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With technology and nearly everything around us developed in leaps and bounds nowadays, it’s clear that innovation has become one of the driving forces for change in our world. However, not all inventions or innovative solutions have resulted in positive change only, which is why some people would rather that they weren’t invented in the first place.

Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed what things they would like to “dis-invent” if they had a chance. With answers ranging from cigarettes to social media, netizens provided some interesting perspectives, which you can find on the list below. Scroll down to view their answers and learn what inventions might not have changed our world for the better.

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“I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Influencers.

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7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why can't I upvote this more than once? Influencers are a boil on the a**e end of humanity.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Child Beauty Pageants. They just seem really toxic and creepy.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just let children look like children, and not mini adults!

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Pop-up ads.

    ChefExcellent13:

    The creator of them even apologized for creating them.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can we talk for a second about the 'certified Christian' popup in the corner of the image? How does someone become certified as a Christian? Is there some kind of written or practical test you have to take? Do you get a certificate that you can frame and put on your wall, or is it just one of those little cards you put in your wallet? Is there like, an FDA of Christians that inspects them to make sure they meet standards to be certified before they're released to the public? Are there Christian-certificate forgers?

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Mandatory cookies to view websites.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or if you can opt out, not making it as simple as “object all” on 95% of websites, often hiding extra cookies under legitimate interest without making it clear you need to object to those too.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Certain dog breeds, like all the brachycephalic (flat-nosed dogs such as frenchies and bull dogs).

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    #6

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention The tipping option when I check out on those computers at the checkout counter.

    Euphoric_Wolf7227:

    Maybe tips in general. Just pay people for the work they do.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Those nearly-blinding, unnecessarily bright car head lamps.

    anonicrow , Ali Alcántara Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate them... with a passion! I get blinded every time, because not only they're unnecessarily bright, but people are jerks as well and do not set them at a lower angle as to not be so disturbing...

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Spam calls, robo calls, phishing emails.

    Hungry-panda23 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels Report

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Coffee Pods - they are disgustingly wasteful.

    Anim8nFool , Karsten Seiferlin / flickr Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two reusable pods that I put much much less expensive loose grounds into. I just switch them out every other day. Pods are expensive and unsustainable, but the reusables are great.

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    #10

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Cars with screens on the dash. Give me back my buttons and dials goddamn it!!

    bri_2498 , Jeremy Buckingham / flickr Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For Real! The old buttons were clunky but you could feel them without looking at them!

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    #11

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Slavery.

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    #12

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Planned obsolescence.

    Jealous-Network1899:

    Here’s my go to planned obsolescence example. My mom bought her first microwave in 1984. It’s traveled to 3 houses and still works perfect. She redid her kitchen and got all new appliances EXCEPT for a microwave. I have lived out of the house for 23 years and have had at least 7 microwaves. They keep cr*pping out and I buy a new one. That is planned obsolescence in a nutshell.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Killing the environment while being an open scam. And it's everything these days. Want to buy a T-Shirt? The people who made the T-Shirt want you to wear it twice and then have to buy another.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Landmines. Seriously. They f**k up people long after wars are finished.

    Redshift_1:

    There’s an estimated 800,000 TONS of unexploded ordnance still in Vietnam, that would take hundreds of years to clear out. For context, the bomb dropped in Hiroshima had a yield of about 15,000 tons of TNT.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "If I cannot have that land, nobody will ever." Seen that every m2 of land will be necessary to grow food, as we humans love to multiply for religious reasons, we cannot afford to waste land and water by polluting it.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention The medical insurance industry.

    Perturabo_Iron_Lord:

    The problem with modern insurance is that it’s been completely corrupted with the drive for profit. In a pure form insurance has the potential to be incredibly beneficial to the people who use it, but the profit incentive causes companies to use every trick and loophole in the book to not give out what is owed.

    PizzaPastaRigatoni , Pixabay / pexels Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Insurance should be 100% NON-PROFIT! Like Social Security and Medicare.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Our two-tiered justice system; One for the wealthy and politically connected, and one for the rest of us.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I did anything DJT has been doing I'd be in prison already.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention That dumb paper sticker that gets put on stuff that is IMPOSSIBLE to remove cleanly.

    BlankWallSpace , WikiHow Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you use some olive oil, they'll be gone in a heartbeat

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Subscription services. Either let me try it for free then buy it full Price or let me rent it and charge me only for the amount of time I used it for.

    Of course, it doesn't apply to everything. Subscriptions make sense for something like Apple Music, Xbox Game Pass or Costco, but I don't want to have to pay Adobe 60 dollars a month for Photoshop when I could just rent a license. You don't subscribe to a car, you just rent it for how many days you need it for.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention The concept of lobbying.

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    #19

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Phones and computers in which you can't easily replace the battery.

    MostlySpiders , Fairphone / flickr Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember those times. It was dead easy to change the battery, and there's no advantage in today's phones for the customers.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Cigarettes.

    SageOfShadows54 , Revival Vape / flickr Report

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Smoking is something humans seem to have done since thousands of years, using pipes

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Social media. 

    DestinyInDanger:

    This! It was innocent in the MySpace days. Then Facebook came along and everything after that ruined it. I don't see anything good that has come of it. Nothing but toxicity, hate, division and arguing.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't need to dis-invent it... Just stop making it the center of everything! If it loses relevance, then it loses power/influence! It worked for me, and I don't have any social media account for the last 5 years or so!

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention TikTok.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Organized religion.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Nuclear bomb probably. Let's put that back in Pandora's box.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The nuclear bomb was the better of two bad options. Had it not been used against Japan to force an end to WW2, the US was fully ready to invade Japan. Conservative estimates of the casualties from such an invasion would be well in excess of 1 million US soldiers, and untold countless Japanese civilians and soldiers. It was enough that the war department commissioned some 2 million purple heart medals, expecting to have to issue them for the one invasion. Those same medals are still being issued today, and no new order for medals has been given since 1945.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Patents for Insulin.

    lutz164:

    I'd say medicinal patents In general, let the prices fall, and the diabetics rejoice.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What patent? The inventors deliberately did not patent it to ensure it could be easily manufactured locally world wide at minimal cost.....pharma brands being the only "licensed" providers in certain countries is the problem here.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention The packages they put scissors in… that you need scissor to open. Wtf?

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Household appliances that are tied to subscription services.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then don't buy "smart" devices, lol! Vote with your dollars instead of complaining.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Vapes. Tossed mine in the trash an hour ago, though.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, nah. I've had mine (which required a prescription) for 2 months now, and in that time I have not smoked a single ciggie. Prior to getting it I was smoking up to 30 a day.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention The ad-based internet.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And, naturally, it led to the invention of the... ad blocker :)

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    Corporate personhood.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This allows CEOs and executive management to escape accountability...it sucks because it is people making the terrible decisions, not the company itself.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Pyramid schemes

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    A lot of inventions mentioned here that have had positive outcomes alongside of negative ones. HOA’s however may look good on paper, but hath wrought no good to this world.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I owned a condo as my first home. It was against HOA law to install a bath fan that vented outside. So every unit in the whole neighborhood had mold issues. Just incredibly stupid.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Glitter. I seriously consider it to be the worst human invention.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The worst human invention? Not lie Phosgene ot VX or White Phosphorous? Glitter huh?

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    CAPTCHA. That's not a motorcycle, that's a moped. And I still don't think the rider should count as part of the motorcycle.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember getting one that said "crosswalk".... We don't have those in the country I live in (although we have similar). I was baffled, as to whether the road markings, signposts and overhead lights all counted as "crosswalk"

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention AI.

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    AI for practical purposes like medicine is great. But generative AI in the way we're mostly seeing it applied has the dual effect of putting us in an information dark age by making anything able to be fabricated, while also ruining industries based on art. Hands down my choice for what needs to be disinvented.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We haven’t yet found a use for artificial intelligence that improves lives, but certain people have already found ways to use it corruptly.

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    Advertising. The primary goal of advertising is to manufacture desire, and the Buddhists are on to something with the claim that desire is the root of all suffering. It’s the enemy of being content and satisfied with your life. It’s an omnipresent lie that’s repeated over and over that says this or that product will finally make you happy when it never will. It’s contributed to the worst parts of consumer capitalism. Cigarettes, the obesity epidemic, and more generally the mass overconsumption that has led to the rapid degradation of our planet.

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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is in Christianity too with the seven deadly sins being born out of desire....

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    Earphonejack-less iPhone.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Plastic.

    Kozakyw:

    A gift, and a curse.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plastic is the best invention. Single-use and disposable and non-biodegradable is the problem.

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    Agent orange, the chemical not the band.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one gets me hot. My dad served during Nam and now he has diabetes and neuropathy. The government gives him an extra 200$ in benefits a month. This is total BS!

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    The algorithms used by real-estate moguls to buy up new homes the moment they're listed on the market.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister is looking for a house in Minneapolis. A house they found was listed on a Thursday evening. By the time they submitted their offer on that Sunday morning (3 days later), there were 22 other offers on the table. 5 of them were higher than hers with no contingency on inspection.

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    House remodels with materials so cheap they instantly need replacing. 

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I got a brand new flat when I was 18 only lived in it a few days and the kitchen started falling apart. The washing machine was built into a cupboard and sat on a raised platform. It fell down onto the floor. Kitchen was cheap for being brand new

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Everything that Thomas Midgley Jr invented - specifically leaded gasoline and CFCs (the things that destroyed the ozone layer).

    He is the person in history who can be directly attributed to the most environmental damage done by the inventions of a single person.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Leaded gasoline didn't cause as much environmental damage as you might think. At least, specifically, not in relation to the ozone layer, and pollution itself. The issue with leaded gasoline was it released elemental lead into the air which had a marked affect on brain activity and higher crime rates.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Autocorrect. It's like that well-meaning friend who jumps into your conversations with totally off-base corrections. You’re trying to type something heartfelt or important, and it’s over there like, “Did you mean 'duck'? No, Autocorrect, I did not mean to tell my boss I'll have the report done 'ducking soon.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Micro-transactions and live-service games have completely ruined the videogame industry and I don’t see it ever recovering.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These things survive because gamers put up with them.

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    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention 40 hour workweek. F**k that guy.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before the 40 hour work week there was the 50 - 60 hour work week. Working Monday through Saturday was the norm.

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    #46

    The modern credit system. It rewards bad habits that are simply good for companies.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This applies to US only, I guess... In Europe, if you pay your bank loans and credit cards on time, you're good! It has nothing to do with bills, rent and everything else!

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    #47

    Software as a Service. Just release a full new build every few years like they used to.

    The concept of the Day One patch. Fix your damn software before shipping!

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to the agile programming space. It allows software dev to give you new features and fix issues that can be hard to find without regular user testing, without you having to do massive upgrades or buy whole new versions every time. You do know it’s IMPOSSIBLE to find every issue before release, right?

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    #48

    Sticky traps. There are more humane ways. I remember crying my eyes out as a child when I found a lizard on the one my parents had under our computer desk for fleas. I tried saving him and ripped his legs off

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was the solution to the flea problem? A sticky trap? Needed more comprehensive action than that.

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    Single-knob showers.Those damn things can be turned like 360* around but everyone knows that there’s only a single *molecule* of that distance that doesn’t make the water blazing hot or frigidly cold. Two knobs. Give me my choices back.

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    I don't know if I could de-invent it but I'd sure like to ban it 24-hour news cycle there was a time when people could read a paper or watch 26 minutes of news in the evening and share what they felt and saw with each other. Now everybody has to have a riot a movement lawyers it's gone insane a lot of these people act like their babies on fire.

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    #51

    Those persistent forever chemicals.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All chemicals are forever. But I assume you mean damaging chemicals that do not dissipate or recombine into other forms.

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    Microsoft outlook’s search function.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, it is terrible and does not show you what you are looking for

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    #53

    “I Don’t See It Ever Recovering”: 45 People Shame The Single Worst Human Invention Weapons.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Americans had never been allowed to own guns they would still be ruled by the British.

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    VX Nerve agent.

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    Speed bumps (and no,not because I speed. I don't.).

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My ex couldn’t take his bmw down the street that my mam lived on because of the speed bumps. Had to park on a different street

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    #56

    The smart phone. The Internet is great, and cell phones are great. Being able to so easily share your opinion and emotions has been detrimental to our society as a whole.

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    #57

    Fireworks.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Loud fireworks upset a lot of animals and people with PTSD. Silent fireworks are amazing.

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    Stupid grey vinyl flooring.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If that is the worst invention ever, life's pretty great, I guess.

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    Personal automobile. Cars in general are fine, fire trucks and ambulances for instance. But America's cities are designed around cars and made for them instead of people. If the automobile industry hadn't lobbied city officials in the early twentieth century to design city's in such a way that you need a car to live in them, then we could have cities with safe and efficient public transportation. We could have residential areas designed in such a way that you wouldn't need a car, and we could have high speed rail between cities.
    Cars are expensive, polluting, inefficient, and worst of all, dangerous.

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people - and this may shock you - don't live in cities. I drive 42 miles from house to work, and there is no public transpo that would get me there and back.

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