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What are some little things capitalism did that annoyed you personally. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've got two off the top of my head:

First is that the design of the USB drives needing to be oriented up or down was the result of a minor cost cutting choice. The inventor regrets it because it wouldn't been easy made so that USB drives were reversible.

Second is the abundance of pointless SEO stuff on recipe pages. It would be a cool opportunity for the creator to add a personal touch to the recipe page beneath the recipe, but they pop in first along with ads and suggested links. And they're so frustrating to navigate that they had to incorporate a 'jump to recipe' button.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like I mentioned in another post, i've learned that traditional search engines aren't really the best anymore because of the annoying issue with seo. I do like reading an indepth discussion of recipes that some of these recipes sites have, but otherwise Tiktok and chatgpt can be much better at getting what I actually want to make.

my annoyance is that stuff should be simple in western societies like poverty alleviation, but takes 10 bureaucrats, studies, other nonsense just to do something that private citizens opening up their homes can do in moments.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just don’t let chatgpt talk you into cooking up some delicious chlorine gas by accident.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I recommend Qwant. You can use !GI to go to google images and !gm to go to google maps if you want because it allows usage of bangs.