@chunes Rupert Murdoch.
Electricity
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 ?
Nazis.
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
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
Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.
farm subsidies too, the only reason they are even here is because its a large voting block.
I’m not sure that’s true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
Donald Trump and the GOP
Stupidity and ignorance.
Reddit
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.
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.
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.
Teräs Käsi.
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)
Adopting IPA would be wrong because it would require that everyone talk exactly the same way.
It just means abandoning the idea of a “correct spelling”.
Speaking as someone whose native language uses phonetic writing, it simply makes sense. You just write what you say. Yes, some people talk differently, and because the writing is phonetic you can easily capture that in writing and you have multiple spellings for the same word in the dictionary (some marked as regionalisms). And as pronunciation of certain words shifts in time, so does the spelling. When more and more people start writing the word as it sounds, instead of the “correct” spelling, the new version gets added to the dictionary.
We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
What do you mean? The Great Vowel Shift happened well before any standardisation of spelling I’m aware of. And there’s plenty of problems beyond just the vowels.
French is probably number two on the shit list, but there’s at least a consistent pattern there.
The printing press, and more importantly the people running them, codified spelling toward the beginning of the Shift. I may have implied more intent than actually existed but spelling became a lot more standardized with the mass production of written works, particularly the bible.
Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I’m going deeper and choosing bigotry.
The belief that somehow through democracy and a constitution written by slave owners, somehow a country with half of the population being crazy, nationalistic nazis and the other half believing it’s enough to live with these kind of people because of said democracy and constitution, that somehow society can go on and prosper just 'cause.
Internal combustion engines… We just don’t need them anymore.
Their continued use really only measures up to hubris.
I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:
I’m not sure that’s true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there’s no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it’s not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don’t really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it’s more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
