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Laws that aren't intended to be actually enforced, but serve as cover for a search or whatever other cop activity. Seat belt, drug, and helmet laws for example. I don't think it's even about tickets it's just reason to pull you over and brow beat you for a while.

You're telling me the state that doesn't give a fuck if I die from gesticulates generally around suddenly cares whether I make a personal decision about my own safety?

This is coming from someone who wears his seat belt 100% of the time and gets car sick if I don't, who has been ticketed for not wearing one even though I was.

I do like my toaster as dumb as a brick.

Increasing social anxiety, especially among younger generations. Even with all these different social media platforms many people including me find it difficult to communicate irl. Some people find it easier to communicate online as opposed to offline as some people may act bolder, feel less vulnerable, and particularly in my case be able to convey their thoughts and articulate themselves more effectively than irl. I have more time to think and piece together word by word what I want to say. It also helps that the internet makes it easier for people to find more like minded people so that they may express themselves more freely. I also notice a disconnect between my online and offline interactions as I'm more likely to initiate online than offline and I'm more talkative.

In Germany it’s a trend to park on the road (not just one car, but the whole street) in towns and cities, so one constantly has to wait for upcoming traffic to go on. What was once a temporary spot at most, where you had to turn on warning lights, is now standard. Not sure when this became legal or if it’s just overlooked because there are too many cars in this fucking country and we need to fit them somewhere.

It is certainly a very mild concern compared to other growing trends in Germany but just one that came to my mind that no one is talking about.

i got to spend 30 minutes in the doctors waiting room last week and they had a pop playlist running. i rarely listen to (any) music these days and spend my time in public with earplugs jammed in my ears.

the music coming from those speakers was ungodly distracting, aggressive, poorly constructed and LOUD. i brought it up to my family and they told me i sound like an old man (45).

i don't think it's just my age.

loudness wars

Ditto. I hate feeling like a luddite just because I don't want anything to do with modern spyware.

I feel like climate change is now inevitable even with complete industry changes and I can't do anything about it. I know not using plastic straws or reusable plastic bags don't do anything.

• generation hate, ageism, collective guilt - it's getting normal to blame a whole generation (typically boomers) for all the wrong things in this world.
• websites requiring login to see content which isn't anything privacy related - twitter, quora, instagram ...
• services which require a smartphone app and don't provide a website version.
• it's been more than ten years now, but the fragmentation among messaging services. I mean, before that, everybody used ICQ which was a proprietary platform as well, but you had all these different clients and the platform was therefore quite open. Not anymore. I dislike RCS as a possible solution, because it's carrier based and tied to your phone number.

I agree with OP. Also, the subscription serfdom we live in, and the disappearance of the right to repair.

Products getting shittier and counterfeits running rampant. Sometimes the original might as well be a counterfeit. Amazon doesn't care because it makes them money. I try to buy things from actual stores these days, but even then the quality of products is just so bad sometimes.

Like, not "oh this kitchen scale feels cheap and flimsy" but "uhh this scale doesn't weigh things right half the time"

Bruh it's a scale, how hard could it be

People being okay with US tech-based keyboard apps effectively being keyloggers, and hoovering up every single thing they type into their phones. Its one of the reasons I made Thumb-Key.

Keyloggers on desktop computers : 😦

Keyloggers on phones : 🙈

Im very scared crime rates are gonna start skyrocketing in 15-20 years in states that outlawed abortion. Essentially the opposite of the trend that hit in the 90s.

Climate change. I live in a city with decent bicycle infrastructure and good public transport. Yet most people still argue they need their damn car to get to work alone without luggage, less than 5 kilometers away.

The last Windows version that was good was 7.

It's just a symptom of the problem. The problem is that most people are morons, and development inevitably tries to please a greater quantity of complainers, e.g. the morons, at the expense of the sophisticated users losing abilities.

Keyboard manufacturers requirering you to create an account to use your own fucking keyboard

I haven’t seen anything specifically as a “trend” but I’ve had a growing amount of paranoia that our entire economy in the US is on the verge of collapse. We keep pushing bigger profits and infinite growth so shareholders who contribute absolutely nothing to society can make more money but that money comes from somewhere. We can’t just magically make more money (we could but there’s multiple reasons we don’t. It doesn’t work out). It comes from the working class. And that working class isn’t getting raises but prices keep rising. I feel like it’s a giant bubble and when it explodes things are going to get really bad. I think people will actually die because we are on an economically unsustainable path and no one cares because everyone wants money now and doesn’t want anything else.

I’m pretty terrified of whats to come.

The trend of every thing and service having its own app, and pushing all this shit to phones and away from computers and websites..

And the reason that everyone and their mother pushes you to use apps, is because the amount of information they can harvest and tracking they can do far exceeds what they could ever hope to collect with a stand alone browser with its pesky privacy controls and security.. and everyone gleefully gives these apps every permission they ask for, even though they should never require access to 95% of it to function, because they cant let anything get in the way of getting their immediate gratification.

I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

You would be entirely correct, these technologies are heavily subsidized by the surveillance state, and a convergence of capitalist interests that libs like to call surveillance capitalism.

I’ve always kind of been that person—when Facebook came around, I was paranoid about it (and I was right, thankfully. Glad I never got on that train.), when front facing cameras came around, I covered them shits up; now with facial recognition tech, I wear a face covering around everywhere and thankfully can pass it off as a Covid safety thing. I mean, I wear a bandana these days, so it’s really not doing much for Covid, but I have the pass and no one gives me too funny a look. In the city, there are public USB ports to charge everything, I’d never use one with anything but a data-blocked cable (but even so, fuck that). Cell phones, cars these days (check out that Mozilla Privacy not included piece about that)…we are the product like never before. The sky really is falling, but I feel like I’ve been chicken little to my friends for so long that no one takes me seriously anymore.