Proprietary software.
Genuinely: steam. “I couldn’t figure out how to download an exe and double click on it” is pretty dumb
How bout you’re pretty fucking dumb
Health Insurance Companies
They don’t really exist because people are stupid.
More because of corruption and greed imo.
For profit health insurance companies.
Even with universal healthcare, someone has to do all the admin stuff, and putting it under government control directly just screams of inefficiencies.
Yes, but the alternative is far worse. I present America as Exhibit A.
I always assume people who assert that the government is automatically less efficient, more expensive, and poorly run compared to private industry must never have been associated with a large corporation, or lack awareness.
Medicare, as it exists today, delivers superior care at lower cost than any private insurer. This despite the fact that Medicare covers the elderly and disabled, groups that need more care than the population at large that the private guys cover. If you think about it, Medicare is a giant subsidy to the private market by removing needy populations from their rolls.
The scheme to include private guys in medicare “medicare advantage”, was supposed to bring down costs by bringing in the efficiency of the private market. Medicare Advantage today costs more than the Army and the Navy.
You’re gonna have to explain further before I can judge your comment.
If people weren’t stupid they would not put up with having the highest medical costs in the world while achieving the lowest quality of care in the first world. Health Insurance Companies exist because too many people haven’t figured out that their purpose is to limit, or prevent, actual health care.
Mmmm the existence of these companies is not enough to say people are stupid. Plenty of places have these companies and reasonable access to high quality care at a reasonable price. It’s just the US in particular allows their companies to get away with murder.
Trump and the American Nazi Party
Trump
Lemmy moment.
He exists because his parents had sex. Having sex is stupid now?
Specific models of dumpsters found in national parks. Apparently making sure that the smartest bear can’t get into a dumpster while making sure the dumbest person can is a grey zone.
There have been national park visitors who have asked at what time the animals are let out of their cages and put back in them. Then again, that might be an education issue rather than a stupidity problem. Would it be ethical to experiment on these people by suggesting “we’ll tell you if you can get that dumpster open”?
Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.
I remember a lady reviewed a solar eclipse party on Facebook 1star because they held it midweek instead of on the weekend and she couldn’t go
Caveat: Having never seen those dumpsters, I have the nagging feeling that I could well be outsmarted by the bears.
There’s another factor though: The bear will keep trying over and over if it smells something in there, for hours if it feels like it. Tourists, meanwhile, might not even try again if they can’t get it open right away.
1000%. It’s a miracle when someone uses the trash cans or pack in/out at all.
Leave no trace isn’t common knowledge, nor respected by lots of people, especially the less experienced or invested. Even the slightest inconvenience can be the difference between the can and the ground.
That first can very well be a mixup between zoos, those parks where you can drive your car through and look at animals and national parks. I can fully see people getting it mixup a bit. So I would put that under education miss.
And regarding the dumpsters I have been outsmarted by a child proff container so I will show respect to the dumpster.
Warning labels that say shit like “Contains: Milk” on a carton of milk.
Did you hear about the butter recall for that?
‘Caution: Hot’ on coffee.
Egg carton that says “Contains Egss”, like yeah, I sure hope so
I hate to be “that guy” but in theee cases, it just makes more sense to have some extraneous labeling rather than have special clauses in the regulation dictating when it’s obvious enough that the label can be omitted.
Keeping the rules as simple as possible reduces the chances of loopholes and ambiguity, at the expense of sometimes resulting in things like a jar of peanut butter stating “contains peanuts” on the label.
It makes no sense and it’s a side effect of an over litigious society.
It only makes no sense until you stop and consider how to define and implement a better rule, when the only real benefit would be to prevent people snarking about milk having a “contains milk” labeling.
Labeling for ingredients and possible cross contamination concerns doesn’t require that milk warns about milk.
Do you think that someone sits down and makes a list of all items that need to be labeled as containing X, which is then updated each time a new food or recipe hits the store shelves?
Or is it more likely that regulators simply state that all foods for human consumption containing more than some percent by weight of X must be labeled as containing X?
If your goal is to ensure that consumers are alerted to certain ingredients for allergy or other purposes, you care very much about a product not getting labeled properly, and you don’t really care if something obvious gets the label.
I’m not really sure why this is so hard to grasp…
They would go bad instantly. I would assume these would be only suitable for banana bread. Reminds me of prechopped veggies that are way overpriced.
Both these bananas and the pre-chopped veggies are nice for people with disabilities.
Oh that makes more sense. But they should wrap the bananas individually so they don’t brown as quick
Edit: wait, if someone with a disability can’t peel a banana, how will they open this package?
if someone with a disability can’t peel a banana, how will they open this package?
I think you’re coming to a realization.
Are there more people with disabilities, or more stupid people?
You may not think it’s not popular and a waste,but that’s because the people who need and buy these items are generally doing their shopping when you’re at school/work.
I do not. I’m just asking if there are more people with disabilities, or more stupid people?
Please stop with justifying things that are terrible for people and the world. If these items are needed for people with disabilities, you don’t take a natural container, remove it and cover it in plastic. The solution would be to create something that is created once and does the job required indefinitely.
At least they aren’t packaged each with the plastic wrap.
I do not know if that is better or worse, but that is something definitely.
Definitely worse-- Japan has a huge problem with waste, and a ton of that is because of their culture around packaging things.
I’ve noticed this and I’d like to learn more about it. I’ve always appreciated the careful thought they put into packages or containers… But does it gotta be plastic?! Agh.
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Short-term warranties for electronics that aren’t expensive.
These things are especially evil in Australia where consumer protections are stronger and usually exceed the stated warranty.
I’ve had this conversation many times:
“Can I interest you in an extended warranty with that?”
“No thanks, it’s no better than consumer protection”
“Fair enough. Had to ask”
These laptop fans I bought a while back had a warranty of 60 days. At that stage I wonder why even bother. They worked just fine for years, though.
When i worked for office Max, back when they still existed, they told us to always always always push the “extended warranty”…
$4.00 on a $15.00 calculator… Even if you’re making minimum wage, the time spent dicking around with the warranty crap, you could have bought a better calculator when the first broke.
$4 is 27% of $15. Are you telling me that this calculator has a greater than 27% chance of failing within 1 year? If so, I’ll shop elsewhere. If not, your warranty is a ripoff and I’ll shop elsewhere.
Ah! No no no! See that’s what makes the Office Max Difference!©®™
It’s three years instead of one! /s
Republicans.
CEOs
Trump presidencies
*loudly grieves in American * :`(
Probably a whole bunch of us. Stupidity may result in unwanted and/or unplanned pregnancies.
Dealer add-ons at a car dealership.
They can be good negotiating points, though. Often, they will reduce the price of the vehicle more than the cost of the add on because they make more profit on the add-on than the difference in price of the car. And often the add-ons are preinstalled, so they have to give them to you anyway. Not true for all brands or dealers, but works for some.
With my last car there was a windshield coating, leather seat coating and bumpers on the door edges. After getting them nearly at the price I wanted, I told them I’d buy the seat coating if they’d lower the price another thousand below my previous price. The windshield coating and bumpers were also on the car when I finally got it. But I didn’t get the warranty on them, of course.
Something like this happened to me. I ended up buying an extended warranty that I didn’t really want, but it was because I insisted that I’m not going to pay MSRP for this vehicle. They knocked off a couple grand, and I spent as much on the warranty. At least I got something for the money.
Well I also did get the warrantee on the seats, though I never needed to use it.
Lotteries. If people understood odds they’d never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
Lotteries are a tax on hope, not stupidity.
I’ve always heard they were a way to recoup tax funding from people below the tax-paying bracket, because they’d be the ones desperate enough to go for it.
…which is seemingly more and more at the way we love our income inequality…
You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.
Tiktok
Religion
Lots of subscription based services, like heated seats in cars
