Capitalism and religion. Or the other way round, couldn't pick one.
Internal combustion engines.
If we only had the electric motor public transport would've been the norm rather than cars.
We'd be in way better shape now.
Advertising & Marketing.
AKA "crystallising public opinion" & "public relations" (propaganda & psyops).
Especially as from Ed Bernays (who inspired Hitler, Anslinger & Hearst).
CGNAT, easily
religion
Good one. Mass religion with priests and offerings et cetera is responsible for a while lot of shit.
Capitalism.
Clickbait.
And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I'm not sure what their official names are, but I'll call them smudge dots.
It's those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they'll add back anyway.
It's what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.
[tortures you]
I absolutely hate those, I feel such a strong need to clear them even if I know that I'll waste my time by clicking them. They are useful when there's something you actually want to read behind those notifications, but it's ridiculously abused by all mainstream software.
Ads.
private property
That's not really an invention.
Since the first of our evolutionary ancestors played with a leaf private property had existed.
I'd say nukes, as they are the only human invention so far that can end all of life as we know it in an instant. I still can't blame the countries who built them as a response to the US wanting to use them to become world ruler, which they absolutely would have done if the other countries didn't also build nukes. But simply as an invention leaving politics aside, fuck nukes.
The "as we know it" is doing a lot of work.
In a nuclear war loads of people wouldn't die but would love unhappily ever after.
Noep nukes are good for world peace actually we are having a confrontation between the US and Russia and the nukes are closing off higher conventional escalation options. Everybody needs a nuke
Still, there have been really close calls historically which were only avoided because of some good decisions by individuals (e.g. Vasily Arkhipov. These could happen again with less wise decisions made. Not saying that any countries having them today could be getting rid of them realistically without the US waiting outside their door, but one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists, we should be putting them in the time capsule of history along with the system that made them necessary in the first place.
one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists
You don't read much history? Humans have never lived in widespread peace for any length of time. We have evidence of violence between groups of humans well back into the Stone Age. We are not a species prone to peace.
Not sure why you have a snarky tone about it, but there definitely have been times in human history that were not using war as a means of carving out resources and spheres of influence. Comparing tribes fighting to today's reasons for war is pretty pointless, and so is defining a immutable "human nature". If anything, the nature of humans is to change their nature.
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Portable speakers
The mc rib
Donald tr*mps spraytan
Portable speakers?? So you'd rather have it blasting off their phone with the awful tinny bass?
I'd rather they use headphones. Or take up cliff diving.
You take that back about the McRib right now
The nuclear bomb, easily.
money
Money isn't really a thing that was invented.
As soon as you assign a value to something then money exists. Notes or coins are just a convenient way to represent that value.
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