30 Things We’re Used To Now That Will Lose Public Approval In 25 Years, According To This Thread

Honestly when you realize “influencers” are just people who are massively popular on social media, who actually do successfully sponsor products and make money for those companies……I’m not sure if it’ll ever go away, unfortunately. Influencer marketing actually works pretty well, and we all know how much companies love money. My buddy claims to be hugely against influencers but he’s a motorcycle mechanic and follows a couple very popular motorcycle mechanic people on social media, who put out great videos but also regularly promote motorcycle products that he’s even purchased. I’m like “that’s an influencer too dude.” He loves their content so he doesn’t want to stop watching just because they’re technically an influencer 🤷‍♀️ but according to him all other influencers are evil, just not the ones he likes…. it’s a weird world lmao, I try not to judge too hard

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I think AI influencers would be better than all the egotistical jerks with their unjustly inflated self-esteem preening incessantly about whatever they like, or are paid to push.

Exactly. A means to an end.

How much land will be needed to plant the millions of cacti necessary to produce the huge amount of plastic we use every year? Will the land now devoted to produce crops to feed people be used to plant these cacti? Will we produce more plastic instead of feeding people? As with most problems created by humans, the solutions is to stop wasting, instead of creating another problem to pretend everything's fine. We need to reduce the consumption of everything: plastic, water, energy, food...

they can make it already with corn

Plastics in construction and medicine are valid imo, since they're usually made to last or it's vital for hygiene reasons.

Siding, decking , and furniture are some of the best uses for recycled plastics.

Plastic siding is great for the ones who can't afford a brick exterior house like myself. I can barely afford a house to begin with.

Hey that’s not a bad idea, environmental incentives like that might be good motivation for companies to go greener. Especially since some environmentally-friendly routes are more expensive than cheap plastic. If the gov helped offset some of those costs for the good of our future kids, I’d support it.

Tomorrow would be good

2024 would be ideal!

Term limits go a long way as well. Some of these politicians have been riding that gravy train far too long

If you want to see change, put down your phone, get off your a*s, and do something.

I agree, except for tying it to the retirement age. The retirement age will be moved to 150 then.

wish i could triple like this

Term limits are part of a solution, there is no one answer fixes all problems solution. It's a bit weird you think there are short term paycheck politicians, because that's not how it works in the US. Once you're in that position, "in office", you get your salary for life, even after you leave. You are always a long term paycheck receiver, even after you're no longer a politician. Yes, most people do realize how it works, you're just hell bent on calling things like term limits and age limits "being ageist", when it's not. I would no more want a freshly turned 18 year old (with limited life experience and knowledge) to be some big time politician than I would a 70 year old who has been there for 30+ years and accomplished absolutely nothing. Remaining in office for years on end, and still not accomplishing much noteworthy is not dedication (in most cases), it's an indication of a broken system that allows politicians to sit back and collect a paycheck while doing absolutely nothing.

Here is my solution in a nut shell. I am not any kind of expert, but it seems like stopping campaign contributions altogether would be a good start. We could give a small handful of candidates the same amount of money to allow us to see the real person behind the campaign promises. I would PAY to not watch political ads, get them in the mail, the phone calls... it's such a joke. There are plenty of qualified people who would run for different offices but they can't compete with the millionaires and the people getting special interest money. But to your point about ageism- I don't think watching these old politicians struggle to get words out, trip up and down stairs, ask for dead colleagues, refer to people by wrong names etc. This happens all of the time, not just with Trump and Biden. Experience is valuable and there's no doubt that older politicians can use that to our advantage. Unfortunately, most politicians are only interested in money and power.

We do have Goddard's Law here in Ohio... the punishment surely isn't severe enough in my opinion, but it's a start! The law was named after Fox 8 Meteorologist D**k Goddard. It was signed into law in 2016 and made neglect or harm of a pet a fifth-degree felony."

I absolutely agree! Not sure who downvoted you, it’s common knowledge that as we progress and grow and advance as a society, we tend to criticize the decisions generations that came before us. Such as black slavery in the America’s, or bloodletting/bodily humours from the Middle Ages etc. We learn and we grow and we eventually do better, and we remember the mistakes made in history so that we (hopefully) don’t repeat our mistakes. (Unfortunately a lot of crappy humans are huge barriers to this, holocaust deniers etc, but there are a lot of good humans still out there trying to do what’s best)

I hope so!!

There is a wonderful movement for certain animals to get legal personhood. NhRP. Some people laugh and think person means human, but it doesn’t. They are starting with elephants. They have a personality, they can identify themselves and they are self-aware. It’s very cool to follow although progress is slow. Chimps are gaining legal ground in Sweden, I think.

and more accessible

Education is so important for a well-functioning society. Way too many people think it’s uncool to be educated or are actively anti-intellectual and that’s so scary to me. Those people aren’t smart enough to realize the implications (see: the 2006 hidden gem “Idiocracy”).

Another thing I've noticed is that younger kids aren't as good at physically writing because everything is online. I know a family where the 16-year old can write well and has great dexterity (though the handwriting isn't great because he writes too fast), but the 14-year old and younger can barely write.

Dude, where are their parents? Mine taught us to read before we got to school. Everyone wants schools to raise their kids but then they also get mad when schools have to overstep.

over half of the people in school during the pandemic were gen-z, but yeah i get what you mean.

Enough with making excuses.

This is very interesting, thanks for sharing. In my opinion, several things that involve both parent and teacher need to happen to make a change. First and foremost, teachers that are here to teach, not to indoctrinate. An understanding and respect between parent, child, and teacher needs to occur as well for the betterment of the child's learning. This is my opinion, and I would be interested to hear some of yours.

That’s really interesting, thank you! I think I found a Guardian article referencing the study, is this the right one?: https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/04/does-children-toddlers-kids-watching-tv-impact-development-learning