This is intended as a broad and open ended question.
Plastic
I sat and thought one time about what it would take to replace the plastic I have touched. Most of it is easy to think of good replacements, but there’s a whole bunch more of medical stuff that I can’t imagine replacing.
There’s definitely a use case for plastic. But it doesn’t need to be used to wrap everything
Agriculture was probably the beginning of the end. And while not necessarily a ‘technology’, the concept of land ownership was a bad idea as well.
I’m afraid I disagree. Land ownership does go too far though, especially in there modern day. But to me, the fundamentak act of placing land under the ownership of a family who will tend to it over generations, is good
That’s not “land ownership”, and ownerership of the land is not a prerequisite condition for stewardship.
the concept of land ownership
The foundation of Rome
Not quite technology, unless you factor in the development of cable TV, but 24 hour news networks. That was the start of news as entertainment, as they didn’t have enough to fill 24 hours and had to do whatever they could to get and retain viewers.
The concept of proprietary parts.
If your product is so shitty that your plan to make money is to be the only supplier of parts when it breaks theb just fuck off into the sea.
AI, and Nukes.
nukes would be a natural conseqeunces studying atoms/radioactivities. AI is worst thought
LLMs. Their actual usefulness is so much less than the cost and effort it takes to make the modes. Probably not an unpopular take, especially on this platform.
Huh, I would have thought that this would be a wildly popular opinion on this platform.
I guess we hang around in different communities lol
It is a popular opinion, that’s what I said
I think that was the joke. Everybody knew it was coming, but they got to say it first.
Yes this dumdum misread the thing completely lol
Must feel great to be the first person to get in an LLM comment on this thread lol. We can close the comments now
Obviously I agree. Was absolutely distraught to hear this evening that some people/group are advocating for a data centre in the middle of my city in England. LLM has been a net negative on my life and probably ipon the wider world as a whole
Who tf would advocate for that?
Tbf, i was just thinking of whatever company is pushing it forward and used “people advocating for it” as a generalisation. But apparently the government.
Derivatives and other complex financial instruments.
Tools for cheating others out of money, obfuscating transactions or skirting legal restrictions.
Those k-cups, and disposable vapes… You know what? Anything that has disposable in their name.
Yes even baby and feminine products.
Disposable cutlery, disposable bags, FAST fashion, the freaking packaging, the non returnable glass/plastic bottles.i assume kuerig cups?
Yes
Menstrual cups are fantastic and I think everyone capable of using one should.
The medical industry is HORRENDOUS for single use plastics.
Medical industry is the only place I can see the justification. There’s so much plastic waste in food production, delivery, and storage.
Fire. If we couldn’t get more calories out of food our calorie hungry brains couldn’t develop more and maybe we wouldn’t be living in this hellacape
Private health insurance
Generatige AI and Surveillance Systems
The dentist’s drill.
2 stroke engines as means of transport for teenage boys.
What? No, of course that gathering of mopeds 150m from my apartment building isn’t affecting my unbiased opinion on this.
Mopeds do indeed suck, in my opinion, because their technological niche is just “filtering through heavy traffic easily”
The heavy traffic usually exists because
- a city has expanded car ownership beyond its transport capacity
- but cities shouldn’t even be mainly-car, they should be mainly public transport and pedestrian (see c/fuck_cars for more info)
So they’re basically colving a problem that didn’t need to exist in the first place. The riding of bikes is better for pepple
I mean they’re cheaper to buy and operate, easier to park, don’t take up as much space as cars either parked or on the road. They should be more popular, just they should be electric now.
Lol and they are polluting as fuck.
Small 2 stroke engines create more particulate and nitrogen pollution than big excavators and bulldozers.
Not relatively, per unit. A leaf blower or moped is worse than a 20 ton caterpillar.
Dress shoes
Rich people wanted to pretend they always ride horses, so they always wore slim shoes. This became the standard for all shoes, and everyone has been suffering since
I hate these too!
I’ve recently started wearing shoes with wide toe boxes and I have felt the difference. No more squashed toes!
Try also wearing toe spacers if you want to get your feet back to optimal performance!
Generally just over engineering. Cars used to be serviceable but here we are, thousands of small decisions later, decisions that led to things being standardized as far more complicated. Good luck working on a new car.
Same trend is everywhere in society. Websites used to be 20 KB of specially formatted text and maybe 500 KB of images. Now they’re literally megs of images and JavaScript and to build one in a modern setting, you’re expected to use and install gigs of dependencies. And beyond that we’re being asked to burn down rainforests for a half genius/half moron machine to “help” us with the process. This is “more efficient” after all.
