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Trump
CEOs
The Republican party.
Homeopathy and alternative medicine.
Chiropractors can be heard chuckling nervously
I'm gonna get downvoted for this but... gaming consoles.
Gaming consoles made sense back in the day before home computing took off, and for a while they actually had superior hardware than computers when it came specifically to running games. But nowadays gaming consoles are just locked down user-hostile computers with a subscription service attached. The gaming equivalent of inkjet printers. It's an industry made irrelevant by advancements in technology, propped up by misleading marketing and artificial hype that sadly many people fall for.
I have a PS5 because it will play the damned games. There's nothing in the PC realm for $400 I could buy that could come close to guaranteeing the same thing. Consoles don't exist because people are stupid, they exist because gaming and GPU companies are cartels just like almost every other sector of the economy.
New PC graphics cards alone cost as much as entire games consoles. The top end ones cost the same as multiple PS5s. That's why consoles exist.
Consoles don't make money, the expensive games and subscriptions do.
There is value in static hardware so you can perform specific optimizations and target framerate. The subscriptions are 100% bullshit though.
You are underestimating the importance of standards here. On a PC you will always only get a fraction of the hardware's power, because there's way more stuff running at the same time, not just the game, and because the developers can't know exactly what hardware configuration every single gamer has. On a console you can know exactly how much RAM you will have available, so you can design your content to use that amount of data and then stream it into memory that you reserve at the start. If you do that on a PC you may ask for more RAM than the PC has or you may leave RAM unused. Or you can try to optimize the game for different specs, which costs time and money, so you won't get the same results with the same budget.
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Organized religion. Prosperity gospel. Televangelists. Tucker’s career.
Cryptocurrency as an investment
Health Insurance Companies
They don’t really exist because people are stupid.
More because of corruption and greed imo.
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Trump and the American Nazi Party
Specific models of dumpsters found in national parks. Apparently making sure that the smartest bear can't get into a dumpster while making sure the dumbest person can is a grey zone.
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Cybertruck.
Lotteries. If people understood odds they'd never buy a ticket, or at least not in the numbers they do.
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Any brand of authoritarianism.
The current climate crisis.
The price of Apple products
My high school mandatory epilepsy training for teachers and staff because the art teacher stepped over me while I was seizing on the floor during class. Other students had to carry me to the nurse because I couldn't walk right after the seizure. Teacher wouldn't even call the nurse to let her know what was up
Casinos & Gacha games
Tiktok
Religion
Lots of subscription based services, like heated seats in cars
Warning labels that say shit like "Contains: Milk" on a carton of milk.
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