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[-] MrMamiya@feddit.de 260 points 1 year ago
[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 141 points 1 year ago

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

[-] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 80 points 1 year ago

Public transport too. It really seems like every time a public service is privatised it goes to shit, almost as if for-profit motives aren't aligned to public interest.

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[-] nnjvwl@midwest.social 61 points 1 year ago

For profit education

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[-] bestusername@aussie.zone 182 points 1 year ago

Tax exemption for religious organisations.

[-] federalreverse@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

Could be worse, I guess. I live in a "secular" democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Knew it was DE before I saw the instance domain.

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[-] gilgameth@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Or better yet, religious organizations.

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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 111 points 1 year ago

corporations given constitutional rights in the us like living people.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Like people but without also being subject to incarceration...

[-] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 86 points 1 year ago

Billionaires

[-] tungah@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Since it wasn't said yet, nukes. No one needs them.

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of these are things that we can improve

Here's one we can't: giraffes 🦒

an old meme:

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[-] jeebus@kbin.social 60 points 1 year ago

50,000 Square Foot Mansions. Such a waste.

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I agree. How are you gonna make a mansion with just a square foot? Let alone 50,000 of them.

[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago
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[-] Puppet007@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago
[-] spider@lemmy.nz 40 points 1 year ago
[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 1 year ago
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

These Boston dynamics robot dogs

But in reality, military aerial drones are much more terrifying. It sounds like a sci-fi dystopia that a billionaire could type your name, press a kill button, and within a few minutes a drone locates and bombs you. But this tech has already existed for over a decade, and is being used by the US in the Middle East and North Africa.

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[-] livus@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago

Billionaires and Guinea Worm.

The good news is we are on the verge of eradicating Guinea Worm.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago

I’d like to add botflies. The whole removal process is nightmare fuel.

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[-] phubarr@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago
[-] VoilaChihuahua@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Any individual possessing more than a lifetime's worth of money. Like after you have $30 million the rest goes into a bucket for everyone else to use. You can re-up from the bucket once you drop below mmmm a 5 year amount of money say $2 million. You can still amass bazillions of dollars, just not kajillions.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago
[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

America's Got Talent. For the past ten seasons, it's been as much a talent show as The Curse of Oak Island is a show about historical accuracy.

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[-] zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
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[-] probably_a_robot@lemmy.one 25 points 1 year ago

Private/for profit prisons

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 year ago
[-] Rednax@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

There is a subtle, but important, difference between letting people know your product exists or improved, and brainwashing people into buying your product.

Is a grocery saleman at the local saturday market allowed to shout about the sale he is doing on strawberries? Because that is also marketing.

I fully agree that the average advertisement you see on youtube is pure cancer. But what about an advertisement for an emergency fund for a disaster?

What about a sponsored video of a game?

Where do you draw the line?

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

squints at the Fermi paradox

Umm life?

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uncured bacon doesn't exist. It's a lie. Uncured bacon is cured with celery nitrates and nitrites instead of synthetic nitrates and nitrites. It is all cured bacon.

And that's fine. If people want a more naturally cured bacon that tastes worse and has zero health benefits, and costs more, calling it "uncured" is still deceptive. It's also crowding out the actual bacon market on the low end.

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[-] Teon@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

Republicans.

[-] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Influencers

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The interstate highway we have on Oahu. It doesn’t even extend to other counties.

[-] ErKaf@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

I think we should build a huge highway bridge to Hawaii

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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

The Matrix sequels. All of them.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

School lunch debt.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 1 year ago

billionaires
for profit access to the internet
fox news
the turtle mcconnell
hospital advertising departments
religion, any. lets not discriminate

[-] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Cars. They are everywhere and are like cigarettes. Addictive, bad for our environment and bad for ourselves.

And we even try to keep using them as long as possible by switching to an electric version, just like cigarettes. "But it's electric, it can't be that bad!"

Humanity is not running to its doom, it's taking a car.

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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago
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[-] eddanja@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes.

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