• folaht@lemmy.ml
    61·
    11 hours ago

    Clickbait.

    And the most annoying type of clickbait is, I’m not sure what their official names are, but I’ll call them smudge dots.

    It’s those little red dots Android/iOS puts on apps whose function is to get you to click on their apps so that you must use the apps the way they want you to, just so that you can remove the smudge off your phone which they’ll add back anyway.

    It’s what prevented me from returning to these OSes at all cost.

    • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I absolutely hate those, I feel such a strong need to clear them even if I know that I’ll waste my time by clicking them. They are useful when there’s something you actually want to read behind those notifications, but it’s ridiculously abused by all mainstream software.

  • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 hours ago

    I’d say nukes, as they are the only human invention so far that can end all of life as we know it in an instant. I still can’t blame the countries who built them as a response to the US wanting to use them to become world ruler, which they absolutely would have done if the other countries didn’t also build nukes. But simply as an invention leaving politics aside, fuck nukes.

    • thatsnomayo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Noep nukes are good for world peace actually we are having a confrontation between the US and Russia and the nukes are closing off higher conventional escalation options. Everybody needs a nuke

      • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Still, there have been really close calls historically which were only avoided because of some good decisions by individuals (e.g. Vasily Arkhipov. These could happen again with less wise decisions made. Not saying that any countries having them today could be getting rid of them realistically without the US waiting outside their door, but one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists, we should be putting them in the time capsule of history along with the system that made them necessary in the first place.

        • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 hours ago

          one day when we will hopefully be living in more peaceful times without imperialists

          You don’t read much history? Humans have never lived in widespread peace for any length of time. We have evidence of violence between groups of humans well back into the Stone Age. We are not a species prone to peace.

          • iByteABit@lemmy.ml
            1·
            7 hours ago

            Not sure why you have a snarky tone about it, but there definitely have been times in human history that were not using war as a means of carving out resources and spheres of influence. Comparing tribes fighting to today’s reasons for war is pretty pointless, and so is defining a immutable “human nature”. If anything, the nature of humans is to change their nature.