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Shoving ads in my face everywhere I go, causing me psychological harm as my ADHD brain has to contend with things that are designed to be attention grabbing but which I do not want to pay attention to. So it's like an assault on my ability to think clearly. I'm being robbed of my fucking capacity to reason so that it will increase the likelihood I hook myself up to the great machine and let Moloch drink of my blood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

every cool new idea or invention must be made to bend to the will of Capital or extinguished (most often both)

p2p file sharing > subscription streaming services etc

texting (costs basically nothing because it fit in unused spaces within existing protocols) > every carrier charges for it for a decade or more even though it didn't cost them anything and was not a reliable service

Stonewall > Corporate and Law Enforcement Pride Events

there's plenty of examples beyond these if you think for a few minutes

Forced me to understand insurance terms like "deductible" and "copay" despite never pursuing a career in insurance.

Putting brand names everywhere. I cannot buy most clothes because then I'd be a walking ad.

the nuclear family, I wish to be surrounded by kids without having them, wish i grew up in a community where all the adults were looking out for me.

Not really "little" in the grand scheme, but de-industrialization which has led to people becoming "influencers" and making all their content around themselves instead of their contributions to the world. Be it LetsPlays or whatever else, far too many people are in the way of the actual interesting happenings they're engaging in, because to stay competitive means to be ever increasingly obnoxious and hysterical. The entertainment/attention industry basically dominates Western discourse these days. Tougher to find good amateur content, unless you really know where to look.

No cellular reception.

Having to pay the water bill by physically bringing a check to the fucking office every few months. I’ve talked to the water company about this repeatedly. They just get incredibly hostile. They’re also a public utility. I’ve talked to government officials and representatives as well. Nothing. My theory is that one or two people will lose their jobs if they aren’t cashing checks or sending bills in the mail. I can’t mail the checks either.

General backwardness. Living in an invisible prison of 19th century ideology. “But we’re in the future now because we have cellphones!” People thought they were in the future in the 19th century too, and for the same silly reasons.

No bullet trains.

No mask mandates.

No community because every relationship is a money relationship.

People realizing only a small portion of their full potential because they spend so much energy on just surviving when there is plenty for everyone.

unnecessary ''smart'' products

a few years ago our family got together to buy a new fridge for my grand grandmother and trying to find one without some bullshit 'smart' functions was a nightmare. no one needs to have their fridge connected to the internet, but especially not a 90 year old woman who barely understands what the internet is

seems like the smart trend has died off though thank god

Paid public restrooms

death of the biosphere

Capitalism is why sports games fucking suck, especially American football games. Technology is at a point where we could have the most realistic simulation Xs and Os football game but we have Madden (absolute dogshit) and a couple small indie games that are either arcade leaning or just not good if we're being honest. It's so stupid.

all the random dumb shit in my inbox. i'm applying for jobs and an apartment rn, so i've had to give out my serious stuff email and personal phone number like 30 times in the last week. i'm getting constant texts and calls and emails from people trying to sell shit, and i have to answer the calls because some of them could be jobs

Websites constantly asking you to disable your adblocker for them, makes some parts of the internet unusable

This is the thing actually. Ok, yeah, I'm getting fucked up by capitalism, but I live in the west and I can just about live. Yes, I spend 70% of my wages on rent but I can live just about alright.

If it wasn't just about alright, more of us in the west would be open to the idea of revolution, and militant left wing groups. I'm not out there doing militant activity.

What I can say though, is that it has absolutely ruined all of the mediums of media that I enjoyed. Film, music, gaming, sport, etc etc etc, it's all been hollowed out by capitalism almost completely. Everything is ripping the maximum amount of profit out of you. Everything is low quality, bloated shite. All that was once fun has been ripped apart so that a good film or game isn't the norm, but an anomaly.

K-12 lol

From unfinished classrooms to adding 2 years of tuition and a useless diploma that doesn't even net you work, you still need a college degree because scummy employers ballooned requirements again

Watching Breaking with Old Ideas solidified my belief that institutional learning does not need to be that long

It fucking sucks when a job, something that gave a livelihood to the person doing the job and also helping others that the job was connected to, gets destroyed in favor of whether through outsourcing, insourcing, or replacing someone with a janky machine.

EDIT: Before some capital-M Materialist(tm) gets foamy about that, let me specify that I'm talking about the job actually being done worse by whatever replaces it (such as staff counselors being replaced with chatbots) and about the person being replaced basically being told to fuck off because some rich asshole wants another yacht.

The abundance of pointless SEO stuff...

A lot of sites like the NYT forces you to read a lot more any article just to get the gist. If the subheader teases "Five factors might influence the spread of solar power" - I groan because I know I'm going to get annoyed hunting around the article find them.

I'm just a filty little treat boy, no a treat gremlin, and I hate how shows get canceled before they could get a proper conclusion

Under socialism entertainment won't need to make money, it will just need to be entertaining and shows will end when it makes sense for them to end

Everything to do with monetization of media. Visual artists have difficulty finding work they find fulfilling and often have to, at best, work on a project that no one involved is really interested in or passionate about, at worst, make ads to use the skills they've developed to make a living. The music industry and where money in it goes is notoriously terrible for the overwhelming majority of people who make music, and has gotten no better since streaming became the dominant way people listen. Film and television are oftentimes, effectively, a vehicle for ads. Advertisers buy screen time and can implicitly or explicitly require or ban subjects, views, or content from popular media. Video games, with internet connection becoming the expected norm, have game mechanics designed around and overall design driven by what can generate the most additional revenue after the initial purchase rather than what makes a good experience.

YouTube ads. Now even videos which cannot be monetized because they're using copyright content have ads if you're on the app.

Every product seems equally bullshit when Im looking to get something for a project, who's to say whats a good product and whats trash, its burried in a sea of 10000 clones 8950 of which are the same 2 things

Grocery store apps

Most products are practically the same and actual innovation is pretty much nonexistent. Couldn't find any decent desks at 25-27 inches, however there are millions of 24x48in at 28in+ height. A lot of height adjustable desks don't even go that low because

Same with "mmo/moba" mice, most have the massive 4x3 numpad on the side and maybe 1 extra button on top. There is one that has a much better design but it has a widespread problem with hardware failure. When I used trackballs the most coveted one was the microsoft explorer that released 20 years ago because every other company's design was just straight up worse. It took almost fifteen years for a worthy successor to get released even though there was a period where people were exchanging used explorers for $200+.

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.

Unrelated to the post, but the recipe seo bloat isn't a universal thing.

Searching for lasagne recipes in English, first 2 results are packed with seo. 6 out of first 10 results have significant amounts of filler and 1 has a moderate amount of it.

Searching for it in Turkish, only the 3rd result among the first 10 has a moderate amount of filler, with the rest having little to none. I looked through all results in Google and none had a significant amount of seo filler, but about half had a moderate amount.

If filler in recipe websites actually made results higher on its own, it would be the meta everywhere. I think people just keep clicking on the first few results in general which reinforces whatever Google thinks people want and creates a feedback loop

Gas station pump ads. Stop colonizing my brain!

"we are going to charge you extra for train transport during rush hours because fuck you, our shareholders need vacation homes in the Maldives before it sinks beneath the waves lol"