I’ve got two off the top of my head:
First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn’t been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.
Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they’re so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a ‘jump to recipe’ button.
I’m just a filty little treat boy, no a treat gremlin, and I hate how shows get canceled before they could get a proper conclusion
Under socialism entertainment won’t need to make money, it will just need to be entertaining and shows will end when it makes sense for them to end
under my terror regime at the ministry of culture there won’t even be TV shows, capitalist decadence stretched out to sell ad-space. you want to put a long amount of film onscreen we call that a miniseries, and it must be conceived with an end scheduled before production begins
unnecessary ‘‘smart’’ products
a few years ago our family got together to buy a new fridge for my grand grandmother and trying to find one without some bullshit ‘smart’ functions was a nightmare. no one needs to have their fridge connected to the internet, but especially not a 90 year old woman who barely understands what the internet is
seems like the smart trend has died off though thank god
Fucking water pitchers are “smart” around where I am and it’s hard to find one with a filter system that isn’t some bazinga surveillance tech.
“Smart” TVs are also horrible and it’s nearly impossible to find them in any other form now.
It’s called the Internet of Shit and it’s fucking awful
They never think about security when implementing those awful things, either
There have been entire botnets made out of those e-waste generators
Chan-style creepy fucks easily hack into home surveillance systems so they can drool over babies in cribs and the like, too.
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The glorification of “dark triad” traits among
types also further normalized what should have been damnably monstrous behavior from CEOs and management.
Gas station pump ads. Stop colonizing my brain!
me, remembering that my license plate is on video (and I used a credit card) so I don’t start vandalizing the fucking screen
Those buttons around the screen? If you play around and press them all at once and keep them pressed, it sometimes fucks with the sound and silences it.
EV charging stations also expect proprietary apps (with a different app for pretty much every station around where I live) that both spy on you and push obnoxious ads.
I’ve been pitching movies and albums to various people in hollywood for 50 years but have never once gotten my ideas greenlighted.
You know terminator 2? I came up with that in the 60’s. I said what if we did a movie about a grown man named Kevin McCallister who gets separated from his family at an airport during Christmas. The only way to get back to his family and avoid the two robbers that were after him is if he lets a man live in his ass. The robbers are magical Mr. Mistoffelees who is a large cat and Doctor Manhattan who is blue and you can see his penis.
They have been pushing me out of the film industry for decades now.
All that neoliberal privatization shit they pushed on us for decades saying “oh it will be cheaper and more efficient if the MARKET provides rail travel, health insurance, energy, telcoms and water…”
And now all of these things are more expensive and shittier than ever before, and nobody thinks it’s weird. If anything people I lay this out to say “oh it’s because they haven’t fully privatized this service, obviously! It’s these damn lefties holding us back!” Absolutely insane.
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Like I mentioned in another post, i’ve learned that traditional search engines aren’t really the best anymore because of the annoying issue with seo. I do like reading an indepth discussion of recipes that some of these recipes sites have, but otherwise Tiktok and chatgpt can be much better at getting what I actually want to make.
my annoyance is that stuff should be simple in western societies like poverty alleviation, but takes 10 bureaucrats, studies, other nonsense just to do something that private citizens opening up their homes can do in moments.
Just don’t let chatgpt talk you into cooking up some delicious chlorine gas by accident.
all the random dumb shit in my inbox. i’m applying for jobs and an apartment rn, so i’ve had to give out my serious stuff email and personal phone number like 30 times in the last week. i’m getting constant texts and calls and emails from people trying to sell shit, and i have to answer the calls because some of them could be jobs
Ruined my fucking life.
Everything is just a little bit worse than it should be. You can feel them trying to save just a little bit more or squeeze just a little more. Every moment of the day you are aware there is just one less slice of bred than there used to be, or things just cost a few cents more. It’s hard sometimes to know what is real and what you are imagining but every moment you can feel the pressure of everything gnawing away
Shoving ads in my face everywhere I go, causing me psychological harm as my ADHD brain has to contend with things that are designed to be attention grabbing but which I do not want to pay attention to. So it’s like an assault on my ability to think clearly. I’m being robbed of my fucking capacity to reason so that it will increase the likelihood I hook myself up to the great machine and let Moloch drink of my blood
I dont really go out much aside to work and I have 678 adblockers and don’t watch TV or listen to the radio and I steal all my media, so I rarely encounter ads.
so when I do it lights a fury inside me
Holy shit when someone wants to show me a video and I see the experience of what most people get it blows my mind these days. I was essentially able to cut out all advertisements out of my life a few years ago and I genuinely think it’s had a profound impact on my mental health. How did this shit get so fucking normalized.
Every time I am forced to see ads where they are otherwise blocked at home (such as at a bank or doctor’s office) I see them getting measurably more obnoxious with each months-later snapshot since the last time I saw them.
I feel this too.
There’s a lot of “if you don’t like X don’t buy X, simple”
excuses out there, and none of them change the fact that I still have to have that distracting obnoxious deliberately-anxiety-inducing noise everywhere I go.My fucking god I hate how pervasive ads are. I’ve entirely quit watching cable TV because of commercials and just pirate anything I want to watch, and I just don’t listen to the radio for the same reason. Magazines and newspapers lost the war ages ago but those are dying media that no one read anymore. Thank fucking god uBlock Origin exists otherwise I’m not sure I’d be able to tolerate the internet. But I can’t avoid billboards because I live in a car-centric hellscape where public transportation doesn’t exist and I literally have to drive a car if I want to get anywhere. Billboards are a blight upon the landscape and every single one of them should be burned to the ground.
On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid “catchy” jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they’re trying to sell.
On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid “catchy” jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they’re trying to sell.
I actually miss when ads were about how powerful this cleansing agent is or how much horsepower that car was supposed to have. Now it’s all about life-changing epiphanies, about the purchased identity from the treat and the validation the treat promises the exhausted and alienated consumer.
the nuclear family, I wish to be surrounded by kids without having them, wish i grew up in a community where all the adults were looking out for me.
Took a trip to Europe recently. One thing that I noticed that we’re deprived of in the US is simple artistic decorations. All our construction here has little to no artistic embellishments or flourishes where a skilled trades person can demonstrate their prowess and beautiful spaces. Any fancy construction that goes on here is just a cheap facade that’s been sloppily put together as fast as possible for maximum return.
In Europe there’s beautiful glazed tiles used for the siding of houses, real wooden inlays in tables and staircases, coats of arms chiseled from granite at the corner of half the buildings, cobblestone roadways and sidewalks were they’ll make swirling patterns with them, many walls in public spaces have real art from local artists on them, there’s actual color used in architecture, pubic parks that are actually kept up on, street lights that have style.
This isn’t every square inch of the EU and I’ve seen some shitty areas too, but so many places are actually beautiful there. I got a sense that when people build things, they actually care about what they’re doing. And so much of what I described is actually maintained too! Here in Burgeritaville things are so bland. Only a few historical areas in the US have ever given me that vibe.
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A very minor and petty thing that still pisses me off that capitalism does is that it keeps regurgitating the same old shit over and over again instead of letting artists try something new while actually still having a livelihood while taking risks as art ought to be about.
Nope, it’s “copy the thing that seemed successful until it’s run into the ground” each and very time. Whether it’s “gritty reboots” of ancient franchises or the decades-long flood of zombie apocalypse cliches or the Gambo-chasing P R E S T I G E T V trend or quippy MCU-style slop, it sucks especially when it wears out whatever welcome it initially had.
