Me: Cars
Meta
car alarms
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Shareholders.
Animal agriculture.
Either leaded gasoline or pfas
Leaded gasoline is an Amazing answer. Fuck. Take my UpDoot.
Social media year over year shows it was a mistake.
It’s likely LLMs in their current corporate circular funding form and cryptocurrency.
industrialization.
it’s caused unfathomable damage to us, our planet, and the organisms we share our world with.
it’s also saved just as many as it’s harmed, but there is an upper limit when our planet dies and we all die with it.
Lead pipes.
Leaded gasoline has to be worse.
Lead pipes are fine. Step 1: Install. Step 2: ignore one generation of aggressive residents. Step 3: never touch the pipes again
I know it this will seem trendy, or whatever, but AI and social media have been the worst inventions since religion.
Capitalism.
deleted by creator
Advertising.
Some level of advertising is surely okay, right?
If I open a bakery and put a sign out front that says “Baked good for sale!” I don’t think anyone would complain but that IS advertising.
This begs the question: What level of advertising is okay?
I can’t specify a threshold, but it really comes down to the level of invasiveness.
I miss the days of requesting big thick catalogues be sent to you in the mail from companies you’d want to do business with. They’d send you a catalogue once or twice a year and then stop if you don’t buy anything for a while. I think that was a good method, the same way I don’t mind seeing other things available on websites I’m buying from.
I also don’t mind stuff like local coupon/advert mailers that come once a month or whatever, but those tend to all just be big companies advertising “sales” that always run these days, rather than anyone I’d want to try to support. But I like the idea of packaging up all the ads they want to send out and delivering them in one go. Maybe with an opt-out. All other junk mail, stuff you didn’t request, should be banned.
And I think signage on store windows and stuff is fine, as long as it’s not an eyesore, but billboards and rooftop signage should definitely be banned. Protruding signs like that hang off the side of buildings should also go.
Meatspace advertisements are the worst imo, because there’s very little you can do to avoid them.
This begs the question
Nope. It just raises the question.
The only correct answer in this thread.
It’s the biggest industry in the world by a very large margin and the most destructive one on a global scale.
Even advertising isn’t necessarily bad, having people telling you about things you might like used to be a good thing.
I personally think it’s people like Edward Bernays who had the idea of, I guess, ‘Malicious Advertising’. They really solidified the idea of applying propaganda techniques to advertising strategies and that just kind of become expected and the norm.
More people need to know about Bernays. Literally wrote the book, Propaganda in 1928. Went on to found the industry of Public Relations. He is the reason advertisers target your subconscious, make you feel bad, an use their products as a salve for the pain they inflict.
Adam Curtis covers the effects well in The Century of the Self. Watch out, it clocks in at just under 4 hours.
Chemical weapons
