With technology and nearly everything around us developed in leaps and bounds nowadays, it’s clear that innovation has become one of the driving forces for change in our world. However, not all inventions or innovative solutions have resulted in positive change only, which is why some people would rather that they weren’t invented in the first place.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what things they would like to “dis-invent” if they had a chance. With answers ranging from cigarettes to social media, netizens provided some interesting perspectives, which you can find on the list below. Scroll down to view their answers and learn what inventions might not have changed our world for the better.
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Influencers.
Why can't I upvote this more than once? Influencers are a boil on the a**e end of humanity.
This needs to be higher! I know it's #1 now, but needs to be #0..! 🙃
Load More Replies...Talk about people trying to get their “15 minutes of fame”. Influencers are going to be in for one hell of a reality check when the fad dies and they find themselves out of a job with zero skills to get a real one, because so many of the young ones aren’t bothering to get an education and are barely literate.
I love how folks act like influencers are something relatively new. They have existed for centuries. Social media just makes it easier to try to be one. But people copied royals and famous people long before there was an internet. That concept is why companies are willing to pay actors / artists to appear in their commercials. In the end, modern (aka youtube) influencers exist only because people glom onto them. It's like those stories where the god / imaginary friend / etc fade away and stop existing when people stop believing in them.
Every time I see the word "influencers" being stated in a negative way, I upvote! I hate them!!!
What are we defining as an influencer? Is every YouTuber an influencer now? In which case I'd have to disagree I like my binging with babish and other video entertainers.
Child Beauty Pageants. They just seem really toxic and creepy.
Everyone, literally everyone, in and around this industry, other than the kids, could drop dead and it would be a better world tomorrow. Every single one. Gone. Including anyone whose ever dignified it with viewership.
How was this ever a thing. Please tell me it's not a thing anymore.
Unfortunately, I think they have become more popular due to reality TV shows. Wrong, on so many levels.
Load More Replies...Absolutely vile and beyond disturbing. They often prey on lower income families with the promise of their child segueing into show business. It's horribly exploitative. Honestly, I'm appalled that they haven't been banned.
That picture of the man touching the child's body is very creepy, and one of the reasons to be so against child pageants.
I understand where you're coming from but I think that's her dad
Load More Replies...What kind of adult enjoys working at a child beauty pageant?
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Pop-up ads.
ChefExcellent13:
The creator of them even apologized for creating them.
Can we talk for a second about the 'certified Christian' popup in the corner of the image? How does someone become certified as a Christian? Is there some kind of written or practical test you have to take? Do you get a certificate that you can frame and put on your wall, or is it just one of those little cards you put in your wallet? Is there like, an FDA of Christians that inspects them to make sure they meet standards to be certified before they're released to the public? Are there Christian-certificate forgers?
The most annoying of them pop up in the center of the screen. What F-tard could possibly think I would click on an ad that was that disruptive? You cannot make sales by enraging potential customers.
Who even looks at pop up ads except to close them?
Load More Replies...I absolutely despise commercials, try and watch my local news; 2 minutes of news and the rest of the time idiot lawyers trying to be cute or freaking d**g companies trying to get you to ask your doctor for mild to severe whatever you have d***s to cure it!!
Mandatory cookies to view websites.
Or if you can opt out, not making it as simple as “object all” on 95% of websites, often hiding extra cookies under legitimate interest without making it clear you need to object to those too.
Positive shoutout to the sites that at least have the "Reject All" button as a quick way to say no to all but the essential cookies. Also - I laughed at one the other day that was the opposite. I went to 'manage cookies' and every single option was locked on. Advertising, etc. They showed you the "choices" but they didn't let you turn any of them off. I feel like the UK / Europe in general is ahead of us (USA) on this stuff. I've seen a lot more opt out / reject all options after they changed some of their privacy laws.
It's the most irritating thing in the world - more so than pop-up adverts because in Europe, every website is legally obliged to ask these questions. Totally ruins the browsing experience and far worse than pop-up adverts.
I skip many we sight that ask for cookies. I wander if they know how many viewers/customers they lose.
Here's the thing, cookies themselves aren't harmful. It's only if companies actively try to mine data using them that it's a problem. Cookies have existed for a long time now (in internet time anyway) and you'd have been using them most of that time without noticing or suffering any problems because of them. They're just much more visible now because sites are being forced to display warning and opt-out messages because of legislation.
Load More Replies...I always press 'I do not agree'. However, when I get part way through the article, it asks me again. A long article sometimes has 3 lots of 'consent'. DIDN'T YOU SEE THE FIRST TIME?
Collect your data for wealthy companies to sell ads to make money passively off our collective laziness.
Load More Replies...Websites that don't give access without disabling your AdBlock
Certain dog breeds, like all the brachycephalic (flat-nosed dogs such as frenchies and bull dogs).
Especially since the breeds didn’t start out that way. Look at old pictures of the same breeds. Bulldogs and Pekingese actually originally had normal snouts! Humans created this situation for nothing more than aesthetics—-to the detriment of the poor dogs they were genetically manipulating. The other aesthetic that’s cruel is to breed dogs that cannot give birth unassisted and only by cesarean, because their hips are way too narrow. If those dogs are not spayed, and end up missing or abandoned and living on the streets, they will actually die trying to give birth. How can it be legal to do this to poor animals?
Also add monstrosities like extreme persians and hairless varieties of cats. We should not be breeding in genetic traits that are for vanity only.
Don't forget the monstrous cruelty of breeding cats with 'dropped' ears like the Scots Fold. The dropped effect of the ears is caused by a genetic mutation in the gene that produces cartilage. This mutation doesn't just affect the ears, it wffects all of the joints. This means that these cats suffer with arthritis for their whole lives. If people realised the amount of pain that those "cute" ears cause.
Load More Replies...I despise this. It's utterly sick in my humble opinion and you can't claim to be an "animal lover" if you perpetuate this breeding market. We went for a walk yesterday and this poor dog honestly sounded like a snorting pig, such was the difficultly it had in breathing. Utterly relentless, so certainly not something you could ignore. If it were human, it would be on oxygen. Instead, we just let it struggle on. Shame on anyone who owns such animals!
I agree.SHAME on anybody that buys these poor deformed animals. There is no circle of hell deep enough for people.who breed these monstrosities.
Load More Replies...And Persian cats! I used to pet sit a couple of them and every morning their noses would be completely blocked by goop from their eyes. In a normal cat runny eyes are runny eyes - but in smash faced cats it's literally preventing them from breathing correctly!
This is one of the sickest human inventions. I believe this kind of breed is supposed to imitate a human being but controllable one .... the eternal child... sorry, this is perversion
The tipping option when I check out on those computers at the checkout counter.
Euphoric_Wolf7227:
Maybe tips in general. Just pay people for the work they do.
Never had one do this to me.... Yet. But yeah, self checkout, NOPE!
It pleases me every time I see folks complaining about tips in the USA. Tipping started getting out of hand years ago and it is nice to see the pushback is finally starting to snowball. Also - look up the history of tipping. TLDR version is it started as a way to not pay freed blacks (prior slaves). Fast forward and it is often a way to underpay employees of all colors of skin. People should be able to pay their bills based on their paycheck, not hoping they get enough tips to make up the difference.
Correct. A worker should not have to rely on the mercy of customers for a fair wage. That is the job of the employer.
Load More Replies...Those tipping screens don't even make it clear whether the tips go directly to the person who helped you.
Tips don’t go directly to the person you are tipping, a lot of places have tip sharing
Load More Replies...TIL much of the money from those tip screens goes to the software company not the local staff! they are conning us!!
I had the option to tip the person who was making my cup I ordered on Amazon. Normal coffee $x.xx cappuccino $x.xx etc.
F*****G TIPPING! Somebody is going to go postal about this. It's out of control!
Same, I put zero on the credit card tip line and tip cash
Load More Replies...The only one that really got me lately was a tip for a self-service coffee counter in a store. There were no humans preparing the coffee at all. It was one of those fancy "artly" robotic arms that makes coffee. Entirely made by a robot. I was baffled for a second when the "add tip" screen popped up, my friend leaned over and hissed in my ear "Sara, you don't have to tip the robot!" and I was like "oh yeah....why is that even a thing .."
Those nearly-blinding, unnecessarily bright car head lamps.
I hate them... with a passion! I get blinded every time, because not only they're unnecessarily bright, but people are jerks as well and do not set them at a lower angle as to not be so disturbing...
My headlights are very bright. But I promise I have no way to change the angle of them to help oncoming traffic in any way.
Load More Replies...The headlights with the blue white tint are exactly the wrong color for driving in falling snow. A yellowish color cuts through snow fall much more effectively.
That people put on their cars and do not position correctly. Headlights are not suppose to point straight ahead. They’re supposed to be tilted a bit downwards—-because they’re supposed to be illuminating the road in front of you, not blinding any poor driver unfortunate enough to be going the opposite direction!
UK govt announced yesterday the they are commissioning a study into headlight glare.
Those who buy and use them should have a "Clockwork Orange" done to them (i.e. eyes propped open, bound in a chair with the light aimed at them).
Spam calls, robo calls, phishing emails.
If you have a cell phone you can set it up that only people in your contacts make the phone ring.... everyone else goes to voice mail. What really makes me mad are the opt out ( STOP) texts. It only works for one specific number not the whole company, charity or political group.
wish I could send an electric shock through the phone line to the dead-inside callers
How bad does a person need a job to do this anyway, why do you want everyone to want to rip your head off if they could get their hands on you.
Apparently they now have this system where the spam can come from all over the world even though the person is based in the USA for example. A guy from marketing explained this to my husband because he was question how come the phone number came from elsewhere. I think he was in Georgia and the call came from BC Canada. He took the call since we know people in BC.
I scream into the phone. Literally scream. If you're bothering me with unnecessary garbage and a potential scam, that's what you get.
My phone is rarely on anymore so I don't get them and spam filter on gmail takes care of bad messages!
And these days most of them are scams. I think most legit companies have found robocalls alienate potential customers. Some companies still spam my email or texts a bit more than they should (still limited) but they don't call me. Robocalls for political purposes are still legal but I've only had just a few in the past 20 years. I am grateful that phone companies are FINALLY starting to block known spam calls automatically without making you pay extra for that "service".
I just don't answer my phone unless it's someone I know. That's what Voice Mail is for.
Coffee Pods - they are disgustingly wasteful.
I have two reusable pods that I put much much less expensive loose grounds into. I just switch them out every other day. Pods are expensive and unsustainable, but the reusables are great.
Me too! I've also found that I don't get that super bitter, overbrewed taste from my reusable pods like I do from the disposable ones (I assume they're overpacked with grounds or something).
Load More Replies...Nespresso pods, shown, are recycled. The company gives you prepaid envelopes, takes them at stores and partners with other retailers to take them. Agree about Keurig. Got rid of mine for that reason.
yea, but how many people actually take the time to send them back?
Load More Replies...You can recycle them really easily - in the UK there is this thing called PodBack (I think) where they give you special bin bags to put the used pods in and the bin men take them
Yeah. I'm very torn with these pods. I like the product but was reluctant to use them. But now I recycle them all, so I'm trying to mitigate the environmental impact.
Load More Replies...I am both totally guilty of using them and well aware they are wasteful. If possible I do try to buy the biodegradable ones whenever I can. Wish they all were.
nespresso gives you a bag to send them all back for proper compost/recycling
ONE of the worst human inventions, next to internal combustion engines (there was electric BEFORE ICE's, BTW), war, medical military and insurance industrial complexes, and slavery.
Cars with screens on the dash. Give me back my buttons and dials goddamn it!!
For Real! The old buttons were clunky but you could feel them without looking at them!
But make the stereo system knobs big enough to use while wearing gloves.
Load More Replies...Using your phone screen... no, no NO! Using the car touchscreen, yes, yes, YES! What's the difference?
You are driving and can't look at the car screen while driving.
Load More Replies...I can adjust any of the controls in my 2005 Pontiac Vibe without looking at them. I'm planning to buy a new car next year. That's exciting. But I'm dreading the idea of having a touchscreen.
I feel you, I have a 2011 Honda that I'm crazy about for this reason. The Vibe is a great car! It's a shame you've gotta replace it.
Load More Replies...All the upvotes. I don't need a tablet computer glued to my dashboard with a warning telling me not to use it when driving. When, exactly, WILL I be using it? I didn't jump in the ol' car to watch movies and download recipes...
Salesman was confused when he apologized the SE Escape we bought had no screen, other than a Driver Info Center for backup camera, fan speed, etc.. We told him that was a selling point.
I never touch the screen while driving, if I want to change the song or turn up the music I can use the controls on the steering wheel. If I have to change anything on the screen I do it before I drive away or ask Alexa to give me directions to where I am going without having to touch anything.
Slavery.
More slaves today than in the past... not sure how accurate that is but the fact slavery exists today is just wild.
Unfortunately it has existed almost as long as humans have been around. Still exists today.
Photo is created. The hands could easily slip out of the cuffs and if they were actually in daily use, wouldn't have that must rust on them. That does not mean slavery doesn't exist.... In several ways including financial family obligations, it is even worse that years ago.
Planned obsolescence.
Jealous-Network1899:
Here’s my go to planned obsolescence example. My mom bought her first microwave in 1984. It’s traveled to 3 houses and still works perfect. She redid her kitchen and got all new appliances EXCEPT for a microwave. I have lived out of the house for 23 years and have had at least 7 microwaves. They keep cr*pping out and I buy a new one. That is planned obsolescence in a nutshell.
Killing the environment while being an open scam. And it's everything these days. Want to buy a T-Shirt? The people who made the T-Shirt want you to wear it twice and then have to buy another.
I've said this before, but I wish there was a better way to gauge the quality of products before buying them. I'd much rather buy a $30 T Shirt that doesn't fade, go out of shape or tear within three washes than the $6 ones they're stocking in most stores now. Sure some are obviously thicker material and/or more expensive. But it's still difficult to predict whether it's going to fail or not.
Load More Replies...It's still part of planned obsolescence - but in addition to making things cheaply so they break down - INTENTIONALLY making them difficult to repair. Security screws or glued seams making it difficult to access inside of units, lack of availability of replacement parts and so on. This video on Shark vacuums is a good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uEat894ywQ
My fancy new hairdryer that I've only had for about 5 months literally just died on me 5 minutes ago while I was getting ready for a Zoom meeting! I'm SO mad. Most dryers I've had last for years. :(
My mom's early 2000s toaster still works great, used almost every day
My parents received a toaster as a wedding present in 1956. They used it throughout their 50-year marriage, and my mother used it for another 12 after my father passed. I received it after her death, and it's still going strong.
Load More Replies...Same with iPhones. Mine starts going slow, refreshing pages always a few months before my contract is up
I just got rid of my iPhone X bc the screen started to get really wonky. My new 13 eats the battery like crazy and gets hot when I use it. I've done all the things recommended to make battery life last longer. The phones are getting crappier the newer they are. I have a friend with a 15 and she says it gets incredibly hot when she uses it. I still have the X. May try to see if they can repair the screen. But it looks really deep in there. Not the glass part. The display.
Load More Replies...Yep. We had the same microwave my entire childhood. It was my mom's microwave that she bought for college. By the time it finally became too unreliable to keep using, it was old enough to drink. It's been less than 10 years since we replaced it, and we've had at least three new microwaves.
I did my freshman english final essay on planned obsolescence. (And this is a long time ago before microwaves, even) I questioned whether it began with the Bic disposable pen or Kleenex nose tissue...
Lightbulbs are another example. Im not sure if it's still in play but they had the technology to make lightbulbs last for several decades easily, but made it illegal so they could keep selling more.
Landmines. Seriously. They f**k up people long after wars are finished.
Redshift_1:
There’s an estimated 800,000 TONS of unexploded ordnance still in Vietnam, that would take hundreds of years to clear out. For context, the bomb dropped in Hiroshima had a yield of about 15,000 tons of TNT.
"If I cannot have that land, nobody will ever." Seen that every m2 of land will be necessary to grow food, as we humans love to multiply for religious reasons, we cannot afford to waste land and water by polluting it.
Just curious, what do you mean for religious reasons? Most people have children because it’s economically encouraged or discouraged now
Load More Replies...I remember watching Anythony Bourdain's (man I miss him) amazing show, "No Reservations" where he travels to Vietnam. There was a very somber part of the show where he speaks about how people were still getting killed and seriously wounded by unexploded landmines.
I truly hope that Putin dies the most painful yet embarrassing death possible.
Load More Replies...Belgian bomb disposal services are still clearing up unexploded WWI (yes, 'one' as in 1914-1918) landmines and other unexploded items on a regular basis. Being a farmer in Westflanders remains very risky buisiness.
The united states currently uses so called "smart mines" in its arsenal. These mines have a simple internal clock and timer, which after a set amount of time has passed, will automatically disarm the mine and render it inert and unable to be detonated. These mines have been in use since their development in the late 1980's, with the technology getting more and more advanced over the past three decades.
The medical insurance industry.
Perturabo_Iron_Lord:
The problem with modern insurance is that it’s been completely corrupted with the drive for profit. In a pure form insurance has the potential to be incredibly beneficial to the people who use it, but the profit incentive causes companies to use every trick and loophole in the book to not give out what is owed.
Insurance should be 100% NON-PROFIT! Like Social Security and Medicare.
Better still, HEALTHCARE should be FREE, so there is no need for medical insurance at all!
Load More Replies...I am Australian, and I am 100% happy for my taxes to pay for Medicare here. Why Americans see subsidised health care for the ones who can least afford it - or needing to be working and yet still getting screwed over by private health funds - as something more wicked and evil than communism or the like, is something I will never understand. Look at the Scandinavian countries - they pay some of the highest taxes in the world, but are on the whole very happy. Their disadvantaged and elderly are looked after as communities should be.
It’s the whole “why should MY taxes pay for someone else’s needs”. I’m in the uk. We have the NHS and while it is not perfect, it’s better than the USA model. Not sure how things are done in Europe though.
Load More Replies...The only way we ever would've gotten national healthcare is if FDR or Truman had started it in the 40s. It's too late now.
I think maybe that all insurance is a ripoff to some extent but it needs to be said - the meducal insurance in the USA is the biggest scam in the world, and most countries prove that every day.
"i'm dying i just need penicillin." "Got $5,000? No? So sorry. "
Must be an American. How about you have medical for all, like the rest of the civilized world?
We can thank the lobbyist that whore themselves out to our US government for allowing them complete control over the US health care field. The only ones profiting in the health care industry are the insurance companies, and hospitals are mostly financially stable as well. In fact, ALL lobbyists should be dis-invented as well!
Our two-tiered justice system; One for the wealthy and politically connected, and one for the rest of us.
Slightly related, but I saw a thing the other day that went along the lines of, a CEO, a worker, and an immigrant are at a table with 100 cookies. The CEO scoops up 99 of the cookies, looks at the worker, and says, “watch out, that immigrant is going to steal your cookie!”
More likely the CEO takes all 100 cookies and says to the worker, "watch out or that illegal is going to steal your crumbs!" (personally hate the term "illegal" but it's what a scumbag CEO would say).
Load More Replies...This! A thousand up votes regarding the effed up justice system. Like a silent prayer, unheard but sincere...
It's an interesting problem though. Theoretically it's the same system, it's just you're hamstrung because you can't afford the million dollar legal team. You could specify that all legal teams are government controlled (like the public defender/DA) and fees are a flat rate. But does that encourage good lawyers to be good or not? I'd be worried that if you took that approach you'd run more risk of being stuck with someone who just doesn't really care because they don't have a big reward.
Spoken like a white person, oblivious to how racist "legal systems" are. Just this week Brian Pritchard (white Georgia republiclown) got a $5000 fine for voting illegally NINE TIMES, no prison sentence. In the same week, Crystal Mason (a Black woman) was released from prison because she TRIED to vote (did not actually get to vote) AFTER government employees told her SHE COULD VOTE.
That dumb paper sticker that gets put on stuff that is IMPOSSIBLE to remove cleanly.
In the UK we have something called WD40 that sorts this out in no time.
Esp on glass frames and bottle labels. I use Goo Gone and it works pretty well.
Subscription services. Either let me try it for free then buy it full Price or let me rent it and charge me only for the amount of time I used it for.
Of course, it doesn't apply to everything. Subscriptions make sense for something like Apple Music, Xbox Game Pass or Costco, but I don't want to have to pay Adobe 60 dollars a month for Photoshop when I could just rent a license. You don't subscribe to a car, you just rent it for how many days you need it for.
I suspect this will be the next development with streaming services. Right now you can cancel Netflix etc any time you want. Making people pay for an entire year, with no way to cancel is the obvious next step. Ten years from now it'll be - basic subscription with tons of ads and random knife attack is $839.95 per year. As in, if you want to pay for basic, that includes a person randomly running into your house to stab you repeatedly. For an extra $200, no knife attack. Because here at netflix, we care about viewer safety.
Stop buying new versions of software, use old versions on old computers you keep offline. If companies can't sell "subscriptionware", they will stop making it. As Louis Rossmann says, when ownership is denied, piracy becomes legal.
Does this guy not realise that renting a license is literally the same thing as paying a subscription? Purchase a lifetime license, not rent a license and I'd agree. Anyway, I think there is room for both options and I wish *all* software took that route. You can have a lifetime license (every version for ever) that costs a lot to buy, a version license (just the current version no upgrades) for a moderate price, and a subscription that is very cheap, but is obviously only active for as long as you're paying it. I'd also add that if you're going to put ads in an app they should only be in the FREE version, the moment the user pays (whether it's a purchase or a subscription) there should be zero ads.
We bought a car in 2018 and the option for the radio was Sirius and we didn't want it because we don't listen to the radio. The company Sirius hounded us for a whole 18 months. We returned their mail, we hung up on them, etc. That was several times a week. Finally we called the car dealer and complained. It stopped after that. Marketers didn't believe we didn't listen to the radio.
The concept of lobbying.
If I write to my legislators, that too is lobbying. You're pissed off about corporate lobbying.
Load More Replies...The concept is not bad, I lobby my Rep and Sen all the time on issues I feel they need to address. The "revolving door" from office holder to paid lobbyist must have a FAR longer window for approval...like 5 years, instead of walking up the street to switch careers.
Transparency and punishment of intransparent lobbying could make it less harmful.
The "concept" of lobbying is perfectly fine and good. The current implementation of what lobbying (especially by corporations) in the US has become is bad. If a group of people speak at their city council meeting for or against something being considered, that is 'lobbying'. -- "seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue. "it is recommending that booksellers lobby their representatives""
Phones and computers in which you can't easily replace the battery.
Right-to-repair laws do not include any requirement for product design.
Load More Replies...I've got a great repair place down the street. Voids your apple warranty. But it's affordable and the new batteries and screens last forever. Way better than apple repair. Keeps the apple products running forever. My son still uses his iPad 2.
I loved my HP with interchangeable batteries. Slide two latches and change out the battery for a fresh one. Now you have to crack the cover (often literally) to replace them...
Death to "smartphones". T9/Featurephones (aka "dumb phones") are the fastest growing market of phones, and it's teenagers who are buying them, not old people. If just ONE company made a 4G phone with a high quality camera (12MP or better) I would use that as my everyday phone, would get rid of the "smart phone" altogether.
I don't really have a problem with the battery since changing it is so rare for me. I just try to never let it run out of charge, charging it once it gets to 20 or lower, all I really do is just...if I can't charge it, and it's below 40% charge, I don't use it until I get to a charger. Even with an iphone, which are notorious for low battery-life. I think it should work for any phone?
I remember one of my first cell phones where you'd pop the battery off and put it in it's charger. I always had three batteries and was not always panicked that my phone might die and I wouldn't be near a charger.
Do you want water resistance or a battery you can change? you cant have both.
Cigarettes.
Smoking is something humans seem to have done since thousands of years, using pipes
150 TRILLION butts thrown away annually. Animals eat them and are both poisoned and malnourished. They float in the ocean, found in huge amounts in the Arctic. ONE butt has enough toxins to poison six metric tons of water (6 cubic metres). And land that has been used to grow tobacco can NEVER be used to grow food, the soil is permanently poisoned with nicotine, which means no crop rotation and desertification of land, along with excess use of pesticides and fertilizers.
It's how I got off smoking. Tryna convince my wife now.
Load More Replies...I don't have a problem with people smoking, it's how they dispose of their butts. Don't throw it on the ground or out your car window. Make sure it's extinguished and throw in the trash. Smoking in your car, put your butt in a water bottle with water in it. Don't be a butt!
Kinda that. No water, but an airtight metal container. Can of sweets, you even get a little caramel-like smell if you don't clean the sugar out before using them. Quite practical, in, lid on, out, and off between passenger's feet. We don't need to pollute any but ourselves, which is bad enough, but ultimatel our own problem to ignore or adress. Littering of any sort is not.
Load More Replies...I lost my late wife to tobacco. I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke. Idiot sticks.
It's so funny when you read old science fiction. They'll have people in 2084 smoking for their health. Mind boggling.
1964, the year we finally found out smoking is bad. WEVE ONLY KNOWN THIS FOR 60 YEARS. My dad is only 10 yrs younger than that...
Not sure these were "invented". Rollies go back before recorded history. Maybe OP is talking about manufactured and packaged cigarettes.
LOL, even if they go back before recorded history, someone STILL invented them.
Load More Replies...but yet no one will stick their head in a burning pile of leaves and inhale that smoke, disgusting habit for sure.
Yep, I was gonna put that one on the list. If someone presented a product and tried to have it introduced to the marked today which slowly killed people using it, while being highly addictive, I think we could all guess how that would go down.
Social media.
DestinyInDanger:
This! It was innocent in the MySpace days. Then Facebook came along and everything after that ruined it. I don't see anything good that has come of it. Nothing but toxicity, hate, division and arguing.
We don't need to dis-invent it... Just stop making it the center of everything! If it loses relevance, then it loses power/influence! It worked for me, and I don't have any social media account for the last 5 years or so!
you are posting on bored panda. with an account. That is social media.
Load More Replies...None of ya's were ever on usenet or irc, were ya's? The internet's been toxic as hell since the beginning, long before social media became a thing. In modern times it's just been semi-sanitised to appease corporate advertising standards.
If social media had any value its testing ground was covid. Now look at the cesspools that are Twitter, Facebook and TikTok with their misinformation and tell me they’re still useful. Arguably they are to people who are elderly or disabled and cannot normally reach out to their friends, but to any able bodied person, just meet your friends and talk to them directly.
I really miss old Facebook. Life updates from your actual friends, delivered in chronological order.
Load More Replies...Yeah the only stuff I use is boredpanda because it’s mostly wholesome fluff, and discord for after-school stuff I’m in.
I dunno, I don't have problems on FB but then I have my privacy settings locked up TIGHT.
I choose to engage in the version without daily Wordle updates, no shares of an event happening on the other side of the world, no "so and so has lost their cat 1,000 miles from you on the other side of an ocean" and nobody shilling essential oils. I have only 26 friends but still I cannot escape this. Let me know how to engage without those things and I'm there tomorrow.
Load More Replies...I was around when Usenet was the dominant social media. It was free, no company controlled it (until google destroyed it), and there was no hateful community in it.
It's funny whenever people complain about social media on Reddit, which then gets reposted to BP
This one always makes me laugh, because the person saying this is usually posting it to some sort of social media platform even if its not FB or IG. I think it connects people and helps families that are far apart stay in touch. Unfortunately just like most things people found a way to use it for bad things. I come on BP more than I do any of my social media accounts. But sadly for some FB, IG and tiktok are some peoples full identity and cannot go a day without it.
I think when people talk social medial they're referring to those platforms where people post perfect pictures of themselves. Leading them to not live their true lives and waste all their time setting up photo shoots. Which other people then see and feel inadequate about. So they set up some more amazing (I.e. stupid) photo shoot to make themselves feel better. But then they just feel like imposters. And the cycle goes on. Or places like Facebook, where it's an echo chamber. You spout your strong views. All your friends who agree stay connected. Those who don't leave in disgust. Meanwhile Facebook uses an algorithm to show you articles and advertisements echoing what you say bc you're more likely to click on those. And they get advertising dollars for clicks. So now you KNOW you're right. That's what I think people mean. Or whatever the f**k Tik Tok is. I don't even know.
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TikTok.
So really your problem is with rude people, not tik tok. I used to have a person in my life who would do the same thing only with youtube videos. I don't hate youtube but I did hate that.
Load More Replies...I think TikTok gets a lot of undeserved hate. I am a man in my 50s and the education factor is what does it for me...especially the recipes, home improvements, etc.. Is it perfect? Far from it, but the people I follow have legit talent and skill worth sharing. Just my two cents.
Ruined an entire generation and made adults think showing/sending you videos everyday was funny.
Thankfully, there was still a lot of Gen Z that fought the popularity of the site, but Gen Alpha might be absolutely doomed.
Load More Replies...Tiktok is more than just teen dancing. I follow a lot of home improvement, cooking, and garden content on tiktok and have learned a lot. It's actually great once your algorithm adjust
No idea. I try to watch it but nothing interests me much. I think I'm just too old to get it.
Organized religion.
Scrap non-profit as well for churches and the NFL and all other organizations that are certainly invested for as much profit as possible.
Religion is the primary rationalization for theft, murder, rape, child molestation, slavery, and other atrocities. Anyone who is ethical with religion would have been ethical without religion. When cults lie and say "you need religion to be moral!" what they are REALLY saying is that "those not in the cult are immoral and can be abused, imprisoned, exiled, or killed".
There are no hard facts, no provable events, and no evidence of any given God. It's all speculation and storytelling amongst humans, and has been revised and changed throughout history to suit many different rulers' ideals of what they believed to be 'true' according to their beliefs or inclinations. Not one single fact exists in religious beliefs.
Well, religion is a personal choice and we, in the US, are free to take it or leave it. It's when the over the top Jesus Freaks that think they are holier than thou and decide what you can do with your body and whom you can and can't love.... that's where it becomes offensive...and destructive. And religious leaders have no business preaching politics to their members... the religious organizations need to start paying TAXES!
Nuclear bomb probably. Let's put that back in Pandora's box.
The nuclear bomb was the better of two bad options. Had it not been used against Japan to force an end to WW2, the US was fully ready to invade Japan. Conservative estimates of the casualties from such an invasion would be well in excess of 1 million US soldiers, and untold countless Japanese civilians and soldiers. It was enough that the war department commissioned some 2 million purple heart medals, expecting to have to issue them for the one invasion. Those same medals are still being issued today, and no new order for medals has been given since 1945.
Not to mention Japan was ready to use biochemical weapons against the US. They could've poisoned the air if they wanted to.
Load More Replies...The Battle of Okinawa was a preview of what would happen with an invasion of the Japanese main islands. The battle lasted 82 days and resulted in 12,500 Americans killed and 36,000 wounded. It also resulted in the deaths of more than 110,000 Japanese/Okinawans, many of whom were civilians. Sorry to say this because I really do love Japan (I have lived there), but it was better to use “The Bomb”. There is no good answer in war. They need to choose the least-bad answer.
The only reason that the Russian border does not stop at the English Channel is nuclear weapons. Hell, it would probably extend across the Channel, if it wasn't for such weapons.
This is ignorant and stupid. The amount of japanese and american lives it saved is way more than who died.
Oppenheimer and Szilard had massive regrets. Tellar on the other had was damn proud of what he did. Man was CRAZY!
We need to stop making them. The threat of nuclear war is higher then ever and in nuclear war, there are no winners, just losers
The USA has just updated all it's H-bombs. Instead of H-bombs that stop working after one or two decades, which it had before. The new H-bombs are deadly forever.
Patents for Insulin.
lutz164:
I'd say medicinal patents In general, let the prices fall, and the diabetics rejoice.
What patent? The inventors deliberately did not patent it to ensure it could be easily manufactured locally world wide at minimal cost.....pharma brands being the only "licensed" providers in certain countries is the problem here.
One of the inventors kept his name off the patent for moral reasons. The other two sold the patent to university of Toronto. It was absolutely patented, but given away for practically nothing
Load More Replies...This seems to be a uniquely american problem. Insulin is cheap as hell in most civilised countries.
Civilized being operative. Every 2 to 4 years half our population reminds us we are not. (Hint: it's the half that knows the KKK and white supremacists share their vote, but don't care. S**t, they see each other in church). Ironically, an overwhelmingly diabetic population too. Lol
Load More Replies...There is no patent. Frederick Banting gave it away free to the world. In civilized countries (i.e. not yankland) insulin is priced barely above cost of production. It's yankland where extortion is legal ("pay $2000 per month for something that costs $0.50 to make, or you die").
That's an American issue. It's free most places in the world and very basic stuff is only £13 or so per vial even if you were to pay.
It is really kind of a dilemma. Developing and testing new medicine is complicated and expensive, and requires large investments. If you put in all those resources in doing the preliminary work, only for someone to copy the final result and put "your" product on the marked and undermining you profit, do you think you would be motivated to do it again? If we remove patents, the result would probably be that we would see far less medical research being funded by coorporations, and as a result fewer effective medical d***s would be develloped, and many people would suffer and die a preventable death as a result. The only alternative is that we structure our society so all research is government funded and payed for by taxdollars as it would only be the citizens (and not the companies) that would primarily benefit from the results. Either way, the cost must be payed some way, so it is a matter of preference on how you would like to do that.
Yes, this needs to end. It cost the company a few hundred to make (or less) and they want a few thousand every month from everyone taking it. Making millions a month.
I think you are forgetting the cost of research to create medicine. If we want dirt cheap medicine there will be no incentive for companies to spend millions to find better, more effective ones. Then on the other hand... you get a Martin Shkreli who BOUGHT the d**g company that had already made a life saving d**g ( selling for $13.50 each)... and he made it $750 each! ...because he could. There is a special place in hell for people like that.
The packages they put scissors in… that you need scissor to open. Wtf?
It would probably be easier to open a clam than to open clamshell packaging.
Load More Replies...As my Father told me in 1952, when I was five, "A gentleman always carries a pocket-knife." And he gave me my first folding three-blade to carry.
Ah, I actually know the "why" for this one. Or, rather, I know one of very likely many, many "why"s. Back in the good old days, when knives were just cable tied to a piece of cardboard, my mother purchased one. She then got on the bus to go home, sat down with her shopping bag, and the brand new knife stabbed into her. Apparently it was an interesting experience at the hospital, several nurses assessed her, looking for other signs of spousal abuse. (There were none - knowing my dad, he probably handled it a lot worse than my mother did. Possibly up to and including passing out.) Had the blade been protected by clamshell packaging, my mother wouldn't have a weird scar, and my dad wouldn't have been eyeballed suspiciously by just about every single female member of staff in A&E that day (until they believed what happened, and then it became hilarious, apparently).
tl;dr: unsurprisingly, clamshells exist because idiots stabbed themselves with brand new knives. My mother is one of said idiots.
Load More Replies...Anything like that. Hate those. I remember when I was growing up. You bought a product that could be opened up then if you need to return it, you could put it back in the original container and close it to return the product.
Household appliances that are tied to subscription services.
Then don't buy "smart" devices, lol! Vote with your dollars instead of complaining.
It’s becoming harder and harder to find models that aren’t base-level c**p that don’t have these features. They’re still available now, but in ten years, they may not be.
Load More Replies...I don’t really get the whole app hook ups and screens on so many appliances. I don’t need to go on TikTok from my fridge. I don’t really want to be able to turn my oven on from work (though I actually do understand the flip side of that one). I don’t need my washer or dryer to send me a notification that laundry is done. I get WHY some of this stuff exists, but appliance notifications are just going to get lost in the rest of the effluvia.
WTH?? I have never heard of this and I am glad to still be ignorant of such a scam!
Vapes. Tossed mine in the trash an hour ago, though.
Yeah, nah. I've had mine (which required a prescription) for 2 months now, and in that time I have not smoked a single ciggie. Prior to getting it I was smoking up to 30 a day.
They got me off a pack a day for 40 years... so bless them vapes!
Load More Replies...Disagree with this. I was on a packet of cigs a day now I started vaping instead and on about one packet a week
You can disagree all you want, but the science doesn't lie. You're switching one crutch for another, and if you think anyone doesn't mind having to walk through your "clouds" you are mistaken. There is no "safe" amount of nicotine, and vapes typically contain 2x to 4x the the amount of what is in a cigarette.
Load More Replies...Harm reduction is a legitimate strategy to deal with addiction. Leave the vape people alone. Going from smoking to vape an improvement. Kudos. Stoping vape-great. Starting vaping when you've never smoked- stupid. The end.
It's really disturbing that they are sometimes marketed at teens.
I wish our government (US) would really crack down on this, but I suppose their hands are full with cracking down on drag queen story times and uselessly bitching about the border. 🙄
Load More Replies...Wait a minute...tossed it in which trashbin? Isn't there a battery in it, so it has to go into electronic waste?
The ad-based internet.
It's not the ads, per se, it's the annoying popups and distracting animated ones that make me NOT want to buy whatever they're hawking.
Load More Replies...Not every ad block is built the same. Not all ad blockers work on all websites. My ad blocker doesn’t work with BP’s ad blocker detection, for example, but my friend’s way better ad blocker will. It’s not a matter of just simply having an ad blocker, any ad blocker, installed. Does that make sense? And also, what ad blocker do you use?
Load More Replies...I consider it the price I have to pay for free info.. and I have noticed it's getting worse! More often and 2 or 3 ads back to back.. . I have even gotten more ad time that the actual video I wanted to watch! / It's when I pay for a subscription ... and I still get them that it pisses me off.
explain how you pay for your webhosting. Everyone wants stuff and none of you want to pay for it. these answers are all so freaking short sighted. Not that I am surprised. It comes from reddit.
We’re just tired of pop-up ads lol, I’m cool with ads I can easily scroll by. The ones that demand I stop what I’m doing and pay attention to them are awful.
Load More Replies...Corporate personhood.
This allows CEOs and executive management to escape accountability...it sucks because it is people making the terrible decisions, not the company itself.
This is one of the ideas Heinlein wrote about that actually isn’t outdated. One of the main characters in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress subscribed to the philosophy that blame and responsibility for actions taken cannot ethically or morally be transferred or shifted. He believed that f you do something, you are personally ethically and morally responsible for the consequences. While there are practical issues with taking this concept to its full potential, as a general guideline for how to live, you could do a lot worse.
Load More Replies...If a corporation is a person, why can't that person be drafted into the military?
Corporations, period. NOTHING should be "incorporated", a practice which protects those running the companies from ANY legal consequences. The mass murderers at Union Carbide responsible for the deaths and permanent injuries of 25000-100000 people in Bhopal, India, have never spent a day in a courtroom, never mind prison. Also, "shares" is how companies dodge taxes. "Non-voting shares" don't get to vote on company decisions, but ALL income from them is not taxable. The rich make most of their money off of non-voting stock and never pay a dime.
You clearly don't understand corporate structure or tax law.
Load More Replies...Absolutely the beginning of the end of Democracy. "Citizens United"? SCOTUS f****d us
Like, punish the company and not the company's employees? Does one exclude the other, though?
Pyramid schemes
The major players in that outfit have their fingers in every major pie out here in the Grand Rapids area. And they're linked (at the very least money wise) to DJT and the rest of the far right wing idiots in politics. Scary outfit.
Load More Replies...tell your local politicians. All MLMs should be illegal. Pyramid schemes are illegal. MLMs are not different but they worked out a law that lets them operate. get that changed or nothing will happen.
Pyramid schemes *are* illegal. The problem is multi level marketing, where there is a product to be sold. Outwardly they appear legit, but the money that makes its way up the levels almost exclusively comes from recruiting new people and getting them to buy a start up kit. And that is why they are basically pyramid schemes masquerading as legitimate business.
And they sell the weirdest stuff! Why not flour or sth????
Load More Replies...A lot of inventions mentioned here that have had positive outcomes alongside of negative ones. HOA’s however may look good on paper, but hath wrought no good to this world.
I owned a condo as my first home. It was against HOA law to install a bath fan that vented outside. So every unit in the whole neighborhood had mold issues. Just incredibly stupid.
Hard to avoid. Almost all new construction is hoa.
Load More Replies...Yeah, they have. In my condominium, if the home owners’ association didn’t ban parking in the driveway, it would turn into a parking lot and we’d never be able to get out of or into our garages. Just one example. A lot of people think they “have a right” when they don’t.
Just call the police or a towing company and that solves it! No need for an HOA to tell me how I should paint my house or my fence... It's MY house and MY fence! How was HOA ever considered beneficial?! Paying a bunch of useless people to tell you what to do with YOUR property! It's mind-blowing for me...
Load More Replies...Not sure why anyone who doesn't have millions would want one. Just a bunch of people telling you what you can do with your house. Screw that and you pay them for that privilege. The house you pay for. Seriously, WHY?
I am sure that there *are* HOAs that have been decent and achieved positive results. The key is not letting a power mad person (or cabal) gain control of them. Set up an initial "constitution" that means rules can't be arbitrarily changed by the head of the organisation (or a small group). You can also set it up so if they do change a rule by mass vote, those who disagree are removed from the HOA, so they no longer gain benefits from it, but at the same time aren't restricted by it.
Disagree. HOAs prevent many unreasonable things from happening in your neighbor's yard. The "problem" is that good / well run HOAs do not make the news. Kind of like how "Florida man" makes the news but millions of "normal" Floridians who didn't do something absurd/outlandish/illegal don't make the news. Don Henley nailed it in 1982 with Dirty Laundry. People want to hear about the trash.
They get a bad rap. Some are predatory and toxic. Most are just trying to maintain a community to an agreed upon standard. But before the world ever heard of Karens they were incubating for years in HOAs (and PTAs). Yes HOAs do some good, but they're also a magnet for the worst PITA neighbors imaginable. I'm sure the lady above who said, "join the board and ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE..." is a f*****g hoot.
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Glitter. I seriously consider it to be the worst human invention.
The worst human invention? Not lie Phosgene ot VX or White Phosphorous? Glitter huh?
Phosgene and white phosphorous only hurt other humans and disperse quickly. Glitter is already a microplastic when it is produced, and will linger in the environment for decades or even centuries.
Load More Replies...The problem is the plastics or mica... which is mostly mined by little children
Load More Replies...And why does glitter have to automatically come on toys for girls?? I'm still finding it from Xmas after I wrapped gifts for my niece. She's in to princess stuff and it's all loaded with stupid glitter!
The same people who release balloons into the sky are most definitely still buying the plastic glitter.
Load More Replies...I know there’s decompose-able confetti, but I’m not sure about glitter
CAPTCHA. That's not a motorcycle, that's a moped. And I still don't think the rider should count as part of the motorcycle.
I remember getting one that said "crosswalk".... We don't have those in the country I live in (although we have similar). I was baffled, as to whether the road markings, signposts and overhead lights all counted as "crosswalk"
What about the pictures that have 3 pixels of a bicycle handle and you need to click on the bicycle. Do you click or not?
Obviously. I don't even understand how is this a question? You're supposed to pick every square that has bicycle in it.
Load More Replies...I don’t love when computers fight with me about being a human. Some of them are hard!
I didn't mind them before. But they are getting more and more complicated to the point of being impossible to crack at times.
It doesn't matter. The CAPTCHA is only detecting cursor movement and clicks.
That's not how it works, at least not with all of them. There are plenty where if you click the "wrong" thing it fails verification. If it was just working off "activity" then it wouldn't matter what you clicked you'd get through.
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AI.
OftheGates:
AI for practical purposes like medicine is great. But generative AI in the way we're mostly seeing it applied has the dual effect of putting us in an information dark age by making anything able to be fabricated, while also ruining industries based on art. Hands down my choice for what needs to be disinvented.
We haven’t yet found a use for artificial intelligence that improves lives, but certain people have already found ways to use it corruptly.
Many medical evaluation AI programs are very useful. The music industry has amazing AI programs that can isolate specific sounds in an audio file, even separate the individual instruments from a group recording. The insurance industry has a very useful risk management AI program.
Load More Replies...AI "art" wouldn't be so annoying if its users didn't have the attitude of "artists"... even though they obviously aren't. AI-generated stuff requires exactly zero talent.
I love ai, but I hate that some use it for evil, if it's ai-drawn, just say so! But some of the best ones are text generators.
Advertising. The primary goal of advertising is to manufacture desire, and the Buddhists are on to something with the claim that desire is the root of all suffering. It’s the enemy of being content and satisfied with your life. It’s an omnipresent lie that’s repeated over and over that says this or that product will finally make you happy when it never will. It’s contributed to the worst parts of consumer capitalism. Cigarettes, the obesity epidemic, and more generally the mass overconsumption that has led to the rapid degradation of our planet.
This is in Christianity too with the seven deadly sins being born out of desire....
And it's a made-up fabrication of mankind, all those religion stories. True story.
Load More Replies...A childhood acquaintance was a chronic liar. He became an expert in advertising. Worked on political campaigns.
car commercials, George Sink, Hawk Law, and the girl who can only walk backwards selling ugly carpet oh yea d**g company commercials also
Looking at this shiny sparkling thing, its so shiny, so sparkling, you will be nobody without out it, you must buy it to be like all the beautiful shiny happy people who you see with it.
Load More Replies...Yes, advertising makes me suffer and I am not even Buddhist. They are so stupid mostly. There is an ad for a cloth to throw over a kitchen or bar-b-que fire. The first actor takes a cloth and proceeds to FAN THE FLAMES. He is not using the product they are selling so he is stupid. The fireman comes in and drops the advertised cloth on the fire and all it good with the world.
Earphonejack-less iPhone.
They aren't that bad! I have tried both, and there's not much to compare...besides price... (Note: I swear, if I see someone replying to me with something along the lines of "Oh No LoW bAtTeRy!!1!"...again, after testing them, their battery life seem to be relatively the same.)
Load More Replies...Not just apple though. Samsung and many of the other big manufacturers followed suit. It's bloody annoying that you basically can't buy a flagship phone that still has removable storage and a headphone jack. Sony is one of the few that still does it.
Load More Replies...I mean, it would be clever for Apple, forcing people to only buy their wired headphones, but I just use wireless stuff now and since Apple’s wireless stuff is trash they’re getting less money.
Plastic.
Kozakyw:
A gift, and a curse.
Plastic is the best invention. Single-use and disposable and non-biodegradable is the problem.
In certain applications it's the only option, but it is overused.
Load More Replies...Glass and paper works just fine. Also we all have micro plastic in our bodies.
I wouldn't say it's a gift. The world did perfectly fine before plastic
There are a lot of plastic things used in modern medicine that make a big difference.
Load More Replies...Agent orange, the chemical not the band.
This one gets me hot. My dad served during Nam and now he has diabetes and neuropathy. The government gives him an extra 200$ in benefits a month. This is total BS!
I feel you. My Dad died from ALS linked to his exposure to agent orange in that war.
Load More Replies...The algorithms used by real-estate moguls to buy up new homes the moment they're listed on the market.
My sister is looking for a house in Minneapolis. A house they found was listed on a Thursday evening. By the time they submitted their offer on that Sunday morning (3 days later), there were 22 other offers on the table. 5 of them were higher than hers with no contingency on inspection.
When I sold my last house I stipulated that it had to be bought as a primary residence and to a local buyer and some other stuff so that a rental corporation or investment company couldn't buy it. Someone bought it sight unseen for asking price within a week anyway. They said it was someone moving from out of state planning on living there. Okay. Nope, it was an agency. They've found ways around all the provisions that you can put in place to keep those industries in check. Don't know how they do it, but they do.
Load More Replies...House remodels with materials so cheap they instantly need replacing.
Don't understand this one. If you remodel with cheap materials, you get a cheap remodel.
I'm guessing this is about people who buy houses to live in after it's done or those of us stuck in apartments.
Load More Replies...good quality costs money. You want a large mcmansion or something built well?
Everything that Thomas Midgley Jr invented - specifically leaded gasoline and CFCs (the things that destroyed the ozone layer).
He is the person in history who can be directly attributed to the most environmental damage done by the inventions of a single person.
Leaded gasoline didn't cause as much environmental damage as you might think. At least, specifically, not in relation to the ozone layer, and pollution itself. The issue with leaded gasoline was it released elemental lead into the air which had a marked affect on brain activity and higher crime rates.
Pretty sure humans are a part of the environment and decreased intelligence and increased violence in a population is definitely environmental damage.
Load More Replies...This is nonsense. CFCs were bad but leaded gas was just bad for people. Who cares about people
Autocorrect. It's like that well-meaning friend who jumps into your conversations with totally off-base corrections. You’re trying to type something heartfelt or important, and it’s over there like, “Did you mean 'duck'? No, Autocorrect, I did not mean to tell my boss I'll have the report done 'ducking soon.
It's very useful, and it can suck. It will get better as AI gets better.
Auto correct can be a pain, especially if you are trying to spell a word that is unusual and keeps auto correct you, but then at times I would be spelling a word and misspelled it and auto corrected me. Not that often. So it can be useful.
I never think to screen shot them but predictive text has given me wild options from time to time. It once suggested I eat a child. I forget the exact sentence but I was talking about cooking something and maybe I was going to say "mild" or something like that and suggestive text tried to fill in "child". Perhaps encouraging cannibalism is part of Skynet's plan to reduce the human population and make it easier for the machines to take over. /J
Modern version of Clippy, the deranged paperclip that invaded my first computer!
Micro-transactions and live-service games have completely ruined the videogame industry and I don’t see it ever recovering.
I don't mind if the game was free to begin with, in fact if you play a free game for more than a few weeks you owe them a couple of bucks. The alternative to microtransactions is paying full price for every game and then getting little to no support afterwards, because they're working on the next game rather than keeping the original going
Load More Replies...There are still good companies that don't believe in mandatory MTX in every game. Cd projekt have said that the believe MTX are not appropriate for single player games. Team fortress doesn't monetize *everything* just some fun cosmetics that don't affect gameplay. You *can* do it right. And I like to reward companies that do with my business.
Only if you BUY them. Companies go with the marketing plans that actually make them money. I don't have a problem with live service games as an option. I've had a lot of fun in Elder Scrolls Online for example. Something has to pay for those servers. But I do avoid microtransactions in general if they require IRL money I especially hate "pay to win" games.
here is an idea. Don't buy them. weird how capitalism works. They force you to go out and buy a game with bad features. They just force you.
No. Phoenix6995 is right. That's like saying ban/dis-invent kindles because they have ruined the book industry.
Load More Replies...The modern credit system. It rewards bad habits that are simply good for companies.
This applies to US only, I guess... In Europe, if you pay your bank loans and credit cards on time, you're good! It has nothing to do with bills, rent and everything else!
My credit score literally drop 100 pts because I closed an account early and in good standing
Load More Replies...Not so long ago an interest rate over 20% was considered usury. It was a crime. Now it's a "pretty good rate" for most credit cards.
Credit scores have become a product that you can now purchase. It's not enough to just pay your bills. You have to pay to have a decent score as well.
Software as a Service. Just release a full new build every few years like they used to. The concept of the Day One patch. Fix your damn software before shipping!
Welcome to the agile programming space. It allows software dev to give you new features and fix issues that can be hard to find without regular user testing, without you having to do massive upgrades or buy whole new versions every time. You do know it’s IMPOSSIBLE to find every issue before release, right?
You know they are not talking about that. Of course availability of patches is a good thing. They are referring to the recent uptick in things like games being released before they are ready and still broken.
Load More Replies...How do you pay your developers when everybody already has the software but everybody wants updates?
Sticky traps. There are more humane ways. I remember crying my eyes out as a child when I found a lizard on the one my parents had under our computer desk for fleas. I tried saving him and ripped his legs off
That was the solution to the flea problem? A sticky trap? Needed more comprehensive action than that.
My sister's maintenance guy put sticky traps in her apartment to deal with mice, without telling her that's what he was doing. She would hear them and not be able to find them. We did end up finding one while I was visiting and we got it free with oil and a butter knife. Kill if you must, but do it fast. Sticky traps are torture and often catch something other than what you're after.
I refuse to use sticky traps and wish they would be banned. They are such a cruel and inhumane way to kill what people consider "pests." Usually the creature dies a slow and painful death from starvation and thirst. However, they usually injure themselves before that by trying to get off the trap.
My workplace uses sticky traps, and I have been asking again and again to replace them with something better. One day I found a sticky trap with a dead mouse on it. Little guy had died from hunger/thirst.
Sticky traps have their uses. For example - commonly used in places like bakeries to catch/kill flies / etc without using chemicals near the food. Also used by our county to check for invasive pests (hung on trees at various locations, later they check to see what got trapped). But the ones for rodents are gross IMO. Seems like they were just made for people too squeamish to empty a mouse trap. Some trap the mouse inside a box so user doe not have to see it. Expensive, wasteful, cruel to the mouse compared to a quick death.
Single-knob showers.Those damn things can be turned like 360* around but everyone knows that there’s only a single *molecule* of that distance that doesn’t make the water blazing hot or frigidly cold. Two knobs. Give me my choices back.
I think we had a weird adjustment in place when we replaced our water heater a little over a year ago, so while I'm still Okay with the single knobb (you know why the extra b is there), the balancing of appropriately warm water has increased in difficulty. The single knobb is easier than two to get it right though, weirdly, but I might have to tinker with the flow of the sink. IDK.
I have a two-handle shower. I set the water heater at the temperature that I find comfortable. Now I only use the hot water for a shower.
perfect solution : single-k**b with built in thermostat. Works without power, and works perfectly.
Or a solution without having to install that. Set the water heater at the temperature that you find comfortable for a shower.
Load More Replies...No way am I going back to two knobs. Nope. We remodeled our two bathrooms and the contractor offered and I declined. You can't use the knobs if you're trying to get your contact lenses out. Also, the temperature is quicker to get with one. Our showers stay at the same place and it's another k**b that opens up the water.
(EDIT: K-N-O-B. GD BP censorbot. )Nah, single k**b is great. Get a quality one. I have two knobs but only because my house (mobile home) is kind of cheap. GOOD single knobs are great. Actually there is a different kind of two k**b I prefer even more. One k**b for water volume, one k**b for temp. I don't see them very often. My dad had one in his house. I was the only one using that particular shower so I could leave the temp set where I liked it and just turn on the water.
I don't know if I could de-invent it but I'd sure like to ban it 24-hour news cycle there was a time when people could read a paper or watch 26 minutes of news in the evening and share what they felt and saw with each other. Now everybody has to have a riot a movement lawyers it's gone insane a lot of these people act like their babies on fire.
some kind of autocorrect failure? I think movement should be moment. Ooooh wait.... comma's.... Now everybody has to have a riot, a movement, lawyers.... it's gone insane. A lot of these people act like their babies are on fire. (Although that sentence imo isn't tied to the 24hr news cycle, maybe just that there is much more crappy news or non-news.)
Load More Replies...It's no longer news. It's now entertainment. That's why everything has to be sensational.
You see more and more filler and more unedited press releases. We had several days of "roads expected to be busy during holiday weekend" followed by "roads are indeed busy during holiday weekend" and "avoid going away this holiday" - I can't go when it's not a holiday, I'm doing this thing called work. For completeness, they also threw in "ports busy", "airports busy" and "trains busy". The fact people go on holiday during holidays is very much not news.
LOL yes. You just listen until it "loops" and then you turn off. Or in my case I read so I can skip the stuff I don't want. One of the "fillers" that makes me lol is "live at the scene". I am old enough to remember when covering something live meant being there AS IT WAS HAPPENING. Now it is often more like, "I'm here live at the corner of 1st and Main street where yesterday's shooting occurred..." Okay, so your location has no bearing on what you are about to say and you could have just said the same thing from inside the studio.
Those persistent forever chemicals.
All chemicals are forever. But I assume you mean damaging chemicals that do not dissipate or recombine into other forms.
The bad chemicals are the ones that last longer than forever 😂
Load More Replies..."forever chemical" is an exact synonym for "inert", "chemically unreactive" and "totally harmless".
Microsoft outlook’s search function.
I'm suspect it's Clippy that's responsible for this!
Load More Replies...I never have any problems with it. Because i have avoided using Microsoft Outlook ever since it first appeared. There is better available.
Weapons.
If Americans had never been allowed to own guns they would still be ruled by the British.
If the British, Spanish or French didn't have guns they couldn't have stolen the entire continent!
Load More Replies...Yes, you're so right. We should not be allowed to defend ourselves. 🤔
Load More Replies...We need the gun laws strengthened and actually followed in the USA. Nobody needs a military assault rifle. AR-15s & AK-47s are for KILLING humans, not hunting.
A true AK-47 (which has a fully-automatic setting) is illegal in the United States. The AR-15 is not a military assault rifle and is less powerful than many hunting rifles. It is always easy to spot a gun control advocate who knows absolutely nothing about guns. 🤔
Load More Replies...If yanks could actually read, they would understand that their "second demented" refers to a national army, not private individuals (e.g. racist hillbillies) having them and shooting anything that moves.
Really? Try telling that to the Supreme Court of the United States. It is their job to determine the meaning of what is written in the Constitution.
Load More Replies...If we didn't have weapons the biggest, strongest guy would rule with his fists and dominate over everyone. We'd have no taxes, either, btw, because every penny collected in taxes is collected with the threat of force if you don't pay.
Well, if you can't go to the store and buy what you need, you might have to do the back-of-the-taxi bit, or trip up a cop, or build your own. Honestly, legal guns are not the problem.
Minding your own business gets harder if there is a risk of being shot in everyday situations.
Load More Replies...VX Nerve agent.
If anyone is curious: https://www.cma.army.mil/nerve-agent-vx-fact-sheet/
Speed bumps (and no,not because I speed. I don't.).
If you have a sore coccyx, speed bumps are agony. Worse than potholes, much worse.
Only ones where you're going suggested speed, and it still clunks your car. I don't have a low car ether.
When you urgently need to be at a hospital but the speed bumps make it take longer AND hurt you more every time you go over, you want a better solution. They have speed bumps on every road which leads to the main hospital here.
In my city, some of the best streets have speed-bumps and slow-potholes. Riding along feels like being in a rodeo - wave your Stetson and shout Yee-Haw!
They also reduce the noise coming from cars when you have to drive slowly. Research has shown that noise causes many negative effects on people and animals, so I'm in favor of speed bumps.
Speed HUMPS are not so bad. I don't recall speed bumps being a thing when I was young. Maybe they existed and little kid me didn't notice. Then speed bumps became common and are often quite jarring. Then someone figured out they could make those more gently rising speed humps and they don't suck as bad. If you are traveling a reasonable speed it's more of an "uppy / downy" Whee! instead of a jarring slam that makes you want to check your shocks and your dental fillings.
MORE speed bumps. Slow ALL traffic to 30kmh EVERYWHERE. Roads are for people, not cars. Or better yet, speed dips - drive fast over them, and you break your axle.
The smart phone. The Internet is great, and cell phones are great. Being able to so easily share your opinion and emotions has been detrimental to our society as a whole.
I love my cell phone... I can call from from anywhere I am...and I can take pictures. I do not text or facetime or do email on my phone. Wifi is not secure. And I don't call or take pictures while driving.
Load More Replies...Sharing every damn stream of consciousness thought with the world, or people expecting you to always be available because most everyone has some kind of device. It’s amusing to me that my boomer parent went from “Texting is terrible just call me” and “Just because I have a phone doesn’t mean it’s attached to me” to “ugh, just text” and “I’m mad at so and so because they didn't respond to my call/text within two minutes. You can’t tell me they didn’t see it - everyone has a phone”.
I agree. I kinda don't want to, bc I use my phone all the time, but I know it's true. My phone has many useful features for sure that a PC could not replace for me, but access to the internet is not one of them (apart from apps that need the connection eg. maps or Spotify). I never really *need* to have an access to the internet so instantly that I couldn't wait to get to my pc for it. And if I feel like I couldn't be bothered to, then whatever I'd be using the Internet for really isn't at all that important.
Fireworks.
Loud fireworks upset a lot of animals and people with PTSD. Silent fireworks are amazing.
Have you seen the drone displays they use instead of fireworks... awesome stuff. Google "drones replace fireworks" if you haven't seen it.
Load More Replies...Probably because they are used in many celebrations and wind up scaring tf out of animals and some people with PTSD.
Load More Replies...yes and no. Personally I would be fine without them but I think the issue is that they are used too much.
Stupid grey vinyl flooring.
I've never seen intelligent vinyl flooring either, though I'm sure it only a matter of time
Load More Replies...Personal automobile. Cars in general are fine, fire trucks and ambulances for instance. But America's cities are designed around cars and made for them instead of people. If the automobile industry hadn't lobbied city officials in the early twentieth century to design city's in such a way that you need a car to live in them, then we could have cities with safe and efficient public transportation. We could have residential areas designed in such a way that you wouldn't need a car, and we could have high speed rail between cities. Cars are expensive, polluting, inefficient, and worst of all, dangerous.
Some people - and this may shock you - don't live in cities. I drive 42 miles from house to work, and there is no public transpo that would get me there and back.
I believe the poster was talking about cities not having cars in cities not necessarily having cars in general. Having cars in cities cause congestion. I was going to say something similar to yupr comment than realized he was talking about cars in cities.
Load More Replies...F**k off with your stupid b******t here. It would take 2 hours for me to walk to a store. 4-5 hours to walk to the hospital. Many of us live in rural areas. OP is a f*****g jizzmop.
I already made a comment about this in a above comment. Think about what the OP was talking about.
Load More Replies...Enough gaslighting us into our cages. "Safe and efficient public transportation" is slow as s**t. When I lived near a major urban hub, I drove through traffic that I cursed at but still got to my work in 30 minutes. I lived quite near a subway station and worked directly at one, but if I had relied on public transportation, it would've taken me 90 minutes. And that's with a train departing every six minutes. (Two transfers) There's a reason that people abandoned the inner cities; they prefer living in suburbs where subways (that's what you're talking about; I've never been to a city without busses) are impractical.
By the way, I believe that many cities ought to make their trains free. The cost is largely sunk; if their purpose is to relieve congestion, then relieve as much as you can. Few roads are toll roads, right? Why presume that rail should pay for itself? You've got to do something to improve these woefully low utilization rates (for commuter heavy rail; subway utilization rates are actually pretty good, since they largely exist only in extremely high-density areas.) It makes no sense when you're 80% government funded to let that 20% that comes from fares keep away 50% of your potential ridership.
Load More Replies...There’s many levels of issues in the US for this. Some areas do have adequate public transportation because they’d be far, far worse without - generally, these are really large cities like NYC. Some areas are perfectly walkable - I find this to be most common in smaller towns. The levels: political, because politicians are getting kickbacks, or are blatantly part of an industry that wants more cars. Funding, which has levels - federal, state, and local. Transportation within a town becomes the problem for local funding, or a private business. Anything that crosses between towns now goes up to state and federal funding, which means way more red tape, arguing, and politics. Then you run in to both infrastructure and landscape issues. Things like our train infrastructure are old, and not as easily updated now. Landscape is fun times because the worse the landscape, the more sprawl between things an the harder it is to provide public transport.
I hope if you think that, you include the worst polluters - electric cars.
Nah, Australia's designed pretty much that way too.
Load More Replies...The only reason yanks "think" they 'need' a car is because their junk cities were designed to require a car. In civilized countries with public transit and protected bicycle lanes, nobody misses having a car. And for the ignorant about to say "FREEDUMB!!!!!" you don't have that with a car - you pay for the vehicle, insurance, licensing, gas, parking, repairs, fines, etc. When I ride a bus, I pay the fare, and don't need ANY of that c**p.
Surprised no one mentioned Amazon. People complain Amazon kills local businesses and mistreats workers but you won't stop buying from them.
Notice how "influencers" is #1 and landmines is #12? We humans certainly have strange priorities.
Software that is unnecessarily cloud based. If your software doesn't rely on computing power I don't have that is in the cloud, but forces me to store my data on the cloud and charges me a fee for doing so, you've made bad business decisions.
I think the single most important one was left out…. MONEY. Money is truly the root of all evil. Illegal substances, gambling, alcohol, cigarettes, Prostitution, Corruption, Wars, weapons, Governments, Religion, Medical insurance companies, murders, kidnappings, just everything that is harmful and destroys us and the very world we live in is all traced back to that ever greedy need for money.
Yay the new "bored panda has nothing else to post so we repost another dumba$$ reddit thread that we posted last week". Bored panda has given up trying to make decent content. Its a f*cking garbage pile buzzfeed wannabe site anymore.
Surprised no one mentioned Amazon. People complain Amazon kills local businesses and mistreats workers but you won't stop buying from them.
Notice how "influencers" is #1 and landmines is #12? We humans certainly have strange priorities.
Software that is unnecessarily cloud based. If your software doesn't rely on computing power I don't have that is in the cloud, but forces me to store my data on the cloud and charges me a fee for doing so, you've made bad business decisions.
I think the single most important one was left out…. MONEY. Money is truly the root of all evil. Illegal substances, gambling, alcohol, cigarettes, Prostitution, Corruption, Wars, weapons, Governments, Religion, Medical insurance companies, murders, kidnappings, just everything that is harmful and destroys us and the very world we live in is all traced back to that ever greedy need for money.
Yay the new "bored panda has nothing else to post so we repost another dumba$$ reddit thread that we posted last week". Bored panda has given up trying to make decent content. Its a f*cking garbage pile buzzfeed wannabe site anymore.

