- apps required for everything
- restaurants not giving physical cards anymore
Ugh I hate apps being needed for everything, it’s ludicrous. At this rate you’ll need an app to take the garbage out.
I already have to
If only Firefox os had taken off. Just progressive web apps with no special permissions or tracking.
Anti-intellectualism. That, and the general increase in fearfulness of people despite the long term trend of decreasing violent crime.
Touch control on everything. Microwave, induction hob, cars, elevators, …
Cars! I want knobs i don’t want to look at a screen while I’m driving ffs
That could be interpreted in quite a nsfw way…
Haha true. I love touching knobs…
You’re not alone. Many new models are coming out again where critical functions - volume, wipers, headlights - are back to knobs you can confidently use without taking your eyes from the road.
And I think that’s fantastic news.
Touch screens should be illegal.
Amen
We have access to almost all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips yet we seem to be getting dumber than ever before.
doesn’t this teach us something about the contextual nature of knowledge? It’s not just about access to a set of facts, arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant- whether that’s a 9/11 truther choosing to look at “anomalous” facts that give them a feeling of justification for taking bold speculative leaps about the hidden truth, or a liberal who focuses on the war crimes committed by conservatives as condemnatory while they ignore or downplay when liberals have committed similar atrocities or violated international laws.
The context determines how the facts are interpreted, what weight they are given, and how they shape behavior or even beliefs. People don’t just accumulate facts, knowledge and beliefs are complex, and subject to manipulation.
arguably the facts we choose to look at and how we interpret them are more relevant
completely agree with you! “Truth” can take on different meanings from different viewpoints, what i was referring to that despite having better resources, being better equipped to inform ourselves in depth about any topic, we see polarised discourse where the purpose is not the search for ‘truth’, rather to win, reason and critical thinking seem to have taken a back seat.
Differences have existed and will continue to exist but how we deal with them hasn’t improved how it could have given the advancements in connectivity and information flow.
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Lack of privacy.
Especially over the last 6 months, things have been going crazy bananas. Facial recognition everywhere, data broker and data harvesting beyond belief, and aggressively marginalizing anyone that tries to leave the walled gardens.
My thoughts are my own. Let me search for weird stuff in peace.
Surveillance capitalism at it’s finest. The biggest problem I find is:
If our data is so valuable just pay me for it, for fuck sake! There should me a model that pays me for my data.
People tend to shit on Brave for their Attention Token model, but I find it a step in the right direction.
Motors. Car motors. Truck motors. Furnace and air conditioning motors. Fan motors. Lawn mower motors. Fridge motors. I can’t understand how people are happy with the constant hum of motors all day, every day.
It’s all noise pollution. The sounds of nature has been eradicated and replaced by the drone of motors.
The refrigerator in my apartment makes the loudest, stupidest groaning noises. It’s not actually the motor, it’s air pockets in the refrigerant, but It honestly sounds like it’s haunted by a cartoon ghost, and it makes the sound CONSTANTLY when the compressor is running.
My landlord refuses to acknowledge the problem, and says as long as it’s keeping things cold (which it is), then it’s fine. It’s not even an old fridge, it’s probably only 5 or 6 years old (which honestly might be the problem, old fridges last forever)
I even tried to live the no-fridge life and had it unplugged for a couple months, but along with that being hellaciously inconvenient, and my energy bill not actually going down at all, I’ve just continued to live with this stupid ghost-fridge. I’ve gotten really good at opening it for the least possible amount of time and cleaned all the coils and condensers and everything to minimize the time the compressor is running. It’s taken me ~4 years but I am ALMOST at the point where I don’t notice it.
What Blaze said. Additionally:
- Doing lots of regular updates and maintenance
- Most things are designed to spy on me in some form or another
Just about everything.
Not finding decent work
Capitalism
The lack of patient in everything, be it driving, looking for answer, or in general the lack of patient in waiting for their thing to be done.
Anti science
One just gotta love it that people have in their hands the absolute pinnacle of science, a device using the collective knowledge and research from thousands, if not millions of scientists over the past century… All in their hands… And they use it to tweet about the evils of science and how all scientists are evil and only interested in money and power
Sigh
Companies not treating me like a human being. Like damn, do you have no empathy?
Also, people in public facing jobs like support call lines that speak really soft and don’t pronounce their words. Like dude, how is communications the path you chose for yourself when you can’t even enunciate.
Oh last one that got me livid during covid was seeing airlines get bailed out from bankruptcy. I feel if theyre that big and they are going bankrupt, well fuck em. Do your business better. Have a lil savings to fall back on idiot. This only goes for big ass companies, mom and pops can get bailouts. 😘
Shoving so-called “AI” into everything.
Censorship
