What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

Nazis.

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

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.
I'm not sure that's true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there's no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it's not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don't really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it's more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
- 🤣🤣🤣🤣 There are dozens of companies making electric tractors, AND in a rural area it is much more viable to have solar panels than to rely on the next diesel delivery, or make long trips to the nearest filling station.
  Areas with solar panels are even posting higher crop yields.
- A diesel engine can literally run on vegetable oil. We don't need fossil fuel subsidies to keep farm tractors working.
  If we must distort the market directly, we should do so on the demand side. Give farmers a per-Joule fuel subsidy, and let them use petro-disel, bio-disel, or electric as the market may provide.
  Either we believe that markets work or we don't

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.

People used to need religion to stop them from functioning the same as animals back then, but in this century, if someone needs to be told by a religion that murder is bad to stop them from doing it, then they should be locked up.
Also so much molesting goes on at religious places that people just sweep under the rug. And what batshit crazy is going on with women in religions? Like there is a stoning sentence for a married woman who cheats, she just cheated! Get a freaking divorce and move on.
Cults get so much shit but what exactly is the difference between a religion and cult? They sound pretty similar if you look from an outside perspective.
The most important thing is we gotta think about the children. Just imagine how cruel it would sound to an alien.
"We make our 9 year Old daughters up before sunrise every morning to pray but our sons can avoid that till they are 14"
"We make our kids go without food or drinks for 16 hours everyday for a month every year. It is good for their body! (Kid passes out in the background)"
"My daughter is having her first child too late. She is 14!"
"So we send our daughters to be nuns, they will live there until they die."
"I cut my son's dongdong."

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

Donald Trump and the GOP

Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I'm going deeper and choosing bigotry.

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

The Donald

Lol who downvoted this

Measles

@chunes Rupert Murdoch.

Gnats. And flies.

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.

Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it's cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment

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.

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.
- Adopting IPA would be wrong because it would require that everyone talk exactly the same way.
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.
- Teräs Käsi.

Charli...

Stupidity and ignorance.

Me. I feel like I shouldn't be around anymore since quite some time

I think your real answer is depression, since that's the cause of why you feel the way you feel. We haven't cured depression, but there are ways to combat it. Medical health professionals, medication, friends, mindfulness, exercise, etc are all ways to combat depression. When you're depressed, basically all seem impossible, but you just have to take it one baby step at a time
- Thanks for your words. I've been in treatment for a long time, I even believed to be feeling better, but then I became aware of all the lost years of my life. More than a decade now... and then I've been feeling like that again
Aw, dang. This was gonna be my answer, too.
- 🫂
- Why? Do you know him?

Electricity

The belief that somehow through democracy and a constitution written by slave owners, somehow a country with half of the population being crazy, nationalistic nazis and the other half believing it's enough to live with these kind of people because of said democracy and constitution, that somehow society can go on and prosper just 'cause.

Internal combustion engines.. We just don't need them anymore.

Their continued use really only measures up to hubris.

I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:
I'm not sure that's true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there's no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it's not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don't really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it's more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
- Actually there is.. Like i said before there are many high quality electric tractors. I have even seen so many farmers even convert their old tractors to electric in response to John Deere's shitty policies.
  Farm equipment doesn't care what is is run on.

Lithography.... That's the origin of phones, satellites, and rapid communication which apparently is something we as a species can't handle.

What?

Atheism

Why? It's actually grown pretty much as long as it's verifiably existed as an identifiable group.
- Because Flax is a conservative and he got triggered by the religion comment so he can't think of anything more important.
- They lack a good moral code. Although by this logic I could also say that on this basis, I think Islam should have died out. But I am British and that's "racist" apparently.
Gotta say that I have heard much less bad about atheism than about religions.
I wonder how widely is atheism used to oppress, control, brainwash, kill or torture people.
- It's used to kill around 1 million people per year in the USA.
  Also kills the soul.

Nazis

Young earth creationism and flat earth

What's weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn't preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.

Child labor.

Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>

Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."
- I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.

Religion

Easy to say, but I'd argue it's baked in.
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there were`t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
- Well said.
I kinda get it. Everyone needs something to look forwards too. Sadly, for some, there's only the idea of afterlife for that.
Religion isn't necessarily the problem, people (as usual) are.
- That's essentially the same as saying guns aren't the problem.
- All religion is baseless bullshit, so yes, it is problematic in itself.
  It is divisive by nature/design.
  And it is made worse by people abusing it for power over others or discrimination.
- at best its a waste of human energy and maybe good for those that require that emotional crutch
  your argument is the same for guns, which we as a species should also mature out of

Tips. How ridiculous is it that restaurant owners guilt us into paying their employees salaries because they are too cheap to pay them a living wage? How unjust is it that we chose to tip the people who bring our food from the kitchen to our table and leave the hundreds of other service workers without tips?

A better understanding will flow from knowing that federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 per hour.
So there is specific legislation in place to abuse restaurant workers, restaurant owners take full advantage of this.
- Here, the minimum wage for servers is $17.20, same as any other worker.
Weirdly, Alaska, California, Guam, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and in the vast majority of cases Montana have no exemptions for tipped employees, and shockingly they still have restaurants. And customers aren't paying exorbitant prices for food (except where I live in middle-of-nowhere island Alaska) compared to the rest of the country.
It's almost like their entire argument of not being able to keep their business if they have to actually pay their employees is either nonsense or a skill issue.

Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.

Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we've backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
- That's not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there's no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things
- Dog whistles? It's open now.

In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It's a rent-seeking scam.

Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes
The complication is mostly determining what actually counts as income and the insane amount of deductions and credits you might be eligible for.
For most people a simple standard deduction is very easy to file, and can be done on paper in 15-30 minutes. But I agree that this is still too complicated.

IPv4! Hail IPv6

Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah
- Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
but IPv4 is so much nicer to read :((((
/s in case it's not obvious

Private health insurance.

Charlie Kirk

On that note, Ben Shapiro as well.
- Andrew Tate, though that may be dangerous as he'll probably turn into a martyr.

Capitalism meow

Did you say “meow?”

I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.

~~telephony only uses a subset of internet things so building just telephone lines is cheaper, which matters especially in the global south~~
- I'm no expert on the subject, but it's my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they're usually internet-capable.

the republican party in the us.

Measles.

Polio.

Kinda surprised we eradicated smallpox, yet polio still exists.
- It’s only a handful of people in the mountains of Afghanistan; there’s a lot of fear around letting westerners in with needles.

Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.

Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.

Coal power plants.

The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.

From oldest to newest, they are:

Printed data on card.
Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
Smartcard chip with contacts.
Wireless.

The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.

Does smartcard and wireless actually have an encryption layer of some kind?
- I'd assume so, but more importantly, for both, there's a cryptographic signature being performed by the card. The credentials never leave the card --- there's a private key on the card, and what goes out is a signature on the transaction, which is useless for doing other transactions.
I disagree that we should have a card reader on our computers for payments.
That is just a way too big of a security concern.
I prefer something like the Swedish system Swish, you have a separate app on your phone where you can send money to friends and family as well as pay for stuff online.
Sadly, while Klarna supports Swish, they require the use of a Klarna account to use it, and since most internet shops in Sweden uses Klarna it limits the ability to use it as I want to.
- and with that you need a smartphone, with a google-approved operating system and with it half of the factory bloatware, or otherwise you are barred from paying online, right? that sounds such a good idea.
  no.

Pandas.

only kept alive by the CCP, because they can use it as a form diplomacy. otherwise the chinese wouldve eaten away the pandas or turn them into herbal medicine.
They are cute chubby cuddle fluffs though. Just look at them!
🐼
The animals or the python thing?
- yes

Chat control and any similar legeslations

Humans

Gender essentialism and tuberculosis

Social media

interesting timing

The United States.

Empires take time to rise and fall.

my self-preservation instincts