You Know What Grinds My Gears? - Things that personally piss you off

Progress has enabled great (in the context of world changing) technology such as the automobile, the train, the television, internet, and modern medicine, which has done many positive things and bringing the world closer together. However, on the same token it has lead to environmental destruction, further exploitation of weaker nations in the persuit of resources to keep the tech progress moving, given more and more centralized power to governments, and many of these techs were borne in the mission to undermine and destroy nations which tens of millions live.
 
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Marshal Mannerheim said:
as history's gone on society has, if anything, deteriorated morally
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In some ways things have gotten better: more religious freedom and more abhorrence of evils like torture and slavery. But on the other hand, there's not really "society" in the modern world anymore. I've compared modern urban "society" to a psychotic zombie animated by machine implants, or a cyberzombie. People are isolated yet connected through technology, and it seems only technology keeps things going. It's becoming like in that story "The Machine Stops". And the coof scare certainly doesn't help.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
In some ways things have gotten better: more religious freedom and more abhorrence of evils like torture and slavery. But on the other hand, there's not really "society" in the modern world anymore. I've compared modern urban "society" to a psychotic zombie animated by machine implants, or a cyberzombie. People are isolated yet connected through technology, and it seems only technology keeps things going. It's becoming like in that story "The Machine Stops". And the coof scare certainly doesn't help.
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Yeah. We're basically where the Romans were in the Crisis of the Third Century; our institutions have been weakened, potentially unstoppable climate change is on the horizon and society is facing a lack of belief in God, as well as mass migration. Maybe, like the Empire did in the East, we'll turn to Christ once more and become a proud nation once again. Maybe, like the Romans in the West, we'll fall to a group of squabbling warlord states and go back to feudalism.

What honestly seems likely is that as the 2020's end and the 30's begin, the elites, or the one percent, or whatever you want to call them, will carry on with their technological lifestyle and live in cities based on AI, editing their genes and sticking Elon Musk's chips in their brains for shits and giggles. The rest of us will notice the large turd heading for the fan, whether that's by choice or because it's put us out of a job. And when it does, whether it comes in the form of nuclear war, climate change flooding those cities or a good old-fashioned peasants' revolt, they're going to be in for a rude awakening when Amazon stops delivering and there's no longer any 7G service.
 
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
As an example, a coaching colleague dismissed 2 or 3 players off her team for underage drinking. The players and their parents made some sort of appeal and argued that they couldn't be dismissed because they were never specifically told underage drinking would get them kicked off the team. The dismissal was reduced to a 2-3 week suspension and my colleague was so furious she made an announcement on the team bus the day after the appeal meeting to tell everyone something to the effect of, "Because you can't figure it out for yourself and we apparently didn't make it clear enough, anyone who's caught drinking underage will be kicked off the team starting now. Don't say we didn't warn you."
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Notice of not only what you're not permitted to do but what the consequences will be are fundamental to the very concept of due process. Even a school has some obligation to that general principle.
Marshal Mannerheim said:
And Whig history falls apart when you realise that as history's gone on society has, if anything, deteriorated morally. Nuclear bombs (1945), genocide (1793) and cyberattacks (late 1980's) are relatively recent inventions and caused a lot more misery than the Pax Romana ever did.
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Genocide isn't new at all. It's always existed. The only thing new is actually having a name for it and having decided it's bad.
 
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The Last Stand said:
Not really pissed, but an annoyance.

When you have to explain to your parents or older person how technology works. Especially when technology gets trickier and trickier.
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On a similar note, I work in a professional technical field that sadly has a lot of diversity hires if you catch my drift, and I get so fucking annoyed of having to explain simple things to my fellow coworkers in my department. They're not Boomers who refuse to retire, no, they're incompetent millennials who somehow got hired for a position that requires a specific competency in certain programs and hardware. The sad part is my type of job requires thorough assessment to see if a new hire can use the programs (and it's real easy to fail and get rejected), so it boggles my mind how they hell they got hired if they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
 
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Michael Jacks0n said:
The sad part is my type of job requires thorough assessment to see if a new hire can use the programs (and it's real easy to fail and get rejected), so it boggles my mind how they hell they got hired if they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
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The people doing the hiring also don't know what the fuck they're doing.
 
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The Romans were very fond of brutally sackibg cities-- enslaving the children and the younger women while killing everything else-- men, crones, dogs, horses, livestock.

The Third Punic War was the culmination of a long and intentional process to weaken and provoke the Carthaginians before massacring them and destroying their city and civic institutions for all time. The Carthage later founded on the spot had nothing contiguous with the city of Dido but the location. They demolished utterly the Temple at Jerusalem. They demolished Corinth, a city so famous for its art, architecture, and history that it's perhaps equivalent to bulldozing Venice today. In Caesar's illegal wars of conquest in Gaul, perhaps a third of the population of modern-day France and Belgium perished, while another third was carried back to Italy in chains. The Gallic tongue was utterly erased; the Bretons speak a British language, not Gaulish. Likewise they extinguished every other Italic language, the venerable Etruscan tongue, and the entire Iberian language family.

So don't say genocide is new. Pax Romana was built on a lake of blood.
 
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Sped Xing said:
In Caesar's illegal wars of conquest in Gaul, perhaps a third of the population of modern-day France and Belgium perished, while another third was carried back to Italy in chains.
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Who was to say it was illegal? Where was their army?
 
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AnOminous said:
Who was to say it was illegal? Where was their army?
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They were the ones getting carried back in chains, including the Gallic 'king' who Caesar strangled to death before the alter of Jupiter as part of his triumph.

So I guess Jupiter's law > random Gallic babbling.
 
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Fish-Eyed Fool said:
They were the ones getting carried back in chains, including the Gallic 'king' who Caesar strangled to death before the alter of Jupiter as part of his triumph.

So I guess Jupiter's law > random Gallic babbling.
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No, I meant illegal under Roman law. It would be meaningless to call every conquest "illegal" by the laws of those being conquered.

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The Senate. They were in Rome.

It didn't work out so well.
 
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No, I meant illegal under Roman law. It would be meaningless to call every conquest "illegal" by the laws of those being conquered.


The Senate. They were in Rome.

It didn't work out so well.
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It didn't work out terribly well for them either once Octavian took over. If what they did were legal why did they mostly end up declared murderers and dead? I'm pretty sure even in ancient Rome, just coming up to someone and stabbing the fuck out him wasn't considered due process.
 
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It didn't work out terribly well for them either once Octavian took over. If what they did were legal why did they mostly end up declared murderers and dead? I'm pretty sure even in ancient Rome, just coming up to someone and stabbing the fuck out him wasn't considered due process.
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No, but the stabbing came *after* Caesar won the war he fought against the state.

Granted, the story would be spookier if he had declared war on Rome after being murdered.
 
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Damien Thorne said:
The white college girls living on the other side of my living room wall, who love to get drunk and scream hysterically late at night when I am trying to get some fucking sleep.
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When people yawn. Particularly when their yawning wakes you up. They yawn like bears.

This also applies to snoring. I'm a light sleeper.
 
The Last Stand said:
Not really pissed, but an annoyance.

When you have to explain to your parents or older person how technology works. Especially when technology gets trickier and trickier.
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I don't mind doing that, but it's when they still need help even though you've already helped them over and over again that it starts getting infuriating.
 
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