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Putting your shopping cart up on the curb/grass at Costco.

Look. I know about the shopping cart return litmus test for humanity. And in my experience, at the average supermarket or shopping center or whatever, it's usually not too bad. There are a couple of shit stains out there that leave their cart in a parking spot or anywhere else not returned.

But Costco? What the fuck is going on there? It's like the wild-fucking-west. It's lawless. I have seen people add to trains of carts stacked together in a parking spot. The curbs just have dozens of carts pushed up on them. It's like some kind of broken window theory parking lot where normally decent people see the state of it and go "No order exists here, and I will treat it as such"

Return your fucking cart. It takes like 40 seconds max.

uploading images in ".jpg to .png" websites. If you upload ANY image they can keep it downloaded forever. Now imagine the amount of photos of Passports and IDs

constant surveillance. Where we are, where we are going, who we are with, how we feel, everything we say, what we are looking at. Just constant needling to answer those questions by multiple groups at every chance they can for myself and everyone i know.

Like it skeeves me out for myself, buy for the kids in my life i am more enraged about it. Like leave them the hell alone. I dont trust the goverment or corperations trying it or that they wont let other creeps get ahold of that info either.

The normality of being advertised to. It's kind of extreme how okay we are with someone hijacking our time like that. For free. As long as it's a corporation holding our activities hostage and not like a human being in the room with us.

Looking at your phone when you’re out with friends.

Tipping. Pay your employees a living wage.

Rapist POTUS

Not being able to relieve basic human needs at school without getting permission first (using the bathroom, eating, some of my teachers even had temper tantrums about drinking water during class).

The expectation to always be available and reachable. Since the inception of mobile phones, you have to be reachable at all times and people get mad you didn't pick up.

parasocial behaviour of "public people" influencers, celebrities(especially if that person is a shithead and you still try to defend him like you are thier family) they dont know you. falls in two camps, aggressively moniter online spaces of said celebritiy, especially if they are an influencer on thier channel(attacking anyone that challenges them) and the more extreme ones( the ones that issue death threats to percieved competition).

Hpotter fans, swifties, PEWPEWdie is probably the most recent cringe, why suddenly defend him when he appeared after years of escaping critcism.

Fascism????

Bringing dogs into places where dogs don’t belong. No your energetic little puppy is not a trained service animal. Even more annoying when they walk right past signs that say no animals. Obviously the rules don’t apply to their little ball of fur.

That and people using their car’s hazard lights as an “I can park here”

My answer again, Fast Fashion and putting a lot of money into completely useless (plastic, mass produced) junk. General unconscious consumerism.

Similar question was asked pretty recently.

Reposting my earlier comment because lazy and don't wanna rewrite:

Fast fashion.

Unconscious consumption in general. People are pouring crazy amounts of money into plastic garbage, “collectibles”, general useless and unnecessary junk, lifestyle products etc. Then they defend it with a flippant “lol intrusive thoughts won UwU”. I wouldn’t even mind so much if it wasn’t too often the case that these same people also complain about environmental issues and capitalism.

“but but i’m a magpie, I’m a loot goblin” is just normalizing the behavior, trying to make it cute. It’s not. You’re very directly contributing to the increasing waste problem in the world and giving money to megacorps (think plastic production in particular). If you absolutely must do this, find products made of natural materials, produced by real people. Yes, it’ll cost more. Yes, that’s the real price of your obsession.

Company's selling your data.

Everyone does it, and there is basically pages of information about you that every company see.

Automobile dependency

Drinking and gambling.

Modifying your car to be louder.

Tangentially, manosphere culture and acting like an asshole to people to secure your status in the manosphere

Rape. (BTW, where are those files?) Wars. News for "one week" and then... they get "normalised" Discrimination of any sort. Live and let live!

Specieism. Although, living a fully antispecieist life is only possible since a short time (being vegan was not possible before). But it is not normal now that it is possible for animals well-being first, for fighting starvation and for the planet.

The objectification of women

I have too many complaints to list here and I'm sure others will take care of the most important ones. So I'll just say the most recent one I've gotten annoyed with:

The whole internet debate culture. Every fucking thing is now a debate. One of the reasons I finally deleted my reddit account. I literally answered someone's question and provided a bit of extra information in a neutral to positive tone. And the guy replied with "are you fucking dense" and started to argue with me. To give you an idea how fucking stupid and silly it was, it was a thread about "which invention had the biggest impact on the world" and the guy commented "why has no one answered 'electricity' is beyond me?!" and I answered "possibly because electricity is not a invention, it just is" and then noted how people have answered inventions that harness electricity. And for that I got abuse and arguing.

That's not a one time thing. Go to any reddit thread and I bet 80% of the first child comments are arguing with the original comment. Even if there's nothing to argue about. Same goes for youtube comments, "hey I liked the way you took that exhaust manifold off" is met with "yeah but thats the wrong way no one should do that or the car will literally explode!" and then the rest of the comment chain is just arguing and mockery.

I do understand that people have always argued. But it was never this bad. I've been chronically online since 1999 and while I have had frustrations here and there, its never been daily, until the last 5-ish years.

Personally I blame the tiktok/youtube debating streamers. Everyone thinks they are a Planet Peterson now.

Anyway, start arguing with me below:

large scale lying

Believing anyone who isn't exactly like you is your enemy.

I miss hanging out with people of various faiths, politics, and hobbies, without them hating each other for their differences.

It's so bad now that people go after me for my hobbies not being their hobbies. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I went around telling everyone they are awful people for not liking my hobbies.

Filming strangers and posting them online

proprietary software

OP your first paragraph is describing acquaintances. You never had those before whatever insta-google-tweet-face thing you are talking about?

Attention economy.

Apoliticism. It's not a political philosophy I can ever agree with.

In america, serial killers and school shootings. In Canada, geese not migrating.

Invading a country in the middle east over fears of "WMD".