The world is never the same place as it was the day before. Whether we're talking about environmental, societal, or other changes, it always keeps evolving.
So when Reddit user Firewire64 made a post on the platform, asking its users to name the things that are slowly phasing out in 2022, they received a lot of interesting insights.
We often miss prolonged, subtle processes. Having an opportunity to discuss them, even if it's online, can allow us glimpses into the direction we're all heading. So continue scrolling and check out the answers to Firewire64's question.
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Women’s’ rights
Yeah, I don’t understand why this is downvoted either… do people not think women’s rights are in jeopardy? I mean, if they don’t live in the US maybe nothing has changed in their world so this doesn’t impact them. Being American, Roe v Wade being overturned is terrifying to me.
Affordable food at the grocery store. It’s fine, it’s not like I need food to survive.
Privacy
Yep. In china, everything you do once you set foot out of ur home is recorded.
Social acceptance for cigarette smoking in public. Like the old-fashioned light-them-on-fire tobacco smokes.
I go all over for work, and it’s a noticeable event if someone smells like smoke. No buildings seem to have smoking areas anymore, even the butt cans are rare sightings. Can you even imagine someone lighting up *inside a restaurant*? People still do it, but they almost have to hide it, only smoking at home or in their cars or vaping while out and about. When you come out of a store and you smell cigarette smoke, it’s noticeable because it’s not always there. The difference from 10 years ago is huge. 20 years ago this would be unimaginable.
I am severely asthmatic and if I have to walk through some employee's cigarette smoke to enter a business, I turn around and take my business elsewhere. Not worth it.
NFTs
And I hope they continue to fall in popularity because honestly they weren’t even popular to begin with, just a fad peddled by the rich.
Faith in the future of humanity
I disagree. I come on boardpanda on a regular basis and I find my faith in humanity restored regularly
Leisure time. Unless you're wealthy it's shocking to have any time off. Monday I had my first sick day in over a year and I was told I still need to make up my hours even if it means working overtime.
Even when you aren't working, shifts are so long it feels like you're losing your whole day and your days off are the only chance you have to catch up on cleaning and doctor's appointments and maintaining your life that it's hard to find the time to do any leisure activities. Just watching TV or making a meal feels like such a time investment because there's so little time to waste.
DVDs.
It’s been going on for a bit now but it’s still crazy how fast they went from king to nothing
Given the cost of living crisis a lot of folks are cancelling their streaming subscriptions. Many are either buying 2nd hand discs and /or ripping their media to have portable collections - that they actually own 😃
Cash… 2022 has seen a sharp rise in card only transactions
Honestly? Cheap and neat finds at antique/thrift stores. Most places upcharge outrageous amounts for the items they get in, especially if it's a legitimate antique or unique item. On top of that, a lot of what's being sold now are nicknacks and decorative items that were made cheap at the time, and no one wants anymore.
I think we're also phasing out of the cheap product phase for everything, or at least slowing down. More and more people are choosing to repurpose their items or try and fix them, rather than just tossing and buying something new. Repurposing is even easier than ever thanks to the internet, it's no longer a struggle to figure out how to fix s**t and to buy missing parts and tools that you'd need to get the job done.
My local op shop has two buildings, one is the usual cheap things and cheap clothes and the other is the higher end stuff like vintage clothes or collectibles. It works well.
Term lengths of UK pm's
I've heard they've installed a revolving door at #10 Downing 😉
Having a savings account.
24 hour Walmarts
I live in a 24hr city, and I feel for those who work nights and struggle to do their shopping now.
When one of the shops in my area suddenly extended their working hours to 24/7, everyone was confused. It turned out later, that it was the owner's idea of dealing with a rat problem: keep the lights on + people in = rats out
Sounds like it would work for roaches...but rats? 😆
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I work overnights so all my shopping was done after work pre COVID . Now I get off a whole hour before they even open. I have a kid to get home to do I don’t even have the time to hang out and wait for them to open. I live in the middle of nowhere so i don’t often get a chance (or even hand the desire) to make a separate trip into town
This bothers me. Most 3rd shift workers are essential workers. Nurses, doctors, suicide counselors, most importantly the people at Amazon that get you your stuff in 2 days. All these people should be able to shop when it makes sense for them.
I miss them overnight stocking the aisles. The workers trying to do it while the store is filled by 8am has been a nightmare.
I miss shopping at 2 and 3:00 a.m. in the morning but I guess it's sort of a good thing too. Keeps the crazies out. When I was an Uber driver, I would go into Walmart at 3:00 a.m. and just walk around and grab a drink. It was just nice to be quiet in there for a minute and nobody was around except for the workers or maybe one or two people that were getting diapers.
Cool. The less time that store can exploit their workers, the better.
I go in at 9pm and do all my shopping before they close at 10. Graveyard quiet, because I don't like the crowds crawling the place during the day.
I'm not exactly sure this is a problem. If you can order anything online, whenever you want, why would 24 hour brick and mortar stores not being a thing anymore be a problem? I'm not saying I want physical stores to go away completely (I very much do not), I just don't quite get why they need to be open 24 hours. Well...Walmart does sell pretty much everything, so I kind of get it, but I also don't really support Walmart (apart from buying 4 or 6 packages of 6 packs of Fruit of the Loom underwear there - they are good underwear and have some fun patterns, don't judge me! - and they're inexpensive and they last a long time, meaning I don't have to keep going back to Walmart all the time to buy more! They also have good sports bras, with no underwire! I only shop there because I cannot find Fruit of the Loom underwear anywhere else in a store in my city and I don't shop online, even if I did have a credit card).
Having a walmart open 24/7 literally makes the difference between making a quick pop over for an otc vs an ER visit for some of my individuals
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I am kinda sad to see Walmart become the s**t-show it has become lately. Aisles are dirty, nothing is stocked,
Borrowing from Steven Wright, big chain stores will still be open 24 hours... just not in a row.
24 hours groceries at all! I LOVED shopping at Walmart or Kroger at 2am after finishing work or if I was really sick in the middle of the night, I could go get saltines and medicine. My BF bought saltines from the pharmacy the last time I had nausea, and they were stale out of the package, and HELLA expensive!
We had a 24/7 Tesco and it didn't cost them extra to open to customers (self-service) This was brilliant at Christmas. But gradually they closed of the 'upstairs' and then they made their full nightshift redundant. Not only does this mean they are only open til 10pm now but it means the shelves are never full and often in shortage. I've stopped going now. It saved them the wages of employees but it's cost them custom during the day too..
I miss that. They never opened again after the pandemic. I loved being able to avoid people.
I hate this! I don’t like to “people” so I would go at ridiculous hours. Now I use delivery because No to being in Walmart.
I never even knew this was a thing. None of the Walmarts in Massachusetts are 24 hours.
You can blame all the meth-heads shoplifting everything for this.
I think the straw has broken the camel's back on laughtrack sitcoms; How I Met your Father is the first one ive seen in years to use one and its... not good
Its jarring to see
So id say those are finally phasing out, with the norm being laughteack free funnies (which have existed for years now ofc, but are becoming the standard)
Manned registers.
not in africa, we have too many unemployed people. We need job creation.
Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
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Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
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I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
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I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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Would love to add:. Affordable new and used cars. Paying 30% more now for the same car on the lot two years ago is crushing
Here it is more expensive to get a used car than a new one because you have to wait 9 months for a new one to come in from the manufacturer (18 months for hybrids)!
Load More Replies... Anything giving an individual pleasure and or joy will soon be phased out because it will offend someone else.
DVDs (I'm going to include Blu-ray here as well) have been mentioned. Physical media for games and production S/w that one owns is disappearing as well. Depending on an unreliable Internet connection to prove ownership much less access to the software (and the user generated files) is a rip off. Mind you one could foresee this with Tax software in the '90s that made your income tax forms locked to the software.
Now I'm really depressed. Too much pessimism for me as an old person nearing 80. 😢
It's true though this is the world now. It's not pessimistic it's facts
Load More Replies... I thought it would be like technology but instead it's just pessimistic nonsense
Newspapers. One can still buy them, but why bother when everything is online?
True but reading an actual newspaper used to be a pleasure. And looking forward to the colour comics as a child? Good times! Too bad they are gone…
Load More Replies... I was just coming to say "people having different opinions and being civil about it". Freaking ridiculous how polarized everything is, and how much people dislike not being an echo chamber.
Load More Replies... I don't think anyone of reasonable intelligence has a problem with diversity of opinions, as long as they're backed up with rational arguments.
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