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What modern things do you hate/dislike?

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I love old stuff
I would say entertaiment, but not all of it. Since the bad one isn't (still) imposed to me, I will not say about it.
But:
1) Buildingn regulation and other stuff about buildings.
In the past you could had vertical water and heating collumns, not ones that went to all of the apartament, the "exit" of the toilet via the floor and the electricity meter in your apartament. Not allowed any longer.
Open space is the norm of today's most new apartaments. Having people making noise with the dishes, washing machine working and other watching tv in the same room, bad ideea.
Automatic elevator doors...
2) Apps. I do like the internet, life would suck without it, but I want to be able to use some thing on the P.C., not be forced to have a smart phone. Why they can't do it?
3) Colors. They are ugly. Not only in pictures;
4) Cars. I do like electric and hybrid cars, trough I don't dream of one. But I hate those cup holders!!!
5) Plastics. On allmost every new vehicles you have that bad plastic smell;
6) Uncompartmented rail (train) cars. Some people like the open ones, but people should have the right to choose;
7) Modern household appliances. And the "energy efficency" thing
Modern washing machines do not use enough water when putting too much laundrary. They should have a water lever commuter. Washing 7 t-shirts, 2 blue jeans or some bad laundry means different water quantity, but today's washing machine...
Refrigeratos. Using buthane and not able to arrange or slide out of the shelfs as you wish...
Oh, from the post 1990 household appliances, only the air conditiong was the one that used too much electricity...
 
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Just chiming in with a HEARTY "Amen" to the mentions of modern surveillance of everyone (license plate readers instead of cash toll booths, facial recognition in stores and other places of business, "smart" electric meters, etc). When did we give up our rights to be free of unlawful surveillance?

Some other peeves of mine...

Any "feature" on a car that isn't the engine, transmission, suspension, steering, brakes, cabin climate control, horn, or turn signal. "Adaptive cruise control," lane warning/assist, various telemetry systems that send info back to the makers or other entities, etc. Make the car simple, reliable, and make it perform well, STOP monitoring me constantly, and leave the driving to ME.

Being told what appliances I can and can't install in my house, and what I can and can't do on/with my property, all while paying tens of thousands of dollars every year in taxes (paid with money that's already been taxed, mind you) for the privilege of being able to keep the house and property I already paid for (with money, again, that's already been taxed). (I hope that's acceptable here as a peeve...I'd be peeved about this, regardless of the political leanings of any administration).

"Smart" appliances. If I start ranting about required apps, needless complexity, privacy issues, etc., applicable to this demonic trend, we'll be here all day....and then some. Also, hopefully, Alexa, Siri, et al will run away and start their own commune somewhere so I'll never hear mention of them again.
 
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THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING.

People in general becoming incapable of rational decision making on -seemingly- a global scale.

The demise of great cinematography and storytelling in mainline movies.

Why doesn't a new decade bring new music genres?

Why are there no modern great artists?
 
Some of these things depend on where you live. Building codes, appliances and other things are probably very different between Europe, Japan, China and the US. Other things are more universal. I think we're all getting more surveillance and that's really bad direction. The modern "thing" that bugs me is the general depression level over the state of the world. Pure fun and joy are hard to come by.
 
Some of these things depend on where you live. Building codes, appliances and other things are probably very different between Europe, Japan, China and the US. Other things are more universal. I think we're all getting more surveillance and that's really bad direction. The modern "thing" that bugs me is the general depression level over the state of the world. Pure fun and joy are hard to come by.

The consumption rate of the global economy is steadily speeding up. Transaction times are falling, delivery times are shrinking, lots of fast forwarding being used on video and podcasting, speeding up spoken messages is commonly used now in ads, even 3-second ads are viable on utube. Consider for a moment how much video content can be consumed in One Hour of doom scrolling on social media. Imagine the demand that places on content creation commerce.
 
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