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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Warning Labels on obvious things. Like "contains dairy" on a package of butter. At some point they need to stop and let Darwin take the wheel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Dairy is an allergen and has to be marked on packages by law in the states. There are also people who just avoid dairy, and non-dairy butter very much exists.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like the “This product may contain nuts” on a packet of nuts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It better contain nuts or I want my money back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Most nuts are not even nuts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Health Insurance Companies

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

They don’t really exist because people are stupid.

More because of corruption and greed imo.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For profit health insurance companies.

Even with universal healthcare, someone has to do all the admin stuff, and putting it under government control directly just screams of inefficiencies.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're gonna have to explain further before I can judge your comment.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hotdog cooking instructions

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who moved to a new country, having preparation instructions for things that "everyone" knows how to cook are super useful.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Cryptocurrency as an investment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

automatic weapons

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Homeopathy and alternative medicine.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Facebook. (When Zuck was asked how he amassed so much personal information about people, he famously answered: "They 'trust me.' Dumb f*cks.") Growing up, we were told it was foolish to post personally identifying information to the Internet, then the generation that told us that flocked to facebook.

Credit scores. (Less the concept, namely the fact that they're used so extensively to judge people based on arbitrary rules. It's stupid that the companies behind them are still operating after major breaches involving more information than they should have had in the first place. The average person seems too dumb to care what happens with their personal information, sadly.)

Services like "Grammarly". Some folks noted below that there are some legitimate use cases as an accessibility tool, but the service itself seems to target the English-native people "Oh whatever you know what I meant" crowd, to help them sound smart in emails.

And all this other Ai stuff that seems to market itself on the premise that the user is a complete moron who needs to escape the consequences of their ineptitude.

Almost every Ai commercial features someone using Ai tools to quickly cover up the fact that they forgot their partner's birthday, or quickly cobble together some work memo because they were sleeping or something. (Okay that last one can be kinda based amirite lol.)

Edit: Explanations added because I'm fine being disagreed with but maybe I didn't communicate very well lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Grammarly can be quite useful to people who are not dumb but have dyslexia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This sounds interesting and I actually haven't heard of it being used for this before.

What about dyslexia-friendly typefaces though? Would that be more practical?🤔

I'll be honest a lot of my opinion of the service comes from being spammed ads featuring a targetted customer that's just too lazy to be hassled with the burden of learning decent communication, and has money to spend lol.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But grammarly gets it wrong.

If it was perfect, then sure.

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