I feel like the list will be longer than we expect. We are still behind in certain ways.
lazy...
Bubble Gum Cartoon GIFGiphy"People sticking gum on random surfaces instead of at least throwing it towards the trash can a few feet away."
iesharael
How is this allowed?
"'Convenience' fees to pay bills online."
Rude_Yam_9962
"Yeah or any 'additional fee' that’s required to buy the product or service. Advertise $100 but then at check out they add in service fee $25, convenience fee $10."
"Always at the last second too, usually right before you enter your credit card info. Wtf? How is this allowed? Just advertise $135 if that’s the price the customer is paying. Should not be allowed to bait a low price and switch with a higher one once the customer is already invested."
Can you hear me now?
"Not being able to get cell service is spots in my own home."
Haunting_Spot_8002
"A friend worked in Africa building homes for the people. He said there were bush men with spears and loin cloths with a cell phone clipped on the side. Middle of nowhere yet reception everywhere."
RedLeader7
"Most of Africa skipped land lines altogether and went straight to mobile. In the west, cell phones and mobile internet are a luxury, in less developed regions it's often the only way to communicate."
pixelbart
System Collapse
"Companies that create problems and sell solutions instead of solving existing problems."
draconic_oxalis
"This was the inevitable outcome of an economic system in which only those doing labor are allowed to have food and shelter, yet technology is constantly reducing the amount of labor that is actually necessary."
"We only get money for food if we are seen to be working on problems. Now we're having a shortage of actual problems so we must make artificial ones to keep surviving. If only we had UBI, all of these pointless industries would disappear overnight as no one wants to keep working these jobs they know are pointless."
snapwillow
Hang Up
Call Me Hello GIF by IDKGiphy"Spam calls."
mstrss9
"I literally had spammers somehow dupe the phone number of my local council, it's scary just how close they can get."
Hazbro29
I HATE these SPAM calls. All hours of the day and night. I hate you!
Speed Up
Internet Mouse GIF by kotutohumGiphy"Slow internet."
Necessary_Rule_8485
"We figured it out. Just that the companies are greedy and keep the money for themselves instead of upgrading infrastructure."
Unlucky_Clover
Paper Trail
"Junk mail."
furryShambler
"I know! Whatever happened with the Paperwork Reduction Act?"
Julie-Andrews
"in the U.S. you can reduce your junk mail a lot by going to.DMAChoice.org and OptOutPrescreen.com and filling out the forms for your address. I have reduced my junk mail by about 90% : FTC source"
FSMFan_2pt0
car-centric
"Having to spend 3 hours in traffic everyday."
CampaignAlternative3
"Because North American cities have over restrictive zoning laws that segregate cities based on type of usage and they build to a very low density and with car-centric development that makes it so everyone has to use a car to get anywhere."
houndog129
"It's not so easy to just 'find a job closer to home' for example I'll search on Indeed and the closest job in my line of work is like 2hrs away."
PhatShadow
It's Round
"Flat Earthers."
da_sylent
"So everything but earth Is round right? (according to flat Earthers) So as some members say it's like a frisbee in space. What if, bear with me... the reason the world will end is because a giant dog will catch us and kill everyone on earth by shaking the frisbee too much and cause floods and crap. Because if so, that's how I wanna die, letting a pupper have some fun with a fisbee."
viber223
Gross
understand john boehner GIFGiphy"Child beauty pageants."
Heliouse66
"If I see a mother make her child do one of those, I WILL judge her."
EarwaxWizard
Can we work on eradicating these things? It's all well past expired.
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Somethings still make us feel like the stone ages. As far as we've come, is as far as we still have to go.
Sealed. Delivered.
Hungry Lucky Charms GIF by Dark IglooGiphy"Cereal bags that aren't re-sealable."
Brewer1056
"Bacon would also like to join this conversation."
CannonFTW
Hang Up
"Scam calls. Please make them stop."
Agitated_Pin_6145
"My job requires my coworkers calling ahead when they're 5 minutes away from the customer's house, and like 50% of people just don't pick up because of scam calls. The worker often has to call back into the office and have a call made from the landline that shows our business, even though we prep customers that they'll get a call from a local cellphone around X time."
boxjohn
Music Hell
"Ticketmaster. How in the living hell have they not had a decent competitor that charges lower rates yet?"
Taynt42
"Ticketmaster pressures artists to avoid venues that don't use Ticketmaster to starve out venues that try to go around them."
HanabiraAsashi
"John Oliver did a bit on this a few weeks ago. Long story short, TM forces the venues to use them, contractually (among other shady practices). Very hard for a well-meaning competitor to break in."
AdRevolutionary5298
"mark as read"
"Email attachment file size limits."
A-D-A-M-
"Back in the early days on dial up Compuserve, a girl sent me an email attachment of an .avi of the dancing baby, uncompressed. It was over 110MB."
"The email program wouldn't let you 'mark as read' until it finished downloading the message and attachments (this is like 1994). It took my entire month's allotment of internet hours to download the freaking thing. My point is that size limits help prevent stupidity, like Agnes in accounting accidentally emailing you their entire financial database."
wintremute
Bad Pop
Comedy Central Advertising GIF by South ParkGiphy"Pop up adds. Like who still falls for that?"
DoggyMcDogDog
I hate you Ticketmaster! Why are they still a thing? ARGHH!
Live Forever
jimmy fallon celebs GIFGiphy"Keith Richards."
jayzedandconfused
"We need to start really thinking about what kind of world we want to leave behind for Keith Richards."
loopring1984
Poison
"McAfee 'antivirus.' That crap is malware, and has been malware for years...yet it comes preinstalled on almost every PC."
iLikeTorturls
"It offers little to no protection over Windows built-in security, while having a very very noticeable performance hit to everything. Plus, they increasingly use shady tactics to force their way in as bloatware and scare people into keeping it. Not as bad as Norton, though. McAfee is a giant waste, but Norton is horrific. McAfee had a place back when windows defender was weak, but Norton was never good."
cpMetis
A what machine?
"Fax machines."
eh_pinkachou
"I had to fax something recently for my son's surgery (Ontario, Canada). I couldn't mail it or email it, it had to be faxed. I don't own a fax machine or know anyone who does. I had to go to Staples and use an ancient fax machine there."
pui-puni
"At my workplace we still fax a good amount of stuff. It's 'more secure' than email in that is passes through less stuff because it's point-to-point, and not being stored/saved/copied by email providers, servers, anti-virus, or firewalls."
Nagohsemaj
paperwork...
"1040 forms. They know what I earned. A lot of people are not aware that the US tax code is the most byzantine and intentionally convoluted of all industrial nations. It doesn’t have to be this way."
Bullyoncube
"That’s because of Intuit’s (TurboTax) and H&R Block’s millions of dollars in congressional bribes - oops I mean Citizens United “ money is protected speech” bullcrap."
Practical-Artist-915
"Just think of all the people it would put out of work if we could do our own taxes??? People who provide no material value to anything. But paying to do your taxes creates more tax revenue!"
Reasonable_doubt_59
The Cult
crazy tom cruise GIFGiphy"Scientology is still a tax free 'religion' and people are still involved in cults. Even Tom Cruise is kinda distant from it now. Its pretty bad. It could be crushed now if there was a will."
gleep23
Edges
"Flat earth society."
CheerfulFlame
"They're hard to get rid of since they are all around the globe."
Cryogenic_Monster
"Falling off the edge is their biggest sphere."
grilldcheese2
SHARON!!
"Ozzy Osbourne."
UsernameTyper
"The general consensus among him and all his doctors is that it’s a legitimate medical mystery, bordering on impossibility, that the amount of drugs he’s done hasn’t killed him. He agreed to donate his body to science after he dies."
Lilpu55yberekt69
"I love the fact that he just accepted it and is gonna let them take his body for science. I wonder how accepting they are of people donating though. Like I have epilepsy so would I be able to donate my brain to further research on epilepsy?"
LePanda47
DC never ends
"Lifetime career politicians."
BubbaBass63
"My solution would be to have every one who goes to DC (executive branch, Supreme Court and Congress) surrender all their assets to the Treasury department. They can hold on to a single home, single car and $100,000 in household goods. All stocks and other assets will be liquidated and put in a managed fund account."
"When the Senators and Congress people are in DC, they can live in a dormitory and they can take their meals in a cafeteria where it's provided at taxpayer expense. We'll put a maximum age of 72 to be elected and they must leave office on their 76th birthday."
Catlenfell
Scammed...
mae whitman GIF by OperatorGiphy"Resort fees, especially at hotels that aren’t resorts. What a scam."
rr90013
"It kills me that some hotels say if you prove you live in the city you can get it waved. So it’s only a resort if you aren’t from there?"
United_Function_9211
Hey Liz
"Queen Elizabeth II."
WinstonChurchillin
"If Queen Elizabeth dies, the throne should die with her. The family is already in shambles, Liz has been queen longer than any of us and some of our parents have been alive, what's the point of going on after this? The 1000 year monarchy should end with the longest-reigning monarch. God save the queen."
WhyAmIFullOfTrouble1
WHY?
"Tables full of asbestos in schools. I understand removing asbestos from walls is difficult but it's a fucking table, it can't be that difficult to buy new tables and store the asbestos ones elsewhere until they can safely get rid of them. Why do you even need asbestos in a table to begin with?
JojoIsGayAndSoAmI
Not them...
"The Kardashians having a show."
MelloMejo
"The Kardashians are the worst role models. Their crappy guidance has caused a lot of mental health issues for my sister. Disney is freaking stupid for putting them on their network. Forget the Kardashians."
Schaufensterpuppe
"I'm of the opinion that the show is basically rigged to be as ridiculous as it is just to keep viewership, and while they're all plastic/fake, that's not how they are in real life. Then again, I recall reading Kim's mom leaked her sex tape or encouraged it."
stormhunter2
Going Forever
Happy The Simpsons GIF by FOX International ChannelsGiphy"The Simpsons."
ZanderRan286
"At 33 seasons I think there are a fair number of writers who are not old enough to remember when the show started, if they were even alive at the time. I was Bart's age when the show started and now I'm older than Homer."
AlsoIHaveAGroupon
The Worst Scam of All
"Health insurance tied to your employment."
perfect_square
"Universal health care may or may not be the answer, but let's just make it affordable at least. I payed out of pocket, 1k a month for good insurance. Got blood work, got billed by the office, and then another separate lab bill for more. You have to pay a ridiculous amount per month, to pay mediocre copays, pay even more to meet deductibles/minimums, and then more for medications, blood work, or anything outside of getting your bp checked."
ChiknBreast
Let's hope 2023 makes some of these obsolete.
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Did we think we would still be here at this time last year? Maybe, maybe not.
But as the new year looms, Redditor ibm322 challenged our predictions and asked:
"What is something you are pretty sure is going to happen in 2022?"
Personal goals are explored.
Where There's A Will...
"I'm losing 75 lbs. Its gonna happen, I'm taking my life back."
"EDIT: As a guy who has struggled with weight all their life. Struggled and battled an eating disorder for 11 years. Thank you all for the support and messages. Much love."
– Kaiguy123
Better Health
"I will beat stage IV cancer -.* knocks on wood *"
– lookingforinfo897
Role Reversal
"I won't have to listen to whatever the f'k my upstairs neighbor is doing 24/7 because I'm moving and then I'LL be the upstairs neighbor doing weird sh*t 24/7."
– space_moron
Fighting For Mom
"My mom being cancer free."
"Been on Chemo for 7-8 weeks. Has another 8 weeks, then surgery, then radiation."
"Tumor had already shrunk by 50% or so. Outlook is very good."
"F'k Cancer."
– NotJackDorsey
Predictions or déjà vu? You decide.
A Familiar Pattern
"Disney will announce another remake of a classic movie which will ultimately be far worse then the original."
– bradbrazer
Heated Momentum
"Politics in the US will start ramping up in the summer since it is an election year."
– rich4pres
Movie Plot
"Kim jong un is gonna die and come back to life AGAIN."
– jumpedoffaplane
Streaming Is Not Forever
"Netflix will cancel a series too soon."
– PinkSweetGhost
"Still pissed about the cancellation of 'I'm not okay with this.'"
– Zombie-Redshirt
"Still get a bit of heartbreak when I see an actor from GLOW show up in something else."
"'Promising Young Woman' was especially rough in this respect,"
– sniper91
Clues from the past can dictate the future.
Still Awake
"Someone will post a Why Are You Still Up question here."
– Polite_Scoundrel
Numerology Game
"22/2/22 22:22:22 will occur."
– chef_jeff_likes_yeet
"Ah yes, Twosday."
– SuddenVelocity
What's The Name Of The Game?
"we’re learning the rest of the greek alphabet."
– xpgx
"If you lived in Florida in the past during hurricane season you already got a beginners course in the Greek alphabet."
– BlueJeanMistress
"They’ll start naming COVID-19 variants with people’s names."
“Annie is hospitalizing thousands and killing 2,000 a day in the south.”
– SnarkLobster
Incomplete Saga
"After a grueling twelve months of hard work, George R. R. Martin will type up another three pages of Winds of Winter."
– NowAcceptingBitcoin
Place your bets, everyone. 2022 is already looking to be a bumpy ride.
While patterns and trends are bound to repeat themselves, I'm optimistic that positive changes are brewing on the horizon.
Because if we don't have hope for brighter futures, what's the point of all of this, amirite?
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