I’ve got two off the top of my head:

First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn’t been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.

Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they’re so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a ‘jump to recipe’ button.

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    Shoving ads in my face everywhere I go, causing me psychological harm as my ADHD brain has to contend with things that are designed to be attention grabbing but which I do not want to pay attention to. So it’s like an assault on my ability to think clearly. I’m being robbed of my fucking capacity to reason so that it will increase the likelihood I hook myself up to the great machine and let Moloch drink of my blood

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      My fucking god I hate how pervasive ads are. I’ve entirely quit watching cable TV because of commercials and just pirate anything I want to watch, and I just don’t listen to the radio for the same reason. Magazines and newspapers lost the war ages ago but those are dying media that no one read anymore. Thank fucking god uBlock Origin exists otherwise I’m not sure I’d be able to tolerate the internet. But I can’t avoid billboards because I live in a car-centric hellscape where public transportation doesn’t exist and I literally have to drive a car if I want to get anywhere. Billboards are a blight upon the landscape and every single one of them should be burned to the ground.

      On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid “catchy” jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they’re trying to sell.

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        On the rare occasions I actually watch cable TV (usually at family gatherings) it honestly astounds me how mind-numbing ads have become. Like how everything has to have a stupid “catchy” jingle, or be super in your face about manipulating you into buying whatever garbage they’re trying to sell.

        I actually miss when ads were about how powerful this cleansing agent is or how much horsepower that car was supposed to have. Now it’s all about life-changing epiphanies, about the purchased identity from the treat and the validation the treat promises the exhausted and alienated consumer. debord-tired

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      I dont really go out much aside to work and I have 678 adblockers and don’t watch TV or listen to the radio and I steal all my media, so I rarely encounter ads.

      so when I do it lights a fury inside me

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        Same. I borrowed a Hulu premium account and when a car commercial started playing 5 minutes in I closed it and downloaded the show.

        It’s so immersion breaking too.

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        Holy shit when someone wants to show me a video and I see the experience of what most people get it blows my mind these days. I was essentially able to cut out all advertisements out of my life a few years ago and I genuinely think it’s had a profound impact on my mental health. How did this shit get so fucking normalized.

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          Every time I am forced to see ads where they are otherwise blocked at home (such as at a bank or doctor’s office) I see them getting measurably more obnoxious with each months-later snapshot since the last time I saw them. doomer

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      I feel this too.

      There’s a lot of “if you don’t like X don’t buy X, simple” reddit-logo brainworms excuses out there, and none of them change the fact that I still have to have that distracting obnoxious deliberately-anxiety-inducing noise everywhere I go.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

    every cool new idea or invention must be made to bend to the will of Capital or extinguished (most often both)

    p2p file sharing > subscription streaming services etc

    texting (costs basically nothing because it fit in unused spaces within existing protocols) > every carrier charges for it for a decade or more even though it didn’t cost them anything and was not a reliable service

    Stonewall > Corporate and Law Enforcement Pride Events

    there’s plenty of examples beyond these if you think for a few minutes

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    Not really “little” in the grand scheme, but de-industrialization which has led to people becoming “influencers” and making all their content around themselves instead of their contributions to the world. Be it LetsPlays or whatever else, far too many people are in the way of the actual interesting happenings they’re engaging in, because to stay competitive means to be ever increasingly obnoxious and hysterical. The entertainment/attention industry basically dominates Western discourse these days. Tougher to find good amateur content, unless you really know where to look.

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      Tougher to find good amateur content, unless you really know where to look.

      This applies to so many things under capitalism.Like music; large venues, and insane ticket prices, and reasons I don’t understand have driven out/under the small bar / local band places near me

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        Oh, absolutely. I’ve actually said the exact same thing when talking to people about the trend of modern influencer celebrity types. An endless and ever escalating glorification, flaunting and worship of wealth that’s caught millions of desperate people in a cult-like flytrap. Just watch, it’ll continue decaying over time and we’ll all eventually move onto a post-glamour society, though I won’t hold my breath since it’s gonna be a while.

        Edit: That bubble can’t grow forever. Sooner or later it’ll pop just like every other bubble under capitalism.

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          It’s alien and alienating to me, the entire “influencer” thing. I wouldn’t want to hang out with such obnoxious wealth-flaunting assholes in the offline world, so I don’t get why so many people want to pretend to be their online friend and throw them money.

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        MrBeast is the flesh embodiment of this

        He is SEO face incarnate and his personal brand is so slippery and slimy that even here on Hexbear I’ve seen people make excuses for his creepy grifty bullshit because it superficially seems harmless at a surface glance if you don’t peel back all the layers of the onion.

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    No cellular reception.

    Having to pay the water bill by physically bringing a check to the fucking office every few months. I’ve talked to the water company about this repeatedly. They just get incredibly hostile. They’re also a public utility. I’ve talked to government officials and representatives as well. Nothing. My theory is that one or two people will lose their jobs if they aren’t cashing checks or sending bills in the mail. I can’t mail the checks either.

    General backwardness. Living in an invisible prison of 19th century ideology. “But we’re in the future now because we have cellphones!” People thought they were in the future in the 19th century too, and for the same silly reasons.

    No bullet trains.

    No mask mandates.

    No community because every relationship is a money relationship.

    People realizing only a small portion of their full potential because they spend so much energy on just surviving when there is plenty for everyone.

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        I don’t know!!! They just mail them back to me unopened!! It’s insane! And it’s like this for everyone! So many houses have late payment warnings stuck to their front doors every few months! All of us feel this way and nobody cares! When I talked with someone at the state agency that’s supposed to regulate these utilities she was like “yeah the situation sucks it’s the same here maybe someone should do something about this but not me lol.” Fucking maddening!!!

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          As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes.

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      No community because every relationship is a money relationship.

      The “touch grass” thought terminating cliche is especially grating to me because there really isn’t much place to go around me without fees or overzealous cops looking for loiterers to fine.

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    unnecessary ‘‘smart’’ products

    a few years ago our family got together to buy a new fridge for my grand grandmother and trying to find one without some bullshit ‘smart’ functions was a nightmare. no one needs to have their fridge connected to the internet, but especially not a 90 year old woman who barely understands what the internet is

    seems like the smart trend has died off though thank god

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      It’s called the Internet of Shit and it’s fucking awful

      They never think about security when implementing those awful things, either

      There have been entire botnets made out of those e-waste generators

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        Chan-style creepy fucks easily hack into home surveillance systems so they can drool over babies in cribs and the like, too. guts-rage

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      Fucking water pitchers are “smart” around where I am and it’s hard to find one with a filter system that isn’t some bazinga surveillance tech.

      “Smart” TVs are also horrible and it’s nearly impossible to find them in any other form now. doomer

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    Capitalism is why sports games fucking suck, especially American football games. Technology is at a point where we could have the most realistic simulation Xs and Os football game but we have Madden (absolute dogshit) and a couple small indie games that are either arcade leaning or just not good if we’re being honest. It’s so stupid.

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      Madden became the exclusive series because Sega sold their game cheaper one year, and their games were also better liked than Madden at the time. EA signed an exclusive license with the NFL because they were spooked by how well Sega’s better, cheaper game did. Yet another case of capitalism driving competition and making things better for everyone no-copyright

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      The “I CAN ONLY BUY THIS OFFICIALLY LICENSED FOOTBALL GAME BECAUSE I MUST HAVE UP TO DATE REAL PRO STATISTICS” brainworms make it unnecessary for EA to do much year by year to keep printing money. They remove features some years and the sports hogs keep gobbling it up.

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    all the random dumb shit in my inbox. i’m applying for jobs and an apartment rn, so i’ve had to give out my serious stuff email and personal phone number like 30 times in the last week. i’m getting constant texts and calls and emails from people trying to sell shit, and i have to answer the calls because some of them could be jobs meow-tableflip

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    This is the thing actually. Ok, yeah, I’m getting fucked up by capitalism, but I live in the west and I can just about live. Yes, I spend 70% of my wages on rent but I can live just about alright.

    If it wasn’t just about alright, more of us in the west would be open to the idea of revolution, and militant left wing groups. I’m not out there doing militant activity.

    What I can say though, is that it has absolutely ruined all of the mediums of media that I enjoyed. Film, music, gaming, sport, etc etc etc, it’s all been hollowed out by capitalism almost completely. Everything is ripping the maximum amount of profit out of you. Everything is low quality, bloated shite. All that was once fun has been ripped apart so that a good film or game isn’t the norm, but an anomaly.

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      Don’t worry about being “militant”, the country which causes and benefits from imperialism the most isn’t going to turn around overnight. You know what little things annoy you, so if you want to help, rally people around those. The rest follows from there.

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      What I can say though, is that it has absolutely ruined all of the mediums of media that I enjoyed. Film, music, gaming, sport, etc etc etc, it’s all been hollowed out by capitalism almost completely. Everything is ripping the maximum amount of profit out of you. Everything is low quality, bloated shite. All that was once fun has been ripped apart so that a good film or game isn’t the norm, but an anomaly.

      It’s basically necessary for stonks-up for some shows to die early for tax write-off purposes or other corporate skullduggery while other shows can go on forever and get increasingly bland and tiresome because of the whims of the same vampires.

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    Websites constantly asking you to disable your adblocker for them, makes some parts of the internet unusable

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      The glorification of “dark triad” traits among reddit-logo types also further normalized what should have been damnably monstrous behavior from CEOs and management.