MAGA

Enshitification and capitalism are fighting for first place

These stupid Cookie- popups. Damn, every site uses cookies. Just let me set my preference once, across the entire internet, and shut the fuck up.

I can’t stand the growing idea that you can’t be trusted with a password and default to emailing a login link every single time you log in.

Elon Musk.

We don’t need a stupid app for every separate thing. And don’t force a redirect to the mobile app instead of the website.

Bigotry. Selfishness. Greed. Mental disorders.

Go away: Any automotive HVAC controls that are not three simple fucking knobs. I'm going to wreck my wife's car fiddling with the touchscreen, which has a 2-second delay before the press actuates. 🙄😡

While we're at it, give us back AC vents that rotate 360° and open nearly 180°.

We had these things perfected over 20-years ago!

billionaires

Planned obsolescence/bricking devices the manufacturer deems as "too old."

Not just devices, stuff like clothing too. Fabric made too thin and the seams far too weak, clothing starts falling apart in less than a couple years of use.

Conservatism.

Liberals and leftists discussing things would be much better. They'd discuss policy and how to implement it.

We wouldn't need to have "discussions" in the "marketplace of ideas" around murdering people, deporting people, removing healthcare, denying people's existence, etc.

Just because horse piss is a yellow liquid doesn't mean it has to be stocked on shelves next to Gatorade.

disease, including those affecting brain

Being haunted by depression is no joke

Fireworks.

I live in the Netherlands and New year's eve is hell on earth here. Even the weeks leading up to it are bad. This year is the first year that consumer fireworks are banned, but of course there are already people going to Germany, Belgium or Poland to buy them anyway. And it's not just the pretty stuff, it's more like bombs. It would be so much better if it just disappeared.

Private health insurance. Non-universal health care.

Obviously Putin, Xi, Trump, all those rightwing idiots… but if that doesn’t work, could Musk evaporate?

Needing to create account for apps and sites where the account provides zero additional value.

Sms verification that you can't disable and replace with another method

This could be a long list, not sure.

1. AI - no more data centers, no more vibe coded junk, all CEOs drinking the AI Kool-aid need to go away.
2. Mass Surveillance - Online, offline, and in cars.
3. Politicians - Especially those who make laws about things they don't understand.
4. Science deniers - no more religion, no more fake news, no more alternative facts.
5. Bigtech.
6. Fossil fuels.

On a more personal level:

1. Filler words in the spoken word - "I mean", "um", "like".
2. Tailgaters - Just fuck off, I'm driving the speed limit (usually a few over) and if that isn't fast enough, tough cookie.
3. Lazy co-workers -
4. No more scented products - perfumes, body wash, laundry products, etc.

Cigarettes

What really annoys me about the bank is all the options we should have to safe guard our accounts that we don't have. I should be allowed to not allow deposits or withdrawls or allow them for specific white lists like internal accounts or specific external ones (granted transfers do have a special process where it has to be setup). credit cards should not allow online purchases with the physical card unless you opt in and physical cards should not use the main account number. They should always provide a separate gas card with a different number given the skimmers. They should always allow you to create temp numbers for online and reoccuring bills. there are so many freakin things that financial institutions could be doing to safeguard accounts better.

I could do without another two years of President Donald Trump until he's finally out of office. At least this time, he's going to have Democrats in Congress with investigatory powers, but I'd just as soon not have to have him creating his endless stream of disruptions at all.

No one else said it yet?

Modern, mainly LLM-based, AI.

Can't think of any ways it's made my life better, except for maybe some like search where it's helping mitigate the slop flood it enabled.

Meanwhile, it's ruined my job. Many people will lose jobs. It's destroyed trust in anything I see online. Accelerated destruction of the environment. And myriad more neagtive impacts.

Capitalism

Sexually Transmitted Diseases. All of them. I would love to know a world without them.

The stigma against weed and psychedelics. You would think that legalization would make people more tolerant, but I'm finding the opposite to be true, especially among Gen-Z. Even the Boomers—who used to spread lies like weed will kill you or acid would make you go insane—still enjoy their 5mg edibles. IDK what is going on with the kids; I'm happy that they choose to abstain, but leave us who do partake alone. Stop being so damn judgemental. I got tired of arguing with people about this subject 20 years ago.

“One time” refers to how many times you can use a single code.

Conversely, your account password is many times.

I can no longer get at my PayPal account. It keeps sending the verification code to the wrong number and I can't check and fix the number because I need a verification code to log in. Round and round we gooooo.

Anyway. Fuck cancer.

him and all the people that support him.

My aches and pains.

I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days.

Some institutions support authenticating using hardware keystores, like YubiKeys.

PieFed does (the "passkey" button).

user targeted advertising, I'm fine with content targeted ads and the basing of those ads on the users that watch the content but don't determine the ads directly from the user.

Perfumes and colognes!! Yes, I get it. It's sometimes used to cover certain product smells, but ffs there needs to be a limit. It overstimulates my brain and puts me in anxiety mode. Last time I dined out, my chicken cordon bleu tasted like Axe body spray and Chanel from the next table over. How do people wear so much scent?!

temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company's high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a "rent-a-meat" outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they'd be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I'm thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)

Hunger/Thirst, Undertreatment, Undereducation.

People answering their own question in the post rather than making a separate comment.

Debt

Stocks. But I'd almost be satisfied if those who make the rules governing them weren't allowed to profit from them.

Advertisement Agencys every one of them and to be quite real the people can go with them.

I'm in IT and login to many different client systems and accounts daily. I get at least 20-30 a day, swapping accounts, making changes, etc. once a month I have to completely wipe all history and cached data from Edge, otherwise things start getting weird and not working.

It's a mess, but I will say MFA alone stops a LOT of attackers. Even if they know your password, unless you're a specific target, they usually just quit once MFA is prompted. It's a small balance between safety and convenience. I bet you'd be more pissed if they get into your account and were able to transfer it all out with a single password alone.

Hell, we use conditional access also, if your account teleports from florida to Colorado within a few moments, VPN or not, we get an alert and a phone call and will most likely lock your account until we speak.

Attacks are on the rise and getting better. Enjoy OTP and MFA, they're probably saving you a lot more headaches than you know.

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