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State Parks, but more tainted than ruined. My husband and I hiked at two separate state parks this weekend and I was appalled. We saw dog poop, dirty diapers, water bottles, and food wrappers on almost every trail we walked. Also, for the love of God, NOBODY wants to listen to your music. Use headphones, you heathen.
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Every goddamed app on the planet wanting to have you turn on push notifications. No, I do not want my phone constantly going off at all hours of the day.
The environment. We should’ve been doing something about climate change ages ago. We’ve known since 1938.
VotingEveryone who votes should pass a basic civics test. Stupidity is killing our democracy, as our elected representatives are increasingly manifestations of grievances and hatreds and not of our aspirations.
Emotional Support Animals and Service Animals. Contrary to popular belief, they are not the same thing at all and stupid people getting fake ESA’s has bled into it harming people with service animals. Only a medical professional can prescribe an ESA, not a website or “registry” and an ESA is not allowed in public spaces like a service animal. It just allows the animal to live with you in places that usually wouldn’t allow animals or pets.
Social Media. Spreading fake news, they are not thinking before clicking.
Antibiotics. Great for dealing with bacterial infections, not so good at dealing with viruses, and now we have antibiotic resistant bacteria because of overuse.
Online recipe blogs.I understand the value of sharing experiences and the personal touch, but scrolling through pages of life stories and reflections on the changing seasons just to find the temperature for baking chicken thighs can be maddening. The recipe gets snowed under an avalanche of context and anecdotes. It’s especially tedious on mobile, where your battery life ebbs away as you swipe past the tales of childhood and pictures of someone’s dog wearing a chef’s hat.What started as a wholesome platform to share kitchen wisdom has become a test of patience, where we’re forced to dig like culinary archaeologists to find the treasure trove: the actual list of ingredients and instructions. We’ve taken the concept of passing down recipes and wrapped it in the literary equivalent of a thick wool sweater — heartwarming, but not when you’re in a hurry.
The general idea of home owners' associations.
I’ll go first: essential oils. They smell brilliant, reduce stress & anxiety and help treat fungal infections, but all the anti-vax & ‘crunchy’ moms have decided they’re a magical solution to everything that is wrong with the world.
Phone/mail/emailUsed to be great ways of communicating. Now there’s so much spam and scam communications that it’s pretty miserable.
In my city there was this bike sharing project. Amazing for students and young people. Within 3 days (3!!!) all of the bikes (F*****G ALL OF THEM) got either stolen or badly damaged.
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Reddit. Pretty much any online forum tbh. I just want to chat about jigsaws and guitars please stop calling me names.
Capitalism. You have a third or fourth generation of f*****g morons inheriting the company daddy built, suppressing competition and automating or outsourcing all the jobs. Then increasing prices to get an 8th consecutive quarter of record profits. Then they go get their government “loan”.
Driving. Arguably far from ruined but has the potential to be so much safer and better for all if it wasn’t for the recklessness and stupidity of dangerous drivers.
Food delivery. Tried to hand my buddy cash and told him I’d pay for pizza. He couldn’t find anywhere to order from without paying first through an app. People are stupid for accepting this as the new norm. Tipping before you receive the service? Delivery drivers seeing the tip before they take a delivery is ridiculous.
Gas cans. I promise more gas is spilled today than was ever wasted in the past with normal cans that just had a spout.Part of the problem is how the new cans are designed. They build them for a car and they work okish for that purpose. But who uses a gas can on their car? People want to fill motorcycles, or lawn mowers, or leaf blowers, and countless other small engines with small tanks where you can’t shove a weird foreskin activated 4 inch long gas spout into a tank 2 inches deep and expect it to work properly.
Nature. Forest. The oceans.
Higher education.Parents in the 1960s saw that a degree guarantees you a cushy and respected job with a corner office, company car, and hot secretary, so they made their kids ashamed of blue collar jobs, and pushed them into higher education.Now the western (and probably most of the eastern) world we have overeducated population, with only so many “elite” jobs to go around, so many are underemployed.
Youtube. It used to be fun and a great place to get information and entertainment.
Bike paths, traffic calming, and pedestrian friendly design.Us little people figured all this was a great idea and it was intuitively obvious where they’d do the most good.Political hacks see the opportunity for glory projects, skip the obvious opportunities and areas of need, ignore local input, and blow though piles of money on reinventing the wheel (which they call “innovative” in the press release) and boondoggles in areas where there was no realistic demand or need for such amenities.For the tiny few who do find the new construction helpful, maintenance will be neglected as the politicos set more money on fire chasing another shiny thing.
Roundabouts. Great idea, but people can’t seem to understand them. I don’t know what to expect, though, when most drivers don’t know what the red octagon sign means.
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I doubt anyone will see this, but “passing lanes” should’ve been in here somewhere.
Flushable wet wipes. So many people flushing the regular non-flushable kind down the toilet and causing problems led to the idea that the genuinely flushable kind were some sort of scam.
The United States of America.
Tough one, butGoogle Wave.It would have revolutionised user to user communication and collaboration, and most of the numerous failings of modern social media simply wouldn’t have been possible if we were all using wave to access it.Wave was three things, a concept, a protocol and an app. The idea was the app was in the users control, the protocol was open so anyone could build an app to consume all the data.The problem was, to demonstrate this, google threw together a horrible, unintuitive, lumpy java app and then (and what I think was a first for google) made an early beta of the app (which was nearer alpha quality) available to the masses.The masses, being stupid people who didn’t read up on what wave was all about, they just played with the app and hated it, and therefore decreed that wave was dead before it even launched. Which was a real shame, as under the hood it was a real game changer.
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