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Scammers, hackers, con artists, things of this nature. I'm old enough to remember being excited when the phone rang because it could be anybody, like my friends! Then I got scared of it because its could be anybody, even my boss or my debtors! Now I dont even bother looking because theres absolutely no chance its anybody I know or even anybody who wants me, its either an Indian guy about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer, or some computer program about to trick me about being a real person about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer.

Same for emails. Maybe the Prince of Nigeria really was in trouble one time and just got drowned out? Maybe one of the penis enlargement pills were just from a misunderstood genius scientist? We'll never know because scammers have absolutely fucked every single line of communication we've ever been granted access to.

Just. Fuck. Off. Die slow.

Conservatism.

Liberals and leftists discussing things would be much better. They'd discuss policy and how to implement it.

We wouldn't need to have "discussions" in the "marketplace of ideas" around murdering people, deporting people, removing healthcare, denying people's existence, etc.

Just because horse piss is a yellow liquid doesn't mean it has to be stocked on shelves next to Gatorade.

Foreign agents and rich people buying the American political system. If they could just fuck off thatd be handy.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases. All of them. I would love to know a world without them.

billionaires

We don’t need a stupid app for every separate thing. And don’t force a redirect to the mobile app instead of the website.

Enshitification and capitalism are fighting for first place

Capitalism

Go away: Any automotive HVAC controls that are not three simple fucking knobs. I'm going to wreck my wife's car fiddling with the touchscreen, which has a 2-second delay before the press actuates. 🙄😡

While we're at it, give us back AC vents that rotate 360° and open nearly 180°.

We had these things perfected over 20-years ago!

Needing to create account for apps and sites where the account provides zero additional value.

Sms verification that you can't disable and replace with another method

Fireworks.

I live in the Netherlands and New year's eve is hell on earth here. Even the weeks leading up to it are bad. This year is the first year that consumer fireworks are banned, but of course there are already people going to Germany, Belgium or Poland to buy them anyway. And it's not just the pretty stuff, it's more like bombs. It would be so much better if it just disappeared.

The stigma against weed and psychedelics. You would think that legalization would make people more tolerant, but I'm finding the opposite to be true, especially among Gen-Z. Even the Boomers—who used to spread lies like weed will kill you or acid would make you go insane—still enjoy their 5mg edibles. IDK what is going on with the kids; I'm happy that they choose to abstain, but leave us who do partake alone. Stop being so damn judgemental. I got tired of arguing with people about this subject 20 years ago.

Planned obsolescence/bricking devices the manufacturer deems as "too old."

Not just devices, stuff like clothing too. Fabric made too thin and the seams far too weak, clothing starts falling apart in less than a couple years of use.

Entropy

Cigarettes

US-defaultism on Lemmy. It's gotten so bad, many users absolutely don't seem to realise that they're writing to an international audience.

These stupid Cookie- popups. Damn, every site uses cookies. Just let me set my preference once, across the entire internet, and shut the fuck up.

MAGA

This could be a long list, not sure.

1. AI - no more data centers, no more vibe coded junk, all CEOs drinking the AI Kool-aid need to go away.
2. Mass Surveillance - Online, offline, and in cars.
3. Politicians - Especially those who make laws about things they don't understand.
4. Science deniers - no more religion, no more fake news, no more alternative facts.
5. Bigtech.
6. Fossil fuels.

On a more personal level:

1. Filler words in the spoken word - "I mean", "um", "like".
2. Tailgaters - Just fuck off, I'm driving the speed limit (usually a few over) and if that isn't fast enough, tough cookie.
3. Lazy co-workers -
4. No more scented products - perfumes, body wash, laundry products, etc.

My feeling of being haunted....

Hate. So many of the world's problems stem from it. Imagine how much better things could be without it.

I'm in IT and login to many different client systems and accounts daily. I get at least 20-30 a day, swapping accounts, making changes, etc. once a month I have to completely wipe all history and cached data from Edge, otherwise things start getting weird and not working.

It's a mess, but I will say MFA alone stops a LOT of attackers. Even if they know your password, unless you're a specific target, they usually just quit once MFA is prompted. It's a small balance between safety and convenience. I bet you'd be more pissed if they get into your account and were able to transfer it all out with a single password alone.

Hell, we use conditional access also, if your account teleports from florida to Colorado within a few moments, VPN or not, we get an alert and a phone call and will most likely lock your account until we speak.

Attacks are on the rise and getting better. Enjoy OTP and MFA, they're probably saving you a lot more headaches than you know.

I can’t stand the growing idea that you can’t be trusted with a password and default to emailing a login link every single time you log in.

No one else said it yet?

Modern, mainly LLM-based, AI.

Can't think of any ways it's made my life better, except for maybe some like search where it's helping mitigate the slop flood it enabled.

Meanwhile, it's ruined my job. Many people will lose jobs. It's destroyed trust in anything I see online. Accelerated destruction of the environment. And myriad more neagtive impacts.

Elon Musk.

user targeted advertising, I'm fine with content targeted ads and the basing of those ads on the users that watch the content but don't determine the ads directly from the user.

Private health insurance. Non-universal health care.

Bigotry. Selfishness. Greed. Mental disorders.

temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company's high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a "rent-a-meat" outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they'd be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I'm thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)

Religion.

To be clear, not belief or whatever, you do you. But religion is a cancer to this world.

Cell phones, AI, and religion.

Stocks. But I'd almost be satisfied if those who make the rules governing them weren't allowed to profit from them.