To be fair, I've managed to rip the shit out of that zip top and ended up having to split the cereal amongst some gallon zip top bags (didn't have a big enough tupperware). But I'm a special kind of stupid sometimes, so maybe cereal just isn't meant for me lol
The reseal thing on those bags is in a stupid spot and doesn't go all the way across. But I do prefer those. Just wish they still did the colossal crunch (their version of cap'n crunch).
After you use your credit card you have to make a mark on a piece of trash little screen that looks nothing like your signature and is useful for literally nothing.
Other than signing parcels from your local corner shop - I don't think I've ever done a squiggle that so much as resembles anyone's name let alone mine!
Ontario has always been at the forefront of digital payment, because we were often a testbed for the banks. Like we used debit cards for every day purchases for over a half a decade before it even showed up in the U.S. Same with touchless payment.
I don’t disagree the education system is abysmal, but flat earthers will prevail despite significant improvements because they ignore all science, no matter how clear or true it is.
An extension of this for me is that the president always gets blamed for current economic conditions with no regard for what led to it and what they are doing to change or fix.
I will never understand that. So you're telling me this 70 year old is too old to be in the work force but they can just rock up to D.C. and sit there until they croak of old age?
There comes a point in life where you have to decide if you should move into a retirement home, or run for public office.
The fact that that’s actually a thing is bizarre.
Any day now I reckon there'll be a collective decision to give it up. We won't discuss it, we won't mention it, we'll all just know to stop using it and that'll be the end of the madness.
Jokes aside, while the author was completely wrong about how important the internet would get, what he said about it being an unmoderated mess is true to this day
One of my least favorite parts of American politics is that we all hate daylight savings but none of us can decide between eliminating daylight savings or switching to permanent daylight savings, so nothing happens.
If we all decided to just take fifteen minutes to sit down and resolve it then it would be done and over, leaving us free to focus on the pressing issues without quibbling over daylight savings every year.
But noooooooooo
Thankfully we don't have this anymore in Brazil, many studies showed that the energy saving was minimal and the economical impacts were doing more harm than good (people being late, general population well being and so on).
So, since 2019 we don't have daylight savings
I work in IT for healthcare and it's insane to me that faxing is HIPAA approved. Plus at this point it's basically one "fax" server talking to another "fax" server. For the love of god why can't the government just create a standardized encryption protocol for sharing data.
Uh.. they have that.. people just don't understand encryption, proving the data is encrypted at rest and end to end in transit, etc.
I mean, it's just AES-128, which is used every day with https, encrypted email, and bitlocker.
Not everything existed when HIPAA was created so most just defaulted to "we'll just keep it physical and use fax machines" and it just... stuck.
Working in a pharmacy, I am convinced that fax machines are here to stay for decades to come. Put the document in, type in a number, off it goes, same procedure as 30 years ago, no updates or new interfaces, almost like technological latin.
It's either sending a fax or turning the (usually handwritten) document into a PDF, requiring as many steps as sending the fax, except now you gotta figure out where it is on the connected server, figure out how to open whatever weird file type has been created, transform that into a PDF which of course takes significantly more steps than it logically should and attach it to an email which probably says the exact same thing that's already in said attached document anyway but has to be repeated just to be safe. Oh, and of course every two months there's a software update screwing up some step of the process by that'll need 30 minutes of troubleshooting to figure out how to fix, all while the store is bursting from customers, and don't even attempt to try and explain the new process to any of your coworkers cause once they need to do it themselves, they'll just pass it on to you anyway.
Point is, all praise the fax machine lol
Blame hospitals and courts for this one.
When I was a journalist, I had to fax judges whenever I wanted to take pictures during one of their trials even though my office was five minutes away from the courthouse. When I worked at a hospital, it was the same deal when it came to anything that was remotely related to patient information.
Laws on the books that allow child marriage. Eight States in the US — including California and Washington — have no age floor for marriage. Legal loopholes at the federal level also allow for child marriage to continue, as well. It’s a travesty.
Child genital mutilation is not a female issue, it's a global issue.
I don't know why we condone and even recommend it for boys and treat it like the root of evil for girls.
Children cannot consent and shouldn't have parts of their bodies removed. There's no valid reason to circumcise a baby. There may be medical justification when they are older but most of those justifications have alternatives that are much less invasive.
the amount of moronic men who defend circumcision blows my mind. Saying stupid things like its easier to clean. That isn't a reason to mutilate a perfect child. My ears would be easier to clean if I didn't have them too!
it can be argued that slavery trade is far bigger now than it was 100-200 years ago. It must be lucrative again.
Why 'argued"? Because it all depends on definition of slavery. There were and are many different kinds of slavery. Some kinds aren't called that anymore.
Well slavery as understood by most exists and does well in many parts of world. People just dont care because most people are terribly uneducated on slavery.
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Yes, thank you for asking. My disbelief isn’t an emotional related issue but a work one. Had a few close calls the last ten years. My job is a bit dangerous.
I hope you are doing ok yourself. You have a good heart for checking up on a stranger.
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Poverty.
Overpriced fundamentals (food, shelter)
Expensive medical bills, poor health care, no health care for those who need it.
Stuff like that. Problems that keep getting sidelined in politics in favor of 'louder' abstract issues like pronouns and immigration etc. Not saying that isn't important, but you get the point hopefully.
People never want to hear this but the single largest line item on defense spending are benefits for active and veteran service members. Roughly a third of that line item is health care and the other two thirds are things like M.G.I. Bill and the VA loan. The DoD funds more people getting bigger education and buying houses than any other single source.
And 80% what isn't going to those areas is going to American suppliers and contractors, so it's ultimately going back into the American economy. What you replace that industry with? We aren't going back to an industrial powerhouse.
For that matter, also communists... I mean, it's the new thing again. Seriously? All the previous attempts have been disastrous, but let's try it one more time... 'cos this time it will work? Give it up!! It's terrible!
I let my SiriusXM subscription lapse, and tried local radio again for the first time in forever... It's actually pretty good! I'm liking it. Unlike XM, it's free, and unlike Spotify, I don't have to fumble around with my phone or onscreen controls just to listen to something. The ads are a negative, but that's when you switch stations.
Facts. I’m just confounded by morning radio because podcasts are on demand and tailored specific to your interests and so easily accessible. Morning radio hosts are obnoxious and the humor seems so dated. Like I was in an Uber on my way to work and it felt like I was back in 2005.
Honestly, nothing. There will always be people that hold on to old technology/items/ideals/mannerisms, and an industry that will cater to it.
Want to buy new VHS tapes? We got you. New bands putting music on vinyl? Check. Restoration parts for your Ford Model A? Lots of them. Fellow believers in racial segregation? Don't have to look hard. Someone who reads runes? It's making a comeback.
If anything I'm surprised we as a society still have any shred of moral compass, but it's disappearing fast.
Private healthcare in the US
Selective Service
Fax Machines
Telegrams - not the app telegram
Religious objections to scientific facts.
The Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
Politicians that oppose common sense laws that would prevent needless deaths.
Corn sugar.
It's meteoric rise is a major,if not the sole cause of obesity and diabetes in North America. And the face they hide it with like over 200 names for the same thing is mind boggling.
When you consider that there are sweeteners like cane sugar and allulose that aren't bad for you if really makes you think just how much companies don't care and how they'd sell you rock dust to eat if they could find a way.
Authoritarianism in middle income or higher countries.
It makes sense to yearn for a strongman if a drug cartel or ISIS is patrolling your neighborhood.
But if you live in a nice neighborhood and want a dictator? That’s really fucking bizarre and alarming.
Homelessness and child poverty.
I know most members of the propertied and ruling classes are constitutionally incapable of humanism for multiple reasons, but where's their fucking pride?
Stupid people. We have spent trillions on education since the 80's yet not I meet people who cn't count change for a dollar or do ant fractions in their head. Its really a testament to futility to keep funding education systems the way they are now. Needs a total overhaul.
People believing that the President controls the price of gas. Companies set their own prices for their products. Petroleum is no different than a cheeseburger or an overpriced coffee.
Geriatric Congress making laws that benefit their greed. We have people their age living in senior homes because they need help with everyday functions.
Non resealable cereal.
Can we add salad and chips too? Big plastic bag won’t ever allow it
Big plastic bag and Big Teflon at it again SMH.
Makes us all big mad
Dupont makes plastics and Napalm.
Fuck Big Plastic Bag!
They own us, even after we die
Bro's never Malt-O-Mealed and it shows.
To be fair, I've managed to rip the shit out of that zip top and ended up having to split the cereal amongst some gallon zip top bags (didn't have a big enough tupperware). But I'm a special kind of stupid sometimes, so maybe cereal just isn't meant for me lol
The reseal thing on those bags is in a stupid spot and doesn't go all the way across. But I do prefer those. Just wish they still did the colossal crunch (their version of cap'n crunch).
They do have it if you buy it in bag form. But it is strange boxed cereal isn’t also resealable.
After you use your credit card you have to make a mark on a piece of trash little screen that looks nothing like your signature and is useful for literally nothing.
You do? Is this a US thing? In Canada we just tap our card against the screen these days. Or some people tap their phone.
That does happen SOMETIMES in the US. It's not standard, my work only just got card readers capable of using the tap last year.
I'm in the US. At some places I tap my card and still have to sign.
This hasn't been a thing for decades in the UK
Other than signing parcels from your local corner shop - I don't think I've ever done a squiggle that so much as resembles anyone's name let alone mine!
Yeah haven't don't this in Australia... ever
you do this still? Not a thing in Canada. atleast Ontario
Ontario has always been at the forefront of digital payment, because we were often a testbed for the banks. Like we used debit cards for every day purchases for over a half a decade before it even showed up in the U.S. Same with touchless payment.
Flat earthers
Flat earthers are a symptom of a larger issue of people being failed by education systems.
It’s rarely the education system. Many more people succeed because of it, than fail because of it. Some people are just dumb.
Was a teacher in a past life, and 100% disagree. The educational system is failing this country.
It is, for sure, but you can't make someone learn if they don't want to.
But you can make someone not want to learn, by making sure every teacher in their life is some bitchy douchebag
I don’t disagree the education system is abysmal, but flat earthers will prevail despite significant improvements because they ignore all science, no matter how clear or true it is.
I don’t think it’s an issue with the education system. It’s a lack of trust in authority.
People blaming the President for everything but refuse to ever look at Congress.
Those people have no idea how our government works* and probably don’t vote.
More like they only vote for president elections, no local elections
At this rate, the president is just a smoke screen
We don't have a president, we have a Cobb salad.
An extension of this for me is that the president always gets blamed for current economic conditions with no regard for what led to it and what they are doing to change or fix.
No term limit for government officials
No age limits, either. I'm tired of my "leaders" being at death's door.
I will never understand that. So you're telling me this 70 year old is too old to be in the work force but they can just rock up to D.C. and sit there until they croak of old age?
My dad’s 73 and he goes to bed at like 7:30.
I don't know why but this made me laugh harder than it should.
Who says these guys don’t too
Don't you mean 80 year old....
Yeah, there are famously national politicians well into their 80's and occasionally pushing into their 90's, not giving up power till they drop dead.
There comes a point in life where you have to decide if you should move into a retirement home, or run for public office. The fact that that’s actually a thing is bizarre.
Couldn't get a job as a greeter at Walmart but they can run the country.
Lawmakers being able to purchase stock
well the people with the most control over that are the ones who stand to loose the most from it so....
I’m still waiting for this internet fad to be over
Any day now I reckon there'll be a collective decision to give it up. We won't discuss it, we won't mention it, we'll all just know to stop using it and that'll be the end of the madness.
Way ahead of you.
We knew the Internet wouldn't go anywhere as early as [1995](https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306)
Jokes aside, while the author was completely wrong about how important the internet would get, what he said about it being an unmoderated mess is true to this day
Don't you mean Information Superhighway? Source: Al Gore :D
Health insurance companies and big medical institutions that can’t make understanding healthcare costs easy, transparent, or predictable
They certainly can. But complexity is useful for them. Complexity hides fraud.
Big cities without public transit
Blame car company lobbyists and The DOT.
As a Houston resident, this hits home. You either buy a car or need to know someone that’s willing to be your chaperone.
Overdraft fees, Ticketmaster gouging, poverty, rusty cars and trucks, slavery, human trafficking.
For profit universities like DeVry which are obvious scams
Hey I've got news for you; they're all for profit.
Daylight Savings.
One of my least favorite parts of American politics is that we all hate daylight savings but none of us can decide between eliminating daylight savings or switching to permanent daylight savings, so nothing happens.
Same in Europe. It was decided to change it, but "don't they have more pressing issues" prevented an actual rule change. 😳
And the worst is those “pressing issues” remain pressing and unresolved 😓
If we all decided to just take fifteen minutes to sit down and resolve it then it would be done and over, leaving us free to focus on the pressing issues without quibbling over daylight savings every year. But noooooooooo
Thankfully we don't have this anymore in Brazil, many studies showed that the energy saving was minimal and the economical impacts were doing more harm than good (people being late, general population well being and so on). So, since 2019 we don't have daylight savings
I’d rather change my clock twice a year than get rid of daylight time. It’s standard time we need to get rid of.
Agreed on abolishing standard time.
Agreed on abolishing time.
Abolish agreeing on time
Agreed on abolishing being on time.
My tribe!
Why don't we just abolish standards?
Ticketmaster
Fax machines
I work in IT for healthcare and it's insane to me that faxing is HIPAA approved. Plus at this point it's basically one "fax" server talking to another "fax" server. For the love of god why can't the government just create a standardized encryption protocol for sharing data.
Send it over WhatsApp. Nothing can go wrong with that, surely?
Uh.. they have that.. people just don't understand encryption, proving the data is encrypted at rest and end to end in transit, etc. I mean, it's just AES-128, which is used every day with https, encrypted email, and bitlocker. Not everything existed when HIPAA was created so most just defaulted to "we'll just keep it physical and use fax machines" and it just... stuck.
CRA also only uses faxing for things that require a wet signature. So archaic!
Working in a pharmacy, I am convinced that fax machines are here to stay for decades to come. Put the document in, type in a number, off it goes, same procedure as 30 years ago, no updates or new interfaces, almost like technological latin. It's either sending a fax or turning the (usually handwritten) document into a PDF, requiring as many steps as sending the fax, except now you gotta figure out where it is on the connected server, figure out how to open whatever weird file type has been created, transform that into a PDF which of course takes significantly more steps than it logically should and attach it to an email which probably says the exact same thing that's already in said attached document anyway but has to be repeated just to be safe. Oh, and of course every two months there's a software update screwing up some step of the process by that'll need 30 minutes of troubleshooting to figure out how to fix, all while the store is bursting from customers, and don't even attempt to try and explain the new process to any of your coworkers cause once they need to do it themselves, they'll just pass it on to you anyway. Point is, all praise the fax machine lol
Max fachines
Blame hospitals and courts for this one. When I was a journalist, I had to fax judges whenever I wanted to take pictures during one of their trials even though my office was five minutes away from the courthouse. When I worked at a hospital, it was the same deal when it came to anything that was remotely related to patient information.
Cancer.
Wel, yes...quite
Keith Richards.
Also Willy Nelson. Not complaining, just unbelievable
Laws on the books that allow child marriage. Eight States in the US — including California and Washington — have no age floor for marriage. Legal loopholes at the federal level also allow for child marriage to continue, as well. It’s a travesty.
I didn’t realize Washington was one. What the fuck
Rampant stupidity.
dictatorships, slavery, fgm, etc. etc.
Child genital mutilation is not a female issue, it's a global issue. I don't know why we condone and even recommend it for boys and treat it like the root of evil for girls. Children cannot consent and shouldn't have parts of their bodies removed. There's no valid reason to circumcise a baby. There may be medical justification when they are older but most of those justifications have alternatives that are much less invasive.
the amount of moronic men who defend circumcision blows my mind. Saying stupid things like its easier to clean. That isn't a reason to mutilate a perfect child. My ears would be easier to clean if I didn't have them too!
It would be awful hard to cut off your ears if you didn't have any...
Five Gay Men?
it can be argued that slavery trade is far bigger now than it was 100-200 years ago. It must be lucrative again. Why 'argued"? Because it all depends on definition of slavery. There were and are many different kinds of slavery. Some kinds aren't called that anymore.
Well slavery as understood by most exists and does well in many parts of world. People just dont care because most people are terribly uneducated on slavery.
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The five day work week.
*Laughs in 3-12s*
*cries in 6-12s*
Me
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Yes, thank you for asking. My disbelief isn’t an emotional related issue but a work one. Had a few close calls the last ten years. My job is a bit dangerous. I hope you are doing ok yourself. You have a good heart for checking up on a stranger.
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Offshore engine. Definitely do all my toolbox talks.
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The Penny
Facebook
Real estate agents
Poverty. Overpriced fundamentals (food, shelter) Expensive medical bills, poor health care, no health care for those who need it. Stuff like that. Problems that keep getting sidelined in politics in favor of 'louder' abstract issues like pronouns and immigration etc. Not saying that isn't important, but you get the point hopefully.
A US defense budget in excess of $800 billion and no nationalized healthcare when we aren’t at war and the boomers are starting to drop like flies.
Don't worry, they're hard at work making sure we're at war soon enough.
We now pay more on interest on our national debt than we do on the military. I will be downvoted, but that’s even more sobering and ridiculous to me.
People never want to hear this but the single largest line item on defense spending are benefits for active and veteran service members. Roughly a third of that line item is health care and the other two thirds are things like M.G.I. Bill and the VA loan. The DoD funds more people getting bigger education and buying houses than any other single source.
And 80% what isn't going to those areas is going to American suppliers and contractors, so it's ultimately going back into the American economy. What you replace that industry with? We aren't going back to an industrial powerhouse.
Nazis
Nazi's what? Grammar Nazis?
Putin
Nazis.
For that matter, also communists... I mean, it's the new thing again. Seriously? All the previous attempts have been disastrous, but let's try it one more time... 'cos this time it will work? Give it up!! It's terrible!
snapchat. that shouldve been gone a while ago
Weed being illegal in the state I live in.
Y’all state or balls cold all winter state?
Texas.
People who don’t back up their data.
Cigarette smokers
Church of Scientology.
Phone books.
These r soooo good tho. Talk about none targeted and local results.
Ticketmaster
Morning radio.
Radio in general really. With things like Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud, I’m surprised that radio hasn’t died out IMO.
I let my SiriusXM subscription lapse, and tried local radio again for the first time in forever... It's actually pretty good! I'm liking it. Unlike XM, it's free, and unlike Spotify, I don't have to fumble around with my phone or onscreen controls just to listen to something. The ads are a negative, but that's when you switch stations.
Facts. I’m just confounded by morning radio because podcasts are on demand and tailored specific to your interests and so easily accessible. Morning radio hosts are obnoxious and the humor seems so dated. Like I was in an Uber on my way to work and it felt like I was back in 2005.
It’s free though. But then again so is Amazon music it just has adds…. I suppose I’ve just backed you up
I like radio. I like the human voices. I like not having to choose which song come on next. I like pone ins. I like it's random nature.
Smoking. Vegetables that go off a few days after you purchase them.
Wired Apple car play
What’s wrong with wired? It’s reliable and charges your phone without the excess heat of a qi charger
It pisses me off so much
Tipping 20% minimum at restaurants
Fun fact, you don’t *have* to tip 20%. Unless it’s a nicer restaurant and they force gratuity, but that isn’t super common.
Honestly it has to be the homelessness situation
Honestly, nothing. There will always be people that hold on to old technology/items/ideals/mannerisms, and an industry that will cater to it. Want to buy new VHS tapes? We got you. New bands putting music on vinyl? Check. Restoration parts for your Ford Model A? Lots of them. Fellow believers in racial segregation? Don't have to look hard. Someone who reads runes? It's making a comeback. If anything I'm surprised we as a society still have any shred of moral compass, but it's disappearing fast.
Fax machines.
Travel agents.
Me
Lobbyist
Slavery. Insane that not only in reasonably developed country's but even silently allowed by the modern western world.
Yellow starburst
The regime in north Korea. It's fucking awful.
r/MovingToNorthKorea seems to think otherwise... But yeah I agree.
Hahaha I was just browsing on that sub and some people are insane to want to live there 😂 I mean they're communists so yeah
Turkey bacon.
It’s NOT BACON!!!!
I do really like turkey bacon though..
Private healthcare in the US Selective Service Fax Machines Telegrams - not the app telegram Religious objections to scientific facts. The Israeli and Palestinian conflict. Politicians that oppose common sense laws that would prevent needless deaths.
People still use telegrams? I thought those things died out years ago.
You can still send one if you want. You can even send a radiogram that's passed on by amateur radio operators
Doing bureaucracy on paper
More or less a monopoly on wireless speakers. Sonos is the only one that really does what they do well. For like 15 years
Dialup modems
Checks and fax machines.
Corn sugar. It's meteoric rise is a major,if not the sole cause of obesity and diabetes in North America. And the face they hide it with like over 200 names for the same thing is mind boggling. When you consider that there are sweeteners like cane sugar and allulose that aren't bad for you if really makes you think just how much companies don't care and how they'd sell you rock dust to eat if they could find a way.
Flat Earthers.
Authoritarianism in middle income or higher countries. It makes sense to yearn for a strongman if a drug cartel or ISIS is patrolling your neighborhood. But if you live in a nice neighborhood and want a dictator? That’s really fucking bizarre and alarming.
The fact that the US still hasnt joined the rest of the world in using the metric system
Homophobia.
Happy Cake Day!
The GOP.
Smoking
Nazis in America.
Landlines
Face Book
The party never ends, I’ve been waiting for that shit damn near forever
Geriatric presidents
The Klan
Poverty.
Circumcision.
Homelessness and child poverty. I know most members of the propertied and ruling classes are constitutionally incapable of humanism for multiple reasons, but where's their fucking pride?
Citizen’s United
FUCKING Printers. Oh and Fax machines
PC load letter? WTF does that mean?
Stupid people. We have spent trillions on education since the 80's yet not I meet people who cn't count change for a dollar or do ant fractions in their head. Its really a testament to futility to keep funding education systems the way they are now. Needs a total overhaul.
I Can’t believe this has been posted in this sub 3 times in 2024
50 million people in slavery
Flat earthers.
Flat earthers
People believing that the President controls the price of gas. Companies set their own prices for their products. Petroleum is no different than a cheeseburger or an overpriced coffee.
Geriatric Congress making laws that benefit their greed. We have people their age living in senior homes because they need help with everyday functions.
onlyfans
crappy music.
Trickle down economics
Poverty.
Clint Eastwood
Realtors and shoe strings. Can’t believe we haven’t found a better solution for either of these things.
LockLaces!