40 Things In Our World That Are Slowly Becoming Worse

Worldwide: the impact of the climate, billionaires, antibiotics being a cure-all

In the U.S.: where do I start? Conservatives firmly embracing fascism?

Climate change. Sure, it's totally normal that it doesn't snow in the winter anymore, we shouldn't worry about that.

There are still a ton of people starving in the world while enough food to feed them many times over is just thrown away. This kind of problem exists for every aspect of life and at every level, and we mostly just turn a blind eye to it.

In the UK, our freedom and anonymity is being stripped away bit by bit "for the children". The Online Safety Act was introduced to stop kids looking at sketchy stuff online, but it'll always be easy to find.

So companies have to check IDs or face fines. Papers, please. Some companies just pulled out entirely to avoid the trouble, like Imgur and Civitai. Fair enough, honestly.

Now, more stuff is going through to stop under 16s going on social media which, of course, will involve checking the rest of us are of age with face scans and IDs.

I ain't doing it, for anything. If I can't get around it somehow, I just won't use the service, or I'll VPN or whatever. I'm surprised there isn't more protests about this. I've never cared enough to join one before, but I'd take the train into London and take the day off for this one. Some 1984 nightmare.

Flock cameras effectively being able to track you as good as an attached GPS tracker.

ADS EVERYWHERE!!! Like how YouTube puts an advertisement in every video every five minutes. They're often 90 seconds long and unskippable. I barely use it anymore because it's just too annoying.

Giving everyone a platform and treating all opinions as valid.

It's cooking us slowly.

Loss of the rule of law? Income disparity due to corruption? Grift at all levels? Binding of our intelligence experts to Israel?

Mass surveillance via a combination of things: cell phone gps location, facial recognition in most if not all modern day cameras, the flock cameras for tracking, digital online surveillance via ai.

Being at each other’s throats on social media, unfortunately I am also to blame for this situation. It really feels like a setup to divide and conquer. Social media started out quite innocent with people posting cat pictures and such but bad actors have deliberately caused this anger among neighbors.

You mean…. Plastic? We are INSANE with plastic use.

Don't watch what gets thrown out in hospitals, it's crazy. They have single use devices that contain batteries, LEDs, motors, etc, that get used once and thrown in the bin. You can't recycle them because it's now "medical waste"

Repeated COVID infections. Each infection gives you a 10-20% chance of a new chronic condition. Each infection is rolling the dice and you get more susceptible over time, not less. This is true for children, too. Long Covid in children is now more common than asthma.

Debt in the US. TRILLIONS of it.

It's not a matter of being unaware so much as being overwhelmed every day, and then the next day there's a dozen other things. I don't even necessarily think it's "by design" (distraction!) as is often alleged, it's just that the corruption is that prevalent and there are so many people rushing to get their hands in the trough while the getting is good.

Gestures broadly.

Technological and scientific acceleration. If you guys aren't paying attention, stuff is poppin, and *recent* technology and theory is looking more archaic by the month.

Loss of freedom of speech and weaponization of government to punish dissent.

The long-term society-wide effects of Covid and Long Covid. Pretending that a mass disabling event isn't still ongoing is insane.

The massive amount of control that the government has over everybody.

They won't be shocked that we accepted it. They'll look upon these as the "good old days," because their future will be so much worse.