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[-] distantsounds@lemmy.world 137 points 2 months ago
[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They would go bad instantly. I would assume these would be only suitable for banana bread. Reminds me of prechopped veggies that are way overpriced.

[-] BeanGoblin 33 points 2 months ago

Both these bananas and the pre-chopped veggies are nice for people with disabilities.

[-] Siathes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 months ago

Please stop with justifying things that are terrible for people and the world. If these items are needed for people with disabilities, you don’t take a natural container, remove it and cover it in plastic. The solution would be to create something that is created once and does the job required indefinitely.

[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh that makes more sense. But they should wrap the bananas individually so they don't brown as quick

Edit: wait, if someone with a disability can't peel a banana, how will they open this package?

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

At least they aren't packaged each with the plastic wrap.

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[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 111 points 2 months ago
[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 98 points 2 months ago

Organized religion. Prosperity gospel. Televangelists. Tucker’s career.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 89 points 2 months ago

Trump presidencies

[-] tiefling 75 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Trump and the American Nazi Party

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Specific models of dumpsters found in national parks. Apparently making sure that the smartest bear can't get into a dumpster while making sure the dumbest person can is a grey zone.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago

There have been national park visitors who have asked at what time the animals are let out of their cages and put back in them. Then again, that might be an education issue rather than a stupidity problem. Would it be ethical to experiment on these people by suggesting "we'll tell you if you can get that dumpster open"?

Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.

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[-] renzev@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

I'm gonna get downvoted for this but... gaming consoles.

Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It's an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have a PS5 because it will play the damned games. There's nothing in the PC realm for $400 I could buy that could come close to guaranteeing the same thing. Consoles don't exist because people are stupid, they exist because gaming and GPU companies are cartels just like almost every other sector of the economy.

[-] MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

New PC graphics cards alone cost as much as entire games consoles. The top end ones cost the same as multiple PS5s. That's why consoles exist.

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[-] warlaan@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

You are underestimating the importance of standards here. On a PC you will always only get a fraction of the hardware's power, because there's way more stuff running at the same time, not just the game, and because the developers can't know exactly what hardware configuration every single gamer has. On a console you can know exactly how much RAM you will have available, so you can design your content to use that amount of data and then stream it into memory that you reserve at the start. If you do that on a PC you may ask for more RAM than the PC has or you may leave RAM unused. Or you can try to optimize the game for different specs, which costs time and money, so you won't get the same results with the same budget.

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 months ago

Lotteries. If people understood odds they'd never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.

[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.

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[-] anubis119@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago

Shops with perpetual "sales" and prices ending with 99.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

JC Penney went through a period where they did away with their perpetual "sale" and normalized their pricing. Their sales tanked as a result. Apparently a lot of people who shop there are idiots.

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[-] MSugarhill@discuss.tchncs.de 46 points 2 months ago

Homeopathy and alternative medicine.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 45 points 2 months ago
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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Tiktok

Religion

Lots of subscription based services, like heated seats in cars

[-] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 months ago

Any brand of authoritarianism.

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago
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[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

My high school mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and staff because the art teacher stepped over me while I was seizing on the floor during class. Other students had to carry me to the nurse because I couldn't walk right after the seizure. Teacher wouldn't even call the nurse to let her know what was up

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Cryptocurrency as an investment

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 26 points 2 months ago
[-] Johandea@feddit.nu 26 points 2 months ago

Probably a whole bunch of us. Stupidity may result in unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies.

[-] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Health Insurance Companies

They don’t really exist because people are stupid.

More because of corruption and greed imo.

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[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 21 points 2 months ago

Short-term warranties for electronics that aren’t expensive.

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[-] usernameusername@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

The price of Apple products

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago
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[-] demesisx@infosec.pub 17 points 2 months ago

False dichotomies…

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Do not eat"-stickers.

At HEB I saw "Water melon filet" for sale.

[-] AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
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[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

The current american government?

[-] RoadieRich@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago
[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

That's a stupid answer.

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[-] Kcap@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

The Republican party.

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gerrymandering?

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