Most types of industrial scale pollution, but it’s cheaper to bribe some key people than actually care about the environment
Reddit
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.
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.
Well, facism seems like the obvious choice right now, but I’m going deeper and choosing bigotry.
Measles
The Donald
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.
Atheists don’t have a unified moral code though, since atheism doesn’t advocate for any specific one. Christianity’s moral code is undeniably flawed though, as are the ones for most religions.
There are no flaws in the Christian moral code.
Not sure if trolling or really deep in the delusion
Islam is literally a slight rewriting of Christianity.
“slight”. How is it “slight”? You go from a religion of bearing suffering, being saved by grace, monogamy to one of polygamy, conquest and slaughter, works based salvation and many rituals. The Muslims don’t even worship Christ. Mohammed basically copied some stories, Christian practices, then made the rest up.
True. But, practices and stories are what a religion is made out of. The dietary laws are in the bible even if they’re interpreted as no longer applying, most of the other things that are forbidden to Christians are still forbidden, and they’re really big on charity and not worshiping other gods. The fasting is new, I guess, as is the specific style of prayer.
I kind of have to go through the rest piece-by-piece.
bearing suffering
Subjective, so I’ll just leave it.
being saved by grace
How that’s interpreted varies massively by denomination and through history. The protestant version I was taught isn’t even the original one historically - everyone had to keep up with their confessions before the reformation.
monogamy to one of polygamy
I suppose there was a pretty decent divergence there, although I’m surprised to hear it as a grievance.
conquest and slaughter
… You’re British. It’s a Christian nation that has a certain history.
and many rituals
Almost everything that happens in a church qualifies as well. Some of the more American-style churches are flexible about it, and drink their grape juice out of plastic cups n fold-up chairs, but AFAIK the King’s church still keeps the old flair.
The Muslims don’t even worship Christ.
He’s #2 after Mohammad. It’s true he’s not worshiped though. You need a trinity to make that not idolatry, which is one of the bones Muslims have to pick with Christians.
The Bible doesn’t mandate any rituals beyond Holy Communion and Baptism. Anything else is optional. It also teaches salvation isn’t by works.
Using what Christian’s did to define Christianity isn’t genuine either. The Qur’an speaks of subjugation.
Charli…
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.
Nazis
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
In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
Mhmm, the nuance of racism and “it just being biology/tribalism/instinct,” haven’t heard that before.
Dog whistles? It’s open now.
Young earth creationism and flat earth
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it’s those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren’t meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It’s about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
If you squint real hard, Genesis is a tale of stellar and planetary formation. Then comes evolution. Give the first bits a read! Yeah, evolution is mixed up a little, still surprisingly on point for a bunch of Bronze Age sheep herders.
Then there’s a second tale, in the same short book. What a clusterfuck. But I can still see some real history in it. If I squint real hard.
Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
Like a prophecy referencing cities burning being reimagined as a nuclear exchange instead of, you know, a fire.
Yeah seeing as the writers of the Pentateuch didn’t even know what the stars were, I’m pretty sure that’s all a coincidence lol.
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
Wow! Nailed it! I had thought that as a young Christian, didn’t know there was a verse for it. Lost my religion long ago BTW.
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.
Those two should not be counted in the same category.
Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like ‘affects’ or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.
IPv4! Hail IPv6
but IPv4 is so much nicer to read :((((
/s in case it’s not obvious
Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah
Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
