Verification Codes.
One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I’m sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!
And it’s even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I’ve gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I’ve done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!
This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they’re just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.
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Conservatism.
Liberals and leftists discussing things would be much better. They’d discuss policy and how to implement it.
We wouldn’t need to have “discussions” in the “marketplace of ideas” around murdering people, deporting people, removing healthcare, denying people’s existence, etc.
Just because horse piss is a yellow liquid doesn’t mean it has to be stocked on shelves next to Gatorade.
Seconded 100%.
It holds us back so much. Definitionally archaic and exploitable.
With it, organized divinity and faith-based religions, and in the void a universal rallying around humanism.
Leftists would be too busy screaming FASCISTS! At any liberal. Once the liberals leave, leftists will fight over the definition of words until actual fascists show up and kill/enslave them. Half of the leftists will join forces with the fascists to hunt down the leftists whose definitions they don’t like.
Just one little genocide and everyone labels liberals as fascists.
What do you mean by definition?! Sounds like you haven’t properly studied Kuwame Rosenthal’s Treatise of the Plebian in it’s original Portuguese. Try reading a book before having an opinion on words, you capitalist nazi!
Scammers, hackers, con artists, things of this nature. I’m old enough to remember being excited when the phone rang because it could be anybody, like my friends! Then I got scared of it because its could be anybody, even my boss or my debtors! Now I dont even bother looking because theres absolutely no chance its anybody I know or even anybody who wants me, its either an Indian guy about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer, or some computer program about to trick me about being a real person about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer.
Same for emails. Maybe the Prince of Nigeria really was in trouble one time and just got drowned out? Maybe one of the penis enlargement pills were just from a misunderstood genius scientist? We’ll never know because scammers have absolutely fucked every single line of communication we’ve ever been granted access to.
Just. Fuck. Off. Die slow.
Foreign agents and rich people buying the American political system. If they could just fuck off thatd be handy.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases. All of them. I would love to know a world without them.
billionaires
We don’t need a stupid app for every separate thing. And don’t force a redirect to the mobile app instead of the website.
Just as, if not more, annoying: the app redirecting you to the website to do a single task.
My banking app just recently updated to open your browser to login before being sent back to the app. Like, why did the old system with the account login in app need to be removed?
Enshitification and capitalism are fighting for first place
They’re the same thing
Enshitification is stupid people buying from companies that continuously fuck them over. Capitalism is supposed to operate on the principle that people simply won’t buy from such companies. As it turns out, WRONG.
It’s sort of like when a pedophile promises a little girl she will become a model and have a great life and lots of candy if she goes with him.
yummy, candy
No lol. Capitalism is supposed to work the first way. Then they use all the money they make to propagandize you into thinking the second way.
The purpose of the system is what it does.
Enshitipalism.
Go away: Any automotive HVAC controls that are not three simple fucking knobs. I’m going to wreck my wife’s car fiddling with the touchscreen, which has a 2-second delay before the press actuates. 🙄😡
While we’re at it, give us back AC vents that rotate 360° and open nearly 180°.
We had these things perfected over 20-years ago!
Even then they still managed to fuck it up sometimes. My 22-year-old 350Z has the three knobs but does this stupid fucking thing where it turns on the A/C when you set the air to recirc, as if it believes that I’m dumb enough to drive around and let the windows fog up. I live in the fucking desert; not a problem here—and even if it was—all you gotta do is switch back to fresh air or roll down the windows for a bit.
It’s so god damn annoying because sometimes I just want to run the heater without smelling everyone’s exhaust, but can’t because the fucking thing thinks it’s smarter than me…
My job has a lot of driving. I’ve been put through multiple driving courses on safe driving. We have literal rules about not being able to turn left into our parking lot. Everything is safety, safety, safety.
They bought vehicles where almost everything is on the touch screen. The solution? Tell us to set everything before we drive and pull over if we need to use the touch screen…
I can sit in a car I’ve never driven and work the controls pictured. I’m not one for government mandates on every little thing, but touch screen controls have got to fucking go.
Yes I hate touch screen everything! And don’t even get me started on the data aspect.
That’s going way to far back. I like my automatic controls where I set the temperature and the car will automatically adjust fan speed A/C and air temp to reach the desired temperature, thank you very much. My car also has a MAX A/C button that will override the set temperature to cool down as quickly as possible, and I can appreciate that as well.
While we are doing car stuff, add HID headlights to the list.
Why did they eschew tactile controls over something that competes with the driver’s vision?
touch screens are cheaper than having a separate (mandatory post 2018 in the US) backup screen.
Capitalism
Needing to create account for apps and sites where the account provides zero additional value.
Ah, but it provides value to them.
(and that’s the problem)
Sms verification that you can’t disable and replace with another method
This shit’s so annoying because I can’t receive sms when travelling overseas.
Fireworks.
I live in the Netherlands and New year’s eve is hell on earth here. Even the weeks leading up to it are bad. This year is the first year that consumer fireworks are banned, but of course there are already people going to Germany, Belgium or Poland to buy them anyway. And it’s not just the pretty stuff, it’s more like bombs. It would be so much better if it just disappeared.
I’m in Florida, US, and backyard fireworks on NYE are huge here. Alcohol and fireworks. What could go wrong? And let’s not forget about the animals and people with PTSD who are affected. Of course, we’re not just limited to NYE. They do it any major holiday, and days before and after. I hate it.
People pull that shit in the entire month of July, despite fireworks only being appropriate for the 4th. But because they spend hundreds of dollars just to watch pretty sparkles in the sky, they feel it justified to do it at any given opportunity.
Oh man, even more than one holiday… Are fireworks allowed all through the year over there?
Yeah, it’s terrible for animals and traumatised people. We have a dog and while it’s been okay this year so far, we usually can hardly take her for a walk at night as we get closer to the end of the year. And we have a residency for people who’ve been granted asylum nearby with a lot of people who’ve fled the war in Ukraine. I can’t imagine what it must be like for them :(
why wouldn’t people be allowed to calibrate all year?
Over here fireworks were only allowed on New year’s eve, mainly because of safety reasons. Every year there are people who get maimed for life, lose eyes, fingers or sometimes even die. Of course you can celebrate whatever you want throughout the year, you just can’t use fireworks.
The stigma against weed and psychedelics. You would think that legalization would make people more tolerant, but I’m finding the opposite to be true, especially among Gen-Z. Even the Boomers—who used to spread lies like weed will kill you or acid would make you go insane—still enjoy their 5mg edibles. IDK what is going on with the kids; I’m happy that they choose to abstain, but leave us who do partake alone. Stop being so damn judgemental. I got tired of arguing with people about this subject 20 years ago.
I’m not against drugs at all, people can do as they please.
I did get into with a neighbor awhile back, he’d smoke on his balcony and the smoke and smell would rise up and flow right into my living room.
It wasn’t a huge issue, but when I asked if he’d smoke somewhere else and explained why, he lied to my face about it.
THEN, came to my door at 9pm that same day with his wife and teenage kids, wife telling me I shouldn’t accuse them of smoking and bitching me out whole he sheepishly stood behind her. At that point I was done and would call his ass out. Literally that same night I catch him smoking again at 1am and he’s like “naw, it’s not me”.
In this case it was the person, not the drugs, that turned out to be a piece of shit.
Planned obsolescence/bricking devices the manufacturer deems as “too old.”
Not just devices, stuff like clothing too. Fabric made too thin and the seams far too weak, clothing starts falling apart in less than a couple years of use.
I got rid of a bunch of old clothes a while ago because I was moving. I thought I could just replace them. I was wrong.
The clothing part is the price for having cheap clothes. The moment you start to make clothes you realise how expensive are fabrics, for what they charge for a shirt in a shop a can buy half the fabric needed to make that same shirt.
Also the labor cost to properly stitch the fabric together.
US-defaultism on Lemmy. It’s gotten so bad, many users absolutely don’t seem to realise that they’re writing to an international audience.
I have a Canadian flag with my username but it doesn’t help. Just yesterday someone tried to win an argument with me by bring up health insurance.
FWIW I don’t see a flag when you make a comment.
Oh. Thanks for that. I didn’t realize.
Edit: I checked with another browser, not logged in, and I do see the flags. So odd.
I think it’s an app specific thing, I’m using Voyager and I don’t see a flag nor profile pics.
I use Thunder and it’s the same for me.
Omg what happened? There were some months I wasn’t on the Fediverse but I thought the European presence here was strong?
