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[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

"Internet of Everything" ideology. Sticking surveillance technology on shit that doesn't need it to make it both worse and more malicious really fucks things up.

[โ€“] SteleTrovilo@beehaw.org 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (9 children)

How normalised heavy drinking is in Britain

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[โ€“] DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] rodbiren@midwest.social 31 points 2 years ago (10 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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[โ€“] Iapar@feddit.de 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Skripoon@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

Positive attitude towards billionaire philanthropists. First, they made a fortune on the result of labor alienated from workers, then they threw a pitch and became good guys

[โ€“] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

That few countries take a person's wealth and income into account when fining them for breaking laws. I see examples like these and wish this were the norm everywhere.

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[โ€“] Crisps@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Christmas.

An environmental impact study on this would be interesting.

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[โ€“] propaganja@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

Homelessness.

Billionaires.

War.

Magic, aka science and technology.

[โ€“] a_lemmy_user@discuss.online 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the thread that made me make an account and what a pain it was to find without having saved it anywhere. I've been holding out for someone to say it, but havwn't seen it specifically.

Single use plastics. I still remember the weird feeling of doom when learning the world population and making the quick relation to disposable plastics, constantly being told "but it's only a little bit." A little bit for several thousand years, per billions, is too many bits.

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[โ€“] DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Tobacco smoking.

Having to wear clothes in public.

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[โ€“] kscutsforth@beehaw.org 24 points 2 years ago

Ticketmaster fees

[โ€“] RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

Expensive wedding
Jewels
Gold

[โ€“] lichtmetzger@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago

Modern devices not using USB-C.

[โ€“] argentcorvid@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Compulsory "bless you" when someone sneezes

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[โ€“] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

iPhone prices.

[โ€“] ebits21@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

Capitalism and billionaires

[โ€“] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

Circus politics

[โ€“] NormalC@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not having any control over your computing. CS illiteracy is really scary. The world looks grim from the libre software world.

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