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Someone Asks What Current Trend Will Be The Most Regrettable 20 Years From Now, And 35 People Don’t Hold Back
Things are changing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up! As the world becomes more and more interconnected, we become aware of all the ways that the rest of the world lives. Trends that might have been fated to stay local a few decades ago now go viral and spread around the globe, powered by social media and the news.
However, much of what we take for granted these days might not stand the test of time. The future might be radically different, and people living years from now might look back at 2022 with a lot of confusion (and probably judgment) about how we did things.
Internet users shared their thoughts about what trends will be the most regrettable in 20 years’ time in an interesting r/AskReddit thread, and we’re bringing you their best insights to get your noggins jogging. From gender reveal parties to denying climate change, some trends are pretty darn bad. As you’re reading, have a think about what fads and ideas you think will go the way of the dodo (i.e. extinct) in the near future, Pandas, and share your thoughts in the comments.
Pop culture and lifestyle expert Mike Sington, from LA, was kind enough to share his thoughts on current trends, what's here to stay, what will (hopefully!) go away, and how the people of the future might react to the fads of 2022. Check out Bored Panda's full interview with him.
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#1
Taking away women’s body autonomy. We will all pay for this.
CatWoman312 3 years ago
Men will pay too when they find themselves celibate because women are too afraid to have sex
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Gina Babe 3 years ago
This will be a ripple effect throughout crime, welfare and mental health. This is going to have a devastating impact on all communities, except for the politicians of course. They'll keep getting their back alley abortions and blaming other systems for crime rates rising and something else will be blamed for mental health issues and suicides.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
Mitch McConnell just said that women who are forced to have a baby do not merit increased support from the government. "They already have Medicare and SNAP benefits." The GOP is working hard to increase poverty.
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GoGoPDX 3 years ago
And in turn, society will suffer as crime will increase due to these unwanted, unsupported children. The book Freakanomics discusses the correlation between abortion access and crime rates. Everything that can be impacted by this decision is fascinating and frightening. And all of this suffering and crime will continue to increase due to the cycle continuing if we cannot get women's rights back.
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Donny Bereznak 3 years ago
Last time I checked Clarence Thomas was a black man. And one of the chief proponents of over-turning Roe vs Wade.
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Charlie does cartwheels 3 years ago
This should be number one. But also with a caveat that it’s just a frightening number of people in the USA actually CHOOSING to take things backwards in a horrifying way. This is not the case in most developed countries and we feel for the many Americans having to fight against such barbaric thinking.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I really don't think this is going to have an impact on the way countries outside of USA are going to approach abortion. Most countries are moving forward, not going back in time. I'm certain scotland will not be following their lead, we've made some rather big steps in becoming a fairer place to live from proving free period supplies and we're the first country to include LGBTQIA education from the earliest school years throughout - our path is very much different to USA, hell it's different to England that's next door. I feel absolute fear for women in states that are bringing in abortion restrictions and forced births, as women and the children will suffer in untold ways - bottom line is that abortion will not be stopped, only safe access to it and women will die. No woman wants to have to experience an abortion, and you truly don't know what you will do until faced with the reality
Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago
This is nothing new for women but YES! Actually can't believe it's still happening; FGM, ABORTIONS, R@PE. THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!!!
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I have read from more than one source that the number of women seeking to have their tubes tied off has skyrocketed since the SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade. And still we have to deal with male chauvinist doctors who spew snarky B.S.
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Victoria Pitt 3 years ago
I wouldn't really put this in the category of a "trend" that is regrettable in 20 years. Much more serious than high waisted jeans or whatever...
DforDory 3 years ago
I would make those who came up with this law, carry a melon on their body for a months then have it shoved up their a*s and that wouldn't even be close to what some women experience during giving birth. And that is just a part of having a child, you still need to raise it. I became pregnant (had pills back then, and still) at 21, 2 months after moving to a new country, 1month into a new relationship, I could barely keep myself afloat- had an abortion, never regretted: didn't have a proper life, relationship proved to be a fail after 5 years, on bed terms,so one of my best choices so far. Ohh and guess what the doctors who tried to convince me to keep it, weren't even cool enough to realize I have a deformity (operable), which makes it impossible for me to carry out a child more than half way. So F those who came up with this idiocy!
Bored Panda asked pop culture expert Mike which current trends, in his opinion, probably won't stand the test of time. "Sharing personal photos of yourself, your life, your family, and especially your children will probably seem very peculiar in a couple of decades," he told us.
"People just now are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy on the internet, and it will be odd in the future to look back and see how much of ourselves we used to willingly share," Mike mused that, in the future, privacy will likely be a much greater concern than now.
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#2
Hopefully school shootings.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
I hope you're right, but Columbine was in 1999. That was 23 years ago, and it hasn't stopped, or even allowed down.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
Only happened once in Scotland - laws changed and hasn't happened since. Horrible things happen worldwide but that gun deaths are the top cause of death in children in America and still no restrictions are taking place just defies belief. American culture is so deeply flawed on so many levels yet the citizens are practically brainwashed into thinking they're better than everywhere else - from the outside looking in it's so very very disturbing - I do think people are slowly waking up to the reality but still so many believe the propaganda
Tamra 3 years ago
It beggars belief, doesn't it? I live in the US and it is difficult to not either be constantly enraged or completely hopeless. Until something happens to stop politicians from taking "donations" from corporations and special interests, then I see nothing changing. Politicians have passed laws that have given corporations unparalleled power, and the corporations pay off the politicians. Our "democracy" is broken.
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LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
My kids, 11 and 13, were so shocked when they heard that US kids have drills for shootings. We live in a country where this is unheard of. In the last 40 yrs we had one shooting at the townhall of a minor city, but that is it.
Terri Owens 3 years ago
What country do you live in? Wherever it is I want to move there. I'm a nervous wreck every day while my grandson is at school.
Load More Replies... bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 3 years ago
Only armed, psychotic "patriots" are allowed to just do what they want on the Capitol steps
El Dee 3 years ago
They're too popular. It seems that people in the US love guns more than their children. This is harsh, I know, but I'm afraid it is true..
Tamra 3 years ago
I've heard this statement before, and it really, really bothers me. The majority of people in this country want gun control. The MAJORITY. Since our politicians are corrupt, however, nothing is going to change. So we are held hostage by our own government, doing what we can in protests and in the voting booth, meanwhile we get to hear comments like yours..."Americans love guns more than their children". No, we don't. And to say such a thing is a slap in the face to every parent who has lost a child to gun violence, to every person who protests, to every person who lies awake at night wondering how they can make a positive change. Perhaps a more accurate statement would be "Some Americans seem to value guns more than the lives of children". And even then, that's a pretty damn sad statement.
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Ka Se 3 years ago
That's an US thing. 19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018 - CNN): United States — 288 Mexico — 8 South Africa — 6 India — 5 Nigeria & Pakistan — 4 Afghanistan — 3 Brazil, Canada, France — 2 Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1
#3
Electing people to public office who have zero qualifications because they’re famous for some bullshit.
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
It also doesn't appear to be just about celebrity status. It's how much money you have and can afford to throw at a campaign. So the "average Joe" who actually might make a bloody good leader is unlikely to ever be in the runnings.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I was about to say this. I was part of the election process in my country once and it basically was a contest of "who can best fund their campaign" to choose the next representative.
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Are you thinking of a specific person in this regard (There is one who quickly has popped into my mind). We've tried that, but despite it being a disarster, the coins seem to not have dropped for about half of the American people, so I am not so sure, that the spell will ever be broken.
Krásnoočko 3 years ago
This actually worked out quite ok with Zelensky, don't you think? One of the best leaders Europe has seen in decades and his qualifications were originally actor and comedian.
Josurf 3 years ago
Actually this is how dumb people are: they are against the political "elite" so they will vote for a rich guy who's been pampered all his life, has no qualifications, is crooked as no other and keeps shouting he's "one of them" while he wouldn't even give any of them the time of day. And will do nothing but make his family and friends richer.
Arizona Cowboy 3 years ago
Or just plain dumb. Should also make it a legal requirement regards code of conduct and behaviour AND actually be held to it.
In the pop culture expert's opinion, no matter how much time passes, humor is "here to stay."
"Funny thoughts, anecdotes, and memes are popular now, and will have staying power on the internet. People often go online for escapism, and humor has always provided that. I don’t foresee that changing," he said that humor itself is timeless. People will always want (and need!) to have a good laugh.
Meanwhile, we were curious to figure out how to tell if something's a long-term trend or just a passing fad that'll go away in just a few years or even months.
"If something becomes popular quickly and seems to come out of nowhere, it’s more likely to be a passing fad," Mike, Hollywood's Ultimate Insider, shared his thoughts with Bored Panda.
#4
Gender reveal parties and promposals
Good lord it seems they get more ridiculous every week. This s**t needs to go.
Anna Banana 3 years ago
I've only just learned about 'promposals' but having read about them I don't see a problem. Half of these posts are just people being angry that others can have fun in ways they don't like.
Rosa Leff 3 years ago
Totally agree! As long as you're not harming anyone go have your fun!!!
Load More Replies... Ange Marsden 3 years ago
Setting off a bunch of fireworks to let people know your child has genitals is just darn weird. Calm down. Let them be a kid. Let them be freaking born!
S 3 years ago
My husband and I didn't want a gender reveal so we just posted on fb like "hey we're pregnant and it's a girl yay" lol people were UPSET we told the gender without some big extravagant reveal party... like calm down, we only cared that the baby was healthy, we never cared what the gender was to begin with. I also don't like the attention.
Hutt'nKloas 3 years ago
@S: "we only cared that the baby was healthy" This is the only thing that should matter.
Load More Replies... Gina Babe 3 years ago
These gender reveals p**s me off. Why do we need this? As far as the prom thing, if it's kids having innocent fun, I think we leave it alone. Teenagers have more to go through right now than most people ever did in previous generations. Sometimes just let innocence be.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I think the problem with promposals is that there is yet another thing that is an expectation for a 'normal' high school experience, so those who don't get one are somehow lacking. Or that's what it seems like from me looking in from a country that doesn't even have a prom. Apart from debutant balls (which are thankfully dying out) it is perfectly common for high schoolers to attend dances without requiring a date, it's just somewhere you go to dance with your friends.
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Miocha 3 years ago
Until now I don't understand what is the meaning of gender reveal parties. I mean, why it should be a surprise? What kind of reaction you expect from people after knowing the gender of baby? Must be really awkward.
S 3 years ago
Not to mention the countless videos I've seen of parents being visibly upset with the result... and now it's captured on camera forever and everyone in the family shared it and now everyone knows how disappointed they are because it's not what they wanted.
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Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
This is beyond my understanding. Why is anyone but the parents, maybe grandparents, interested in the gender of a yet to be born baby? Just tell them. Not everything has to be a ta da moment.
BadCat 3 years ago
I still don't get why parents just don't want to wait to find out the gender when the baby is born. Not buying the reasons of picking out baby accessories and nursery decor being a factor. There's more colours than pink and blue, and there's no laws saying it's mandatory to assign a gender to colour. There was a time when all babies were dressed in white, frilly gowns, and a time when pink was considered masculine and a pastel version of red and represents strength and power, and blue was for girls because blue represents innocence and purity. At some point in the mid 20th century someone decided pink was for girls and blue was for boys and it's stuck in people's heads ever since.
Rob Chapman 3 years ago
One of those caused a massive wildfire in California, leading to the death of a firefighter, and the destruction of endangered species habitat. They were charged with involuntary manslaughter, amongst other crimes
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Agreed, coming from a kindergarten/preschool teacher. Kids either don't care or it makes them more anxious about the next year. We always did a end of year concert and that was more than enough, what more do parents need? A chance to take a photo of their child in a ridiculous hat that even high school graduates don't wear here?
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I hope: mommy bloggers who post constant pics and details of their children. Robbing children of privacy for likes and money is sickening.
Don’t even get me started on ones with sick kids…
B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 3 years ago (edited)
Honestly I’m tired of the modern desperate breed of Instagram mommy bloggers - and people from my tiny hometown who are trying to be wannabe mommy bloggers in the grossest way, like constant gender reveal parties - whose whole entire identity is “im a mommy!” 😬 As a childfree person I’ve had enough of them try to shame me 😅 just a bad experience on my part so I mean no ill will but still. Get a hobby, trust me. Find yourself, find what you want to do, find out who you are without being a mom. Your kid will grow up and then what? Be your own person without relying on your kids to validate you. (Please realize I’m not talking about every mommy blogger, just the ones who relate to this post.)
sarah downer 3 years ago
I post more pics of my dog than of my kids. 😂 Being a mom is a huge part of my identity, but it's not all I am. I think moms who make that their only personality trait are really sad and probably really insecure, and they're pushing their insecurities on to their kids. I'm so glad I grew up before social media.
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Christien Newbury 3 years ago
This comment deserves a medal! And a standing ovation!
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SealOfDisapproval 3 years ago
I have three kids, and have posted a total of zero pictures of them. I just don't think it would be right to create and manage their online presence.
Thumeka Sebaeng 3 years ago (edited)
Isn't there a spectrum instead of either/or? I think instead of a blanket ban, rather let's be explicit about those who treat their child's lives like an online reality show. I'm not very active on social media, but here and there I will post a picture of my daughter because she too is a beautiful part of my life. If a stranger gets to see it, that's fine with me. I get the negative sentiment, it's just that we have to remember that the internet, especially social media, is at least 16 years old and some people who are adults now were posted by their parents at the time. From my tiny little experience, I know of none of the now-grown kids in my life or the lives of people in my circles who have complained. We need to account for my why there isn't a major movement of blacklash against it by people who have been posted instead of what I take to be concern for kids being pushed too far. I stand to be corrected. One last thought, a blanket ban would have to be expanded to all media, including kids on TV or in movies or on advertisements. Hence I call for a spectrum and moderation in assuming everyone posting their kids online is insensitive and exploitative.
Angela B 3 years ago
THIS. So many "celebs" posting picture after picture of their babies from birth. For endorsements, kickbacks, likes and freebies. YOU as the adult have a choice. Your baby/toddler/child does not. The whole frame who#@*s thing (males and females alike) and sticking a camera in your kids face constantly..... eewwww. Hope the money is still there when the poor child needs therapy.
Maya Kinkiry 3 years ago
The key is moderation. I have a family member who lives in a poor country and they have a terminally ill child. Treatment is expensive and found only in big cities, so again, rent and living there is more expensive than in a village. I think they started the blog first as a coping mechanism and later they were forced to ask for adoptions. It’s not an easy scenario. The ones who purely do it for the money and expose their kids, yes, I get the annoyance. But let’s not overgeneralise everything.
CatWoman312 3 years ago
Knowing predators are out there too. It’s like they don’t care about their safety either
Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
We need to remember it is not just woman, guys are doing this as well
#6
Cruel pranks on strangers for views
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
It absolutely infuriates me to see these, "its a prank bro". No it isn't, it's harassment.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
Pranks in general. There is almost always an element of cruelty involved, and they are rarely funny in any way.
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
Or doing pranks on your partner. Most of them are not funny and if I had a partner that did this I'd be single again in a heartbeat.
Sergy Yeltsen 3 years ago
This needs to be higher on the list. Even white-knighting and pretending to be doing good things for likes is disgusting in the extreme. I am so very surprised that no arrogant, egotistical social media moron has been punched out or (in the US) shot. I'm guessing they size their targets up first, just like sharks or cutpurses.
Eric Mac Fadden 3 years ago
It's the trashiest content ever... in Brazil it is staged EVERY. BLOODY. SECOND. and there are almost much as the Asian ones (sometimes funny, because the weird bizarreness on the script)
"Long-term trends with staying power seem to build more slowly, but at a steady pace. Be careful of jumping on the 'bandwagon' yourself, just because something is popular in the moment. That’s the scenario that’s most likely to haunt you in the future," he shared.
"Oh, and gender reveal parties? Get rid of them. Let me break it to you- no one cares what the sex of your child is, except you," Mike said, and we wholeheartedly agree.
Predicting the future is never easy. It can be done, but it’s never going to be close to 100% accurate. Well, not until we develop genuine AIs that can take into account trillions of different factors and how they play off each other and connect into a dynamic, ever-shifting whole, but that probably won’t happen for quite some time yet. (But if it already has, Skynet, we love you, please don’t punish us for liking social media so much!)
#7
Mommy needs a drink and mommy wine culture — I hate this BS of normalizing alcoholism and these 'Poor me, my suburbia life is so rough, I can’t make it without wine o’clock.' Huge eye roll.
Fish Boden 3 years ago
I'd rather not see the dig at 'suburbia life is so rough'. We don't know what other people are going through or suffering, this is just rude.
sarah downer 3 years ago
I can't agree more. It's partially what turned me into an alcoholic. Almost 6 months sober and I feel so much better and I enjoy my family more.
Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
And buying onesies for your baby that say "I'm the reason mommy drinks"
BadCat 3 years ago
If parents want to drink alcohol responsibly then whatever. What's terrible is parents lying to their kids calling it "juice" or any form of it as juice. Just be straight with your kids. Call it wine. It's not like men have ever told their sons "Go fetch me my "Daddy cola" from the fridge". Talk to your kids about alcohol.
Zenozenobee 3 years ago
Does that even exist ? I mean... This sound pretty dangerous. If my kids think it's juice, they are going to try for a sip...
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Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I don't mind the mummy needs wine stuff, I often joke that my kids drive me to drink but in reality I rarely drink these days - and I hate wine so guess I'm not a great example. We go to the local town pub quiz fairly regularly and often take our two youngest with us if the older two don't want to babysit - they see me and their dad have a few pints but it's not a big deal. Alcohol in general isn't seen as a massive deal in Scotland as long as you're not getting s**t faced in front of your kids every night. My oldest two are 16 and just turned 18 so oldest is legal go drink but I'll also buy my son drinks if he asks as I'd much rather know what they're drinking and how much than send them out to drink god knows what concoction their mates come up with - and Tim works, they've never went behind my back and I've earned their trust just as they've earned mine. If the worst thing a parent does is have a drink to unwind after a long day then I think they're doing a pretty good job
keighterz 3 years ago
Also how people think it’s completely acceptable to get trashed drunk in front of kids because “aLcOhOl Is LeGaL” but if a woman smokes a little weed outside the house to help with anxiety or stress it’s horrible and they should be in jail. I hate wine moms and everything about them.
#8
Climate change denial.
Global warming is one of those problems that we won't truly recognise until the damage has already been done. We are reaching that point.
In twenty years there will no longer be a façade.
Phendrena 3 years ago
I would argue that we have already reached that point as significant portions of humanity are just stupid to realise what is happening and what needs to be done. We needed action 30 years ago. My son is 14 and what world is he going to experience, his kids, their kids? It deeply saddens me.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
Did you see the thread "weird - strange things you can buy"??? If people stopped buying unnecessary stuff that would be the first step.. My garden is drying out, plants are drooping bc it's way too dry here. I live in the North of France and the Meuse river and canal are way too low. It 's depressing.
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Boris Long-Johnson 3 years ago
Blaming individuals whilst massive companies either don’t bother or greenwash is killing us all.
Nitka Tsar 3 years ago
Not doing anything yourself because „massive companies are the real culprit“ is bad too
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Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
Sitting in Scotland melting my a*s off (unfortunately not literally) I agree - it's not normal for us to gave this weather, I do not like it
Rowan/Vin 3 years ago
Same! My legs look like a lobster and feel like an oven. It's not natural and it needs to be addressed
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pink_panda 3 years ago
In twenty years there will still be absolute idiots denying anything is wrong. Why should they care about the only place we have to live if sky daddy is about to swoop them up any day now? Fundamentalists are the worst.
Will Cable 3 years ago
What irritates me are the Climate Change protesters who are double standards/hypocrites. Ones that will protest about homes needing to be insulated but they themselves live in a huge place by themselves or with a partner with no insulation or double glazing. Those who protest about oil usage yet will have several cars in their driveway or take multiple holidays a year flying to their destination. Those who did marches about recycling but left tons of rubbish/trash littering the streets.
humdrum 3 years ago
Your irritation must be of formidable weight to draw attention to itself underneath this post.
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Cashme Outside 3 years ago
Today I learned thst the US uses 1000 football fields worth of trees to make newspapers for “Sunday Editions” alone. Every. Single. Week. Further, discarded newspapers make up a massive portion of the methane gas that is emitted from landfills. There is really no good reason to have physical print newspapers in a country where over 97% of people own a cell phone and 85% own a smartphone. This could be legislated and make a major impact, but nothing will change.
#9
Social Media.
It has negatively affected mental health, caused irreparable damage to grammar and the English language as a whole, produced multiple generations of narcissists.
Janet C 3 years ago (edited)
Social media has its place. I use it to keep in touch with friends and family who are all now 5000 miles away since I moved to Spain. I also use it to keep track of goings on and available services in my area here where I moved. What I DON'T use it for is a daily ego boost or "influencer" platform. It's all in how you view social media. For me it's a tool.
Iampenny 3 years ago
Language evolves, it always has and always will, and that's OK. What annoys me is the fact that the German language, for example, is “losing” so many of their words,. People use English words instead of the perfectly fine already existing German words, it sounds terrible, and not as cool as people think. This is probably also true for other non-English languages that I don't speak.
Potato 3 years ago
Every time someone complains about the language changing, I ask them "Dost thou matron know ye weareth her drapery?"
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
I do wish this were true but can't see it happening. I think it's just going to be platform after another after another. I hate social media, but feel like a pariah for doing so.
Sonny Kohler 3 years ago
Personally I don't think Social Media is a bad thing. What the bad thing is, is when you take it WAY to seriously.
BadCat 3 years ago
Language has always been evolving. We don't speak the same we did 100 years ago, and people 100 years ago didn't speak the same as those who lived 100 years before them. That's what my English teacher told us. Seems like in modern times everything is evolving and changing more rapidly to the point it's harder for us to keep up.
LeighAnne Brown-Pedersen 3 years ago
Yes! Fictitious reality and unrealistic beauty standards. I hope it dies!
DC 3 years ago
... I still am somewhat baffled by how thoughtless people throw around their personal data, just because it's convenient and "Who don't commit any crime, has nothing to hide, nothing to fear!" - as if it were that simple. But today, those wet dreams of Erich Mielke aren't invading our privacy due to someone else's actions and desires - we (as a society, I personally don't to any social media) ourselves are it, don't hand it over to some government agency, which would be bad enough in and for itself, but to companies who, of course, only want our best - our money. Someone pays for data someone else collected and connected. Even with supposedly untracable things you can track down people, it's just more effort in relation to the actual information gathered. Bad enough without doing any, consenting to any - but people just ... seem not to care. But nobody effectively controls any of the agencies. No one can make sure that data that today ain't abused won't ever be.
Léopoldine Mineo 3 years ago
Removed all of them from my phone a year ago. Only use messenger around once a week for people I can't contact differently (I live in London and have a lot of friends abroad) and it is life changing. Instead ? Quality time with people and inspiring articles on bored panda :)
KillerKat 3 years ago
Social media is not destroying the english language it is simply quickening the pace of which our language is being simplified. There's a reason why we no longer speak in old English or Constitutional type language.
ask 3 years ago
It's not simplified. It's people who are too stupid to know the rules of the apostrophe. Like it wasn't something you learn by age 10 but most adults can't grasp it!
Load More Replies...Aaron Genest, from Siemens Software, explained to Bored Panda that we can get a good idea of what the future might hold, what technologies will be around, by looking ‘upstream’ in the investment space.
"For instance, it takes almost two years to develop and produce a computer chip and get it to market for a phone, and five years to get something into a new kind of car. So if we want to have a sense for what, for instance, the gadgets in our cars will look like in 2026, we just need to look at what the car manufacturers are asking their suppliers to design today,” he explained to Bored Panda earlier.
According to the tech specialist, industries that invest billions of dollars into particular technologies, e.g. 5G or particular chips, will want to recoup their investments. So it’s likely that the things they invested in will, at least in part, play some sort of role in the future of tech.
#10
Eyelashes so fake they look like spiders.
debrina blackmoon 3 years ago (edited)
Giant asses. On purpose. Oh, and same for extreme boobs.
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Penelope Orange 3 years ago
Also those ridiculous fake nails so popular now. I think they're disgusting.
shut up I'm reading heartstopper 3 years ago
Its completely fine if you don't like them but make sure to be respectful because people express themselves in different ways
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Also, overlaying lips to make them look larger. No, sweetie, you just made it look like your makeup skills are on par with a 3yo.
Whodathunkit 3 years ago
Omg...yes! You should see some of the eyelashes, nails, hairdos, eye makeup, brows, lips etc that people wear when they come in to the hospital for surgery!! They look like they're going out for a night on the town! It boggles my mind..
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
My daughter gets eyelashes done, she like it so that's all good but I'm not a fan - I asked about getting a more natural look but apparently that's not how it's done these days - each to their own. It's not my thing but if it makes you feel good then you do you, I tried them once and the woman glued my eyes shut, it was so painful, then my eyes started swelling up so I ended up hours later using Vaseline to rub off all the extensions I could, it was awful. And I asked for natural looking, not the eyeball pelmets that I ended up with
Tamra 3 years ago
I'm sorry, that sounds very uncomfortable, but...😂..."eyeball pelmets".
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Zande Dechandy 3 years ago
I swear they look like the fringe on old chenille bedspreads. Hate 'em!
#11
Single use plastics
Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago
But.... straws 😢 I know some people won't be happy with this. I don't like excessive use of plastic either and try to avoid it. But paper straws are just gross, there's no other way for me to describe it. I need a better alternative :/
Jar of Pickles 3 years ago (edited)
What about drinking out of the glass?
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Deborah B 3 years ago
Straws are a red herring. The biggest single industry contributor to Ocean plastics is commercial fishing, responsible for 20% of the plastic in our oceans. The remaining 80% is plastics coming from rivers and coastlines. Notably, it isn't coming from the most developed countries, where waste management strategies are better. 81% of the plastic waste from rivers and coastlines comes from Asia, with the Philippines as the worst offender. Multinational corporations are flooding those emerging markets with single use plastic packaging despite the lack of recyling or waste management systems. Plastic straws are a problem for marine wildlife, but they're being used as a distraction, to take attention away from much larger sources of plastic pollution so that large multinationals can continue to profit at the expense of the planet.
Deborah B 3 years ago
Sources include : https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/how-unilever-plastic-sachets-became-a-toxic-scourge-oceans https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-10/the-tiny-plastic-packages-that-are-fueling-asias-waste-crisis
Load More Replies... Little_redheaded_girl 3 years ago
They have already created straws from corn. They feel like plastic and stand up for about 12hrs before going soft. Easily compostable.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
When we go pick up plastic off the beach, about 50% of it is fishing equipment or other stuff from boats (or storms), about 40% is plastic bottles, and about 10% is the rest of it. The sheer amount of bottles is what surprises me. Two of us can fill a couple garbage bags in about an hour.
Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
And no, I've never picked up a single straw from the beach. Plastic straws aren't the problem. Quite a few plastic bags, though.
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Raena Celis 3 years ago
I've washed and reused the few plastic forks and spoons that I have in my kitchen
pat hayes 3 years ago
same here...they only get recycled after they have totally fallen to pieces...i also use solo red plates for everyday things and i can run them thru the dishwashermultiple times....then finally put them to a final use in hobbies, such as using as a paint palette.
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Apatheist 62 3 years ago
Is this really a trend? They've been around for years and are already reducing.
Angel Williams 3 years ago
Paper straws annoy the heck out of me. Most places wont recycle them because theyve been "contaminated" and in our local council, if one is seen in our recycle bin the bin-men refuse to empty the bin. Same goes for cardboard "fast-food" containers and paper bags that have soaked up grease from whatever was inside. If you have to use a straw because of disability there are multiple types of cup lids available instead to turn it into a sip-i-cup type that doesnt spill. If not then put your big boy panties on and drink like an adult out of the cup/glass
#12
Filming everything you do. I was born in the late 1980s and this is just so weird to me since I grew up in an era of film cameras where every shot counted. It's so bizarre seeing some of my coworkers in their twenties film an average workday at the office like it's some sort of tourist attraction. Why would you do this?
Jccaidc 3 years ago
Agree no one gives a hoot. Like Jim Gaffigan said, 'I have more pics of my kids than my dad ever looked at me.'
Thumeka Sebaeng 3 years ago (edited)
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Load More Replies... pink_panda 3 years ago
Interestingly, some of these "day in the life" videos could have ethnographic value (for learning more about humans) but I imagine they're so tainted by social media antics that they're less than authentic.
Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Imagine if they did this 500 years ago. We'd know a lot more about the way people lived and thought back then.
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Why would we do this? Because we are now followed by several generations whose sense of identity and worth are determined by having their very existence validated by strangers. Such narcissism is fed by the fact that people's mundane lives are so f**king bland, they actually feel the need to express an interest and "like" or "follow" someone as literally buttered some toast / had a new haircut / owns a cute cat. It's pathetic beyond belief and the more competition for attention there is, the more people are compelled to make utter prats of themselves so that they stand out from the crowd. It's sad beyond belief. But that's where we are...
Trond Øien 3 years ago
Or the future kids and/or grandkids of this generation will go scorched earth on social media in rebellion against their parents. One can dream...
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
I can't for the sake of me understand that sh..t, my business is MY business and i never once felt the need to share it with strangers, if it was a funny story or even something interesting or wierd lol, ok but your frikking every day ordinary little life..... Grow up.
Eric Mac Fadden 3 years ago
It's so easy to record images nowadays... my work became harder, because the professionals film so much useless stuff without thinking because they have no worries about lack of tape...
Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
There is a line of research that indicates watching stuff through the phone camera is reducing the emotional attachment to the events. You are missing out on your kids when you watch their recital through your phone.
Mario Strada 3 years ago
My rule on filming: "Am I ever going to watch this again?" if the answer is no, there is no point filming it. (Unless it's a dashcam or security camera, at which point older footage gets deleted).
Michael P. 3 years ago
To paraphrase George Carlin. “Camcorders, technology gone berserk”. He would be having a field day with social media.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, Ramona Pringle, from the Creative Innovation Studio at Ryerson University revealed to Bored Panda some time ago that while we don’t know for sure what the future will hold, we can count on some trends to keep going strong: “We love stories, and we love to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Be it oral storytelling, books, blogs, movies, or video games, we’ve never lost our love of narrative.”
According to the expert, people will always look for ways to be together, to be connected to one another. We long for communal experiences, whether in concert halls, being entertained in giant arenas, or remotely.
“Immersion and interactivity have long been goals for creators and media makers when it comes to how technology can influence entertainment,” Ramona told us.
#13
Subscription-based everything. You can't own SHIT these days. Everything is a matter of 'You can have access to this thing, but only so long as you give us some money per month.'
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
"And we have the ability to add or remove it from the collection at our leisure, so hopefully you want it when we do."
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Oh, and even though you already pay a subscription, and have been watching programs we offer without commercials, we’re now going to show them with the most annoying, badly timed (like breaking away mid-sentence then not returning to that exact same point so we can hear the rest of that sentence), and long running blocks of the same commercials, over and over again, unless you pay us even more. You know, like free TV used to.
Load More Replies... Rob Chapman 3 years ago (edited)
One upon a time we owned our cassettes, cd's , video tapes and dvd's. You paid for it once, and that was it. Unless your old copy wore out, or an updated version was released. Now....you own nothing. I always hear people say "I bought so & so's album", and then they pull it up on Spotify. No....you didn't buy anything. You paid a streaming service to give you access to an album, until they decide otherwise.
Donny Bereznak 3 years ago
I buy songs/albums on Bandcamp, or Amazon music if it's not on Bandcamp. Then I download the music on my own portable hard drive
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Ter Mite 3 years ago
This is why people pirate content, I DO own a copy of all my favorite media, whether the law likes it or not.
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
I will never by digital books or music...I love the texture and the smell of a book, and album covers! The artwork, the liner notes...all lost when you do it through downloads.
Kayjunmoon 3 years ago
I agreed with your sentiment but as an avid reader I realised my shelves were filling with books I would never read again and I live in a place where no one else will be interested in my books (a language thing) so I have gone the digital route for general books.
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loty moty 3 years ago
I don't think it's gong away anytime soon, in fact I think that a lot more things in our lives are going to the subscription based model in the near future like features in the cars and probably cars themselves.
meblablaing 3 years ago (edited)
I think carfeature subscription is an impertinance. car subscription on other hand... clever! parked cars use so much expensive space in the city, its a shame. And most of them are parked waaay more than driven. also cars loose their value so fast, why investing in owning one? Tough I get that it is neat to have a moveable container/bed/... you can leave your stuff or take a nap at, whereever you are.
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Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago
Company: *makes item that lasts forever and has a ton of clever, handy features* Public: *buys item* Company: *makes gobs of money* (Time passes) Company: *sales decline* People: *item keep working and fit their needs* Company: *goes out of business because of market saturation* (Time passes) People: *item finally start failing. Goes to look for a new one, finds out they don't make them like they used to because making a cheaper lower quality item that breaks down more often and requires a subscription to use the wifi do-hickey makes a more sustainable business*
Janet C 3 years ago
I remember the days when you could buy software (Photoshop, Word, Framemaker, etc.). You paid a nominal fee for an upgrade and got a DVD of the new version. Now EVERYTHING is leased. You don't actually own any software.
Helen Waight 3 years ago
Yeah the days when I could buy a computer game and have it still work even if the company who made it went bust are gone. Now even with glue player games require server connection and accounts.
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The amount of people that drive full size trucks around is ridiculous. At least 90% of them could live just fine with a little 4 door hatchback. It's sad to think about all of the millions of gallons of fuel that has been wasted by those idiots.
Inigo Montoya 3 years ago (edited)
Why is it always an over compensation joke when you see a big truck? I have a big diesel truck, I haul heavy trailers all the time with it. Maybe, just maybe the guy you're making fun of needs that truck to do his job. Or like me, pulls 15,000 to 20,000lbs trailers on a regular basis. Or also like me has a small farm that requires a big truck to take large animals to the vet, or haul loads of feed and hay/straw back to the house. Just because you think it's unnecessary doesn't mean it is. Not everyone lives in an apartment in a metropolitan area without a need for a large truck.
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keighterz 3 years ago (edited)
We just got a full size truck because my 4yo son uses a wheelchair and walker so I need the space for those. Was stuck with a little four door sedan for a long time. Could barely fit his wheelchair in the trunk and had to take it apart every time. Miserable. I love this truck. Plus it works with alternative fuels. But I hate people like my uncle who literally only have a giant, gas guzzling vehicle because they can. Like my uncle seriously thinks it’s his right to pollute the earth because, “there’s no way humans could destroy the earth and anyone who thinks that is a self righteous a*****e!” He said that to me 15 years ago and I still remember it word for word.
Stephaniep 3 years ago
It's the trucks that are clearly never used for truck things that really bother me. I frequently saw a truck a few years ago which was lifted to the clouds, I'm 5'2" and was looking straight at the tires. The tires had a barbed wire pattern on them... clearly the person wanted it to be a monster truck. But they never had anything in the back and yelled at people getting in to "be careful, don't scratch it, don't leave handprints"
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Shannon Veillon 3 years ago
I only drive my full size truck when the weather does not allow me to ride my motorcycle.
Gregg Carr 3 years ago (edited)
Same here - How many cars on the road with one person in with no luggage - Bike are better
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aurelia grey 3 years ago
It's not the truck/SUV size that bothers me. It's the idiots who drive them with a false sense of confidence or aggressively that annoys me. Being perverse though,. when I drive on a major roadway in the middle of blizzard I see more of these vehicles in ditches or rolled on one side.
keighterz 3 years ago
I am so ridiculously cautious in my truck because they ROLL. Larger vehicle does not automatically mean you are safer!
Load More Replies... LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
It's starting in Switzerlands. Our roads are not wide enough and our parking spaces not big enough for all those RAMs and F250. It looks ridiculous
Will Cable 3 years ago
One reason why so many are having a 4x4 is because they are tired of the state of the roads, potholes, speed bumps etc. One local government keeps trying to attract people to their area in electric cars,public transport and on bicycles. The roads are so bad with potholes it is unsafe on a bicycle, the speed bumps they installed are high enough that electric cars bottom out and the public transport is dire.
KimB 3 years ago
I think this depends on where you live. Some places like where I live in Ohio you almost need at least something all wheel drive. The weather here is very unpredictable. I work in healthcare so I can't just call into work because the roads are bad. I don't drive a big gas guzzler but I do drive a small all wheel drive SUV which I can change between 2 wheel drive (4 cylinder) or all wheel drive (6 cylinder) obviously I use the 2 wheel option as much as possible.
TheElderNom 3 years ago
It makes the most sense to have a car for what you use it for the most, most childless people don't need big cars, let a lone a truck. Most families don't need trucks either. Rent/borrow one for the maybe one time a year you do need one. I'm willing to bet that what you save in gas money more than makes up for it.
#15
Not sure why but I reckon vaping will prove to be a major health problem in a couple decades.
October 3 years ago (edited)
It is allready prooving to be a mayor health problem. More and more of the ingredients are being banned because they are screwing up your lungs.
El Dee 3 years ago
You're thinking of the recent illnesses and deaths. About 50 people were affected worldwide. This was due to fake cannabis cartridges using oil that isn't allowed for the purpose. There are no instances outwith that..
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Jccaidc 3 years ago
As a former tobacco smoker and now using ecigs , the improvements in my cardiovascular health, energy and doctor's physicals are significantly better
Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago
I can see that as a huge positive but don't you worry about the damage they could ALSO do to you? In possibly different and unknown ways? Genuinely asking by the way!
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A.Ham 3 years ago
Personally I believe that vaping is hated so much because it's a threat to the tobacco industry.
T. 3 years ago
Working in the chemical distribution: Glycerin USP/EP and Propylene Glycol USP/EP (the two main ingredients / aroma usually less than 1% // USP/EP = US or European Pharmacopoe = strongest regulated grade available for use in pharma and food applications) are proven to evaporate nearly residue-free and won't cause any harm if ingested (dose makes the poison). The main factor for health concerns are the aromas and their carrier substances.
Yeeters 3 years ago
oh please, targeting the vaping again? Nah nah, we have been here before, this all is b******t thrown out by the tobacco industry that's threatened by people vaping instead of smoking normal cigarettes...which are way worse for your health. It's normal to not smoke but if i had to pick, vaping is definitely less of a health risk.
Ange Marsden 3 years ago
It's hard to think vaping is a great, healthy thing to do when all the tobacco companies are gleefully jumping on the bandwagon...do they know its a great way to get new smokers on board?
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Actually, they are kinda right to be wary of vaping. Cigarettes stink. Why would you smell and taste like an ash tray when you could taste apple pie or mint thins? I'm curious to see the data on vapers switching to tobacco in the future
Load More Replies... El Dee 3 years ago
The health issues were due to fake cannabis cartridges. Those approved for use are safe. They are not completely harmless but they are as harmful as having a heavy coffee habit (not to be underestimated) The object is harm reduction ie getting smokers to stop. Many can't completely give up but CAN switch. One thoracic surgeon said that switching to vaping could save up to a million lives over the next 20 years. My country is promoting them as a smoking cessation method now. We should wonder why there are so many stories about this and not about 'inhalators' for example which are essentially the same thing without a heating coil. They are a part of the existing NRT therapy and, despite not being taxed as cigarettes, are just as expensive as smoking. The profits are MASSIVE but vaping is cheaper than smoking by a LONG way. Another encouragement to switch..
H M 3 years ago
The nasty ingredients in cigarettes are in the filter, not the tobacco. And vaping IS better, my cough went, wheeze went, fitness improved. The nay sayers should shift their focus to alcohol instead.
mulk 3 years ago (edited)
wrong for the cigarette/tobacco: "From the 1890s onwards, associations of tobacco use with cancers and vascular disease were regularly reported" (wikipedia). The link between tobacco use and lung cancer was clearly made in 1950. .. tobacco use, not cigarette. And some recent studies claim that smoking shisha (pure tobacco) is higher in cancer risk. (but yeah, " nasty ingredients in cigarettes are in the filter," too)
Load More Replies...“For the last decade, we’ve leaned into virtual reality because of how it enables both of these. We can step inside a world and have influence over it, and the story or experience that unfolds. I think one of the things we can expect moving forward is, in a sense, the opposite of virtual reality. Instead, more of an enhanced reality or fictional reality, wherein the entertainment isn’t in a headset, but instead, all around us.”
She stressed that a decade ago, people didn’t talk to robots and now many of us do. “Siri and Alexa are some of the more common bots, but we already interface with non-human characters regularly. As technology advances, including augmented reality and mixed reality, I think we can expect that entertainment will be something we can engage with off of the screen, but out in the world, with characters and stories we can engage with throughout the day, or throughout our houses.” So while some fundamental things that people care about will remain the same, the way that we interact with the world—and each other!—can change incredibly rapidly.
#16
Political polarization in America. I see either civil war or an authoritarian government taking over in the next 20 years.
Kalmar (she/her) 3 years ago
I hate how there are blue vs red states. A friend of mine had to move because her parents wanted to live in a red state. It was a rude awakening. We really aren't United after all.
Jo Firth 3 years ago
As someone living on the other side of the world (and a completely different hemisphere) I believe the USA will implode and become a very unsafe, almost third world country. And I lay the blame at the feet of the people who voted for the last president who demonstrated that you can be a bigot, sexual predator and liar, and STILL hold the highest office in the world.
DelvianBlue 3 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately our system is rigged more and more to prevent the majority of voters' voices from being heard. In presidential elections especially, if maps are drawn such that the majority of districts go to one candidate, that candidate will win the state and only votes for him count on the national level. All the other votes are thrown away. They'll go to the popular vote, but the popular vote doesn't count for anything. It makes it really hard to change things by voting. FYI, I'm speaking from a US state that has chosen to use an illegal map rigged for a republican win for our next election. The state and federal courts know about it, declared it illegal, and refused to have it changed before the election. It's not a guarantee that a republican will win of course, but it will be much harder for anyone not in their party.
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loty moty 3 years ago
I hope for a middle of the road politician to rise up from the left or right to put an end to this us vs them mentality.
v 3 years ago
The politicians themselves won't let it happen. They're the ones who keep the populace raging at each other in the first place and as long as the populace is raging at each other they will never recognize middle of the road politics and politicians.
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Mario Strada 3 years ago
If it happens, it will be without precedent because the boundaries are not geographical as much as rural Vs. Urban, and we all live next door to people with opposite political beliefs. What really worries me is the absolute disregard for democratic norms and the legalized corruption of US politicians.
Whodathunkit 3 years ago
Nope. Political polarization is a sneaky ploy to keep the masses distracted while the ruling class do whatever the eff they want to become richer and more powerful.
Tim 3 years ago
Yes, and every once in a while, those divides erupt in hugely destructive conflict.
Load More Replies... Jccaidc 3 years ago
The USA is like watching the most talented athlete on the team die of a drug overdose
BadCat 3 years ago
Nah it's been like watching a toddler have a major tantrum in a store, like tearing up shelves, throwing things and running around screaming like a banshee, and the parent shouting at everyone "STOP JUDGING US. HE'S GOT AUTISM. HE CAN'T HELP IT." It really is.
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nad krut 3 years ago
News and Social Media are such a huge driver of this. So many people I know lean one way or another but can listen to the other sides ideas or at least have an understanding of why people feel a certain way. But so many news stories just amplify the worst elements on Twitter, or just have a clickbait title and then ten tweets from random people who agree with the title. I don't care what side you're on, our news is a bunch of click whores looking to sell ads for the next pharmaceutical garbage drug to come out
v 3 years ago
I started seeing this about 8ish years ago and was hoping that I'd be near death or dead (at first I was pinning it to about 50 years) by the time it got this bad. Unfortunately the mindset of the American public shifted in such a negative way in the last few years that I'm now worried that it will happen in 20 years or less.
Tim 3 years ago
The US was founded with a fundamental flaw that took four score and seven years and hundreds of thousands of lives to rectify (and it's still not really rectified). And those cracks have ever been present in our nation and they open up from time to time, without true resolution.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
My hope is that cooler heads will prevail, will pull us back from that precipice, and make the pendulum swing away from stupid and back toward reason.
#17
Too much plastic surgery, fillers and Botox on young people.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
And on people who are already lovely (does smh mean shaking my head, if so, smh)
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
On any kind of ppl, no matter the age. I get that one wants to be perfect and beautiful, but thid generic look is horrible. I have saggy boobs, stretch marks and wrinkles but love my body for keeping me alive and fit. I would prefer giving ppl lessons in self confidence to exposing them to plastic surgery
Nicola Roberts 3 years ago
My daughter, aged 24, had Botox a couple of weeks ago. Apparently it's called baby Botox and is used as a preventative treatment 🤦♀️. I've never had any cosmetic treatments so this is 100% a social/cultural pressure. Who knows what this will do to her physically or emotionally in the coming years? I just kept thinking the price she paid could have gone some way to paying an energy bill this winter!
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Or on anybody who really doesn’t need it. If you’ve had an accident or illness or some other misfortunes that has disfigured you and is affecting your self esteem, then by all means get as much cosmetic surgery, fillers, and Botox as you need. If it’s Body Dysmorphia, a mental/emotional issue, then get help, please! Otherwise, if you’re already good looking but maybe getting older, then why not age gracefully, especially if you’ve always taken care of yourself and don’t look your age? Yes, I know certain industries hate wrinkles and try to throw away anyone who has them, but that’s them and their f****d up view, not you. Stand up for yourself and threaten them with an ageism suit, then f*****g file it if they don’t back down. Lobby to end ageism (which would be a whole new career for you, btw), and let’s allow those with experience and wisdom to find/keep jobs and continue working until they’re comfortable retiring. Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you’re well off enough to retire, and even if you do retire it’s a gamble. Because you might outlive your retirement savings, and still have bills to pay that your Social Security check alone will not cover!
Spooky Scary Skeletons 3 years ago
Future generations will see photos of influencers with "duck lips" and wonder WTF about both.
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Didn’t plastic surgery begin as a reconstruction tool? It would be so wonderful to see it ONLY used as such. Sigh.
#18
Not taking COVID seriously. I think the number of long-term health issues that will result from COVID is going to be huge.
James016 3 years ago
I caught COVID a month or so ago. Even though I am testing negative, I still have a permanent splitting headache and cough. I have been told it could take about 6 weeks before these symptoms go away. Yes I am vaccinated and boosted
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
And the reason you’ve only got a headache and cough, and are not dying on a respirator in a hospital with your family not allowed to visit you, is because of that vaccination and booster. (James, I know you know all this already, so please know that this is not at all directed at you. I just felt the need to say it for the obtuse antivaxx/COVID denier dumbfucks out there who apparently cannot get the fine point of the difference through their thick skulls).
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Melissa Peck 3 years ago
I believe that the Covid deniers are largely responsible for keeping Covid going. Just because you only had sniffles, the person you passed it to might end up hospitalized or worse. Am also tired of the complaining when I hand put PPE to visitors at the nursing home I work at.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
As someone who had covid with a mere sore throat, I also grew up with an immunocompromised mother and was in college during swine flu. I have never lined up for a Vax faster in my life. No way in hell was I going to kill my mother faster than the chemo. The attitude against basic precautions drives me crazy
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Karma Black 3 years ago
I live with my in-laws. My mother-in-law, husband, and I have all been fighting COVID for the past week. We're all vaxxed and boosted, but it's still been miserable; and while my hubby and I are recovering well, his mom just went to the emergency room with probable pneumonia. We're still waiting to hear from her. Even vaxxed, COVID is no joke.
Mario Strada 3 years ago
When I learned the Covid was a Coronavirus, in the family of the common cold, I knew that we would never get rid of it. Mutates too much, making vaccines effective in the short term but requiring multiple changing formulation over time. Plus all the antivax idiots contribute to limit further research. If we had taken it seriously for more than just a few months, we might have been able to limit the damage, but now that ship has sailed.
Load More Replies... Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I have Long Covid. After over a year and a half, my typical blood oxygen is around 80%. I can't walk further than 20 feet because I get so out of breath I collapse. Along with that? Fibromyalgia, brain fog, fevers, distorted vision and light sensitivity are among my other symptoms. My whole life has come to a halt. And I am far from alone.
DelvianBlue 3 years ago (edited)
That's my concern. I caught covid from a coworker who refused to mask up whenever the boss wasn't around or practice social distancing. She came in sick with what she said was just a sinus infection. Spoiler - it wasn't a sinus infection. She made a full recovery but I got long covid with a permanently altered sense of smell. And I worry that in 15-20 years we're going to see an exponential increase in lung cancer and COPD due to covid lung, and I could end up with one or both. That's how it seems to work with those kinds of viruses that cause few symptoms in the majority of a population. Hopefully covid won't be that way.
iseefractals 3 years ago
The worst part of covid, is how badly it underperformed given the number of mind numbing idiots that have perpetuated the crisis by refusing to adhere to the most obvious of preventative measures.
Elena Doyle 3 years ago
I had it a few months ago, and it was still horrible (even though I was fully vaccinated). It was hard to do any exercises and normal day to day activities. And I had eye problems (I’d randomly see stars) for about a month after I was sick. Then I had to get an ECHO done because I was having heart fluttering. Covid is no joke.
Chancey 3 years ago
Me too! Terrible brain fog and now about to see another cardiologist because of irregular/premature heartbeats.
Load More Replies... Kat 3 years ago
I've had covid twice now. The first time the being sick period wasn't so bad, just migraine, like I usually have, but full recovery took couple of months. Second time I had runny nose for about 2 days but had to stay in isolation for 10 days. Well, at least my home got thoroughly cleaned...
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I've been so quick to get out of breath since having covid - it's shocking how bad it is. I also gave fibromyalgia which has been tough the last few years, but given a lot of long term symptoms are similar to my lifelong condition it's hard to tell what is caused by what - but I am hoping that given the similarities more research will be done and treatments will be one more effective as right now the meds are almost as bad as the condition itself
#19
Minimalist everything. Every house, closet, and restaurant looks the same now. In 20 years, it’s all going to change because we’ll all be bored.
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
I have so many stupid little trinkets around my house. Sometimes my inner minimalist wants to trash them to make cleaning easier, but then the room looks so naked.
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
Why not choose the ones you love, and put those ones on display. If the rest don't make you happy, pass them on to a charity shop or second hand shop. You will have a clearer place, with things you love, and the room won't be naked.
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Anna Banana 3 years ago
As opposed to any other design trend, which has stayed in fashion forever? Of course everything's going to change in 20 years, I'd be worried if it didn't!
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago
And minimalism has existed though many design trends anyway.
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Mattewis88 3 years ago
Idk, ever since I decluttered, (aka, put all trinkets in little boxes out of sight because I get attached to things) I feel like I can finally breathe. I want my stuff, I just don't want to see it.
Veronica Rabbit 3 years ago
In my opinion, minimalism can be a great thing. I love a tidy room & my minimalist style/mindset forces me to give away things I really don't need. Then again, it's not for everyone.
Stoopham McFernybabes 3 years ago (edited)
For me minimalism is far more practical, enjoyable and simplifies life. Less physical clutter, less visual clutter, less cleaning and moving things around, less time searching for things, less to worry about. I find a minimalist room relaxing. I can understand it not being everyone’s aesthetic preference but to say there is a problem with the principle of it is just misguided.
#20
Facebook has explicitly encouraged its users to break down privacy barriers between different aspects of their life, e.g. work, school, and family. This is not a theoretical effect but an intentional one; Zuck has explicitly said that in his view, people who maintain boundaries between different parts of their life "lack integrity" and that it's Facebook's goal to promote "integrity" in this specific sense.
This is deeply dysfunctional.
It's *normal* to have different social contexts in which you present yourself differently. That's how humans have always been, ever since we invented huts and can go inside a hut and be private with someone.
Boundaries between different parts of your life are healthy. You get to decide who's allowed in your hut. Tearing down someone else's boundaries is a hostile act, not a friendly one. (LGBT+ people know this regarding "outing" someone without their consent.)
It should be up to *you* to decide when you feel safe to bring down certain boundaries, e.g. to come out to your family as gay, to tell your coworker about your religious beliefs, or the like.
Facebook is an institution that sees its purpose as including tearing down people's boundaries. That's a problem.
Ange Marsden 3 years ago
It was so nice back in the days when your friends and family couldn't follow you to work and visa versa
Sonny Kohler 3 years ago
@Ange Marsden... you don't know my family at all...
Load More Replies... Ant1 3 years ago
Hum.. Delete your account. Unsubscribe. Remove the app. Or even better do everything you can to destroy these networks
pat hayes 3 years ago
i, personally, hate FB , find it invasive & sleazy....tried it once....then deleted it 24 hrs. later...or so i thought....it is as tenacious as toenail fungus!
Load More Replies... BadCat 3 years ago
You don't even have to put every detail of your life and status, either. Technically, you can lie about your account details if you really want to. How are they gonna know?
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Sarah Chilcote 3 years ago
Just recently, a mom and daughter were charged with a federal crime when daughter sent a private message in fb about getting morning-after pills. fb gave access to those comments to law enforcement. nothing is private.
Tamra 3 years ago
I hope everyone really reads and grasps what you just wrote. A mother and daughter were charged with a CRIME for trying to get plan B. Inconceivable that this is the world we live in.
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General Anaesthesia 3 years ago
Metastasis/Fecesbook and Mark Zuckerberg are huge societal and mental health hazards.
GlassHalfWay 3 years ago
I have no FB, no Instagram, no Twitter. No social media. I'm a rarity among my late 30's friends.
#21
The scaremongering about trans people
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
Ugh, yes. Can't we just let others be? If they're happy and they're not hurting anyone, why do people have to take offense?
Zachary Gillette 3 years ago
The outcry is usually when they AREN'T letting others be, IE competing in sports.
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Paul Pierokowski 3 years ago
There's nothing scary or weird about trans people. My gf is trans. We've had sex. It wasn't weird. I'm not gay at all. She's a perfect and beautiful woman. I don't care what she was born with downstairs.
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
I do have a problem with my trans roommate - she keeps going in my closet and borrowing my c**p... LOL. Otherwise I don't care that I am an innie and she is an outie.
Load More Replies... Furmama0501 3 years ago
Or equating anything that isn't herterosexual with pedophilia. It is ridiculous.
Michael Largey 3 years ago (edited)
Especially since most pedophiles are heterosexuals.
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RandomFrog(He/They️️) 3 years ago
I am a trans man and omg. I can’t. Like every single day I have to wake up and realize my chest is still there. I have to wake up everyday and realize that I wasn’t born a cis man. And deal with all that gender dysphoria. And on top of that my parents don’t accept me! Like I’m getting no closer to getting a chest binder or any support. And if the world just accepted trans people it wouldn’t be like this. I’m not saying I want to have surgeries right now, but the very least you could do is use my pronouns and preferred name. Being trans is hard and then dealing with having no support systems? I can’t. I literally can’t. The amount of times I was so close to diy-ing my top surgery becuase I was just so done? I can’t. Just let me live my life in peace!! I just want to exist in peace just let me exists please. Stop being transphobic there’s nothing wrong with us.
Cuddly Panda 3 years ago
I'm sorry for what you have to go through. Some ahole downvoted you, so upvoting to balance.
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keighterz 3 years ago
What people don’t seem to realize is this: you do not have to agree with someone 100% in order to give them the rights they deserve. You don’t have to be ok with someone’s beliefs or outlook or gender identity, BUT you do NOT get to harass them, strip them of their humanity, murder them, r**e them, humiliate them, beat them, etc. They literally have no effect on your life.
Kharyss 3 years ago
I don’t think the majority want to harass, dehumanise or beat trans people. But there are legitimate concerns in areas like competitive sports that do need to be resolved. If someone has gone through male puberty, they will have different musculature and skeletal differences to a genetic female. If a 230lb 6ft person wants to identify as female, I have no issues. If they then want to play rugby or football against people who are genetically female, I do. Even if only for safety reasons. Reducing testosterone levels doesn’t negate physiological differences.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I fully support people being whatever they want to be and I will consider them whatever gender they feel fits them - I've no trouble distinguishing identity from genetics. What I don't like, which I'm not convinced is a thing from transgender people themselves but the weird offended by everything crowd, is the idea that it's no longer ok to say things like pregnant woman, breastfeeding etc as that excludes trans people. I don't see why I suddenly have to change how I refer to myself as it's now offensive, why is it offensive? Is this really something that's a thing or is it just a made up drama to bring anti-trans feelings? I fully understand still having the opposite sexual organs for your internal body image is difficult, and that's why therapy is essential to cope throughout the transition - and some conditions will always be gender specific - a genetic male isn't going to have cervical cancer, or a female prostate - it's just part of their genetics, separate from identity
S 3 years ago
Like imagine if you just give them the rights they deserve... then everyone can just go back to being regular members of society and all this protesting can stop... refusing them their rights is only going to make them louder. AS THEY SHOULD BECAUSE THEY DESERVE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE.
JuniorCJ82 3 years ago
or any LGBT+ people, FFS they want EQUAL rights NOT "special treatment"
v 3 years ago
Why not simply scaremongering in general? When it comes to scaremongering is there actually any type that is better than any other?
Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago
I'd say because scaremongering about trans people is causing hate crime proliferation. It is resulting in deaths.
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#22
Veneers. People are LITERALLY sawing down their teeth for pictures and likes.
Charlie does cartwheels 3 years ago
…or maybe to help their own self esteem or confidence? Not everyone is social media obsessed. My husband has two because he was really uncomfortable with issues he’s had since youth. And yet, he he doesn’t have an account on a single social media site, go figure. 🙄
Lady Goldberry 3 years ago
I suspect the OP probably means more like the ones on social media with their dazzling grins. But I agree with you, they do have their uses, for sure!
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KimB 3 years ago
I had bad teeth my whole life...At age 40 I got implanted denture on the top and they match my natural bottom teeth. You would never know they were fake if I didn't tell you. Having bad teeth isn't just a cosmetic issue bad teeth can lead to a multitude of health problems including damage to your heart.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I can't wait until I can afford implants
Load More Replies... Natalie Bohrteller 3 years ago
And they all seem to have the same set of teeth. Talk about individuality.
Charlie does cartwheels 3 years ago
Is it a crime to want nice teeth so you don’t feel socially awkward and afraid to smile?
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Robert T 3 years ago
Veneers aren't bad if they are to fix a few teeth with issues. A whole mouthful that looks like an advert for Daz washing powder just looks ridiculous. The worst however is people having crowns rather than veneers where the literally have to cut away a part of a healthy tooth to fit a crown. Go look up Turkey Teeth to see what I mean.
Pat Bond 3 years ago
99% of the Z list reality stars in the UK go to Turkey for their cosmetic surgery these are known as "Turkey teef" and they are blindingly obvious. My barber was telling me there are deals to be had on hair transplants for as little as £1500 for the flight , hotel and surgery, amazing price but again the result may be a little too obvious.
S 3 years ago
I've always said, if I were to come into a large sum of money one day (like lottery big) one of the first things I'd do is get new teeth.. lol Not for likes or views or anyone else's approval, but for my own overall self esteem :) I have decent teeth and do what I can to take care of them but I'd like a really gorgeous smile.
emowankinemo 3 years ago
Beg to disagree. I smashed my teeth in a car accident, should I have left them unusable?
#23
Letting companies freely track our online behaviors
Nimues Child 3 years ago
(edit: moved this from a reply to a comment) @Anna Banana, my wife works in IT security and I work at a place that studies this stuff. It is a bigger deal than you are articulating. It is telling when the professionals who work in network security keep as much of their life offline as possible. 15 years ago, when a company contact balked at including his work email in a registration because of what he knew from his time in the NSA, I thought he was just overreacting. Now, I understand.
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
My dad was one of the first sekt taught IT specialists here. He told me to leave as few traces online as possible. Now you can't find me even if you know my name, DOB and other details. I also only use details for this profile here that are slightly off (number, age and gender of kids, my age etc), just in case
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I recently discovered my phone was tracking my every movement, literally everyday was a map of where I'd been and for how long etc - I shut that down super fast. I mean, I've nothing to hide, my life is pretty dull and uneventful but it's still somewhat unsettling to see your every move laid out on a map
Anna Banana 3 years ago
Meh I'm not sure about that. I'm very careful about my online safety, but when it comes to big data, it's usually very useful for everyone involved and the privacy breach for individuals is minimal (if any). E.g. you wouldn't know about traffic on google maps if most users didn't allow google to track them. There's plenty of dangers online, but I don't think this is the one that we should be focusing on.
Monday 3 years ago
I'm with you on the meh. My life is too boring and I'm too broke for companies to benefit from tracking my data. It might become a big issue for other people, but it's not gonna be an issue for me.
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Falcon dimi 3 years ago
Happy that in europe we have the GDPR act (General Data Protection and Regulation) I can ask any company in the EU and ask them to tell me all they know abouth me and where they got this info. They have to do this in 30 day or get huge fines. And then I can demand them to forget all abouth me and they have to follow suit on this.
Falcon dimi 3 years ago
Also they are not allowed to store any data abouth you that is not relevant to them . They also can be asked to prove they need that info abouth you for there business
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Satya Bain 3 years ago
I have examples of getting ads in my social media based on a conversation I had with my 86 year old mother. Conversation. Not a post.
#24
posting about almost every aspect of your life on social media. I posted some pretty cringe s**t as a kid that is still floating around somewhere, and that was before social media became big. I can't imagine what it's going to be like now
Hippopotamuses 3 years ago (edited)
When I was a kid, I’m 60 now, I yearned for a life where I could be someone else. Now, with the internet, I can see how dangerous that would have been. I feel so sorry for people who’s persona is created entirely by what they can cultivate, manipulate, and then present to the world as who they are.
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
Yeah. This is why cancel culture is a problem. Newsflash, people grow over the years!! A dumb mistake you made when you were like sixteen shouldn't be a problem when you're older and you know it was wrong. I wish there was some sort of function that permanently deletes everything you've posted after it's been up for five years.
Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago
THIS. I genuinely feel sorry for people who've posted things years ago and are losing jobs over it. EVERYONE has posted something dumb or said something dumb. It doesn't mean that those few words should be cast in stone to forever represent that person.
Load More Replies... Mark Fuller 3 years ago
As an inherently private introvert, I have never been compelled to use social media. I don't have the time; I'd rather do something more interesting; I don't need "likes" to feel good about myself; I don't give a toss about the banality of people's mundane existence and certainly know that if you think my life is interesting enough to pay avid attention to, you need to get out more, lol! But that's just me.
emowankinemo 3 years ago
Things I've posted many years ago still haunt me when I'm in bed trying to sleep!
Trond Øien 3 years ago
People are basically surveilling themselves for the benefit of an algorithm that gathers and maps info on them which is again sold to third parties who then uses said info to manipulate different aspects of their lives. And round and round we go.
Octavia Hansen 3 years ago
Supposed to be everyone has naked pictures of themselves somewhere on the internet from their earlier years. Darn! Here's hoping mine are somewhere -- I was young and HOT!
Mario Strada 3 years ago
Use an alias (or "pen name") on social media. Make everything private and give access only to people you trust. Even that with maximum caution. The only reason I am on Facebook is because my mother lives a couple of continents away and wanted to keep in touch. I called her and told her I am using a different name. She wasn't happy, but I have been working online for too long to use my real name, have my photo taken and posted or publish any personal information.
#25
$1200 sneakers
M O'Connell 3 years ago
What really bugs me are shoes with foam soles that are specifically designed to wear out in just a few months so you buy another pair. I had a hard time finding [athletic] shoes with actual rubber on the bottom.
A Jones 3 years ago
Thrift stores are my new solution as I walk a buttload. I spend like $5-6 on a pair of shoes. I wear out a pair of $14 Wallmart sneakers in like 6 months. Now here me out, shoes can be washed and deodorize. However, that's my extend. underoos and socks are always bought new from like Target or whatever.
Load More Replies... Nicola Roberts 3 years ago (edited)
^this^ I understand the value of something is what someone is prepared to pay. But for the life of me I don't understand why we don't pay a fair/true price for milk, meat, mass produced fashion items, creating environments of working poverty, and then you get those that promote this garbage as the pinnacle of success?
Vesa Piiparinen 3 years ago
I think that there has always been stupidly expensive stuff for rich people to buy to show off their wealth. I cannot imagine this is about to change anytime in the near future
kim morris 3 years ago
There are $1200 sneakers? LOL. like. wow. I wear the same pair of $99 hiking boots for 3 years at a time, then when they wear out, I'll get another pair of boots. Growing up, we had 1 pair of shoes. When you grew out of them, they were handed down to the next sibling, (all girls) and you got another pair of shoes. New if the next pair didn't fit, used, if they did. I do have a pair of leather ankle boots for when I have to dress up. People are insane.
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago
I also don't understand owning many pairs of shoes ...? My mom keeps trying to get me more shoes, saying I need more, but I've already got 2 that I wear...
#26
A lot of parenting and schooling trends will change. Just look at now vs 20 years ago.
Gentle parenting is big right now. The idea is fine but it leads to permissive parenting in most of the cases I worked with in daycare and as a nanny.
Not telling children “no” like ever. Not letting them fail. It’s going to lead to a lot of anxiety and stress in future children when things don’t go great.
Although it’s been getting better I still think the amount of homework some kids get is ridiculous. Specially younger children. I nanny a 4 year old. She’s still in pull ups and learning how to wipe. She doesn’t need homework from preschool.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
I believe that homework is just a failure of the educational system. Kids already spend 40h in school. They should have minimal homework or none. Imagine if most adult people needed to work 40h plus every evening and part of the weekends for free. Unpaid overtime is a problem in adults but nobody realises that thats what the schools are forcing on children as well
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
THANK YOU. Schools be like: "we care about our students and want to help them succeed" and then come out with "but class starts at early o'clock and the environment you're learning in is stressful and lol we don't care about how you are as long as you get good gRADES"
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Glitterati 3 years ago (edited)
My 6 year old prep has nightly reading, and specific words to write and read four times a week. I hate it. We get emailed if we don’t fill in the reading diary. We both work five days a week, In the evenings I want to spend time with my kid, read to her, feed her and she needs to play! I just cross out days in the diary and write ‘incidental learning’ meaning she went to the beach that day 😉
Richard Anderson 3 years ago
I like the Montessori School philosophy. Every child is different. Help as little as possible and as much as is necessary.
Skulduggery Pheasant 3 years ago
I'm a gen-z kid and my parents aren't soft in that sense. They are the loveliest people in the world, but they are not afraid to tell me off.
Mario Strada 3 years ago
Each extreme is damaging. Kids need discipline, but that doesn't mean yelling at them or worse, hitting them or belittling them. Fair and consistent boundaries is what's about. Some level of competition is OK, not everyone is a winner at everything. Yet losing is not the end of the world if you did your best. It's not rocket science, but it may as well be for some people.
Adira Bennett 3 years ago
True. Extremes in either direction are not helpful, and finding a middle path is important!
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I'm somewhere in between as a parent. I'm very much a pick your battles type of parent - some things are important and others you let slide for a home environment that isn't hell on earth. As for homework I don't force my kids to do it, my oldest son has adhd, my youngest is definitely the same, it's like having a clone of the oldest which is weird as different dads who are nothing alike so definitely from my side of the family. But homework became the bane of my existence, the tantrums, meltdowns, tears etc weren't worth it - then I had his teacher saying getting him to do a small task wasn't a big deal - I tore that woman a new one, which was long awaited as she taught me in primary school as was the never wrong, wouldn't budge type of teacher, even when she clearly was wrong.
Erin Geiger 3 years ago
Homework is preparing kids to take work home with them, and not get paid for that either.
WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago
My teachers never assign much homework... Usually just math class, then whatever left over work I still have... and of course studying for upcoming tests... I do really think math homework is helpful though, as long as it's not handfuls of it
#27
The destruction of public education (squeezing and outright sabotage of public schools, prohibitive costs for secondary education). The normalization of being undereducated either through apathy or because of forces outside your control. The idea that opinion is equal to fact and that sticking to your original viewpoint is heroic. "Yeah, your studies may say that, but this is how I FEEL about it" and similar arguments.
The reason we are no longer a minor species of omnivorous hunter-gatherers is our ability to pass along knowledge to others. Each generation building on the achievements of prior generations is the path to progress in health, quality of life, equality, production and so much more.
Worse yet, technology now is at a level where if the masses are uneducated, they are also powerless. Small groups of people with specific knowledge have become outrageously powerful and this gap in individual power will only get worse with advances in fields like AI and robotics. If we allow whole generations to grow up undereducated, it will be very difficult for them to understand and affect their world. I feel the exponential growth of wealth gaps across the world is a symptom of this deliberate enforced ignorance.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
To be fair for most of our history most humans have been extremely uneducated. But yeah its not something good
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
They were kept uneducated to keep them in line, controllable, and automatically deferring to the whims of the educated, who were generally members of the wealthy classes and the upper echelons of the dominant religion. Once the masses became educated, they became aware of how poorly, cruelly, and unfairly they were being treated, and took the first steps toward gaining the freedoms we possess—-but for some reason do not seem to cherish enough to fight tooth and nail to keep—-and consider the norm today.
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Oliver Seitz 3 years ago
Republicans love the uneducated, weak minded, brain dead, easy to fool dumbheads. They are their voter base, so education would reduce their base. No way that they will support that.
Amanda 3 years ago
I’m so glad to be in a state where they believe in higher education. I can’t imagine what it’s like in Florida right now. Lack of education = voting shitty republicans into office.
Christine C 3 years ago
I think this is at the source of so many of the higher ranked ones, it should be much closer to the top.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I hate hate hate this idea that opinions hold the same value as facts - that's just so very incorrect. Facts don't give a c**p about your opinion, emotions or other differing views. Facts are facts. The worlds knowledge is literally at our fingertips and yet ignorance is astounding - twisting facts and outright b******t in order to back up your opinion is rife and so very dangerous- just look at the response to covid. Gone are the days when people respected educated experts in their chosen field, now this very specific brand of arrogant I'm better than you with access to google thinks a few minutes online outweighs decades and decades of research, education, experiments and studies - by all means ask questions, educate yourself on subjects but for the love of jeebus believe the people who have made their life work in the field and have the facts to support them. Confirmation bias is truly a pandemic in itself
Alonso Victoria 3 years ago
Yes it is, in high School in Mexico they just erased the basis of Genetics, there was an atempt to erase Firts Aid and some many others.
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
This is why we pulled our kids from public school and are now home schooling them. They both go on and on about how they have learned so much more than all the years they were in public school and we have only been doing it for a year. Public school is severely broken. I have lots of teacher friends and they agree.
BadCat 3 years ago
I would love to see Montessori schools normalized, free and wide spread. There are a lot of kids who would benefit greatly. The sit-at-your-desks-and-shut-up approach while the teacher yammers on and on, or makes you write notes for hours and hours, should be abolished. Although I wouldn't make a great teacher, I imagined if I were I would be making up games and interactive activities, to go along with the curriculum being taught. Make it super enriching and engaging for all the students that they would have too much fun to be daydreaming or sleeping, like I used to.
#28
I think people are just starting to regret naming their kids Danerys and Sansa.
Monday 3 years ago
If you really have to name your kid after a fictional character....make sure that character's arc is already over so you don't have any surprises.
J J 3 years ago
Well at Sansa became queen....then married a Jonas bro :p
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Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
This isn't so bad, yes it will date you and your parents' interests, but literary names are not necessarily bad. And it's way better than K8lyn.
Yeeters 3 years ago
My country has a rule where naming your child (if they are to be a citizen here) something that doesn't exist is forbidden. Like by law "Sansa" or "Daenerys" would not be accepted as a name. If you want a name that is not registered as an official Czech name, you have to prove the existence of said name anywhere else in the real world. I could name my child Jennifer, but i need to prove that Jennifer exists.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
They forget that middle names are rarely used, so could be where their (sad lack of) “cleverness” could be expressed.
ButFirstCoffee 3 years ago
In Quebec, there are so many kids called Matisse (like the painter). It's not original anymore. Sounds stupid, in fact.
Katrina Gibson 3 years ago
Who cares! Get over it. Be their friend or not. If you don't like someone's name and that's enough to annoy you then just walk away. It's just letters and sounds arranged the way a parent my like to hear it. If the kid doesn't like their name.. where I'm from they can change it and even ask the school to call them by a different name.
#29
In the future, all of the trans hate laws that are passing right now are going to be viewed the way people of today view Jim Crow laws.
Smegma cheese 3 years ago
Serious question. What are these trans hate laws that are being passed?
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I don't know about elsewhere, but in Australia we have a 'religious freedoms' bill that was introduced last year (or year before, I forget) that would allow religious schools to expel trans students and teachers if they find out (if the way it was explained to me was correct). Thankfully, it wasn't passed when introduced due to backlash and politicians conscious votes, but it was shelved for further consideration (so the government at the time wouldn't have that against them during the election). With the new government we haven't heard any more about it.
Load More Replies... GayBoi 3 years ago
Well I don't know about concrete laws, but several bills in the USA. Basically though most of them are making it EXTREMELY difficult for transgender people (Mainly children) to get the medical supplies and information they need to help them transition. And then there's Texas, arresting parents/guardians that helped their children transition (Hormones, hormone blockers, etc.).
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Michael Largey 3 years ago
Laws that require, promote, or permit discriminatiion against people because of their trans status.
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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Though apparently some knuckledraggers today look upon Jim Crow as the good old days, since they’re working so hard to bring it back. Sorry. MAGAts, you backed the absolute most wrong horse out there. You. Will. NOT. Win.
Jerome will 3 years ago
Trans people definitely have rights. The problem is you know so does everyone else.
LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 3 years ago
Unfortunately I am not so sure about that. If such laws pass in a society that should be well informed I doubt that they will change anytime soon
#30
Letting people under the age of 18 use social media.
Monday 3 years ago
That's never going to change nor is it going to be a "regrettable" trend because it's been a thing for as long as social media has been around. 20 years ago we were chatting on message boards, 15 years ago we were all on facebook, 10 years ago everyone was on twitter...all that's going to change is who dominates what platform.
Rob Chapman 3 years ago
The problem now is, amongst several things, Tik Tok challenges. Children are very impressionable. They want to fit in. And, unfortunately, they are obsessed with likes and shares. Children have been, and will continue to get, seriously injured or die because they want that viral video.
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BadCat 3 years ago
This is the most astonishing thing for me to witness. I grew up in a household that didn't allow me to use the internet without my mom being right there with me, and I was only allowed to use it for school research projects, and even that was an issue for my folks. According to them, the internet was just a magnet for perverts and 99% porn sites. I didn't even know what a web address was. Today, parents barely know what all the apps and sites they're kids have an account with, and some are getting right in there filming and blogging all the embarrassing things happening with their kids for the world to see. It makes me scared where those videos and pictures are ending up.
Awsomemom52 3 years ago
I have no problem with young people under 18 being on the internet. Should the requirements of some Apps/portals be stricter ... definitely. Some portals require identification such as an ID card number, in order to be able to verify the authenticity of the stated age. I would like this method to be used on other Apps/portals as well.
GayBoi 3 years ago
This seems a bit much. Like no, Sally who is 7 doesn't need an Instagram account, and Bobby who is 13 doesn't need to live on Facebook. But not letting them (Or "us" in this case, since I'm still a minor) use social media until they're 18 is setting them up for failure. It'll probably overwhelm them and they may get a bad image of social media forever.
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
In fact, BoredPanda is a social media platform, and it's one of the friendliest sites I've ever been on.
Load More Replies... Kassiopeia 3 years ago
It's sad that we can't let minors on to social media. Apps like TikTok should be for fun videos and not dangerous "challenges". Facebook should be for making friends and sharing a bit of your life with photos and videos, not a place where pedophiles and creeps try to get your address.
#31
Nearly all NFTs. Cash grab riding the hype of the 'underlying technology.'
Sue User 3 years ago
A youtuber called legaleagle has a very good post on this. Explains what it is and why it is a problem.
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Kurtis Wethington 3 years ago
Future nostalgia shows about this era like "That '70s Show" and "Stranger Things" are going to dunk on this part of the 2020s sooooo hard...
#32
Cryptocurrency will be known as a 21st century gold rush
CP 3 years ago
There is really no difference between cryptocurrency and gold. Both are mined and both have no inherent value (utilitarian use).
Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
Except gold physically exists as matter. Crypto does not.
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El Dee 3 years ago
The thing is that cryptocurrencies that are established (BitCoin) more truly reflect the world's economy. Currencies and gold SHOULD go up and down rapidly. The reason they don't is that they are ALL manipulated into not doing so by illegal measures by banks and governments..
loty moty 3 years ago
Remains to be seen. More likely crypto will just merge with regular finance as countries adopt crypto regulations and issue their own sovereign digital currencies.
RandomCitizen 3 years ago
Aren't most currencies pretty much digital now anyway? Most transactions are secure digital transactions.
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Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
The bitcoin mining server farms use enormous amounts of electricity and the corporations running them are restarting retired coal-fired power plants just to run them. This is gonna be a big problem.
#33
Vaping at a young age. Studies are already coming out on the dangers of vaping in the short term. I can't imagine what will be shown with long term studies.
Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
Oof. I'm so torn on this. I tried everything - the patch, gum, medication - and nothing helped me quit. I started vaping, gradually dropped the cigarettes, and then gave up vaping entirely. My boyfriend was able to stop smoking cigarettes through vaping too. I get it's not safe, and I would never recommend anyone take up either smoking OR vaping, but I do think it can be helpful for cigarette smokers who want to quit.
Richard Anderson 3 years ago
I smoked for 30 years 1-2 packs per day. I was able to transiton from cigs to vape in probably a month. I'm still vaping but I've gotten my nicotine down from 24mg to 3mg.
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The lesbian knitting panda 3 years ago
yeah, vaping has been proven to help people with addictions to smoking cigarettes but when you only vape (especially from a young age) there also bad side affects. More children vape now than ones that smoked back in the early 2000s.
Whodathunkit 3 years ago
Vaping has not been proven to help people with addictions. Tobacco companies have skewed data to present this as 'truth'.
Load More Replies... Mario Strada 3 years ago
Kids were smoking in my elementary school back in the 60s. Kids should do neither, but look at the "war on drugs" and prohibition. Running around with our hair on fire is not going to solve the problem.
Nora Rain 3 years ago
Someone said it! We humans have been addicted to nicotine for a loooong time. And it seems like as time goes on we will find healthier or less harmful ways to continue this chemical dependence. Vaping is just a stepping stone in that process. Opium is a great example of this process!! We are STILL using it today. And it's still a problem, it's just better regulated.
Load More Replies... Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
I just haven't ever been able to get my head around inhaling anything for fun - except helium and doing a chipmunk version of a classic rock ballad obviously. I mean, I understand these things are addictive and hard to quit, but I truly don't understand why anyone chooses to start. My dad was a smoker who successfully quit when I was about 12/13 and openly said quitting was the hardest thing he's ever done, but that the second hardest was starting in the first place as it was disgusting and made him sick - so why? I just don't get it
Mario Strada 3 years ago
Peer pressure and "coolness factor". It's stupid, but it is what it is.
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Gary Geracci 1 year ago
If you're gonna vape and put these strange oils into you're lungs,I have a can of W.D.40 I will loan you!
Mario Strada 3 years ago
No it's not, would you rather inhale smoke from a burning wheat field or vapor from a fog machine? There is a vast amount of research supporting vaping as the least damaging of the two by far. In fact, I am yet to see a reputable paper showing negative impact even close to 10% of smoking burnt plant matter. Obviously, doing neither is best, but one is not like the other.
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House/furniture/thrift items being flipped for a profit.
1. The amount of failed flips I see online is ridiculous. Cut corners, trendy designs, and sub par work done by people who sometimes have no previous background. In 20 years flipped houses will be the new "why did they cover the wood floor in vynil, and why did they carpet the bathroom," just on a much bigger scale.
2. Furniture and clothes from thrift stores or places like FB Marketplace are becoming ridiculously overpriced. Everyone assumes that you're a reseller and you wanna take their $30 coffee table and slap some black paint on it and try to resell it for $300. Walking into a thrift store and trying to find some affordable cute clothes? Nice try, we know you're just gonna sell it online so what used to be a $3 shirt is now $15!
Its ridiculous. It's not sustainable when used or flipped items cost almost as much as new ones.
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
However I you can upgrade a worthless product and put it back on the marked in a state where it is actually useful for someone, I think it is a great idea. That is a much better solution, than constantly producing more and more stuff. So if you put in the effort of sanding down and painting an old item, why shouldn't you be allowed to sell it at a profit? You put in work, and I think that is worth paying for.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
My local thrift shop had a plain plywood magazine rack for £1.50, I took it home, decorated and revarnished it, I had an afternoon of fun, they sold it for £7!
Glitterati 3 years ago
Our house was flipped to sell and it was a safety nightmare. The only thing I’m glad they did was paint the walls and change the floor as that lasted us a few years. We nearly fell through the shower floor as they’d tiled onto the chipboard below and hadn’t waterproofed anywhere. The floor was springy! I’d never buy a flipped house, buy a dump a bit cheaper and renovate properly and safely.
keighterz 3 years ago
We had similar issues. It wasn’t fully flipped but the guy who lived here before us clearly tried to do some work by himself with no contractor. Bathroom floor has grout splotches everywhere, shower was not done properly and we are actually scared to pull it out 😬
Load More Replies... El Dee 3 years ago
Luckily not a trend here. People might do it with their own furniture but not for profit..
Mattewis88 3 years ago (edited)
It used to be something that brought people who couldn't afford new things the joy of owning something new (for them) *I almost exclusively wore thrift items as a kid because we couldn't afford new clothes* and now it's just rich kids trying to look edgy. The poor can't even afford to wear poor people clothes anymore. I find it disgusting actually.
#35
The men's broccoli top haircut. I've heard it referred to as the "f**k boy" cut.
Krásnoočko 3 years ago (edited)
How bout we chill out and let prople have the haircut the like without being judgemental pricks and encouraging each other to be ones as well? You can not like stuff. But putting haircuts you don't like on the same list as "climate change denial" or "using carcinogenic stuff like it's candy"? Are you effing serious?
Glitterati 3 years ago (edited)
Surely the mullet is lower down this list and I haven’t seen it yet? It’s always been a haircut in Australia but it’s particularly popular right now and looks as hideous as it did in the 80’s. Have teens learnt nothing from those embarrassing family photos posts where we old people lament our terrible trendy haircuts?!
Leah Reid 3 years ago
Although my brother had this twice. Once as a teen on a dare b/c they saw a picture of him and his mullet as a young kid... in the 80's....
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
Hair trends come and go. Remember 40 years ago the mullet and jerri curl were all the rage. Now they're laughable.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
Back in the 90's we called it a mushroom cut. We also had the bizarre hybrid mushroom bowl cut
Diolla 3 years ago
I had to google that. "From a successful career to formidable relationships, a fuckboy accomplishes everything he sets his mind to. The fuckboy haircut fittingly instills worldly confidence whether you’re attending college or climbing up the corporate ladder. This long-on-top and short-on-the-side hairstyle offer a clean-cut look that will leave a lasting impression at school, in your dating life, and at work." OK then.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
My son kinda has this hairstyle, he's got curly hair and everytime it ends up like that no matter what he does - so Stefan get though as he has such fine straight hair until a few years ago
#36
Insistence on using iPads/Chomebooks/etc. for everyday lessons in K-12 education.
Although we are saving paper, sure, and giving one more convenient way for submission of assignments, it has skyrocketed kids’ level of screen time, and often students find ways to be off task or download programs to occupy their time. Use of printed materials and referencing books is now being skipped as students believe everything can be found online (it can’t, and is not scrutinized for accuracy like printed materials). Furthermore, even amongst my “high achieving” students, information retention has dropped dramatically, as students are no longer getting the kinesthetic memory practice of copying notes or answering questions on paper as they used to.
Yeah Covid ruins everything, and yes kids need to be adept with technology, but there is definitely a brain drain I think is dramatically linked to the heightened reliance on personal devices.
Monday 3 years ago
I'm fairly certain a similar argument would have been made when every student got their own textbook instead of just listening to the lecture and copying down everything important. That having their own copy of the textbook would make it more likely that a student would slack off in class because they can simply review the information on their own time. Education trends are always going to change and someone is always going to be upset about it.
madbakes 3 years ago
Let's say you're right. Textbooks still don't cause the problems screens do. Vision is greatly affected, as well as attention span. Technology certainly has a place in education, but it shou
Load More Replies... Jon Steensen 3 years ago
While the amount of knowledge stored in an older person sometimes astonish me, I think that many of the skills that have now disapeared have done so for a good reason. E.g. my farther has memorised the "big table" and that has undoubably been useful for him several times. However he is of a time where almost no one could afford a calculator so knowing that kind of things was useful. Nowadays, all of us have acces to a pocketsize calculator almost instantly, and don't need to do complicated calculations in our heads. So the time spend on memorising tables of numbers can be spend smarter.
Bored Panda 3 years ago
Half of my class period is usually just trying to get the stupid chrome books to work! It makes it a lot harder, especially on standardized tests.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
And student chromebooks are so heavily restricted and policed by school district IT staff (which are mostly Millennials these days, we invented the misuse of school computers) that students who use them do not develop "computer skills" outside of the individual pieces of software the district chooses to use.
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
At least it is a lot less likely that your dog ate your homework.
Jon Steensen 3 years ago
now it is I spilled coke in my computer. Not much of an improvement, and an Ipad is really not that resistant to canines.
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That weird licking your lips while recording yourself in selfie mode
S 3 years ago
its a very gross, stupid thing that teenage boys do because they think girls like it... that's my 29 year old understanding of it anyway. To me it makes them look like they have dry, chapped lips
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S 3 years ago
I was a teenager when the duck face pic was at its peak.. I have a hard time looking at some of my old photos lol so stupid
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#38
Barn doors, shiplap, gray wood floors, the entire modern farmhouse aesthetic
Strawberry Pizza 3 years ago
Ok I feel like this is a little bit judgy. Some people like these things, and some of this stuff looks nice when used appropriately.
Rebekah Krause 3 years ago
Subway tiles are very classic, simple, work with many styles and home ages-they have stood the test of time, and probably will have a natural dip in popularity but I doubt they are going anywhere
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Victoria Pitt 3 years ago
This one is highly subjective. I really dislike mid century modern for example, but most people lose their s**t over it. I think the farmhouse look can be really cozy and cute.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
I laid a gray wood-look ceramic tile floor 8 years ago, and it still looks wonderful. Carrying any aesthetic through time benefits from being subtle with it in the first place.
Corey Smith 3 years ago
I would add the use of gray everywhere, including concrete countertops.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 3 years ago
the whole Greige trend. grey with mustard. now grey with soft pink. it's basically today's magnolia.
#39
giant infotainment screens in cars. when they all look dated in a few years the resale value is going to f*****g suck for those cars.
loty moty 3 years ago
Why? Does the AM/FM radio in 1965 Mustang GT negativelly affect its resale value?
M O'Connell 3 years ago
The problem is the pace of technological progress. Sooner or later auto manufacturers will realize how much people hate having to stop the car and page through menus on a touch screen to access simple features. When they come to their senses, used cars with screen-only interfaces will lose desirability. Anybody who is in the market for a vintage Mustang knows what they're getting into, and the radio is irrelevant. I've always been a fan of radio-delete cars, less things that can go wrong.
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Electric cars. Horribly bad for the environment, polluting, and non recyclable. Mining overseas for lithium destroys the earth. Still need coal plants to charge them up. Huge regrets for some.
Ozacoter 3 years ago
This is a lie. It's proven that after a small ammount of time (1-2y) electrict cars are better for the environment than gas cars. The people who claim otherwise fail to count on the whole process of producing gas cars, of mining petrol, refining it and transporting it.
Ozacoter 3 years ago (edited)
This is a great source to learn about why it is not true. https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM
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Jon Steensen 3 years ago
Is mining for oil much better? And what about the oil spills/dumps? ...they are not exactly what you would call without an impact on the enviroment. You cannot just point out the cons of one technology without putting them next to similar effects that the competing technology is causing. It is true that some of the electricity is suplied via fossil fuel, but for a fossil car it will be all of the energy it consumes that comes from that. We currently see more and more green technology in the marked, especially solar is on the rise right now, and at certain locations it can become a significant fraction of the electricity that is green. And regarding the resuability of electric cars it is simply not true that the cannot be resused. You can "mine" the worn out batteries and regain the lithium.
iseefractals 3 years ago
The coal industry is almost dead, lithium cells are 100% recyclable, and the manufacturing emissions are negated within 6 months - 2 years because you're not constantly burning f*cking fossil fuels. 27% of all emissions come from tailpipes you ignorant, simple minded c*ck juggling thunder c*nt.
TheDag 3 years ago
Was the OP working for an oil company cause this sounds like something an oil company would say. Yes they aren't going to save the world however it is a step in the right direction with more and more countries having the infrastructure for more and more renewables hopefully soon we will be able to claim that the cars are charged with 100% renewable energy sources. Construction is another matter though
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Tell me you have a vested interest in fossil fuels without saying that you have a vested interest in fossil fuels.
What do you think ?
Anony Mouse 3 years ago
I get that these are all very important topics, but when I saw the word "trend" I hoped this was a fun post about obnoxiously large eyebrows, wealthy TV idiots, and tiktoks.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago (edited)
- the cult-like worship of a certain orange real estate developer and former president..... also - the obsessive attention paid to any Hollywood celebrity
Nicole Blomkamp 3 years ago
WHY HAS NO-ONE MENTIONED MASSIVE ASSES?! Oh how I'm gonna laugh when all those kardashian wannabes go back to surgery to get it all sucked back out again hahaha
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
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BadCat 3 years ago
I have a feeling magazines and printed newspapers are going to be a thing of the past. I'm surprised so many still exist today.
Momica98 2 years ago
People still like to hold it physically in their hands.
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Anony Mouse 3 years ago
I get that these are all very important topics, but when I saw the word "trend" I hoped this was a fun post about obnoxiously large eyebrows, wealthy TV idiots, and tiktoks.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago (edited)
- the cult-like worship of a certain orange real estate developer and former president..... also - the obsessive attention paid to any Hollywood celebrity
Nicole Blomkamp 3 years ago
WHY HAS NO-ONE MENTIONED MASSIVE ASSES?! Oh how I'm gonna laugh when all those kardashian wannabes go back to surgery to get it all sucked back out again hahaha
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
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BadCat 3 years ago
I have a feeling magazines and printed newspapers are going to be a thing of the past. I'm surprised so many still exist today.
Momica98 2 years ago
People still like to hold it physically in their hands.
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