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35 Inventions People In This Online Group Think Shouldn’t Have Seen The Light Of Day
Article created by: Jurgita Dominauskaitė
To make our lives easier and more comfortable, people have always come up with new inventions and most of them have been really useful, like cutlery or medicine to treat illnesses that were once incurable. But there are inventions that benefit humans less and may even be dangerous.
We all probably have looked at something, couldn’t understand the purpose of it and thought that it was unnecessary to invent it. Redditor numbnerve wanted to know what people think is the invention we would be better off without and over 22k people joined the discussion with some serious answers.
Don’t forget to upvote the redditors’ answers you agree with the most and if there is something you think belongs in this list and wasn't mentioned, leave it in the comments!
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#2
So called influncers, I'm probably too old to understand them but I certainly don't want my 1 year old to aspire to be one
#4
Shark fin soup - Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year for their fins that offer little nutritional value and serve no purpose outside of being a status symbol
#6
Landmines. I'll tell you why: They render large tracts of land completely unusable They are expensive and difficult to remove safely because there is seldom documentation of where they are placed They are cheap, plentiful, easy to place, and deadly They kill/maim livestock and wild animals They kill/maim innocent people decades after conflicts have ended. Many times the victims are children because they can't read or don't understand warning signs
#8
Devices meant to break after a short period of time, and devices that purposely have parts you can't replace.
#9
Seafloor trawling...
It destroys the habitant of fish just so we can squeeze every bit of a fish from an area...
#13
Pesticides.
They’ve ruined the environment by killing off the pollinators. I swear, they will be the reason for more food shortages just as swiftly as climate change will affect us all.
#16
Fast fashion. I can’t imagine the amount of cheap, tacky clothes just mountains in landfills.
#20
Pop up ads. Not only are they so annoying but can either scam or install malware on the devices of unsuspecting people
#22
Social media. Addictive, dehumanizing, causes depression, promotes terrible behavior, actively reduces our capacity to have real human connections.
#23
The Polygraph machine. Super innaccurate and I believe even the inventor curses its existance.
#25
The New generation of Every basic machine. Like refrigerators that requires internet to work, It only have one job to do
#29
Twitter
Edit: Because Twitter is mainly a cesspool of hypocrisy and politics. I've honestly never seen so many "non descriminatory self appointed puritains" be so incredibly hateful due to someone not having the exact same opinion as them
Data1001 3 months ago
Twitter would be an utter graveyard if not for all those chuckleheads who paid money for a blue tick so they could appear to be far more important than they really are, and who spout hate and division at every opportunity. I've blocked so many of them, but even in my own follower/following feeds, everyone has pretty much given up on the service since Elmo took over and made it terrible. I'm on BlueSky, but it's not close to what Twitter was in its heyday. I suppose I should be grateful that I'm not spending as much time on social media as I did years ago, but I also feel less connected because of it.
#30
The food pyramid brought to you by general mills, the dairy industry, and countless other big corporations whose goal was profit over the health of others
#32
24 hour news cycle that is funded by entertainment.
Data1001 3 months ago
TV news is no longer news -- it's sensationalism. It exists purely to stoke emotion from viewers, rather than to inform. I'm so glad I don't watch that dreck any more. But of course you also have to be wary of where you get your news online. I have found The Guardian to be a reliable source, as they are not beholden to any major corporations.
#33
Standardized testing "These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned" -Horace mann the inventor of standardized testing on the subject of standardized testing
#35
Political parties. We should have listened to Washington…
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