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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Pretty much all safety regulations

Every safety rule is written in blood but due to no one getting hurt (because of said rules) people begin to think the rules aren't necessary.

It's the same concept with preventative measures like vaccines. Vaccines worked to the point we had an entire generation grow up in a world without the most common forms of debilitating diseases and as a result we now have anti-vaxxers everywhere.

It's even prevalent in things like the hole in the ozone layer. When it was first discovered EVERYONE was panicking about it. But then we fixed it to the point some people think it was never really a problem at all.

[-] fnrir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

This needs more upvotes.

[-] locuester@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Background music in any environment.

[-] jasoman@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago
[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

Wiping ones butt or using bidet after taking a crap.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago
[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

So fucking true

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Urban planning. Being able to walk or take transit to all your errands gets taken for granted until you move to a suburban asphalt desert.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 17 points 1 day ago

Localization. It's not as easy as simply translating from one language to another!

Done right, you get something of foreign origin that feels like it was done in your backyard.

Done...less than stellar, you get "All your base are belong to us, someone set us up the bomb."

Pic related

[-] AmanitaCaesarea@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago

UX/UI. To be specific input forms. Had to get past a captcha for an appointment. I have no idea how the site handled captchas but couldn't get past it. No indications if it had to be capitalized, with or without spaces etc... Just gave up after trying for a while.

[-] Dlayknee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I realize captchas are to prevent bot behavior but I wish there could be some sort of threshold on the backend where if you fail enough times it should recognize that a bot would've moved on by now and only an actual human being would be dumb enough to have persisted that long.

[-] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

A clean bathroom. Or not...

[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago
[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

came here to say this and it irks me that doing nothing has the same effect as doing something exceptionally well.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago

Network Administration.

If the network and servers all work: What are we paying you for?

If the network or one of the servers are down: What are we paying you for?

[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago

infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn't.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 points 1 day ago

I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.

It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.

Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Now I'm thinking about where my poo goes as I sit on the toilet reading Lemmy

[-] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

You guys should definitely do a field trip to a wastewater treatment plant, if you ever get the chance.
Your kids would probably have a blast.

I've been to so many, but I don't know how hard it is for the general public to visit one.

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[-] pahlimur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I've had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I'd take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago

Here is a recent ticket my team just got. I was honestly suprised how pissy it got.

Hopefully this is the easiest request you've had of the day. This is a request from my C-suite. Since we've looked at the network and everything 'looks good.' But they have asked us to take another look given the continued complaints from the vendor (see attached email) I'm escalating to the NE team so the "experts" can validate that there isn't any code or anything that would be causing this cart to have faulty connections.

I mean, it’s definitely condescending, but it’s also dripping with “I was directly told to do this by someone who has the authority and the attitude to fire my entire department on a whim. I don’t think this will help, but I’m doing this specifically as CYA so I can get back to what I actually need to be doing instead.”

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I don't even hear the condescension when I read it. I just hear someone that's incredibly annoyed at having to go through the motions for the bosses boss.

The “experts” part felt condescending to me. In a very “I know better than you, but you have the title so I have to defer to you” way.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

food you order at a restaurant.

[-] triptrapper@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 day ago

CGI. When people say "there was too much CGI" they just mean "there was bad CGI" because the good stuff is imperceptible.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

And often that's not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The "fix it in post" mentality.

Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.

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[-] karashta@piefed.social 33 points 1 day ago

Sound quality.

I worked in life theater for almost a decade as a sound board op and audio engineer for a few local theaters.

People would always comment to the lighting board op how good the lights were.

But maybe one person in a whole run of a show would compliment the sound.

Boy oh boy, if a cable died mid show... The whole intermission and afterwards I'd have to hear "I do sound at my church and," or some variation of "I'm just a hobbyist but,".

You think I wouldn't pull that cable and replace it if I could???

[-] Doublenut@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Came to say this.

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[-] gazter@aussie.zone 42 points 1 day ago

The location of light switches relative to the light.

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

Door handle design that makes it intuitive whether it requires pushing or pulling to open.

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[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 days ago

Any maintenance

[-] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

That powdery black finish on computer PSU's.

[-] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago
[-] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

Can confirm. The IT guys never deserve their money.

If theyre doing it right, why do we need them? Everything works.

If they do it even slightly wrong, why are we paying them? They clearly can't do anything right.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 56 points 2 days ago

Having recently moved into a house with these issues: doorknobs. You never, ever think about the ones that just work well, but every iffy one is irritating every time you use it.

My parents house had a door that sticks. It had been like that for like 15-20 years. I just recently went over to their place for dinner, happened to have my tools in the trunk of my car, and decided to fix it after dinner. It only took like 10 minutes of “pop this hinge off, give it a little bend, and try again” to get it hanging perfectly square. Watching them suddenly have to fight +15 years of “I need to lift this door to close it” muscle memory was funny.

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[-] fakir@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A goalkeeper in soccer or similar. It's a thankless job, you save 10 shots, nobody notices. But you miss one and you'll be called a bum by your own fans. As opposed to a forward striker, who might miss 10 shots, nobody notices. But you make one and you'll be a hero being paraded on shoulders.

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[-] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 35 points 1 day ago

Bass in music. If the bass play right, you don't hear it, but if they miss or play wrong there is immediately something missing

[-] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

It took me a while to respect bass guitars but they definitely provide that musical umami

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[-] pocopene@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago
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[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

Murder. Just sayin.

[-] RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Sound effects or music on TV and movies. Cleaners. Machine maintenance.

Railway safety. On airplanes there will sometimes be people who clap when the plane lands safely. In modern cars we have a number of safety features that are pretty hard to ignore. But with trains everyone is (rightfully) focused on punctuality. Only in the rare event of a crash or similar so most people even begin to think about the safety aspect.

[-] warbond@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I don't clap when planes land safely, but I'm sure I would celebrate if the train I was on landed safely!

[-] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

My work apparently. Other people got promoted for solving problems quickly. I didn't have problems. At least, I did, but I solved them without help or advertising them enough probably.

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[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago

Garbage trucks / taking the garbage to the right place.

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