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What everyday modern thing do you think future historians will look back on and find absolutely ridiculous or barbaric?

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Evening_Flamingo_955 Mar 28, 2026 +12
Influencers
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MonsieurLigeia Mar 28, 2026 +6
facebook
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Glowing-dragon- Mar 28, 2026 +12
Women's healthcare and lack of research on women's health. It has improved as of recently.
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NOTcreative- Mar 28, 2026
How much money goes to breast cancer vs prostate?
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Glowing-dragon- Mar 28, 2026 +1
I have no idea honestly, but am sure the answer will not surprise me.
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VelourInferenceY Mar 28, 2026 +4
Definitely online dating apps like, we were swiping left and right on people like they were pieces of pizza, not human beings! 🍕😂
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josh-ig Mar 28, 2026 +4
Our over consumption of sugar. I say this as a sweet tooth. Another would be accepting of high levels of pollution in many places. Whether that’s water, fumes, smog, noise or light. All can be handled much better but we ignore it as it’s not always obvious that it’s impacting general health.
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Square-Heart8367 Mar 28, 2026 +10
probably factory farming
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Desperate-Wing-5140 Mar 28, 2026 +5
Hating immigrants
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AmericanPanascope Mar 28, 2026 +10
Circumcision
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an_older_meme Mar 28, 2026 +7
Homophobia.
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UnremarkableCake Mar 28, 2026 +2
Capitalism.
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Darkcloud246 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Enslaving, breeding and eating animals
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jammerfish Mar 28, 2026 +6
Circumcision
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squirrel-eggs Mar 28, 2026 +3
Stringent gender constraints such as women not being able to bare their chest (even to feed their child) and men being attacked for something as harmless as wearing makeup and dresses. This is the world we live in currently but it's not going to be that way forever.
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Kafkas_K Mar 28, 2026 +2
social media companies, particularly Google and Meta.
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StrechedRing Mar 28, 2026 +1
Lethal injections, we're already seeing the transformation of public opinion
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PaulMakesThings1 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Using slave or nearly slave labor in other countries and in prisons while acting like we’re a free society 
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Witty-Key4240 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Environmental pollution and allowing world hunger while wasting food
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Lower_Fall4694 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Wars
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Individual_Soft_9148 Mar 28, 2026 +1
The iPad
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TexanFeller Mar 28, 2026 +1
Toilet paper
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Grapthor_ Mar 28, 2026 +1
r/AskListnook
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onceburiedalive Mar 28, 2026 +1
Tik tok trends for sure
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pie566943_0 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Pavement
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geocitiess Mar 28, 2026 +1
AI data centers, as they drive up energy costs, destroy land, and poison the populace, all with the end goal to make a few already rich people more money before the bubble pops and deprive already struggling people of their jobs
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International_Bat585 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Barbaric- Factory farming
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Dependent-Net-8208 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Executing prisoners after locking them up for years in terrible conditions
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BloodNinja2012 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Killing animals for food
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Chrono_Convoy Mar 28, 2026 +1
This general time period. 2000-present primarily.
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duplic1tous Mar 28, 2026
Barbers.
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erika02877 Mar 28, 2026
Electrical Wiring
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cdrmbt Mar 28, 2026 +1
Intrigued. Care to elaborate? 
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Purple_Media_8942 Mar 28, 2026 -7
How we medicate people (especially kids) with amphetamine for things like ADHD 100 years from now I think it will be considered a very very unethical and bad thing in hindsight
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josh-ig Mar 28, 2026 +2
Very different to the street drug (chemically the same/similar sure, but purer, dosed many many times lower, different release mechanisms, controlled to correctly balance things). ADHD is massively misunderstood by the general populace too. Ultimately it’s a brain chemical imbalance and neurotransmitter modulation disorder that you’re trying to apply a correctional effect to. Same goes for SSRIs/SNRIs/NDRIs etc for depression or anxiety disorders. And many other things. Granted I would avoid with kids unless absolutely necessary but I don’t know how that would be unethical. It’s a valid medication just like any other. We use ketamine for depression treatment, fentanyl for pain control, cocaine is topically used occasionally, etc. I will also add that in the US I know it’s massively over prescribed and generally abused. In Canada and the UK which is my experience it’s not easy to get your hands on, controlled well and doses correctly. But the US healthcare system and kick backs to doctors and stuff is a whole other topic for one of millions of existing Listnook threads. Or am i misreading your interpretation?
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Purple_Media_8942 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Probably not misreading:) I think adults can take ritalin it if they want to but I think your "Granted I would avoid with kids unless absolutely necessary but I don’t know how that would be unethical. It’s a valid medication just like any other"-statement will look bad in 100 years so I prob just disagree with you on the matter \- also "barbaric" like the is a too strong a word maybe .. but I think it will be seen as unethical, with regards to kids and youth, in the future
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