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[–] [email protected] 260 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 140 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Piggybacking for-profit prisons.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 years 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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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago

For profit education

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[–] [email protected] 182 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Tax exemption for religious organisations.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Knew it was DE before I saw the instance domain.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Or better yet, religious organizations.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 years ago (1 children)

corporations given constitutional rights in the us like living people.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago

Billionaires

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

A lot of these are things that we can improve

Here's one we can't: giraffes πŸ¦’

an old meme:

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 years ago (1 children)

50,000 Square Foot Mansions. Such a waste.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Billionaires and Guinea Worm.

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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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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.

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Private/for profit prisons

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

squints at the Fermi paradox

Umm life?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think we should build a huge highway bridge to Hawaii

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Influencers

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Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

School lunch debt.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The Matrix sequels. All of them.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (23 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Mosquitoes. Fuck mosquitoes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

rich people who ruin things

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