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I realized this today after I almost crapped my pants. You know why? I ate some genetically-modified, bullcrap, fake food, and my body couldn't handle that. The food in my fridge, they say, exists because of improvements in agricultural technology. This is future technology, genetically-modified, mass produced foods that shouldn't exist. We can make more food, but the quality has gone down. But aren't we as a society obese? So, why the hell is more low-quality food a good thing?
Well, when I went to the bathroom, my toilet couldn't flush. I'm not a huge person, so why couldn't it flush? Oh, that's right. The old toilet was replaced with a new toilet, one that saves water! The newer toilet is worse than the old one. I had to plunge that crapper, and you know what? I used more water than ever before. I had to plunge, and flush several times, and then spend time in the shower washing up because that stink water got all over the damned place!
Now, that got me thinking about technology, and the future. We haven't come as far as we think. Nope. Not at all. We've gone backwards in many areas. Look at the building made in the past, fantastic quality. I know some say this is survivorship bias, but it's not. Homes in the past were better made. They were made by more skilled people with generally better materials. The new houses being built are like cardboard boxes. We went from real wood to plywood, and now oriented strand board, which durability-wise is a pile of crap.
Even the lighting in houses got worse. The trend was to replace normal incandecescent, or fluorescent bulbs with LEDs, which was pretty good. Screw out, and screw in for new lighting. Now they replace the whole light fixture to give you LED lighting. So, when your lights burn out, you gotta replace the whole thing! And it isn't plug in, and plug out either. It's a pain in the ass to replace your light fixtures.
And garbage collection (I live in a liberal area) became worse! Before you put that crap on the curbside, and they didn't give a.f. They picked it up every week, and you were done. Now the newer thing is to have a waste collection schedule, because they don't pick up garbage every week, and you have to remember all the different things that you can, and cannot put on the curbside (lest you be fined). They say it's better for the environment, but it hasn't been an improvement for those that have to clean up their homes. It takes more time, and energy to have all your crap collected. Some things they never take. You have to drive somewhere to drop it off, and I'm talking about regular, household stuff. Not nuclear chemicals.
I know maybe that isn't a sign that we've stepped backwards in society, but what about technology? Has that really gotten better? Oh, we have HD video, blah, blah, blah, but the internet is more expensive than it used to be. There was a time when your home internet wasn't metered. "Surf" the web all you want. And now they're nickel, and diming everyone for no reason other than greed, and they're monitoring everything you do, and you can't use the internet freely like you used to. And though security has improved, somewhat, systems are still very vulnerable to ransomware. When I used to use computers in the past, I didn't have to worry about losing everything to ransomware.
And it seems every new computer I buy is not only buggy, but has defects as well. What's the problem? Aren't we in the future? They can't make reliable computers? When I was growing up, computer technology moved so fast. Nowadays, in the "future," there are barely an improvements. Nah, it's gotten worse. My older computer ran faster, and cooler than my new computer. Yeah, it broke down, but it worked! The software they write these days is written in some alley in a third world country, and it's not efficient at all. Software has gotten worse. Technological progress has come to a crawl, and the experience hasn't improved. Has it?
People upgrade because they want the latest, and greatest, but it isn't the greatest. Big companies are downgrading products, and calling it improvements. Removing the headphone jack... Why? Does it make the experience better? Nah, they want you to buy their wireless earbuds. So, if you wanna listen to audio, you gotta spend time charging something that once didn't require charging. Oh, no wires, what an innovation! But there's another problem.
Even medicine, at least in some areas, has gotten worse. Look at these "vaccines." They are killing people. Causing heart attacks, and other problems in both young, and old people. Any immunity you acquire lasts only half a year as opposed to older vaccines that give you 10 years of immunity. What? And this is new technology (in comparison) but it's worse. You have to take multiple shots, and it costs more money, and it has far more side effects. So, we haven't improved vaccines, have we?
And then there's electric cars... This is the future, right? So, it takes 8 hours to charge your car to be able to drive less than your gas car? Your gas car that takes maybe a minute to fill up. And your stupid battery, which will stop holding energy, will costs thousands to replace. Is that progress? Oh, it's good for the environment -- well, no. Because they have to do dirty mining to make your electric car, and use caustic chemicals. If you look at the whole thing it may, or may not be an improvement.
Morality, too has gone into the past as well. Look at the media pushing pedophiles into the spotlight, trying to get society to accept pedohphilia. You have these kids out in the open dressing up like whores, and being looked at by perverts. What about this is progressive? Nah, progress was trying to stop society from sexualizing children.
Then you have these liberals telling women it's okay to kill their children so long as it's inside of them. This is going backwards. In the far past, people treated kids, and babies like they were disposable. Then as we progressed we started protecting them more. But now! It's okay to murder a baby if it's inside of you! So, this is progressive? How? How is a lack of mercy, and care for those that are defenseless considered progressive?
But going back to phones, and computers... I don't think they've been as great as everyone thinks. In the past, you went home, and that was the end of your workday. Oh, but what has this technology given us? We are tied to our phones, and computers. You have to be connected. Technology used to be an option, now it's an obligation.
And it has had a detrimental effect on society. We haven't gone forward as humans, we've made them worse. Before you had to talk to people, and have social skills. Now, you have an app, and then you skip interacting with people entirely. So, what you get is an entire generation of young people that barely know how to socialize. They also have anxiety, and worry up to their eyeballs because of all this garbage they see online. Yeah, you get instant access to videos, and other crap, but what is the result? A sheepish, afraid society, that is easy to control. I'm sure this was all intentional, but this still isn't progress.
The people today, despite technology, are dumber than ever before. Any small amount of critical thinking has gone out the window. People just looke for the quickest answer on goo-ghoul, and then they're done. Their brains are prepared to shut off if faced with any hurdles. Society is celebrating homosexuality, and deviance instead of family, and family values. Although this is not a criticism of homosexuality, I don't believe their should be a whole month to celebrate it. It's not an achievement, and it does not in fact improve society.
The traditional family, that has built society, is dying, and we all have technology to thank for that. We've gone forward in so few areas in the world, and where we've made a bit of progress there has been abuse of power, and negative effects. The good of technology has been outweighed by its bad. People are addicted to their phones, and pornography, and violence, and hatred, and division. It has been a road to mental collapse.
In all my years, for so many of them I was optimistic about the future, but now that I'm here (they say), I'm looking back, and I see we haven't gone forward. We've made life more complicated but not better. Is this really the future? A series of headaches? Paying a million dollars to live in a box of concrete in the sky, or a cardboard box on the ground? What the hell has gotten better, or improved since the 1980s?
We're still stuck in the past.
As a child long ago I remember that we had four trash cans. Our own cans. I hauled out the long-ass driveway to the curb every Thursday afternoon. Sometimes two, and sometimes all four. Back then people knew that you had to pick up the trash, all of it, or the third world comes at you fast. We could have had a dozen and nobody would have cared. Today it is one can of trash and one of recycling, and fuck you and your fluorescent light tube we don't accept that. And too many people are putting recyclable plastic shopping bags in the single stream recycling so we are going to audit your neighborhood. And gross plungers in every bathroom all the time. Government has brought filth back onto our lives. Great job, guys.
The niggers in my building make one entire trash can EACH every week. We got 3 municipal recycling cans a few weeks ago and I set them to the side of the building because I knew damned well that they would just fill them with garbage, and they freaked out to the point that one of them started a fist fight with me at my door and forced his way into my unit a foot or so until I was able to force him out. Thank god he was drunk because he's a former boxer who then spent 10 years in prison, because he's a nigger so of course he did, and the alcohol had dampened his abilities. The cops wouldn't arrest him because the liberal mayor has enacted a moratorium on incarcerating perpetrators who haven't caused actual bodily harm, and even then they are released within a day. The cops couldn't even file a criminal complaint because the mayor decreed the courts are so backed up that the victim has to take time out of their day to go to the magistrate downtown, not in their own borough, to file criminal charges themselves. The result of this was the niggers put the cans right next to the garbage cans. Can you guess the result? Yes, they started filling them with garbage. Which the municipal waste department won't pick up because they are in the recycling cans. And the recycling department won't empty them because there is garbage in them. So now they are just fetid rotting garbage storage outside for a month now.
And then there's the other items they simply stacked next to the cans. Old CRT TVs, a few broken chairs, a large wooden table top with no legs, a large piece of glass which appears to be from an end table. The landlord, a nigger, doesn't maintain the property and leave the grassy areas to overgrow instead of having them mowed, or even providing a mower or jut a weed whacker for one of the residents to maintain them. Now the grass and weeds are nipple high. He did the same last year but I was cutting them with a hand tool similar to a sling blade, but I can't even do that because I got bursitis. But even when I could I would have to just leave the debris in a pile because the entire county was in austerity - during which the mayor singlehandedly declared our city a "sanctuary city", which took even more municipal resources from taxes away from essential services by giving welfare and "free" housing to a bunch of illegals from Central America and the Middle East - and one of the municipal services which was cut was yard waste disposal. Now it is only collected twice a year: at the end of autumn and the beginning of spring. These times are the two times a year yard waste disposal is least necessary, leaving the entire spring and summer, when yards are actually growing, and early autumn when the leaves actually fall off the trees.
You do know that LED light bulbs exist, right? You don't HAVE to install a LED fixture with a non-replaceable lighting element.
And some of them are actually pretty good. I buy them at the dollar store and they work just fine. In fact, they look a lot similar to the old incandescent bulbs, but they don't break as easily and last quite a bit longer. I know because the landlord -a nigger - doesn't maintain the building and I'm the one replacing the bulbs. But the other niggers in the building keep climbing up on things to take them whenever they feel that they deserve them instead of buying their own.
Contractor here, I love LED bulbs..cool to the touch, last long, nice smooth light, invented by a White man..
So many foods I used to enjoy just aren't even food anymore. When did milk become opaque water?
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