News outlets taking quotes from company PR/employees and including them alongside facts about reality. "Company x does something horrible, here is the data. Meanwhile, the CEO says it's inaccurate because bs reasonexcuse.". So much of corporate media is this, we've nearly lost the expectation a news outlet have any sense of responsibility outside of an easy quote from the paid company representative. Every single employee quote should come with footer "but of course this person does pay their mortgage based on saying whatever the companies needs it to to continue doing what benefits it the most so this is idiotically biased".
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Money in politics.
Billionaires.
Also, the propagation of the idea that you are poor because of the actions of even poorer people.
Conservatism
What good has it fucking done us
Our modern day concept of ownership.
Ban streaming services from advertising they have something on their platform and when you go to it, you realize you need to pay for an add-on subscription.
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Black licorice. Don’t even try to tell me that shit is candy. It tastes like some horrible byproduct of an outdated process for manufacturing tires.
Yeah I'm gonna have to abolish your comment for that, black licorice is amazing.
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The word 'literally'.
It's been abused and needs to now just die.
Additionally, anyone uttering that word must be slapped by everyone who hears it.
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corporate fucking personhood. not that it exists but the friggin false idea that it should and any belief system that lead or may ever lead to it.
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Manchester United Football Club
I would abolish toilets without bidets. You would be legally required to have a bidet in all bathrooms, private and public. Worldwide!
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Professional sports teams. I'm just sick of hearing people blather on endlessly about them and expecting me to join in.
Bring back gladiators!
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Video tutorials without captions/instead of text. I don’t want to watch someone fumble through over 30 minutes what I can skim in 5.
I would like to abolish subscription fees for most items that really shouldn’t have subscription fees. If you bought the item, it should be yours. That’s the point of buying the item.
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The inconsistency of apostrophe usage in English for possessives and contractions. If it was instead written...
It-s a wonderful day out today, take your phone but turn off it's data so you can soak up the clear blue skies.
It'd be so much fucking easier and my OCD would be satiated.
To be honest I think we could just ditch the apostrophe in contractions altogether. I cant think of a situation in which itd make anything less clear. At worst there are perhaps uses of the fairly rare non-contraction verb "cant" that wouldn't be immediately clear
I'd be cool with that - I don't care how we mark contractions just as long as we stop reusing apostrophes for it.
It-s
Thanks I hate it. Also wouldn't the "it's" be 'its' without apostrophe at all?
Eh - I thought dash was a pretty reasonable symbol for "There's a contraction here" I don't really care about the actual symbol as long as we stop using the same symbol for contractions and possessives. In my sample It-s would currently be written It's and the it's (a possessive) would be its if that's what you're asking.
Possessives always get an apostrophe outside of weird exceptions where they clash with contractions. I'm proposing we fix that. Also - let's bring back mass possessions like "At the bake sale Moms' baked goods are always delicious"
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