Gnats. And flies.
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Probably a huge food source for other organisms, so I guess they better keep on existing... Might upset some important balance otherwise...
But they can be a nuisance for sure!
Yeah, i know, spiders and the like. But mosquitoes on the other hand are apparently not even a good food source.
Sadly that's not true, apparently mosquitoes are very important to the ecosystem. Ze Frank did a True Facts episode on them.
Nazis.
Humans organised by hierarchy.
It never works and always ends with civilisations that ever attempt it collapsing. No matter how often we do the same dumb shit over and over it never works.. Are we insane anons ?
It works in communities of around 100 people, like those human evolved in. Which is why this is our default organization structure, every form of government devolves to sooner or later. Maybe we should give up the idea of countries or at least try to keep it in check with smart laws somehow.
Oh we definitely are. We already have had so many profound human beings that to live well all that is needed is just listen to them and apply what they have said. But no, people choose to do dumb shit yet again and again
July and August Add them to the end of the calendar or rename them properly, there is no reason September-December should have been globally accepted out of order for over 2000 years
Fossil fuel subsidies. No longer needed since we have more viable alternatives, and they just contribute to global warming, and litter.
farm subsidies too, the only reason they are even here is because its a large voting block.
I saw a vlog that interviewed local farmers that were trying to be diverse planting strawberries and veggies. They explained that they were barely making it, but if they just planted corn the subsidies would kick in and they're make a lot more.
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Billionaires, government officials owning stock, private campaign finance, the two party system, racism, sexism, health insurance, private equity, for profit prisons, for life Supreme Court appointments, Nazis, Zionism, Wall Street, unregulated banking,jobs that don’t pay a living wage, unaffordable housing, student debt, the police state and lobbyists
Donald Trump and the GOP
Religion.
It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc...
It's why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.
We don't need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.
Electricity
Stupidity and ignorance.
Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it's cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment
Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I'm going deeper and choosing bigotry.
English orthography. It's like this close to being random.
Other languages have reformed theirs (or theres or they'res) to make sense at some point since the dawn of modern literacy.
fykst yt for ÿu
Inglyš orþografi. Ic laÿk dis klows tu biyņ random. Aðer laņgwajez hav riformd derz (or derz or derz) tu meÿk sens at sǎm poÿnt syns de don ov modern lyterasi.
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We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
We should address it again, and fix the way a ton of words have been Anglicized at the same time, but we're far from alone. French is loaded with needlessly silent letters as well, just as the first example that springs to mind.
(actually, can we just switch directly to the International Phonetic Alphabet?) (This is a bad idea for reasons that are probably obvious, it's a lateral move at best)
We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.
What do you mean? The Great Vowel Shift happened well before any standardisation of spelling I'm aware of. And there's plenty of problems beyond just the vowels.
French is probably number two on the shit list, but there's at least a consistent pattern there.
The printing press, and more importantly the people running them, codified spelling toward the beginning of the Shift. I may have implied more intent than actually existed but spelling became a lot more standardized with the mass production of written works, particularly the bible.
That sounds right, although you do still see ye olde writing as late as the 1700s. It was both random and gradual.
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