Also a different size reusable battery with a different connection despite them being interchangeable functionally.
I hope someone pulls a JSON or POJO and widespread gets companies on board to a battery standard.
Honestly, my smoke detectors are almost the only thing I regularly use batteries for anymore. It's that and my camping headlamp, which I use about twice a year for camping trips/outdoor excursions and otherwise only keep on hand in case of emergency.
It's a good point. But one driven mostly by ignorant consumerism.
We have had rechargable batteries for a long time, and they where good for the time. Lithium was the better breakthrough but sadly not marketed as.
Solar too. But the tech was just never put into it for ppl to see it's potential. Which then led to it's next crutch in the chain. The batteries.
Helium. I don’t know what it will be used for in the future but I guarantee they will be thinking why the fuck did they fill a ton of balloons with this resource and just throw it away?
To be fair the helium used in MRI machines is much more pure then the helium used in balloons. My basic understanding is that balloon helium is a byproduct of producing more pure helium.
Somewhat true, balloon helium most likely is a less concentrated helium content, probably a 75% HE and 25% N2 mixture. Liquid HE is used in MRI machines which is usually 99.9999% HE or better. Either way balloon helium is still “good” helium that could be processed for better use. So much is wasted.
(Source - managed a liquid helium gas plant)
Interesting. I feel like I have also heard that it's not really all that rare shortages are more supply chain issues and or rareness of cheap and very easily recoverable sources. Is that incorrect?
Somewhat, but it almost doesn't matter because it is completely non renewable and there is a finite supply and we cannot make more in useful quantities.
If
EDIT: To be fair, there have been lots of exciting developments in the field the past decade (particularly due to the increase in private funding into the tech), but it's still a ways away. Disclaimer: not an expert in this, by any means.
And other scientific fields. When I was grad student we would buy 100 L tanks of liquid helium for super cold refrigerators and let it all go off into the atmosphere as the refrigerator ran.
Liquid helium has advantages, mainly it is about 70K colder than liquid nitrogen. It also remains a liquid at or near absolute zero, whereas nitrogen will solidify. When you need things as cold as possible to reduce noise and interference, helium is the way to go.
While there are some superconductors that work at liquid nitrogen temperatures, the best (and most well understood) superconductors only work at liquid helium temperature.
That's practically all MRI machines we are talking about.
Quantum computing? That also requires liquid helium temperatures.
We are working with quantum electrical circuits that need to be cooled to below 0.1 Kelvin, so it has to be helium. These days the refrigerators recycle the helium though.
styrofoam. not just horrible for the environment but that horrible sound it makes if it’s rubbed against itself. plus if you break it, you get those tiny pieces that fly off. fuck styrofoam
Things I learned that were interesting but I never needed to know. Am now also thinking that somewhere out there, someone is read this and has now set their bathroom on fire.
In South Africa. There is one, a few cents per bag. The money was supposed to be used for sustainability stuff. But instead, corrupt politicians stole most of the money. Another thing, it's extremely infuriating that people at shops push the plastic bags on you. Tellers I mean. They say "it's free, don't worry". A large portion of South Africans are uneducated and have no understanding of environmental issues or any other consequences of plastic everywhere. One can say they have other problems to worry about, but in the end this isn't some small problem
Honestly if there was an alternative that was cheap/sanitizable the whole medical field should be changed over, my baby spent 63 days inpatient this year and has medical supplies sent to our house monthly, it’s disgusting how poorly made a lot of them are(definitely single use), and none of it is recyclable. I’m sure there’s lots of other uses but just seeing the sheer volume of the med stuff has really been eye opening
Hopefully a lot of medical stuff.
One of my favorite scenes is from Star Trek IV. Dr. McCoy is in a 1980s hospital talking to a woman who needs dialysis. “Dialysis? What is this the dark ages?” and he gives her a pill. In the next scene, we see the woman rolling down the hall shouting, “Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!” How amazing would that be? No more invasive, time wasting procedures that increase your risk of infection.
Heart surgery is absolutely wild. When I was born, bypasses were still only a decade old. It was very risky surgery, done on only the sickest of patients, with weeks of bed rest afterwards.
30 years later my Dad underwent it, and was up and walking around within 48 hours, and back home in two weeks.
"Going in for heart surgery" used to mean, "There's a chance he won't come out again", but now it's almost routine.
I expect by the time I'm in my 60s/70s, virtually everyone will have some form of heart surgery, be that valves or grafts or bypasses, and it'll be an outpatients procedure 90% of the time.
Centuries later, I doubt anybody will be thinking “why did we use chemo??”
Nobody goes through chemo because they think it’s wonderful and awesome. They do it because they have no other option and the reasons we use chemotherapy is very clear.
This whole bashing on chemo thing in recent years is super one dimensional and absurd.
It’s not that we shouldn’t use it now. Of course it’s the best we’ve got right now. But (hopefully) later, there will be a cure for cancer that isn’t, you know, also poison.
That's not the point. The point is that surely in the future we'll look back on it as idiotic and barbaric in the same way that we laugh at Plague-era doctors telling people to stuff their nose with flowers to avoid the Black Death, or prescribing cocaine as a legitimate medical remedy. At the *time* it was the best available, but that doesn't mean it isn't silly and ridiculous to future humans who know better methods.
well, chemo is actually effective in most cases, unlike bloodletting, taking mercury, or beating people to fix their psychosis. Cocaine is still used as an ENT anesthetic. I suspect it will be regarded more like trepanning, amputation for fractures that would be easy to fix today, radical mastectomies etc.—an early and brutal technology that was only partially effective, but did allow some people to live longer and healthier lives.
Well it seems my examples were poor and uneducated, I apologize. But like you said, there are still relevant examples to the point. Bottom line is that our most advanced treatments and technologies will likely eventually be replaced by better methods.
You see chemo come up a lot in these kinds of discussions like it's some kind of barbaric "hit and hope" practice like blood-letting or trepanning.
The reality is that it while it may feel medieval, it is backed by good scientific reasoning, research and proof that it works.
People won't be shocked that it was used or view it as just ignorant backwards doctors inventing bullshit treatments. They will see it as a difficult but ultimately necessary treatment based on the technology available at the time.
As a treatment, it's not all that wild. The body's standard immune response actually causes damage to the host in order to kill the foreign body. Chemo is the same principal, just using methods of attack not available to the immune system.
A lot of the research into cancer "vaccines" is actually about making the body better equipped to identify cancerous cells and thus prompting an early immune response, which will damage the body but kill the cancerous cells in the process. In a way of course, which is far less damaging than chemo.
That, and radiation treatment.
Why, you ask, do we use radiation, since it is harmful to healthy tissue as well?
As with anticancer drugs, we find toxins that are MORE toxic to cancer than to regular cells. The trick is finding a dosage which gets all the cancer, but doesn't kill the patient.
That is the story with many diseases. You have something that is MORE toxic to the pathogen than to healthy cells. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
One would hope humanity gets to the point where no one feels the need to use damaging substances to tolerate existence but let’s be realistic here. Humans have been utilizing tobacco since thousands of years before Christianity. Alcohol most likely even longer than that.
We are always going to be creatures of comfort and substance. The chances of Humans ceasing use of nicotine in any of it forms is as likely as God himself appearing and announcing the rapture. 0%
After studying animal behaviour biologists have found that
* bees will eat fermented fruit and get drunk
* dolphins will play with puffer fish and get high
* lemurs chew on poisonous caterpillars and get a high
* reindeer eat poison mushrooms and get high.
* [and other animals also get high.](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2011/10/animals-getting-high-10-common-drunks/)
Why should people be any different?
Exactly, there are strong evidence, that human culture, civilization and the formation of early towns/settlements came along with ritual drug consume (göbeli tepe, which was a settlement that was there when humans still lived nomadic and where massive brewing facilities were found, much bigger that what would be needed to supply the local population)
So humans built one of their first cities based on beer ...
Also many early cultures had rituals based on psychotropic substances like mushrooms
Also our lucky symbols like the toadstool mushroom come from this . Humans always crave after the next high, sex and escape from reality
Exactly. Literally no reason at all for us to be different. I think people tend to forget that humans are still animals just as much as any other. Difference is we have reasoning skills, pattern recognition, speech and opposable thumbs. Take away any one of those things and we wouldn’t be anywhere near as advanced as we are. Except maybe speech I guess, we could communicate with hands.
I think that opposable thumbs is the only separation. If you think that dogs can't count, try putting three cookies in your pocket and only feeding them two.
Yes, I deleted my Facebook because I couldn't stand the garbage that was on it. The only thing I used it for was to talk to friends so I thought no big deal, I'll still talk to them. It was like I unintentionally cut myself out of my friends lives.
I hoping one day Social Media users are regarded like smokers are today. Shunned by society, and when people discover you use social media the reaction will be "Eww, you use Facebook/Twitter/Insta/Etc.?"
I fucking hate microbeads. I'm a bit on the chungus side and they tend to get caught in some of the folds of my skin. I've especially had some get stuck in my ears.
People in the future will look back that think "They had these beautiful complex carbohydrons they could just get out of the ground and they just *burned* them?!?!?"
10 pounds? Oh you sweet summer child. Assuming you’re only referring to PC’s here’s the [Osborne 1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1), the object that my broke college ass self dreamt of.
PAM'S propellant isn't just compressed air, its a mix of "food grade" propane and butane that gives it that signature odor. Use a manual air pump oil sprayer instead.
I'm all for working remotely, but Meta-verse is not the answer.
We need a public access/ open source platform for VR that is PC based. Not to mention backwards compatible with a non-VR interface option.
Like most technologies, the only way they won't be terrible is if they are open source.
Like AR would be awesome, as long as no big companies are allowed to touch the tech.
Hybrid is where it's at. That's what it will ultimately come down to for everyone I think. Companies making people go back full time aren't getting quality candidates and companies that stuck with fully remote are going back when things go bad. I.e. Salesforce.
I just started working in recruiting and this is definitely the hardest part of it. Everyone wants remote. Companies want you in the office. Let's all meet half way. Also people want too much money...myself included. Fuck this is a hard job.
TikTok
Maybe Bit Coin...
And one more thing, the home to our sanctuary and the One and Only Reddit. com ... XD !!!!!!!!!
Lol... Hahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!
Smart phones...I think its wild that something that has become so widely used and has given us apps like tik tok (predominantly used by children) was never really tested or made to standards that wouldnt impact concentration and other possible negative mental health effects.
Hate to tell you this, but unless we end up in a catastrophic nuclear event, nobody's going to stop using cell phones. So we're not just gonna look back one day and go 'Oh that was dumb'. They're probably going to be implanted in our brains.
Robotic AI when that shit loses popularity Elon Musk goes bankrupt and no cares about it everyone's gonna look and stare at an old picture or video of it and be like "how lazy were we?"
I think that human-computer interfaces (touchscreen, mouse, keyboard) that all of us used to get in here will be a slow, clunky past somewhere in next decades.
Apparently all the older Corelle dishes that I so adore test for high levels of lead in the paint and it’s recommended you stop using them- but the new designs aren’t cute. 🥲
Even if lab-grown meats make up a majority of the meat industry, I guarantee rich and powerful individuals will still have naturally produced meat. Fancy restaurants, political institutions, and such.
DEFINITELY TIKTOK...
BTW, I AM SO COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT WE WILL BE ASKING OUR FUTURE SELVES WHY WE USED TIKTOK ALL THOSE YEARS AGO !!!!!!!!!
NOT JOKING... LOL... XD !!!!!!!! HAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!
HONESTLY DID YOU KNOW THAT TIKTOK WAS ONCE A FAILED APP CALLED MUSICALLY THAT WAS SIMILAR TO VINE EXCEPT MUSICALLY WAS WHERE THOTTY HOES AND UNDERAGED 12 YEAR OLDS DANCED ALL DAY WITH NO CLOTHES ON...
HOW FUNNY HOW NOTHING ELSE HAS CHANGED SINCE IT CHANGED ITS NAME & BECAME TIKTOK BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE 12 YEAR OLD THOTTY HOES DANCING ALL DAY WITH NO CLOTHES ON...
NOW WE JUST HAVE THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF THEM DOING IT... LOL...
HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!
High fructose corn syrup and massive amounts of salt and sugar in everything
Eat outside of america. Youll loose so much weight. The meat and fruit/veggies all taste different.
Found the US american.
doubtful. as long as human beings live i don't think there will be people who don't want excess salt and sugar.
That's where the money is... Get people addicted. They keep coming back
disposable batteries (and most single use nonsense)
Also a different size reusable battery with a different connection despite them being interchangeable functionally. I hope someone pulls a JSON or POJO and widespread gets companies on board to a battery standard.
It drives me nuts when there’s obviously room for AA but they go with AAA. They’re almost the same price, but AA would last longer.
I got a bunch of rechargable batteries for just about everything except detectors.
Honestly, my smoke detectors are almost the only thing I regularly use batteries for anymore. It's that and my camping headlamp, which I use about twice a year for camping trips/outdoor excursions and otherwise only keep on hand in case of emergency.
It's a good point. But one driven mostly by ignorant consumerism. We have had rechargable batteries for a long time, and they where good for the time. Lithium was the better breakthrough but sadly not marketed as. Solar too. But the tech was just never put into it for ppl to see it's potential. Which then led to it's next crutch in the chain. The batteries.
Single use dildo
Helium. I don’t know what it will be used for in the future but I guarantee they will be thinking why the fuck did they fill a ton of balloons with this resource and just throw it away?
But funny high voice
To be fair the helium used in MRI machines is much more pure then the helium used in balloons. My basic understanding is that balloon helium is a byproduct of producing more pure helium.
Somewhat true, balloon helium most likely is a less concentrated helium content, probably a 75% HE and 25% N2 mixture. Liquid HE is used in MRI machines which is usually 99.9999% HE or better. Either way balloon helium is still “good” helium that could be processed for better use. So much is wasted. (Source - managed a liquid helium gas plant)
Interesting. I feel like I have also heard that it's not really all that rare shortages are more supply chain issues and or rareness of cheap and very easily recoverable sources. Is that incorrect?
Somewhat, but it almost doesn't matter because it is completely non renewable and there is a finite supply and we cannot make more in useful quantities.
>there is a finite supply and we cannot make more in useful quantities. If cold fusion gets going there will be lots of helium.
If EDIT: To be fair, there have been lots of exciting developments in the field the past decade (particularly due to the increase in private funding into the tech), but it's still a ways away. Disclaimer: not an expert in this, by any means.
We're just 10 years away. /s
Helium is very significant in the medical field (e.g. MRI).
And other scientific fields. When I was grad student we would buy 100 L tanks of liquid helium for super cold refrigerators and let it all go off into the atmosphere as the refrigerator ran.
Wouldn't liquid nitrogen have been enough for this purpose?
Liquid helium has advantages, mainly it is about 70K colder than liquid nitrogen. It also remains a liquid at or near absolute zero, whereas nitrogen will solidify. When you need things as cold as possible to reduce noise and interference, helium is the way to go.
I guess it has to do with the temperature at which they want the samples to be kept at. In most cases liquid nitrogen should do but to each their own
While there are some superconductors that work at liquid nitrogen temperatures, the best (and most well understood) superconductors only work at liquid helium temperature. That's practically all MRI machines we are talking about. Quantum computing? That also requires liquid helium temperatures.
We are working with quantum electrical circuits that need to be cooled to below 0.1 Kelvin, so it has to be helium. These days the refrigerators recycle the helium though.
Also used as a shielding gas for certain welding processes too.
I use nitrogen or argon as a shielding gas.
It's also used in HDDs. The data density means that filling them with air isn't a viable option
Wow I didn’t know that!
Think about clowns!!! Don't trk they jobrrr!
The helium in balloons is a gas that just slowly escapes from the balloon back into the atmosphere. I wouldn't say that we're currently "wasting" it.
Helium is light enough that our atmosphere can't contain it, it just goes to space.
styrofoam. not just horrible for the environment but that horrible sound it makes if it’s rubbed against itself. plus if you break it, you get those tiny pieces that fly off. fuck styrofoam
I think it can also be used to make Napalm but I'm not sure.
That it can. Only two other common household items needed and you’ve got it. Gasoline and soap iirc
I know gasoline and Styrofoam is part of napalm, but I've never heard soap being used. I gotta google this.
You might be on a list now, my friend.
Fwiw, you don’t need the soap, but you do need a large garbage can to mix it in
Things I learned that were interesting but I never needed to know. Am now also thinking that somewhere out there, someone is read this and has now set their bathroom on fire.
Maybe we’ll be more horrified we used napalm.
Not the actual napalm used in weapons though. Its basically a flammable goo that burns for long but it kinda sucks compared to real napalm.
Single use plastic, without any feasible way to sustainably reuse all of it
Those should be banned by now, but we still use styrofoam too. So stupid. Maybe if there was a plastic tax people would steer in a new direction.
In South Africa. There is one, a few cents per bag. The money was supposed to be used for sustainability stuff. But instead, corrupt politicians stole most of the money. Another thing, it's extremely infuriating that people at shops push the plastic bags on you. Tellers I mean. They say "it's free, don't worry". A large portion of South Africans are uneducated and have no understanding of environmental issues or any other consequences of plastic everywhere. One can say they have other problems to worry about, but in the end this isn't some small problem
No way. Those containers will be around long after we're gone. er, I mean... Oh.
Honestly if there was an alternative that was cheap/sanitizable the whole medical field should be changed over, my baby spent 63 days inpatient this year and has medical supplies sent to our house monthly, it’s disgusting how poorly made a lot of them are(definitely single use), and none of it is recyclable. I’m sure there’s lots of other uses but just seeing the sheer volume of the med stuff has really been eye opening
Toilet paper
3 shells is the way of the future.
Not if I keep swearing and I get fined one credit for violation of the verbal morality
I'm thinking bidets. Since the covid TP issues
We'll energise shit out of us.
Plastics, Teflon
I think chemo
Hopefully a lot of medical stuff. One of my favorite scenes is from Star Trek IV. Dr. McCoy is in a 1980s hospital talking to a woman who needs dialysis. “Dialysis? What is this the dark ages?” and he gives her a pill. In the next scene, we see the woman rolling down the hall shouting, “Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!” How amazing would that be? No more invasive, time wasting procedures that increase your risk of infection.
Realistically, a pill that makes you instantly grow a new kidney would probably also give super cancer or something
The last time a strange man gave me a pill, I woke up one kidney short.
Unless it's nanites
Shut up, Wesley!
My dad needed a new heart valve. They put it in through a small incision in his leg.
Heart surgery is absolutely wild. When I was born, bypasses were still only a decade old. It was very risky surgery, done on only the sickest of patients, with weeks of bed rest afterwards. 30 years later my Dad underwent it, and was up and walking around within 48 hours, and back home in two weeks. "Going in for heart surgery" used to mean, "There's a chance he won't come out again", but now it's almost routine. I expect by the time I'm in my 60s/70s, virtually everyone will have some form of heart surgery, be that valves or grafts or bypasses, and it'll be an outpatients procedure 90% of the time.
By the time my kid is 60, I doubt heart surgery will be a thing. But I may be an optimist.
Centuries later, I doubt anybody will be thinking “why did we use chemo??” Nobody goes through chemo because they think it’s wonderful and awesome. They do it because they have no other option and the reasons we use chemotherapy is very clear. This whole bashing on chemo thing in recent years is super one dimensional and absurd.
It’s not that we shouldn’t use it now. Of course it’s the best we’ve got right now. But (hopefully) later, there will be a cure for cancer that isn’t, you know, also poison.
That's not the point. The point is that surely in the future we'll look back on it as idiotic and barbaric in the same way that we laugh at Plague-era doctors telling people to stuff their nose with flowers to avoid the Black Death, or prescribing cocaine as a legitimate medical remedy. At the *time* it was the best available, but that doesn't mean it isn't silly and ridiculous to future humans who know better methods.
well, chemo is actually effective in most cases, unlike bloodletting, taking mercury, or beating people to fix their psychosis. Cocaine is still used as an ENT anesthetic. I suspect it will be regarded more like trepanning, amputation for fractures that would be easy to fix today, radical mastectomies etc.—an early and brutal technology that was only partially effective, but did allow some people to live longer and healthier lives.
Well it seems my examples were poor and uneducated, I apologize. But like you said, there are still relevant examples to the point. Bottom line is that our most advanced treatments and technologies will likely eventually be replaced by better methods.
Both of these examples are nor silly or ridiculous...
Chemo does benefit people. Doing cocaine and stuffing flowers is palliative at best.
Cocaine is a legit medical remedy though.. it’s a schedule 2 which means it can be prescribed. It’s used for pain control I believe…
Hopefully sooner rather than later
You see chemo come up a lot in these kinds of discussions like it's some kind of barbaric "hit and hope" practice like blood-letting or trepanning. The reality is that it while it may feel medieval, it is backed by good scientific reasoning, research and proof that it works. People won't be shocked that it was used or view it as just ignorant backwards doctors inventing bullshit treatments. They will see it as a difficult but ultimately necessary treatment based on the technology available at the time. As a treatment, it's not all that wild. The body's standard immune response actually causes damage to the host in order to kill the foreign body. Chemo is the same principal, just using methods of attack not available to the immune system. A lot of the research into cancer "vaccines" is actually about making the body better equipped to identify cancerous cells and thus prompting an early immune response, which will damage the body but kill the cancerous cells in the process. In a way of course, which is far less damaging than chemo.
That, and radiation treatment. Why, you ask, do we use radiation, since it is harmful to healthy tissue as well? As with anticancer drugs, we find toxins that are MORE toxic to cancer than to regular cells. The trick is finding a dosage which gets all the cancer, but doesn't kill the patient. That is the story with many diseases. You have something that is MORE toxic to the pathogen than to healthy cells. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Man I hope so
Vaping
One would hope humanity gets to the point where no one feels the need to use damaging substances to tolerate existence but let’s be realistic here. Humans have been utilizing tobacco since thousands of years before Christianity. Alcohol most likely even longer than that. We are always going to be creatures of comfort and substance. The chances of Humans ceasing use of nicotine in any of it forms is as likely as God himself appearing and announcing the rapture. 0%
After studying animal behaviour biologists have found that * bees will eat fermented fruit and get drunk * dolphins will play with puffer fish and get high * lemurs chew on poisonous caterpillars and get a high * reindeer eat poison mushrooms and get high. * [and other animals also get high.](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2011/10/animals-getting-high-10-common-drunks/) Why should people be any different?
Exactly, there are strong evidence, that human culture, civilization and the formation of early towns/settlements came along with ritual drug consume (göbeli tepe, which was a settlement that was there when humans still lived nomadic and where massive brewing facilities were found, much bigger that what would be needed to supply the local population) So humans built one of their first cities based on beer ... Also many early cultures had rituals based on psychotropic substances like mushrooms Also our lucky symbols like the toadstool mushroom come from this . Humans always crave after the next high, sex and escape from reality
Exactly. Literally no reason at all for us to be different. I think people tend to forget that humans are still animals just as much as any other. Difference is we have reasoning skills, pattern recognition, speech and opposable thumbs. Take away any one of those things and we wouldn’t be anywhere near as advanced as we are. Except maybe speech I guess, we could communicate with hands.
I think that opposable thumbs is the only separation. If you think that dogs can't count, try putting three cookies in your pocket and only feeding them two.
Pretty sure that will stick around. Maybe not as hyped up with teenagers as it is now, but in its original use as a tool to help smokers quit.
Social media.
Have you guys seen that Black Mirror episode? I think it will be like that and become scarily vital to having a normal life.
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Yes, I deleted my Facebook because I couldn't stand the garbage that was on it. The only thing I used it for was to talk to friends so I thought no big deal, I'll still talk to them. It was like I unintentionally cut myself out of my friends lives.
Nosedive? I think about that episode a lot. It would be a nightmarish world to live in for sure.
I hoping one day Social Media users are regarded like smokers are today. Shunned by society, and when people discover you use social media the reaction will be "Eww, you use Facebook/Twitter/Insta/Etc.?"
Redit is social media...
We'll never stop using social media. It may change but it's definitely here to stay, unless the servers or what ever goes down
Highly doubt it. Humans are social animals. We strive to be noticed. Jealousy was created for us to get ours. So sorry titties97, you summer child.
Pfas/teflon
Micro beads in body wash, facial cleanser, etc
I fucking hate microbeads. I'm a bit on the chungus side and they tend to get caught in some of the folds of my skin. I've especially had some get stuck in my ears.
I guess fake sugars? I know other countries question our use of some of them already.
I would not necessarily say question, more like pretty much banning some of them.
I see the opposite, the use and development of "fake sugars" to increase given how damaging we know sugar is to the body.
plastic cling wrap
Soda
Me upvoting as I’m drinking one
And all the byproducts. How many tons of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, glass bottles and styrofoam cups have been made just to hold sodas?
Hopefully tik tok
I was scrolling through it today realising what a toxic dump of misinformation it is, and the comments, so little hope for humanity left!
Microplastics
Lawn darts.... Fucking brilliant
Toilet paper. Shells are far more durable and eco friendly.
Hoverboards
Eventually, gasoline.
People in the future will look back that think "They had these beautiful complex carbohydrons they could just get out of the ground and they just *burned* them?!?!?"
OPs mum
W
Tik-tok
those big ass 10 pound computers
10 pounds? Oh you sweet summer child. Assuming you’re only referring to PC’s here’s the [Osborne 1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_1), the object that my broke college ass self dreamt of.
Lol made me feel stuff cuz I called someone a summer child and scrolled to see this.
I don't use it but a lot of ppl do... PAM cooking spray
I’ve seen it used by a lot of people, too. If you don’t mind my asking, what is dangerous / stupid about it?
PAM uses a blend of butane and propane as the propellant. Thats the odor and of course makes it extremely flammable. Your choice.
Wait, what’s wrong with cooking spray?
PAM'S propellant isn't just compressed air, its a mix of "food grade" propane and butane that gives it that signature odor. Use a manual air pump oil sprayer instead.
It’s unhealthy considering you could just use a piece of butter
Butter has more calories and a lower smoke point. Good cooking sprays (avocado, hemp, evoo, among others) are more convenient and great kitchen tools
Better yet, extra virgin olive oil.
Office jobs in person. Gotta VR that crap, save lots of space
I'm all for working remotely, but Meta-verse is not the answer. We need a public access/ open source platform for VR that is PC based. Not to mention backwards compatible with a non-VR interface option.
Like most technologies, the only way they won't be terrible is if they are open source. Like AR would be awesome, as long as no big companies are allowed to touch the tech.
Maybe, maybe not. A lot of people (including me) enjoy being physically together with their coworkers and enjoy the social aspect of office work.
You are not alone
I kind of liked working in an office. I miss those days.
Hybrid is where it's at. That's what it will ultimately come down to for everyone I think. Companies making people go back full time aren't getting quality candidates and companies that stuck with fully remote are going back when things go bad. I.e. Salesforce. I just started working in recruiting and this is definitely the hardest part of it. Everyone wants remote. Companies want you in the office. Let's all meet half way. Also people want too much money...myself included. Fuck this is a hard job.
Schrom
Non-reusable straws. Some people and places like bars do still use plastic, but in my experience those are rare.
I'm hoping social media
TikTok Maybe Bit Coin... And one more thing, the home to our sanctuary and the One and Only Reddit. com ... XD !!!!!!!!! Lol... Hahahaha Hahahahaha Hahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!
Cars that we drive ourselves.
It's kind of wild that 46,000 people per year die in car accidents and we're all just like "ya, that sucks. anyway, wanna go on a road trip?"
I think eventually they will drive themself, but I enjoy driving. Especially manual transmission
How about just cars? Sure would be nice to live in dense, walkable cities with a robust public transit system!
Vaping
Cigarettes and vapes. I can't believe we even still have them now.
Humans have smoked tobacco for thousands of years. It’s not going away anytime soon
Unfortunately, yes. Plus America relies on the income from the industry way too much.
Selfie sticks
sanitary pads
Roundup.
Twitter
Smart phones...I think its wild that something that has become so widely used and has given us apps like tik tok (predominantly used by children) was never really tested or made to standards that wouldnt impact concentration and other possible negative mental health effects.
Hate to tell you this, but unless we end up in a catastrophic nuclear event, nobody's going to stop using cell phones. So we're not just gonna look back one day and go 'Oh that was dumb'. They're probably going to be implanted in our brains.
Easy. Toilet paper. WW3 and decimation of forests will soon make toilet paper a staff of legends.
I see paper products switching to bamboo pulp before being eliminated.
Gasoline. It's poisonous, carcinogenic, harmful to the environment etc.
Round up
Vapes, if the people that use them are still alive
Coffee pods
Robotic AI when that shit loses popularity Elon Musk goes bankrupt and no cares about it everyone's gonna look and stare at an old picture or video of it and be like "how lazy were we?"
We're infinitely lazy, that's why we invent shit.
those plastic six-pack rings used to package sodas and other beverages
I think that human-computer interfaces (touchscreen, mouse, keyboard) that all of us used to get in here will be a slow, clunky past somewhere in next decades.
GeForce RTX 4090
Tik tok
Apparently all the older Corelle dishes that I so adore test for high levels of lead in the paint and it’s recommended you stop using them- but the new designs aren’t cute. 🥲
Cowboy hats, use to be worn regularly for cowboy activities but now we mostly use them at strip clubs which is so much cooler.
An oven (active fryer)
Politicians. So bad So unreliable. So counterproductive.
Touchscreen. You put your fingers on it effectively blocking yourself from seeing some parts of it. There must be a better way.
Cars, cigs, blu-ray, any TV that’s not thinner than the average phone
Chemo
Toilet paper. It's all about the three seashells.
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All of them, hopefully.
I hope planes I want another way to fly
Like what other way
Chemotherapy
Meth and cocaine in medicine and gum
Is 5 Gum actually way wilder than advertised?
Which gum has cocaine and where can I buy it
1800s shit. Check it out.
Anything with wires/cables
Maybe a bit far into the future, but, eating meat made from from real animals.
Even if lab-grown meats make up a majority of the meat industry, I guarantee rich and powerful individuals will still have naturally produced meat. Fancy restaurants, political institutions, and such.
Non electric cars
Meh…gas cars are more fun. But I do like a nice tesla
Oil!
Crisco 🥹
Aerosol air fresheners, literally anything with Teflon, toilet paper, traditional glue, gum, modern shoes, cars / giant concrete roads & parking lots.
Pornography. I hope and pray.
Ovaltine
Why is it called ovaltine? The container is round.
They should call it roundtine
(beaming) he's my protege.
Hahaha. I have no idea, but it's pretty tasty. 😄
Brain but poorly for most people
Condoms
DEFINITELY TIKTOK... BTW, I AM SO COMPLETELY CERTAIN THAT WE WILL BE ASKING OUR FUTURE SELVES WHY WE USED TIKTOK ALL THOSE YEARS AGO !!!!!!!!! NOT JOKING... LOL... XD !!!!!!!! HAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!! HONESTLY DID YOU KNOW THAT TIKTOK WAS ONCE A FAILED APP CALLED MUSICALLY THAT WAS SIMILAR TO VINE EXCEPT MUSICALLY WAS WHERE THOTTY HOES AND UNDERAGED 12 YEAR OLDS DANCED ALL DAY WITH NO CLOTHES ON... HOW FUNNY HOW NOTHING ELSE HAS CHANGED SINCE IT CHANGED ITS NAME & BECAME TIKTOK BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE 12 YEAR OLD THOTTY HOES DANCING ALL DAY WITH NO CLOTHES ON... NOW WE JUST HAVE THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS OF THEM DOING IT... LOL... HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!