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[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 131 points 2 weeks ago
[-] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 99 points 2 weeks ago

Young earth creationism and flat earth

[-] vane@lemmy.world 93 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Child labor.

Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>

[-] underline960@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."

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[-] PocketPorky@lemmy.zip 82 points 2 weeks ago
[-] iii@mander.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there's only the idea of afterlife for that.

[-] TomMasz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.

[-] flabbergast@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All religion is baseless bullshit, so yes, it is problematic in itself.
It is divisive by nature/design.
And it is made worse by people abusing it for power over others or discrimination.

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[-] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 weeks ago

Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.

So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.

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[-] devolution@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago

Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago

In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.

[-] gloktawasright@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes

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[-] sickday@fedia.io 44 points 2 weeks ago
[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah

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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago

Private health insurance.

[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Una@europe.pub 12 points 2 weeks ago

mrrrreow mrrrreow meow :3

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 weeks ago

Religion.

It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc...

It's why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.

We don't need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks ago
[-] victorz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Billionaires, government officials owning stock, private campaign finance, the two party system, racism, sexism, health insurance, private equity, for profit prisons, for life Supreme Court appointments, Nazis, Zionism, Wall Street, unregulated banking,jobs that don’t pay a living wage, unaffordable housing, student debt, the police state and lobbyists

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 2 weeks ago
[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 26 points 2 weeks ago

the republican party in the us.

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[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 23 points 2 weeks ago

Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I'm going deeper and choosing bigotry.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 23 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Meeshall65@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Cameri@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago
[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.

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[-] el_twitto@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Donald Trump and the GOP

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Coal power plants.

[-] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Humans organised by hierarchy.

It never works and always ends with civilisations that ever attempt it collapsing. No matter how often we do the same dumb shit over and over it never works.. Are we insane anons ?

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[-] Tronn4@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago
[-] remon@ani.social 12 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] tal@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago

The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.

From oldest to newest, they are:

  1. Printed data on card.

  2. Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).

  3. Smartcard chip with contacts.

  4. Wireless.

The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.

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[-] VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

July and August Add them to the end of the calendar or rename them properly, there is no reason September-December should have been globally accepted out of order for over 2000 years

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

English orthography. It's like this close to being random.

Other languages have reformed theirs (or theres or they'res) to make sense at some point since the dawn of modern literacy.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.

We should address it again, and fix the way a ton of words have been Anglicized at the same time, but we're far from alone. French is loaded with needlessly silent letters as well, just as the first example that springs to mind.

(actually, can we just switch directly to the International Phonetic Alphabet?) (This is a bad idea for reasons that are probably obvious, it's a lateral move at best)

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[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

fykst yt for ÿu

Inglyš orþografi. Ic laÿk dis klows tu biyņ random. Aðer laņgwajez hav riformd derz (or derz or derz) tu meÿk sens at sǎm poÿnt syns de don ov modern lyterasi.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

The United States.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Gender essentialism and tuberculosis

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