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[–] lichtmetzger@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago

Modern devices not using USB-C.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

My current favorite is the federal reserve making policy to intentionally weaken the labor market. I am currently paying the fuckwads scheming to keep labor weak, docile, and dependent. What a blast.

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[–] RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Expensive wedding
Jewels
Gold

[–] propaganja@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Homelessness.

Billionaires.

War.

Magic, aka science and technology.

[–] DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago
[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Tobacco smoking.

Having to wear clothes in public.

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[–] argentcorvid@midwest.social 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Compulsory "bless you" when someone sneezes

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[–] ebits21@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago

iPhone prices.

[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Capitalism and billionaires

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Offices of all types (medical, billing, tech support, etc.) only doing business on a callback basis. Customers and clients are expected to be continuously available to receive a call at the office's convenience.

We have all become unwilling, unpaid, on-call employees of most every company we deal with.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Gasoline.

Here’s a toxic and highly volatile liquid. Rather than transferring it in specialized canisters with safety seals, we just let you dump it out of a hose. There is absolutely no safety training on how to handle it, and all you need is some cash to obtain a lot of it. It’s something of a right of passage for children to dispense it for their parents.

And despite the fact that the vehicles that use it spend 90% of their time parked in one place, you can’t have it delivered to that place like you can with other utilities like water, electricity, and natural gas. You have to go to special stores and comparison shop.

And even the stores you buy it from have it delivered by truck. They don’t even get it piped in.

Oh, and even when used correctly, it'll kill you if you use it in an enclosed space.

And it's killing the planet too.

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[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Speed traps in the US. I had to explain to my son that the reason why we have to drive 45 mph for half a mile on an interstate is because there is a convenient side street in the middle of that stretch of road where the police can wait.

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[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hate. Every iteration of society in history has normized hatred of some "other" and its bonkers.

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[–] Finerze@feedly.j-cloud.uk 11 points 2 years ago

The requirement for people to post their lives online, in the early days if the Internet the general rule was you don't post personal information online, now it's gone the complete opposite direction, I've met multiple people who write you of as "strange" just because they can't poke through your Facebook/Instagram/snapchat/twitter.

I don't keep social media accounts because it doesn't intrest me, and have been told multiple times that people don't trust me because I don't air out everything I think on an online platform.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Circus politics

[–] marx2k@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Presidential debate that are nothing more than a bad episode of Maury

[–] shanghaibebop@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Rampant alcoholism.

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