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We humans have invented loads of things throughout our history. Some inventions are absolutely amazing and we cannot imagine our lives without them. That includes medicine, technology, transportation and many more things. However, not all the things we invented are that good; some are even devastating.

Redditor NPT1506 asked internet users: "What is the worst human invention ever made?" and many chimed in to answer. From bombs to ads, people prove that lots of things we came up with are really not that great. What do you think is the worst invention? Share your thoughts in the comments down below!

#1

For-profit healthcare system. There is no reason people should suffer financial burden seeking the right to live a healthy life.

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The same redditor that asked the question gave us an amazing interview. First we asked them what they think is the worst invention ever: "I have thought a lot about it, and I would say it probably is single-use plastic, because many tons of it are now breaking down into toxic compounds that are lurking in every corner of the Earth and these compounds will stay there for a very long time unless future generations know how to deal with it."

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#2

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Keepin up with the kardashians (^_^)

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

Weren’t the Kardashians an alien race in the 1960s Star Trek? They look like they were.

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"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Child beauty pageant events

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

What is going on in the minds of the parents and adults involved in abhorrent practice? These are the same people who'll picket an abortion clinic to save a fetus, but damn kids to hell.

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We also wondered what the main problem with inventions today is. In their opinion: "I think that inventions are now more and more modern and can be applied in many cases, but there is a problem that the creators focus on the profits that they bring them rather than improving and upgrading so that it can be used to maximum capacity and suitable for everyone!"

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#4

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Algorithmic Social Media. MySpace was fine, no algorithm, no extremes. FB, Twitter, etc, the algorithm to show you more of what you like leads people into an echo chamber and causes polarization of people's views, helping dehumanize each other.

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

Why is YouTube sending me suggestions about serial killers and Hitler? What the heck did I click on?! Have deleted...

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"I am looking forward to seeing the development of AI after being fascinated by what ChatGPT can do," they said when asked what invention they are most excited about. They also shared what they think is the best invention: "Well, when it comes to inventions, I would choose the smartphone – which is one of the revolutionary creations of human beings. It is both convenient and cost-effective."

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#7

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Religion. Kills so many people and gives so many more the excuse to be hateful people.

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"For example, in the past, when there was no smartphone, people could only get in touch with each other through the telephone and it took ages to reach one person, but now, with only one smartphone, we can use it for various purposes. Not only can we call others, but we can also see their face, keep updated with their daily activities, or do other kinds of entertainment; for example, listen to music or surf the net. Moreover, there are available applications such as Grab which help us catch a taxi or motorbike much more easily. With this smart device, there seems to be a little barrier in communication among people."

#8

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Landmines

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

I hate these things. EDIT: It was a short post for sure so here goes: They maim and kill so many innocents. Children playing and whomp, they are killed or terribly scarred and crippled for life. It also pollutes and kills wildlife. It costs millions to clear areas.

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#9

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Single use plastic. Particles have been found in every corner of the earth and ocean, as well as in human and animal embryos. Most of these break down into toxic compounds and will have long-term physical and chemical impacts.

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

when scientists went down to the challenger deep in the Mariana trench (the deepest part of the earth) they found a plastic bag floating

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#10

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless For profit prisons.

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Tams21
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same as a for profit health care system. Basic public services should always be run in the interests of those they help and that never happens if they're privately owned.

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#11

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless social media. never before was it so essy for stupid people to find like minded other stupid people and suddenly 'have a voice'.

also, people have no social skills anymore.

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James016
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The world put too much importance on what people spew on social media.

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#12

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Subscription services to anything in a vehicle that is already built into it. Oh your car seats have a seat warmer built in? That's a subscription to use despite just spending $30,000 on the car and the equipment was installed at the factory.

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#13

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless That plastic childproof packaging that no one knows how to open so we cut it with scissors and still somehow manage to cut ourselves from it.

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

When the scissors you need are in this pack, and you need scissors to open it

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#14

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Styrofoam is pretty abominable in my book, especially for things like takeout food that’s destined for the trash within minutes of use

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#15

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Unskippable ads

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

I don't have any ad blocker, I just use Brave. But are people trying to say they have something to help with videos like in the subject here?

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#16

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Chemical Warfare

While nukes are horrible beyond imagination, humanity learned to avoid them as a way to ensure their own survival, it's wise, but egoistical nonetheless. Chemical weapons on the other hand traumatized the f**k out of the survirvors and the ones who called the attacks and got to see the aftermath. They were so horrible that many soldiers deserted after using it and many went mad. I wish never having to see the skin melting off in the face of a barely alive toddler.

Throughout the last century we successfully banned almost all of those - the 1925 geneva protocol, the 1980 chemical weapons convention, among others, but I'm afraid when the next generations start to forget the horrors of chemical warfare, it will resurface in the likes of whats happening with fascism.

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

Orange agent - still killing, harming and doom to suffer millions of babies and kids to this day

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#17

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Companies being considered people is going to destroy the US.

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#18

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Nuclear weapons

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

I think despite the weapons being horrible themselves, they secured peace between major factions in the last decades, without the MAD principle nothing would have stopped another massive war in Europe after WW2. They are the perfect example for the saying "the best weapon is the one you never have to use"

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#19

**Corporations.**

- Legal entities in that they can own property.
- Immortal.
- Fines of millions of dollars have little effect when their profits are in the billions.
- Able to shift their revenues from nation to nation to avoid paying taxes.
- Zero ethics...if you won't evict Grandma, then we'll fire you and put someone in your chair that will.
- Able to donate a pittance of their profits to politicians who now reside in their pockets, and legislate to serve the corps and not the people.
- Anyone who defies a corporation will be ground to dust by their legal team.

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

They are the avatar of the elite through which their true evil is expressed without having to show their faces or suffering any consequences for their actions.

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#20

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Bioweapons.

When nature is adapt enought to create toxins and poisons to kill humans we always, for some f*****g reason have to create something *more* horrible.

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The Veil of Fire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm saying it here and now, I do not plan to survive a huge world war nor any apocalypse.

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#21

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Pop-up ads

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

Somewhat ironic since Bored Panda is one of the worst. I have to repeatedly reload the page until it finally gives up on asking me to disable my ad blocker.

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#22

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless That little “press to open” tab on Kraft Mac n cheese boxes. That has been an effective way of opening those boxes exactly zero times.

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#23

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Glitter. Such a horrible substance.

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

It's all fun and games unless you are the one who has to clean it up afterwards.

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

As I tell my teachers that I clean for..."whoever invented glitter should be summarily executed"

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

Microplastic, microplastic everywhere ! Asked my daughters daycare to not let them do activities using it

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

Yes, but we could change the face of riot control if, instead of tear gas and rubber bullets, police fired glitter bombs.

Kris92
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't mind glitter, as long as it's environmentally friendly. I find sand everywhere anyway. And always get flour or dust on my clothes even if I've done nothing related to either of those two things. Might as well sparkle while me and my house look like a mess. But, again, environmentally friendly. No more mikroplastic.

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

We've had no cards at all containing glitter or any decorations with it and I'm finding the stuff in the house or all colours. Sit on the sofa and you spot a bit, go upstairs and you spot some.

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

Ever since Mariah carey used the word glitter to promote herself just ruined it for me, just like how she ruined it with that wretched xmas song, which i managed to avoid this year until that fateful trip to taco bell. Darn you weed and taco bell!!

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

On the mattress AND the front porch AND the highway!

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

lol i 💚 my glitter, i refuse to buy or us the plastic 💩, 💯 polyester sparklys for me

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

And stop adding it to bath bombs. It is not good for the skin!

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

My sister used to send cards with glitter in them; I learned to open mail from her over the trash can.

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I call the period between mid November through mid January "glitter season" cos I'm vacuuming it out of the carpet then

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

I’ve seen this website where you can ship a letter to your enemy and it also contains a bunch of glitter. The letter then proceeds to tell your enemy that they are a horrible person and deserve to clean up that glitter for the rest of their lives.

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

I hate it it gets on everything gets in my eyes in my scalp in my mouth and they put it in makeup that doesn't need any it’s like sand and it’s a terrible thing on clothes

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

Unless your Mark Rober making a glitter bomb then yes, it's small, gritty, and it NEVER GOES AWAY-

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"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Serious answer: chemical toxins that have caused severe health problems

Personal answer: Hp printers. F*****g piece of s**t.

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

I feel that HP printer one. Mostly for their crappy inks that dry out insanely fast

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#25

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Single ply toilet paper. Smh

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

Single ply toilet paper is used in public bathrooms and other places that have high volume because it breaks down more easily and is less likely to clog pipes and back up the system.

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#26

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Pay to Win Games especially mobile games

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

Give me demos and I'll buy your game if it is fun. I won't do the pay to play anymore

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#27

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless lobotomy. Worst part is the guy even got a Nobel Prize :P

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

The idea became popular again, much safer and humane now. With high precision tools it's possible to help people with mental dissorders by cutting neural connections in over-active brain areas.

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#29

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless High fructose corn syrup

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#30

Hand sensing faucets
90% of them work badly
Just give me a better sensor or I’ll take the normal faucet ffs

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James016
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ll add to this: hand dryers. They are way too noisy, barely dry your hands and the heat they pump out is probably not good for the environment. Paper towels are much better.

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#32

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Truck nuts

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#33

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless This will be a hot take, but hear me out- cars.

They kill 40,000 people in the US every year,

They are the reason most cities here are unwalkable, which is a huge factor leading to obesity and heart disease (so add many more thousands to the death toll indirectly),

They are the least efficient, least safe, most expensive way for people to commute,

They chew through fossil fuels and other valuable resources in droves,

They raise the price of engaging with society by thousands of dollars between the initial cost, fuel costs and repair costs,

And they turn otherwise reasonable people into raging, belligerent a******s.

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

Perhaps if you live in a city but cars are essential for rural communities and many older people or those with disabilities.

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#34

"Why Does This Even Exist?" 35 Inventions That People In This Online Thread Find Strange And Useless Leaded gasoline

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

I was born in 1960, when leaded gas was all that was sold. I was in my twenties when unleaded was first offered, catalytic converters were required in all new cars, and they stopped selling leaded gas (older cars could run on both unleaded and leaded, but newer cars with catalytic converters could only run on unleaded). What pisses me off the most is that I didn’t learn until about twenty years later that everyone of us who was alive before they stopped selling leaded gas has trace amounts of lead—-a heavy metal—-in our lungs, simply because we breathed before lead was removed from gasoline, because the lead in the gas was expelled into the air in a car’s exhaust. No one mentioned that at the time. We were poisoned without even being given a warning or heads up about it. Big f*****g secret to keep profits rolling in. Big Oil, big business. M***********s.

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#35

Mustard Gas.

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

Fun fact: mustard gas was intended to immobilize but not kill. That way it takes two soldiers out of the game--the victim and the rescuer. I worked as an environmental clean up contractor at an army base so this is what we were told. On the bright side, a bacteria was discovered that would consume and neutralize mustard. Haven't heard of any mutant, mustard devouring monsters in my region-yet.

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Twitter

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#37

The 40 hour work week.

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

40-hour work week the worst invention? Spoken like a true capitalist? Back to 6 days a week, 12 hours a day! And the second job to make ends meet.

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#39

Pay to use toilets

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

Who is going to pay the cleaning and maintenance costs if all toilets are free.

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#40

Fentanyl that s**t scares the hell out of me.

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

It is a useful tool to be used in a medical setting,. People abusing it are causing the issue.

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#41

Cast to family room TV

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James016
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds like someone accidentally cast something to the family tv that they should not have.

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#42

Money

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

Barter works in bronze age rural societies. Try getting change for three goats and an ox at the supermarket.

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