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Have you ever asked yourself: “Why are people so dumb?” Be it because of the way they behave in public, the way they drive, or the way they put themselves, intentionally or not, in harm’s way, some people really possess the ability to make fellow human beings roll their eyes in disbelief or sigh in frustration.   

Of course, someone might say, “Let people do dumb things if they don’t learn from their own mistakes,” but the thing here is that it is often other people who suffer from the consequences. Unfortunately, one stupid action may lead to a whole bunch of disasters, but the person responsible for it won’t even realize the damage. That’s not to say that smart people never make mistakes, but most of the time, they learn not to repeat them.

Users of AskReddit shared their opinions as to what things exist only because of other people’s stupidity — to either prevent its consequences or, sad as it is, to take advantage of dumb people. They voiced a lot of interesting, thought-provoking points of view. Do you agree with this list? Is there anything else that, in your opinion, exists only because people do dumb things? Share in the comments. 

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "I know a lot of people say warning labels, but let's be honest... Warning labels have probably never stopped stupid people from doing stupid things. They're just there to protect corporations from getting lawsuits."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My thought as well. "HR approves of warning labels"

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"The belief that vaccines cause autism."

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"Peanut allergy warnings on jars of peanut butter."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One day the world will be so crazy that people will demand warning information about the risk of allergies even on plants in the meadow.

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"Expiration date on salt.

It’s been in the ground longer than time itself. Regulations on food have required an expiration date.

That pure salt that was mined out of the earth is not going to go bad sitting in your dry goods pantry."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

expiration date on a bottle of water... its for the packaging apparently.

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "'Wearing this costume does not enable you to fly.' - tag on a Superman Halloween costume."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"you need to buy the upgraded cape to be able to do that."

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"People who genuinely believe 5G is bad and that coronavirus is fake."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can you imagine similar people a hundred years ago? Many things appeared back then, but there was no internet where like-minded people would come together and discuss their extreme views.

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"Influencers."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Warning signs on chainsaws that say "do not attempt to stop blades with hands or genitals"."

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#9

Beginnerer wrote:
"The belief of a flat earth."

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"This is by far my favorite conspiracy just to laugh at just cause like.... why? Who would lie about that?! What is there to gain from people thinking the earth is actually a globe?!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some think that there is a wall of ice and that there are land on the other side that is concealed from the rest of us. Others have all kinds of ideas wrapped in word sallad. This is a good debunk/debate on the topic if you ever thought the earth was not a spheroid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he-7vs0BkLE&t=10s

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"Wealthy televangelists."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arghhh! It's despicable how much money they make off lying to people.

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"Measles. In 2000, measles was nearly eradicated, but then anti-vaxxers brought it back to popularity. I should mention it was nearly eradicated in the U.S.A. Measles is still very prevalent in other places around the globe."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find the anti vax issue only slightly amusing because a few years ago you couldn't enroll your kid in school unless their vaccination card was up-to-date. We literally had no choice. I remember when I was 12, back in 1984, standing in line with the other girls in my grade to get a German measles vaccine.

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "The disclaimer on a microwave that says "you can't dry your cat in this". Some women killed her cat that way."

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"The warning label on my scooter. “Caution: object moves when used”."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh well I didn't know that thanks! *proceeds to get hurt by commencing a game of catch with the scooter*

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"Reality TV!"

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"The ban on Kinder eggs."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As I understand it, it's not Kinder eggs per say. Just no toys/stuff embedded in food?

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justinwatt wrote:
"'Do not eat contents' on a claymore mine."

tylerchu replied:
"WWII (or maybe Vietnam?) soldiers actually did eat bits of C4 occasionally because it would give them symptoms mimicking that of the flu, which they’d use to get out of combat."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Warning labels that say to not use the hairdryer in the bathtub."

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"The name X AE A-12."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

May sound stupid, but the only reason I know how to pronounce this is because of Kingdom Hearts where they talk about the Key Blade (X-Blade)

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"Low fat food. The reason low fat food became popular was because people wanted to get slim and decided to believe the lies that fat makes you fat instead of the truth being that sugar has a major impact on your weight. So when you buy low fat food with extra sugar to add the taste lost by the fat, then you are actually eating food that is worse for you than the regular stuff."

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

Like when someone says they ate a ceasar salad for lunch because they are watching their weight. Sure, as long as you only eat the lettuce with a squeeze of lemon juice.

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"Noisy AC/Vacuum Cleaners/other devices. Its possible, easy actually, to design most of the noisy things you find in an average household in such a way that its not noisy. However, studies found that people are idiots and will return perfectly functioning devices because they're not making any sound."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm always put off by my new computer cause I had an ancient one that just roared when it turned on. I'm very happy with how quiet my new one is

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Warnings on hammers saying this object can cause damage if you strike yourself."

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That hás been a known fact. Since the XIII century, when knights would use hammers to bash other knights on the head....

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"Let's not get on a tangent about the topic of TV ads for prescription medication, but recently (last couple years) they started adding a sentence in the commercials:

"Do not take trivexica if you are allergic to trivexica."

What happened to make that a thing that they need to mention now? Why the hell would anyone knowingly continue to put a drug in their body if they knew or realized they were allergic to it? Answer: people are stupid.

I get that it's to protect them legally, but it's mind blowing to me that it needs to be said even to do that."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I find it odd that there are TV ads for medication. Not something you really see in the UK.

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Commenter No. 1 wrote:
"The Darwin Awards."

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"My favorite is the gasoline truck driver. When they get back to the yard, they would fill the tanks with water to evacuate the leftover fumes. It was late at night and he wanted to see how full his tanks were, but he didn’t have a flashlight to see into the tank. But he did have a cigarette lighter. You can see where this goes."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In South Africa, there was a story about some guys hijacking a tanker that they thought carried fuel but when getting it back home they discovered it was a "honeysucker" which sucks out the contents of septic tanks. I always imagine queues of people lined up with Jerry cans or cannisters.

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Commenter No. 1 wrote:
"The emoji movie."

VereDiz replied:
"Having watched it, I firmly believe it was the product of Columbia pictures going through Pixar's trash and finding an initial concept for Inside Out."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I liked 'Inside Out'. As a person who is bipolar, I could especially relate to Sadness and Joy.

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"Labels that say "Allergy Advice: Contains X" on packets/bottles/whatever, where X is the only thing in there. Like "Contains Nuts" on a packet of peanuts."

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, peanuts [is] not nuts. It's a legume. So not so nuts... to print that on the bag. Edit: spelling [ ]

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "‘I am not a Robot’ verification, the Imperial system of measurement and squashy ducks."

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Verifications, I thought that was for spambots and such? Imperial it's not the most usefull, as for someone use[d] to SI units. But leave the ducks out of this :)

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""Gluten Free" on bottled water."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a dental hygienist and even toothpaste needs to be labeled gluten-free for folks with Crohn's disease. It never even occurred to me that this needed to be a thing until I had patients who really suffered. They need to know that everything is gluten free. Who knows if bottled water has been processed on the same machinery that is used in part to process something containing gluten? Just like something that doesn't contain nuts may have been processed on the same machinery that did process nuts or in a factory processing nuts at one time.

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"Nigerian princes who need money."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And who ask random people to help, instead of someone they know...or a bank. You'd think royalty would have connections.

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "There is a job where people rub dirt on clean potatoes because some people think clean potatoes are sprayed with toxic chemicals. Dirt gives them a more ‘natural look’."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I don’t get my dream job, I can hopefully get hired to do this

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"Protests against a deadly virus."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it was more in protest of the ridiculous way the governments handled lockdowns.

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"War."

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"When you can’t enter famous tourist attractions because people vandalized the site with their names."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looking at you Chinese 13 year old kid at the Egiptian 3000 year old ruins...

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Apostrophes in plural words."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Modern Politics. If we were smarter there would be a better collective decision making process."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Didn't Churchill say that democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the other forms?

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"Instructions on the back of shampoo bottles."

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You know how it says "lather, rinse, repeat"? If you ACTUALLY followed those instructions, then you would use an *entire bottle* every time you showered. I'm somewhat surprised they haven't been sued by some idiot for that lol

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Stahlflittchen wrote:
"The warning on my dad's old motorcycle saying "This is a motorcycle and only to be used as such.""

Philip_De_Bowl replied:
"I used mine as a ram once and it was pretty ineffective. It only left a small bump on the guys cars, but it totaled me and my bike."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "The "Do not eat" label on silica packets."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a classmates in third grade who found one in a package of seaweed and thought you were supposed to sprinkle it on and then eat it. Yes, it did have a do not eat label, and yes, she knew how to read.

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"Large scale pollution. A few animal turds here and there aren't so bad. Millions and billions of gallons of human waste, landfills and oceans full of plastic, discharging all types of contaminants into the atmosphere daily in huge quantities, etc. We're the only organism stupid enough to destroy our home for a piece of paper with a number on it. All other organisms live without it. It's dumb how dumb we are."

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"I used to love working on Health & Safety, it's almost a nature documentary on how little people think before something messes up."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For sure. I took a course in health and safety.... It f*****g left me paranoid, EVERY F*****G THING IS A HAZZARD deppending of how stupid the user is.

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"The word "AMBULANCE" written in reverse on an ambulance.

for those people that don't realize that the huge vehicle behind them, with the flashing lights and siren is, in fact, an ambulance."

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purpleflyingcow1 wrote:
"Global warming."

sybrwookie replied:
"I mean, it doesn't exist because humans are dumb. It exists because we didn't know what we were doing in the Industrial Revolution.

It thrives because humans are dumb."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would look into how much money this actually generates on a yearly basis and you may get an answer that tests your belief.

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"Cults."

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Less stupid people and more people in really bad places mentally. Cults prey on people who are going through hard times and need something to rely on

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"About half of what a hospital does. Of course the side that deals with sickness isn’t there because we’re dumb, but the part that deals with glass bottles being stuck inside anuses is there because we’re dumb."

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"The lottery."

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"Lets see: "dont stop on the tracks", "contents are hot", "straw paper can go in your eye". The list goes on and on!"

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"All of IT jobs. As a programmer who's done some IT work before, I can safely tell you that 90% of the job is googling how other people solved the problem."

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As someone currently in IT, I can verify this. There are a few things you do from basically muscle memory, but I would say at least 80% of my job is just googling for ideas on how to fix certain problems. As my boss likes to say, "Yes, but you know WHAT to Google."

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Commenter No. 1 wrote:
"Daylight saving time."

GosutoOkami replied:
"The idea of Daylight Savings Time itself was not stupid when it was created. However, since the many advancements in technology and crop growth/yield since it was implemented, it has become unnecessary."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

DST has always been stupid. Time changes have never impacted farming or crop growth. Plants don't care what time it is

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"The Great Pacific garbage patch."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Education, better living conditions and laws are probably a good start?

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"Fake internet points?"

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"Religion."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Religion, or faith more importantly can be a good thing, some Times i wish i had it ( not even kidding ), having faith can make life a bit better, like beliving that you're in the s**t right now, but God hás a Higher plan for you, is a lot better than knowing you're in the s**t right now, and well... Life's a b***h só f**k you.... Só yea religion and faith can be a good thing sometimes

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "You know those labels on buckets with an upside down drowning baby? Yeah, probably had to start using those for a reason."

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Commenter No. 1 wrote:
“This is for external use only”

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"*puts Clorox container down*"

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Warning signs next to large waterfalls, cliffs, any other potentially lethal terrain."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Good if you have kids. Just a reminder to keep them away from the dangerous area.

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"Lawyers.

Source: Am one."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just because I don't know all the paragraphs of the law, or know how they should be interpreted, or know the practice of all legal cases. There are alot. The things I understand and use, I understand that someone can interpret it some completely other way.

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Pyramid schemes, spam email, and pool gates."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ask any parent who has lost a child due to drowning in a pool if pool gates(fences) are dumb. Says a lot about you.

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"TV ads for water."

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"Flammable tags on underwear."

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"Debt consolidation companies.

First hand experience:

I was desperate due to my own stupidly and got myself into too much credit card debt when I was in my early 20’s. Looking for an out I called a debt consolidation company. They told me to not pay my credit cards that I wanted to compile for months until they got sold to a lawyer. Well once I ruined my credit. They took all those loans and tried to settle payments. After they denied. I had to go to court for each card and settle with a one time payment thusly putting a judgement on my credit report. It wasn’t until I was 33 or so that I actually fully recovered from it.

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Pay your bills and never try to exceed what you can’t pay out of pocket, that way when you do have an emergency you can afford it easier by using credit."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Paying cash instead of credit seems to be going away. Personally I only buy what I have cash for, and it's worked wonders for budgeting

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Password strength checks."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Pugs and bulldogs."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not "dumb"? just for people who values accessories over well being of animals? Not applicable for those who adopts a dog from a shelter or similar though.

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"Do not inject Lysol"

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "The companies that get you out of timeshares."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Don’t know what it’s called but at the gas pumps the mechanism connected from the pump to the hose unlocks when people forget to place the nozzle back and drive off."

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"Laws made to prevent marrying immediate relatives."

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"Stay at home protests."

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "Ctrl z. Perhaps not necessarily because we are dumb, but we make mistakes."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just try something out? And it's just "happy little accidents" anyway :)

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"Government, specifically Monarchs."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why specifically monarchs? I would personally prefer someone whose entire life is dedicated to keeping a single entity alive as long as possible, then train their replacement to be just like them with diplomacy and battle tactics, just in case. When you look at the past few UK governments, monarchs don't seem such a bad idea.

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"Safety lids on medication."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't dumb. Lots of children died before this was enacted.

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"School."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dumb and young aren't synonyms. School is to educate people who could not know what schools will teach them purely because they're too young to know everything

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People Share Things That Exist Only Because People Are Dumb "The meat and dairy industry."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell me you don't know anything about human agricultural history without saying you don't know anything, and you're a vegan

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