Where's "video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them"?
Where's "removal of a common phone feature, because if you don't buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you'll be okay with a pair of raycons"?
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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This is funny but isn't all money "fake"?
I prefer NAZI-BOT SPAM, like most users of lemmy.ml
fuck off, nazi-bot-OP
Need to add illegal gambling to the list
Naw, crime is legal now.
What's worse?
Illegal gambling in traditional sense (poker, dice, slots, etc) or legal gambling loopholes like video game lootboxes? 🤔
Probably loot boxes since it more directly targets children
It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country's laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.
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I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience
What do you mean you don't want location tags in your notes?
Omg stop it, you are making me nervous. Okay, I will Accept terms and conditions
Personally I'd say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot
Just give me your ID bro. It's totally to protect the kids bro.
So like… all of it?
The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
In case someone needs help:
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency
ChatGPT/LLMs
Because you have 2/4 general terms:
- Rideshare
- Short term rentals
- Crypto
- LLM
"Rideshare" is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren't sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.
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Cryptocurrency not Cryptography to disambiguate again
Tales from the Crypt
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I personally hate the "thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives" ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.
On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
yeah was gonna mention those too but hate the relatives one even more passionately so focused on that.
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Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.
Also the hit comedy Small Wonder that ran from 1985-1989?
I HATED that show.
I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes
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Fake money for criminals is speaking of USD here?
Just because it grows at 8% doesnt mean its fake, its also fake because the Fed is a corrupt institution that stopped caring about measuring real inflation a long time ago.
Forgot "Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme" (NFT's)
"Expensive cartoon monkey pictures"
NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.
Nah it's worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.
Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses
Ransomware.
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I like this meme every time I see it here on anarchist forums.
well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
… maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….
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I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE
Found the Funholeite
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