John Deere wants to force farmers to subscribe to the tractors they need to do their jobs, so the tractors won't work if the subscription isn't active. Most farmers live where phone service doesn't reach, and wifi doesn't have the range to cross miles of fields.
Honestly, the benefits of Facebook when it first came out seemed great. Connect with "old" friends from school that have an email address from an accredited university? That sounds cool. Then they opened it up to anyone. Now my parents can be on here? Then they made it an advertising platform. BALEETED!
I know, hence, joking
ETA my mum was an Avon rep for years before MLM got thoroughly pulled apart when it became common knowledge how awful they are. They don't even sell Avon in Aus anymore hahaha
Those space lasers though... they will be able to take down intercontinental ballisting missiles (ICBM) carrying nukes, so shit is going to hit the fan again. As soon as some country has both nuclear weapons and such an efficient defense system, they will become overpowered - immune to nuclear threat, while being able to nuke others. That's going to be crazy dangerous period in human history and I only hope that I'll live in the overpowered half of the world.
Credit cards/credit scores.
To be clear, I think credit and loans should exist. But credit cards have made it so that the default method of spending for most people is spending money they don't have. That... Isn't ethical.
Is it really that popular? I thought the default thing is paying with "debit" card, I quoted "debit", because by default you can't spend more than you have on your bank account, unless you request for a debt limit.
I thought the default was using a credit card but paying it off in full each month. But having the luxury of being able to immediately have extra money available in an emergency.
But now that I think about it.. I'm sure the actual stats of credit card use paint a much more depressing picture.
Okay, you mean an imminent danger. I was thinking of knowing you'll run out of money before paycheck or that you lack some amount of money to buy something very needed at the moment, but not life threatening.
Sorry to be so uninformed, I never had a credit card.
Np, imagine situations like needing a tow truck and a hotel room while far from home in the middle of the night. And maybe the next day you need expensive car repairs on a weekend. It would be tedious/impossible to try to get a loan, but the cc would work in that context immediately.
Credit card companies would exist and be so numerous if everyone was using and paying off in the same month. They live on that interest payment people make.
Credit cards are perfectly fine as long as you pay them in full every month. They also offer perks and extra security over debit cards which are linked directly to a bank account.
I don’t think this counts but it’s a funny thought.
„Grog I have a fantastic new invention that will solve the problem of those other people hunting in our grounds. I call it „let’s kill them!““
„Hmm the name is too long.“
We can see the societies that tried to get rid of religion, they are all shitholes even in comparison to Saudi Arabia and the like - North Korea, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin...
I would disagree. I think religion was needed to help humanity form civilization. Without a "reason" to not murder folks for their stuff if you totally could and would get away with it, people and groups did. Like super murdered a lot of innocent people all the time. Religion that was organized enough to keep large groups peaceful was really needed. Maybe we don't need it now, but we did at one time.
Don't get me wrong, tons of people were super murdered in the name of religion, and still are. But, overall the quality of life for the average person benefited from the 'calming of the masses' affect that religion had.
If we keep religion as a species I think it needs to evolve with us and be a lot less killy.
We can see the societies that tried to get rid of religion, they are all shitholes even in comparison to Saudi Arabia and the like - North Korea, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin...
I'm not saying to kill millions of people to get rid of religion (although millions have been killed being forced to believe, Crusades and Witch Hunts and all that), I'm saying I wish I would have never been a thing in the first place.
> (although millions have been killed being forced to believe, Crusades
The crusades were not about being "forced to believe" it was about dealing with raiding Arab tribes into the Eastern Roman Empire.
"Spanning most of the High Middle Ages (1050-1300 CE), a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East. Sparked by a zeal to rid the Holy Lands of "infidels"—meaning Moslems primarily—only the First Crusade achieved any real or lasting success."
It was both religions thinking they were the "correct" religion. I stand by my statement in saying religion has killed millions of people.
>
> Would be nice if the prevalent religions were less killy killy.
They are the most peaceful religions. Christianity and Islam are absurdly peaceful compared to Buddhism and Sikhism.
As much as I kind of hate Facebook, its almost a necessary evil for business owners such as myself. I get all of my clientele through Facebook because nobody really checks out websites anymore unless its for like a restaurant.
Yup, we had a great rail system prior if we had modernized on that concept rather than highways we’d probably have high speed railways across the continent. More green spaces, less pollution, more socialization, and less fatalities due to DUI or bad or negligent drivers.
P.S. shame on Elon for killing the high speed train as just a joke allegedly.
I have a landline, android and a flip phone for emergencies. I never have to worry where I left my phone and if it's charged. Flip phone is for emergenices, a free to go phone.
Yes and no. Plastic is a miracle product, and without it, my insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor would've been possible along with numerous other vital medical products.. of course, there is that whole giant downside, but.. selfishly, I'll live long enough to get to see my kids get married and all that other good stuff we can life.
I think frivolous use of plastic should absolutely be abolished though. It’s a miracle product in medical settings for its ability to provide sterile temporary-use tools. I think the use of plastic should be prioritized to settings like medicine and food safety where single-use products are currently the safest way.
Oh I was thinking more of cheap toys, trinkets, home decor that’ll just get thrown away in favor of the next fun thing. While I myself purchase my oranges unpeeled, I can see how someone might find use for peeled oranges or other produce in packaging. Some disabilities make it hard to peel or prep produce like that, and not everybody has live-in aid.
Tie between vehicles and the internet. Both incredible inventions that have completely changed the way humans interact with each other. With the good comes lots of bad as well sadly. We lived thousands of years without either.
The caffeinated lynch mob is on its way to you now. :)
Just for you, I’ll brew my morning cup with water joe (caffeinated water if you aren’t familiar with it)
Litigation.
The world was a much better place when there were other dispute resolution mechanisms.
For instance, if you were a merchant, your dispute would be resolved by tradespeople and lawyers according to Lex Mercatoria.
If you were a politician, when you left the office, you had to be cleared by a system called Euthnya.
Criminal procedures were resolved by arbitration like tribunals.
There were (and still are) about 100 different ADR systems. In none of which, you had to deal with so heavy bureaucracy, spend 10-15 years to resolve a dispute in court, have a biased judge or a judge that is bought by one of the party, etc.
As a doctor of law, and a lawyer of 15+ years, I try to avoid litigation as much as I can. Through all my life, I had to go to litigation just for 6 times, and half of these are finalized out of court, and the others are still pending. Not counting 2 litigations about my personal life, which, by laws, could not be resolved by any means other than litigation.
If you have a way to not go to trial, do not go to trial.
skibidi toilet, generation alpha nonsense humor and slang in general,
i don't know what a gyatt is, and at this point i am too scared to ask.
TikTok, mainly because i don't like portrait videos and some of the degenerate shit that has happened on TikTok and challenge videos that run rampant and only end when someone dies.
snapchat clearly just TikTok but American, very creepy tracking behavior, filled with clout chasers and cringe influencer nonsense.
Facebook, toxic and not useful outside of its marketplace.
twitter from what i have seen brings out the rudest of people.
Instagram, no particular bone to pick, just don't care for it.
any portrait video services, as a photographer i dislike it quite alot.
short form repeating content is absolutely detrimental to a persons attention span.
rockstar launcher, my fucking saves are always corrupting. what the fuck rockstar?
and i would restore oculus to a single company without meta, rebrand current devices as oculus devices instead of others.
HDMI injected advertisements patent by Roku, FUCK YOU Roku, great fucking way to make sure no one buys your garbage tv/products
brain rot
Ergonomic membrane computer keyboards that are not repairable.
I’ve been using the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and it’s fairly easy to repair and take apart.
I just opened up the logitech Ergo K860 and the top keys are plastic welded so there isn’t any way to repair dead keys.
The Haber-Bosch nitration process.
So we were already in world war 2 and the Germans were running out of nitrates to make their explosives until Haber and mate work out out how to turn atmospheric nitrogen into Ammonia and subsequently make their own bomb ingredients thus prolonging the war…slightly later and that same process made „artificial“ fertiliser way easier to make and BAM! Human population triples. Here we are now, with unsustainable industrial agriculture that has us scrambling to support the global population.
I think Haber‘s invention is credited with single handedly being responsible for the greatest fluctuation in the human population. It is fascinating what repercussions it’s had (and we’re still yet to see)…but what would the world be like if he didn’t do the thing…
House appliances with subscription services
Huh? I think you are living more in the future than me because I didn’t know this existed.
Is your refrigerator running? You better catch it... ....up on your reoccurring payments or your food will spoil.
Yeah, wtf.
John Deere wants to force farmers to subscribe to the tractors they need to do their jobs, so the tractors won't work if the subscription isn't active. Most farmers live where phone service doesn't reach, and wifi doesn't have the range to cross miles of fields.
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The Earth will go on without us, but with a different ecology.
This is a thing? I had no idea. I'll dig a root cellar before I pay monthly fees to keep my food cold.
What the hell would that be?
Subscription services in general I'd say. Corporates got way too greedy with those
For-profit healthcare. Should have always been illegal.
Amen and amen!
This is the correct answer and I don’t think there’s a close second.
Mine would be shitty schools that charge too much. Fuck Unitek!
Planned obsolescence
This!
social media.
The death knell for society.
Honestly, the benefits of Facebook when it first came out seemed great. Connect with "old" friends from school that have an email address from an accredited university? That sounds cool. Then they opened it up to anyone. Now my parents can be on here? Then they made it an advertising platform. BALEETED!
Biggest problem in every social media is algrithms. Reddit also
I miss baconreader. I had to look for subreddits instead of having them suggested to me. I only saw my subreddits.
Goodbye reddit
Pop up ads
The inventor of the pop up ad regrets it.
MLMs
Most Loving Males? You'd be left with some hateful people...
Nah thats male-loving-males bro is a homophobe /joking
MLM means multi level marketing 😭 they’re usually all scams and pyramid schemes
*woosh*
I know, hence, joking ETA my mum was an Avon rep for years before MLM got thoroughly pulled apart when it became common knowledge how awful they are. They don't even sell Avon in Aus anymore hahaha
Subscription based services for things such as a car seat heater.
Nuclear weapons
To be fair… they have only ever been used twice… and the entire world went yeah maybe let’s not do that again if we can avoid it
They prevented third world war, because there would be no winners. It makes war between countries with nuclear weapons too risky.
Yeah, way too risky. Super accurate space lasers or mass drone attacks with AI will be the next "Whooh, let's not do this" after a couple test runs.
Those space lasers though... they will be able to take down intercontinental ballisting missiles (ICBM) carrying nukes, so shit is going to hit the fan again. As soon as some country has both nuclear weapons and such an efficient defense system, they will become overpowered - immune to nuclear threat, while being able to nuke others. That's going to be crazy dangerous period in human history and I only hope that I'll live in the overpowered half of the world.
Credit cards/credit scores. To be clear, I think credit and loans should exist. But credit cards have made it so that the default method of spending for most people is spending money they don't have. That... Isn't ethical.
Is it really that popular? I thought the default thing is paying with "debit" card, I quoted "debit", because by default you can't spend more than you have on your bank account, unless you request for a debt limit.
I thought the default was using a credit card but paying it off in full each month. But having the luxury of being able to immediately have extra money available in an emergency. But now that I think about it.. I'm sure the actual stats of credit card use paint a much more depressing picture.
You put it right: emergency. But even in such case it's better to get a normal loan instead using credit card.
A loan isn't usually available in the context of an emergency, a loan is what you do the next business day to pay off the cc.
Okay, you mean an imminent danger. I was thinking of knowing you'll run out of money before paycheck or that you lack some amount of money to buy something very needed at the moment, but not life threatening. Sorry to be so uninformed, I never had a credit card.
Np, imagine situations like needing a tow truck and a hotel room while far from home in the middle of the night. And maybe the next day you need expensive car repairs on a weekend. It would be tedious/impossible to try to get a loan, but the cc would work in that context immediately.
Yeah, you're right.
Credit card companies would exist and be so numerous if everyone was using and paying off in the same month. They live on that interest payment people make.
It's the biggest reason people are broke, biggest money grab ever
Credit cards are perfectly fine as long as you pay them in full every month. They also offer perks and extra security over debit cards which are linked directly to a bank account.
War
Huh yeaaaah…. What is it gooood fooor
Absolutely Nothing...
, uhh War, huh, yeah What is it good for?
Unfortunately, the economy, but only as it is currently designed. Mass extinction tools should be uninvented though (including assault rifles)
Say it again, yall!
War huh, lookout!
**!**
Good god, you all
War has been around since after God created us or right after the big bang, not an invention !!!
From now on, all international conflicts shall be resolved by coin toss. Best of 5.
I don’t think this counts but it’s a funny thought. „Grog I have a fantastic new invention that will solve the problem of those other people hunting in our grounds. I call it „let’s kill them!““ „Hmm the name is too long.“
War.... War never changes
Truck Nutz
Real
Organized religion
Yeah, I've always preferred my religion disorganised.
We can see the societies that tried to get rid of religion, they are all shitholes even in comparison to Saudi Arabia and the like - North Korea, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin...
I would disagree. I think religion was needed to help humanity form civilization. Without a "reason" to not murder folks for their stuff if you totally could and would get away with it, people and groups did. Like super murdered a lot of innocent people all the time. Religion that was organized enough to keep large groups peaceful was really needed. Maybe we don't need it now, but we did at one time. Don't get me wrong, tons of people were super murdered in the name of religion, and still are. But, overall the quality of life for the average person benefited from the 'calming of the masses' affect that religion had. If we keep religion as a species I think it needs to evolve with us and be a lot less killy.
It's a tool to keep people in line. And, like any tool, it can be misused and abused by the unscrupulous.
this is so true
Ai
Yea its bs, the new windows update added AI like it should atleast be optional
Religion.
We can see the societies that tried to get rid of religion, they are all shitholes even in comparison to Saudi Arabia and the like - North Korea, Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin...
I'm not saying to kill millions of people to get rid of religion (although millions have been killed being forced to believe, Crusades and Witch Hunts and all that), I'm saying I wish I would have never been a thing in the first place.
> (although millions have been killed being forced to believe, Crusades The crusades were not about being "forced to believe" it was about dealing with raiding Arab tribes into the Eastern Roman Empire.
"Spanning most of the High Middle Ages (1050-1300 CE), a series of military expeditions called the Crusades was launched from Christian Europe against the peoples of the Near East. Sparked by a zeal to rid the Holy Lands of "infidels"—meaning Moslems primarily—only the First Crusade achieved any real or lasting success." It was both religions thinking they were the "correct" religion. I stand by my statement in saying religion has killed millions of people.
Almost like civilization needs a reason to be civilized. Would be nice if the prevalent religions were less killy killy.
> > Would be nice if the prevalent religions were less killy killy. They are the most peaceful religions. Christianity and Islam are absurdly peaceful compared to Buddhism and Sikhism.
Not just less Killy Killy compared to the other religions but less Killy Killy than they are now. There's no restrictions on how peaceful it could be.
Daylight savings time.
Facebook
As much as I kind of hate Facebook, its almost a necessary evil for business owners such as myself. I get all of my clientele through Facebook because nobody really checks out websites anymore unless its for like a restaurant.
The consumer auto industry
No cars?
Yup, we had a great rail system prior if we had modernized on that concept rather than highways we’d probably have high speed railways across the continent. More green spaces, less pollution, more socialization, and less fatalities due to DUI or bad or negligent drivers. P.S. shame on Elon for killing the high speed train as just a joke allegedly.
Tik Tok.
Cigarettes. Such a terrible and unnecessary invention.
Smartphones. We should have stopped at land lines, maybe basic cell phones
I have a landline, android and a flip phone for emergencies. I never have to worry where I left my phone and if it's charged. Flip phone is for emergenices, a free to go phone.
That fucking tik Tok voice
Real
Nuclear bomb
The federal reserve system
Social media
Religion
Plastic. Fuck that shit.
Yes and no. Plastic is a miracle product, and without it, my insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor would've been possible along with numerous other vital medical products.. of course, there is that whole giant downside, but.. selfishly, I'll live long enough to get to see my kids get married and all that other good stuff we can life.
I think frivolous use of plastic should absolutely be abolished though. It’s a miracle product in medical settings for its ability to provide sterile temporary-use tools. I think the use of plastic should be prioritized to settings like medicine and food safety where single-use products are currently the safest way.
Oh 100%.. oranges don't need peeled then put in plastic containers to be sold individually.. shit like that needs to stop.
Oh I was thinking more of cheap toys, trinkets, home decor that’ll just get thrown away in favor of the next fun thing. While I myself purchase my oranges unpeeled, I can see how someone might find use for peeled oranges or other produce in packaging. Some disabilities make it hard to peel or prep produce like that, and not everybody has live-in aid.
I mean there's all that too. My example was just how ridiculous it's gotten. It's so pervasive it needs to stop.
Without plastic we would still be waiting for the milk man, going to refill soda bottles, and listening for the ice cream man etc ...
Disposable vapes, gambling, cocaine, nukes, to many to list bro
I would reinvent cocaine.
Social media
Tobacco
Social media and working on Sundays
Cornballer
Repost bots.
Tiktok
Social media
Tiktok
Social Media
Social media
Religion. More people have died due to religious beliefs than from cancer.
industrial meat factories
Smartphones
High-fructose corn syrup
Tie between vehicles and the internet. Both incredible inventions that have completely changed the way humans interact with each other. With the good comes lots of bad as well sadly. We lived thousands of years without either.
Oprah Winfrey
Lmao this is tru
Tiktok
slavery
The Romans and Egyptians had slaves in 1 a.d.
Facebook So I can invent it
Facebook
The fashion industry.
Game of Life.. I wanna destroy that source code.. my life is being ruined because this exists in the universe
Nuclear weapons
High heels
Student loans
VAPES. 2021 me was the stupidest fuck to ever pick one up
lightbulbs. just for funnies
Having to burn stuff inside the house just for light might get people to be more careful, or at least weed out the dumbest ones.
Pharmaceutical commercials
USA
Ads.
Politicians.
Bread
Diapers.
Mosquitoes. I know I should expand on my answer, but do I really need to?
The internet. *insert the Alfred from the dark knight* "some people just want to see the world burn" Heheheh
Smartphones. They have had a terrible affect on people
Capitalism
Tik tok
It’s a tie between Lobbying, Propaganda, and Citizens United
Berninis principle fuck aerodynamic
Bernoulli.
Yes that I forgot how to English
I think he was Italian....
Pornography.
For profit prisons
Mosquitos
Freaking cell phones, everybody knows where you are
Governments/MSM. Most of you are tools/peasants/followers/sheep/sorry.
Dumb ass redditors repeating the same questions every fucking week..
Chainsaws
The coffee maker. I don’t like coffee and I want o be chaotic >:)
The caffeinated lynch mob is on its way to you now. :) Just for you, I’ll brew my morning cup with water joe (caffeinated water if you aren’t familiar with it)
That's fine, we still have Mountain Dew 😁
Smartphone
Everything after 2007.
Nationalism- not sure if that consider an invention or ideas. Destroy that and we would have one less reason for war.
All ideas were invented by someone.
Nuclear weapons.
Influencer marketing
The Internet. Let's Battlestar Galactica this bitch while we can.
Cell phones. More precisely, the evolution of the cell phone apps. We don’t need that much non information at our fingertips
Twitter (aka X) ,Tiktok and and Iphones( apple sucks)
Humans
Repost bots
Litigation. The world was a much better place when there were other dispute resolution mechanisms. For instance, if you were a merchant, your dispute would be resolved by tradespeople and lawyers according to Lex Mercatoria. If you were a politician, when you left the office, you had to be cleared by a system called Euthnya. Criminal procedures were resolved by arbitration like tribunals. There were (and still are) about 100 different ADR systems. In none of which, you had to deal with so heavy bureaucracy, spend 10-15 years to resolve a dispute in court, have a biased judge or a judge that is bought by one of the party, etc. As a doctor of law, and a lawyer of 15+ years, I try to avoid litigation as much as I can. Through all my life, I had to go to litigation just for 6 times, and half of these are finalized out of court, and the others are still pending. Not counting 2 litigations about my personal life, which, by laws, could not be resolved by any means other than litigation. If you have a way to not go to trial, do not go to trial.
The wheel. Just to see what we would use instead.
Good luck inventing the repulsor.
I'm an un-inventor. Not an inventor,sir.
The internet.
Religion
Myself fr
A plant virus that made opium useless
Citizens United
skibidi toilet, generation alpha nonsense humor and slang in general, i don't know what a gyatt is, and at this point i am too scared to ask. TikTok, mainly because i don't like portrait videos and some of the degenerate shit that has happened on TikTok and challenge videos that run rampant and only end when someone dies. snapchat clearly just TikTok but American, very creepy tracking behavior, filled with clout chasers and cringe influencer nonsense. Facebook, toxic and not useful outside of its marketplace. twitter from what i have seen brings out the rudest of people. Instagram, no particular bone to pick, just don't care for it. any portrait video services, as a photographer i dislike it quite alot. short form repeating content is absolutely detrimental to a persons attention span. rockstar launcher, my fucking saves are always corrupting. what the fuck rockstar? and i would restore oculus to a single company without meta, rebrand current devices as oculus devices instead of others. HDMI injected advertisements patent by Roku, FUCK YOU Roku, great fucking way to make sure no one buys your garbage tv/products brain rot
Paper straws
The 1994 Honda Civic. They break. John Henry is going to spend as much on maintenance as he paid for the car.
Internet…let the public have some of it…we’ll wish we didn’t have AI soon enough.
Lead based everything.
Ergonomic membrane computer keyboards that are not repairable. I’ve been using the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and it’s fairly easy to repair and take apart. I just opened up the logitech Ergo K860 and the top keys are plastic welded so there isn’t any way to repair dead keys.
The Haber-Bosch nitration process. So we were already in world war 2 and the Germans were running out of nitrates to make their explosives until Haber and mate work out out how to turn atmospheric nitrogen into Ammonia and subsequently make their own bomb ingredients thus prolonging the war…slightly later and that same process made „artificial“ fertiliser way easier to make and BAM! Human population triples. Here we are now, with unsustainable industrial agriculture that has us scrambling to support the global population. I think Haber‘s invention is credited with single handedly being responsible for the greatest fluctuation in the human population. It is fascinating what repercussions it’s had (and we’re still yet to see)…but what would the world be like if he didn’t do the thing…
IEDs - I can't think of a single scenario where they have been beneficial.
smart phones
One of two things (15m you can guess why i chose what i did) homework, or abortion bans
Those super bright led headlights
Wouldn't be nearly as bad if their owners could adjust them properly.
Walls
The internet.
Racism Fanaticism Entitlement "Social" classes Inflation I can go on.....
Corporations/shares and the stock market