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[–] MrMamiya@feddit.de 261 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 141 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 79 points 11 months ago

Public transport too. It really seems like every time a public service is privatised it goes to shit, almost as if for-profit motives aren't aligned to public interest.

[–] nnjvwl@midwest.social 61 points 11 months ago

For profit education

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 182 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Tax exemption for religious organisations.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 28 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Could be worse, I guess. I live in a "secular" democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

Knew it was DE before I saw the instance domain.

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[–] gilgameth@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Or better yet, religious organizations.

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[–] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 86 points 11 months ago

Billionaires

[–] tungah@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Since it wasn't said yet, nukes. No one needs them.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

A lot of these are things that we can improve

Here's one we can't: giraffes πŸ¦’

an old meme:

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 57 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] Puppet007@lemm.ee 50 points 11 months ago
[–] spider@lemmy.nz 40 points 11 months ago
[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 11 months ago
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 35 points 11 months ago (3 children)

These Boston dynamics robot dogs

But in reality, military aerial drones are much more terrifying. It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia that a billionaire could type your name, press a kill button, and within a few minutes a drone locates and bombs you. But this tech has already existed for over a decade, and is being used by the US in the Middle East and North Africa.

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[–] phubarr@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago
[–] VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

Any individual possessing more than a lifetime's worth of money. Like after you have $30 million the rest goes into a bucket for everyone else to use. You can re-up from the bucket once you drop below mmmm a 5 year amount of money say $2 million. You can still amass bazillions of dollars, just not kajillions.

[–] probably_a_robot@lemmy.one 25 points 11 months ago

Private/for profit prisons

[–] zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

America's Got Talent. For the past ten seasons, it's been as much a talent show as The Curse of Oak Island is a show about historical accuracy.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is a subtle, but important, difference between letting people know your product exists or improved, and brainwashing people into buying your product.

Is a grocery saleman at the local saturday market allowed to shout about the sale he is doing on strawberries? Because that is also marketing.

I fully agree that the average advertisement you see on youtube is pure cancer. But what about an advertisement for an emergency fund for a disaster?

What about a sponsored video of a game?

Where do you draw the line?

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[–] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

The only departement you don't really need, except your competitors have one, so now you need one too.

And the problem for me is not with a simple ad for the local grocery store. It's when they made a science out of influencing people and targeting specific groups and working on your subconscious.

I would like to think that I'm not affect by marketing. But the truth is that we all are being led by subtle marketing too, not just the obvious marketing.

So in a way, they affect the choices I make and I don't want anybody but me to make the choices.

Obviously marketing is not going away now. If anything, it will only get more intrusive and intense. I hate marketing...

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (9 children)

squints at the Fermi paradox

Umm life?

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Uncured bacon doesn't exist. It's a lie. Uncured bacon is cured with celery nitrates and nitrites instead of synthetic nitrates and nitrites. It is all cured bacon.

And that's fine. If people want a more naturally cured bacon that tastes worse and has zero health benefits, and costs more, calling it "uncured" is still deceptive. It's also crowding out the actual bacon market on the low end.

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The interstate highway we have on Oahu. It doesn’t even extend to other counties.

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think we should build a huge highway bridge to Hawaii

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[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Influencers

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

School lunch debt.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Matrix sequels. All of them.

[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

they are fine. except the 4th. that should have been never existed.

I know lots of people hate the sequels, but they add to the story, it's another question they are... just action movies with a little bit of early 2000s cringe.

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billionaires
for profit access to the internet
fox news
the turtle mcconnell
hospital advertising departments
religion, any. lets not discriminate

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Cars. They are everywhere and are like cigarettes. Addictive, bad for our environment and bad for ourselves.

And we even try to keep using them as long as possible by switching to an electric version, just like cigarettes. "But it's electric, it can't be that bad!"

Humanity is not running to its doom, it's taking a car.

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

As a person that hates cars, I still have to disagree. For transportation of goods (like building materials) and in remote areas, they are sometimes the only efficient form of transport.

Obviously: fuck cars.

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[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We've had standard stuff (injustices et. al), we've had edgy if understandable stuff (god/gods/religion/whatevs), so I think I'll instead go with an unhinged take that I (mostly) only say for the memes:

Dolphins. They're fucking assholes. And like. They are assholes in much the same way we humans are: They aren't thoughtless critters just following basic survival rules. They are higher-brained creatures that are intelligent enough to be capable of choosing between kindness and cruelty, and they are absolutely cruel in a lot of occasions.

Now you may be wondering "does that mean you also think humans should go", to which I say no, because I happen to be human. So of course I'm rooting for my own team. Dolphins are competition for the spot of "intelligent species that engages in cruelty" and so they gotta go.

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

Corrupt politicians

lol

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Imperfect political and economic systems like our current version of capitalism and democracy. (Both could be better, or even replaced by something different which is better.)

Violence.

Judging without critical and unbiased thinking.

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