Trump
Homeopathy and alternative medicine.
Chiropractors can be heard chuckling nervously
The Republican party.
Cryptocurrency as an investment
Health Insurance Companies
They don’t really exist because people are stupid.
More because of corruption and greed imo.
You’re gonna have to explain further before I can judge your comment.
If people weren’t stupid they would not put up with having the highest medical costs in the world while achieving the lowest quality of care in the first world. Health Insurance Companies exist because too many people haven’t figured out that their purpose is to limit, or prevent, actual health care.
Mmmm the existence of these companies is not enough to say people are stupid. Plenty of places have these companies and reasonable access to high quality care at a reasonable price. It’s just the US in particular allows their companies to get away with murder.
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.
I always assume people who assert that the government is automatically less efficient, more expensive, and poorly run compared to private industry must never have been associated with a large corporation, or lack awareness.
Medicare, as it exists today, delivers superior care at lower cost than any private insurer. This despite the fact that Medicare covers the elderly and disabled, groups that need more care than the population at large that the private guys cover. If you think about it, Medicare is a giant subsidy to the private market by removing needy populations from their rolls.
The scheme to include private guys in medicare “medicare advantage”, was supposed to bring down costs by bringing in the efficiency of the private market. Medicare Advantage today costs more than the Army and the Navy.
Yes, but the alternative is far worse. I present America as Exhibit A.
Cigarettes
Yes, but have you ever tried being addicted to nicotine? /s
There’s healthier ways
Less unhealthy ones :P
Cybertruck.
The current climate crisis.
CEOs
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.
Grammarly can be quite useful to people who are not dumb but have dyslexia.
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.
It’s worth noting that those dyslexia typefaces are at best neutral for helping those with dyslexia. It’s a marketing thing. I did a deep dive on this recently.
Thanks for the insight! I don’t really have much experience to go off of, since I don’t experience dyslexia myself, but if you happen to have a link to your deep dive I’d be curious!
I’m an aspiring indie game dev, and accessibility is something I think is too often ignored.
But grammarly gets it wrong.
If it was perfect, then sure.
“I’m with stupid” shirts
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.
I like the “This product may contain nuts” on a packet of nuts.
It better contain nuts or I want my money back.
Most nuts are not even nuts.
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.
Sounds like the problem is the vegans renaming margarine “butter” to avoid the negative connotations
I’m surprised it was allowed honestly. Thought “big butter” would lobby against it for “confusing the average citizen” or some nonsense.
Agreed, it’s not hard to make new names for things. I’m totally fine with calling soy milk that and boob juice the stuff from cows, but at least there is a qualifier. Normal English language Germanic origin behavior. So we could have boob butter and coconut butter, easy…but nooo
That’s what they managed in Europe. So we have sun milk, but don’t you dare naming it soy milk. I am do confused now, I drink my coffee with sun milk from time to time…
Well sun milk is a nice way to put it, I think I’ll keep that.
Maga
Imagine Dragons
Why?
I ask “why” every time I’m reminded Imagine Dragons exist, too.
I don’t really get why one would have strong feelings about that band one way or the other.
The best qualifier I’d give it is “forgettable”.
automatic weapons
