deserves whatever consequences they get.
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CP 9 months ago
Society doesn’t make sense when you think about it for a moment. People hoarding wealth they don’t need and didn’t earn while people starve. Inheriting money isn’t earning it despite what the rich tell you. If giving children titles they didn’t earn via monarchies didn’t make sense then why does giving children money they didn’t earn make sense? We still operate society based on blood and it only has meaning because we give it meaning.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago (edited)
Don't go too far back, you'll find the same problem! It was just a boom after ww2, and now it's back to normal.
#22
Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
I disagree with this. If I had never had to read a book outside a class, many of which I had never heard or weren't the sort of books I would have personally chosen, there is no way I would have had exposure to the books that shaped my life. As well, the amount of learning about Greek and Roman philosophy and mythology might not have come my way, and definitely the math that they taught in grades 7 to 12 needed time outside class to be worked on, mastered, and used. I very definitely believe in homework and believe it is important.
#23
Mike Rodrick 9 months ago
Or up to 25 to work in the medical field or be a nurse which is no longer considered a degree.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago (edited)
The t-shirt i insist on for my funeral is a favourite: I used up all of my sick days, so I called in deåd. Americans may have to have 'sick days' explained to them.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
Hopefully someday someone will enact some legislation to prevent this exploitation and emotional abuse of children. This mom will be pikachu shocked if her kid ever decides this was too much and goes no contact.
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Spencer's slave no longer 9 months ago
So, McDonalds now have indentured servants, not employees.
#37
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
These make me ill. And BP, you ought to back off your crappy AI pix as well. Also your shoddy AI entries on articles.
#38
YakFactory 9 months ago
So you have to pay to save your grandma, rather than watching her choke? That's sick, money before compassion.
#39
Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago
I don't think I've often been so broke as to need to spread my fast food payments over 4 months, but when I was, I certainly wasn't buying fast food!
#40
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
It's all going to depend on the name of the restaurant. If you buy a silicone keyboard cover at Bob's Burger and Grill, there is still going to be some explaining to do.
#43
Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
🎶 God bless the USA. 🎶 (Ed.) And this bill is from over 10 years ago. Think what it would be now.
#46
Daisydaisy 9 months ago
Well sunshine and lollipops! My dearest wish is to be cleaning other people's toilets and changing their bedding when I'm 84!
#48
Dan Holden 9 months ago (edited)
Westjet, a Canadian airline, recently reversed their decision to add one more row to their aircraft (by taking away more leg room from an already cramped cabin), because of fierce pushback from the public. It's a small victory, but maybe if everyone started pushing back more, these companies wouldn't be so quick to take advantage of their customers.
#49
Dan Holden 9 months ago
How about just having more trees. They have more benefits than just creating oxygen. Shade for one.
#50
Hime 9 months ago
I have to buy one of the types that is all "natural" bc I have allergic reactions to any of these pictured. It's $12 each. I caught some on clearance for $9 and bought three because it was the cheapest I'd found it in a long time. So, yeah, nearly $30 for deodorant. And yes, this is US dollars, and in the picture too.
#53
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Who wouldn't prefer pictures of trees instead of the real thing? You also need to generate pictures of birds and squirrels, and perhaps photos of the oxygen the trees would have produced.
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#56
UnclePanda 9 months ago
My no-window office opened into a 55" portal dedicated to reef diving videos and sunny beaches.
#57
Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago
The backlash is coming. I've been predicting this for years now.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Said by the overpaid president of the company who is sitting on his ass in his office and having everyone do his work for him, as well as bringing him coffee and lunch, and who, instead of paying his employees bonuses, takes it all for himself and his board of execs and his shareholders.
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#69
Greenkitty 9 months ago
Can't be any worse than some of the name people are giving their kids for free.
#70
Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago
How can you pay for things with a bar code? Because if I can, I'm scanning that barcode myself....
#71
Spencer's slave no longer 9 months ago
Maybe I should start charging rent to the illegal tenants in my shed but she's pregnant and he eats cockroaches. I think they sub let to a family with more than 6 kids so can I charge them rent too?
#72
Multa Nocte 9 months ago (edited)
And then is carted off to a psychiatric ward due to the psychosis she created by not sleeping. Or perhaps to jail after she killed other people with her sleep-deprived driving.
#73
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Truly honouring Christ would mean you would unfollow those shallow posters who claim they know what he would have wanted.
#74
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Not a krona? Do they have to pay to travel to Great Britain if they collect some of these so that they can spend them?
#76
Zig Zag Wanderer 9 months ago (edited)
I can distress tights myself for a lot less! It always amused me when 'distressed' jeans came into fashion. I was soooo ahead of the curve!
#80
YakFactory 9 months ago
Just use an ordinary paperclip from the stationary store. Much cheaper, and it does the same job.. Or, just use a scrap of paper and don't damage the pages.
#81
YakFactory 9 months ago
Just make sure you don't step on the homeless man on the pavement. Ignore him and his plight, and have fun taking your cra**y photo. (Being sarcastic, just in case you don't realise. it.). What happened to compassion?
#82
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Yep, there is some real side-slapping humour involved in that silly-billy global warming.
#83
Ace 9 months ago
Most countries across Europe have similar TV licencing fees. It's not quite enforced the same way in different places though - I don't think I've ever paid the French one, but the Swiss are rigorous about it. And even a computer or smartphone will make you liable, not just an actual dedicated TV set.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Next we will need a set of ICE figurines with guns and covered faces and the attitude of Cro-Magnon men.
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Powerful Katrinka 9 months ago
This shouldn’t be on this list. For people with treatment resistant depression, this could be a life saver.
#98
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
To be fair, he was not labelling them - he was describing what happens under a Republican regime.
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Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Sadly, the jokes and fakes ARE becoming the reals.
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Jennifer MW 9 months ago
Odd that everything was from 2020... everything WAS dystopian then (still is, but in different ways)
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
Sadly, the jokes and fakes ARE becoming the reals.
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Odd that everything was from 2020... everything WAS dystopian then (still is, but in different ways)
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