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Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?
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Nazis
Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we've backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
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Young earth creationism and flat earth
What's weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn't preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.
Child labor.
Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide
https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>
Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."
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Religion
Easy to say, but I'd argue it's baked in.
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
Well said.
I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there's only the idea of afterlife for that.
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In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.
Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes
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Private health insurance.
Charlie Kirk
On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.
Andrew Tate, though that may be dangerous as he'll probably turn into a martyr.
There's a good list forming here.
You know, I actually don't think it'll be a good idea to kill people who are only powerful because they can talk. The more I think about it, the more I think they'll be turned into martyrs by their followers. It'll only embolden them.
So, something that really upsets the world in a tangible way would be...
Shooting more CEOs. And bankers.
Measles.
I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.
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Coal power plants.
Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.
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Pandas.
They are cute chubby cuddle fluffs though. Just look at them!
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The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.
From oldest to newest, they are:
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Printed data on card.
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Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
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Smartcard chip with contacts.
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Wireless.
The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.
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Humans
Chat control and any similar legeslations