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[–] MrMamiya@feddit.de 240 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 76 points 11 months ago

Public transport too. It really seems like every time a public service is privatised it goes to shit, almost as if for-profit motives aren't aligned to public interest.

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[–] nnjvwl@midwest.social 59 points 11 months ago

For profit education

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 168 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Tax exemption for religious organisations.

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 25 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Could be worse, I guess. I live in a "secular" democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 11 months ago

Knew it was DE before I saw the instance domain.

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[–] gilgameth@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Or better yet, religious organizations.

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[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 109 points 11 months ago (1 children)

corporations given constitutional rights in the us like living people.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

Like people but without also being subject to incarceration...

[–] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 82 points 11 months ago

Billionaires

[–] tungah@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Since it wasn't said yet, nukes. No one needs them.

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[–] jeebus@kbin.social 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

50,000 Square Foot Mansions. Such a waste.

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

I agree. How are you gonna make a mansion with just a square foot? Let alone 50,000 of them.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A lot of these are things that we can improve

Here's one we can't: giraffes πŸ¦’

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[–] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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[–] Puppet007@lemm.ee 50 points 11 months ago
[–] spider@lemmy.nz 38 points 11 months ago
[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 11 months ago
[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 34 points 11 months ago (3 children)

These Boston dynamics robot dogs

But in reality, military aerial drones are much more terrifying. It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia that a billionaire could type your name, press a kill button, and within a few minutes a drone locates and bombs you. But this tech has already existed for over a decade, and is being used by the US in the Middle East and North Africa.

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[–] livus@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Billionaires and Guinea Worm.

The good news is we are on the verge of eradicating Guinea Worm.

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[–] phubarr@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago
[–] VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Any individual possessing more than a lifetime's worth of money. Like after you have $30 million the rest goes into a bucket for everyone else to use. You can re-up from the bucket once you drop below mmmm a 5 year amount of money say $2 million. You can still amass bazillions of dollars, just not kajillions.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago
[–] zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

America's Got Talent. For the past ten seasons, it's been as much a talent show as The Curse of Oak Island is a show about historical accuracy.

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[–] probably_a_robot@lemmy.one 23 points 11 months ago

Private/for profit prisons

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (9 children)

squints at the Fermi paradox

Umm life?

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is a subtle, but important, difference between letting people know your product exists or improved, and brainwashing people into buying your product.

Is a grocery saleman at the local saturday market allowed to shout about the sale he is doing on strawberries? Because that is also marketing.

I fully agree that the average advertisement you see on youtube is pure cancer. But what about an advertisement for an emergency fund for a disaster?

What about a sponsored video of a game?

Where do you draw the line?

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Uncured bacon doesn't exist. It's a lie. Uncured bacon is cured with celery nitrates and nitrites instead of synthetic nitrates and nitrites. It is all cured bacon.

And that's fine. If people want a more naturally cured bacon that tastes worse and has zero health benefits, and costs more, calling it "uncured" is still deceptive. It's also crowding out the actual bacon market on the low end.

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[–] Teon@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

Republicans.

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Influencers

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The interstate highway we have on Oahu. It doesn’t even extend to other counties.

[–] ErKaf@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think we should build a huge highway bridge to Hawaii

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[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The Matrix sequels. All of them.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

School lunch debt.

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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billionaires
for profit access to the internet
fox news
the turtle mcconnell
hospital advertising departments
religion, any. lets not discriminate

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago (23 children)

Cars. They are everywhere and are like cigarettes. Addictive, bad for our environment and bad for ourselves.

And we even try to keep using them as long as possible by switching to an electric version, just like cigarettes. "But it's electric, it can't be that bad!"

Humanity is not running to its doom, it's taking a car.

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[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We've had standard stuff (injustices et. al), we've had edgy if understandable stuff (god/gods/religion/whatevs), so I think I'll instead go with an unhinged take that I (mostly) only say for the memes:

Dolphins. They're fucking assholes. And like. They are assholes in much the same way we humans are: They aren't thoughtless critters just following basic survival rules. They are higher-brained creatures that are intelligent enough to be capable of choosing between kindness and cruelty, and they are absolutely cruel in a lot of occasions.

Now you may be wondering "does that mean you also think humans should go", to which I say no, because I happen to be human. So of course I'm rooting for my own team. Dolphins are competition for the spot of "intelligent species that engages in cruelty" and so they gotta go.

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